There was an emperor who got lost one day hunting, went into the deep mountains and old forests, turned around for half a day and couldn't turn out, he was hungry and tired, he saw a hut under the mountain, and he walked in.
There was only one old man in the room, and when he heard that the emperor had arrived, he fell to his knees in fright. The emperor told him not to be afraid, and to get some food first. The old man hurried to the kitchen to cook a small pot of rice, made a large bowl of dishes to the emperor to see that the bowl has white, green and red, refreshing, and asked what is the famous dish. The old man told him that this was a famous local dish, called "stewed white goose in clear water, red-billed green parrot brother (then a cockatoo)", and the emperor was so hungry that he could not be decent, and devoured all the food. The emperor had eaten countless mountain treasures and seafood and felt that he did not eat it this time.
Later, when the emperor returned to the palace, the mountain treasures and seafood were tired of eating, and remembered the meal eaten in the mountains, and ordered the chef to make "white goose stewed in clear water, red-billed green parrot brother". This can be difficult for the chef, "clean water stew white goose" is easy to do, how to get this "red-billed green parrot" on the table? However, the emperor's will was irresistible, so he had to kill the parrot raised in the palace and send it to him for cooking. When the emperor looked at it, he didn't even look like the color of the dish, don't say
Taste.
The emperor was furious and killed the cook. Let the second chef do it, and the second chef couldn't make it, and was beheaded by the emperor again.
In this way, five or six cooks were killed in a row, which frightened all the civil and military officials in the imperial court. A general remembered that the emperor had eaten a meal in the mountains that day, so he hurried into the mountains to ask the old man. It turns out that "white goose stewed in clear water, red-billed green parrot brother" is just "water tofu spinach".