After paying the bill and leaving the stall selling spring rolls, I continued to walk forward, looking for something to eat while looking for a place to stay tonight.

Maybe it's summer, and after walking around the street for more than half an hour in a reliable hotel or guesthouse, I didn't find it, but I saw a lot of street stalls selling sweet soup and sugar cane.

Since the imperial capital issued an administrative order prohibiting street stalls, I haven't seen this kind of simple stall with a parasol or awning on the side of the street and a few tables and chairs underground. Now that I suddenly see it again, I feel a sense of intimacy.

It can be said that this kind of street stall is an important part of my memories of summer, on a hot summer night, when the heat of the day is almost gone, call three or five good friends to go out and press the road, and then find a roadside cold drink stall to call a bowl of cold drinks, while drinking and chatting about some and not, although simple but also happy.

After seeing the seventh or eighth stall selling sweet soup again, I finally couldn't help the throbbing in my heart, pulled Xiao Yayun's sleeve, smiled and pointed to the sweet soup stall across the road and said with a smile: "Let's go, please drink sweet soup." ”

Sweet soup is a traditional dessert of the Han nationality in Guangdong Province, which is mainly divided into two categories: Chaozhou style and Cantonese style according to the different regions where zuò is made. The same thing, Cantonese people call it "sugar water"; Provincial people collectively call it "dessert"; And Chaozhou calls it "sweet soup".

There are many types of sweet soup, such as lily soup, barley soup, black bean soup, mung bean soup, glutinous rice porridge, sweet ginkgo seeds, and so on. Depending on the season, the types of sweet soup stalls serve differently, for example, in winter, what is generally sold is hot glutinous rice porridge and sweet ginkgo seeds.

When it comes to the summer like now, glutinous rice porridge and sweet ginkgo seeds will be withdrawn, and it will be the turn of sweet soups such as mung bean soup and lily porridge that are cool and relieve the heat. The street stall that Xiao Yayun and I chose mainly sells these two sweet soups.

I ordered mung bean soup, and Xiao Yayun ordered lily porridge. Rather than the humble mung bean, this Niko prefers lilies, which are said to have beauty benefits.

In addition to selling sweet soup, the stall also sells fried tofu, a stove and an oil pot are set next to a large pot with sweet soup, and the fire is blazing in the stove under the oil pot, and the tofu cut into squares or triangles in the oil pot makes a sizzling sound while stirring, which makes people drool when they sound.

After the boss brought the mung bean soup and lily porridge, Xiao Yayun finally couldn't resist the temptation that was close at hand, and asked the boss for a plate of fried dried tofu.

The boss smiled and responded, turned around and walked to the master sitting in front of the oil pot, and not long after, he brought a plate of fresh fried tofu that had just been fished out of the oil pot and was still rattling.

The fried tofu served is a bit like stinky tofu, but there is no unique taste of stinky tofu, only a mixture of oil and the fragrance of the tofu itself, the fried tofu skin is red and crispy, poke the puff pastry outside with chopsticks, the tofu inside is white and tender, it can be called the four words of gold and silver.

Served with the fried tofu there is also a small plate of condiments mixed with chili pepper and green onion beads brine sauce, pick up a piece of dried tofu and dip it in the seasoning in the small plate, put it on the side of the mouth and blow it and stuff it directly into the mouth, as soon as I bite through the crispy skin of the fried tofu, I feel an unbearable high temperature from the tofu inside the fried tofu to the tongue, and I grin my teeth when it is hot.

Hurriedly took a sip of mung bean soup, the cold mung bean soup entrance suddenly eased the heat of the fried tofu, leaving only the original taste of the fried bean curd, crisp and soft, the fragrance has been stored in the mouth for a long time, and a sense of satisfaction arises spontaneously.

I've always felt that eating piping hot food with an ice drink is something that makes people feel satisfied and enjoyable. I was hot one second and I wanted to spit out the contents of my mouth, but the next second this unbearable feeling was neutralized by the cold drink, and the feeling at that moment was not good. So many people eat barbecue and love to serve cold beer because of this reason.

Xiao Yayun took a sip of lily porridge and picked up a piece of fried dried tofu, looked at me and sighed with satisfaction, "I haven't eaten this kind of roadside stall for a long time, do you know what it reminds me of?" This reminds me of the days when everyone ate cold drinks together after school make-up classes in the summer vacation of high school, late self-study, and after class. ”

I laughed and said, "Then we really want to go together." Do you remember what was the most common phrase we said back then? ”

Xiao Yayun laughed as well, "What's wrong with this, isn't it just looking at the people at the barbecue stall next to the cold drink stall, drinking cold drinks while envious and jealous and hateful, saying that one day when you have money, you can order two barbecue orders, eat one and throw one away." ”

I laughed and nodded, "I didn't expect you to remember." ”

In my small county, on summer evenings, after self-study at nine o'clock every day, the street is often filled with the usual scene — a group of teenage high school students getting off their bikes with their school bags on their backs, swarming to a plastic table, talking and laughing loudly and ordering the cheapest cold drinks. For me, I usually only drank two cold drinks at that time – mung bean soup and mulled wine. When you don't have money, you drink a bowl of mung bean soup for five yuan, and when you have money, you drink a bowl of sweet wine for eight yuan, and Xiao Yayun is always a glass of sweet milk that can't be shaken by thunder at that time.

It's not that it's a pick, but the cheapest cold drinks on the menu are already the limit of affordability for ordinary high school students, who often have to save five or ten yuan a day for things like going to an Internet café or going to KTV on weekends.

Therefore, for those of us poor students, those adults who can afford to eat dozens of barbecues at the barbecue stall next to the cold drink stall are undoubtedly the general savings of class enemies.

When Xiao Yayun said this, my heart suddenly became a little hot, and I said to Xiao Yayun with a smile: "I think there should be a barbecue stall in Hongyang at night, and I have to fulfill this wish in high school tonight." ”

Xiao Yayun smiled and nodded, "Okay, I'll eat with you at night." If you still eat at night. ”

I suddenly saw through the little abacus in Xiao Yayun's heart, and glanced at this Nizi with disdain, "If you want to eat, just say it, don't push this pot to me." Be a little more sincere, a little less routine OK? ”