At half past six the next morning, Xiao Yayun and I packed up and prepared to go. Chu Cheng and Turin's bedroom doors were still closed, and it was estimated that both of them were still sleeping. We didn't bother the little couple, tore up a post-it note, wrote a note, stuck it on the door and went out.

As soon as I walked out of the corridor, a man who came to me made me a little stunned, "Black friend?!" Damn, I'm not mistaken, you got up so early?! ”

Chu Cheng lifted a few bags in his hand and said with a smile: "Get up and buy breakfast." Are you two ready to go? What about your breakfast? ”

I shrugged my shoulders, "Just buy some on the way or eat it again in Wei County." ”

Chu Cheng didn't say a word, took out a bag of buns from a bag and handed it to me, "If you don't say anything, you have to open for more than three hours to eat breakfast or not, you two can eat these buns on the road." I won't give soy milk, and I can't pour it without a cup. ”

"You don't need soy milk, you bring water. Thanks, you can go up quickly. Turin will probably wake up after a while, and the two of us will leave. ”

I took the bun and thanked him, waved my hand to Chu Cheng, and walked towards the place where I parked last night.

The route I chose was the route of Beijing-Tibet Expressway and Xuanda Expressway, and I got off the Xuanda Expressway and continued to drive in the direction of the county seat of Weixian.

I pulled up and looked in the direction that Nizi was pointing, and there was an abandoned castle, with almost half of the walls collapsed, and it looked extremely desolate from a distance.

I opened the map on my phone, looked at it, confirmed the name of the ancient castle, and said with a smile: "This is Beiquan Fort, there are many ancient castles like this in Wei County." ”

"Ancient castle?"

Xiao Yayun turned her head and looked at me suspiciously.

I saw this Nizi's doubts, and when it came to the castles, this Nizi thought of those manors and castles in Europe again, and I shook my head and said with a smile:

"The ancient castle in Wei County is not the same as the ancient castle you imagine, Wei County was called Ulzhou in ancient times, also known as Luochuan. For thousands of years, Wei County has been the choke point from Saibei to the North China Plain, and it is a battleground for soldiers in wartime. The origin of these ancient castles in Wei County is related to this, and the ancient castles in Wei County and the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty are products of the same era.

In order to prevent the invasion of northern nomads, many ancient castles were built in Wei County at that time. Often an ancient castle is a fortress for soldiers. The ancient buildings of Wei County are mainly ancient castles, ancient temples, ancient theater buildings, and ancient dwellings. In ancient times, there was a saying of "Eight Hundred Zhuang Fort", there is a village and there is a fort, and the fort is a village. ”

After stepping off the station, I raised my camera on the road and took a picture of the Beiquan Fort in the distance, the abandoned ancient castle was already in ruins, and there were some loess houses nearby. The whole color of the photo is almost the color of loess, vast and vast.

"If you come in the evening, it's perfect."

Looking at the photo, I sighed lightly, and secretly made a decision in my heart, I must find an opportunity to take advantage of these two days to take pictures of Wei County in the evening.

Get in the car and continue to walk towards Wei County, and it will be almost eleven o'clock when you enter the county seat. When I was following the navigation to the booked hotel, Xiao Yayun suddenly looked at me with a bitter face while rubbing her stomach, "Richard, I'm hungry." ”

I sweated profusely, "Aren't you eating all those bags of buns?" Hungry so soon? ”

"That's seven bags of buns, okay? Everywhere else I eat, didn't you eat two too! I don't care! I am hungry! ”

Looking at Xiao Yayun, who was sitting in the co-pilot and playing like a child, I began to wonder if it was a good thing or a bad thing to bring this guy along.

sighed helplessly, "Gotta got, go eat first and then find a hotel, right?" ”

Xiao Yayun suddenly became extremely well-behaved, looking at me and blinking her eyes wide, "What are we eating?" ”

I thought about it for a while and said with a smile: "There is a saying in Wei County, which is called "porridge in the morning, cake at noon, and stewed yam in the evening". Now we're just going to lunch, how about taking you to eat the yellow cake of Wei County? This thing is only available in Wei County. ”

"Yes, yes."

As soon as she heard that it was only available in Wei County, Xiao Yayun suddenly became interested and nodded again and again.

There are many small street shops selling yellow cakes in Ul County, and if you just find one and drill in, you can taste this kind of food made with fermented millet noodles that is unique to Ul County.

Millet is millet, a plant endemic to the north and one of the five grains. This stuff has been a staple food of the people of the north for a long, long time. In the Book of Songs, there is a sentence of separation, and in the poem of the old man's village, it describes the scene of old friends preparing a sumptuous meal - chicken and millet, and they are talking and laughing at the dinner table.

The tradition of Wei County people love to eat yellow cake is not without reason, although this place is a place where soldiers must fight in ancient times, but it is not a place where crops are planted smoothly in the wind and rain, on the contrary, this place in Wei County has nine droughts in ten years, and there is a spring drought every year, many times crops such as millet can not be sown at all, and they are not sown early and do not sprout, and it is too late to be late. Therefore, in the past, people in Wei County usually planted millet first, and millet could not be planted instead.

This is because millet has a very short growth period, which can be matured in seventy or eighty days. Most of the millet planted in Wei County is after the beginning of summer, it rains through, and then sows, and it can be harvested before the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The yellow cake served is not small, full of a whole plate, looking at the bulging appearance I thought there was gas inside, and I poked the chopsticks and found that it was real, which made me suddenly difficult. According to the amount of food I eat, I can't finish this one-and-a-half-sized yellow cake.

Don't ask me why it's one and a half, Xiao Yayun eats half at most of this amount!

Immediately the proprietress brought up two bowls of stew, the way people in Wei County eat yellow cake is generally a bowl of stewed vegetables and a piece of yellow cake, soak the yellow cake in the stew to eat, or not soak in it, a mouthful of yellow cake and a bite of cake vegetables to eat.

I chose the latter way and didn't soak the yellow cake in the stew. When I took the chopsticks to hold the yellow cake, I found that this thing was very tough, and it took some effort to tear a piece down. In the mouth, it is soft, sticky, and has a faint sweetness. But after chewing a few bites, it became a little rough, and my throat was stuck when I wanted to swallow it. Later, I had no choice but to swallow it.

When eating yellow cakes, I suddenly remembered the description of eating yellow cakes in a certain guidebook - one clip, two drags, three swallows, four swallows, five or six goodong.

When I didn't taste the yellow cake in person, I felt that this sentence was a little inexplicable, and I didn't know what it meant, but now, I really feel that every word is beautiful!

After eating half a piece of yellow cake, my speed slowed down more and more, and I had to hold a mouthful of yellow cake in my mouth for a long time before I could swallow it, not because it didn't suit my taste, but because I was almost full! This yellow cake is far more filling than you think!

Xiao Yayun put down her chopsticks and looked at me, "Richard, I can't eat." ”

I looked at the half of the yellow cake in front of this Nizi, and then at the small half of the yellow cake in front of me, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "I kind of understand why the people of Wei County only eat this thing at noon, and when they eat it at night, it doesn't digest it!" “