Zheng Xudong listened to the taxi driver's eldest brother's explanation with relish, and ate a bite of the big meat bun that flowed from the corner of his mouth.

Zheng Xudong has long heard that the taxi drivers in the capital are willing to be nervous, but he didn't expect that the taxi drivers in TJ are not far behind.

The driver's name is Ma Wendong, 28 years old this year, and Zheng Xudong calls him "Brother Xiaoma" Since his ancestors, he and his family are natives of TJ, because they are reluctant to study, their families paid him to buy a South Korean Hyundai Sonata sedan and spent more than 300,000 to buy taxi operating procedures, so that he can drive a taxi for a living, he did not hire someone to drive, saying that he was afraid of hiring someone to drive a car, but he opened a large class (taxis are usually divided into day shifts and night shifts, generally the owner of the car to open a class, and then hire someone to open another class, which is called a rest, can maximize profits, and early in the morning, and late in the evening to collect the car and not hire people to operate the business mode of the industry called the big class), now this car has been driving for five years, There are still three years to be scrapped (the taxi is mandatory to be scrapped in eight years), and it has run more than 600,000 kilometers, and the car is still in good condition.

Zheng Xudong sat in his car, and it could be seen from the sanitary environment in the car that his car was keeping good.

Today he happened to accompany his mother-in-law to see a doctor at Baiyi University during the day, and the first job he had just sent his mother-in-law home to pick up was Zheng Xudong, in his words, "I didn't expect to take on a big job!"

"By the way, Brother Xiaoma, what did you say just now that TJ Sanjue was referring to?" Zheng Xudong picked up the napkin on the table and wiped the oil dripping from the corner of his mouth and asked.

"Oh! Brother said that TJ is three uniques, referring to TJ's three flavored snacks, namely Goubuli buns, 18th Street twist and ear eye fried cake. They are all local century-old shops, which have been around since the end of the Qing Dynasty and have been passed down to this day. ”

"Can Brother Ma talk about the other two snacks?" asked Tang Luoyong, who was sitting next to Zheng Xudong.

Seeing Tang Luoyong call himself "Little Brother Ma", Ma Wendong immediately said embarrassedly: "You can just call me Brother Ma." Brother Pony didn't dare to be. Ma Wendong picked up the remaining half bottle of Arctic Ocean soda on the table and took a sip and said, "The reason why Goubuli buns are called Goubuli is because its founder Gao Guiyou's milk name was Gouzi when he was a child, and it was his father who gave such a name to Laipi in order to support him when he was old. As for the Eighteenth Street Twist and Ear Eye Fried Cake, their names are derived from place names. The most famous of the eighteenth street twist is the brand of Gui Faxiang, the earliest because its store is located in the eighteenth street of Dagu South Road, people call this twist as the eighteenth street twist. Ear eye fried cake is also its celebrity Liu Wanchun first pushed a wheelbarrow to walk the streets and alleys to sell, after becoming famous, people called him fried cake Liu, and later had his own façade, just outside the north gate of the ear eye alley exit place, people have since called his fried cake for the ear eye fried cake. Aren't the names of these three unique snacks in Tianjin very down-to-earth!"

After listening to it, Zheng Xudong sighed with emotion, "It's better to read thousands of books than to travel thousands of miles!" These things can also be seen at home through the Internet, but they are not as interesting as listening to the locals in them.

"Brother Xiaoma, you can take us to these places to buy some of these special snacks in a while!" Zheng Xudong said.

The driver Ma Wendong hurriedly shook his hand, and then said: "Brother, you believe me, these things are only authentic and delicious when you eat the kind that has just come out of the pot and is hot on the top, and the kind you go to the store to buy are vacuum-packed, I don't know how many days it has been made, it is sold to tourists, and the locals do not buy it, that thing must be made on the spot, and eaten on the spot, that taste, absolutely amazing! There's no comparison, so if you want to eat the three uniques of Jinmen, you must come to our TJ!"

Zheng Xudong glanced at Tang Luoyong and said: "Brother Xiaoma, we still have to buy some, my Brother Tang still has children at home, they can't come here, so they can only bring some back home through logistics." ”

"Ahh If that's the case, then there's no way, I'll take you to their authentic old store to buy some gift wrapping in a moment, and then find a logistics company. ”

"Great, we've eaten almost enough, and it's not getting early, why don't we go buy it now?"

Ma Wendong took Zheng Xudong and the others to buy some eighteenth street twist flowers in Gui Faxiang's old store, and then went to the ear eye fried cake shop to buy fried cakes, and finally returned to the Goubuli bun shop and bought some Goubuli buns, these things are sold in Laocheng District, all around here, so I quickly bought them all and found a logistics company to send these TJ famous snacks back to Tang Luoyong's home.

"Is there any good pastime here at night?" asked Zheng Xudong.

"Brother, you are right, in addition to eating those snacks at TJ, you have to listen to the cross talk of our tea club in TJ. Ma Wendong said with a proud expression.

"How are these two words connected?" asked Tang Luoyong in the car.

"In fact, to put it bluntly, it is to combine the teahouse with the garden of quyi, so that you can taste gaiwan tea, eat melon seeds, and listen to the joke is TJ Wei's life!"

"Oh! I was interested in hearing you say this, do you have any good places to recommend?" asked Zheng Xudong.

"Of course there is, if you want to listen to authentic quyi cross talk, you two are right to come to TJ. Ma Wendong started the gushing mode again.

In his mouth, Zheng Xudong knew that there were so many famous teahouses in the local area, GD Guild Hall, which was built on the 14th day of the first month of the Qing Dynasty in 1907 and has preserved the most complete and largest Qing Dynasty guild hall building in TJ City. Located in the south of the Drum Tower in the old city of TJ, it is now the TJ City Drama Museum. The old stage here has a strong sense of history, and masters such as Mei Lanfang have performed here.

There is also a small pear orchard in the old city, and a cross talk teahouse near the drum tower, where you can listen to cross talk and see the folk museum.

Yangguang Crosstalk Club, located at No. 106, Huayuan Road, NK District, is a newly opened cross talk garden in TJ. Although the garden is new, the actors are old. In Ma Wendong's words, the cross talk performances of the three generations of the Yang family are sure to amuse you. Tasting gaiwan tea, sipping melon seeds, and listening to the joke is TJ Wei's life.

Celebrity Teahouse, which is one of the first teahouses in TJ to specialize in cross talk. Li Boxiang, Wei Wenliang, Ma Zhiming, Yu Baolin, Tian Lihe and other older generation cross talk performance artists of TJ City Quyi Troupe and TJ North Music School were once the pillars of celebrity teahouses.

Qian Xiang Yi Wen Yuan, Qian Xiang Yi takes the creation of relish cross talk as its own responsibility, and restores the old scene of the Tianjin cross talk teahouse from the thirties to the fifties of the last century. More than 10 veteran actors who have the experience of "abandoning the ground" in the old days still perform in the same way. If you want to feel the original TJ cross talk, come here! Qianxiang Yiwenyuan also founded the first registered cross talk museum, which collects famous manuscripts, performance costumes, props, books and periodicals related to cross talk, and a large number of old photos and rich audio-visual materials, which are free and open to the audience.

Zheng Xudong listened to Ma Wendong's introduction, these cross talk gardens all have their own characteristics, and the biggest feature here is not like Guo Degang's performance in the Beijing Exhibition later, where thousands of people listened to cross talk. Here is the teahouse culture, a table of eight immortals, with a fruit plate, dried fruits (mainly melon seeds), tea (you can also order a drink if you don't like it). The pace here is slower and more relaxed.

Zheng Xudong finally decided to choose to go to the oldest GD hall, located at No. 31, Nanmennei Street, NK District, Ma Wendong drove here quickly, it is only a few dozen meters away from the old town of TJ from the drum tower, there is a quiet, simple, full of charm of traditional buildings, this is the GD hall.

Obviously, Ma Wendong is very familiar with the GD hall, he is very enthusiastic part-time as a tour guide, Zheng Xudong asked Tang Luoyong to buy tickets, here Ma Wendong walked and introduced, GD hall construction area of 1461 square meters, mainly composed of the entrance hall, the main room, the matching room, the corridor and the theater. The hall adopts the traditional courtyard form, the exterior is in the northern style, but the interior decoration is GD Chaozhou characteristics. Most of the bricks and timbers used here are purchased from GD, the courtyard gate is wide, the arhat gable is high, and the hall is out of the corridor. More than 300 shops and houses have been built around the hall, and a "South Garden" has been built in the southeast of the hall, where flowers and trees are planted, and a medical room is set up for the villagers who come to TJ to rest and recuperate, a bit like the current offices in various provinces and cities. At that time, there were peach blossom forests and vineyards in the South Garden, and the scenery was very beautiful.

The theater building inside is the main building of the museum, which uses the courtyard of the courtyard to enclose the closed space, with two 21-meter-long parallel fangs in the north-south direction and a 19-meter-long frontal fang in the east-west direction, forming a large-span space. The stage has a surface of more than 70 square meters. At most, the actors and the audience can accommodate six or seven hundred people, the upstairs is a private room, the downstairs is a scattered seat, the caisson directly above the stage weighs about 10 tons, the outside is square and the inside is round, the bucket arch is connected with the tenon, and the spiral is upward, it is said that this structure can transmit the sound to all corners of the theater, and it seems that the ancients knew how to collect the sound of the building structure.

Because Zheng Xudong and the others went early and didn't start the performance, Ma Wendong also showed them more than 1,000 drama-related cultural relics collected in the museum, including the costumes and calligraphy and painting works of many famous Peking Opera singers.

The stage of the theater building is 10 meters deep and 11 meters wide, and the top is a spiral made of fine wooden components and tenons, which is a caisson well, and the carving process is exquisite, which is relatively rare in similar buildings. The wood carving of the stage is the most essential part, the horizontal eyebrows of the front desk are carved into a lion rolling hydrangea pattern with openwork techniques, and the two corners are carved into a hanging flower column with lotus buds, and the front of the stage is inlaid with a huge wood carving of "Heavenly Official Blessing", and the heavenly official, the boy, the ape, the pine and cypress, the clouds and the bats of the four corners constitute a lively and coordinated picture. The doors and windows of the theater are also carved with traditional ornaments such as lions, phoenixes, and peonies.

After listening to the introduction, Zheng Xudong did not go to the private room on the second floor, and decided to "have fun with the people" in the hall on the first floor, sat down at a table in the middle of the second row, and ordered a pot of good Biluo spring tea with the "running hall" here, a large fruit plate, four or five kinds of dried fruits, and the most important thing is a large plate of spiced pumpkin seeds.