Ye Qing looked at the shopkeeper and asked with some surprise, "Monkey Temple?" ”

As soon as the shopkeeper said this, his eyebrows fluttered, "Exactly, legend has it that five hundred years ago, there was a monkey god there, who jumped out of the fairy stone on the top of Qingyuan Mountain."

It once cultivated in a cave behind a hanging waterfall, and there were stone beds, stone tables, stone chairs, and other things in that cave! ”

"Monkey God, Water Curtain Cave, isn't this Sun Wukong?" Ye Qing thought secretly.

After coming back to her senses, she asked, "Then what's so fun, is there Huaguo Mountain?" ”

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, stood up straight and thought about it: "Yes, there is a col next to the temple that is full of peach trees and bayberry trees and many wild flowers, isn't it Huaguo Mountain?" ”

Ye Qing smiled: "It seems that it is indeed a good place. ”

At this time, Qian Junbao suddenly asked, "Xiao Er, have there been any novel snacks in this city recently?" ”

The shopkeeper turned his eyes to Qian Junbao, thought for a while and said, "If you talk about food, of course you will go to the vicinity of Zhuzi Temple."

There are countless local dim sum cakes alone, and there are also hot and sour noodles from the southwest.

Spicy pork dried spicy small fish, dandan noodles, leaf baba, brown sugar glutinous ba, osmanthus rice wine small rice balls, etc.~

In addition, what roast mutton, roast chicken, roast big fish, canned soup, Hu cake, corn bun, pancake bun and so on from the north will not be repeated for a month.

There are also a lot of people who go to the rivers and lakes to perform arts, monkey shows, and tricks, and you can go shopping for a day! ”

After listening to a large list of introductions by the shopkeeper, Ye Qing nodded with satisfaction and said, "In addition to these, are there any newly opened restaurants in the city that are delicious?!" ”

Seeing that Ye Qing had heard so much, the shopkeeper still looked excited, he scratched his ears and scratched his cheeks and thought for a moment before he said:

"A few days ago, one of the villain's family came to see me, saying that he was working in a newly opened hot pot shop half a mile away from Zhuzi Temple.

It is also said that the hot pot there tastes very good, and it is an authentic mutton pot from the capital.

I heard him say that their shop uses a copper stove to make a special cauldron, which can be burned with charcoal at the bottom, and the boiled mutton bone broth is placed in the pot.

When eating, put the prepared vegetables and meat slices into the pot and eat them with dipping sauce.

And you can not only eat hot pot, but also barbecue, especially their signature roasted Ugin pork, which is so delicious that you can swallow your tongue.

As a result, business is becoming more and more prosperous, and even our shopkeeper has been thinking about asking someone to make that kind of pot, which can be used in our inn in winter. ”

When Ye Qing heard this, he immediately smiled and said, "Thank you, little second brother, you can go and get busy!" ”

Seeing that Ye Qing was satisfied, the shopkeeper also smiled and shook the rag on his shoulder and retreated.

Ye Qing and Qian Junbao did not delay, after breakfast, the group set off towards the lotus pond.

Even Shi Yusheng, who was already pregnant, was not left behind, and Ye Qing also asked Dongqu to pay more attention to her all the way.

Because the place to go is at another city gate, and you have to pass through the Zhuzi Temple, you can't take a carriage when you get there.

Qian Junbao could only ask the coachman to take a detour first, and they hired four sedan chairs to follow them.

Zhicheng is indeed much larger than Chong'an, and the roads are wide and neat, and the streets are full of shops, even in the early morning, business is very lively.

It's just that the sedan chair hasn't gone for a quarter of an hour, and suddenly a horse rushes out in front of it.

The people on the horse, all of them flaunting their might, shouted at the sedan chair from a distance: "Dodge, dodge!" ”

Ye Qing was the first to carry the sedan chair, and she didn't notice what was going on, she only felt that after shaking it a few times, the horses rushed over.

It was almost before the horses crashed into the palanquin.

A palanquin man just wanted to complain, but was stopped by a sedan chair man next to him in a low voice.

"Lower your head, that's the son of Lord Bo."

Qian Junbao sat at the end this time, he just heard the sound of horses' hooves and shouting, so he frowned and asked, "Just now, what happened?" ”

Huo Zimeng didn't want to make trouble, and replied: "Childe, a group of wild dogs ran over. ”

Qian Junbao's eyes darkened and said, "Hehe...... Wild dogs in this city can also ride horses? ”

However, he didn't ask much, and probably understood Huo Zimeng's thoughts, because he didn't want to make extraneous branches and disturb their play.

Huo Zimeng listened to his words, couldn't help but laugh secretly, and shouted without continuing to explain anything: "It's not early, the sedan chair drivers hurry up and speed up, otherwise it will be too hot later." ”

After leaving the city gate, he quickly changed into a carriage.

Half an hour later, the group arrived at the suburb of Jiyang Town.

Although it is only a small town in the suburbs, it is actually similar to the city.

Because there are so many people who come to see the lotus every year, there are a lot of inns and restaurants here.

A row of houses is connected to a row of houses, a street is connected to a street, Ye Qing got off the carriage, raised his eyes, a piece of green leaves rippling, lotus flowers blooming, beautiful.

The lotus leaves are infinitely green, and the lotus flowers are different red.

It's really spectacular.

The fragrance of lotus flowers followed, and she nodded with satisfaction: "The scenery is really good, but it's a pity that I can't leave these pictures immediately!" ”

Although she could get a camera, a video camera, or something out of the space, she didn't dare to use it here.

It's a pity that she has never seen such a continuous lotus pond in later generations.

Unexpectedly, Shi Yushang saw this, and hurriedly interjected: "Did Madam say that she wanted to draw this place?" ”

"Sort of."

"That's not difficult, I've been here before, and there are a lot of artists here who specialize in drawing people.

The most expensive only need to pay one tael of silver, and after waiting for an hour, you can get a good painting. ”

Ye Qing smiled and quickly sighed: "If the weather is cooler, it's okay to stand and let people paint for an hour, forget it today."

However, next year I will also plant a few hundred acres of lotus flowers in my estate, and I will be able to enjoy this beauty at home in the future. ”

Shi Yushang smiled and nodded.

Most of the fields in this town have been turned into lotus ponds, but there is still a small lake dug out by hand, and the lake looks very clean in summer.

Ye Qing saw from a distance that there were many people wearing hats fishing by the lake, and some children were playing and flying kites by the lake under the supervision of adults.

Rows of bamboo huts are built behind the lake with green bamboo, which should be a place for visitors to rest and eat.

"Let's go there!" Ye Qing stretched out his hand and pointed.

"Okay." The big guys have no opinion.

An hour and a half later, the weather was getting hotter and hotter, and Ye Qing was afraid that the big guy would suffer from heat stroke, so the group quickly returned to the city of Zhicheng from the lotus pond.

Ye Qing stood in front of a cyan sedan chair and waved his hand: "Okay, the big guy is also hungry, I invite everyone to eat something delicious." ”

Naturally, the crowd rejoiced.

Ye Qing decided to go to the mutton hot pot shop that the inn guy said.

According to Xiao Er's description, it should be a hot pot barbecue restaurant.

In this world, she hasn't eaten hot pot yet, or mutton hot pot from the capital.

Hot pot actually appeared very early in ancient times.

Hot pot, known as "antique soup" in ancient times, is named because of the "coo" sound made when the ingredients are fed into the boiling water.

There are two theories about the origin of hot pot: one is that it was in the Three Kingdoms period or the era of Emperor Wen of Wei, and the "copper tripod" at that time was the predecessor of hot pot;

Another theory is that hot pot began in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the "bucket" in the unearthed cultural relics refers to hot pot.

It can be seen that the history of hot pot has a long history.

Tang Dynasty Bai Juyi's poem "Ask Liu Nineteen": "Green ants make new wine, red clay small stove." If you want snow in the evening, can you drink a glass of it?"

It vividly describes the scene of eating hot pot at that time.

In the Song Dynasty, the food method of hot pot was common among the people, and in the Yuan Dynasty, hot pot spread to Mongolia and was used to cook beef and mutton.

In the Qing Dynasty, hot pot was not only popular among the people, but also became a famous "court dish".

Emperor Qianlong had a habit of eating hot pot, and he had traveled to the south of the Yangtze River many times, and every place he went to, there was a hot pot.

According to legend, in the first month of the first year of Jiaqing, he put on a grand "Qiansuo Banquet" in the palace with more than 1,550 hot pots, and more than 5,000 people were invited to taste it, making it the largest hot pot feast in history.

After years of development, the industrial chain of the hot pot industry has been very developed.

It has even set up a production, processing and sales base for common raw materials, seasonings and fuels for hot pot, such as chili, Sichuan pepper, mutton, sesame oil, sesame paste, vermicelli, and solid alcohol.

In addition, Ye Qing also heard that there is a very detailed story of eating hot pot in Chong'an County.

It is said that a man named Lin Hong went to Danxia Mountain to visit the hermit Zhizhi Master, who lived in the sixth song of the Nine Songs.

When Lin Hong was about to reach the peak, a hare ran in the mountain rock, accidentally rolled down the stone, and was caught by Lin Hong, who wanted to roast and eat.

The master didn't know how to cook rabbit meat, so he told him that he had another good way to eat rabbit meat.

Soon he put a small charcoal stove on the table, set up a soup pot on the stove, and cut the rabbit meat into thin slices.

Make a sauce with wine, sauce, pepper, and cinnamon, and wait for the soup to open and sandwich the slices in the soup, dip it in the seasoning, and eat it.

Using such a cooked way of eating, Lin Hong felt that such a way of eating was very delicious.

And in the cold winter of heavy snowfall, it is very pleasant to gather with three or five friends to talk and laugh, and eat casually.

Therefore, it has given such a way of eating a good name of "dialing the xia offering".

It is taken from the beautiful scene of "the waves surging clear the river and the snow, and the wind turning the evening glow".

And in the mutton hot pot that is popular in Daewoo Chao Beijing, I heard that there is a special story.

Legend has it that Emperor Daewoo Sejo liked to eat hot pot.

One winter, the army was suddenly about to be marched out, and he was so hungry that he was going to eat mutton.

The clever chef cut the mutton into thin slices in a hurry, put it in a pot of boiling water and scalded it, and added seasonings, chopped green onions and other things, and Emperor Daewoo Shizu was full of praise after eating.

Later, he made a dish that the emperor still did not forget, and gave it the name "Shabu mutton".

So much so that in the winter in the capital, the business of this kind of shop is full every day.

Whether it is a dignitary or an ordinary person, there are mutton pot restaurants they like to go to.

Ye Qing sat in the sedan chair with the open sedan curtain and told the sedan chair drivers where she was going.

I just heard that guy say that the hot pot shop has a particularly big signboard, called "Fu Lai Shun Mutton Hot Pot Shop".

These palanquin drivers were still very clear about the places in the city, and when they heard Ye Qing's explanation, they quickly took steps towards their destination.

When he got there, Ye Qing just got off the sedan chair and saw that the signboard banner was dancing in the wind.

There are a lot of fine nanzhu and moon flowers planted around this store, and it really looks like a feeling.

After a while, Ye Qing opened the way, and several other women were in the middle, Qian Junbao still walked behind them, and Huo Zimeng followed closely.

The group drove into the "Fulaishun mutton hot pot restaurant".

Said it was a store, but after entering, I found that it was larger than an ordinary restaurant, and there was a half-acre lotus pond in it, as well as two rows of houses, and there was a place to stay.

However, to Ye Qing's surprise, there was not a single diner in the huge store.

It's noon, and even if it's hot, people in Zhicheng don't like to eat this kind of hot food.

It shouldn't be without a guest, right?

And they didn't even greet their buddies.

Ye Qing said in a low voice: "It's strange, doesn't it mean that business here is very prosperous?"

Why is it so deserted now? Could it be that people here don't like to eat hot pot barbecue in the summer, which caused the business of this shop to go bankrupt? ”

Lin Qingqing, who was standing beside Ye Qing, listened to it and said, "I think, there must be something wrong here." Why don't you let Brother Huo Zimeng go in and ask? ”

Ye Qing nodded and said, "No need, it's all here, let's go in and ask ourselves, even if we can't eat, sit down and drink saliva to quench our thirst before leaving." ”

Ye Qing shouted loudly as he walked inside: "Shop, is the store there?" Why don't you come out and say hello! ”

shouted twice in a row, and a chubby old man came out of it.

Ye Qing glanced at the old man, saw that he was listless, and asked in a deep voice, "Are you the shopkeeper of this store?" ”

The fat old man looked a little wistful and said, "Yes, I am the shopkeeper of this shop, and everyone calls me Fu Lao Goose." Dare to ask you who ......"

"Fu Lao'er?" Ye Qing tightened the flesh of his face and looked at him with some surprise.

"It's a goose of a big goose, because the family was poor when I was a child, and I gave the landlord's house a goose to have such a nickname."

"Oh, Fu shopkeeper, we came here from the next county to play, I heard that you have just opened, and we want to eat something fresh.

But we've come all the way, why don't you look like you're not firing? ”

The old man first froze, then sighed, and his eyes began to moisten a little.

"Hey, that's a long story. The owner of our hot pot shop is a local of Zhicheng, and he went to Beijing more than ten years ago to work as an apprentice in a mutton hot pot shop called Lao Fu Ji, and learned a good skill of making hot pots.

Three years ago, the owner's father died, and he came back from the capital to keep filial piety.

In the first half of this year, after he finished his filial piety, he followed two cousins and two friends to open this hot pot shop.

Originally, it was planned to open in the winter, but the store has everything it needs.

Our proprietor decided to open early, even if it didn't make money, it was better than vacant.

He also said that even if it is a hot day in the capital, there are many people who eat this hot pot barbecue, and maybe they can earn some money and come back......"

After listening to this old man Lala's miscellaneous talks, but he didn't get to the point at all, Qian Junbao frowned slightly and interrupted him and asked:

"My wife asked you, why don't you have customers in this store, what are you doing so much? Just pick what matters. ”

Old man Fu looked embarrassed, took out a handkerchief in his arms, took the handkerchief and wiped the saliva on the side of his mouth first, and then said: "Actually, this is the ......"