Lin Zheng, owner of Lanting Hotel, when the steamer for an 80-table banquet broke down, abandoned head chef Gu Changshan, who insisted that only main dishes pass through his hands first, and enabled Xu Dahe to change dishes on the spot, saving the banquet from disaster. At the Chamber of Commerce Challenge, Lanting faced Dingshenglou. Gu Changshan led with 96 points in knife work, but because he tied all steps to himself, the soup for the last three tables of the hundred-person banquet was not served; Dahe wrote standards into processes and arranged substitutes into positions, serving ten tables of dishes simultaneously and winning with a total score of 275 to 272. After the match, Lin Zheng checked the accounts, and Gu Changshan asked, "You aren't leaving even a shred of affection?" Lin Zheng replied, "The guests' money, the employees' wages, the hotel's accounts can no longer be stuffed into a single bowl of noodles and muddled through."