I have been to Chongqing twice, and Chongqing hot pot has also become popular in Beijing in the past two years, so I am not afraid of spicy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoBut this Chen Erlao hot pot is indeed very different from what I have eaten before. In the past, I could only distinguish by the degree of spiciness, but here I realized that there are infinite changes in spicy. At the beginning of shabu-shabu, the hemp flavor is very full, a thick layer of butter, so that the food is wrapped in a layer of rich aroma, with the continuation of time, the spicy taste is more and more sufficient, and step by step, from the shallow to the deep process, so that the taste buds slowly adapt to the spicy, and you can distinguish more of the fresh flavor hidden under the spicy.

Lao Qian told me in detail about the way to eat different dishes, such as hairy belly, duck intestines to seven up and eight down, old meat slices, brain flowers are more and more fragrant the more cooked, you must put shallots and bean sprouts before shabu, beef liver should not be dipped in garlic oil dishes, but use dried chili pepper powder. In the same pot, there are thousands of ways to eat, according to the guidance of Lao Qian, sure enough, the crispness of the hairy belly, the smoothness of the duck intestines, the richness of the old meat slices, and the sweet fragrance of the blood tofu are displayed one by one.

Everyone was excited, and Boss Chen brought us the wine. While pouring wine for us, he asked, "How does it taste?" I didn't dare to serve too spicy pot, for fear that my friends in Beijing would not be used to it. ”

We nodded and praised each other, but I asked, "Boss Chen, I think the base of your hot pot is different from other places, it is particularly strong, is it an ancestral craft?"

Boss Chen chatted about his hot pot, and he was very interested, so he simply took a small stool, sat next to it, and said: "You are a gourmand at first glance, and everything you say is to the point, but what you said is half right and half wrong." Most of the hot pot restaurants in Chongqing have family heirloom stir-fry techniques, and our hot pot base is all fried, only stir-fry can stimulate the taste, and only stir-fry can fuse different flavors together. But our family's hot pot has been passed down to me, and it is the third generation, and we never put any spices, relying on the taste of different peppers and peppercorns, and the old butter soup. This stir-fried ingredient must be fried on the same day, and after a day, the taste will change, so every morning at four o'clock, I have to start and fry all the base ingredients used for the day. Therefore, after making hot pot for half a lifetime, my experience is to work hard and want the original taste. ”

I looked at the slightly narrow air-raid shelter and asked, "Is it just fried in this hole? The ventilation is not good, and the smell of oil smoke is not very strong?

Lao Chen pointed to the tight inside of the hole, "This air-raid shelter is very long, I built it from the middle, it doesn't need that large area, the inside is more spacious than the outside, like a pocket." I'm on the innermost wok. In fact, these old air-raid shelters have ventilation ducts, some air-raid shelters are not connected, but the ventilation ducts are connected, some air-raid shelters are a shaft to go up, do ventilation ducts, I am lucky, although the ventilation ducts of this air-raid shelter have been for many years, but they are not blocked, and they can still be used, so there is not much oil smoke accumulated in the hole. There was also bad luck, the original ventilation duct was blocked, so I had to spend a lot of money to either dredge it or reopen a ventilation duct. “

Boss Chen saw that we were very interested in the air-raid shelter, so he said to me: "I don't know much about the hole, and there is an expert who digs a hole sitting at this table, so let him tell you about it." I'll have something to do later, and I'll be back with you for a drink or two. As he spoke, he pointed to an old man who was sitting at a table and had been eating in silence, and said, "Mr. Cai, you can introduce the air-raid shelter to your friends in Beijing, and I will come back in a while to add a plate of hairy belly to you." ”

Lao Cai nodded at Boss Chen a little straightforwardly, and smiled at us again, which was regarded as a greeting. Lao Cai is also good to drink two sips, Director Qian's wine is a local poet fairy Taibai, according to Lao Qian's introduction, this wine is also fermented and stored in the air-raid shelter, there are ten years of wine, it does have both a clear taste, and a strong aroma of wine.

After a few glasses of wine, Lao Cai's words increased. Lao Cai is sixty-five years old this year, but he looks like he is in his fifties. He worked as an engineer in his youth, and after his recovery, he went to work as a worker in an arsenal in Chongqing, a job he did for decades, and he just retired. His daughter-in-law died early, leaving only one son who is now working in Shenzhen and only comes back for the New Year's holidays. Alone, in addition to playing mahjong at usual, I like to go out at night to eat a hot pot to satisfy my hunger.

Speaking of the air-raid shelter in Goose Ridge, Lao Cai really knows a lot. In the 60s, the whole country engaged in third-line construction to prepare for war and famine. Someone suggested to the city that the original abandoned air-raid shelters should be used, so that the large ones could be used to store war supplies, and the small ones could be used to load food, so that in case the enemy attacked, there would be a place to hide. The proposal was quickly approved, and work began on repairing bomb shelters throughout the city. Lao Cai's factory was not willing to be reluctant, and organized dozens of professional workers to come to Eeling to renovate the air-raid shelter.

Lao Cai lived in the lower half of Yuzhong District when he was a child, up and down the mountain, playing from childhood to adulthood, and still knew a lot about the air-raid shelter, but when he really started the construction work, Lao Cai still found that the air-raid shelter at the foot of the Goose Ridge was very different from what he had played.

One is that the bomb shelters are intricate, intertwined, and large-scale, and it is easy to get lost in them without drawings. When the work first started, there was a co-worker who looked for a place to relieve himself, but he never came back. After searching for two days and finding nothing, they speculated that he might have stumbled and fallen into a hidden shaft, and even if he could not fall, he would starve to death. So everyone had to take the outermost hole as the center, and spent half a month, while surveying, while recording, and made a map of the tunnel, so as not to get lost again.

The second is that in this survey, Lao Cai found that in this mountain, there are not only air-raid shelters built during the Anti-Japanese War, but also tunnels dug by the ancients, most of which are connected. It's just that the tunnels built by the ancients are narrower, but after walking for a while, there will be a relatively large hall, and there are still some residual stoves in it, which seem to be used by the ancients to garrison and transport troops. But many of the passages inside have collapsed, and it is impossible to really understand the scale of these tunnels, but Lao Cai estimates that the part of their expedition may only be one-twentieth of the total scale.

I thought about it and understood the authentic reason for this. Since ancient times, Chongqing is the gateway to the east of Sichuan, in ancient times, there was according to Bashu, down the river here, conquered Jianghan, there are also from here to trace the river upstream, straight to Bashu. Chongqing has become a military fortress, which has experienced countless wars and has been slaughtered many times. Chongqing is surrounded by water on three sides, and in ancient times, the land route could only reach the city of Chongqing by crossing the Goose Ridge and advancing along the steep floating map to the east. And Eeling itself is the only gateway to Chongqing. Relying on the mountain terrain and digging tunnels below, it should be an important project for the first-line defense of Goose Ridge and Futu Pass.

When Lao Cai and the others conducted the bomb shelter survey, the bank's vault had been built for many years, and they could not get close to this area. But what I didn't expect was that Lao Cai knew the specific location of the vault very well. He told us that when they were investigating, they walked through an air-raid shelter roadway blocked by rocks, and had no way to go back, but someone found an ancient tunnel crossing that was connected to the roadway.

This ancient tunnel should be very ancient, unlike the bomb shelter, the bare soil layer will be built with bricks and stones, completely excavated and only made some simple tamping of the wall, which seems very simple. After about seven turns, I advanced a few hundred meters, and encountered some forks in the middle. Lao Cai and his entourage came to a very spacious hall and shone it with a flashlight, which was hundreds of square meters in size and four or five meters high.

Although more than 30 years have passed, it can be seen that Lao Cai is still very excited when he talks about this, as if this happened just yesterday. It seems that the hollow in this mountain must be magnificent. But there was no road at the end of the hall, and it became a high concrete wall that was dug deep into the soil layer at the top. And the wall glows with a blue-gray light, which looks a little creepy.

Everyone couldn't figure out what this cement wall was doing, Lao Cai knocked twice, and found that it was very thick, and there was not even a single crack in the whole wall. Some of them speculated whether this was a treasure trove secretly built by the Kuomintang government during the period of the capital? After all, legend has it that during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chiang Kai-shek transported all the gold and silver treasures from Nanjing and Shanghai to Chongqing.

Within a few days, the leaders of the Municipal Public Security Bureau came over and told them that the cement wall they saw was the outer wall of the bank's underground vault, which belonged to the military protection forbidden area, and they were no longer allowed to enter. It was also because of this incident that Lao Cai learned that the bank vault was originally hidden at the foot of Goose Ridge.

After listening to Lao Cai's words, Team Cao and I looked at each other, and it seemed that outside the concrete walls of the vault, there was really another world, did this have anything to do with the theft of the vault?

Lao Cai said excitedly, coupled with the effect of a little good wine, he talked endlessly, and he couldn't stop at all. Boss Chen came twice and added a few dishes to us, but he couldn't interject when he saw it, so he simply went by himself. Director Qian obviously didn't have much interest in these old things, so he simply chatted with Cao Team about the deepening reform of the public security system and inquired about the personnel changes in the ministry.

The other two diners finished eating early and left one after another, leaving only me and Xiao Lei on the table, listening to it with relish, of course, Xiao Lei did not forget to fill Lao Cai with wine.

Lao Cai's group of people worked in the air-raid shelter for more than a month, because Lao Cai turned out to be an engineer and had some engineering and technical knowledge, and the leaders of the factory rarely went to the scene.

But it didn't take long for the construction team to encounter a lot of things that couldn't be explained by common sense. And these things basically happened in the depths of the roadway, which was also the direct reason why Lao Cai and the others gave up further exploration.

(He Buddhism and I, from hearing, thinking, and cultivating to samadhi.) At the beginning of the hearing, into the place of exile, into the silence, the two phases of movement and stillness are not born, if it gradually increases, smell and hear, can not smell everything, perceive the emptiness, the emptiness is extremely round, emptiness, --"Lengyan Sutra")

(To be continued.) )