The Daily Life of a Minor Official's Daughter Supporting Her Family

In a daze, Su Ruojin was reborn as the eldest daughter of a doctor at the Imperial Academy, an eighth-rank official, in Bianjing, the capital of the Great Yin Dynasty. She watched as her mother gave birth to her younger brother and then her younger brother, and the family of a small civil servant went from struggling to make ends meet to having to borrow money to survive.

A six-year-old boy stands on a small stool to reach the stove, but he worries about where his next meal will come from. How is he going to survive?

Don't be afraid... Don't be afraid...

Living in the mega-city of Bianjing, a prosperous and thriving commercial city, and bringing with me delicacies from a thousand years in the future, how could I possibly starve to death?

Impossible... Absolutely impossible...

The Imperial College, the Three Provinces, the Five Academyes, and the Nine Temples—places where civil servants gather—everyone needs breakfast, so let's start with breakfast stalls. Fried dough sticks and sesame cakes with soy milk, sesame dumplings, eight-treasure porridge—still think we don't have enough variety? Pancakes, scallion pancakes, steamed buns, pan-fried tofu pudding, pocket bread, mutton soup with assortment—let's get started… Searching for cotton quilts and Songjiang cloth… oil mills, taverns, general stores… suppressing rebellions and capturing bandits…

You can't earn enough... you simply can't earn enough...

With a pot in my left hand and a spatula in my right, I've captured the essence of everyday life in the bustling metropolis of Kyoto. Here I come!