In the fourth year of Yuanyou, the gourmet Su Shi was demoted to Hangzhou and took over the dredging of the West Lake. However, he was trapped in a double siege by the powerful Shen family and the forces of the DPRK and China. When he was at a loss, he received a "Qiantang Food List" left by his mentor Ouyang Xiu. The recipes in the book are actually the key to breaking the game: the heat of the "Dongpo Pork" dish is a metaphor for the opportunity to overthrow the Shen family; the fragrance of the "Pork Steamed with Lotus Leaf Flour" points directly to the culvert at the bottom of the West Lake where evidence is hidden.
Su Shi made friends with delicious food, gathered Ouyang Xiu's old men in the market, and used the tip of his tongue as a blade to set up a dragnet between cups and cups. When he exposed the Shen family's smuggling conspiracy in public by tasting the dishes at a banquet attended by the imperial envoy, he was shocked to discover that this was actually a chess game that Ouyang Xiu had planned for twenty years, using Hangzhou as the chessboard and himself as the bait, with the intention of completely eradicating the cancer that entrenched the southeast. And Su Shi was not only the chess player, but also the most critical "live piece" in the chess game.
