"My father is also a chef, and for chefs, bowls and chopsticks are tools to make money. If I smashed the bowls and chopsticks, wouldn't I have smashed his job? I also smashed my job. Isn't that right? What is unfilial piety?"

Wang Yao smiled softly upon hearing this and said, "What your father said makes sense. I believe your father must have punished you severely."

Li Qi smiled and said: "I remember he also cooked a big meal for me, called 'Stir-fried Pork with Bamboo Shoots'."

Wang Yao wondered: "Strange, since your father thinks you are an unfilial son, why does he still cook a big meal for you?"

Li Qi chuckled: "You really thought it was 'fried meat with bamboo shoots'? This is just an adjective used by my father to cover up domestic violence. In fact, it was just a slap on my ass with a bamboo stick."

Wang Yao was stunned for a moment, then chuckled and said, "I see, your family is indeed a family of chefs."

Li Qi rolled his eyes and said, "But I don't think any father would use his son to cook a big meal."

Wang Yao shook her head and said: "There is an ancient saying that a filial son emerges from a stick. Your father must be doing it for your own good. If he hadn't done this in the first place, how could you have become the King of Kitchens with the Golden Knife."

"This may be the only way I can comfort myself."

Li Qi shook his head with a wry smile.

Wang Yao added: "But I can see that you like cooking."

"That's for the future."

A smile appeared at the corner of Li Qi's mouth and he said: "I remember when I was in junior high school - oh, it also means elementary school. Anyway, I was thirteen or fourteen years old. At that time, when we went to school, we all brought our own lunch. But in At that time, I liked a girl in the school. Oh, girls in our hometown can also go to school."

Wang Yao nodded and said: "I also went to school when I was a child, but I didn't expect you to be so young - no wonder you are so romantic."

In fact, in the Song Dynasty, many children of nobles had to go to school, whether they were boys or girls.

Sweating! It seems like I said too much. Li Qi said awkwardly: "It's just a simple liking, it's different from what you thought."

Wang Yao asked curiously: "What then?"

Li Qidao: "At the beginning, I just liked it secretly, but later on, my classmates all found that the food I brought was very delicious. Every time I had lunch, they would surround me and flatter me, hoping to

I ordered some food, including that girl. At that time, I felt that cooking is really a good thing. It can make me powerful and superior, which satisfies my vanity very well. It is precisely because of this that I have a good relationship with you.

We started to get acquainted with that girl and became a good friend that we can't help talking about."

Wang Yao said: "In this case, you should ask your parents to come to propose marriage."

Proposing marriage? Shit, I was only in the first year of junior high school at that time, so I came to propose marriage. The parents of the other party had to be beaten to death. Madam, you must be evil, right? Li Qi said sarcastically: "It's not as exaggerated as you say.

, that girl and I were just good friends. Later---we just became very good friends."

Wang Yao didn't believe it. Judging from Li Qi's previous crime records, this was very unlike his behavior. She shook her head and said, "I don't believe it."

Li Qi smiled bitterly and said: "It's true. In fact, I have been a busy person since I was a child. This is also thanks to a pair of excellent parents. My father never cares about my studies. He only cares about the progress of my cooking skills, while my mother has never cared about my studies.

Regardless of my cooking skills, she only cares about my academic performance, and I must be fair, so I have to practice my cooking skills and study hard."

"Study hard?"

Wang Yao glanced at Li Qi strangely.

Li Qi said angrily: "What do you think of me? My writing is just a little bad, but that's just because I spend more time holding a spatula than a pen. I'm quite knowledgeable."

"

Wang Yao chuckled and said, "I didn't say anything, you said it yourself."

Li Qi curled his lips and continued: "I thought I was very busy, but I didn't expect that girl to be busier than me. When I was in elementary school, she was also in elementary school, but when I was still in elementary school, she already wanted to

I'm preparing to take the Gao---Imperial Examination."

Wang Yao hummed and said, "Can women also participate in the imperial examination?"

"No, no, no, I mean she has already reached that level. Anyway, she is no longer on the same level as me."

Li Qi explained vaguely, fearing that Wang Yao would continue to delve deeper, so he quickly continued: "So she and I are just good friends, and neither of us meant anything in that way. And I also knew later that she was definitely not me.

The kind of woman I like.”

Wang Yao asked curiously: "What kind of woman is she?"

Li Qi hummed: "She is the busiest woman I have ever seen. She is simply a workaholic. If you want to invite her to dinner, you have to make a reservation seven days in advance. I have to pay for it. It's a shame that she is a friend. If she is a lover, I have to

It was crazy, but she let me know that cooking is actually very useful. From that time on, I fell in love with cooking. Later, I thought about it, I am not against cooking, and I also like cooking very much.

The reason why I want to burn down the kitchen is because I am unhappy with my father's tyranny. At the same time, I also understand that if I want to get rid of my father's tyranny, I have to be better than him and let him know that there is nothing to teach me. That way I can get rid of it, so

I studied cooking even harder. When I was about sixteen or seventeen years old, my father thought he had nothing more to teach me, so he let me go freely. From that time on, I was the head of the family.

Yes, because it’s me who has the final say on what to eat.”

Having said this, Li Qi smiled proudly.

Wang Yao rolled her eyes at him and said, "What's there to be proud of? But just now you said I was only half right, what did you mean?"

Li Qi snorted and said: "You are right about the second part of your sentence. I really like to stay in the kitchen. Here I can forget about the hustle and bustle of the world and calm down. I even thought that I was lucky at one time. , because when a chef is not very good at making enemies with others, the chef faces only firewood, rice, oil and salt, until --- until an old man appeared, and I discovered that there are many dirty things hidden behind the chef."

Having said this, he frowned slightly and said with a wry smile: "I thought the kitchen was just for cooking delicious food, but I never thought that the kitchen is actually a battleground for military strategists. The benefits are greater than I imagined, but now I I now fully understand that this has been the case since ancient times.”

Wang Yao frowned and said, "Old man, are you talking about the Grand Master?"

Li Qi shook his head and said: "No, but this old man's status in my hometown is not low. After I won the King of Kitchen Competition in my hometown, he waved a token in front of me and said that as long as I accepted this Token, then I can have extremely high power and wealth."

Wang Yao looked at Li Qi with a hint of surprise and said, "Then do you accept it?"

Li Qi sighed: "I accepted the token, but I didn't immediately agree to his request. I just said I would consider it, but the old man has a deep connection with my family. I really can't refuse him, and I don't have the strength, but I I don’t want to tie myself down, so I can only use delaying tactics and live one day at a time.”

"Is that why you came to Tokyo?"

"ah?"

Li Qi was stunned for a moment, then nodded with a smile and said, "That's exactly it."

Wang Yao sighed quietly and said, "Then you must be very disappointed."

Li Qi asked in astonishment: "Why do you say that?"

Wang Yao said: "Don't you also have supreme power now?"

Li Qi chuckled: "This is different. In my hometown, even if I have no power, as long as I have money, I can still live a carefree and unrestrained life, but it is not possible here. If I have no power, how can I protect You, everything I get now is not given to me by God, but I fought for it with every drop of sweat. This is of my own free will. No one forces me. Of course, God is not kind to me, because Many people in the world work harder than me, but the rewards they get are not equal to their efforts. But in my case, I got everything I wanted."

Wang Yao nodded and said: "Then your parents are still alive, and where is your hometown?"

She had never asked about Li Qi's family affairs before because she felt she was not qualified and didn't want to know, but it was different now.

Li Qi smiled, took Wang Yao's hand, and said, "Do you want to meet your parents-in-law?"

Wang Yao blushed and whispered: "I was just asking."

Li Qidao: "Of course my parents are still alive, but they travel around the mountains and rivers. The dragon has never seen its tail, so I guess I won't meet it. My hometown is a very far away place overseas. I also happened to come here. Even if I go back The road can no longer be found."
Chapter completed!