In the bustling street of Chang’an, a commoner merrily roams around. When she finally arrived at the Fuyao Da, famously known as the street of the rich, she became ecstatic.
Suddenly, she smells a lingering fragrance coming from Qing Jiaozi, a famous restaurant in the Capital of Chang'an.
She happily follows the fragrant that makes her so hungry. She is delighted to see it’s her favorite place.
She went straight to the restaurant’s entrance still following the fragrant mouthwatering smell.
A waiter from the restaurant saw her. He was counting the silver coins the rich couples paid for a meal who just departed. He planned to put some of it in his pocket stealthily but his attention was caught by a commoner who just entered the restaurant mindlessly. He went to her and asked her.
“You! What do you want?’’ The waiter asked rudely. He paid no mind to his tone of speaking since the girl is a commoner.
The girl didn’t pay him any attention; instead she just merely walked inside the restaurant’s kitchen. The waiter became furious.
‘’What!? A commoner just ignored me? The waiter of the famous restaurant in Chang’an! Wa-wait sh-she just walked inside the kitchen! How impertinent!’’
The waiter followed her and wanted to stop her.
‘’You brat! How dare you to walked rudely inside Qing Laozi's kitchen! Just wait I will tell the guards to kick you out!’’
He said loudly while gritting his teeth in anger.
The staff in the kitchen was flustered. A commoner who brazenly walked inside the kitchen. Never in their whole life, they encountered this scene. How could a mere commoner dare to shamelessly walk inside the restaurant owned by the Imperial Princess of Tang.
The commoner walked straight to the furnace where dumplings and tofu are being cooked.
‘’Hey, what are you doing! Don’t touch the food with that filthy hands of yours!’’ The waiter who followed her inside yelled at her.
She looked more delighted when she finally saw the mouthwatering fragrant she smelled. As if she found the golden treasure she's been looking for a long time.
‘’Hey, call the guards! Hurry! A filthy rat just entered our restaurant!’’ The waiter snatched the collar of the still flustered cook, the nearest from where he was standing, and yelled at him in front of his face.
Poor cook, he just had some happy thoughts when crazy people barged inside the kitchen.
‘Bruh, why am I here? Wha-what is happening?’
He asked himself. ‘Oof, Waiter Ma’s breath is so --
‘’Yah! Do you still have the nerve to space out?! Hurry and call the guards!”
The waiter was annoyed when the kitchen staff was still acting foolishly in front of a disaster.
‘’Um oh ah yes.’’ The poor cook said with his face still as blank as a blank white paper.
The poor cook walked to do what he demanded of him.
But he stops for a while and thinks,
‘Bruh, that’s so bad! Those breaths of air from Waiter Ma’
While the waiter was in a panic, the commoner just put out something under her sleeve. It’s her most lethal weapon.
It is a pair of two silver chopsticks 26 centimeters long. The waiter’s jaw dropped as her lethal weapon jumped in the furnace and snatched the cooked and fragrant mouthwatering dumplings.
The waiter’s face turned sour like an angry general whose country was bullied and robbed off of their wealth.
He engaged himself in a battlefield determined to crush down the thief and snatched back their treasure.
Everything turned chaotic. The kitchen staff is struggling to stop the angry waiter while he is trying to snatch back the dumplings from the commoner. He grabbed the nearest chopsticks on the table and tried to launch an attack but his enemy was so fast. He can’t read her moves. She will sometimes jump in the air, hopped to the side where he’s not looking, or swiftly moving behind his back.
Suddenly, blood spilled on the ground. Everyone stopped as well as the fierce battle. Truly, when the blood is finally spilled the war will stop.
And an intense shrieking will be heard.
‘’NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ---’’
“The ketchup is now gone! Who’s the dumb one who spilled the ketchup gifted by my Italian friend! I will kill you!!!‘
A middle-aged man wearing a chef white hanfu gown entered the kitchen with a face who had just witnessed the most horrible scene in his life.
Everyone inside the kitchen has one thought inside their mind, even the commoner.
‘We’re doomed'.
Altogether, everyone said.
“Please, calm down Master Chef Chen!!!‘ And they all went on their knees begging for their lives.
And finally, the poor cook finally arrived in the kitchen with the guards.
‘’Oh hey, Master Chen, what’s up?’’ He said casually.
Master Chen saw the poor cook and it seems hope has finally shone on the chef’s world.
‘’Cheng’er, you have arrived. Please do me a favor.’’
The poor cook became flustered. This stingy man asking for a favor? I doubt I will be compensated.
Master Chen smiled at him, hoping for a response.
‘’Master, first I want a downpayment.’’ He said then he put his hand in front of Master Chen means he’s asking for a downpayment right away.
‘’Tch! No, thanks.’’
‘See, this man is so stingy as my sister’s mother in law’ the poor cook thought.
‘’Guards! Drag that commoner there and then kick out the waiter! Make sure he will never set his foot inside the restaurant!.’’
Master Chen instructed the guards. They move fast and kick out the waiter forcefully.
“Why me?! No! No! It’s not me. The commoner is at fault, not me!” The waiter is wailing nonstop while being dragged. He clings to the guard’s legs not wanting to let go.
‘’You! How rude! Who are you calling the commoner?.’’
The guard kick the waiter that made him fall to the ground. But the waiter still crawled and clung to the guard’s legs.
But the guard continued to refuse him and kicked him again.
‘’If you want to live don’t show your face here anymore! You really didn’t know you commit a sin worse than stealing!’’
‘’No! How could I? It’s the commoner who steals after all!!’’
‘’See! Your sin is really much worse than stealing.’’ The guard came closer to him and whispered. ‘’Cursing the Imperial Princess and calling her a commoner is like slapping the emperor's face. Whoever commits that grave sin will be executed.’’
The waiter shivered in fear but he still tried to ask.
‘’Wh-who is the Imperial Princess?’’ He asked. A trace of fear can be heard in his voice.
The guard answer.
‘’The girl you’re calling a commoner is the Imperial Princess, Emperor Taizong's beloved sister.’’
