Out of Jibao Zhai, the two went to the parking lot. Luo Tong held the box containing the water in his hand, and poked Sheng Qiwu's waist with his elbow. Don't think that she didn't see Sheng Qiwu's expression, when she heard Uncle Sheng's offer of 1000, Sheng Qiwu looked disdainful.

But then I don't know what he thought, and the expression on his face is very subtle. His expressions changed quickly, maybe Uncle Sheng didn't see it, but Luo Tong could see it clearly.

Maybe it's because Sheng Qiwu saw something famous? At that time, he was worried that Uncle Sheng was there, so Luo Tong didn't ask, and now that he is out of Jibao Zhai, Luo Tong can finally ask his own questions.

Sheng Qiwu smiled: "I'll tell you when I get to the car, there are many people now, and it's not good if you bump into it." ”

Luo Tong was aroused by Sheng Qiwu's words, could it be that there were other famous halls that she didn't know? The two quickened their pace, and after sitting down in the car, Sheng Qiwu opened the box and turned the water up to the bottom of the ground.

There are a few bright red seal characters at the bottom, anyway, Luo Tong doesn't know it. Sheng Qiwu didn't sell Guan Zi anymore, "These words are the Qianlong year of the Qing Dynasty, so I think you are very likely to buy a real antique." ”

"Really, it's fake? Based on these words alone, maybe it's a high imitation?" Luo Tong expressed surprise at Sheng Qiwu's erudition, and at the same time felt that it was so simple.

"Of course I knew it wouldn't be that simple, but I just checked and I didn't find the exact same, but I found a similar one, and it was the same price four years ago, when the auction sold for 300,000 yuan. ”

"But even if it's a high-quality imitation, the 1,000 yuan is definitely worth it. Sheng Qiwu finally concluded: "So I said, you can say that you have picked up a leak today, I see that the water at the auction is not as good as yours." ”

"Really?" Luo Tong put the water away, "No matter how much it is worth, I bought it for 1,000 yuan, and its location in the study will be in the study in the future." ”

Sheng Qiwu thinks about it, sometimes, no matter how much it is worth, as long as you really like it. You like something not because of its added value, but because you like the item itself.

Putting the water in the back seat of the car, the two walked towards the old street together. Lao Cai can be said to be a city's business card, which is also a tourist attraction, and Luo Tong saw many people taking pictures at the entrance of Lao Cai.

It's already four or five o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun is setting. As soon as he entered the old street, Luo Tong felt that his eyes were not enough. There are many shops on both sides, and a variety of delicacies are displayed in front of the store.

There are too few real things to play in Lao Cai, almost all of them are some local specialties and delicacies. For example, this horseshoe floin, lard cake, fat cake, gnocchi, ham and so on.

Horseshoe pine was first produced in the white elephant place of Yueqing during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, and was named after the shape of the hoof.

It is made of flour and brown sugar, filled with sugar heart, diced salted meat, shredded red melon, cooked sesame powder and osmanthus.

The side is oblique, the five knives are opened, the sugar heart is exposed by hand pressing, and it is pasted on the inner wall of the 2000-degree high-temperature charcoal stove barrel, and it is simmered and baked with an open flame, which has the characteristics of crispy skin and soft heart.

This horseshoe pine is rarely seen now, Luo Tong still saw it when he was a child, and it has been more than ten years now.

In the past, "horseshoe pine" was an indispensable pastry in the store, and its price was the same as that of large steamed buns with fillings, and it was also one of the foods that ordinary people wanted to bring some refreshing food while pursuing to be full.

The difference is that its appearance is quite unique, golden with a few circles of brown, and a lot of sesame seeds are sprinkled on it, like the deformation of Wenzhou baked cakes, but there is no filling, only a few tiny grains of fat mixed in.

Or like a ball of shortbread, but lacking that greasy crispiness. "Horseshoe pine" is not very sweet, but only reflects the feeling of "a little sweet" in today's popular advertising slogan.

In the old days, some of the famous full shops made the "horseshoe pine", its sweetness is also a little salty, that is the salty fat penetration, but it is lighter than Wenzhou baked cakes, and the mouth chews, but there is a different fragrance.

In fact, when the ordinary people no longer pursue the goal of life with enough to eat, a series of traditional local pastries and foods, including horseshoe pine, began to enter the narrow alleys that are only liked by the old citizens.

It's not that the chefs can't make it, it's that there are too many other pastries and foods from various regions of other provinces, and they are all varied, small and exquisite.

And no matter the packaging or advertising, there is a bit of a strong dragon to suppress the momentum of the head snake, and it is squeezed into the local traditional foods such as "horseshoe pine".

Come to think of it, plump pastries like "horseshoe pine" do lack the alluring atmosphere of "petty bourgeoisie" in today's fashion-leading food trend, and girls who pride themselves on being slender will exclude it even if they are hungry.

Therefore, its fate is like that of the old buildings in the city, hiding in a corner of the downtown area, to evoke the childhood memories of those elderly citizens.

The horseshoe pine in this store is very authentic, and there is a long queue in front of the store. Luo Tong took a bite, sweet and salty, but not greasy.

She relied on herself to eat not to get fat, she ate two at a time, and then Sheng Qiwu said that there was something delicious in the back, so Luo Tong gave up.

Walking down this old street, the pastries include lard cake, water chestnut pine, soup dumplings, etc., and when you are thirsty, you go to eat a bowl of wine-stuffed balls.

Along the way, Luo Tong and Sheng Qiwu had a round stomach, and they didn't have to eat dinner. Reluctantly leaving the old street, Luo Tong and Sheng Qiwu packed a lot of snacks.

There are not only lard cakes, water chestnut pines, but also Dingsheng cakes, chicken crisps, lotus candy and so on.

This lotus silk candy also has a provenance, during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, Cixi Shen Shiqiao lived in a connoisseur specializing in pastry production Shen Yongfeng.

This person is good at business, and he makes good pastries, and he is a little famous near and far. In the third year of Yongzheng, that is, on the eve of the Spring Festival in 1725 AD, Shen Yongfeng launched a new type of sugar food, which had a unique flavor and was soon welcomed by the local people.

Later, Shen Yongfeng used his brains to make a lot of improvements to the production process of this food, and finally researched a suitable formula.

The candy produced by Shen Yongfeng is columnar in shape, about the same thickness as a human finger, and no more than three inches long. What is amazing is that there are dozens of small holes neatly arranged on this thin sugar stalk, which looks like a truncated lotus root, so people call this food lotus candy.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, lotus silk candy was brought into the court, and was loved by the Empress Dowager Cixi, and was soon listed as "imperial food", and the local government was instructed to pay tribute to the imperial court every year.

Since then, the fame of Sanbei lotus silk candy has spread all over the world and is known all over the world. It is said that at that time, many pastry shops in Shanghai vied with each other to hang up the signboard of "Sanbei Tea Food" to show off their storefronts and attract customers.