rebirth of change

The road conditions along the way are not bad, but the speed is not particularly fast. This is not because Xiong Ziqiang is concerned about Chen Kangjie's safety, but because there is no high-speed road to Deying County, and the national road is used. The national road at this time is exactly 20 years later. With the standard of provincial roads, Mercedes-Benz cars can't show their characteristics at all.

The journey is not too boring, the scenery outside the window is good, especially after passing the jurisdiction of Guangzhou, although it is winter, the early winter in the southern country is only a little cooler, and the mountains are still green, not like the north Generally, at the end of autumn, it will be sallow, giving people a sense of desolation.

However, the further north he went, the more nervous Chen Kangjie was, not because he had died on this road, but because the closer he was to Deying, Chen Kangjie felt closer to Li Tingyan, his heart was beating fast, worrying about gains and losses.On the one hand, he wanted to see her, on the other hand, he was also a little scared.

After passing through Fogang County, the road conditions became even worse.Before rebirth, when Chen Kangjie came, the road was high-speed all the way, and a first-class road was built from Fogang to Deying, which was fast and smooth.

Chen Kangjie didn't know that the construction of the first-class highway connecting Fogang and Deying, the Yingfo Highway, started in 99 and was completed in 04. In 01, the construction was suspended for a year because of insufficient funds.It's the end of the 90s, so the road conditions will naturally not be too good.Rebirth: Changing the World 157

Xiong Ziqiang drove for more than four hours, bumping all the way, before taking Chen Kangjie and the others to Deying County.

Northern Guangdong is originally a backward area in eastern Guangdong. Investment has always been concentrated in the delta region of southern Guangdong, resulting in serious polarization. After 20 years, this polarization has not been resolved.The reason is that northern Guangdong is a mountainous area with inconvenient transportation. Most young people in northern Guangdong choose to work and start businesses in the delta area.

Chen Kangjie began to observe Deying County with great interest. Compared with the Deying City in his memory, it was almost unrecognizable.Most of the houses on the street are low tile-roofed houses, and even some buildings are not high and old.The whole county is dusty, and the roadside is not full of street trees like later generations.Because I was driving, I didn't pass by the last station that Chen Kangjie left in his previous life.

"Sister Siying, do you want to eat something in the county?" Chen Kangjie suggested when he saw a small restaurant by the roadside.

In order to hurry, they didn't rest and eat in Guangzhou except for breakfast in Hong Kong in the morning. Everyone should be a little hungry now.Chen Kangjie remembers that the lime shop is only 24 kilometers away from the county seat, but he doesn't know if there will be something to eat when he goes back, so he thinks it's better to add something here first, so as not to bring unnecessary trouble if there is no food to eat when he goes back. trouble.

Dong Siying must be hungry too, she just nodded her head a few times when Chen Kangjie suggested it.

Parking the car on the side of the road, five people walked into this small restaurant with no name.The boss may have seen Chen Kangjie and the others parked from the window. Not only was the car in good condition, but the clothes of several people were also quite decent.

The proprietress smiled and looked very hospitable. She greeted Chen Kangjie and the others to sit down and poured tea for everyone, "Bosses, what would you like to eat?"

Everyone here speaks Hakka, and Chen Kangjie can't speak it, but he can still understand a little bit. When he and Li Tingyan came to Deying, it took them a month or so to practice.However, he has never spoken Hakka, and even if he did, he would only use Li Tingyan and his group's frequent catchphrase "What about the street?" This is the only Hakka that Chen Kangjie can speak.

"Sister Siying, order it, you are a landlord, you are familiar with it," Chen Kangjie said modestly.

In fact, Chen Kangjie really doesn't know what to eat. The most famous place in Deying is chicken. Their chicken is very famous in the entire eastern Guangdong province. Unfortunately, Chen Kangjie is really not used to it.I used to come here with Li Tingyan, and I ate chicken almost every time, and it was very light chicken. Once during the Chinese New Year, I ate more than [-] meals in a row, which made Chen Kangjie afraid of chicken for a whole month.Not to mention chicken, even abalone in bird's nest, such a way of eating, it will turn things against each other.In addition, Chen Kangjie really didn't know what kind of local food was suitable for him.

"Then I'll order. In fact, you can't speak Hakka, right?" Dong Siying said with a sly smile.

It seems that not being able to speak Hakka was one of the reasons. When he was pointed out, Chen Kangjie could only scratch his head, expressing embarrassment.

Seeing Chen Kangjie's cute appearance, Dong Siying, as an adult, of course couldn't continue to sarcasm.

Dong Siying ordered a few kinds of food, but no one was polite, so they rolled up their sleeves and started eating.Chen Kangjie didn't remember anything else, and he didn't have any impression, but she ordered a Jiulonghua tofu and a lei tea porridge. Chen Kangjie thought the taste was good, and he basically only ate these two. He was very strange. Haven't eaten this stuff yet.

After eating, the boss came to pay the bill, and Chen Kangjie was going to give it. Dong Siying said that this is her land, and she must do her best as a landlord. Anyway, it didn't have much money, so Chen Kangjie didn't want to grab it from her.

"Boss, how do you make Leicha porridge and Jiulong yellow tofu? Why do they taste so good?" After Dong Siying paid, Chen Kangjie asked curiously.

The boss knew they were foreigners without listening to the accent, so he sat down with a stool and introduced them slowly and proudly.

It turns out that the workmanship of Chelei tea porridge is quite complicated. It uses camellia leaves picked from the spring equinox to Qingming. First, wash the tea leaves with water and put them in the tooth basin. Turn, reverse, side rub, bottom rub, after the tea leaves are crushed, add appropriate amount of water and peanut oil, and blend into tea slurry.You can add sesame seeds, fried peanuts, mint, tangerine peel and other condiments according to your personal taste.Chen Kangjie added these kinds of things to his food.Then there is porridge cooking. When the rice is seven or eight mature, use a wooden spoon to pick up two-thirds of the rice dregs.After the white porridge is cooked, pour it into a bowl filled with Lei Cha pulp, then add the rice dregs you just scooped up, add salt and stir well, and you're done with a unique Lei Cha porridge.Rebirth: Changing the World 157

It is said that there is also a Lei Cha song: "The Hakka people enjoy their blessings, and they eat Lei Cha porridge twice a day; clamp the Lei Cha pot with their legs, and shake their hands to their bodies 'Yu Yu'" (swinging, shaking).

The method of making yellow tofu in Kowloon is not simple. On the one hand, it has a lot to do with the geographical environment of Kowloon. Yingxi Peak Forest has beautiful mountains and rivers, and the water used to make tofu is mountain spring water that has not been polluted in the slightest, and is relatively alkaline. Big, sweet taste, plus selected high-quality soybeans, yellow leaves and other raw materials are processed; on the other hand, it is a production technique that has been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years and has reached perfection.

The Kowloon mentioned by the boss here is not the Kowloon in Hong Kong, but the Kowloon Town in Deying County. The boss didn't elaborate on the production skills, and Chen Kangjie didn't know it very well.Anyway, the Jiulong yellow tofu is light yellow on the outside and white on the inside, which makes people salivate.

After the tofu is ready, it can be prepared in different ways, such as steaming, frying, frying, stewing, etc. Chen Kangjie eats fried tofu, and fry the tofu on a slow fire for a while until the skin is browned, and the skin is crisp and refreshing. Smooth and fragrant inside.

After listening to the boss talking for half an hour, the sky had already darkened, so Chen Kangjie and the others got up to leave.

"Unexpectedly, Deying also has delicious food," Chen Kangjie said with emotion.

"What is "also"? It already exists, but you don't know it." Dong Siying was somewhat disdainful of Chen Kangjie's ignorance.

"Yes, yes, it was there, but it's a pity that I ate it for the first time." When he said "the first time I ate it", Chen Kangjie's voice was low, and he felt a sense of silence.

After bumping for another hour, Xiong Ziqiang drove the car to a bridge in Shihuipu Town under Dong Siying's guidance and stopped. Dong Siying said "here we are".

It was already dark at this time, and everyone got out of the car and followed her relatives' house, only to realize that the grandfather he was talking about was not her own grandfather, but her grandfather's younger brother, and her own grandfather had passed away.The old man lives alone in the town. According to Dong Siying, her grandfather has a son who has been serving in the army for many years and has not returned.

Dong Siying brought a lot of gifts to the elderly in Hong Kong, including food and clothing. The elderly did not know that Dong Siying and the others were coming, so they did not prepare their meals.At this time, unlike the later generations, you can still make a phone call. Now only the town government and the post office have phones in the town. Fortunately, Chen Kangjie has the foresight, otherwise he would have to cook now, and he would be even more hungry.

"Sister Siying, were you here when you were young?" Seeing that Dong Siying was very familiar with this place, Chen Kangjie asked with interest.

"Yeah, I have lived here for ten years, and I went to Hong Kong with my mother when I was ten years old." After finishing speaking, Dong Siying playfully added "smuggling".

Chen Kangjie gave her a thumbs up, "It's amazing, I became a stowaway at such a young age"

"No way, there was no reform and opening up at that time, and there was no way to go through the normal way. My father has already gone a few years in advance. Our family can't be separated like this forever." Dong Siying's tone also became sad. I have been separated for a long time, and I was smuggled to Hong Kong again, so I must have suffered a lot.

"Couldn't it have been swimming?" Chen Kangjie teased with a extravagant smile.

Chen Kangjie knew that many smugglers arrived in Hong Kong from Pengcheng in the 80s by swimming across Pengcheng Bay, so he asked mischievously.

"Swimming? Fortunately, you can figure it out. I'm only ten years old. How can I swim? What's more, I didn't know how to swim at that time. We went by boat from Nan'ao, and there are snakeheads there who specialize in this," Dong Siying said to Chen Kangjie. The idiotic question can only be scoffed at.

"Hehe, I thought so, never mind, anyway, you have a return home permit now, so you can visit relatives legally."

"It's up to you to say, hum."

(Recently, there are many good books in the genre of the foreign land, and I found another one, "Across the World", I have been reading it, I suggest that if you like it, you can raise it first, fatten it up and stew it. /book/)