That night, the kitchen took a total of five orders.

Zhou Huilan was very idle, but in addition to being idle, she also noticed that something was wrong.

After the last menu was done, she strolled out of the back kitchen boredly, looking at the empty front hall, she always felt like the hot scene that had just opened, as if it was a lifetime ago.

"Look, it's only been a few days, and how many customers have been lost."

Zhou Huilan was stunned for a moment, and when she turned around, she saw that it was Zhang Yongqiang, and politely pulled out a smile, "Mr. Zhang."

Zhang Yongqiang waved his hand and handed over an open bottle of beer, "Master Zhou, although your cooking skills are good, the kung fu of this apprentice is still too bad......

Zhou Huilan admitted this, she took the beer and took a sip, "Master Zhao's craftsmanship will not lose so many customers in just a few days."

Zhang Yongqiang smiled, "Indeed, this matter has nothing to do with him, it's Niu Guangde."

Niu Guangde stabilized and sent an invitation letter to the old leaders who used to like to eat his stir-fried food, and made a copper pot shabu-shabu in his Niu Ji Restaurant, saying that it was a fashionable way to eat in Beijing, called hot pot.

"Hot pot?" Zhou Huilan looked at the magnificent hotel lobby, and felt that they couldn't learn this method, after all, Donghua Restaurant was good at the beginning, and it was not close to the people, "They make hot pot, we don't have to follow the trend, I can keep up with a few medicinal dishes."

"That's not the point." Zhang Yongqiang smiled mysteriously, "There is a document from the Beijing market, to select local cuisine, our city leaders said that they are going to hold a food competition, I am thinking, we can't lag behind in this matter, but if you are busy with the food competition, then what about this kitchen?"

Although the master doesn't have to do a lot of work, some things really can't do without her.

Without waiting for Zhou Huilan to speak, Zhang Yongqiang continued, "Why don't you take this opportunity and bring a few apprentices with you?"

When the master leads the apprentice, this is the tradition of the back kitchen.

But after all, Zhou Huilan didn't learn from her master step by step, and she didn't think about taking an apprentice.

But after all, this Donghua Restaurant has its own shares, and it is understandable to work with Zhang Yongqiang to make him better, so the next day, she also took the matter of taking apprentices seriously.

When she got off work, Zhou Huilan came out of the restaurant as usual, but saw Lu Changqing holding Yaoyao, standing under the plane tree at the door, waving happily at her.

"Mom!" Yaoyao trotted excitedly into Zhou Huilan's arms.

She was a little confused, and she became more and more at a loss at Lu Changqing's doting smile, "You, why are you here?"

After being discharged from the hospital, Lu Changqing sent him early and picked him up late, and he took Yaoyao as his own business, and he would come to pick up Zhou Huilan from work at night, just with Yaoyao, and today was really the first time.

"It's not that she's naughty and refuses to sleep, if you can't get up tomorrow morning, your uncle will definitely spank you!" Lu Changqing said, and raised his slap with a gesture.

Frightened, Yaoyao screamed and hid behind Zhou Huilan, laughing, "I sleep with my mother at night, Uncle Lu can't fight!"

One big and one small made a fuss about Zhou Huilan as a pillar, and the colleagues who came out from behind saw this scene and greeted Zhou Huilan with a smile.

"Master Zhou, this is your lover and child, they really look alike!"

Zhou Huilan was about to answer, but Yaoyao grabbed her arm and dragged her to the ground, and when she wanted to deny it again, the colleague who greeted her had already left.

Yaoyao and Lu Changqing were still messing around, as if only Zhou Huilan heard the casual words of her colleague just now.

Yaoyao, who was tired of running, suddenly threw herself into Zhou Huilan's arms, "Mom, let's go home quickly!"

Zhou Huilan nodded, held her daughter's little hand, Lu Changqing directly grabbed the child's other hand, and with Yaoyao's "take off", the two of them worked together together, holding Yaoyao's little arm to make her whole person fly.

Along the way, there was the laughter of children.

In such a scene, Zhou Huilan sank uncontrollably.

It's not just her, even Yaoyao, too

She had never enjoyed such joy, and she couldn't help but think that in the future, if Yaoyao was really Lu Changqing's daughter, would they be able to be so happy and open.

The next morning, after arriving at the hotel, Zhou Huilan seriously considered taking an apprentice.

The youngest in the kitchen is Su Xiaoliang, who is 24 years old and is not qualified to be in charge of the stove.

Next down is Zhang Shaokun, 30 years old, but he is already Master Zhao's apprentice.

The rest are all over 35 years old, Zhou Huilan wants to be a master for them, not to mention that Zhou Huilan is awkward, and it is impossible for these masters to agree.

There are already a lot of people in the back kitchen, and it is not realistic to find someone from the outside, and the young people of these years are all pursuing to make quick money, and the kitchen is obviously not sought after.

After thinking about it, Zhou Huilan still chose Su Xiaoliang.

found an opportunity to mention it euphemistically, but unexpectedly, Su Xiaoliang agreed very happily.

"Originally, I was not qualified to worship the master, but I didn't expect to pick up a big bargain." Su Xiaoliang said that he was going to kneel and kowtow to Zhou Huilan.

Zhou Huilan, who was not two years older than him, dared to accept such a big gift from him, so she hurriedly helped Su Xiaoliang up, but turned around and saw Zhang Shaokun.

"Master Zhou is going to accept Xiaoliang as an apprentice?" Zhang Shaokun's expression was a little lonely.

Zhou Huilan didn't understand what was wrong with him, so she nodded with a smile, "I'm not here in the future, and there will be another accident in the kitchen."

Zhang Shaokun smiled awkwardly, turned around and left.

However, within two days, Master Zhao and Zhang Yongqiang took the initiative to resign.

He didn't say anything about this, Zhou Huilan knew, it was because of Zhang Shaokun, he found Zhou Huilan and said that he wanted to learn cooking from her, and Zhou Huilan noticed that Master Zhao hadn't come for several days.

Zhang Shaokun was originally a red case, and it must be faster to teach him than to teach Su Xiaoliang, and Zhou Huilan promised Granny Duan that she would carry forward the Xu family's cuisine, and she alone would definitely not be able to do it, and after two days of struggle, she recognized Zhang Shaokun.

It's just that she hasn't followed the master herself and relied on self-study, so it is inevitable that she will be a little confused when she brings her apprentices.

Half a month later, the paternity test results came out.

Zhou Huilan struggled internally for many days, but when she actually saw the report, she still couldn't control her emotions.

The father-daughter relationship of the sample submitted for testing was likely to be 99.99%.

As Zhou Zhenhai's daughter, she may have been destined to misfortune when she was born, but all misfortunes were magnified after Zhou Zhenhai was mad and drugged her the night.

Lu Changqing said that the night he was at the Ning'an Hotel was before New Year's Day.

But she clearly remembered that it was the wax moon before the New Year, whether it was a mistake in the description or someone misremembered it among them.

In the face of this paper paternity test, it doesn't matter anymore.

Zhou Huilan bent down to pick up the appraisal report, and when she got up and walked out, her steps were vain, and she accidentally bumped into an oncoming person.

She staggered back two steps and leaned against the wall, but the other party seemed to be more serious than her, bending over and lying on the ground clutching her stomach in pain.

"Are you alright?" Zhou Huilan was just about to step forward when she saw the dark red liquid coming out of the girl's legs.

She was taken aback, and as she went to help the girl, she shouted, "Doctor! Doctor help!"