Stewed duck breast was the favorite dish of Cixi at that time. But because this dish is complicated, it has to be steamed first, then stewed, and finally simmered with fish soup. It will take at least seven or eight hours to make this dish well. Later, Cixi got stomach trouble and often had a stomachache. A chef wanted to please Cixi, so he told Cixi that he knew a soup for nourishing the stomach, which could cure stomachache. Because Cixi is a sheep, she doesn't eat mutton at ordinary times, so when she saw the mutton soup served by the chef, she wanted to scold the chef, but when she heard that the mutton soup was delicious, she took a bite. There were a lot of peppers in the soup, and the mutton soup didn't taste like mutton, which made Cixi feel very refreshing. Since then, Cixi has fallen in love with this bowl of mutton soup. Later, every autumn, Cixi asked the chef to make this mutton soup again. Cixi drank this mutton soup for ten years.
Ten years later, the master who made this mutton soup went home to support the elderly. The chef taught the apprentice the recipe of this soup and asked the apprentice to continue making soup for Cixi. Cixi once asked his disciples what the recipe of this mutton soup was and why it was so delicious that it didn't taste like mutton. This disciple was not as talkative as the master, and even bluntly told Cixi all the ingredients of the soup. Cixi was furious when she knew it, and put the chef and apprentice to death together.
So this soup is mutton offal soup. This soup is boiled in mutton water. Cixi thought it was mutton soup, but I didn't expect it to be mutton offal soup. Cixi was very opposed to eating animal offal and never drank this soup again.