Chef's Knife

Women are the offspring of gods and mortals.

It is illegal to combine gods and humans. In order to save his wife and daughter, God of Cooking voluntarily gave up his identity as a god and jumped off the 99th heaven.

Women grew up in Taoyuan and were well protected, like flowers in a greenhouse.God of Cooking passed on his skills to her, and her mother taught her such beautiful qualities as truthfulness, kindness, and keeping promises, but she didn't tell her what the word "evil" is.

When they lived in the world, they lived in seclusion in the mountains and had nothing to do with the world.I didn't let my daughter see a single filthy and ugly thing, and didn't let my daughter hear a little secular swearing.

In the era of plague and famine, the God of Cooking and his mother died one after another.

The woman who became the second generation God of Cooking was still a young girl at this time.Digging the grave bit by bit with both hands, burying the parents together.She buried her tears and seeped into the soil, and finally wept sobbingly that the sky was dark.

Just when she was crying so hard, the small river in front of the door rushed the man down and sent him to her.

The girl wiped her tears carelessly with her sleeve, got up and dragged the man who was washed by the river to her door.The plague killed many people, and the river in front of the gate became turbid.Every day there are dead bodies of starvation or disease floating on the surface of the water. The girl is crying and wants to dig a hole, dig two holes, and do a good deed to bury the man.

It took a lot of effort to dig out a hole, and the girl's nails were cracked.She rubbed the mud on her hands and put the man in, and found that the pit was a bit shallow, the man's body was buried with a shallow layer of soil, and his head was still exposed.She had a hard time, so she jumped up and thought about it for a while, and decided to step on it to make the soil sink a little more.

It's okay if you don't step on it, but the effect is really bad if you step on it.There was only a wailing, and the weak voice of the young man came from under his feet.

"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts...Girl, let's talk about not stepping on the crotch anymore, shall we?"

Who knew that the girl's expression was even more tangled.

"You, you, you, you... Uncle, let's talk about not moving around anymore, okay? Burying people is very hard, okay? Can't you cooperate as much as possible? Can you still die properly after twisting and turning?"

The girl kicked the man's crotch with one hand on his waist and complained.

God, whose girl is this?With such an unresponsive reaction, shouldn't ordinary people jump up and scream at this time, 'Fake corpse'? !She actually seems to be burying the talking 'corpse' under her feet with peace of mind as if she didn't realize anything?

"The girl's kindness is appreciated..." The man gasped in pain, "The question is, girl, don't you see that... are you still not dead?"

"What? You didn't die... woo woo woo, I didn't say it earlier, it made people dig such a long hole for nothing! Do you know how painful my hands are?" The girl rubbed her elbows and feet in distress. Step on a man's belly.

"...Don't you think I'm not in pain?" The man's forehead was covered with cold sweat, his face was pale, and his voice was weak, "Even if I didn't die just now, I will be trampled to death by you right now..."

The man exhausted his strength and passed out directly.

When he woke up, hunger surrounded his body.At that time, the bowl of bone soup in the girl's hand became a memory that lingered throughout his life.

Maybe it was because he was so hungry that he couldn't even think about how there would be meat to make soup for him in the mountain village where the bark of the barren trees had been scraped off all over the place?

The girl moved her newly grown arms and looked at the person she picked up.She hadn't seen anything alive for a long time—plague and famine had left the mountain with nothing but corpses.After burying her parents, she looked around the world and felt endless desolation and the loneliness of being abandoned.And at this moment, she felt a kind of joy after the disaster, that she was not alone at last, that she had found a filler that could fill the sadness and emptiness.

"You saved the next life, how much reward do you want, eh?"

The man crossed his legs and rested his chin and asked her.

"How much do I have to give you?"

"Money? You are so strange," the girl felt a little baffled. She lived in a self-sufficient small village where men farmed and women weaved. She didn't need currency transactions at all, so she didn't know what money was.But instinctively, I felt that I was underestimated, "Other people saved you, you don't say thank you, but keep your mouth shut as a reward, as if they were trying to trick you."

"Oh," the man smiled, "then don't you think that's the case?"

"Hmph, do you think I saved you just to get something out of you?" The girl puffed her cheeks, a little annoyed, "Your mother must have never educated you since you were a child. Good deeds are based on conscience, and you don't expect anything in return!"

At this time, the world is torn apart, and the people are in dire straits; plague and famine go hand in hand, bones are strewn by the roadside, and corpses are piled under the trees.In an era when the hearts of the people are lost and the ceremony is broken, people are fighting each other like wild beasts.

And in the little girl's clear eyes, he saw the last piece of pure land in the world.

"..." The man's expression changed slightly, and there was a bit of self-mockery in his random smile, "Well, my mother passed away early, so the girl laughed."

Then he blinked again, returned to normal, and smiled a little slyly.

"Then did your mother teach you another saying, 'a man should be grateful for his kindness'? You see, I am a gentleman with a conscience. If I don't repay the girl for saving my life, I can't justify it, right? Bar?"

"...It seems to be ah." The girl felt a little reasonable.

"But now I'm down here penniless, and I can't pay the compensation. I have to... Well, I have to make a promise with my body, and be the girl's husband."

The girl vaguely felt that she had suffered a loss, but she said that it was not right to come up, so she worshiped in front of her parents' graves in such a daze.

It was a calamity year, it was a troubled time, it was the most ordinary and most memorable time she spent with him.

"General! The general has been found!"

When his subordinates led soldiers and horses to find this mountain, the man even wanted to escape for a moment.However, the girl just stared at him with those almond eyes, which were so clear and calm that he had nowhere to hide.

"You should go."

She said to him, as if reminding him that he should add more clothes and drink medicine.

The man smiled wryly, it turned out that she knew everything and everything.

Innocence does not mean stupidity, this seemingly confused stupid girl sees through everything but never speaks.

He is the reincarnation of a real dragon, born for the world, and it is his mission to end this troubled world.

And in the days before that, he wove a dream for himself.It seemed that there really was a paradise in this world that could allow him to forget about the rise and fall of the world, and accompany a silly half-god girl to play the game of young couples like a family wine.

"But..." The man wanted to say something else.

"This is not the place for you to stay," the girl waved her hand and shook her head gently, the man saw the seriousness on her face that he had never seen before, "You are like a Kunpeng, you should ride the wind and travel around the world straight up to the nine heavens and break through the clouds, Instead of being tied up and trapped in a small river and pond."

The man froze, and the girl blocked what he wanted to say in her throat.When she smiled, she still had familiar eyebrows and eyes, and her tone was childish but proud.

"Because my official is the most amazing person in the world. Although he can't chop firewood, plow the land, or embroider, he will become a great hero one day!"

Later later, the troubled times ended, and he ruled the world.

In the following decades, sitting on the throne, he married the woman of an important minister, and experienced repeated turmoil and countless conspiracies. The bones piled up under his feet until he became a loner.He was glad that she was not around to witness all this filth, and he was glad that she was always living cleanly in that little Taoyuan.

It's not yet time, he kept telling himself that the time is not yet ripe, the seeds of those threats have not been cleaned up, and he still has too many things to do.

He has no time for pleasure, nor a moment of rest, he is like a never-ending power machine.During his decades of reign, he was diligent and conscientious, and later generations evaluated him as the most diligent emperor in history.

He wants to create a great prosperity for the country and the people to show her, and he wants to let her know that he is worthy of the word 'hero'.

Until the day when he collapsed due to old age, he suddenly realized that dozens of years had passed by in a hurry.He is too old, as a mortal, he has forgotten her name, he has forgotten her face, and only remembers the taste of that bowl of bone soup deep in his soul.

He was lying on the sickbed and his breath was gone. His eldest son posted a list all over the world looking for the woman who made soup.He often heard the court ladies and eunuchs whispering in the palace, everyone hoped that he would die soon, Jiangshan needs a younger king.

He knew that his mission in the mortal world was over, but he held on to his last breath, dragging his dying body, greedily wanting to see her again.

Until... the young man in green came to his bed with the pot of soup.

"Even if there are poisonous poisonous intestine-piercing weeds, I don't care..."

Her soul was attached to her bones, passing through the bowl of soup to his face.She is still so young and beautiful, but she has long since passed away; and although he is alive, he is already gray-haired and old.

She and him passed through more than sixty years of missed time and met again.

"Grassman Luo Sheng."

The young man in green has the same apricot eyes, the same smile, and the same dimples as hers.

Really, really good.

(End of the episode)