Cui Ling transmigrated into an era resembling the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, as a crippled little girl whose parents had both died.
Her relatives were wiped out, and she had no choice but to follow her aunt a thousand li away to live in Liang, a kingdom with long winters.
Her aunt and uncle both doted on her, but Cui Ling still had a hard life.
Her uncle Wei Yu was a high-ranking noble who held five towns granted to him by Duke Wu of Liang. Yet the Wei family's daily fare consisted of millet porridge, bland dried rabbit, live fish roasted without being killed first, boiled soup made from the pungent meat of an uncastrated boar, pickled shepherd's purse, and sauce made from ant eggs.
Her uncle even said proudly and cheerfully, "A Ling has traveled a long way. We must treat her to a fine meal."
Cui Ling, who in her previous life had been named the youngest top-tier chef in the country: "..."
I don't want to live anymore, QAQ.
For the sake of her poor stomach, Cui Ling quietly set about inventing things: tofu dumplings bursting with flavor, flower rolls, shaomai, meat-stuffed flatbreads, waterwheels and farming tools, mulberry-dike fishponds, pig castration, breeding and grafting, and postpartum care for sows... And along the way... she even picked up a child husband.
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There was a strange person in the Wei family. Clearly of Wei blood, he had neither name nor surname, and lived worse than a dog.
Seeing him beaten, starved, and bullied every day, Cui Ling secretly broke off a piece of steamed sugar cake and handed it to him. "Here, eat this."
A battered face lifted, its eyes as clear as water.
He didn't take it. Limping, he ran away.
Cui Ling thought nothing of it. The next time she saw him, she pulled out a piece of dragon's beard candy. "Want some candy?"
He stared at her for a long moment, then slapped her hand away.
Cui Ling stopped paying him any attention. But when several of the Wei family's unruly boys shoved her down and laughed at her for being a cripple, he rushed over to save her.
From then on, the wild dog became a loyal hound.
He carried her on his back as they raced all over the hills, caught stone crabs, picked dogwood berries, sampled new wine, and made grand plans to eat their way across the land and travel through every kingdom.
From then on, there was poetry, good food, and faraway places.
A life like that, together.
Read before eating:
1. Set in an imaginary pre-Qin era. Please don't get hung up on historical accuracy!
2. Building and farming, food, childhood sweethearts, and a touch of an ensemble cast.
3. The heroine is a tsundere sweetheart who seems cold but is warm inside. The hero is a quiet, insecure, loyal childhood friend.
4. Synopsis written on 2024.9.2 and captured in a screenshot.
Theme: Love good food, love yourself, and love you too.
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