"The young and the eldest are still away from home, and the local accent has not changed, and the sideburns have declined." Zhang Guofu walked on Jinhe Road, and the memories that he thought he had forgotten had long ago revived from the depths of his mind little by little, which made him feel a lot of emotion.

Zhang Guofu was originally from Shudu, but became an orphan because of the war, and wandered the streets of Shudu to survive when he was a teenager. Later, he was sold by human traffickers, and then he was rescued by the new government, and after studying and joining the work.

Unconsciously, decades have passed, and the beggar on the street is now an old man with gray hair.

Zhang Guofu has already settled in other places, and now if his son is not transferred to Shudu to work, he may not return to this place that carries the memories of childhood suffering.

It's been too long, and Zhang Guofu's childhood memories have been very vague, and the clearest part is the hunger that always surrounds him.

In order to survive, he picked up scraps in the market and competed with wild dogs in the garbage heap, and his biggest wish every day was to be able to find something to eat and not to be too hungry.

This craving for food has also been with him for a lifetime, so much so that after work, because he can eat it very well, he was once nicknamed "Zhang Dawan".

The feeling of hunger was terrible, and I felt like tens of thousands of eager hands were pouring out of my throat all the time, trying to grab and tear everything that could be eaten.

Zhang Guofu remembers that he was wandering and begging on Jinhe Road at that time, and he was almost unable to walk when he was hungry. It just so happened that there was a customer who had just come out of the restaurant on the side of the road, and in order to avoid him, he accidentally spilled the noodle soup that he had taken out.

The aroma of the noodle soup immediately controlled his stomach and heart, and he grabbed the soil that had absorbed the soup and stuffed it into his mouth.

Fortunately, the kind proprietress in the restaurant stopped him in time and gave him a bowl of noodles, allowing him to spend the warmest and happiest day at that time.

Because he has a good character and is also clever, the proprietress originally wanted to leave him as a handyman. It's a pity that he was kidnapped by traffickers the next day and sold to other provinces for mining.

Although it has come to this day due to a blessing in disguise, Zhang Guofu still can't help but think of the kind proprietress and the bowl of noodle soup that he will never forget.

Tracing his memory, Zhang Guofu walked to Fang Yu's small building.

Fang Yu has renovated the first floor of the small building and the side of the street, but the main body and sides of the small building still maintain the old style.

Zhang Guofu circled around the small building for half a circle, and finally relied on the ginkgo tree at the mouth of the alley, and he finally confirmed that this small building was the original small restaurant.

Looking at this small building, Zhang Guofu was a little melancholy, after so many years, the war was in chaos, and the proprietress should have long been gone.

He smiled wryly and shook his head, people love memories when they are old, and now looking at the brand-new decoration of this small building, you can know that there have been several waves of owners.

Just as Zhang Guofu was about to turn around and leave, the door of the small building opened, and a pretty little girl walked out, calling "old gentleman" sweetly and inviting him to go in to rest and drink saliva.

Although the appearance of this little girl is not similar to the proprietress back then, Zhang Guofu still followed this little girl into the small building.

Zhang Guofu glanced at the door, and saw that the decoration should also be the layout of a small restaurant, but he didn't know why he didn't see a signboard at the door, and there was no customer in the store.

The little girl diligently moved him a chair and poured him a glass of water.

After all, the years are unforgiving, although he has always boasted of being tough, but after walking so much, Zhang Guofu is also a little tired and thirsty.

He took a sip of the water and found that the water temperature was just right, and his heart was warm, and the little girl was quite hearted.

Zhang Guofu chatted with the little girl while drinking water, and learned that her name was Lin Xiaoxiao, a student of Moling Art Academy, and also learned about the current situation of this small building.

Hearing that the current owner of Xiaolou was a student who had just graduated a few years ago, Zhang Guofu's hopeful eyes also dimmed.

Just as Zhang Guofu was about to say goodbye and leave, he suddenly smelled a special fragrance, like chicken soup and broth, and carefully distinguished that there seemed to be the fragrance of vegetables.

This fragrance is very useful, as soon as I smell it, I feel that my appetite is aroused, and the saliva between the cheeks keeps secreting, making Zhang Guofu feel that he smells the bowl of noodle soup in his childhood in a trance.

Zhang Guofu stood up sleepwalking and walked quickly to the back kitchen, Lin Xiaoxiao paused, and hurriedly caught up.

In the kitchen, Fang Yu has completed the ten basic broths required by the minkin, namely six kinds of meat soup with chicken, duck, beef, and pig as the main ingredients, and four kinds of vegetarian soup with winter melon, corn, soybean and kelp, and seven kinds of fungi as the main ingredients.

At present, according to the instructions of the miso cooker, we are preparing the base soup for various types of dishes with different dashi.

Zhang Guofu, who broke into the kitchen, startled Fang Yu, who was concentrating on the soup, but fortunately, the chopsticks moved quickly and hid on the other side of the preparation table in time. Seeing Lin Xiaoxiao, who hurried in from behind, Fang Yu was slightly relieved.

"Sir, this is our back kitchen, you can't come in casually, let's get out quickly." Because she was worried about interfering with Fang Yu, Lin Xiaoxiao was a little anxious.

Zhang Guofu stared at the bowls of soup that had been prepared on the preparation table and did not answer.

Fang Yu approached Lin Xiaoxiao and asked in a low voice, "Xiaoxiao, who is this old gentleman?" ”

Lin Xiaoxiao said guiltily: "I'm sorry to disturb you, Brother Fang, it's all my fault." I was cleaning in the shop just now, and I saw an old gentleman wandering at the door, and I wondered if he was tired of walking and wanted to ask for a bowl of water, so I invited him to come in and sit down. At first we had a good conversation, but suddenly he became like this, and ran to the back kitchen by himself. ”

Fang Yu knew that Lin Xiaoxiao was kind-hearted and liked to help others, so he was not unhappy with her behavior, but he was a little worried about what the old gentleman would do if he had any hysteria.

"Old sir, old sir." Fang Yu tried to scream twice, but seeing that the old man didn't react, he wanted to stretch out his hand and shake it in front of the old man.

Before he could think about it, he was grabbed by Zhang Guofu as soon as he stretched out his hand, so frightened that Fang Yu almost used the ancient "Five Fowl Play" to fight back.

"Young man, may I taste your soup?" Zhang Guofu stared at Fang Yu and asked very seriously.

Looking at Zhang Guofu's vicissitudes of life like burning flames, Fang Yu felt that he couldn't say no.

Fang Yu nodded and made a gesture of please: "Old man, you can taste these soups as you like." ”

Zhang Guofu walked to the food preparation table with a somewhat stiff footstep, picked up a bowl of Fang Yu's prepared broth, and sniffed it carefully.

He frowned and muttered, "No, it's not the smell." ”

Then Zhang Guofu took bowl after bowl, and smelled the more than a dozen bowls of soup prepared by Fang Yu one by one, but unfortunately it was not the taste in his heart.

Zhang Guofu picked up the last bowl of soup with a trembling hand full of hope, took a deep breath, stopped for a long time, tasted it unwillingly, and finally put down the bowl in disappointment and sighed.

Zhang Guofu was too excited just now, and his high spirit suddenly fell, and he felt a little dizzy. He stood there and shook his body, feeling a little weak, and found that someone came to support him, and when he saw it, it turned out to be Fang Yu and Lin Xiaoxiao.

"Thank you, you're all good boys." Zhang Guofu smiled with relief.

"What were you doing, sir?" Lin Xiaoxiao asked with some curiosity.

Zhang Guofu told him about his childhood, and then sighed regretfully.

Fang Yu looked at the old gentleman, and then at the lined up soup bowls, and a thought suddenly popped up in his heart:

"Sir, sit down and rest for a while, and I'll make you a noodle soup as a snack."