Face-Slapping Envoys at the Chinese State Banquet

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Su Xiaoci transmigrates and becomes the palace cook in charge of state banquets,

starting a delightful routine of face-slapping overconfident foreign envoys.

Envoy from Yingguo: This is our country's sashimi immortal!

Su Xiaoci: First, raw fish slices are something we left behind ages ago, and you picked them up.

Second, you simply don't know how to cook fish. Crispy-braised mandarin fish, red-braised eel, flash-fried fish fillets, stir-fried eel strips... There are plenty of ways to make it. Understand?

Third, go get deworming medicine from the Imperial Medical Academy!

Envoy from Yingguo: QAQ I'm going right now [scared

Hostage prince from Dongli: I have refined tastes, so I brought two chefs of my own.

Su Xiaoci: Oh? Refined tastes? You mean the two kinds of soup and four kinds of pickles you eat over and over every day? Want to try the thirty-some kinds of Sichuan pickles I threw together the other day?

Hostage prince from Dongli: QAQ I'll try them right now [ashamed

Prince of the Grasslands: Wine should be drunk in big gulps, and meat should be eaten in big bites. Your country's food isn't refined, it's stingy.

Su Xiaoci: Someone bring out the golden chicken, eight-treasure duck, crystal aspic, and snow-and-cloud soup, all of it! Let's open this grassland wolf's eyes.

Prince of the Grasslands: QAQ Open them right now [eager

Lord from Boxi: Why do you eat with two little sticks? Look, knives and forks are elegant and practical.

Su Xiaoci: Boiling hot soup is called hot pot, rich and savory is seafood congee, and dishes with every grain distinct are stir-fried peanuts. Here, use your knife and fork to eat them. Go on! Are you going to learn how to use chopsticks?

Lord from Boxi: QAQ I'll learn right now [meek

Ambassador from Yingyate: Our country

Su Xiaoci: Ahhh!! Shut up! A food desert has no right to speak! If you want recipes, trade goods for them!

Ambassador from Yingyate: QAQ We'll trade right now, and I was only trying to say our country has never had such delicious food... [aggrieved

Most of these foreign visitors, who had never seen the world, were won over, but inevitably there were one or two narrow-minded, stubborn ones who angrily insulted Su Xiaoci out of humiliation.

Just then, the new emperor, usually as pure as bamboo and bright as the moon, gracefully descended the imperial steps and then... kicked over the envoy's table.

He wore a faint smile, his voice as cold as ice.

"My empress cooked this meal herself, and you still dare complain?"

The envoys were so frightened that they knelt to apologize and presented countless cities and treasures.

That night, beneath the gauze canopy, it was the young emperor's turn to apologize.

"A Ci, I was wrong. I shouldn't have kicked the table and wasted food."

"You should be punished."

"All right. Punish me however you like."

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A short-tempered workaholic heroine, genuinely fierce when angry and genuinely sweet when being pampered.

A scheming, hopelessly lovestruck hero: his wife is the prettiest, his wife is the best.

Reader's guide:

(1) An alternate world, very much an alternate world.

(2) SC, one-on-one. Both leads are extremely idealized, with a sweet, satisfying romance and maybe a little silliness.

(3) The food mainly features lavish dishes such as official cuisine and banquet fare, but there are also light, home-style dishes.

(4) Blurb written on July 1, 2022, and officially timestamped.

Theme: Promote traditional food culture