Huo Ying, who is a little short and fat and laughs like Maitreya Buddha, is Jiang Aijun's old comrade-in-arms. At that time, he was a squad leader under Jiang Aijun. Unlike Jiang Aijun, who entered the factory after being discharged from the army, Huo Ying, who looked like Maitreya Buddha, entered the power grid after retiring from the army because he had the skills of an electrician.

In those years, the work of entering the power grid was not very good, not to say that it was very bad, but now the formal establishment positions within the State Grid have become fragrant.

Huo Ying has worked in the power grid unit over the years, and has slowly climbed from a newly discharged technician to a small leader. It belongs to the kind that is less than the top but more than the bottom.

The wage level of the power grid is actually very good, and it is not difficult for electricians with formal establishment to earn more than 100,000 yuan a year. And as a small leader, Huo Ying's income is higher.

When the housing price in Shuangqing was not high, I bought a big house of 150 square meters in Yuzhong District. Now Huo Ying's life is also quite enjoyable.

I have a gentle wife, and my son is in college, and he will graduate in one year. I studied at Wuhan University, and I have found an internship unit, and some companies have already intended to sign him.

As a Shuangqing person who is accustomed to comfort, many people will completely relax if they have a life like him.

But Huo Ying still has one more thing that he can't put his mind at ease. So even though he was drunk by Zhang Tong yesterday, when he woke up this morning, he took a taxi to the vicinity of the eighteenth ladder despite his headache.

Originally, the Eighteenth Ladder was a good place for Shuangqing people to eat down-to-earth snacks such as hot pot, skewers, bean curd rice, etc. The terrain is high, and the shops are built on the hill, and if you want to visit them, you have to climb the high stone staircase.

When the old Shuangqing was not so modern, the eighteen ladders were actually a very lively place in Shuangqing. Whenever you have a meal, you can see a lot of people coming and going up the 18th Ladder, or eating or mending clothes.

Eighteen ladders to eat is very interesting, at noon the eighteen ladders of the best business is the shop that sells bean curd rice. The so-called bean curd rice is really a very simple bowl of bean curd and a bowl of rice.

The bean curd of the bean curd rice is generally not a ready-made bean curd bought from the vegetable market, but a bean curd that the store starts grinding soy milk early in the morning and makes it on the spot at noon. This type of bean curd has a looser texture and is not as firm and tender as those extruded tofu pieces. This kind of bean curd will have a lot of pores with uneven texture,

These pores are perfect for enveloping the sauce, so this bean curd is very absorbent. This very absorbent bean curd is combined with the restaurant's characteristic spicy dipping water, and a piece of bean curd is thickly coated in a layer of sauce, and then rests for a moment on top of the steamed crystal clear rice.

Use bamboo chopsticks to pick up the bean curd and rice with the sticky sauce in your mouth and chew it carefully. The aroma of bean curd, the salty and spicy sauce of the sauce, and the sweetness of the rice are a perfect trio in the mouth.

The white rice and white bean curd seem to have little appetite, but with the store's characteristic sauce dipped in water, it has become the cheapest and most affordable fast food in Shuangqing.

In the early years of the Eighteen Ladders, most of the main consumers of bean curd rice were those who carried bamboo poles and hemp rope hooks. They have a special name in Shuangqing: Bangbang.

Bangbang people love to eat bean curd rice because it is large and affordable. A large bowl of bean curd and unlimited rice, a set only costs two or three yuan.

Bangbang, who is engaged in heavy manual labor, needs a lot of protein to supplement their consumption, and bean curd is probably the food that can get the most protein intake at the same price.

And at night, the best business is the small shops that sell skewers.

Unlike the bangbang who ate bean curd rice at noon, most of the people who came to eat skewers at that time were young men and women. Two dimes for a tandem is a price that hasn't changed for many years. Counting the money after eating the skewers is also the rule of eating skewers.

When Jiang Aijun and his generation were in their generation, they could bring their girlfriends here to eat skewers at night, and then they would have a bottle of Jianlibao. After eating and drinking, I went to the video hall to watch two Hong Kong-made movies at night, and he was the most fashionable petty bourgeois youth of that era.

In the past, when Jiang Hua was still in elementary school, her family's skewer shop was opened on the side of the Eighteen Ladders. Later, when he made his fortune, he began to move to the Liberation Monument.

However, when Huo Ying took a taxi to the vicinity of the eighteenth ladder, this side had been completely sealed and no personnel were allowed to enter.

Because of the development of the times, the Eighteen Ladders, as earlier than the Liberation Monument, can be regarded as the earliest and most prosperous commercial street in the mountain city, but now it seems to be a shantytown that continues to be rectified. It is an urban village in Shuangqing, and it is also an old building area that hinders urban development.

Now the eighteenth ladder is about to be completely demolished, Huo Ying glanced at the direction of the eighteenth ladder construction site, and he was a little reluctant. I have a lot of memories of my youth.

This is where I fell in love and chased girls, I had dinner and drinks with colleagues and friends, and the first Hong Kong-made movie "The True Colors of Heroes" that I watched in the video hall for the first time was also here.

However, the times are developing and changing, just like the current mountain city, it is almost impossible to see the group that was once called the mountain city Bangbang Army.

Just like many young people now have to order a few more meat dishes when they go to eat bean curd rice, the monotonous taste of pure bean curd with white rice is no longer suitable for today's trend.

Although the 18th ladder is being demolished, some old houses around the 18th ladder have not been completely demolished. Or these houses have been planned for demolition and reconstruction, but the government funds have not yet been fully secured, so they will need to wait for the next batch of renovation to be completely demolished.

Huo Ying went to an old building around the eighteen stairs, just looking at the appearance of the house, you know that this building is very old, the outer walls of the first floor have grown a lot of moss, and the cement skin of the outer wall has peeled off to reveal the red bricks inside.

Huo Ying walked to the third floor and knocked on the door on the left: "Huo Zheng, open the door, it's me." ”

"Uncle, wait a minute, wait a minute!" a young voice came from inside.

Huo Ying waited for a while before his nephew Huo Zheng opened the door.

Huo Zheng looked twenty-five or six, but he was not tall, only one meter six or five. This should be their old Huo family's genes are not very good.

"What are you doing?" Huo Ying smelled a strong fragrance as soon as he entered the room.

"It's not an experiment. Huo Zheng scratched his head: "I've been back for so long, and I haven't found a suitable thing." But I don't know how to cook but cook, so I can't help it. ”

Huo Ying looked at his nephew, and then at a plate on the table, which was covered by the lid of the rice cooker. Smell the smell, the fragrance is coming from here.

Huo Ying was curious: "What did you do?" As he spoke, he wanted to step forward and lift the lid.

Huo Zheng didn't have time to stop his uncle, he could only shout: "Uncle is blocking his eyes!"

"What?" Huo Ying didn't react, he subconsciously lifted the lid of the pot, and the next second he knew why. A sky-high golden light burst out from the plate.