The next morning, the city was foggy, and a faint fog shrouded the treetops like light smoke.

Anne stood in front of the window, her hair loose, her sleepy eyes yawning, and the view a little further away from the window was faintly surrounded by fog, like a diluted glass of milk.

Anne stood at the north gate of the apartment building on time as agreed, and her father and an uncle had already arrived first, standing next to the S500 car and waiting for Anne.

Dad's demeanor was still a little restrained, and he opened the car door and said, "I'm out early, this is Uncle Xu from Dad's company, it's foggy today, let's go slow on the road."

Anne greeted Uncle Xu politely.

Uncle Xiao Xu also said enthusiastically: "Hello, Nini, let's go to Qibao together today, let's get in the car."

The three of them got into the car, and Anne and Uncle Xu sat in the back seat together.

Uncle Xu is in his early 30s, wears a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and a Burberry plaid shirt. Concise and elegant, his calm eyes revealed a scholar-like bearing, and he said politely and casually to Annie: "Today we are going to Qibao Ancient Town on the outskirts of the city, Nini is still going back for the first time, today Uncle Xu will accompany you locally, keep today's little Nini eat and have fun."

After about 30 kilometers of driving, the car got off the elevated road and turned onto a country asphalt road, although the road was also paved with asphalt, but it was very narrow, the road was full of dust, and there were piles on both sides of the road, drying some crops such as rice and soybeans. As a result, the already narrow road surface has become even narrower, and farmers working in the fields can be seen everywhere.

The 30-kilometer journey took nearly an hour, and it was already past ten o'clock when I arrived at Qibao Ancient Town.

Walking along the old street, the outline of Qibao Ancient Town appeared in front of our eyes.

The whole Qibao Ancient Town is actually not very big, divided into two entrances of North Street and South Street, South Street is a food street, mainly with special snacks, North Street is a shopping street, unusual creative gadgets occupy half of the country, dazzling.

The 100-meter-long street is full of delicious food!

When it comes to the food of Qibao, Qibao glutinous rice balls must be ranked first! Eighty percent of people go to Qibao Ancient Town before adding the dumplings to their must-see list.

Qibao glutinous rice balls are large and generous, and the cooked glutinous rice balls are rolling in the water, and the chubby appearance is really cute. Qibao's signature sesame dumplings are sweet but not greasy, and every bite is mellow and fragrant sesame flavor!

Dad and Uncle Xiao Xu don't like sweets, Anne ate two at once by herself, burped, hee-hee, satisfied~

Qibao's begonia cake, 3 yuan a piece, is also one of the must-eat for old Shanghainese visiting the ancient town. The shape is similar to a begonia flower, the color is caramel color, for Anne, who loves sweets, a bite is a great happiness!

Hee-hee-hee, Anne couldn't help but swallow her saliva! Here is one, while shopping with a disposable small paper bowl, eat, begonia cake has a layer of crunchy caramel skin, the skin is sprinkled with white sesame seeds, the inside is soft bean paste filling, the skin is crispy and delicious, the inside is soft and sweet!

Walk all the way and eat all the way.

From a distance, Anne saw a long queue from the door of a shop to a long line, and when she got closer, it turned out to be Lao Wu Scallion Pancake, which is said to be one of the famous snack bars on this street. Every day, many people line up to buy a big bag, and it is worth the trip. The scallion pancakes here are not expensive, 2.5 yuan a piece.

At this time, Dad and Uncle Xu ran to the back of the long queue to line up, and Anne stood on the left side of the line to watch the scallion pancake making.

Unlike other scallion pancakes, Lao Wu scallion pancakes are fried in oil first, fried until slightly browned on both sides, and then put into the oven to bake. The fried pancakes are full of aroma, and then put them in the oven to bake for a few minutes, then some oil is removed, and the baked scallion pancakes are crispy on the outside, soft on the inside, mixed with the aroma of chives!

It took more than 20 minutes to queue up to buy it, and this store also has a special feature, that is, each person is limited to two scallion pancakes, and you can't buy more.

Dad and Uncle Xiao Xu finally arrived, one person made two scallion pancakes, Anne looked at the scallion pancakes in the kraft paper bag, and it was still hot and bubbling with oil, Anne took a bite, and it was crispy!

The three of them continued to walk around the street biting on scallion pancakes, admiring the style of the ancient town while eating.

Uncle Xiao Xu opened his tour guide mode as a local accompaniment to bite the scallion pancake: "Qibao is known as "ten years of Jiangcheng to see Pudong, a hundred years of Jiangcheng to see the Bund, and a thousand years of Jiangcheng to see Qibao".

Qibao Town is "named after the temple". Historical data said: "The town has no old name, the temple is named, the temple is not heavy, because the town pushes the weight." In the early Song Dynasty, after Zhang Zeshe's house expanded the temple, the emperor of the first year of Song Dazhong Xiangfu (1008 AD) gave the amount of "Qibaojiao Temple", so Qibao Town was officially named. ”

Three steps and two steps, I arrived at the old site of an old husband's society. It is said that this commune was founded in the era of the fanatical Great Leap Jin and was named "July 1 People's Commune".

This attraction can be described as quaint and very tasteful.

Only the courtyard part is shown here. Anne went in with Uncle Xu to have a good visit, which included a teahouse and a thangka art exhibition.

Qibao Ancient Town also belongs to the thousand-year-old town in the Taihu Lake Basin in the south of the Yangtze River, which is really picturesque, a typical town in the city, and the nearest ancient town from Jiangcheng City.

Pink walls and tiles, the scenery of the water town with Jiangnan characteristics, both sides of the river are shops, teahouses, and restaurants with prosperous business and crowded people.

There are as many as three or four bridges on the short river. The design of the bridge deck is not the same, there are stone pier flat bridges, there are three-hole arch bridges, there is a long-arch bridge, and the bridge alone can have so many changes.

It was time for lunch, and it was hot, so Uncle Xu suggested that we take us to one of the best crab roe soup dumpling shops in town at lunchtime.

Seeing another human dragon from a distance, Uncle Xiao Xu said: "If you want to say that the queue on the right hand side of Qibao Old Street is very fierce, it is this "century-old dragon robe". ”

After nearly half an hour of drying raisin-style human dragon team, the three of us who were already hot turned on our backs.

The store inside is not very big, but the customers who come here to eat are never stopped. They all came for the signature crab roe soup dumplings, and after ordering 3 cages, the three of them sat down sweatingly.

It is said that the characteristics of the dragon roe crab roe soup bun are that the skin is as thin as paper, and it is broken when it is blown out.

The most important thing is two words: fresh and sweet!

Longpao crab roe soup bun is a special feature here, the production raw materials are very particular, the filling is crab roe and crab meat, and the soup is original chicken soup.

To be honest, my stomach has not been empty today, and I have eaten all kinds of food along the way, but I must say that if you come to Qibao Old Street and don't eat a bite of this crab roe soup bun, you will not come to Qibao Ancient Town.

After eating crab roe soup dumplings, my father said that he wanted to buy some snacks to take back to his colleagues in the company.

The pastries in the Qibao Lane store are all handmade, and they are "old-fashioned" things.

There are many varieties in the store, such as Qingtuan, Shuangzhuan, blood glutinous rice, mandarin duck cake, cloud cake, mung bean cake... There are too many varieties to count!

On weekends, the uncles and aunts in Jiangcheng would take a bus for an hour or two to come to Qibao (at that time, the subway had not yet reached Qibao Ancient Town) to buy some pastries.

Qibao Ancient Town is not a big place, so you don't need to come very early, and it is enough to spend most of the day shopping.

When you are tired of shopping, find a private restaurant on North Street at noon, order a few special dishes, white-cut mutton, beef offal soup, and eat a meal slowly in the sunshine.

In a leisurely afternoon, the three of them walked in the narrow alley, and time seemed to step back for decades, hiding in a teahouse and listening to an opera.

Anne teases dogs and sucks along the way, shuttling through various small shops.

About because it was a weekend and during the summer vacation, there were really many people.

Everyone could only move forward with the crowded crowd, buying and eating until their hands and mouths were full, but their eyes were still fixed on the food they had never tasted.

There is no place like Qibao, which has contained thousands of years from ancient times to the present day in just 100 meters.

When you go from one end of the youth road to the other, you have unconsciously traveled from ancient times to modern times.

When you are still lingering in the small gentleness of the white walls and black tiles, it has become the fashionable and cold reinforced concrete in front of you!

While you are still savoring the traditional snacks of the old street, the poster of the pizza burger can't wait to break into your eyes......

What an amazing old town it is, where everyone can find what they want.

That leisure actually made me a little tired......