Shen Shuyao transformed into an ordinary little palace maid in the imperial dining room. Good news: In her previous life, she was a close disciple of a state banquet chef and her cooking skills were superb. Bad news: She was delivering meals in the cold palace at the beginning. Her master was not favoring her, so she was starving every day, and her good cooking skills were useless. In order to have a full meal, Shen Shuyao decided to start a career. From "one person's meal" in the cold palace to a banquet for a hundred people in the Shangshi Bureau, from being ignored to being famous in the palace, she fought her way through the hierarchical palace with a kitchen knife, and was eventually appointed by Yubi as the first female Shangshi in the reign of Dajing, in charge of the palace's royal meals. I thought this was the pinnacle of my career, but I didn't expect that greater challenges were yet to come. Beidi invaded, the border was in crisis, the food and grass on the front line were robbed many times, and the morale of the army was turbulent. Everyone thinks that war is a matter for men, for generals and soldiers. Until an imperial edict bound her, the imperial cook, to Pei Yan, the commander-in-chief of the Forbidden Army. Governor Pei, who was known for his iron-handedness and ability to stop children from crying at night, looked at her with scrutiny and distrust: "Shang Shi Ling?" The implication is: What use can a cook do? Shen Shuyao smiled slightly, neither humble nor arrogant: "Captain, the soldiers and horses have not moved, food and grass go first. The soldiers can't fill their bellies, how are you going to fight? The army is disorganized and morale is low, what do you use to defend the enemy?" She went out with the army, improved the marching rations, solved the problem of water purification, used the simplest ingredients to make the most morale-boosting delicacies, and even relied on her understanding of the ingredients in various places to accurately judge the enemy's food routes and ambushes. Pei Yan, who once looked down upon her,
