Chapter 21 The City God Temple Fair
When Jiang Chuan and the three of them took to the streets, it was the busiest time for the morning market in Jining City.
Just like the city in previous days, the streets are lined with stalls selling all kinds of goods. There are those who sell vegetables, some sell fruits, some sell rain, and of course, there are all kinds of breakfast stalls.
The small vendors warmly greeted the passers-by: "Spicy and delicious tofu brain, the guest officer will come to a bowl." ”
"Xiao Long Bao, Xiao Long Bao just out of the pot, eat a bite of Meizizi, eat two smiles, eat a cage and go lucky!"
"Fritters, miso, golden and crispy fritters, flavorful mish, eat a mouthful of fritters and dip them in the sauce, and don't do it for a fairy......"
A few breakfast vendors had bright smiles on their faces, as if they were praising their own food as if they were competing, attracting the attention of passers-by.
It has to be said that the advertising slogans of these hawkers can indeed stimulate people's appetite.
Listening to it, even the three of Jiang Chuan, who had just eaten breakfast, had an appetite again, especially Xiaowen shouted that she wanted to eat tofu brain for a while, and she wanted to eat xiaolongbao for a while, but her eyes were drooling with fritters dipped in sauce.
Bai Jinxiu is more reserved, but he also looks left and right, looking like his index finger is moving.
Jiang Chuan simply clapped the board, a little bit of the three, and Xiaowen applauded.
The three of them sat down next to a makeshift table set up by a roadside vendor, with tofu brains, xiao long bao, and fried dough sticks dipped in soy sauce filling the table.
They sat at the table of the vendor selling tofu brains, but the three stalls were next to each other, and they often saw Jiang Chuan and their mixed eating customers.
Jiang Chuan looked at the tofu brain in front of him, tender and smooth, sprinkled with green onions, chili oil and other seasonings, he looked very appetizing, picked up the spoon and ate it after a bite, and it tasted really good, so he ate it in a big gulp.
Bai Jinxiu and Xiaowen have eaten a lot, but their speed is not slow.
The food on the table is rapidly disappearing.
The little brother who sold tofu brains was busy, and he came over with an apron and said with a smile: "Look at the appearance of a few people, it should be the first time to come back to our pot-bellied street, right?" ”
Jiang Chuan just finished drinking the tofu brain in front of him, put down the bowl and breathed a sigh of relief, and asked curiously, "Little brother, is this street called Big Belly Street?" Why is it called such a strange name? ”
The tofu brain brother smiled and said: "This street was originally called Dadao Street, and it was said that there was a big Taoist temple here hundreds of years ago, so it was called Dadao Street." Later, the Taoist temple was gone, but the name was passed down.
But I don't know when, the number of people selling food on this street began to increase, and it was slowly called Potbelly Street. ”
Xiaowen swallowed a mouthful of xiaolongbao hard, reached out and picked up a fritter, and asked indistinctly, "Is it because everyone who comes here eats with a big belly?" ”
The tofu brain brother nodded and said with a smile: "What this young lady said is right, it is because there are so many delicious foods on this street, many people will eat a lot unconsciously after coming, and then their stomachs will stand up." ”
"I see, but it's interesting." Jiang Chuan nodded and smiled, picking up a small long bao with chopsticks and dipping it in the sauce.
He saw that someone next to him was eating like this, so he simply tasted it, but he didn't expect it to taste good.
The little brother looked at the three of them, although they were dressed and magnificent, and they were all rich and noble, but they didn't have any shelves, and they couldn't help but talk more.
"The three nobles are coming to our Jining City for the first time, right?"
Jiang Chuan smiled: "How do you see it?" ”
The little brother smiled and said, "You can see the appearance of the three at a glance." Anyone who has lived in Jining City for a long time, there is no one who does not know our big belly street. And looking at the appearance of the three of them, they neither brought baggage nor luggage, nor did they bring their entourage, and at a glance, they knew that they were nobles who came to Jining from other places to play. ”
Jiang Chuan smiled and said, "Little brother has good eyesight, we are indeed new to Jining." I don't know what good places to visit in Jining? ”
The little brother smiled and said: "Speaking of which, there are really a lot of places to play in Jining, there are Taibai Lake and Nishan in the south of the city, and there are Confucian Temple, Confucian Mansion, Confucian Forest, and Mengmiao of Yasheng Mengzi, Mengfu, etc., as well as Weishan Lake, Baoxiang Temple, Yishan, Shaohao Mausoleum, etc., all of which are worth seeing." ”
Jiang Chuan praised: "I didn't expect my brother to be so clear about these places of interest. ”
The little brother smiled and said: "This is not unusual, my family has been in Jining City for five or six generations, this city is big and big, and small is small, and these people naturally know it after living for a long time." However, if the guest officer wants to join in the fun, there is a place that must be visited. ”
When Xiaowen heard that there was a lively scene, she didn't care about eating fritters, and asked excitedly: "What is the lively place, talk about it quickly." ”
The little brother said: "This place is the City God Temple." Today is the annual temple fair of the Chenghuang Temple in the south of the city, and at this time of year, people from the surrounding ten miles and eight towns will come to catch the temple fair. The temple fair is lively, and there are all kinds of food, more than our potbelly street. And there are all kinds of juggling, what kind of belly swallowing sword, chest crushing boulder, spitting fire, all kinds of juggling.
And there are all kinds of fortune tellers, marriages, and fortune and official fortunes. And at that time, there will be porridge shed soup porridge in the Chenghuang Temple, and the porridge is boiled by the masters of the Baoxiang Temple next to it, and everyone can go to get it, and after drinking, it can get rid of illness and eliminate disasters. ”
There is such a thing as a temple fair, and Jiang Chuan also went there in his previous life.
Listening to what the little brother said, the form of this temple fair in the past and present seems to be similar.
He still remembers the first time he followed his mother to a temple fair when he was a child, and met a fortune teller. The goddess took one look at him and told her mother that she had three children.
And even Jiang Chuan is the boss, and there is a younger brother and a younger sister below.
Mom believed it a little at that time, and asked the fortune teller to calculate when Jiang Chuan would become rich and expensive.
The goddess frowned and pinched her fingers for a long time, saying that Jiang Chuan would not be able to become rich until he was forty years old.
Jiang Chuan was young at the time, and he didn't take it seriously at all, and his attention was all on the delicious and fun things at the temple fair.
It's just that before he was thirty years old, he was stoned to death by a woman who jumped off the building, and then crossed.
Come to think of it, Jiang Chuan used his death to prove that the goddess was nonsense at all.
As for how the goddess calculated that their family had three children, Jiang Chuan thought that it was either a coincidence, or that the goddess knew her mother, so she would understand the situation of her family.
Listening to what the little brother said, Jiang Chuan didn't have the idea of going to the temple fair.
He had always been less interested in places with a lot of people. This has been true in all past and present lives.
He was going to visit the Meng Temple and the Meng Mansion of Yasheng Mengzi, but when he was about to speak, he saw Bai Jinxiu's master and servant with an excited and yearning look on their faces.
Sure enough, women still prefer lively places, and this has always been the case.