Chapter 19 Strings of incense
On Sunday, the sky was crisp and cloudless.
The weather at the beginning of November is neither hot nor cold, the summer heat has just passed, and the winter cold has not yet come, which is a rare time of year to enjoy autumn.
It's a pity that the people of Nancheng don't like to climb mountains, so they love to drink tea and play cards.
Along the riverside, there are all teahouses, with tables and chairs inside and outside. People make a cup of tea by the river, face the autumn breeze, bask in the sun, or chat or play cards.
Along the riverside, there are many alleys and restaurants. There are those who eat hot pot, those who eat skewers of incense, those who eat barbecue, and those who eat Chinese food. Although deep in the alleys, it is better to taste delicious and affordable.
said that he would invite a few buddies in the dormitory to dinner on the weekend, and Zhou Xuan must be counting. No, before 11 o'clock on Sunday morning, Zhou Xuan called a few buddies and his tablemate Zhuo Lian to walk towards the river.
Today, Zhou Xuan is going to invite the dormitory to a family in a small alley near the former No. 1 Middle School to eat skewers. The skewers there are very good, the materials are exquisite, and the prices are cheap and very affordable.
In the last three years of high school, plus a year of tutoring, Zhou Xuan and his classmates in the dormitory went to the house to eat strings of incense several times, and they were very impressed.
On the way here, Zhou Xuan thought of the delicious string of incense, and his mouth involuntarily swallowed saliva.
Since Zhou Xuan was reborn, he hasn't gone out to eat a string of incense hot pot or something. After getting old in the previous life, my body was not as good as before, and I basically didn't stick to these things.
Come to think of it, according to the time, I haven't eaten a string of incense for almost 20 years. If it weren't for the lack of money, Zhou Xuan would have come to eat a long time ago. This time he won Wei Xinyu a hundred yuan, and he could finally eat a big meal.
The dormitory is also very happy, everyone is from a similar family, and they are junior high school students. Originally, the cost of living was not much, and there was no spare money to eat out.
The eight buddies in Zhou Xuan's bedroom, except for Zhou Lin, who played from childhood to adulthood, the rest are from other towns or counties.
Li Xing and Cheng Zijing are from the county, but their families are not wealthy and still live in old buildings. Duan Hong, Ling Yufei, Chen Yang, and Teng Xiaobin are from other townships, and their families are basically farming, and their family backgrounds are average, and Zhou Xuan's family is also half a catty.
As for the last Zhuo Lian, it seems to be from the county, and the family heard that it is not bad. In the previous life, he was later admitted to Renmin University, and after graduation, he went to Shanghai, became an enviable gold collar, married a husband who had a car and a house, and loved her very much, so he could be said to be the winner of life in the junior high school alumni association.
After a week of hard study, everyone was a little tired, so they walked very slowly, blowing the autumn wind, which was equivalent to a walk.
Zhou Xuan and his classmates talked and laughed, and they seemed to get along well. Zhou Xuan did not become arrogant and conceited because he got the system, and he still got along with his classmates as usual.
Everyone also felt that although Zhou Xuan was in the limelight, it was not difficult to get along, the same as before. On the contrary, I wanted to chat with Zhou Xuan more and more, integrate into Zhou Xuan and Zhou Lin's group, and hope that my grades could get better and better.
Sometimes, no matter what stage you are, you always tend to go in a direction that is good for you.
Soon, I arrived at the Chuanchuan incense shop that Zhou Xuan said, because it was noon, there were not many customers in the store, only a few tables of customers.
Zhou Xuan looked at a shabby signboard that read "Yuan Xiao'er String of Incense", and his heart swelled with kindness.
That's right, it's the name, and decades of memories come flooding back. It seems that just yesterday, Zhou Xuan and the most important buddies in his life were eating skewers, drinking beer, and chatting all over the world.
Everyone chose a table outside in the open air, and then sat down one after another, and the boss beckoned to pour tea.
Zhou Xuan chose the bottom of a mandarin duck pot and told them to choose dishes, reminding them that fresh tofu and beef were necessary.
"Okay, let's go, get the vegetables!" Zhou Lin was the most active and the most polite.
The only lady, Zhuo Lian, also patted her stomach and said to Zhou Xuan: "I can order the most expensive one!"
How could Zhou Xuan not agree: "Take whatever you want, choose whatever you want, take as much as you want." "But I was thinking about how much a girl could eat.
After Zhuo Lian left, Zhou Xuan said to Chen Yang, who didn't go to pick up the vegetables next to him: "Don't look at what Zhuo Lian said is the most expensive, she will definitely take most of the vegetarian dishes later." "No matter what era it is, girls still care about their body the most. A lot of the time, I yelled fiercely, and finally I didn't eat it.
Sure enough, after a while, everyone took the skewers.
As soon as she saw what Zhuo Lian had taken, she actually took a few crucian carp, and all the others were green vegetables, including potatoes, green bamboo shoots, tofu skin, cabbage, tofu skin, enoki mushrooms, and so on.
Or Zhou Lin and they took it more realistically, a large plate is full of bright red beef, chicken, and all kinds of fish, such as yellow lading, crucian carp, squid, and other plates of hairy belly, yellow throat, duck intestines, and there are many kinds and large quantities.
Anyway, there was no class in the afternoon, Zhou Xuan ordered another beer, there were eight of us, and it should be no problem for each person to drink two bottles. I ordered another bottle of drink for Zhuo Lian, and the lady could only drink this.
Zhou Xuan picked up the corkscrew, opened eight bottles of beer, and gave one bottle each.
Then he said to everyone: "Brothers, it's all full." Today was the first time we had dinner out in our dormitory, and it was also the first time we had a drink. It's fate for everyone to get together, let's have a toast. ”
After speaking, he poured his cup full and said to Zhuo Lian: "Zhuo Lian, you come along." ”
"Bang, bang, bang!"
"Cheers!"
After everyone drank a glass, the base in the pot had already opened. The spicy smell of the strings of incense has spread, and the red peppers are tumbling, revealing an enticing taste.
"Come on, come on, let's cook! Zhou Lin, put the crucian carp, chicken wings, and chicken legs down first, and then put the fresh beef. Zhou Xuan also put down the quail eggs and fish balls next to him. At the same time, I also put a copy of each part of the white soup, on the one hand, it is for Zhuo Lian, and on the other hand, you can eat some white soup to change the taste of the red soup.
After a while, the soup was opened, and Zhou Xuan beckoned everyone to eat.
Pick up a skewer of fresh beef, delicate and spicy. Zhou Xuan's saliva almost remained, and he quickly pulled the beef from the bamboo skewer to the bowl. The bowl is a special dipping sauce made by the store, which has a unique taste, is numb and spicy, and is very delicious.
Zhou Xuan picked up the beef, rolled it in the dipping sauce, and then swallowed it in one gulp.
Wow, it's been a long time since I've eaten such a delicious skewer of incense. This is a string of incense in 1996, not a string of incense in 2015, at that time, because of fraud, it was not very safe to eat a string outside.
"Everyone eat, you're welcome!You can eat whatever you want!" Zhou Xuan beckoned everyone to eat, and at the same time said to Zhuo Lian: "Zhuo Lian, you're welcome." Eat as much as you can. ”
Zhuo Lian ate in her mouth and kept nodding.