Lin Youyou was momentarily stunned when she heard Ye Chen was going to tell her a story: "Sure."
Ye Chen began to tell a story.
There was a farmer who raised chickens, and one day he saw his friend stealing corn from the field and thought he was a thief, unreliable, and stopped associating with him.
Later, his friend asked why.
The farmer said, "You're a thief."
The friend said, "Can I buy a chicken from you?"
The farmer said yes.
The friend picked out a chicken that was losing feathers and was about to die.
The farmer, perplexed, said, "I have so many chickens on my farm, all of them vigorous and strong. Why did you choose this dying chicken?"
The friend said, "I want to keep this chicken at my doorstep and tell everyone that I bought it from you."
The farmer was very nervous and said, "All my chickens are good, except for this one. Can you really represent the quality of all my chickens with this one?"