Chapter 732: Sheng Hanyu Has One More Son

Noon.

The family is dining at the Resort restaurant.

The food is very sumptuous, consisting mostly of seafood and mountain delicacies.

After all, one relies on the mountains when living in the mountains, and on the sea when living by the sea.

Salted shrimp, spicy crab, braised sea cucumber with scallions, sea urchin sashimi, pumpkin with salted egg yolk, steamed wild pheasant, Dongpo pork knuckle, pine nut sausage, and matsutake ham soup.

Eight dishes and one soup; there are no particularly high-end ingredients, but the taste is excellent.

Fresh ingredients combined with the chef's truly high level of skill mean that even without top-tier ingredients, the best flavors can be produced.

Sheng Zichen almost swallows his tongue; with every bite, he has to exclaim, "Delicious, it's really just too delicious!"

But he is not satisfied with just this; he also wants to see the chef!

The little guy's big eyes roll around, his mind hatching a plan to apprentice himself and learn the craft.

But he doesn't dare to say it out loud.

Having learned from the previous incident at the Bilingual Kindergarten, although it didn't leave the child with any particularly serious psychological trauma, he has learned his lesson.

"Stop making a scene, just eat your food honestly," Shi Youxuan says, feeling a headache.

The son is her own flesh and blood; how could she not see what the little guy is plotting in his mind?

This child's obsession with gourmet food is probably something he will never be able to change in this lifetime.

The couple has already made many efforts to change their son, and now it is not just that the results are minimal, but that there is no effect at all.

"No, I want to see the chef, Baobao wants to know how it's made..." Sheng Zichen is still young; having just been refused once, he blurts out what is on his mind.

Wang Yinghao says, "Call them out to meet; Fang Jie hasn't seen her husband and son for a while."

Since the mother-in-law has spoken, they cannot refuse again.

So the chefs are called out.

Everyone recognizes them.

They are Fang Jie's husband and son.

Back when the two of them returned from the Island, they opened a small restaurant in Jiangzhou, specializing in those rural banquet dishes and some foreign signature dishes.

But the restaurant closed not long after it opened.

It wasn't that the father and son lacked skill, but that the small restaurant's positioning was inaccurate!

First, the scale wasn't large enough, and the storefront didn't look high-class enough, yet half of the menu consisted of high-end dishes.

The other half was rural cuisine.

On the Island, those rich people hadn't eaten Jiangzhou rural food and found it novel, which is why the two of them were so popular.

Back in Jiangzhou, this advantage was gone.

No one here found low-end dishes novel or unseen; everyone had seen them, and they weren't rare. When placed together with high-end seafood, it just seemed incongruous.

The cost of high-end ingredients is high, so if the dish prices are set low, they lose money.

If they set them high, the diners wouldn't accept it. They opened with great fanfare, but ended up closing down after only a few months because business was dismal!

Fang Jie begged Sheng Hanyu to give her husband and son a job; she was worried that if the two of them were idle, they would pick up their bad habits again.

Sheng Hanyu arranged for the father and son to work as chefs at the Resort, with a generous salary.

This place is very suitable for them; what they are good at can be utilized to the maximum extent here, and they don't have to be far away from their relatives, friends, and companions—killing two birds with one stone.

Since Sheng Zichen wanted to see the chef, the father and son came together, and they even brought one more person!

A young woman, who is also a chef.

She is the girlfriend Fang Jie's son met on the Island, and now she is his fiancée.

The two have good news coming soon, so they took this opportunity to come and meet the Chairman and his wife.

Sheng Hanyu finds the girl a bit familiar, but for a moment he cannot recall where he has seen her.

The girl comes over to pay her respects: "Hello, Village Chief, I am Yafang."

Then he remembers.

She is from the Small Fishing Village.

Yafang's family and Yafei's family are relatives, but they live quite far apart and don't interact very frequently.

When fellow villagers meet, their eyes fill with tears.

Sheng Hanyu treats the Small Fishing Village as his second home, so he and Yafang can be considered half-fellow villagers.

No one expected to run into someone from the Small Fishing Village here; amidst the joy, the topic naturally turned to Yafei.

Yafang says, "The Second Young Master looks just like the Village Chief, and the Third Young Master looks more like Village Chief Yafei."

Third Young Master?

Sheng Hanyu frowns; this doesn't sound right.

Where on earth did a Third Young Master come from?

The others are equally bewildered.

Shi Youxuan asks nonchalantly on the surface: "Yafang, what is the Third Young Master's name?"

She is calm on the surface, but no one knows what she is thinking inside.

Yafang replies, "The Third Young Master is named Sheng Aiya; he is the child Village Chief Yafei bore for Village Chief Yano, and he is sturdier than the Second Young Master."

After this sentence is finished, the restaurant falls into a deathly silence.

Everyone's gaze is fixed squarely on Sheng Hanyu, especially Shi Youxuan's, whose scorching stare seems as if it could burn a hole in his face.

"Wife, I don't know about this matter, it has nothing to do with me, you must believe me..." Sheng Hanyu's cold and aloof persona collapses.

He is nervous.

He is so nervous that he is incoherent; this kind of thing cannot be taken lightly, it must be explained clearly!

"What nonsense are you spouting? You seem like such a steady person, how can you talk rubbish and spout off like that?" Fang Jie was very angry and told her future daughter-in-law to apologize.

But the young woman was very straightforward and refused to apologize, insisting, "I won't apologize because I'm not wrong; everyone in the Fishing Village knows that ten months after Village Chief Yano left, Village Chief Yafei gave birth to a child."

"Village Chief Yafei said it herself, that Young Master Aiya is the third young master of the Sheng Family, how could that be wrong?"

The more certain she was, the more Shi Youxuan felt a tightness in her chest.

Without saying another word, she stood up and walked out of the dining room.

She returned to her room and locked the door from the inside.

With trembling hands, she fetched water, boiled it to make strong tea, and drank some first to calm down.

No wonder that time after their wedding, when they encountered people from the Fishing Village near the sea, the people were very enthusiastic but wouldn't invite them over.

And last time, they went to the Fishing Village specifically but didn't see Yafei, and the villagers all tried their best to avoid mentioning Yafei in front of her.

She had thought it was because they were afraid of the awkwardness of meeting, but it turned out she had taken her son and hidden away.

Had her husband slept with Yafei?

Was that child really Sheng Hanyu's?

Shi Youxuan's head was buzzing; the more she tried to figure it out, the less she could understand.

Her mind was as tangled as a ball of hemp, unable to think.

Yet the knocking on the door outside wouldn't stop.

"Knock, knock, knock."

"Xuanxuan, open the door, let me explain to you..."

"I guarantee that child is not mine. We've been husband and wife for so many years, you should believe in my character!"

She couldn't bear to think about it anymore.

"Shut up."

She roared, and it immediately went quiet outside the door.

Why was he making such a mess?

She wanted to believe Sheng Hanyu.

Just as he said, they had been husband and wife for so many years, how could she not understand him?

She knew what kind of personality her husband had; he wouldn't initiate a relationship with Yafei, but what if it happened without his knowledge?

Back then he had lost his memory, so it would be normal for something to happen between them as an engaged couple.

A rational explanation was perfectly normal.

But emotionally, she couldn't accept it.

The entire night.

She didn't close her eyes, thinking about this matter the whole time, and finally managed to sort out some clues just before dawn.

Shi Youxuan pulled the door open and was about to go out when she almost stepped on someone.

"Hey, what are you doing sitting here? You nearly scared me to death." She said with dissatisfaction.

Sheng Hanyu was sitting at the doorway, blocking the door.

"Wife, listen to my explanation. I don't know about that child; it really isn't mine."

"I believe you."

Huh?

Was it that straightforward?

Shi Youxuan had agreed so readily that he, on the contrary, couldn't believe it was true.

In the one second he hesitated, Shi Youxuan had already walked past.

"Wife, where are you going? I'll go with you."

Sheng Hanyu followed Shi Youxuan closely, not leaving her side for a moment.