Zhou Meng has been a head chef specializing in rural banquet feasts for fourteen years. While catering a banquet in Zhao Family Village, he gets into a dispute with the hostess, Wang Guixiang, over the number of tables served. She joins forces with the village chief, Zhao Degui, to forcibly withhold 2,000 yuan from him. After leaving, Zhou Meng shares his experience with fellow chefs, sparking widespread attention among cooks in the surrounding villages. When Zhao Family Village subsequently struggles to find anyone willing to cater its weddings, funerals, and other banquets, the villagers begin to reconsider what really happened. Eventually, those responsible voluntarily return the money and publicly apologize, and the village gradually establishes fair and reasonable rules for hiring workers.