Reborn in the 80s: Everyone Falls For Me
Chapter 265 - 264: Running Away from Home (4 Updates)

Chapter 265: Chapter 264: Running Away from Home (4 Updates)

Xu Niannian planned to turn the butter noodles into a national chain, but for now, she set her sights a bit lower, aiming to open up three large noodle restaurants in Nancheng County.

Therefore, Du Wenwen and Chen Xiaorou were very important, as both of them bore significant responsibilities.

In the future, she wanted to be a hands-off manager, so once she trained them, if they were ever short-staffed, or if they encountered someone with culinary talent, she could have them do the teaching.

After observing them, Xu Niannian found that Du Wenwen’s cooking skills were much better than Chen Xiaorou’s, and she also had a higher level of comprehension and skill.

It must be said that Du Wenwen had a certain amount of pride in her abilities, but well, who made Xu Niannian dislike arrogant people?

So she quite enjoyed putting Du Wenwen in her place.

Compared to Butter Sauce, it was easier to meet the standard with the secret broth.

The Butter Sauce they made wouldn’t be sold in the stores by Xu Niannian.

After all, it hadn’t reached the standard taste, and Xu Niannian didn’t want to tarnish her own brand.

She had an almost obsessive-compulsive persistence in this regard.

Only if the difference was so minuscule that only a gourmet with a discerning palate like hers could detect it, would she consider selling it in her shop.

And then, the question arose.

Chen Xiaorou and Du Wenwen had worked hard for four days, with countless experiments, to finally produce a batch of Butter Sauce that met the standard.

In these days, they’d accumulated a total of six large buckets of failed batches.

To say it was a failure was only in relation to the Butter Sauce made by Xu Niannian; both Chen Xiaorou and Du Wenwen were competent cooks.

Their first attempt at making Butter Sauce already tasted quite good.

At least before tasting the food made by Xu Niannian, it would certainly be considered delicious.

So, throwing it away was out of the question; waste was shameful.

However, it couldn’t be sold in the store either.

After successfully making Butter Sauce that met the standard, Chen Xiaorou and Du Wenwen were ecstatic, the two girls hugging each other excitedly while letting out shrieks of joy.

Looking at the six large buckets of Butter Sauce, Xu Niannian helplessly blew the hair away from her forehead.

Now she had something to deal with.

Given that she and Jin Yu were about to register for marriage, Xu Niannian planned to go back to the village to hold a feast.

Previously, she didn’t want a wedding because she didn’t want to get married so soon, but due to Yang Cuihua’s prodding, she decided to register for marriage with Jin Yu.

But later... since she felt ready and had made up her mind, knowing she would spend her life with Jin Yu, a wedding was naturally something to consider.

She didn’t like it too grand, but she still had to invite the villagers over for a celebratory meal, and this Butter Sauce could come in handy.

The Butter Sauce was sealed with a lot of oil and wouldn’t spoil at all.

It was basically soaked in oil.

Once she figured out what to do with these six large buckets of Butter Sauce, Xu Niannian also breathed a sigh of relief.

However, just as she had relaxed, she received a message from Li Qingshui that several Liuyue Su stores in the town were out of stock and urged her to make more as soon as possible.

Xu Niannian nearly screamed in frustration—the pace was too fast.

No, no, the factory planning had to be brought forward.

Ah, she was going crazy.

In less than a week, several stores in the town had sold out of Liuyue Su and were clamoring for more stock.

The 5700 pieces of Liuyue Su Li Qingshui had were already distributed among the four stores in the suburbs.

Xu Niannian felt like her hands were going to cramp from counting all the money.

But then again, considering how quickly they sold, it was only natural since the products tasted good.

And although the quantity of Liuyue Su sounded intimidating, many well-off people wouldn’t just buy one; it was beneath them.

They would buy ten or more at once.

Some were even more extravagant, buying dozens at a time.

Of course, those who bought several dozens at once were mostly found in the county city, not so much in the towns.

This was also the reason why the sales in the towns couldn’t compare to those in the county city.

To free up time to deal with other matters, Xu Niannian decided to buckle down and set aside five days to work non-stop, engaging her entire family and hiring six temporary workers to help out.

They made a one-off batch of fifty thousand Liuyue Su.

Li Qingshui naturally couldn’t take so much stock at once, mainly because she couldn’t spare that much money either.

Xu Niannian simply cleaned out a warehouse in her family’s backyard and had Zhao Pang take charge of handing over the products to Li Qingshui.

After busying herself with these tasks, Xu Niannian could finally relax.

But as soon as she relaxed, Xu Niannian realized she had forgotten Jin Yu.

It seemed like many days since she last saw Jin Yu, and she didn’t even know if he had been discharged from the hospital yet.

"We promised not to neglect him for the sake of money, yet when things got busy, I still left him aside."

Xu Niannian immediately felt annoyed and guilty.

However, it was somewhat surprising to Xu Niannian that Jin Yu hadn’t come to find her.

But what she didn’t know was that Jin Yu hadn’t failed to look for her; it was just that when he did, she was busy, so he simply didn’t disturb her.

Even Wu Lan didn’t dare to interrupt her.

Wu Lan had returned to the compound with Jin Yu.

On the day of her return, Wu Lan told Jin Yu that she wanted to visit Xu Niannian.

Then Jin Yu informed Wu Lan that Xu Niannian was now living in their family’s old house on Nanshui Road, and mentioned that Xu Niannian had opened a noodle shop.

He talked about her Liuyue Su business too, saying she would be very busy, so he told Wu Lan not to go over and disturb Xu Niannian.

The main reason, in fact, was that Jin Yu had sensed that Xu Niannian wasn’t very fond of Wu Lan.

The reason, of course, was because of the disgraceful thing his mother had done by tricking him into a blind date and lying that the person coming was a child, which led him to treat Xu Niannian like a spy.

Furthermore, at that time, Xu Niannian had thought that Wu Lan was in cahoots with him, ganging up to bully her.

Jin Yu felt that he needed to first do some ideological work with Xu Niannian before he could let his often whimsical mother out.

However, he had tried to see Xu Niannian several times and found her always so busy that she was almost overrun; hence, Jin Yu also didn’t disturb her.

On her end, Xu Niannian remembered Jin Yu but was so tired that she decided to rest for a night and go to Jin Yu’s house to find him the next day.

Jin Ruiyang had also left Nancheng several days prior.

Xu Niannian hadn’t even had the time to help Xu Sisi gather information.

Moreover, Jin Ruiyang left in such a hurry that he never even got to taste the dishes made by Xu Niannian until the day he departed.

He even complained to Jin Yu before leaving.

Jin Yu’s marriage application had been approved, and although he promised Xu Niannian not to hold a wedding ceremony, such a significant event as marriage still required notifying his family members back in the capital.

It was just a notification, he even warned them not to come over because they were only registering and not holding a wedding ceremony, saying that they could have the wedding later.

But was Elder Master Jin the kind of person who would listen to such talk?

Of course not. When could a grandson ever dictate terms to his grandfather?

Without a second word, the old master had the nanny pack two sets of clothes for him. He didn’t bring anyone along, not even his personal security.

He just took a cloth bag and boarded the train heading towards Nancheng.

When the family realized the old master wasn’t at home, they were in an uproar.

Jin Nanxi almost cried and even had a sobbing voice when calling Jin Yu, "Xiao Jin, what on earth did you say to your grandfather last night? Your grandfather ran away from home today."

Younger Uncle Jin was also nervously standing next to Jin Nanxi.

The reason why the two siblings were so anxious was due to the note the old master left behind, which was highly misleading.

The note read:

"I had a conversation with my unfilial grandson Jin Yu last night, who told me a shocking secret. I, the old man, have decided to run away from home. If I don’t return within a month, consider me dead and stop looking for me."

This message made Jin Nanxi and Younger Uncle Jin couldn’t help but misunderstand.

Upon hearing Jin Nanxi’s account, Jin Yu’s mouth twitched and he asked, "Young Aunt, have all the things Niannian sent to the house been eaten up?"

Choking back tears, Jin Nanxi replied, "We finished the last of the Butter Sauce last night."

Jin Yu’s face showed an expression of unsurprised realization.

What running away from home, he was sure the old man had certainly come to Nancheng.

This inconsiderate old man was behaving more and more like a child.

"Alright, Aunt, I got it; you don’t need to worry. Grandpa has come to Nancheng."

Jin Nanxi exclaimed, "Ah? Your grandpa’s gone to Nancheng to find you? Then you’d better hurry and pick Grandpa up, don’t let him get lost. His memory has been getting so much worse."

Jin Yu promised with a response.

Jin Nanxi and her family knew that Jin Yu and Xu Niannian were supposed to register their marriage; Jin Yu had said they wouldn’t have a wedding ceremony for the time being, and that they would have it when they returned to the capital, so Jin Nanxi and the rest of the family didn’t go there.

Who knew the old master would sneak out on his own.

After hanging up the phone, Jin Yu immediately drove to the train station to pick up the old master, only to find out that the train the old master was on had already arrived.

Now, Jin Yu was genuinely panicking.

The old man’s memory wasn’t good lately; he couldn’t afford to go missing.

*

Xu Niannian woke up early in the morning, finished her run in the yard, got ready, and planned to go out to find Jin Yu.

But the moment she stepped out the door, she saw a pitiful old man squatting at her doorstep, with a sorrowful and troubled expression.