During the Daguan period of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Baifan Building, the first of the seventy-two main stores in Bianliang, Tokyo, was full of smoke every day.
There is a widowed female chef named Chai Yunping, who has precise knife skills but dare not chop onions. She uses the stove as a cage and feeds the stomach of this prosperous imperial city with "roasted pork belly" and "double cooked perilla fish" one after another, while guarding the past that she cannot escape.
During the reign of Huizong, undercurrents surged under the prosperous age. Five little people were pushed by fate to live under the same roof.
Gu Qianlang, a border trader who traveled north and south, and the leather belt around his waist recorded every inch of the mountains and rivers he measured; Su Zhuo, an unsuccessful painter at the Hanlin Academy of Painting, secretly recorded the bones of refugees and the drunken dreams and deaths of the powerful with his brush; Liang Siniang, a Western The blacksmith's daughter from Beijun Town, her calloused hands could dismantle the divine arm bow, but could not protect the dying Song Dynasty; Zhao Shiyue, a distant branch of the Taizu lineage, was imprisoned by a high wall for his whole life, but chose the most expensive freedom on the day the city was destroyed. They walked from the kitchen of Bailunlou to the streets of Bianjing, from the Zhouqiao Night Market to the Xiongzhou Griddle Market, from the Dengzhou Refugee Road to the Yanmen Beacon Tower, and from the smoke of Bianliang to the wind and snow of the North. When the golden horse and the iron horse broke through Bianjing, and everything they guarded day and night turned into ashes - they discovered that what they guarded was never a city, but the warmth of the world. "Bai Alum Tower" is a restaurant that witnesses the rise and fall of dynasties; five ordinary people live out an era.
