Chinese food culture is broad and profound, and it can be divided into eight major cuisines: Sichuan, Shandong, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Fujian, Zhejiang, Hunan and Hui. Compared with these cuisines, Shanxi cuisine is much rougher, but this does not negate the highlights of Shanxi cuisine.

When you arrive in Lingqiu City, on Zhengyang Street, one place that must be mentioned is Songhe Tower.

The large size on the sign is called Songhe Tower, but the locals prefer to call it by its nickname: Hundred Years Old Building. One is that this is a century-old shop, since the Qing Dynasty had the emperor, this shop has been more than 100 years old from the small restaurant of the second meat shop to today's big restaurant, and it is still a serious old craft for more than 100 years. The old customers also eat comfortably, and the name "100 years old" sounds auspicious.

Shanxi cuisine is mostly pasta, and the taste is mainly salty, fresh and sour. Songhelou is made of the old taste of Shanxi, the taste is enough, and the price is fair. Therefore, among the guests who come and go here, you can see both well-dressed wealthy merchants and ordinary people in short clothes downstairs.

At the moment, there is such a table of guests in the lobby downstairs.

It was difficult for the person sitting on the throne to see what his identity was, dressed in a moon-white robe, with no pleats on it, his hair was cut very short, he wore a pair of tortoiseshell glasses, and he looked like a young master and brother of a family. But in temperament, he is much more mature and stable, more like a teaching gentleman.

Sitting on his right and left were four ordinary people, with short and neat black coats on their upper bodies, bloomers with tight trouser legs, and a pair of large sprinkler shoes on their feet, and bulging at their waists. It looked like these were Mr. Cheongsam's bodyguards.

"Regiment...... Sir, how long are we going to sit here? ”

Lei Zi threw peanuts and beans into his mouth boredly, and drank bowl after bowl of tea in the big bowl, and gradually became a little unable to sit still, just wanted to ask Yue Siliang when he would act, but was glared at by the other party, and then realized that he had to change his name outside.

"Hurry or something, sit here steadily. It's all here, how can you be worthy of us if you don't eat something good. ”

Yue Siliang has always been so slow and methodical, and he doesn't seem to be in a hurry at all.

Just as the two were talking, the guy in the restaurant began to go up. Yue Siliang didn't have many dishes to order, but the portions were quite sufficient, after all, five people who were in the prime of their military careers, the amount of stomach was naturally needless to say.

After a while, four hot dishes of meat and vegetables were placed on the table, and a pot of steaming noodle soup was served at the same time. In the middle is the protagonist of this meal: the noodle wowo. When you arrive at Songhe Tower, you must taste the noodle nest.

In the northern part of Jin and the east and west mouths, the noodles are a kind of meal that everyone likes, and the noodles of Songhelou are among the best. The best wheat noodles are hotly kneaded, pushed into a nest, and steamed over a hot fire. After the basket drawer is poured with marinade, the rice and vegetables are made into a bowl, and the two large bowls are eaten hot, and the whole body is full of strength.

There is another point that the nest here in Songhelou is different from other places, that is, their marinade is good, and this nest is to be poured twice before eating. One is the marinade of the best mutton and the other is the paste of old vinegar and brown sugar. After pouring the marinade twice, it tastes salty and fresh with a hint of sweetness and sourness. The mutton is fresh and fat but not greasy, the marinade is salty but not sluggish, and the vinegar paste is sour. Several soldiers were reluctant to put down the bowl when they picked it up, and they ate with a slurp, and a layer of fine sweat oozed from their foreheads.

Yue Siliang also moved his index finger, but he didn't rush to move the chopsticks, but grabbed the sleeve of the guy who ran the hall.

"Little second brother, don't be in a hurry to leave, I want to ask you something."

The shopkeeper was stunned when his sleeves were pulled, and after hearing Yue Siliang say this, his eyes rolled a few times before he spoke.

"This lord, you see that I still have work on my hands. After a while, the shopkeeper said that I was lazy, what should I do, you are expensive from head to foot, and the board will have to hit me......"

The man stopped halfway through his words, just because Yue Siliang gently pushed a dime into the corner of the table.

"Huh! If you have anything you want to ask, just say it, and as long as I know it, I will tell you. ”

A dime was tucked into his sleeve, and Xiao Er became much easier to talk at that time. But he actually kept an eye on it. After all, this time is different from the past, and the current Lingqiu is the final say of the Japanese, and some things still can't be said nonsense. He looked at Yue Siliang from head to toe, and said that this gentleman who looked like a teacher probably wouldn't ask anything about losing his head, so he was relieved.

"Little second brother, I can't hide it, I'm a businessman outside the mouth. This time, I passed by Lingqiu to change something by the way, but I walked around this market, how did I find that the price of food here is so high? ”

Xiao Er's eyes rolled again, and then he answered.

"This master, listen to your accent, you are from Hebei, right?"

Yue Siliang raised his eyebrows, and said in his heart that he was a clever little ghost, and nodded as if he had answered.

"Hey, you're from Hebei, you don't even know about this change? As soon as the Japanese came over, they began to collect grain, but Fan Jianwen, the largest grain merchant in the county, also took out half of the grain in the warehouse to honor the Japanese. Now the entire Lingqiu is short of food except for the Japanese military camp. Do you think that the price of food will not rise because of this?! ”

After listening to the words of the little second brother, Yue Siliang nodded again in his heart, what he said in the hall was no different from the news that Wang Shuangyin heard. Then he said this.

"So that's the case, then you said that if I transport grain from somewhere else to Lingqiu to sell, will I be able to make a lot of money?"

"Don't! My lord! ”

Xiao Er subconsciously stretched out his hand to stop Yue Siliang's words.

"You don't want to die? That Fan Jianwen is now the magistrate of Lingqiu County. The county's grain trade is now in his hands, and the Japanese in Lingqiu City now listen to him and the translator Che Wanji the most. If you pull a batch of grain to be Jianglong, I'm afraid that you won't be happy for County Magistrate Fan? ”

Yue Siliang was really a little shocked at this time, he didn't expect that Fan Jianwen had only been the county magistrate for a few days, and he already had such a high level of prestige in the county, I am afraid that he had used the tiger skin of the Japanese to make a lot of prestige in the county during this time, but he didn't know how such a low-key person as him could have so much energy.

"Then according to what you say, all the food-related businesses in this Lingqiu City are under his control? So isn't this Fan Jianwen covering the sky with one hand? ”

Xiao Er was stunned when he heard this, he felt that he seemed to have said a little too much, and he shouldn't have said this to a foreign businessman. Just as he was slurping, Yue Siliang handed over another dime. Xiao Er's face showed a little embarrassment, but after all, he couldn't stand this bright ticket. Gritted his teeth and took Yue Siliang's money before he continued.

"That's not true, this Fan Jianwen turned out to be just a dragon crossing the river. But he is so powerful that he is on the line with Che Wanji. Che Wanji is the eldest young master of the Che family, the Che family is the largest landlord in Lingqiu, half of the land in the county is their Che family, and Che Wanji is the largest share of the Che family.

If there is anyone in this Lingqiu who can be more powerful than Fan Jianwen, it is the Che family, and even more than half of the people in the uproar of the security group during this period of time are related to the Che family. It can be said that without the Chejia, Fan Jianwen's security team would not be able to get it up at all. ”

"That's what happened......"

Yue Siliang was thoughtful, he was originally very strange, how did Fan Jianwen conjure up so many people, a security group of two or three hundred people actually said that it would be formed, and he dared to have the help of the big family of Lingqiu.

The guy saw that he had said a little too much today, so he simply said some more.

"Fan Jianwen and Che Wanji are two people, one to deal with their own people, and the other to deal with the Japanese. These two people are really covering the sky with one hand. You are in business, don't think too much about it in Lingqiu, it's better to do what you should do, don't delay your serious business. ”

After running the hall, he shook his head and left. In his opinion, Yue Siliang is the kind of lord who wants money and doesn't want to die, relying on a little ability, and wants to get a vote here. He has been running away since he was just a few years old when he could cross the threshold, and he has seen too many people like this for so many years. If you see more, you will understand, for ordinary people like them, they are just living their own lives, as long as they don't give themselves a way to live, the Japanese and Yan Xishan, they really don't care who is this master.

Looking at the running hall that shook his head and left, a smile appeared on the corner of Yue Siliang's mouth.

He didn't care what he thought, but he understood a lot of "stories", this little two didn't have enough knowledge of his own pattern, so he naturally felt that Fan Jianwen and Che Wanji would be invincible in the world if they cooperated, but how could there be such close allies in the world? In Yue Siliang's view, there is a lot to be done in this.

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