The Days of Opening a Restaurant on an Abnormal Earth

Huo Ying, who looks a little chunky and smiles like Maitreya Buddha, is an old comrade in arms of Jiang Aijun. Back then, he was a squad leader under Jiang Aijun. Unlike Jiang Aijun who worked in a factory after retiring from the army, Huo Ying, who looks like Maitreya Buddha, has the skills of an electrician, so he joined the power grid after retiring from the army.

Back then, working in the power grid was either very good or bad, but now the formal staffing positions within the State Grid have become popular.

Huo Ying has worked in the power grid unit for these years and has gradually climbed from a technician who just retired to a small leader. It belongs to the kind that is less than the upper but more than the lower.

The salary level of the power grid is actually very good. It is not difficult for an electrician with a formal establishment to earn more than 100,000 yuan a year. As a small leader, Huo Ying's income is even higher.

Back then, when the housing price in Shuangqing was not high, I bought a large house of 150 square meters in Yuzhong District. Now Huo Ying's life is quite enjoyable.

I have a gentle wife, and my son is in college and will be graduating in one year. He is studying at Wuhan University, and he has already found an internship unit, and some companies are already interested in signing him.

As a Shuangqing person who is used to ease, many people would completely relax if they lived like him.

However, Huo Ying still has one thing to worry about. So even though Zhang Tong got drunk yesterday, when he woke up this morning, he endured a headache and took a taxi to the vicinity of Shiba Staircase.

Originally, Shibati was a good place for Shuangqing people to eat down-to-earth snacks such as hot pot skewers and bean curd rice. The terrain here is towering, and the shops are built along the hills. If you want to visit these shops, you have to climb the high stone stairs.

When the old Shuangqing was not so modern, Shibati was actually a very lively place in Shuangqing. Whenever it’s meal time, you can see many people coming and going in Shibati, either eating or mending clothes.

Eating at Shibati is very interesting. At noon, the best business in Shibati is the shop selling bean curd rice. The so-called bean curd rice is really a very simple bowl of bean curd and rice.

The bean curd in bean curd rice is generally not the ready-made bean curd bought from the vegetable market, but the bean curd that the shop owner starts to grind the soy milk early in the morning and makes it on the spot at noon. This kind of bean curd has a looser texture, not as firm and tender as those extruded tofu cubes. This kind of bean curd will have a lot of pores with uneven texture.

These pores are very suitable for wrapping the sauce, so this bean curd is very flavor-absorbing. This very flavorful bean curd is paired with the store's special spicy dipping water, and a piece of bean curd is thickly wrapped in a layer of sauce, and then stays on the steamed crystal clear rice for a while.

Use bamboo chopsticks to put the bean curd and the sticky rice into the mouth together, and chew carefully. The aroma of bean curd, the salty and spicy sauce, and the sweetness of rice form a perfect trio in the mouth.

The white rice and white bean curd may not seem appetizing, but with the store's special sauce and water, it becomes the cheapest and most affordable fast food for Shuangqing.

In the early years of Shibati, the main consumers of bean curd rice were mostly laborers carrying bamboo poles and hooks with hemp ropes. They have a special name in Shuangqing: Bang Bang.

Bangbang love to eat bean curd rice, because it is large and affordable. A large bowl of bean curd and unlimited rice costs only two or three yuan for a set.

Bang Bang who are engaged in heavy physical labor need a lot of protein to supplement their own consumption. Tofu curd is probably the food that can get the most protein intake at the same price.

And at night in Shibati, the best business is those small shops that sell skewers.

Unlike the sticky bean curd rice at noon, most of the people who came to Shibati to eat skewers were young men and women. Two cents for a string sign is a price that has not changed for many years. It is also the rule to eat skewers after counting the sticks to calculate the money.

In Jiang Aijun's generation, they could bring their girlfriends here to eat skewers at night, and have a bottle of Jianlibao alone. After eating and drinking enough, I went to the video hall to watch two Hong Kong movies in the evening. That was the most fashionable young man of that era.

When Jiang Hua was still in elementary school, her family's Chuan Chuan shop opened on the side of Shibati. Later, when they got rich, they began to move to Jiefangbei.

However, when Huo Ying took a taxi to the vicinity of the Eighteenth Staircase, the place was completely sealed off and no one was allowed to enter.

Because of the development of the times, Shibati, as earlier than Jiefangbei, can be regarded as the earliest and most prosperous commercial street in the mountain city, but now it looks like a shanty town that continues to be rectified. It is a village in the city of Shuangqing, and it is also an old building area that hinders urban development.

Now the Shiba Ladder is about to be completely demolished, Huo Ying glanced at the direction of the Shiba Ladder's construction site, he was somewhat reluctant. Because there are many memories of my youth here.

This is where I fell in love with girls, had dinner and drinks with colleagues and friends, and watched the first Hong Kong-produced movie "The True Colors of a Hero" in the video room for the first time.

However, the times are developing and changing, just like the group that was once called the Shancheng Stick-Bang Army is almost invisible in the current mountain city.

Just like many young people now want to order a few more meat dishes when they eat bean curd rice, the monotonous taste of pure bean curd with white rice is no longer suitable for today's trend.

Although Shibati is being demolished, some old houses radiating around Shibati have not been completely demolished. In other words, these houses have been planned for demolition and renovation projects, but government funds have not yet been fully in place, so they have to wait for the next batch of renovations before they will be completely demolished.

What Huo Ying went to was an old building around Shibati. Just by looking at the exterior of the house, you can tell that this building is very old. The outer wall of the first floor has grown a lot of moss, and the cement wall of the outer wall is peeling off. Inside the red bricks.

Huo Ying went to the third floor and knocked on the door on the left: "Huo Zheng, open the door, it's me."

"Uncle, wait a moment! Wait a moment!" A young voice came from inside.

Huo Ying waited for a long time before his nephew Huo Zheng opened the door.

Huo Zheng looked about twenty-five or sixty-five, but he was not tall, only about 1.65 meters. This should be because their old Huo family's genes are not very good.

"What are you doing?" Huo Ying smelled a strong fragrance as soon as he entered the room.

"Isn't this an experiment?" Huo Zheng scratched his head: "I've been back for so long, and I haven't found a suitable job. But I can't do anything else except cooking, so there's nothing I can do."

Huo Ying looked at his nephew, and then at a plate on the table, which was covered by the lid of the rice cooker. Smell the smell, the fragrance comes from here.

Huo Ying was curious: "What did you do?" As he spoke, he wanted to step forward and lift the lid.

Huo Zheng didn't have time to stop his uncle, he could only yell, "Uncle blocks his eyes!"

"What?" Huo Ying didn't react, he lifted the lid of the pot subconsciously, and he knew why in the next second. A soaring golden light burst out from the plate.