Food: Starting with Wonton Noodles

The next morning, thanks to the system's efficient recovery, Zhou Yu woke up refreshed and began his morning workout.

However, he only did some simple bodyweight training downstairs in the community today.

The specific exercises mainly revolve around upper body training such as push-ups and pull-ups, and core exercises such as ab wheel exercises and various variations of planks.

According to the system, this is because a good chef needs to have good upper body strength and strong core and abdominal strength.

Zhou Yu strongly suspected that this was an action directly arranged by the system based on his existing conditions.

It's very simple; he actually has an ab wheel, which he won in a raffle at his previous company's annual meeting, and it just happened to be gathering dust in the storage room.

Just like yesterday, whenever he started to feel exhausted, he would simply stop and rest for a short while, and then immediately feel full of energy again.

What's even more impressive is that, despite never having exercised before, he was able to progress from simply kneeling push-ups and the Australian pull-up, a progressive version of pull-ups, to a much more efficient method.

But after simply completing the first round of exercises, he naturally unlocked the normal push-up and pull-up movements.

I can even start pushing the ab wheel while standing, but I can't push it all the way down yet.

After exercising, he stood shirtless and began admiring himself in the mirror, feeling that his body had become even more toned.

After yesterday's training and a good night's sleep, my muscle definition has started to take shape.

Although Zhou Yu already had a good physique, he didn't have any muscle definition before, so now that the muscle definition is starting to show, he immediately has a different look.

Before he could finish admiring himself, his bedroom door rang with a series of loud bangs.

"Uncle! Uncle! Get up!" The voices outside the door made him instinctively not want to respond.

Wait, I'm already up, aren't I?

Zhou Yu then realized that this was not the same person who hadn't gotten out of bed by 10 a.m. before.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

"Uncle! Uncle! Open the door!"

Well, even though he wasn't sleeping in, the knocking still gave him a headache.

Zhou Yu had just finished dressing when he opened the door.

Linlin had already crashed into his legs like a cannonball.

Linlin hugged Zhou Yu's leg and said, "Uncle, is there anything else delicious to cook?"

Zhou Yu picked Linlin up helplessly and said, "Weren't you supposed to be going to kindergarten? Why did you come here today?"

My little nephew is adorable, of course, except in the morning.

Every morning, my nephew and niece would come over early. Their favorite thing to do was knock on Zhou Yu's door.

And they can keep banging on you as long as you don't get up.

At this point, Cao Xuezhen didn't care about the two little ones and was happy to see them wake Zhou Yu up.

So Zhou Yu was traumatized by the knocking.

"The kindergarten teacher said he had a slight fever this morning, so she sent him home to rest to prevent him from infecting the other children."

Before Linlin could speak, Cao Xuezhen picked up where Zhou Yu left off from the living room. "That's why Meiying just brought him over. After all, they all have to go to work now, and there's no one at home to take care of him."

Looking at his obviously energetic nephew, Zhou Yu said strangely, "Linlin doesn't seem to have a cold. Besides, a slight fever is nothing to worry about, is it?"

"Meiying said that Linlin's temperature had gone down when she arrived. But, sigh, now that the flu is about to start again, we have to send the children home to ensure the safety of the other children. These days, kindergartens are afraid of something happening, so they send children home at the slightest sign of trouble, regardless of whether it's convenient for them or not."

Although Cao Xuezhen was happy to see her grandson, she was still very indignant about the kindergarten's inaction.

"After all, if something really happens, the kindergarten will also be in a lot of trouble." Zhou Yu was quite understanding of the kindergarten's perspective on this.

If an entire kindergarten gets sick at the same time, that would be a real problem.

This kind of thing is not uncommon.

Zhou Yu had often heard Zhou Meiying mention it.

Yes, Zhou Meiying also works as a teacher at a public kindergarten.

At the beginning, Linlin and her brother were studying at the kindergarten where Zhou Meiying worked.

Although I don't attend classes taught by Zhou Meiying, it's still more convenient to take care of things if anything happens.

Moreover, tuition fees can be reduced by half.

However, as the two siblings searched for their mother more and more often, Linlin even brought a whole class of classmates to Zhou Meiying's class on one occasion.

The entire class of children called Zhou Meiying "Mom" and asked her for candy, which finally broke Zhou Meiying's composure.

Of course, this wasn't the final reason for transferring schools.

The most important thing is that Huihui is 6 years old this year and needs to go to preschool. Although public kindergartens also have preschool classes, they are not allowed to teach primary school-style classes.

So Zhou Meiying simply transferred both her siblings to a private kindergarten as well.

Zhou Yu handed Linlin to Cao Xuezhen and said, "Alright, stop bothering your uncle. Your uncle needs to start working now. Let your grandma play with you."

"When you're done with your work, you have to take me out for something delicious!" Linlin struggled in Cao Xuezhen's arms.

Cao Xuezhen gently patted his bottom and said, "Your uncle has to work, don't bother him. Children should be good, or the mountain bear will carry them away."

"Grandma, what exactly is a mountain bear?"

"Mountain Bear, Mountain Bear is a long-haired old witch who eats people, especially children."

Zhou Yu gave a strange smile and went to the kitchen to start cooking today's broth.

But Cao Xuezhen's storytelling voice still evoked Zhou Yu's childhood memories.

When Zhou Yu was a child, he asked Cao Xuezhen the same question: What is a mountain bear?

"In the past, there was a mountain bear in the mountains with long fur, a big mouth, and sharp claws. It only liked to eat meat and people, and especially liked to eat children."

"And right at the foot of this mountain lived a family. The father had gone out to work, leaving behind the mother and two children."

As she spoke, Cao Xuezhen even pinched Linlin's cheek.

"These two children, one is also named Linlin, and she is the same age as you, and the other is also named Huihui, and she is the same age as your older sister."

One day, my mother went to visit relatives in the village, leaving my two children at home alone. Before leaving, she told them: "Tonight, Grandma will come over and sleep with you two. Remember to close the door tightly and never open it to strangers. You must make sure it is Grandma before opening the door, okay?"

Then the two siblings asked: "Mom, we've never met Grandma, how do we know she's Grandma?" Mom said: "Your grandma has a big mole on her face, as big as a snail. When you see a big snail mole on her face, you know she's your grandma."

"Don't open the door for anyone except Grandma, understand?"