Guzhu Ancient City East Street, a flat avenue paved with large stones from Yanshan, two-story Donghua duplex two-storey small buildings on both sides, gray bricks, gray tiles, red lacquered doors and windows, the front row of the first floor is the gatehouse or sales store, and the back two-story small building may be a guest room, or it may be a single room or the like. The drainage facilities on both sides of the street are sealed with stones, and there is a large willow tree every 2 meters between the road and the sidewalk.

Pingquan mutton soup patty shop, the shopkeeper's surname is Hao, and few people know what his name is. Because the meatloaf and mutton soup is quite famous here, everyone changed the old Hao's mutton soup meatloaf shop, and unconsciously lost their official store name and personal name, leaving the old Hao's meatloaf shop. Lao Hao's meatloaf shop is in the middle of the north section of Dongjie Road, and you can see a red cloth banner on the top of a bamboo pole from afar, and the handwriting on the banner is blurred. Walking close to the three-storefront shop, a 0.5 m x 2 m black lacquer sign at the door reads: Pingquan Mutton Soup Meat Cake Shop has a few gilt characters. There is a black sign on a white background hanging at the door, with three words written on it: Open.

Under a rectangular tarpaulin, in the large cauldron of improved degreasing smoked meatloaf, only the meatloaf was bubbling with oil, but the aroma of the meatloaf could not be smelled. The burning in the stove is biomass, and the pressed fuel is also energy-saving and emission-reduction, and there is no pollution. A thin old man in his 50s, dressed in a white hood and wearing an Islamic top hat, occasionally uses a bamboo shovel to turn the meatloaf in the iron pot.

When the old man on the meatloaf saw me and Zhou Lihua coming, he greeted me from afar and said, "The two of you are eating." I said, "Well, how much is a pound of meatloaf." The old man said, "The beef patty is 40 yuan a catty, and the mutton patty is 60 yuan a catty." Zhou Lihua asked, "Why is it so expensive?" The old man said, "It's genuine, the beef and mutton are too expensive, and we don't dare to use the imported beef and mutton, for fear of the mad cow disease." Our meat is all cattle and sheep from the Hulunbuir prairie that grow up eating natural pasture, and the fresh-keeping car delivers it once a week. I said, "Isn't that too expensive?" The old man said, "We have a lot of dosage." Now the logistics is convenient, it is worth one trip a week, and it is worth running three or two times a week in the peak season. I sighed and said, "The earth is getting smaller." Zhou Lihua asked again: "How much is a bowl of mutton soup." The old man said, "The big bowl of mutton soup is 20 yuan, and the small bowl is 15 yuan." I said, "Lihua, let's have something to eat here." Zhou Lihua said: "If you are hungry, you can't choose food, so let's do it here." I said to the old man, "Master, come and cut mutton cakes by hand and two small bowls of mutton soup." The master shouted loudly: "One pound of hand-cut mutton patties, two small bowls of haggis soup." Two inside please, just later. ”

The soft curtain door curtain of the entrance door is raised. A person who looks like a chef is also wearing a white coat on his upper body and a white square scarf on his head. Look at the woman's age, which is twenty-five or sixteen years old, and her face is delicate. smiled and said, "Please come inside, it's cool in the house." I said, "Okay, thank you." The two of them walked into the storefront. The young woman shouted inside, "The little bowl of mutton soup in charge." I heard someone inside promise: "Okay, right away." ”

Zhou Lihua and I sat down at an empty table near the north wall, and when we saw three or five customers in the store eating mutton soup meatloaf with relish, I also had a great appetite. I feel hungry right away, and I need to eat immediately to be satisfied. The young woman set us two snack plates and brought two pairs of disposable chopsticks and placed them on our black-lacquered table. I saw a row of spice boxes on the black lacquered table. There is salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper, etc., and there is a small white ceramic vinegar pot on the table, which makes people feel fresh and chic. A bucket of toothpicks and a few heads of garlic in the corner of the table. It makes people feel at home at will.

On the edge of the south wall, an old woman is wrapping meatloaf. Busy making meatloaf, these people were busy, and no one took care of what the little boy who was babbling on the big chair at the cash register was saying.

The old man with a plate of sliced lamb patties walked into the shop and brought the patties directly to our table. The old man said, "A pound of mutton patty, is there anything else you need?" I asked, "Is there any assorted food, Fluttershy?" The old man said, "Yes, wait a minute." "I personally went to the cold vegetable bowl and put a small plate of assorted dishes out and put it on our table.

The man in the back kitchen shouted, "Cuihua, the mutton soup is ready." The young daughter-in-law rushed to the back kitchen, and in a short time came out with a red lacquer tray with two small bowls of steaming mutton soup. With brisk steps and skillful movements, two bowls of mutton soup are placed on the left and right. Zhou Lihua and I each have a bowl. The young woman smiled and said, "I'm sorry to keep you two waiting." I said, "It's good, it's cool to rest for a while, just right for dinner." The young daughter-in-law said, "If there is any need, just speak, and use it slowly." Zhou Lihua smiled and said, "Okay, you're busy with you." ”

I said to Zhou Lihua: "Season each other and eat it together." Zhou Lihua said: "You're welcome, just order and everyone is happy." I said, "Okay, just feel free." After Zhou Lihua finished mixing the mutton soup, I also picked up the seasoning spoon, put some pepper in the mutton soup, and put a few grains of chicken essence, tasted it with the soup spoon, and felt that there was a lack of saltiness and vinegar, so I added some refined salt, took the small vinegar jar and turned the circle of vinegar, stirred it twice and felt that the taste was enough, and tasted the soup again, don't mention the good taste.

Picked up the chopsticks and sandwiched a small piece of mutton patty, put it in his mouth and took a bite, and put the rest in the eating plate, carefully tasting the special mutton patty of Lao Hao's family.

Eat a mouthful of mutton patty full of oil, and drink a sip of Pingquan mutton soup to warm and delicious. Scoop up two lamb offal to lighten the onion aroma of mutton patty and strengthen the smell of haggis. I saw that Zhou Lihua was just quietly eating cakes and drinking soup, and reminded her: "Eat some assorted dishes and eat lightly." Zhou Lihua said: "You eat, I like to eat meat cake and mutton soup, and I eat a few bites of garlic when I am tired." I said, "Chivalrous demeanor." Zhou Lihua said: "I'm angry, and I am happy again." I said, "All right, let's eat, don't make a fuss." ”

After lunch and sitting for a while, I stood up and went to check out, and Zhou Lihua said, "I'll come." I said, "Why are you embarrassed to come to us and let you pay the bill, or I'll come." He took out a hundred dollars and handed it to the young woman, who did the math and took five dollars out of her pocket and handed it to me. He smiled and said, "It's good to eat." I said, "Eat well." He took the five yuan from the young woman and said goodbye, "Let's go." The young woman said, "Welcome to eat again." I said, "Okay." ”

With Zhou Lihua pushed open the door of the old Hao's meatloaf shop, and came to the east street of the ancient city of Guzhu, at this moment the sun was like fire, and the thin old man saw us come out to greet and said, "After eating, don't stop and leave." I said, "No, I still have to hurry, so I'm leaving." The old man said, "Go slowly." I said, "Okay, thank you." ”

Zhou Lihua and I walked to the parking lot outside Dongguan in the ancient city of Guzhu under the shade of willows. Out of the old city, after crossing the suspension bridge, to the silent parking lot. The masters of several tourist buses in the parking lot were reluctant to turn on the air conditioner because they were reluctant to turn on the air conditioner, so they changed the position of loading luggage to a bed, and put mats and bamboo pillows in it to ventilate and breathe. The masters were barefoot, lying in it and sleeping soundly.

I opened the door and a puff of hot air erupted from the car. I asked Zhou Lihua to open the door on the right side of the car as well, and let the natural wind blow away the heat accumulated in the car at noon. Zhou Lihua said: "It's too hot, I'll go buy a drink, what do you want." Black tea is still rock sugar pear. I said, "Let's have a bottle of rock sugar pears at room temperature." Zhou Lihua said: "Okay, you wait a while, I'll come when I go." ”

After Zhou Lihua left, I got in the car. Hit the car and turn the air conditioner to the cold wind. The temperature inside the car gradually decreased. It didn't take 5 minutes, Zhou Lihua came back with two bottles of rock sugar pear soup, and handed me one bottle as soon as she got into the car. I took the pear soup with rock sugar, opened it and took two sips, then put the bottle on the side of the driver's seat. Zhou Lihua said: "It's much cooler in the car, where are we going next?" I said, "After seeing one of the three ancient cities, the others are not interesting." Although the ancient city of Xuanyuan is magnificent, it is also an imitation of ancient buildings, and there is not much value for art appreciation. Next, I plan to take you directly to see the Russian Black Sea Fleet Film and Television Base in the Luanhe Scenic Area of Yanshan City, which is at the water's edge, maybe cooler than on a boat. After seeing the Black Sea Fleet, we will go to Baiyangyu Sky Ecological Park to visit, so that our main itinerary of the day is over. ”

Zhou Lihua said: "Is the itinerary quite good, just do as you say." I said, "Okay, let's go." He turned around, honked his horn, drove the car out of the Dongguan parking lot of Guzhu Ancient City, and drove north along the East Ring Road of Guzhu Ancient City towards Malan Bay in the northwest of the Luanhe Wetland. (To be continued......)

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