Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Night of Shangyuan

"Lantern Festival? What is the Lantern Festival?' , Li Chen first ordered a Lantern Festival with this stall owner, fried Lantern Festival, "Our coke circle, some people call it Fan Guo, and there are also people who call it coke. I really haven't heard of Lantern Festival, give Lang Jun a copy."

It turns out that this is not the Lantern Festival, what is it called... It turned out to be a fried croquette, Li Chen saw the Lantern Festival round, so he treated him as a Lantern Festival, and wanted to say how the Tang people used oil to fry, but it turned out that it was not at all.

"Hey, Circles, Circles, Circles, Share." , Jiaoquan, I'm still running in front of your stall, just ask me what I want to have a copy, "Dele, what flavor does Lang Jun want?" "What flavors are these?" "It's sweet and salty, and there are five kernels and dried fruits, otherwise it's salted meat and fresh vegetables." "Give me one of each."

"Whew, it's hot, it's delicious." , Li Chen took the hot fried croquettes, the coke circle, carefully blew the cool, blew twice, couldn't help it, and started eating.

The name has a burnt, in fact, it is not burnt at all, golden meatballs, the skin is crispy, a bite open, the aroma is overflowing, whether it is five kernels and dried fruits, or salted meat and fresh vegetables are very delicious. After Li Chen finished eating in two bites, he watched the stall owner do it on the side.

The stall business is good, the stall owner is two husbands and wives, the husband sells in the front, and the wife carries the customers behind the back and is busy behind the stall owner. Li Chen walked to the side slightly to see what the stall owner's wife was doing.

There are two pots of stuffing next to it, one pot is the five-kernel dried fruit, and the other pot is the salted meat and fresh vegetables. The stall owner's wife, first of all, mixed a kind of white powder and water, and made it sloppy, in Li Chen's opinion, like a mochi.

The white powder, Li Chen guessed that it should be flour, according to the taste of eating, the flour is undoubtedly fried, and the pot is soft and rotten, it should be the dough.

Then, the stall owner's wife holds a lump of stuffing in her hand, reaches into the dough and stirs, so that the stuffing is covered with the skin, and then it is a bit like the Lantern Festival. However, the Lantern Festival is not done like this, Li Chen remembers seeing people say how to do the traditional Lantern Festival.

It is said to follow the ancient method of making a good filling and then making it into a bally of the right size. After that, put the stuffing on a round basket and start tossing. The inside of the radish frame is glutinous rice flour.

The round basket is made of bamboo, and it is called a fence (the same sound as the pear). The stuffing should be watered first, and then thrown aside, the filling will be stained with glutinous rice flour, and slowly become round. There is also the kind of skin that is done first, the filling is wrapped inside, and then kneaded round.

The stall owner's wife has to do it, in addition to putting on the online coat, there is also another way, Li Chen feels that this method seems to have been seen somewhere, but he can't remember it.

The stall owner's wife held the Lantern Festival that had been wrapped in a coat with her hand, and when she shook it hard, the Lantern Festival came out from between her fingers, and then she skillfully used a spoon to remove the Lantern Festival that had emerged, threw it in front of her and boiled it into a cauldron, and after cooking, quickly scooped it up. Her technique, Li Chen's impression is that she forgot what she did after watching it on TV, it seems to be the Lantern Festival.

After the dumplings were cooked, the stall owner's wife then put the scooped up Lantern Festival on her back and faced the customers to the stall owner. The oil pot in front of the stall owner is hot, and the Lantern Festival is constantly put into the pot, fried for a while, and after the Lantern Festival changes color, the pot is immediately given to the guests.

After Li Chen finished eating, he fried the Lantern Festival in his hand and began to look for other stalls. Not far away, a steaming steamer caught his eye. In the Tang Dynasty, steaming was a very common technique, but fried food like Jiaoquan was relatively rare. It's fried like a hu cake, and it's not much.

"Shopkeeper, what are you selling?" , Li Chen walked to the stall, smelled very fragrant, and there were many people who bought it, "Lang Jun, this is Jin Liping, come and have one." The stall owner greeted him diligently, "Then have a copy."

Li Chen gave the money, took the thing, and saw that the flat white flour cake was sprinkled with golden millet grains, Li Chen suddenly realized, Jin Li, Jin De millet, Pu Ping is called Jin Liping, this name is really simple and easy to remember, but will this be delicious?

Li Chen tried to take a bite, frowned slightly, and immediately took a big gulp, "It's a bit of an orangutan." , I originally thought it was millet, but the umami of a bite was soft and slippery, not at all the millet he imagined, it seemed to be a bit like a fish roe.

can be sold on the street, naturally it will not be unpalatable, but Li Shen really doesn't like the taste of fish eggs. In line with the principle of not wasting it, after eating two bites in three bites, Li Chen went to the stall next to him.

"Shopkeeper, give me one." , this one also sells steamed food, and it smells very fragrant. Li Chen asked for one in the spirit of curiosity. Even if it's not delicious, it's just a once, purely as an experience.

"Hmm, this is a crab, and crab roe, crab flower rolls?" , crab meat, this is a big delicacy, if the crab does not have that layer of hard shell, it must be more delicious to eat. Now someone has to take the trouble to peel off the crab meat and make the crab meat roll like a flower roll, and Li Chen immediately asked for another one.

"Shopkeeper, one more. What is this name?' "This is a gold and silver clip flower flat cut, my ancestral craftsmanship." , Seeing that Li Chen likes it, the stall owner said proudly. The gold and silver clips are cut flat, which is really simple and easy to understand. The words gold and silver refer to crab meat and crab roe, and the melancholy is rolled like a flower, and the flat cut is to describe its appearance.

This is to drive the dough into a crust, and then roll the crab meat and crab roe into a long strip. Flat truncation means that the long strips will be cut into pieces and then steamed. Li Chen looked at it for a while, satisfied his curiosity, and went to the next stall.

Li Chen tasted all kinds of snacks, and then walked back, the later the more people on the street, Li Chen finally squeezed back to the wine shop, and saw Fan waiting at the door.

"Thirteen, Thirteen." Fan waved his hand, "Woke up? Let's go, watch the lights.' Li Chen waved his hand, and Fan followed.

People come and go on the street, and the top of the motive is not lost to the day to see the stall, the difference is that the stall has direction. Today, each Jen goes his own way.

When the night was dark, all the lights were lit, and the lights were brilliant, "Sure enough, you still have to look at the lights at night to look good." , I saw that the headlights and small lights on the street were lit, colorful and extraordinary, Li Chen seemed to be lifeless when he saw it just now, and now he has life.

"Look, Thirteen, that light will still turn." , Li Fan suddenly pulled Li Shen's hand and asked him to look at a square statue, only to see a round lamp, which kept turning, and the surroundings were crowded.

"Marquee, it turns out that the Tang Dynasty also had marquee." , Li Chen is also quite rare, marquee lamps are not uncommon, and there are all kinds of colorful lamps in modern times. Although the Tang Dynasty also let the lights pass through various colors of yarn and silk to show different colors, but like modern LED lights, they can also change colors instantly. But in the Tang Dynasty, it was very interesting to turn around like this.

Lifan was so excited that he looked at the lanterns as he walked, and all kinds of lanterns dazzled his eyes, but soon he lost interest, because there were more than just lanterns on the street.

The street is wide, there are lanterns on both sides, some also occupy a lot of land, in addition to all kinds of modeling lanterns, there is also a lamp tree, no wonder there is the idiom of fire tree silver flower.

The ten-foot-tall light tree is bright throughout, like a Christmas tree for Christmas in the West, but the difference is that there are no gifts under the tree. The level of illumination can illuminate several miles, even if there are no other lights on the street, it can also illuminate the whole street.

It's just that, even with such a brilliant light, there are still many things that are more attractive than it. In addition to the pedestrians rubbing shoulders on the street, there are many various performances. is not lost to the temple fair a few days ago, and there are even many artists who did not appear that day.

It seems to be next to the lantern, running a dry boat, this has been passed down for thousands of years, and Li Chen saw it again. There is a circle around it, it is a cockfight, and many people are shouting, depending on the level of excitement, there must be bets.

What do you do with a circle of people around a bigger place? Sumo wrestling, two big men with naked upper bodies, wrestling with pit sneering, onlookers constantly applauding and encouraging.

A little farther away, seeing two poles, a rope between the poles, and more onlookers below, Li Fan pulled Li Chen over and exclaimed.

"You're going to fall to your death." , It turned out to be walking on the rope, Li Chen looked up, and saw that between the two poles, tied to the rope, there was a young girl walking tremblingly, she was trembling and walking on the rope, and the people below were nervous about her.

"Oh~~." Suddenly, there was an exclamation from the crowd below. I saw that the little girl who had walked to the center of the rope, her center of gravity was unstable, and the rope shook, she quickly lowered her body, grabbed the rope with one hand, and saw that the people below were panicked.

"It's too dangerous, come down quickly." Someone couldn't look at it anymore and told the little girl to come down, "Yes, yes, don't die for a little money." As he spoke, some people threw out a lot of copper coins like the copper basin in front of them, and the others also donated generously when they saw this.

However, the little girl still insisted on walking the rope, and immediately won the applause of the audience, applause and copper coins.

Li Chen smiled, he was in good health and had sharp eyes. I found out that the little girl was actually deliberate, this weather is windless, she walks very steadily in front, how can she hang the chain in the second half? It was nothing more than a deliberate suspense atmosphere, but he also lost a few copper coins.

There's no need to debunk it, people just mess up and earn a few rewards, and deliberately do it to entertain everyone. Moreover, it is also risky to do this deliberately, and people are also fatal.

Further on, there are more people in a circle, the atmosphere is more enthusiastic, and people are more excited, what to do? The performance is good-looking, how can there be a wonderful participation in person, it turned out to be a group of people singing. I saw a group of people, men, women and children, forming a circle and singing.

Li Chen and Lifan were also very happy to join the team, laughing and dancing to their heart's content. At this moment, Li Chen temporarily forgot about his feelings of missing his relatives because of the festival. I only hope that this joy will last forever.