A Tomato Travels to the Ming Dynasty

Zhao Ling is a cook.

During the Jianwen era, she runs a small tavern in Yingtian City.

One day, she walks into the kitchen and finds a basket of plump, fresh red fruits on the table.

"What are these...?"

Ingredients she's never seen before.

She grabs one, wipes it off, and eats it.

Sweet and sour. Delicious, just as she'd expected.

There's also a piece of paper in the basket. Zhao Ling takes a look. It says: tomato?

From then on, every day she receives a basket of ingredients that seem to fall from the sky.

She's never seen a single one of them before.

Onions, corn, sweet potatoes, peanuts, broccoli, chili peppers...

Turkey, kangaroo meat...

Then one day, a huge crab with its claws waving about thrashes in the basin.

Zhao Ling frowns. An emperor... crab?

Would she get her head chopped off for eating this thing?!

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My name is Zhu Yuntong.

My grandfather is Zhu Yuanzhang, my grandmother is Empress Ma,

my maternal grandfather is Chang Yuchun, and my great-uncle is Lan Yu.

My father is the crown prince, Zhu Biao; my mother is the crown princess; and my big brother is the crown prince's heir, Zhu Xiongying.

My father, mother, big brother, and I

should have been the happiest family of four.

My father would become emperor, Mother would become empress, and Big Brother would become crown prince.

And I would be the happiest prince and little brother in the world.

But sadly, I'm terribly unlucky.

They all left me,

leaving me all alone.

Zhao Ling: Chang Xiaotong, what do you want to eat? I'll roast you a sweet potato. It's especially sweet.

Theme: Healthy eating and balanced nutrition