The Heroes of Gulong: Great Chefs from Past to Present

Chapter 138 How to call a mule

After hearing that he had changed back into women's clothes, Yan Qi's expression froze for a moment, and his expression gradually became indifferent. He lowered his head to wash the dishes and spoke calmly.

"No, I don't want to go back to being a woman."

Li Chaofeng was stunned. He didn't understand the meaning of this sentence.

"What happened to the woman?"

Yan Qi raised her head and looked at Li Chaofeng's confused eyes. For the first time, she discovered that the omnipotent boss seemed to have something he didn't understand.

"A woman has to get married, have children, and support her husband and raise children. From the moment a woman is born, her life has been determined."

"Three obediences and four virtues, no self."

The light in Yan Qi's eyes gradually faded, but was full of memories.

"As a man, I am Yan Qi, who has died seven times. Every time I escape death, it is worth bragging about."

"But once I become a woman, no matter how many times I die, it won't be worth bragging about."

"Either they don't believe it."

"Either it feels like I used my body to seduce men and then escaped death seven times."

After Yan Qi said this, she raised her eyes and looked at Li Chaofeng. She thought that Li Chaofeng would be surprised, surprised or shocked.

But he only saw Li Chaofeng with an embarrassed look on his face, and his hands kept rubbing goosebumps.

Yan Qi glared: "What's going on with your expression?"

"Am I right?"

Li Chaofeng scratched his hair, thought carefully, and then explained.

"Yan Qi, I am a man, so I don't understand women very well."

"But when it comes to escaping seven deaths, I care more about the means of escape than the process."

"Seven deaths make you stronger."

"And being strong is something worth caring about."

"Yan Qi, you have died seven times, no matter you are a man or a woman, you have become very powerful."

Yan Qi smiled, Li Chaofeng said it sincerely, but Li Chaofeng was the only one in the world who would look at her like this, his face gradually became bitter, and his mouth was full of praise.

"Boss, you are a very special person, but no matter how special you are, you are only one person."

Looking at Yan Qi's bitter face, Li Chaofeng had a lot to say, but he felt that only he believed these words.

For Yan Qi, it was all a relief.

The world is like this, how about individuals?
  "Wow, woof."

Two dogs barked at the door. They were the dogs that Yan Qi had picked up.

Hearing the barking of dogs, Li Chaofeng stroked the cat in his arms, but looked at the cart not far away, and asked a confused question.

"Yan Qi, do you know how a mule barks?"

Li Chaofeng asked easily, but his eyes shone with light and he asked seriously.

Yan Qi followed Li Chaofeng's gaze and looked at the mule in front of the cart, very quietly.

The mule was very close to her, but she thought for a moment and shook her head hesitantly.

"No impression."

Li Chaofeng smiled: "Then do you know how a horse barks?"

Yan Qi thought for a moment and said with certainty: "Of course the horse neighs."

Li Chaofeng asked again: "Where is the donkey?"

Yan Qi imitated: "Ang, that's about it."

As the sound of "ang" sounded, the mules in front of the cart suddenly screamed. It was the sound of "ang, ang, ah".

Yan Qi smiled: "It turns out that the sound of a mule and a donkey is the same."

When the answer appeared, Yan Qi's eyes turned to Li Chaofeng, because Li Chaofeng couldn't ask himself a question just because he wanted to hear a mule bray.

"Yan Qi, do you know why you have no impression of the mule's cry?"

Yan Qi frowned: "People can't remember everything in this world?"

Li Chaofeng laughed loudly: "Cows, horses, sheep, dogs, cats, rats, dragons, snakes, Yan Qi. May I ask if there are such animals in the world? Do you remember their sounds?"

Yan Qi was stunned. She looked at the mule not far away, thought hard for a long time, and hesitated to explain.

"Maybe the braying of a mule and a donkey is so similar that I forgot about it."

Li Chaofeng shook his head: "No, it's not that you forgot, but you never remembered."

"Isn't it strange that you can remember the braying of a donkey, but forget that the braying of a mule is the same as that of a donkey?"

Yan Qi is very smart. People who can escape death seven times are always very smart.

So she felt really strange in her heart and looked at Li Chaofeng.

She knew that since Li Chaofeng had given the question, there must be an answer.

"So, you know the reason?"

Li Chaofeng did not answer directly and began to explain the origin of the mule.

"The mule is a very special animal. It is special in that it is not actually one kind of animal, but two kinds."

Yan Qi was surprised: "There are two kinds of mules?"

Li Chaofeng nodded: "Yes, a mule born from a horse is called a horse mule, and a mule born from a donkey is called a donkey mule."

Yan Qi frowned: "So I forgot the mule's cry because it has two sounds?"

Li Chaofeng shook his head: "No, there is only one sound of a mule."

Yan Qi: "."

Li Chaofeng stopped playing riddles, looked into Yan Qi's eyes, and gave the answer directly.

"You can't remember the sound of a mule, because the sound of a mule has never appeared in books. Your knowledge comes from books. If it's not in books, you naturally can't remember it."

"Donkeys croak and dogs bark, horses neigh and cows moo, tigers roar and dragons roar, and phoenixes croak and clang."

"The world has even given words to the cries of dragons and phoenixes, but has never recorded the sound of mules."

Yan Qi looked at the mule and nodded silently. Indeed, records of mules in the world have always been mixed with horses and donkeys. "

"So. why?"

Li Chaofeng said with a straight face: "Because although there are two types of mules, their barks are never important."

"You won't meet a mule in the wild, so you don't need to distinguish the sound of a mule."

"And the reason why mules don't appear in the wild is just because even if a mule runs away, it can't give birth to a mule."

"A mule, the offspring of a donkey and a horse, was just an accident."

“Accidents may make people’s eyes brighter, but they are always fleeting.”

After saying this, Li Chaofeng looked at Yan Qi and began to read a poem.

"Sending mayflies to heaven and earth, a drop in the vast ocean, mourning the brief moment of my life, envying the infinity of the Yangtze River."

"The world is too big and life is too short."

"Everyone is born with the need to remember too many things. Those things that are complicated but fleeting, the world may stop to marvel and be moved, but they will never care or understand, and naturally there is no need to remember them."

"Yan Qi, you want the world to understand your thoughts, I understand."

"But the most important thing about changing the world is not letting the world understand your ideas now."

"It's about letting others know that even if you die one day, your thoughts will not disappear from this world."

"People in the world will try to persuade tigers to become vegetarians, but they will never find mules too bitter."

"Because the tigers on the mountain will always eat people, and no matter how miserable the mule is, if it dies, it will die."

After standing up, Li Chaofeng returned to his room, leaving his last advice in the air.

"Yan Qi, I'm not qualified to judge whether you want to change from a donkey to a horse, but you can't turn into a mule."

"No one cares what the mule thinks, not even me."

Yan Qi sat there, and she understood what Li Chaofeng meant.

She wanted to be herself and refused to be an ordinary woman in the eyes of the world, so she turned herself into a man.

But the world didn't care about this, because once she died, this strange thought disappeared.

People will always die, sooner or later.

She thought about it for a long time.

Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!
  Knocking hard on Li Chaofeng's door, Yan Qi looked at the helpless Li Chaofeng and became angry.

"You've said all that, but you haven't told me what I should do?"

Practicing Jing Gong requires silence. Li Chaofeng was very concerned about being disturbed, but thinking of the trouble Zhu Zhu might cause, he replied with a smile.

"I already told you this. Change into women's clothes."

She tilted her chin and motioned Yan Qi to look towards the lobby. That was Guo Dalu who was cashing out on her behalf.

"A woman who doesn't even dare to take action against the man she likes, who cares what you think."

(End of this chapter)