167. Farewell to the Great Northwest
Looking at Hao Dong like this, Qi Jue can understand that he doesn't want to go back at all.
In his selfish heart, Qi Jue was happy to follow Hao Dong's thoughts, so he paused and tentatively suggested: "Then let's still follow the old plan?" ”
Hao Dong's face was yearning, but the words he said were different: "It's not very good...... Sister Qin, they should also know about our situation, and they won't go back even if they're fine......"
This is really not good, and their expedition team is also paid by fish, and it is not a completely voluntary tourism team.
There is no reason for not returning to the team because of the members' personal preferences, although the queen may not say much, but it is estimated that the deduction of remuneration is appropriate.
Qi Jue doesn't care about himself, he still has some savings in his hand, and it is not difficult to find a job to make money. But Hao Dong obviously faces financial problems if he loses such an income.
Thinking of this, Qi Jue didn't dare to encourage him more, and the car was quiet for a while.
It was already past noon, and they didn't eat lunch because of Qi Cheng's stirring up like this.
Fortunately, there was a lot of food in the car, and Hao Dong rummaged through it and found enough to make up a meal. The two of them didn't get out of the car to have lunch again, and drove directly to Jiayuguan.
This is like a tacit understanding, when they arrive at Jiayuguan, where they should go next is easy to arrange, and before that, they can be left enough time to think about how to choose.
But in fact, there are not so many choices, no one is staring at the back of the buttocks, Hao Dong directly turned on the mobile phone signal, and first took a look at the temporary mailbox registered last night.
Originally, he didn't think much about it, but he closed it after a brief talk to Ergou about the situation last night, and Ergou's reply didn't reply, so he just wanted to reply.
In fact, it is more efficient to call, but he is still a little entangled in his subconscious, so he chooses email.
As a result, as soon as he opened the mailbox, he found that Ergou had swiped a bunch of emails for him, with a very uniform title: Zhao Zhengyou found out and was looking for you.
When Zhao Zheng returned to Beijing before, he took away a bunch of documents related to Ni Shougen, the number of those documents was too large, and the queen did not have the manpower and time to check all of them before Zhao Zheng went back to his life.
So Zhao Zheng promised them that if he found anything in the middle of those documents in the future, he would definitely notify them immediately.
It's just that what he didn't expect was that he really found out quickly and immediately contacted Ergou.
The situation in Ergou's email is very unclear, and I don't know if he deliberately didn't say it carefully, or if he himself is not particularly clear.
But even this is enough for Hao Dong to let go of his idea of wanting to play around: "Otherwise, let's go back, right?" I'm kind of concerned about what they find. ”
Qi Jue also saw Ergou's letter, and he was also a little worried, so he took care of Hao Dong while driving: "Then you can see if you can book a ticket first." ”
At this time, it has just entered the peak tourist season, and the air ticket is not particularly difficult to determine, but it is not so easy to book. The flight for the day was gone, and Hao Dong was only booked until the next night.
Tonight is destined to have to stay in Jiayuguan for one night.
Jiayuguan is the first pass in the west, and it has the reputation of the first pass in the world. Back then, it was the territory of the Hu people, and the generation of Yumen Pass was all warring areas, and the pass that really belonged to the Han people had to be regarded as Jiayu Pass.
It can be said that this is the only path from China to the northwest in history, and Jiayuguan must not be lost, once lost, the entire land of China will fall.
Its strategic importance has finally become less clear after the founding of the state, but it is still an important town in the northwest. Whether it is its own transportation value, or its cultural accumulation.
The most famous place here is the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty.
On the vast land to the northwest, the rolling earth-yellow walls are majestic and magnificent, winding all the way to the horizon.
In that era when productivity was extremely low, the ancestors were still able to build defensive buildings of this scale, and they are still telling the wisdom and strength of the people in China for 5,000 years.
In the distance, even just after you can roughly see the city wall outside Jiayu Pass, you can already clearly see the towering city tower above the city wall.
Against the backdrop of the vast and lofty sky in the northwest, this solemn feeling will make people feel awe: this is the first important town in the world that has protected the lives of the people of the Central Plains for thousands of years.
Even though Jiayuguan has now become a tourist attraction, once it is close, all kinds of tourist buses, buses and a large number of tourists will easily break through this historical atmosphere. But as long as you experience it carefully, you can still find the sense of history of the Jin Ge Iron Horse.
Especially the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, although you can't go up, even if you just look at it from a distance, you can feel the solemnity of history.
In the eyes of today's people, buildings like the Great Wall may no longer have any practical meaning at all, not to mention airplanes, ordinary missiles can casually jump over the wall, or simply break through the wall.
However, in those days, it was this majestic undulating earthen wall that surrounded the land of China like a huge city wall, blocking the footsteps of foreign invaders again and again.
Even today, these walls have become dwarf mounds, but they are still enough to be admired by future generations. Because without them, perhaps the history of this land would have to be rewritten.
Hao Dong and the others did not enter the Jiayuguan Scenic Area, Qi Jue drove the car around the outside for a long time, and even stopped for a little time to get off Hao Dong to have a good experience.
For Hao Dong, that's enough.
In his heart, history should be hung and remembered, but it should not be played with. Such a place, at a glance from a distance, can find a little bit of the feeling of the past, it is enough.
After Jiayuguan, it is Jiayuguan City, which is their foothold tonight, and tomorrow's plane will also fly directly from here to Beijing.
Jiayuguan City is a big city, where people from all over the world gather together, and their eating habits are also different.
Hao Dong: The time when they arrived was not too late, it was the time when the night market began.
There are several food courts here, bringing together different delicacies from all over the country.
Hao Dong and they were in the northwest for the last night, so they naturally didn't want to miss it, so they found a hotel to settle in, and the two of them immediately traveled lightly and went shopping in the food street.
Flavors such as Jiangnan and Northeast are directly passed, and these can be done by Hao Dong himself, but the main thing is that they are looking for special foods from the northwest.
After all, there are a lot of things that must be made here, and once you leave this realm, even if you know how to do it, you can't make this flavor again.
In line with this purpose, Hao Dong came up with a bag of elm money and a big nest.
The wotou is made of multigrain noodles mixed with elm money, the corn bean noodles themselves are golden and brilliant and have a fragrance, and the pieces of elm money are mixed in the middle, and the green is very good-looking.
It's July now, and these elms are all saved and dried in the spring, but the taste has not been affected after being made into nests, and they are still sweet and delicious.
After seeing the fish noodles, he shouted another bowl, and shared it with Qi Jue.
The noodle is very good, about three centimeters in length, thick in the middle and sharp at the ends, all by hand rolling.
After the pot is cooked, take it out, pour it with sesame oil and vinegar, mix it with tomatoes and scrambled eggs, and eat it almost in a blink of an eye.
However, Hao Dong was bent on eating more varieties, so he didn't dare to ask for another one, and directly pulled Qi Jue to the next goal.
That's what he was curious about just now, there was a big pot in front of the store, which looked like Malatang from a distance, but when he got closer, he could smell that the smell was not the same as Malatang.
Hao Dong didn't notice it at first, and the shop where the fish noodles were kneaded was relatively close, and when he smelled it, he realized that there seemed to be something else inside.
When I got closer, sure enough, what was sold here was not something that would be available everywhere I went, such as Malatang, but a paste pot that was sold here.
The birthplace of the paste pot should be regarded as Jiuquan, a small city to the south of Jiayuguan, and it is not uncommon to see it sold here in Jiayuguan.
However, for outsiders, this kind of spicy but different food is still very attractive. Especially when I saw the boss arrogantly put hemp flowers in the soup pot, many outsiders were directly amazed.
Twist this thing is easy to harden, and it will look particularly greasy after it is hard, and people who love to eat love to eat very much, but people who don't like to eat really don't like it very much.
But the twist flowers placed in the paste pot will not have this kind of problem.
The bottom of the paste pot is a standard chicken soup base, add soybean flour to make a paste, add salt, pepper, pepper, soy sauce and other seasonings, especially ginger powder and pepper should be added in large quantities, and after boiling, it is the bottom soup.
This base soup is spicy and refreshing, especially the spicy flavor is particularly refreshing.
When eating, according to personal preference, you can add gluten vermicelli and shredded chicken slices to the soup, and finally break the hemp flowers and sprinkle them into the soup and boil them in a pot.
After scooping up, the soup is slightly brown, and a piece of twist is soaked in the soup, and the taste is crisp but not hard, sweet but not greasy; The local specialty gluten is like a small piece of baked bread, and when you bite into it, a packet of soup is full of spicy flavors; The hot and spicy bean noodle soup is simply refreshing.
It's just that this thing is too full, Hao Dong didn't dare to ask for more than just tasted it, and still only needed one to eat separately from Qi, but after eating, he felt as if his stomach had reached the load.
For a while, it seemed that there was no way to eat more, but it was obviously unwilling to go back like this. What's more, it's really early now, and it's okay to go back and squat in the hotel.
So Hao Dong decided to go shopping first, and then he could continue to eat when he was gone.
Qi Jue was completely based on Hao Dong's thoughts, and followed behind with his bag and enjoyed the rare leisure time between the two.
After walking a few steps, Hao Dong made a new discovery: camel hoof soup.
Camels are full of treasures, and when they are alive, they can give great help to the people living in the Gobi Desert, and they are also very delicious meat after slaughtering.
However, due to various historical reasons, in the traditional food culture, the camel itself has been given a higher symbol, and later generations feel that it is a very intelligent creature, and it is too unkind to eat its meat.
In addition, camels were not easily available in the Central Plains, where food culture was rich, and gradually the cooking method declined.
Camel's hoof soup is a famous dish of the Tang Dynasty, and the recipe has long been lost over the years.
However, even if the recipe is retried by modern people, it still tastes very good. After all, camel hoof tendons and humps, which are the raw materials of camel hoof soup, are famous delicacies.
Of course, this is in the Grand Hotel.
The one that Hao Dong found now is the façade of a snack bar on the side of the road.
He found that the bowl of camel hoof soup may have camel hoof tendons or something, but the amount is definitely very small. The umami is not monosodium glutamate, but it is hung out by the broth.
It seems that the things on the roadside food stalls still can't be compared with the ones in the hotel after all. However, the thought of using dashi is no longer a conscience.