Chapter 3522

Inspired by Steven Rothschild, Changying Automobile issued invitations to all well-known or sizable upstream enterprises in the automotive industry, requesting them to attend the first Changying Automobile Supplier Conference in Jin Ling.

All enterprises controlled or held by the Rothschild family received the invitations without exception.

Originally, they did not take such a supplier conference too seriously.

In fact, it is not only the automotive industry; all large client enterprises regularly hold similar supplier conferences or partner conferences—for example, Apple holds its Developer Conference every year, inviting all enterprises conducting R&D based on the Apple ecosystem, to strengthen cooperation on one hand and communicate the next strategic direction on the other, so that everyone can prepare in advance for their next strategic planning.

For such routine client conferences, companies generally send a mid-to-senior level leader to make an appearance and show respect, so these companies also made the same plan, arranging for someone to come over as a courtesy.

But no one expected that the heir of the Rothschild family, Steven Rothschild, would have his assistant contact them, urging them to take cooperation with Changying Automobile seriously, absolutely not to neglect it, and to grant Changying Automobile the highest level of cooperation, highest priority, and lowest cooperation price.

Steven Rothschild's status in the minds of these suppliers is unparalleled in the entire business world; since he explicitly stated his position, everyone immediately took Changying Automobile seriously, and the attendee lists submitted by these enterprises to Changying Automobile were without exception composed of the companies' top-level leaders.

Seeing Comrade Steven Rothschild so devoted to organizational affairs, Ye Chen felt relieved and also gained a few more points of admiration for him.

Subsequently, he instructed He Yuanjiang to set the venue of the supplier conference at the Buckingham Palace Hotel, to properly entertain these partners who had come from afar.

Originally planning to hold it as early as possible, but after learning that the attendees were all top leaders of the suppliers, Ye Chen felt this matter still required careful preparation; since Changying Automobile had already been established and promoted with great fanfare, it might as well take advantage of this momentum to continue making a big splash and turn the supplier conference into the industry's biggest news in recent times.

Before this, no automobile enterprise had managed to gather all the major figures in the automotive supply chain field; Changying Automobile's first Supplier Conference might just create history, which is a good publicity opportunity to let the world see Changying Automobile's confidence even more clearly.

Thus, Ye Chen scheduled the supplier conference after the lunar February, leaving some time for preparation and some time for preheating.

……

After Ye Chen's life returned to a normal rhythm, the time until lunar February drew ever closer.

During this period, he almost daily went back and forth to Xiangshanli Hot Springs, occasionally also visiting his maternal grandparents and uncles to meet and chat about Changying Automobile's future development direction.

Steven Rothschild indeed kept his word.

He had agreed with Xiao Churan that on the second day of the second lunar month, they would go together to Yanjing to attend Gu Qiuyi's final farewell concert.

To avoid arousing Xiao Churan's suspicion, Ye Chen's excuse was that he was accompanying her to watch, because she had always liked Gu Qiuyi.

But after Xiao Churan learned of Gu Qiuyi's identity and her relationship with Ye Chen, although she had not yet reached the point of hating Gu Qiuyi, out of womanly instinct, her former fondness for Gu Qiuyi had already vanished like smoke.

Yet she still gladly accepted Ye Chen's excuse, because she did not want Ye Chen to suspect her, nor did she want to disappoint him.

Moreover, since she had already decided to leave Ye Chen, deep down she hoped Ye Chen could be safe and happy; in her view, Gu Qiuyi was the most suitable person for Ye Chen.

If in the future Ye Chen avenges his great enmity and his identity can be proclaimed to the world, then he could also walk hand in hand with Gu Qiuyi into the hall of marriage, fulfilling the marriage contract set by their parents over twenty years ago; at that time, if their story becomes known to the world, everyone will surely be moved by their many years of tumultuous emotional journey.

At the end of the lunar twelfth month, Xiao Churan went to Qixia Temple once again and met Tang Sihai.

Tang Sihai had already prepared to take Xiao Churan's family out of Huaxia, but the specific implementation still required Xiao Churan's cooperation.

He told Xiao Churan: "Madam Ye, I shall depart for Australia tomorrow; after the second day of the second lunar month, I will still need Madam Ye's cooperation to help guide the young master there."

Xiao Churan nodded and asked: "How should I cooperate?"

Tang Sihai said: "After I arrive in Australia, I will cause a small stir there; however, to be safe, I will not make the news too big; at that time, I will send the news link to Madam Ye, hoping Madam Ye will pretend to have come across it by chance and mention it in front of the young master, then find a way to let him see the news content."

Xiao Churan immediately said: "Alright, I will follow Butler Tang's instructions."

After saying that, she again asked: "Then when will I and my parents leave?"

Tang Sihai replied: "If nothing unexpected happens, the news will be sent to you on the morning of the third day of the second lunar month, which is the day after the young master's birthday; if everything proceeds according to plan, after the young master sees the news, he should immediately take the earliest flight to Australia; after the young master's flight takes off, I will arrange for you and your parents to depart; at that time, I will arrange for someone to pick you up from Yanjing, and simultaneously arrange for someone to pick up your parents; however, on your parents' side, you need to greet them and let them prepare, but before departure, it is best not to let them know the specific details."

"Alright." Xiao Churan knew Tang Sihai would not harm her, nor would he harm Ye Chen, so she nodded and said: "I will find an excuse to tell them, but you need to tell me where I and my parents should depart from, so I can devise a suitable excuse for them."

Tang Sihai said: "We plan to arrange for you and your family to depart from the island city of Qilu by sea; at that time, you will set off from Yanjing, and your parents will set off from Jin Ling; the distances from both sides to the island city are roughly the same, about six or so hours."

Xiao Churan said: "Then I will tell them that Ye Chen suddenly had to go out on business, and I am taking them on a cruise to Japan and Korea for fun."

Tang Sihai cautioned: "Madam Ye just needs to ensure your parents will not tell the young master about this."

"That can be ensured." Xiao Churan said: "I will tell them that Ye Chen has been invited by a client to go to Australia to look at feng shui; when he is out working, my parents will not disturb him."

"Then it's good." Tang Sihai nodded and smiled: "Since Madam Ye is confident, let us proceed according to Madam Ye's plan."

……

Ma Lan knew Ye Chen's birthday was on the second day of the second lunar month and was still thinking about booking a hotel in advance for the family to celebrate Ye Chen's birthday; when Xiao Churan returned home, she asked: "Churan, good son-in-law Ye Chen's birthday is on February second; should we find a place to order another cake and celebrate together?"

Xiao Churan said to her: "Ye Chen plans to take me to Yanjing on his birthday to watch Gu Qiuyi's concert; I will celebrate his birthday for him, so you and Dad need not worry."

Ma Lan frowned and said: "Why go see that Gu Qiuyi again? After seeing her once, what more is there to see? Besides, this person of hers—what a coincidence, always holding a concert on the day our good son-in-law celebrates his birthday."

Xiao Churan helplessly smiled bitterly, thinking: This is no coincidence at all; Gu Qiuyi deliberately chose to hold her concert on Ye Chen's birthday.

At this moment, Ma Lan saw that Ye Chen and Xiao Changkun had not yet returned, so she pulled Xiao Churan's sleeve and said solemnly: "Churan, I feel that after you and Ye Chen have been married for so many years, you are no longer young; it is time you made some plans."

Xiao Churan had something on her mind, so she did not really pay attention to Ma Lan's words, only hearing her say to make plans, and thus she instinctively asked: "What plans?"

Ma Lan said: "Naturally, plans to have children! You two have been married for several years; it is time you had a child."

After saying that, she suddenly realized something, her eyes widened, and she asked: "Churan, you and Ye Chen…… could it be that you still haven't done that yet?"

Xiao Churan felt annoyed and flustered by her question, and quickly said: "Mom, don't worry about this; we will arrange our own affairs reasonably."

Ma Lan did not understand what she meant, and could not help but press further: "What do you mean by 'reasonable arrangement'—is it reasonably arranging to have children, or reasonably arranging whatever it is between you two?"

After saying that, she hurriedly urged: "Churan, if you and Ye Chen have not yet taken that step, then you really need to hurry up; a couple living together day after day, if they remain as respectful as guests, what kind of life is that? It's almost like being roommates; earlier, your situation was special, so Mom didn't say much, but now the time is ripe—don't waste your beautiful youth."

"I understand……" Xiao Churan sighed softly without sound, then said: "Mom, I feel a bit unwell; I'll go upstairs first."

Ma Lan helplessly nodded and said: "Go ahead; Mom's words you should think over well, don't let your thoughts be all on work all day long."

Xiao Churan's silhouette paused for a moment, then she took another step forward and walked out.