Twenty rings

The owner of the Shanxi noodle restaurant greeted Master Wang in the morning. The master prepared it in advance, and Shang Tang ordered long-term noodles for Xia Ke.The kind I brought to him for his birthday last year, a bowl with only one noodle, is a kind of small ramen.

Xia Ke always has all kinds of knowledge: for example, ramen is divided into big ramen and small ramen.

Lanzhou ramen is often seen more often. In fact, Lanzhou is famous for its beef noodles rather than ramen.It has become a common practice to add ramen agent in Lanzhou ramen stores, but Shanxi ramen does not use ramen agent. Only a small amount of salt is added to the noodles. The key is to knead, knead and pull the noodles.

In some stores, the dough has to be woken for several hours or even more than ten hours. The dough is soft and white and can be easily pulled into noodles.The dough in this family didn’t wake up for that long, just over an hour. The master smeared oil on the palms of both hands and stretched the noodles into strips.A piece of noodles needs to be soaked in oil. Soak the thick noodles in the oil pan for an hour, and the toughness of the noodles will not be easy to break.

Stretch the thick noodles thinly, boil the water in the pot, and stretch a long noodle into the pot.Serve it steaming hot, with tomato and egg toppings from the store.

The taste of Shanxi noodles is not heavy. Shangtang knows that less salt and less soy sauce, at most a few cloves of garlic and a little vinegar, are not as refreshing as Sichuan small noodles, which are fragrant, spicy, and spicy.The noodles in other places are large rows of noodles with skin belly, which are distinguished by the toppings added. Shanxi noodles are cut noodles, pulled noodles, and rolled noodles, which are divided by the way the noodles are made.They eat noodles just like southerners eat white rice, whether it is white rice, white porridge, white porridge or soaked rice.Eat every meal, eat with peace of mind, and live a down-to-earth life.

Now he and Xia Ke are sitting in the small shop listening to other diners gossiping, snoring and eating noodles, the water in the pot is boiling, and bowls of noodles with white mist are brought out, and they accidentally walk into other people's safe and at ease During the days, I can't help but start to think, whether I can do the same in the future, and live a peaceful life with that person.

Shang Tang casually ordered a bowl of ramen and ate it with Xia Ke.The young people were hungry by twelve o'clock at noon, and two people could eat a cow.

After eating, Xia Ke went out to smoke a cigarette, but was stopped by the master's wife: "Young man, is that the one you called?"

Xia Ke smiled and said yes, sorry for the inconvenience.She also smiled: "It's because you are thinking about it, so you came here so far to eat a bowl of noodles. Have you ever eaten the yellow cake in Datong? Take two yuan and go, I made it at home, and I will send you to eat!" She stuffed a plastic bag into his hand .

Shang Tang walked out of the store and saw Xia Ke carrying a plastic bag, smiling and thinking about something.

He asked directly, "What do you think?"

Xia Ke lifted the bag: "Yellow cake, have you eaten yet?"

Shang Tang has not been in Shanxi since he was a child, and he came back very rarely: "No."

The two of them didn't pay much attention to it, they started directly, and each lifted a piece.It's yellow, hot, and soft. It sticks to your teeth when you bite it, and sticks to your throat when you bite it off.There are two local methods. The unfilled one is steamed and eaten with meat like rice cakes, and the stuffed one is fried and sprinkled with sugar.This one has not been fried, but it has jujube paste and walnut stuffing inside.

Yellow cake is yellow rice cake, and yellow rice is not millet but millet.The land in Datong is thin, and the underground is full of coal. There is little grain, but glutinous millet is produced.It is golden in color and stickier than glutinous rice.Grind off the skin and finely grind it into noodles, then you can make cakes.

The method is to add water first, stir roughly, do not knead, steam in a pan, and after steaming, the loose cakes should be mixed evenly, and can only be pressed by hand, which is called "pushing cake" or "stepping cake".It has to be pressed when it is hottest, and the cake will not be so soft and sticky when it cools down.It takes an experienced housewife at home to do this job well.

Shang Tang looked at Xia Ke eating coldly, took a bite and pulled a long strip, and said suddenly: "There is a joke." He said without changing his face: "A housewife just took a good cake, and accidentally bit a dog, the woman hurried Going to grab it, the dog ran a few feet away with half a mouthful of cake in its mouth and kept pulling."

Xia Ke swallowed half a mouthful of the cake, his heart was clear, calling me a dog?

He was not annoyed, and smiled very honestly and kindly: "Fortunately, it's a housewife. If any young lady goes out to chase the dog, I'm afraid she will be taken away by the dog-the meat bun beats the dog, and there will be no return." Sticking to Shang Tang's ear, he said hoarsely and ambiguously: "Isn't it, Miss Shang."

Shang Tang was choked to death by him.The earlobes were hot as if they were on fire.

Xia Ke had already wandered a few meters away.

They went back to the hotel for a short rest, and went out again at five o'clock in the afternoon.

It’s too late to go to any scenic spots at this time, so I walked on the city wall.

When it comes to Shanxi Coal City, many people have the established impression that it is dirty and messy.But thanks to the former mayor, the city seems spacious and clean to tourists like them. Although the historical attractions such as the city wall are newly built, under the twilight, it is very reminiscent of Datong's former capital city of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

They climbed from the Heyang Gate, the weather was fine, the sky was blue, and the sunset was golden. Xia Ke set up a pergola and looked around, and said with emotion: "Sure enough, it is the key to the north, and the military strategists must fight for it." land."

Shang Tang snorted: "You know."

Xia Ke said: "I really know." Putting an arm on Shang Tang's shoulder, he told him as he walked: "From your name, Shang Tang has the same surname. This place was originally Dai State. During the Spring and Autumn Period, it was used by Beidi people It was occupied by King Zhao Wuling in the Warring States Period. After the unification of Qin Shihuang, half of Datong was divided into Yanmen County. In the Han Dynasty, it was renamed Yunzhong—"Chijie Yunzhong, when will Feng Tang be sent" that Yunzhong. You As soon as you hear it, it sounds familiar, Yanmen and Yunzhong have been fought here since ancient times."

He kept talking until the Three Kingdoms, where it was occupied by Xianbei and became the capital of the Tuoba clan in the Northern Wei Dynasty.Li Tang regards this place as an important military town.Which dynasty lost Datong, basically it would be difficult to survive. For example, in the Song Dynasty, the shame of Jingkang was foreshadowed when the Liao Kingdom gained Datong.Liao won Datong, Song was over; Jin got Datong, Liao was over; Yuan, that is, Mongolia got Datong, Jin was over again.Because Datong is Yanjing, that is, the barrier of Beiping and Beijing. After Datong is over, Beijing will be difficult to defend.Therefore, the Ming Dynasty set up elite and heavy troops here, which is the so-called "Datong scholars and horses are famous all over the world".

He also talked from the Qing Dynasty to the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was still Chahar Province, and Datong belonged to Chahar. In [-], Chahar was abolished, and half of the territory was assigned to Shanxi and half to Hebei. territory.

It was still dark at six o'clock, and there was a tour group next to them, and the tour guide brought them up to see the city wall. At this moment, the tour guide stared blankly at Xia Ke in the wind, thinking that she had met a senior in the industry.

Xia Ke smiled inscrutably and lonelyly, picked up a cigarette, and after pretending to be an expert, hurriedly dragged Shang Tang away.