Chapter 2 Bean curd rice

Take the river ferry from Yuzhou City to Jiangyang City, go all the way up the Yangtze River, Li Junge sits on the second deck of the river wheel, calls the waiter to make a cup of Sanhua (the nickname of the people of Shudu Province for the third-grade jasmine tea), blows the river breeze, admires the bamboo forest streams on both sides, the strange rocks on the river beach, and looks at the people coming and going at the wharf when stopping halfway, picking fish and buying shrimp, and feels particularly cordial and interesting.

Walking and stopping all the way, the river ferry finally docked in Jiachuan, and Li Junge got off the boat with his small luggage bag.

Going up the stone steps, out of the dock, the scene that appeared in front of Li Junge made him a little confused.

In recent years, Jiachuan County has changed greatly, and Binjiang Avenue has been built along the river.

Now the water level of the river is very low, revealing a huge beach.

On the other side of the avenue, rows of high-rise buildings block the view, and after a few steps, two two-way, six-lane roads intersect into an intersection, and the road is bustling with shops on both sides.

"My go, do you have to bring your buddy's vegetable pigeon nickname back to my hometown?" Li Junge tried to compare the scene in front of him with the Jiachuan Old Street in his memory for a long time, but he couldn't match it, and he had no choice, so he had to take out his mobile phone and dial a number.

"Hey, what, I'm back, where am I? I don't know where, just out of the dock, a few hundred meters ahead of the intersection, oh, okay, I'll be waiting for you here." ”

Put away his mobile phone, stood on the side of the road for a while, a gray Besturn B50 stopped beside him, jumped out of the car, a guy jumped out of the car, thick eyebrows and big eyes, combed the old big back, gel water scaled his hair to the wind, wearing a white shirt, black trousers, and a pair of black leather shoes polished.

The person who came went straight to Li Junge, hugged him, and shouted excitedly: "Li Erpi! You turtle finally remembered to come back! Lao Tzu hasn't seen you for many years!"

Li Junge was also very excited, and slapped the back of the person who came, "Wang Bapo! It's a good mix, you look like a dog, you have a head shape, the flies are slipping on it, and the car is also on, the unit is matched, right?" ”

Wang Ba Po's eyes widened, "Get out! Don't call me by this nickname again, Lao Tzu is now a big civil servant in a government agency, you know no, you have to pay attention to the influence! Call me Wang Congjun! And your unit uses this broken car? This is Lao Tzu's private car, and now it is strictly necessary to catch the private use of the bus!"

Li Junge smiled hippie: "Ouch, my director, I think I don't know you when I put on the vest?" Hurry up and take the uncle to eat, the boat is filled with a belly of three flowers, and the chest is so hungry that the chest is pressed against the back, we talk while eating, you pay." ”

Wang Congjun's family has a little influence in Jiachuan County, and this baby was in the same class as Li Junge, who was admitted to the county middle school in high school, and was one of Li Junge's several hardcores in the class.

Basically, when the two were in school, Li Junge lived in Wang Congjun's house, and during the holidays, Wang Congjun lived in Li Junge's house.

Jiao is not far from Meng Meng.

After graduating from college, this guy's family got him into the government, and now he is the deputy director of the government office, and he is one of the better classmates in the class.

Wang Congjun laughed and said: "It's not my turn to pay the bill today, I just called the pig worm, he said to meet at the place where he ate, and asked me to take you over, with him, a local tyrant, we will eat openly." ”

Li Junge opened the car door and said while drilling into the car: "Liuhe bean curd rice, I can't spend a few of him if I eat it, this meal can't be counted, go quickly, I drool a long time when I talk about it." ”

Liuhe bean curd rice is a characteristic of Jiachuan, and its origin still comes from the boat gang and horse gang that is the salt road.

In Jiachuan, it is connected to the well salt, the boat gang goes to Yuzhou, and the horse gang enters southern Qiannan, so the Liuhe bean curd rice still has the characteristics of fast food, fullness, hunger, and deliciousness. The first meal of the Jiachuan people who return to their hometown must be this.

Soon, the car stopped at the door of a restaurant, the restaurant is not big, but there are many guests to eat, there is a small wooden signboard hanging on the door, and there are four small characters in the book "Liuhe Yaochun".

The so-called "Liuhe Yaochun" also has a name, that is, a bowl of bean curd, a dish of dipping water, a bowl of cellar water (that is, the water for boiling bean curd), a bowl of rice, a plate of small kimchi, a small pot of wine, the old pay attention to these six things, collectively known as "Liuhe Yaochun". Of course, with the change of residents' dietary structure, meat has also begun to be introduced, which is mainly divided into "large steamers" and "small steamers".

"Big steamer" refers to a dish of steamed vegetables, put a diameter of more than one meter in a large steamer basket steamed, generally two large steamers tired together, can put seventy or eighty dishes of steamed vegetables, the dish is not big, the diameter of ten centimeters of the appearance, mainly sweet roasted white and salty roasted white two, each plate is not more than eight pieces of meat, just enough for one person to eat.

"Small steamer" is also called "basket", in fact, it is a small basket of steamed pork.

There is a wooden pot upside down on the cauldron, there are several steam holes on the wooden basin, each steam hole is stacked with a stack of small steamers, the steamer is only the size of a small bowl, the corresponding dishes in the steamer on each air hole are different, generally there are steamed fat sausages, steamed pork ribs, steamed beef, steamed mutton several varieties, diners can choose according to their own taste.

Another feature of the small steamer is the technique of the little second brother.

Each stack of steamers must be controlled at any time, and the control method is that the second brother will adjust the upper cage to the lower layer, and the middle cage will be transferred to the upper layer, all by memory and time control, to ensure that each cage "cage" tastes just right, not loose or dry.

The movements of the little second brother are crisp and neat, like flowing water, which makes the diners breathtaking.

The business of the "Liuhe Yaochun" shop was booming, and a small wooden table was simply set up on the side of the street, and a fat man dominated a small table.

"Hahaha, pig worm, why is your baby fat again? As soon as Li Junge saw the visitor, he immediately smiled.

Zhu Chao'an, a classmate of Li Junge, runs a construction company at home, and he works in his family's company after graduation, and now he is a little celebrity in Jiachuan County.

Li Junge received him several times when he was in Yuzhou, introduced him to a few colleagues engaged in design, occasionally helped to review drawings, designed the community garden or something, and did not talk about money, every time it was a matter of a few bottles of old wine, both sides thought that the other party could make friends, and the friendship after graduation was deeper than in high school.

Zhu Chaoan smiled at Li Junge with a bitter face: "Hey, every time I see you both, I feel inferior, there is almost no way for a fat person to live in this world, you said that I and Wang Bapo are both entertaining every day, and his baby is not long, but I am like blowing air, I am not angry!"

The three of them did not take their seats, but went directly into the store and began to mix bean curd and dip in water.

There is also a particular here, Jiachuan Liuhe bean curd dipping sauce is very complicated, soy sauce is boiled with spices, in addition to minced chives, minced ginger, minced garlic, minced kohlrabi, dried chili, leed chili, crispy chili, sesame oil, Sichuan pepper oil, lettuce oil, wood pulp oil, chili oil, coriander, coriander, five-spice oil, sesame, crushed peanuts, pork dumplings, as well as chicken essence, monosodium glutamate, salt and other condiments, sugar forest total twenty or thirty kinds.

Due to the variety of seasonings, the flavors that can come out are also very complex, so the owner of the bean curd shop generally only makes a bottom plate, that is, a few seasonings that everyone has to use, and the rest is added by the diners themselves.

It is also a major feature of Liuhe bean curd. The dipping dishes brought out by old diners have a fragrant taste and a long aftertaste, which is far from being comparable to new diners.

The three of them are all old Jiachuan, familiar with the way, and chatted while adding seasonings to their plates, Zhu Chaoan said: "Erpi, come back this time, how long are you going to stay? You haven't been back for several years." ”

Li Junge picked out some coriander and put it on the plate, and said, "I don't know, anyway, I quit my job in Yuzhou, and I'm ready to take a rest, I think it's at least half a year." ”

Wang Congjun said: "In fact, the big city is not very energetic, it is always said that we have a slow pace of life, in fact, people in the big city have to waste two hours of traffic every day, we just use these two hours for leisure, so it seems slow, hahaha." Now the county is also developing well, many people who work in other places have not come back, I heard that there is a shortage of migrant workers in Guangfu Province, and this year I have contacted the county's labor export company several times, but the county still can't organize enough manpower. ”

Zhu Chaoan also said: "That's it, where you can't do it, don't say anything else, with your ability, brother, if you are willing to succumb to my company, how can a deputy always run away." Erpi, do you think about it?"

Li Junge said: "Besides, I'll rest for a while, if I don't go out again, I have to take refuge in you, brother." ”

The three of them returned to the table with dipping water and sat down, the boss had already served three bowls of bean curd and three bowls of rice, the rice was a two-pot rice, that is, the rice was first put in the pot to boil, and when it was boiled to seven or eight medium cooked and a little rice core, it was taken out and steamed in a steamer.

Douhua is bile water bean curd, that is, "bile ba", that is, magnesium sulfate dissolved in water as a coagulant, and coagulated into soybean milk, this kind of bean curd is dense and tough, compared with gypsum bean curd, more in line with the taste of Jiachuan people.

Li Junge picked up a piece of bean curd, dipped it in water and put it on the rice, took a bite into his mouth, chewed it with his eyes closed for a while and swallowed it, opened his eyes and said: "Lettuce oil, coriander, well, I've dreamed of it a few times, and it still tastes good in my hometown." ”

Whether it is an old diner or not, just look at the dipping dish after the meal, you can know that the old diner eats the drier the plate, but it can ensure that the concentration of dipping water is the same from beginning to end.

The new diners are getting thinner and thinner the more they eat, and finally the plate is full of crushed bean curd and bean curd water.

Zhu Chaoan was full of sympathy, and said in a sly manner: "Look, look, what the big cities have tortured people into, eating bean curd rice is like crying." ”

Li Junge glared, "Get out, Lao Tzu is eating nostalgia here, your baby doesn't understand." ”

Wang Congjun called two cages, one salty and white, and said to Li Junge and Zhu Chao'an: "I still have to go to work, I can't drink, do you two want to have some?"

Liuhe bean curd rice originates from the salt gang, after the salt gang rests in Jiachuan, the west enters Yunnan, the south enters Guizhou, and the east goes down to the Three Gorges, which road is not a good road, the time is very early when it starts, the weather is cold, so the meal is generally accompanied by two taels of liquor, one is to keep out the cold, the other is to make a strong line, so the early bean curd with wine here is also one of the customs.

One person drinking is called "morning single bowl", and more than two people are called "fighting wine".

Jiachuan people live a leisurely life, it is common to come out for breakfast at 90 o'clock, and the old men can often be seen in the roadside bean curd house, a mouthful of wine, a breakfast can be eaten until noon, and the people of Jiachuan are not surprised.

Li Junge said: "Forget it today, I have to take a boat home in the afternoon, and after drinking wine, I will shake it again, and I will be even more dizzy." ”