I'm the Culinary God-Chapter 871 - 373: Can Birthday Gifts Be Hints? Happy 30th Birthday, Boss Chen! [Extra - for Xiaohuo005]
Taking this steel plate painting, Chen Yan plans to place it on her desk.
It looks so classy, steel plate engraving, huh? Wouldn’t others just die of envy if she showed it off?
Having a friend skilled in programming is really great.
Next, others arrived one after another. The prepared gifts were basically all centered around the theme of "Little Police Officer and Little Chef."
It’s not that everyone had similar gifts, mainly because this event is so memorable for Chen Yan, so everyone prepared gifts related to it.
By nightfall, almost everyone had arrived.
Chen Yuejin and his spouse came in and warmly greeted Ren Jie, while Professor Ren and his spouse were surrounding their daughter-in-law.
When it was time to start, the adults began to present their birthday gifts.
Shen Guofu gave his niece a gold brick, with its code exactly matching Chen Yan’s birthday, clearly prepared specially.
Professor Ren and his spouse sent books again. They seem like rare editions.
Feels like they could earn a lot just by selling books.
As for Chen Yan and Ren Jie’s matchmaker, Geng Lishan, he traditionally sent a piece of calligraphy.
When it was the turn of Chen Yuejin and his spouse, they directly took out a set of car keys. Shen Baobao immediately recognized them:
"Is this... a Panamera?"
Shen Guofang said:
"Xiao Jie works in the public security department after all, it’s too flashy for Xiao Yan to drive a sports car every day, so we switched to a sedan and bought the highest configuration version for a more comfortable ride."
Tsk, tsk, they were complaining before.
Now that Yan Bao has a partner, they directly got a new car.
But switching from a sports car worth over one million to a sedan worth over two million... Aunt, do you have some misunderstanding about low-key?
Various dishes were placed on the table one by one, and everyone started to eat and drink.
In the corner, Qi Panpan looked at these wealthy people exchanging gifts and curiously nudged Li Qiang:
"Isn’t our gift too shabby?"
The two had prepared a custom-made starry sky jar with a little police officer and little chef holding hands.
Li Qiang said:
"Don’t worry, regardless of the value, as long as it has the little chef and little police officer, it’s on theme, the more of them we give, the happier General Manager Chen will be."
After saying that, he grabbed a piece of roasted lamb back and put it on Qi Panpan’s plate:
"Hurry and eat, hurry and eat, the essence of roast whole lamb is in the lamb back, both crispy and fragrant, such delicacy is hard to come by at other times."
Upon hearing this, Qi Panpan said no more and started eating the golden-brown crispy lamb back.
As they were eating, Shu Yun pushed in a custom three-tiered large cake, and finally, it wasn’t decorated with little police officers and little chefs, but rather depicting Chen Yan dressed in a Mongolian robe sitting on a haystack watching the sunset.
Her smile was sweet, as if seeing her happy life.
"General Manager Chen, this is a special surprise prepared for you by our store. Initially, we wanted to make it into little chef and little police officer, but upon hearing everyone was planning that, we used the photo you sent during National Day, and the master chef from Fishing Platform helped us make it... Lin Ji’s Food wishes General Manager Chen a happy birthday!"
"Thank you, thank you Shu Baobao, I’m very happy."
For Chen Yan, this was truly a surprise.
Especially with the master chef from Fishing Platform making it, the cake’s characters and scenery were vivid, making her eyes a bit moist.
Shu Yun never mentioned this, even today, showing no signs of having prepared anything.
Yet she secretly prepared such a big surprise.
"Shu Baobao, are you intentionally trying to make me cry?"
"No, no, it’s not just my doing. I just ran a few errands, it was our boss who helped contact the master chef from Fishing Platform."
After hearing this, Chen Yan said to Lin Xu:
"Thanks, brother-in-law. When you and Yueyue get married, I absolutely won’t make it hard for you during the door-knocking moment."
Tsk, this promise is quite generous, huh.
Everyone laughed.
Shen Guofu whispered to Han Shuzhen:
"How about we let Xiao Xu and Yueyue get married during the New Year?"
"We need to discuss with the in-laws. Spring Festival travel is congested, whether they come to Beijing or we go to Yinzhou, it’s inconvenient. Ultimately, it depends on Meijuan and their attitude."
"Alright, I’ll contact the in-laws tonight."
The various dishes were served one after another.
Finally, they even served two large plates of freshly made sesame sauce pancakes.
Shen Baobao whispered to Shen Guofu:
"Dad, you and mom have been climbing mountains these days and haven’t come to the store to eat. This is specially prepared for you by Xu Bao. When you bought me so many sesame sauce pancakes with meat as a kid but didn’t eat a single bite yourself, today just eat as much as you want, we won’t stop you."
Shen Guofu was filled with comfort:
"Good girl... Wife, did you hear what our daughter said? She’s becoming more understanding with Xiao Xu."
"Yes, thanks to Xiao Xu, otherwise, she’d still be mischievous."
Shen Baobao: ????????
If you keep this up, you’ll lose your cute and well-behaved daughter!
As everyone ate and chatted, Lin Xu planned to first attend the opening ceremony of Ziqiang Shengjian’s Four Middle School store on Monday, then go to the TV station to record a program all day, and welcome Guo Xinghai’s arrival in the evening.
On Tuesday, he’d help Shen Baobao film Dundun’s video, and on Wednesday he’d shoot a whole day’s food vlog.
Free up time, so starting Thursday, he can go to Fishing Platform for advanced studies.
A continuous few days of busy life passed.
On Thursday morning, Lin Xu drove to Fishing Platform, headed straight to Building Twelve, ready to learn noodle making from Yin Hongbin, the executive chef there.
It’s been a while, he really should learn noodle making in the pastry area, it’s an indispensable technique.
Once mastered, not only can he make noodles, but also some dishes that require pulling, like Silver Threads Bun and other dough-based dishes, can be made using this technique.
After getting out of the car, he was about to go in when suddenly the system prompt sounded in his mind:
"Special items have been refreshed, the host can redeem them based on points."
What?
Has the monthly refresh period finally ended?
Lin Xu immediately entered the system, intending to see what special items were refreshed this time...
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Thanks again to Xiao He for the reward. Xiao He is a die-hard fan of Chen Yan, and it just so happens that the extra update coincides with Chen Yan’s birthday. Hope Xiao He likes it. This Chapter is 5100 words, asking for monthly tickets everyone. Today we updated 15700 words, if you have tickets, remember to vote!
