Chapter 1872: Secretly Investigating the Son's Rumored Girlfriend

Zichen: "Don't you want to ask your father? If he doesn't agree and gets too agitated, what will you do if his blood pressure spikes?"

Li Xueer said: "It won't happen. I've discussed it with my father, and he is the one who agreed." Her father was even less willing to owe others favors, and now that the biggest misunderstanding had been resolved, her father had no reason to oppose her; in fact, he was very supportive.

The two signed an employment contract that very day, and as soon as Lao Litou was discharged from the hospital, Li Xueer went to work at Fenghuang Lou.

Zichen specifically built a transparent kitchen for Li Xueer, where she performed her culinary operations; within a few days of her starting work, the restaurant was packed with customers!

Half of the customers who came to eat every day were basically there to watch Li Xueer's performance; such knife skills were simply divine, like watching an acrobatics show.

With knife skills that would shock even other chefs, it was too easy to win over customers.

Soon, the news of a beautiful Divine Chef at Fenghuang Lou spread as if it had wings; it passed from ten to a hundred, and before long, basically everyone in Jiangzhou's upper society knew about it.

When people invited others out to eat, they considered it an honor to be able to book a table at Fenghuang Lou!

People fear fame just as pigs fear getting fat.

Because Li Xueer became famous, people coming to poach her were endless.

These people racked their brains, using all sorts of strange methods, and offering prices higher than the last.

But she remained completely unmoved; no matter how much the other party offered, she would not leave.

Unable to poach her from the outside, she also faced jealousy and exclusion within Fenghuang Lou.

People with talent mostly have a backbone.

Li Xueer was the same; she was talented, but her personality was not very sociable, her temper was stubborn, and she spoke in a way that was both blunt and harsh!

A young girl who had just arrived was given the treatment of a head chef with an annual salary of one million; many people were green with envy.

Because she had such a personality, her colleagues disliked her, but they didn't dare to go reason with the boss, so they played dirty tricks behind her back.

Soon, rumors spread at Fenghuang Lou that Li Xueer was Sheng Zichen's mistress, the boss's lover.

Such rumors spread more and more fiercely, even reaching Zihan's ears!

Zihan was entertaining clients at Fenghuang Lou and accidentally heard the waiters gossiping about his big brother behind his back; he didn't stop them, but instead listened with great interest for a long time.

The story was told with such vivid detail, saying that the boss's fiancée was abroad, and the boss, unable to bear the loneliness, had gotten together with a female chef.

Bringing her to his own restaurant to work as a chef to facilitate secret trysts... and that there would be a good show to watch once the boss's wife returned, and so on.

Others might not know, but Zihan knew that his big brother had already broken up with Gu Yuxin.

Things like breakups didn't need to be known by everyone, so only the family and a few close friends knew; others were unaware.

It was even more impossible for the restaurant staff to know.

After Zihan finished eating with his clients and saw them off, he turned back and returned; he first took a few extra looks at Li Xueer and concluded: if one only looked at their appearance, they were indeed a good match.

Then he pushed open the door to the Chairman's office and asked as soon as he saw him: "Big brother, your employees are gossiping about you; do you know?"

He really didn't know.

"What are the employees gossiping about me? It's fine, let them say whatever they want, as long as it doesn't affect work."

"I was just entertaining clients and accidentally heard the waiter say the new female chef is your mistress; do you have a relationship?" Zihan's gaze was suggestive.

But Zichen frowned: "These people seem to be too idle; I should find them something to do so they don't have nothing better to do than stir up trouble."

"We have no relationship at all, just a simple superior-subordinate relationship; don't listen to rumors and join in the commotion with everyone else."

Such an explanation clearly did not satisfy Zihan.

He advised his big brother: "I just went to take a look; although the young lady is a bit younger than you, she really looks good. Don't be too picky; you're not young anymore. Hurry up and find someone you like to get married and have children; don't let Mom and Dad worry about you..."

This tone was exactly like a biological mother.

No, even his biological mother had never urged him like this!

Zichen laughed: "Stop meddling in things that don't concern you; aren't you also without a partner? Stop worrying about my business, get lost!"

Get lost it is.

Zihan got lost, but he went straight home and added fuel to the fire, telling the family what he had seen and heard at Fenghuang Lou.

This news gave Shi Youxuan a jolt of energy.

Her eldest son was not young anymore; it was time to consider his personal life.

She had introduced several blind dates to Zichen, but he had brushed them all off with the excuse: "I'm focusing on my career right now and am not considering personal matters for the time being."

A career is very important, but personal matters are equally important.

On this issue, the couple's views were the same; they were both afraid that their eldest son would suffer a setback in love and decide to remain a bachelor for life.

Now that Zichen had a rumored girlfriend, the couple couldn't wait and both wanted to go over and take a look.

Shi Youxuan asked her husband: "How long has it been since you took me out to eat?"

Sheng Hanyu: "It seems like a long time; there's no time like the present, let's go today."

"Okay."

The couple happily prepared to go to Fenghuang Lou for a date, but in reality, they wanted to see what kind of girl this Li Xueer was.

Zihan felt that since he could take advantage of his parents, he shouldn't pass it up, so he wanted to go along too.

But his parents said in unison: "This has nothing to do with you; there are still so many things at the company, go do your work."

Zihan pouted aggrievedly: "You can't do this; this is a classic case of discarding the millstone once the donkey is done grinding; it's too obvious."

"Do you want to talk about your own emotional problems..."

"Mom, I just remembered there really is a lot of work to do at the company; I'm leaving." Zihan fled the house as if escaping.

Seeing their youngest son's back, the couple also found it quite funny.

This guy was completely different at the company compared to at home.

At the company, he was cool and roguish, rarely joking, and the company's employees and executives were all afraid of him.

But at home, Zihan was like a child who hadn't grown up; he was already a head taller than his mother, yet he still acted spoiled.

Originally, if they wanted to take action, finding Tian Yuanyuan would not have been a difficult task.

In fact, Sheng Hanyu had wanted to do just that, but he was stopped by his wife.

Shi Youxuan said that children and grandchildren have their own fortunes; they have already grown up and are now adults, so they should make their own decisions regarding adult matters, and they should not interfere too much.

Not interfering in everything does not mean being indifferent.

The couple appeared at Fenghuang Lou at dinnertime.

The waiter was new and did not recognize them, so the waiter politely said to the couple, "May I ask if you two have a reservation?"

"No."

"I am sorry, all the tables for this evening have been reserved; if you two do not have a reservation, please wait in the waiting area over there for a moment."

The couple took a look at the waiting area; there was a long line of at least several hundred people—how long would they have to wait?

At this moment, the head waiter spotted the couple and hurried over to apologize: "I am sorry, I am sorry, please come with me, I will arrange a table for you."