[Ming Dynasty + doted-on by everyone + adorable child + master chef + overhearing inner thoughts + farming and infrastructure + never puts up with mistreatment]
When she woke up, Lin Xiaoguai, a three-Michelin-starred chef, had transmigrated to the Hongwu era of the Ming Dynasty and become a three-and-a-half-year-old orphan girl tending the fire in the imperial kitchen.
From the start, it was hell difficulty: she had no parents and was bullied by an old eunuch.
Desperately hungry, she casually roasted a sweet potato, which drew Empress Ma, who was traveling incognito.
Even more absurdly, Empress Ma could hear her inner thoughts!
Empress Ma: “This little girl has had such a hard life. Give her something to eat.”
Lin Xiaoguai obediently thanked her on the outside, while inwardly grumbling: [Sigh, poor Empress. She’s about to become critically ill. If only she could eat some of the medicinal dishes I make, she’d live at least twenty years longer!]
Empress Ma: ???
Zhu Yuanzhang: “The food in the imperial kitchen is awful!”
Lin Xiaoguai: [Obviously! They don’t even know how to get rid of the gamey smell. If I could make beggar’s chicken, I’d have Old Zhu so hooked he’d swallow his own tongue. What a pity, your beloved Crown Prince Zhu Biao won’t live much longer either!]
Zhu Yuanzhang was so startled he nearly fell off the Dragon Throne. That very night, he issued an imperial decree: “Enfeoff her! Make this little girl a princess and have her serve as an ancestor for us to worship!”
From then on, the Ming Dynasty had a tiny little culinary genius.
Running out of food? One slip of the little girl’s thoughts brought bumper harvests of sweet potatoes and potatoes!
Foreign nations causing trouble? One casual serving of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall from the little girl had envoys from every nation prostrating themselves and calling her their ancestor!
Zhu Yuanzhang’s happiest moment each day was waiting by the stove for dinner. “Sweet daughter, what delicious dish are you going to teach Father today?”
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