Chapter 850: The Countryside (1/4)
Li Feng's belly was still deflated because he was in a hurry, and it was uncomfortable to be hungry on a cold day. When you are busy selling fish, you don't realize it, and it's always comfortable to collect money. This will be done, and my stomach will start to growl. Li Baobao stuffed Li Feng with half a shortbread and ate it, feeling more and more hungry.
Li Feng rushed to the snack shop, although the country market is now much more standardized, but there are still one or two forks in the street that retain the original state of the country market. The township market is the most lively in winter, and now that the migrant workers have returned home, a group of young men have cleaned up, and the little girls have also dressed up to show off. The first episode of the lively start of the year is like a temple fair.
Li Feng passed through the snack street, saying that it was a street, but there were seven or eight snack shops in fifty or sixty meters, as for those empty places in the distance. may have been planned in Secretary Gao's mind, but now it is still an open place, and the gaps between the houses on both sides are relatively large, the so-called wide road.
There is no chengguan in the countryside, as long as you pay some sanitation fees, two yuan a piece, and five cents for inspecting the scale pole. This place, you can do whatever you want, first come, first served. Usually, there are not many people, and the street construction in the town is already relatively rich. Only a few days ago, the light egg set, the last market before the year, after this light egg set, next time I want to catch the market, but I have to wait until the new year.
The light egg is a bit finished, the young goods at home have been made up at one time, and the merchant's old goods have been cleaned up. The light egg set is a bit interesting and the price is high, if it has just opened, the price is much higher than usual. The so-called after such a village there is no such shop, women buy vegetables and grit their teeth, of course, after half past ten another scene. You can't put vegetables or anything, the price has skyrocketed by 3,000 feet, and I'll give you some money. The merchants wept and mourned one by one, saying miserable, listening sadly, and smelling tears. In fact, not long after the vegetables began to sell, the money had already been earned.
Everyone didn't know where they were, but in the end, the dishes were really cheap, and they were put into bags one by one and brought home. But these women are not far around. Far away would rather spend more money, now the New Year's egg set is the Chinese New Year's Eve, you say who does not wait for the New Year. I just went home in a hurry to buy some fresh vegetables, but this year's vegetables made everyone grin when they ate them, they were too expensive, more expensive than meat. A lot of hesitation for a long time before starting, gritting his teeth and buying it. That's it once a year.
Similarly, the light egg market is extremely lively, extremely short-lived, and there is no one on the street within two hours. It's different to open the set.,Far and near are coming.,It's not like the light egg is too far to come.,Otherwise, you won't be able to go back.。 Especially this year, Chinese New Year's Eve.
Today, different villages are here, and there are many farmers and women in the open area here, and there are few places where you can set up stalls at will. Mung beans, red beans, golden millet, black sesame seeds, chicken, duck and goose. Cabbage, radish, and potatoes are all grown at home. The old man and woman tore open a snakeskin bag and a shop, a small stall, and the people on the street would not be embarrassed by these people. At most, five cents a piece will be charged for some sanitation.
Li Feng didn't need to buy anything, so he walked over with a cigarette, and finally stopped at the edge of a red shed. A strong fragrance wafts out, hooking the belly of the gluttonous worm. Nothing superfluous. A wide cement roadside, a simple shed. A circle of cloth was placed to block the wind.
A big black pot by the door is definitely one meter in diameter, the pot is stewed with mutton bones, and the mutton and haggis are cooked on the wooden table on the side, and a stream of red chili oil is boiled, a layer of red oil. On the side of a clay sculpture baked cake stove, a man baked cakes, and a woman smiled and greeted guests.
"Here, sit down." The man had just finished baking cakes and saw Li Feng at a glance, greeting him enthusiastically like a family member, with a smiling face.
"What to eat?" The man wiped his hands and walked over, Li Feng was just sitting still. "Four small bowls of mutton soup with less spicy, children eat, a big bowl of haggis, Xiaoman, you eat mutton soup." "Hmm." Li Xiaoman was a little curious, such a small shed, surrounded by cloth, was a small shop. It's so simple, the boss smiled and narrowed his eyes when he heard it. …,
"Okay, one big four lamb soup, and a big haggis soup." When the women heard the music, they were not idle in their hands, as if they were playing a trick, and the three scoops in their hands were rotated to add mutton vermicelli, bean cakes, and thousands of pieces, and the speed was extremely fast. The fire was vigorous, and after a while, Li Xiaoman felt that it was better in less than two minutes. These are cooked meats, and you don't need a single cigarette.
Steaming and busy with the fragrance, Li Feng asked for three baked cakes, don't look at the small number, this baked cake can be surprisingly big. The real big baked cakes with broken soles, one more than a foot long, and three crispy big baked cakes were put on the table. The four small radishes plus Li Xiaoman were a little stupid, and Li Feng just asked if the two were enough to eat. A few little guys still shouted not enough, not enough, especially the baby's white and tender little hands waved a few times.
As soon as the baked cakes were put on the table, the little girl's gesture was so big. Li Baobao has never seen such a big baked cake, the crispy baked cake is big, five cents a piece, it is definitely a real weight. Li Xiaoman now knows why Li Feng asked if the two baked cakes were enough to eat.
This one is really too big and crispy, and the surrounding area is not only crispy, but also the smell of chopped green onions and meat filling. Tear it a little, steaming, soft and hot. Li Feng likes this bite the most, but unfortunately there are not many craftsmen who can do it like this now, especially the clay stove is easy to make.
The charcoal fire is not easy to master, and it will burn to the hand if it is not good, and most of the people choose to use an oven-like fragrant cake stove, which tastes very good. At that time, Li Feng still loved to eat the original hand-pasted baked cakes when he was a child. A bowl of haggis soup is red and spicy, and carefully sprinkled with coriander and chopped green onions, steaming straight to the mouth.
It's a perfect match, Li Feng's baked cakes are torn, a few layers are stacked in the middle without adding any chili peppers, and the soybean sauce is stacked in three layers without much thickness, which shows how good the man's craftsmanship is.
"Try it, it's the most crispy and fragrant, don't add anything else." Li Feng tore open the side of the baked cake, and there was a soft place with filling, and several little guys rushed to stuff it into their small mouths, and the hot mutton soup had no smell at all. The food package is not a joke, Li Feng drank half a bowl of soup in a few sips. "Boss, add some more soup." The soup was added casually, and the woman smiled and held a large long-handled spoon. "Here we are." I sprinkled some chopped coriander in the soup.
Pepper, chili oil, salt and vinegar on the table, Li Feng saw that the eldest brother had just come, and it was already red mutton soup. This made him dig up a big spoonful of chili oil, and Li Feng was a little stunned when he looked at it when he could eat chili peppers. I listened to Li Can talk about an incident at a ramen restaurant a few years ago, which was quite interesting.
Tell Li Xiaoman about this without eating, Li Xiaoman took a small bite of the crispy baked cakes and listened to Li Feng tell interesting things. "Really, these people are so interesting, you said that the boss of the family is going to use a big soup bowl of chili oil a day, and the four of them ate it early in the morning, isn't the boss at a loss?"
"Hehe, this is also a common thing, when I was in junior high school, when a few classmates went to eat hot noodles, one of them ate half a bottle of their own vinegar from someone else's house, and you don't know how wonderful the boss's face is." Aged vinegar doesn't cost money, people in the mountains like to use it to make medicine, steam a bowl in the morning, Li Feng didn't drink less old vinegar. At that time, I fell in love with drinking, and finally I couldn't eat a bowl of noodles without half a bottle of vinegar.
"You guys, whoever met it was a discount." Li Xiaoman said and patted off the little baby's little hand touching the vinegar bottle. "Hmph, mom is eccentric, only for dad to be jealous, not for the baby."
"You little ghost, children can't eat more, eat how fragrant it is." Li Xiaoman's middle part was broken off, the middle part of the big baked cake flattering the sauce, and the filling part of the surrounding circle. The baby is crispy, with meat filling in one hand, isn't it that he also drank soup and ate a piece of mutton. Although the shed does not let in a little wind, the steaming mutton soup does not feel cold at all. In the end, the three baked cakes were still not finished, and Li Feng ate the meat filling all around. The crispy one in the middle is packed and eaten at home, not afraid. After eating, there was food in my stomach, and my body was warm. …,
Li Feng didn't plan to go back so early, he was in a hurry to catch up with the excitement, and he might have to buy something. Of course, Li Feng plans to buy some corn and go back, the rice is too expensive, and it will be too early. Broken corn will drive to the grain and oil station to buy it, and now the grain and oil station is not a public house, and the private business is just the name of the place.
A few children were originally screaming and eating to their full, but after walking around, they looked delicious, and some shouted to buy it. The price is not expensive, sugar gourd, Li Feng actually saw that there were astringent persimmons skewered into small strings, Li Feng bought a few marshmallows and sugar gourds for a few little girls, and one by one white balls accompanied the little red balls, plus cute little dolls, many people looked back at Li Feng and Li Xiaoman all the way.
"You taste it, I love to eat this taste the most, I can't do it well, there is a family where we have a lot of water, the village sends relief, and a family has three catties of astringent persimmons, and the taste is still thinking about it, but after eating so much for so many years, I always feel that something is missing." Li Feng frowned, there was nothing special about eating a bunch of persimmons. But Li Xiaoman feels very good when he eats it, it is very astringent and sweet, it is really difficult to describe how it feels, but it is delicious.
On the opposite side of the street, not far from a vacant lot, many people squatted in the sun, and the baby pulled Li Feng and asked the old man what he was doing. Most of these people are in the mountains, and they rarely go out of the mountains and have few gatherings, but they have to come and see the market every year. When I met acquaintances and friends, I said how I lived in a year, whose doll did not get married, and whose daughter married a good mother-in-law. Whoever suffered a disaster, who made a fortune, when it comes to saying, everyone who has made a fortune congratulates a few times, everyone who has suffered a few words of consolation, and most of the troubles are gone.
"This is very good, better than any psychiatrist, I didn't think that everyone in the mountains is a psychiatrist." Li Xiaoman looked at the crowd squatting, half-squatting, standing.
Three or five old men knocked on the cigarette stick, and the yellow wrinkles on their faces slowly relaxed, which is really a natural place for psychotherapy. Everyone talked about the happy things in their hearts, shared the happiness, and talked about the troubles.
"It's a pity that the young people have forgotten." Li Feng sighed at the young man, dressed up like Luo Cheng, handsome, his eyes glanced at the girls who passed by and dressed up in flowers, and from time to time he was scolded in a low voice, "Shameless." But when the girl had finished scolding, she might come back and walk in front of the boy again.