In the seventh year of the apocalypse, on the night when the granary was robbed, Zhou Sui was so hungry that he couldn't even chew the bark of a tree. When she opened her eyes again, she became a little girl in ancient times who was so thin that she would fall down when the wind blew. The family was so poor that they couldn't open the pot, the rice vat was bottomed out, and even the wild vegetables were being snatched away.
Before she could adapt, a piece of engagement paper hit her head. A vulgar cook with an eccentric temper who always stayed by the stove held a marriage contract and said that he wanted to marry the daughter of the Zhou family.
Logically speaking, the cousin, who is the eldest daughter of Zhou, should marry the cook, but the cousin thinks it is embarrassing and refuses to marry. So this marriage was pushed to her.
Everyone was watching the joke, but Zhou Sui stared at the phrase "cooking as a career" and swallowed silently. This marriage was what she wanted.
In the eyes of others, the fireworks on the stove are the stable days that she can never return to in her dreams.
On the wedding day, the courtyard was deserted and everyone was waiting for her to cry. As a result, her eyes lit up as she stared at the bowl of noodles that the man had just cooked.
Later, when others were fighting over a ration of food, she squatted by the stove and ate crispy meat; while the villagers were still gnawing on brown rice, she had already begun to choose whether to eat steamed or braised today; others laughed at her for marrying lowly, but she grew fairer and fairer day by day.
Until one day, someone recognized that her husband, who stayed around the pot all day long, was once a famous imperial chef. Later, the small restaurant became the first floor in the city. For a normal meal, you have to make a reservation three days in advance. The rich and powerful came to visit him just to have a taste of the food he cooked with his own hands.
Zhou Sui was still sitting in the backyard, slowly eating the sweet and sour pork ribs that had just come out of the pot.
Reader comments
The setting is quite novel, but the writing is too AI-heavy and I can't stand it.
The setting is quite novel, but the writing is too AI-heavy and I can't stand it.