The sun is still so dazzling after work, and it has only cooled down for a few days, and the autumn tiger has come back, and it is too hot to do it. It turns out that the four old stoves with the same name: Wuhan, Star City, Nanjing, and Chongqing, have to be one or two degrees ahead of Star City every time they look at the weather forecast; I feel that the average temperature of people is declining, but the temperature of Star City is still high, I really don't know if people's greening and environmental protection are doing well, or our development is too fast, maybe the economy is in full swing, hot through the three Hunan and four waters?

A few of us who stayed in the office were the first to go forward, eight of us went straight to the south gate in three motorcycles and one taxi, and the rest of the people who had gone out to run errands in the afternoon also rushed there from all directions after finishing their errands. I sat on Qian Cheng's Huanghe women's motorcycle, Wang Jian drove his red Yamaha behind him, and we chased the S-shaped in the traffic on Furong Road, young as most of us love the feeling of drag racing, even though our locomotive was not as cool as Schwarchenge's large-displacement Prince car in "The Destroyer".

Wang Jian's original car is indeed superior in performance and accelerates quickly, but it is helpless that the skills are not as good as others, and every time it is hard to just overtake our car, it will be left behind by Qian Cheng in less than two minutes. In the end, we were quick and arrived at the destination first, but Wang Jian still shouted in his mouth and refused to accept it, saying that there were too many people at the south gate of Huangxing Road. Qian Cheng said that you think I am flying a plane, but they are not all the same on the road, hehe......

The south gate, as the name suggests, is the south gate of the original old city wall, and it was already the center of the old city at the beginning of the Republic of China. In my memory, since I was in elementary school, the south gate and Wuyi Square at both ends of Huangxing Road have been the most lively and noisy places in Star City, and they have always been a place where foodies must fight.

There are quite a lot of time-honored brands concentrated in this section, I remember the Deyuan steamed buns, Shuangyan's wontons, Huangchunhe's rice noodles, Gan Changshun's handmade noodles, Li Hesheng's beef noodles and halal food, Jiuruzhai's pastries, as well as Guofeng, North and South special groceries...... All businesses are thriving.

Nowadays, Wuyi Square has become a street of civic garden square and bars, and Huangxing Road has also been transformed into a lively modern commercial pedestrian street, only the pattern of the south entrance has basically been retained.

The thick history and culture of Star City has been precipitated in every street and alley there, soaked in the texture of the city, as the saying goes: "three years out of a show, ten years out of a river and lake", the south entrance is the "rivers and lakes" of Star City, where you can find the most marketable, the most philistine, the most neighborhood, the most original feeling of Huxiang. Of course, the most nostalgic thing is the delicious food that remains in the memory of childhood. Zhou Si's spring rolls, the pig's feet and longan eggs of the confused mother-in-law (surnamed Wu), the shaved noodles and cold noodles of Tong Sida, etc., used to be one of the best flavors in Star City, but unfortunately most of them have been lost today. Only the stinky dried seeds of Wuxiao Yu are still fragrant, and they still only make 1,000 pieces a day (as they have been for decades), and there are still long queues every day.

I think that no matter where you go, everyone has their own city in their heart, and each city actually has its own space, where there are familiar people, trees, sounds, smells and rhythms. The hurried pace of modernization in this era has taken away too much, but it can't take away the piece of land in memory, so everything left behind is extremely cherished. For those of us who were born and raised in Star City, it's hard to resist because it's already a part of your life.

Under the teaser of the market economy, today's south gate is also more and more full of new vitality, and those who can stand here will surely make a name for themselves in the restaurant industry in Star City. The so-called back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, the rivers and lakes have talented people from generation to generation, and today's south gate is even more famous, and our stronghold today "Si Jiaoyu" is also one of the eagerly.

"Si Jiaoyu" is not the sister of Wu Xiaoyu next door, her real name is Gong Ermao, a very neighborly name, maybe the fourth in line. Speaking of the name "Si Xiaoyu", not to mention the locals of Star City, even many outsiders have long heard of it, and she herself has been on the TV program of Mango Channel for a long time. Some people say that Si Xiaoyu is the leader of the night snack stall at the south gate and the veteran of Star City's taste shrimp.

Gong Yaoyu's fried shrimp is not only clean and neat, but also has a good grasp of the taste and heat; As long as the diners shout "come to the shrimp", the four Xiaoyu standing on the table with chopped peppers, dried peppers, sweet sauce, salt, garlic, ginger and other condiments will immediately light the fire and pour oil, "呩", fry the green onions, ginger, dried peppers, and then fry the crayfish, add sweet sauce and chopped peppers to taste, in one go, turn a few spoons to get out of the pot. Before the shrimp arrives, the fragrance of the shrimp has already wafted to you, making you swallow your saliva and eat a big pot of cravings.

She started from a small food stall in the 80s, although the store facilities still look relatively simple, and there was no air conditioning in the early years, but because of the unique taste and fame, many outsiders came to visit, and even attracted many big-name celebrities to come to relieve their shrimp addiction. Around 2002, the "Four Graces" not only at the south gate, but also in the Star City and even in the whole country, have a well-known "Jianghu" status.