The Dali Temple Kitchen

Forensic examiner Xu Yin woke up as a little cook in the Dali Temple's public kitchen. She'd planned to lie flat and enjoy a quiet retirement, but she was broke and had no silver. With her livelihood at stake, she picked up a spatula. She showed off her cooking to earn a monthly wage while trying to work as an unofficial coroner and make a little reward money. Xu Yin: Tsk, life is hard. A wage slave sighs. - At the end of the year, the various government offices voted on the "Worst Public Kitchen." Only the officials at the Dali Temple voted for their own, every one of them looking green. From then on, the Dali Temple's public kitchen became infamous, and officials from top to bottom avoided it. - One day at lunchtime, the Prefect of Jingzhao suddenly visited the Dali Temple on official business, but the irresistible aroma drew him to the public kitchen. On the table were red-braised pork, fish head with chopped chilies, molten tofu... Every dish looked, smelled, and tasted delicious, all of them utterly tempting. ++ The Dali Temple Minister, whose face had grown rounder, was gnawing on a roasted chicken leg as he held forth. "Next year, we'll vote for ourselves again. Otherwise, with more diners than food, what if they snatch Chef Xu away from us?" The Prefect of Jingzhao: "...You shameless lot!" [Reader's Guide] 1. Food and mystery-solving. The heroine knows from the start that they vote for their own kitchen. They aren't criticizing it simply because they dislike the food; there's another reason. 2. A brilliant cook with excellent forensic experience x a refined, elegant, and exceptionally capable Dali Temple deputy minister. 3. 2022.04.01, synopsis screenshot saved. Theme: Live life earnestly