The Borderland Fulang’s Culinary Business Chronicles

The formerly dim-witted Chu An’an suddenly becomes intelligent again. He quickly sorts out his circumstances in this life:

Parents who have been sent away for hard labor, and a handsome but poor husband.

He picks up his wok and spatula, determined to cook his way toward a bright future.

But the Great Xia Dynasty is prosperous and flourishing, with countless delicious foods. Making money in the food business is anything but easy.

It isn’t enough to simply make good food. He also has to put his brain to work and consider what the market actually needs.

For villagers who are reluctant to spend money on meat, he creates cheap, generous portions of spicy, savory grilled fish.

For county-town residents who have a little more money but are stuck eating old-fashioned foods, he takes presentation to the absolute extreme.

“Hey, little one, have you ever eaten pastries that are crystal-clear and translucent, jewel-colored, soft, chewy, and bouncy?”

As he steadily makes money and builds his fortune, he eventually moves to a prosperous prefectural city. There, he pulls out every culinary trick he has ever learned, all so that he and his family can live a better life.

According to the laws of Great Xia, unmarried ge’er or young women who have committed minor offenses can be exiled to the frontier and married to local soldiers, allowing them to avoid hard-labor service.

On this particular day, a great aristocratic family from the capital arrives at the frontier under guard after having their property confiscated and being sentenced to exile.

The unmarried young men in the military camp rub their hands together, hearts racing in anticipation.

Some are hopelessly ambitious, dreaming of marrying a noble young lady and having her come home to cook and take care of the household.

Others are more practical. They figure that marrying a maid or servant would be perfectly fine. As long as the two of them could settle down and live an honest, peaceful life together, what more could they ask for?

But regardless of who they were, at the very least, they wanted to marry someone who wasn’t s*upid, right?

Unfortunately, Zhao Junyi ended up marrying a fool.

The other toads nearly died laughing.

The fallen noble ladies who had previously looked down on all of them had, without exception, taken a liking to Zhao Junyi. Sure, everyone at the frontier was poor, but who could blame them when Zhao Junyi was blessed with both excellent looks and impeccable character?

Now that Zhao Junyi had married a fool, the other soldiers naturally couldn’t wait to make fun of him.

Zhao Junyi planned to raise his foolish Fulang like a five-year-old younger brother, all the way until the day he died.

But no one could have expected that one day, his foolish Fulang would suddenly become completely normal.

Not only was he no longer s*upid, he was exceptionally clever and lively.

He knew how to make money and support the household.

He also knew how to care for him.

Every time Zhao Junyi returned to the military camp, he would be carrying large bags filled with comfortable clothes and exquisite food.

His fellow soldiers would look down at their own hands, filled with coarse vegetables and terrible rations, then look at Zhao Junyi’s belongings.

And collectively lose their minds.

No, seriously.

Why does he get to have all that?!