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【212】 Jiangnan cuisine

After lunch, Wei Tingting took Xiao Qiang out of the old house. First, to see the scenery of Ancang Ancient Town, and second, to avoid the overly enthusiastic tribe members.

There is no way, Wei Tingting is the first tribe member of her generation to find a son-in-law from another place. The other cousins ​​and sisters were all resolved in Kuaiji. After several generations, there were very few Wei family members who married outsiders. Xiao Qiang, as the first, naturally attracted much attention.

You should know that even Wei Tingting's mother is from Haizhou, her ancestral home is actually from Kuaiji. Her hometown is in a town not far from Ancang, and she knows the truth.

Look, when Xiao Qiang was at home, there were always tribe members who came in to see Xiao Qiang with various excuses, and chatted with him to satisfy his curiosity. Fortunately, Xiao Qiang is a big man, and if he had changed to a new wife, he would probably be unable to withstand it.

Even so, Xiao Qiang was a little troubled. There was nothing else. The Mandarin in the Wei family had a strong An Cang accent. Xiao Qiang could only listen at all and did not dare to relax.

"I'm so tired!" Walking on the street paved with bluestone, Xiao Qiang breathed a sigh of relief.

Like Ginkgo Village, many buildings in Ancang Ancient Town were built decades ago or even hundreds of years ago, full of traces of time, which made Xiao Qiang feel a familiar atmosphere.

Compared with Ginkgo Village, Ancang's popularity seems much higher. After all, it has more than 30,000 permanent residents. With the tourists coming from all over the country, it seems much more lively than the vast land and sparsely populated Jinghu area.

"This time, do you feel the feeling of being at your house for the first time?" Wei Tingting held Xiao Qiang's hand and said with a smile: "That time, your aunts and sisters in your family made me sweat!"

Putting aside the first trip to Ginkgo Village, Wei Tingting caused a great sensation when she visited the Xiao family as Xiao Qiang’s girlfriend for the first time. After all, Wei Tingting and Xiao Qiang were confirmed to be still before Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao, and Wei Tingting was the first girlfriend from another province that the Xiao family had made.

Those two days, as long as Wei Tingting was at home, the Xiao family members always found various excuses to come to the old house to see her new wife. Even when she was walking in the village, the villagers were paying great attention to her.

This time, the characters were lost, and Xiao Qiang became the target of the Wei family.

"Anyway, I'm going to leave this, so it doesn't matter if everyone is familiar with it!" Xiao Qiang waved his hand and said, "I read the information. An Cang has a lot of delicious snacks. Take me to eat!"

Just now, Xiao Qiang, who was a little restrained, was not full at all. It would be a good idea to make some snacks while he was out for a walk.

"This is no problem. In the past, many delicious foods were their own private dishes. They couldn't be eaten normally. Now there is an increase in tourists. Many families have made private dishes for business and can eat whatever they want!" Although Wei Tingting grew up in Haizhou, went to school and the princess, she basically came back for a while every year. She was also aware of the changes in the town over the years. She was naturally more than enough to act as Xiao Qiang's guide.

Ancang is built along the river. There are clear and winding rivers in front of or backyards of many residential houses, with different shapes everywhere, which is quite similar to the ancient town of Yaozhou. In the town, elderly people basking in the sun lazy everywhere. The leisurely and comfortable atmosphere of life has not changed due to the influx of tourists, which is the same as Ginkgo Village.

Strolling on the bluestone road in Ancang Ancient Town, Xiao Qiang felt that in addition to the different climate and architectural styles, this place is a complex of Yaozhou Ancient Town and Ginkgo Village.

What impressed Xiao Qiang the most was that the sausages and bacon hanging under the eaves demonstrated the prosperity of the Jiangnan region and also showed a local characteristic!

Unlike the sausage made by the Xiao family, which uses fruit wood and herbs to smoke, Ancang's sausage uses the principle of air-drying. During the production process, the most distinctive soy sauce in Kuaiji area is used, revealing a strong sauce.

Unlike the slightly dry taste of Xiaojia fumigation, Ancang's sausage is softer and more glutinous. It tastes more abundantly and is a different style of food.

On the lunch just now, many local specialty dishes such as steamed sausages, dried plum buckles, clear soup Yue chicken, Kuaiji Ma duck and other places made Xiao Qiang praise it.

Xiao Qiang, who grew up eating various delicacies made by Xiao Jinhao, actually has a strong appreciation for food. From his perspective, Ancang's food is full of the delicateness of Jiangnan, and it is more particular about knife skills and heat, full of a strong water town flavor.

At a roadside stall, Wei Tingting made a heavy crispy pancake for Xiao Qiang, and ordered a portion of fennel beans. The two of them ate while enjoying the scenery along the way.

"This fennel bean is the fennel bean with four ways of writing?" Seeing Wei Tingting eating with relish, Xiao Qiang also threw two of them into his mouth and chewed them.

Xiao Qiang, who had not yet known Wei Tingting and had not come to Ancang, had the greatest understanding of Kuaiji that he was the hometown of the great writer Zhou, and the background of many of his works was in the water town of Kuaiji. Fennel beans were originally a common Jiangnan snack, but in Mr. Kong's mouth, the fennel beans, which had "four ways to write", became the representative of Kuaiji snacks.

Fennel beans are actually a saying of broad beans. In Yaozhou and Nanzhao, many farmers also plant them. Ginkgo Village still has some villagers plant broad beans, which make snacks and sell them to tourists. However, there are no celebrities like Mr. Zhou in these places. They make inconspicuous snacks famous and become household names.

"When I was a child, I didn't have money. I could eat a cent of fennel beans for a long time and was most popular among children!" Wei Tingting threw an anise bean into her mouth and said, "The grandma who set up a stall just now has already set up a stall at that time. 20 years have passed, and the taste has not changed at all!"

For Wei Tingting now, the snacks in her hometown are more of a memory, which carries her childhood and many of her happy times.

Every time she returns to Ancang, she likes to wander on these bluestone roads, stop on all kinds of stone bridges, and enjoy the tranquility of her hometown.

This time, with Xiao Qiang accompanying him, a sweet feeling lingers in my heart, and it feels great!

The two of them were eating various snacks while shuttled between the forests of bacon, and the stories behind the various old buildings along the way were also presented to Xiao Qiang in the explanation of Wei Tingting.

People all know that the "Kuaiji Master" was a special group in the late Chinese feudal society, and it played a very important role in the political system of the former Qing Dynasty. However, few people know that most of the "Kuaiji Master" came from Ancang!

In history, more than 20,000 "Kuaiji Masters" were originally from Ancang, and dozens of ancestors from Wei Tingting's ancestors had gone out to serve as masters. Her great-grandfather was one of the representatives of the last generation of "Kuaiji Masters".

Walking in the "Kuaiji Master" Museum, Xiao Qiang felt the profound historical heritage. Compared with the villages full of Ginkgo Village, the Jiangnan region, which was passed down through farming and reading, undoubtedly had more historical and cultural heritage.

When Xiao Qiang met Mr. Wei and other elders of the Wei family just now, he had a clear feeling. If Xiao Qiang had not been forced by the old man to read a lot of ancient poems when he was a child, he would have known some knowledge of Chinese studies. The first time he met Mr. Wei, he would have made a fool of himself.

After eating the heavy crispy pancake, Xiao Qiang brought another piece of osmanthus fragrant cake. The soft and glutinous osmanthus fragrant cake uses snacks made of high-quality glutinous rice and osmanthus pollen, which is one of the representative works in the Jiangnan region.

The best osmanthus cake is crispy and delicate, and melts in the mouth. The rich aroma of fried rice and osmanthus is irresistible. Compared with the heavily oiled and spicy snacks in northwestern Yunnan, this kind of glutinous snack is more suitable for the elderly. Xiao Qiang plans to bring some back to the elderly at home.

In this way, the young couple held hands and wandered in Ancang Ancient Town, with various delicacies, beautiful scenery and beautiful moods intertwined, and almost both of them forgot the time.

Until the sun set, the phone call from home urging to eat came over. Only then did the two realize that they had been shopping for several hours. They couldn't help but look at each other and smiled and rushed home in a hurry.

That night, the Wei family used ginkgo ingredients brought by Xiao Feng from Haizhou to make several large tables of delicacies. The delicious food from northwestern Yunnan immediately conquered the Wei family, and their sense of Xiao Qiang became better.

I heard that Xiao Qiang’s farm produces this kind of high-end ingredients, and its products are mainly supplied with five-star hotels and high-end restaurants in southern Yunnan and Haizhou. The Wei family’s eyes looked at Xiao Feng differently.

At the beginning, most of the Wei family thought that Xiao Qiang was just a handsome and credible person. Now it seems that his family background and his personal abilities are not bad.

Jiangnan has always been the most developed and active region with the private economy. People are more accustomed to using economic strength to measure the ability of a person and a family. As the executive vice president of a large farm with an annual output value of more than 300 million yuan, Xiao Qiang has taken this position regardless of whether he has taken the position because of his family background or ability.

With strong economic strength, it is naturally easy to gain respect from Jiangnan people, which is also human nature.

At this moment, at the dining table, more and more peers toasted Xiao Qiang, and Xiao Qiang's generous drinking style suddenly calmed down these young actors in Jiangnan.

On the first day of arriving in Ancang, Xiao Qiang, the black charcoal head, easily won the favor and recognition of the Wei family, which cleared all the obstacles between him and Wei Tingting. Although others have no right to interfere in the relationship between the two people, wouldn’t it be better if they could get the blessings of all the tribe members?

Therefore, before coming to Ancang, Xiao Qiang had already made various psychological preparations for being made difficult and embarrassed, but the progress of things was so smooth that Xiao Qiang was even a little surprised.

Actually, this is also a very normal thing.

Xiao Qiang is not bad and has enough aura. With his strong economic strength, the Wei family members will naturally not jump out to be bad people. If Xiao Qiang was just a worker, no matter how handsome he was, he would probably write sour words, but that kind of situation would never be encountered by Xiao Qiang.

After meeting Mr. Wei and the old lady, the engagement ceremony between Xiao Qiang and Wei Tingting was about to be put on the agenda. The two young people had no say in these issues, so they just waited to attend the ceremony.

Although they were a little unhappy, if they had elders to decide, they could only be obedient!

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