Dressed as a down-and-out official daughter, she became famous in Bianjing by selling porridge on the streets!
While others fought against their concubines and aunts across time and space, Su Wanyi silently set up a food stall - a bowl of five-element medicinal porridge to revive a dying beggar; Music, chess, calligraphy and painting? It was a pre-dinner fun. Chinese medicine physiognomy? Use it to process ingredients to make them more fragrant!
Soon, the legend of the mysterious cook spread in Bianjing: she can determine your bad luck with a single hexagram, and she can also change your feng shui with a single soup. The dignitaries lined up with money in their hands, asking her to make a "lucky dish". Until the cold-faced prince who paid a private visit in disguise held down her kitchen knife and said: "Girl, this palmistry is like Feng Ming Jiutian, would you like to join my house... And be a cook?"
She originally wanted to quietly become a food celebrity, but was forced to be involved in the court mystery. When the Queen Mother was poisoned, she detoxified the poison with medicinal food; when the prince seized the throne, she used a banquet to prepare an array. The whole capital thought she was just a metaphysics lover with good cooking skills, but little did they know that the fortune-telling she had casually calculated for the emperor was on a plate of sweet-scented osmanthus cake.
Until there was an emergency at the border, she followed the army northward and used a pot of "starry marching pot" to defeat 30,000 enemy soldiers at night. She was eventually respected by the world as the female national preceptor of the Song Dynasty who "holds the spoon to determine the world and eats the fragrance of mountains and rivers".
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