Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 188
Chapter 180 IX Stilted Beef

The three girls all opened their mouths wide: "So amazing?"

Li Junge told the three of them Lin Wangcai's story while they were looking for a place to eat, which made the three girls sigh.

Li Junge said: "Lin Wangcai's wife and children have been separated in this life, but now he is starting again. People are not obsessed and can't survive. I believe in his craftsmanship. Aunt Zhou, I think Lin Wangcai is not at all. As long as the love is not over, I was just afraid that she would impulsively say that she would not go to Lijiagou after she died, so I dragged Ah Yin away!"

Xiaomei said bitterly: "You stinky men are really nothing! You have caused women to suffer with you! If Zhuer Chong dares to do this, I can't beat him to death!"

Reasoning with girls at this time is not theoretically clear, so Li Junge could only quickly raise his hands in support: "That's right, it's too outrageous. When he gets to Lijiagou, I'll teach him well! By the way, Ayin, Aunt Zhou's side I probably won’t be waiting to see me anymore. You still have to do this matter. Use the female celebrity as an excuse to slowly soften her. As long as you can deceive her... oh no, coax her to Lijiagou, and then let the experts Let's solve it, and let them reunite after all!"

Ayin raised a question mark on his forehead: "Expert? What expert?"

Li Junge said: "Grandma Wang! Lijiagou is the emotional expert who is firmly seated in the first golden chair!"

Seeing that it was almost time for dinner, they called Zhu Chaoan and Wang Congjun together again, and they found a stilt beef shop to eat beef.

Stilted beef is also a famous dish in Shuzhou. Like Bobo chicken, it originated in Jiazhou of Great Buddha.

There is also a famous local allusion about this dish.

According to legend, in the late Qing Dynasty, the plague was prevalent among the people in Shuzhou, and the common people were destitute, poor and sick.

There is a town of Suji in Jiazhou, which is similar to Laojiachuan, and it is also a land of rivers. At that time, the capital of Shu and Yuzhou were still connected by water, and Suji was a pivotal town on the Sichuan-Chongqing waterway.

In the town, there is an old Chinese doctor Luo who is good at Chinese herbal medicine and is proficient in the art of Mingdian.

The herbal soup prepared by old TCM doctor Luo not only prevents diseases and quenches thirst, but also has a good curative effect on common illnesses such as common cold, spleen and stomach discomfort, swollen gums, etc., so it is very popular among passers-by.

There is a farm next to Suji Town called Zhouchang. It was a place for slaughtering livestock at that time, and it was also called "Cow Killing Farm".

During the period, old doctor Luo saw that some rich families threw the offal of cattle and sheep into the river and discarded it, and felt it was a pity.

So he picked up the beef offal, washed it, and cooked it in a soup pot with Chinese herbs.It turned out that the boiled soup was very delicious.

So he gave this beef soup to the poor, because it tastes good and has the effect of preventing and curing diseases.Therefore, there is an endless stream of people who specially come to drink soup, and it is full soon after opening the door every day.

Because it is specially designed for the poor, the hall of old Chinese medicine doctor Luo is very simple. After sitting on a few stools, there will be no seats for anyone who comes. Therefore, some can only stand, some squat, and most of them directly Sitting on the stone steps of the pier, eating with Erlang legs crossed and a bowl in hand.

When passengers get off the boat, the first thing they see is diners eating and chatting with their feet on their feet. Over time, everyone vividly gave this dish a nickname of "beef with feet on their feet", which has been passed down to this day.

The earliest stilted beef was served in two bowls.First remove the veins of the cabbage, that is, the cabbage. The leaves cannot be cut, but can only be torn into pieces by hand. Blood, or beef offal, or beef, or beef balls, you can also use some of each to make a big stew, put it in a small bamboo basket, scald it, spread it on top of the cabbage, pour a ladle of broth, sprinkle Served with minced celery, minced coriander and chopped green onion, served with kimchi made from cabbage veins and red radish and white rice, two bowls can satisfy the large intestines.

Later, a chef surnamed Yang came out of Jiazhou. After many comparisons and preparations of the stilted beef soup, he developed a "fine soup" with a richer soup flavor.

"Essence soup" is made from beef bones, butter, beef miscellaneous, beef intestines, bullwhip, etc. On the basis of the original soup flavor of nineteen traditional Chinese medicines, jujube, medlar, and angelica are added. In addition to increasing the richness, it also tends to be more scientific and nutritious.

Over the past 100 years, stilted beef has already spread to Jiazhou and has become a famous local food in Shuzhou.

The cooking method has also changed from a small bowl to a large soup pot. The meat dishes are still the same, but the vegetarian dishes have changed from the earliest simple cabbage to radishes, stick vegetables, lettuce, mushrooms and other vegetables.

It has the medicinal function of preventing and curing diseases. The TCM principle of "replenishing the viscera with the viscera" has greatly improved the taste and grade of this local famous food.

If you have to find an intuitive description, it is probably similar to putting the beef soup of Lanzhou ramen into a soup pot to boil beef offal, and then adding vegetarian dishes to get rid of the greasy after eating.

People in Shuzhou like to eat spicy food. This stilted beef is light in a white pot, so it must be served with a dry dipping plate made of salt, pepper, sesame and peanuts to make it enjoyable.

As the weather turned colder, people in Shuzhou began to take supplements, and the business of the Qiaojiao Beef Shop was in a mess.

Li Junge finally managed to grab a table, greeted everyone to sit down and said, "Come here, this weather is just right to eat this! Dispelling cold and relieving cough, nourishing health, beautifying and beautifying, keeping everyone's face pink and red lips after eating."

Zhu Chaoan yelled straight away: "Damn, no matter what kind of casserole and hot pot is finished, who doesn't have a pink face and red lips! Don't be poor and hurry up and serve the food! I'm hungry!"

This is unreasonable. As soon as the pot came up, Li Junge boiled a fist-sized radish for him and put it in a bowl: "I don't have any education, I only deserve to eat radishes!"

After they were full, the three couples separated. Li Junge said to A Yin, "A Yin, where should we go for a stroll?"

A Yin said: "Why don't we walk along Binjiang Road for a while. I heard that there is a Lixiang Square built upstream. I haven't seen it yet."

Li Junge had no opinion at all, so the two walked hand in hand along Binjiang Road.

Binjiang Road was built on a high embankment. The great flood in [-] submerged half of Jiachuan City. The Jiachuan County Government decided to raise the river embankment after a painful experience, and promised the developer that who would build the river embankment, then whoever develops it after the corresponding section behind the embankment is filled.

This move directly buried the Laohe Street in Linjiang in Jiachuan County underground, raised the embankment by tens of meters as a whole, pushed back the Jiachuan County Government along the Yangtze River by hundreds of meters, and rebuilt Binjiang Road on it. Buildings with river-view houses, the level of flood protection has suddenly risen from once in 20 years to once in a hundred years.

However, the quaint Old River Street with a history of thousands of years, just like the old stories that happened to it, has been lost in the long river of history since then.

While walking with A Yin, Li Junge told her the story of the Laohe Street under Binjiang Road.

Ayin stopped, pointed to the Yangtze River tens of meters below, and said, "Erpi, I think the government's approach is correct. Look at the current river embankment, which is all reinforced with stone strips and cement. No matter how big the flood is, it will not be destroyed." People in Jiachuan have been affected by floods for thousands of years, and now they no longer have to worry about this, which is a great thing!"

Li Junge nodded and said: "It is indeed a good thing, but the colorful market stories on Laohe Street, the old names of Beimenkou, Nanguanshang, Majiezi, and Dayancang will only be read in county chronicles in the future. From now on, the children will only know that there is a riverside road in Jiachuan!"

A Yin said with a smile: "Actually, this problem is easy to solve. You should quickly become a representative of the National People's Congress. At that time, you can propose to the government to engrave stones on the original sites of these places as records, and write down the stories that happened before. How good would it be to read it while taking a walk?"

Li Junge shook his head and said: "Don't worry, I can't even worry about coming to Lijiagou, I just want to talk about it."

The two continued to move upstream. The river water in late autumn was clear and quiet, the water flow was not wide, and the river beach was vast.Anzhi Tinglan, lush and green, many people are walking on the river beach, taking pictures, and children are throwing stones, building sandcastles, and playing games by the river. It is a happy and leisurely scene.

Occasionally, a fisherman was startled by children throwing stones into the water and his fish ran away. He roared so frightened that the children ran away screaming.

The children's screams startled a few more egrets, which flew up lightly and flew far upstream.

Come to Lixiang Square, here is a design similar to the ancient Greek stepped theater, each step is also a seat for people to sit down and rest.

There are several stone sculptures in the four corners, which are flying to the capital, the maid looking back, the yellow gate offering fruit, and the imperial concubine smiling.

Li Junge came to the statue of the noble concubine and said to A Yin: "Everyone knows that 'a concubine riding on the red dust smiles, but no one knows that it is a lychee. I know that as early as the Yongyuan period of the Han Dynasty, there was a story about the royal family asking Jiaozhou to pay tribute to lychees. In the late Qing Dynasty, in order to let the Empress Dowager Cixi eat fresh lychees, Guangzhou directly moved the whole fruit-bearing lychee tree to a large porcelain urn. Send stories about the capital here. There really is nothing new under the sun."

A Yin said: "I know that Jiachuan was called Fuyang in ancient times, how did it become Fuzhou's tribute litchi?"

Li Junge said: "Fuzhou is the place where mustard is produced now. At that time, Shuzhou had a difficult way out, so it could only be shipped from us. It took advantage of the flood to go east to Fuzhou along the Yangtze River, and then from Fuzhou to Dazhou via Xixiang, and finally to The Meridian Road enters Chang'an with a total length of more than 1000 kilometers and takes seven days. This is the "Litchi Ancient Road" recorded in the history books."

"There is Pingchang County on this ancient road. The ancient lychee road passes through a ravine called 'Zhutonggou'. You can tell how dangerous it is by hearing the name. According to historical records, the teams transporting lychees were often robbed here. There was a fierce battle against the bandits. People built a litchi Bodhisattva temple there to bless the safe transport of litchis out of Zhutonggou. There is also a local nursery rhyme: "When you go to Jigongzhai, the litchis are there; when you enter Zhutonggou, you will lose the litchis." After crossing the Huami Liang, the lychees are safe."

A Yin said angrily: "Then Tang Xuanzong is too much. In order to please his wife, he spent so much money to build more than 1000 kilometers of roads, and the road is so dangerous. How can Concubine Yang Guifei eat this lychee!"

(End of this chapter)