Since 1983

In the early morning of the fourth day of the lunar new year, the two of them arrived in the capital, and after wandering around for two hours, they finally found the magical Tongzilou. Xu Fei grinned at the sight, guessing the distance to the Xiangshan studio, he had to live here too.

The building was empty, and when the wind blew, it made a buzzing sound, and it felt like the floor was shaking. Chen Xiaoxu led him up to the third floor, through the long and narrow corridor, and stopped in front of a door.

"Boom boom boom!"

"who?"

"its me!"

There was a rush of commotion inside, and then they heard footsteps approaching, and Zhang Li's round face was revealed with a "squeak".

"Oh my God, you really returned..."

Seeing her sister was very pleasantly surprised, she glanced at her, and the surprise overflowed a little bit, "You are here too."

"What are you doing yourself?"

Chen Xiaoxu squeezed in with his big luggage, and saw coal briquettes burning in the stove, red and red, and a small pot was placed on the table, steaming hot.

"Hey, the noodles are boiled. They don't even have any oily aroma. Don't tell me, you've been eating this for the past few days?" She leaned closer and sniffed it, not quite flattering.

"Noodles are convenient and save cooking time. Have you eaten them yet?"

"..."

Chen Xiaoxu sat on the bed, without saying a word, but looked at someone, "Mr. Xu, don't you want to express?"

"Is there any restaurant open here?"

Xu Fei thought for a while, then suddenly said: "Hey, the Temple of Earth will hold a temple fair this year, there must be delicious food, why don't we go shopping?"

"Okay, isn't the house you rented next to the Altar of Earth, just go and have a look after shopping."

"But I'm done cooking..."

Seeing that the two of you have settled the matter with one sentence, Zhang Li couldn't help but feel a headache, "I won't go, I'm still reading the script."

"Only when you're full will you have the energy to study the characters, get dressed quickly!"

Chen Xiaoxu pulled her and forced her to put on a coat. Zhang Li had no choice but to follow her out.

The three of them walked downstairs, Xu Fei saw that her legs and feet were a little awkward, and asked, "What's wrong with your legs?"

"It's okay, I just fell."

"Why did Hao Duan Duan fall?"

"I went to Mr. Zhou Ruchang's house on the first day of junior high school. I almost ran into a bus on the way, but luckily nothing happened."

Tsk!

Both of them showed worried expressions at the same time, "Why are you going to someone's house on the first day of the new year?"

"You went there empty-handed, didn't Mr. Zhou give you the New Year's money?"

"I was too late to realize it. I'm so sorry. My husband still left me for dinner. I ran away like a thief." Zhang Li only thought it was funny when she thought about it, and she didn't complain about being alone.

But they said that the three of them walked for a long time before taking the bus to Ditan Park.

The Ditan temple fair was the first to be restored in the capital, and it started this year, and has continued every year since then. The nearby Lama Temple was overcrowded, and people lined up to burn incense. There were quite a few people in the park, all of them wrapped in big padded jackets, and their noses were running from the cold, but that was also happy.

Because there are too few entertainment programs.

When Xu Fei walked in, he saw fake flowers hanging on the bare branches, which seemed to have a festive atmosphere. There are several platforms set up in the spacious area, and there are opera performances and old flyover artists performing their unique skills.

Mainly snacks, the temple fair specially invites many time-honored brands, such as Donglaishun, Baikui old brand, Wonton Hou, Tea Tangli, etc., each family has a shed, with simple facilities and full of enthusiasm, which can be regarded as the prototype of a food street.

The three of them ate from house to house, and they first came to roast mutton as a base. It was the warmest thing to eat mutton in the cold winter months, especially Zhang Li who ate grass every day.

After eating the mutton, have another bowl of hot soup wontons to reconcile.

Wonton Hou is a must in the capital, the skin is as thin as paper, even if you put the skin on a newspaper, you can read the words on it. The meat stuffing pays attention to the use of the tip of the front buttocks, which is seven parts thin and three parts fat. For a bowl of wontons, 10 skins make one tael, and then one tael of stuffing is added together to make two taels, which is exactly the same.

The soup is big bone soup, which takes 6 hours to cook. The soup tastes rich and not greasy. There are seaweed, coriander and shrimp skin floating on it.

Although Xu Fei had the intention of stealing his teacher, he was also full of happiness.

That's right, eating delicious food, the entanglement between the food and the taste buds on the tip of the tongue, and the physical and psychological satisfaction will make people feel happy and make people want to laugh.

After eating the wontons, I ended up with a bowl of tea soup. The millet noodles are made into a batter, washed with boiling water, sprinkled with brown sugar, white sugar and sweet-scented osmanthus, and it is considered dessert after dinner.

After this pass, the three of them all had swollen stomachs.

The residence was very close, and it happened to be walking to digest food. When they arrived at the small courtyard, Xu Fei took the two of them in.

"Papa papa!"

"Papa papa!"

He knocked on the door knocker and shouted, "Is auntie there, auntie!"

"Hey, I've come back so early, I haven't seen you for a long time, you are...you're so fresh!"

The aunt came out and stared at the two older girls in a daze, "Your boy doesn't show his face in real life, how lucky is that?"

"Don't talk nonsense, they are all my friends, come and play."

"friend……"

The aunt looked like she had seen it through, "Hello, friend, let's play a little longer."

Xu Fei ignored her, and opened his small room. The inside was like an ice cellar, and he quickly turned on the coal stove to get some heat.

Both of them came here for the first time, and it was much richer than expected.

"Why did you get so much furniture yourself, or did the landlord keep it?"

Chen Xiaoxu looked left and right, and sat down on a certain round stool, "This stool is really old, why don't you throw it away?"

"It's quite old. The one you sit on is from the Qing Dynasty, and the one you sit on is from the Ming Dynasty..."

Oops, Xu Fei is so comfortable, he finally managed to pretend this.

As a result, the two girls did not respond, and looked at him with wide eyes, meaning "so what?"

Ya was bored for a moment, "I collected all the things in the house, a total of ninety-seven antiques, but only eighteen are relatively good, such as this..."

"Don't tell me, let us guess."

Chen Xiaoxu stood up, stepped on it pretendingly, went straight to the Zen chair, sat on it, felt very uncomfortable, and moved his buttocks without a teacher, and crossed his legs.

"I like this chair, it seems to be used for meditation."

She clasped her palms together and said with a smile, "Do you think I look like a monk?"

"Bullshit monk, knock on wood."

"ah?"

"Knock on wood quickly."

Xu Fei clasped her hand, knocked on the chair, and lifted it down again, "For those who celebrate Chinese New Year, don't say unlucky things!"

Chen Xiaoxu was simply baffled.

Zhang Li also turned around and saw a few snuff bottles on the shelf, so she looked down, and then caught a glimpse of a blue one, a man and a woman were parking on the side, her face blushed and she bit her lip Said: "Why, why do you even collect this thing?"

"What, let me see."

Chen Xiaoxu leaned over, blushing, "Bah, you really are not a good person!"

"It's feudal, isn't it? It's called art... Hey, I didn't draw your eyes, and playing hooligans is like the ancients playing hooligans. I am honest, kind, hardworking and willing to work..."

The more Xu Fei talked, the more he lost his confidence, so he had to stuff the snuff bottle into the drawer.

Chen Xiaoxu snorted, picked up the cupronickel cigarette holder and put it down again, then picked up the bull's mouth Ruyi, "There must be this."

"Yes, that is a paperweight from the Ming Dynasty."

"Is this the same?" Zhang Li touched the desk.

"Well, this is huanghuali furniture from the early Qing Dynasty."

"Heh, you're not playing casually, you want to be a collector in the future, just like Zhang Boju, the son of the Republic of China, hey..."

Zhang Li's eyes lit up, and he carefully picked up the bodhi leaf incense plate carved with pine flowers and stones, and said with a smile, "This one is beautiful, what kind of stone is it made of?"

"Songhua stone, produced in Changbai Mountain, is said to be as condensed as cream, as thin as skin, buckled as copper, and has a crisp and pleasant sound."

"Is it?"

Zhang Li pressed her ear, flicked her fingers, and heard a crisp sound like knocking on a bronze vessel, "It's really crisp and sweet."

She played it a few more times, stroking it in her hand and looking it over, "I think this one is the best."

"Having vision, this is one of the two most precious things, hey, what do you like..."

Xu Fei turned to ask, but saw Chen Xiaoxu sitting on his usual chair, playing with something in his hand, which was the pen holder.

The slender, white and tender fingers gently rubbed the bamboo surface, as if feeling the mottled texture and the ancient charm spanning a hundred years.

"You like this?"

"Um."

Chen Xiaoxu tilted his head, "It seems to have spirituality, I think this one is the best."

(Chapter 44 is also included...)