"Eh?" Xu Niannian sniffed, "Does it smell a bit different?"
Yang Cuihua didn’t feel any change, after all, she had been in the restaurant every day and had long gotten used to the smell.
"What’s different?" Yang Cuihua asked.
Xu Niannian shook her head, "I’ll go in and take a look."
Xu Niannian had a keen nose and could clearly sense subtle differences in scents.
But she still had to taste the food to know if it had really changed.
This standalone courtyard, on the left it resembled dormitories with many rooms, the middle was an alley, and on the right was a huge kitchen.
As soon as she entered the room, Xu Niannian saw a boy walking towards her from the kitchen, the boy had a delicate face, and because he had spent some time in the kitchen, fine beads of sweat had popped up on his forehead, and he was also carrying a pot.
The pot contained dirty water, probably he was coming out to pour it.
She knew this person.
The boy who had liked the previous Xu Niannian.
When Liu Wendong saw Xu Niannian coming towards him, he was obviously startled for a moment, but he quickly hid the amazement in his eyes.
Apart from the initial amazement, there was no longer the infatuation that Xu Niannian was familiar with in his eyes.
Instead, there was a hint of indifference, making him seem rather calm.
Xu Niannian thought, he must have let go by now.
"Why are you here?" Xu Niannian asked.
Before Liu Wendong could answer, Yang Cuihua blurted out to Xu Niannian. Content originally comes from novel(ꜰ)ire.net
"Ah, Xiao Liu is the head chef who started to help here a while ago, remember Wenwen was short-staffed? She recruited some chefs with good culinary skills to help out, I must say, Xiao Liu’s cooking is superb, especially delicious."
Flushed with Yang Cuihua’s praise, Liu Wendong was a bit embarrassed and said with a blushing face, "Auntie, you flatter me."
Xu Niannian had a good eye for people, and being a woman, she was more sensitive in this matter. The way Liu Wendong looked at her had changed from before; he must have completely moved on.
She didn’t mind his working there and asked, "Where’s Wenwen?"
"In there," Liu Wendong said.
Xu Niannian nodded and headed towards the kitchen.
Inside the kitchen, seven or eight people were busily stirring butter sauce, with only two women among them, the rest were men.
One of them was Du Wenwen. Xu Niannian could tell just by her silhouette.
"Wenwen!" she called out.
At her call, the people busy cooking turned their heads in unison to look over.
"Clang..." The sound of a ladle dropping on the floor.
The group of men, all around 25 years old, were stunned by Xu Niannian’s striking beauty, so much so that they didn’t even notice their ladles falling to the ground.
Such a commotion made even Xu Niannian, who was used to being the center of attention, feel somewhat uncomfortable.
She coughed to remind them, "Your ladle fell."
One after another, voices rose as the group of men scrambled to rescue the disaster at the scene.
The only ones who remained calm were the two girls present.
Du Wenwen called out, "Boss!"
At that, everyone instantly understood that Xu Niannian was the ’Fairy Daughter’ Yang Cuihua had talked about and also their boss.
The two girls there, one was Du Wenwen, and the other one Xu Niannian also knew, quite well actually.
Seeing Xu Niannian return, she was shocked as well.
Strictly speaking, Xu Niannian was Zhu Xinyu’s rival in love.