Chapter 44: The Legend of Pancakes
The train ticket Meng Huadong has already been bought, and it is the train at 7:50 a.m. on Friday.
On Thursday, after evening self-study, Meng Yufei didn't go home, called Li Zhen in the dormitory and said the approximate time of his arrival, and then packed up the things he was going to bring tomorrow.
Actually, I don't have anything to bring, just a toiletry and a change of clothes.
Meng Yufei didn't say anything else to Du Yuexin and the person in the dormitory, just said that there was something at home and her father went to other places.
Du Yuexin didn't want to say it when she saw Meng Yufei, and she didn't ask, which made Meng Yufei breathe a sigh of relief, now that the eight characters have not been skimmed, wait for the release of the song in the future, and then see if you want to find a suitable opportunity to talk to your friends!
Before 7 o'clock on Friday morning, Meng Yufei stood by the stop sign at the school gate, and made an appointment with her father to pick her up at the school gate in the morning, and then the father and daughter went to the train station together.
The second bus from the town stopped, and Meng Huadong, who was about to get off, saw that his daughter was already waiting, so he didn't get off the bus and beckoned his daughter to get on the bus and sit directly at the terminal.
The opposite side of the bus stop is the train station, because the traffic flow is relatively large, and there are more pedestrians crossing the road, and there are often traffic jams.
It was around 2003 that a viaduct was built and the railway station was remodeled to free the area from congestion.
Meng Yufei and her father went to the waiting room to wait for the bus after checking the tickets, Meng Huadong had already had breakfast, and when he got off the bus, he bought baked cakes and two eggs for Meng Yufei for breakfast.
"Come, drink saliva, eat slowly!" Meng Huadong let his daughter eat first, bought a bottle of water from the small shop in the waiting room and handed it to his daughter.
"Thank you Dad! Dad, what do you have in your bag? Meng Yufei was a little choked after eating the eggs, took the water, opened the bottle cap and took a sip, looked at the somewhat bulging bag at Meng Huadong's feet and asked curiously.
"Hehe, the pancakes in our place, my comrade-in-arms loves to eat, bring them to him!" Meng Huadong replied to his daughter with a smile.
In the past, I couldn't afford to eat steamed buns, pancakes were the staple food, and I was reluctant to make it all with corn, often mixed with some sorghum sweet potatoes or something.
However, it is quite troublesome to make, you have to soak the corn in water first, then push and peel it, add water, and grind it into pancake paste.
At that time, all these jobs were done manually, and when Meng Yufei was young, there was an electric mill, and the pancake paste could be processed directly through two processes.
Meng Yufei still remembers that at that time, her grandmother first supported the pancakes with a pancake, the round pan was made of iron, slightly convex in the middle, supported by three legs, and the wheat orange rod was used to heat the tweezer below, and the top of the tweezer was wiped with oil, commonly known as "oil tie", which was a tool sewn from old coarse cloth, dipped in oil and smeared and wiped on the tweezer to prevent it from getting "tweezed".
Then use an iron spoon to scoop a spoonful of pancake paste and put it in the middle of the pancake, and use a basket, which is similar in shape to the old-fashioned razor, but larger than the razor, and put it on the pancake paste, and rotate it from the inside to the outside to spread the paste evenly.
Then use a wooden or bamboo scraper to scrape the paste flat, and after it is baked, use a shovel, also called "grabber", to scoop up the corners of the pancake and gently remove it.
Shaped like a full moon, as thin as rice paper, crispy and sweet when hot, and fragrant and chewy when cooled, the delicious pancakes are baked!
It will taste better if you add some sesame seeds in the process of making it, and if you add a dish, it will be called a vegetable pancake.
It is said that in the past, if a girl did not sell pancakes, she would not be able to find a good in-law.
Now with the advent of pancake machines, there are fewer people who sell pancakes by hand, and pancakes are more expensive than steamed buns.
Meng Yufei grew up slowly, and the tools for spreading pancakes at home were slowly gone, and she hadn't eaten the pancakes spread by her grandmother for many years, and she was quite nostalgic.
Thinking of pancakes, a traditional Shandong famous food, there is also a loyal love story according to legend.
On the bank of the Mi River at the foot of Yimeng Mountain, the smart and beautiful girl Huang Meizi and the young man Liang Ma are in love, one is not married, and the other is not married.
But Huang Meizi has a cunning stepmother who is cunning and open-minded, who dislikes the poor and loves the rich, accepts the money of the rich family behind her back, and agrees to marry Huang Meizi.
Huang Meizi refused to live or die. Seeing this, Huang's mother set up a poisonous plan and asked Liang Ma to come to Huang's house to review his homework, saying that after Liang Ma obtained his fame, he would marry Huang Meizi.
After Liang Ma came, Huang Mu said to Liang Ma: "I have prepared for you in the study and the four treasures of the study, do you think you need anything?" ”
Liang Ma said: "As long as there are books and pens, there is no need for anything else." ”
When Huang Mu heard this, she was overjoyed, and hurriedly said to the house slaves: "Have you heard, he only needs paper and pen, and nothing else, what an ambitious son!" ”
In this way, Liang Ma moved into the study and began to bury his head in reading.
Reading until noon, no one brought food, and at dusk, still no one sent food, Liang Ma had to go out of the study to see, but there was a house slave guarding the door of the small courtyard, and he was not allowed to go out, so Liang Ma had to go back to the study and wait, until the moon set in the west, and still no one came to deliver food.
Liang Ma suddenly realized that he fell into the evil role of Huang Ma, Huang Mu was going to be so hungry that Liang Ma couldn't stand it, let him escape, and then falsely accused him of stealing money and things, ruining his reputation, so that Huang Meizi died of Liang Ma's heart, so that she could marry a rich family as a daughter-in-law with peace of mind.
When Huang Meizi found out, she was anxious and angry. In a hurry, he made a stack of very thin white cakes, and then cut the cakes squarely, looking like white paper, and asked the maid to send them to Liang Ma.
When the maid arrived at the gate of the small courtyard, she was stopped by the house slave guarding the door: "The old lady has an order, only paper and pen are allowed to be sent." ”
The maid replied, "It's the paper." ”
When the house slave saw it, it was indeed a bundle of white paper, so he let the maid into the courtyard.
Liang Ma took the white paper sent by the maid, only to smell a fragrance coming to his nose, and looked at it carefully, it turned out to be a cake!
Liang Ma immediately ate a full meal, and admired Huang Meizi's wit very much. Relying on the "blank paper", Liang Ma began to devote himself to reading again.
Three days passed, and Huang Mu was very annoyed when she saw that Liang Ma was still calmly reading and writing articles, and viciously ordered the house slaves to starve Liang Ma for another three days.
Huang Meizi made an idea on the "pen" again, peeled the green onions, cut the leaves and removed the roots, just like a pen, and asked the maid to send a bundle of pens to Liang Ma. The house slave saw that it was a pen, so he had to let it go.
In this way, Liang Ma ate "paper" and "pen" to review his homework, not only did his body not lose weight, but his spirit was also very vigorous.
After three more days, Huang's mother heard from the house slave that Liang Ma not only did not run, but was full of energy, and kept reading and writing articles every day.
Huang Mu didn't believe it at all, so she asked the house slave: "If you don't eat, you are still so energetic, does he drink the wind?" ”
And the house slave said, "It's not that he drinks the wind, but that he eats all the paper and pen!" ”
Huang Mu was very puzzled when she heard the words of the house slave, and hurriedly asked the house slave to take her to see it.
The house slave took Huang's mother to the window of the study secretly, and poked the window paper only to see Liang Ma rolling a pen with paper, and eating it deliciously!
Huang Mu didn't believe that there was such a strange thing in the world, so she hurriedly called Liang Ma to the main room and inquired in detail.
Of course, Liang Ma would not tell his true feelings after suffering a loss, but pretended to be a serious person and said: "When I was nine years old, there was an immortal master who taught me the method of turning stones into gold. However, the immortal master also instructed me that before I achieved fame, I could only pilot it once, and only after I won the list could I do whatever I wanted. ”
Huang Mu listened. Liang Ma once had the help of immortals, and he will be a rich and noble person in the future, so he changed his face and pleaded with Liang Ma with a smile: "Virtuous son-in-law! When that time comes, you must not forget your mother-in-law! ”
Liang Ma was angry and funny, and said to Huang Mu mockingly: "Of course, of course, at that time, I will try my best to repay your kindness!" ”
When Huang Mu heard this, her eyes narrowed into a slit with a smile, and she hurriedly asked people to withdraw from the rich family's family affairs, and from then on she treated Liang Ma like a guest.
Later, Liang Ma really won the champion and took Huang Meizi to the capital, and the husband and wife were in love and contentment, and they also relived the life of eating "paper" and "pen" from time to time.
This happy love story soon spread, and since then, the way to eat pancake rolls and green onions has also spread among the people.