Food: Random stalls, customers chase me all over the country

Chapter 90 - Let's eat together

"Ahahaha, this pig ear tastes so fun to eat, crunchy..."

"It's crispy, tender, and smooth, and even chewing it dry is so delicious. If you add a sip of wine, it will be even more delicious."

"I have some wine. Come on, brother, I'll give it to you. The homemade jujube wine I just bought is definitely strong enough. Did you drive?"

"Come on, come on, meeting is fate. Let's find a place to have a meal. It's my treat."

"Get lost, I can tell you're not as old as me, so I'm the one treating you, don't fight with me or I'll get mad at you."

Wang Fan stood in the RV and couldn't help feeling a lot of emotion as he listened to the conversation below.

As the saying goes, the land and water nurture the people. He had never been abroad before and had no idea about this saying, but after coming to the Northeast, he really felt it.

In the imperial capital, everyone seems to deliberately keep their distance. A person has two or three friends, and strangers are strangers. If they can avoid talking, they will do so.

This is not the case in the Northeast. Two people standing in line who have nothing to do with each other can go out for dinner and drinks like old friends who haven't seen each other for a long time without saying a word. Their enthusiasm seems to ignite even the temperature of minus ten degrees Celsius.

Well, there are many handsome men and beautiful women, and the average height is really high.

His desire to travel became stronger and stronger, and he really wanted to go to other provinces to see what the local culture was like.

……

Zhou Ruoqing and Shen Yu had already boarded the train home yesterday.

After all, you still have to be at home during the Chinese New Year.

The tickets were booked long ago, and I was lucky enough to get a sleeper berth. If I had really squeezed into a hard seat during the Spring Festival travel rush, it would have been like killing someone.

Not to mention the smell of sweat and instant noodles in the carriage, just that extremely lethal sentence: "Person in front, please make way, please, please, please, please, move aside." is enough to make people feel miserable.

Lying in bed, she suddenly felt a little hungry.

Of course, you need to eat when you are hungry. Thinking of the big pork elbow and beef tendon that she bought before leaving, which were still in her bag, she swallowed her saliva greedily.

Get it together!

She was originally in the lower bunk. She stood up, pulled out her suitcase, took out the big pork elbow that she had vacuum-packed in advance, and began to eat it impatiently.

There were four people in this private room, and she ate very carefully so as not to disturb others' rest.

Despite this, the aroma of the meat will spread.

Li Ying is from Cantonese, but works in Yuhang. Taking advantage of the early annual leave, she went to the Northeast to experience what it felt like to have heavy snow.

This time I had a really great time. Not only did I experience rolling in the snow, but I also experienced what it felt like to be completely immersed in the snow.

I also saw the beautiful sight of the entire forest covered in snow, and felt the completely different enthusiasm of the people in Northeast China and the South.

The only unpleasant thing was that when I was playing on the big slide in the Ice and Snow World, the staff kept pushing me onto the children's slide.

You people from Northeast China are so tall, right?

Even though I'm a little shorter, I'm still an adult, okay?
Why should I slide down the same slide as a kid?!

Hmm... eh... it smells so good... what's that smell?
Li Ying, who was about to take a nap, suddenly twitched her nose and smelled a strong aroma of meat.

I sat up and looked down, and saw the young lady on the lower bunk opposite me tearing a big pork elbow. From the oil stains on her mouth, it was not difficult to tell that she must be enjoying the meal very much.

"Gu..." Li Ying's stomach suddenly made a sad sound.

It’s not that Li Ying doesn’t have money to eat, but the food on the train is so different from what she ate in Northeast China. Unless she is extremely hungry, she doesn’t want to eat at all.

Blushing a little, she hurriedly prepared to lie down. There were some snacks under her pillow to fill her stomach.

Zhou Ruoqing heard the sound and looked up curiously, only to see a little girl with a red face preparing to lie down.

Zhou Ruoqing chuckled and whispered, "Are you hungry? Come down and eat something together. I have plenty here."

Li Ying swallowed her saliva. Although she had a thousand thoughts in her mind, she still shook her head: "No... No, I still have food here. Thank you."

If it were in the past, Zhou Ruoqing would definitely not say anything after being rejected.

But perhaps it was her recent trip to Northeast China that had touched her, and she smiled and invited him again, "Come on, come on, I tell you, this pork elbow of mine is delicious. Di Renjie gave it five stars when he visited the restaurant. Besides, it's quite boring for me to eat alone. Come down and have some with us."

Faced with Zhou Ruoqing's enthusiasm, Li Ying was a little overwhelmed and had to get out of bed carefully. After getting down, she suddenly remembered that there was some food in her suitcase, so she hurriedly opened it and took out a bag.

"I bought a lot of Harbin red sausages. I'll take some out for you to try."

As he spoke, he took out the sausage from the bag and placed it on the small table in the private room.

Zhou Ruoqing's eyes lit up. "I wanted to buy some, but I was so engrossed in playing with them for two days that I only remembered I hadn't bought any until I got on the train. Now I finally have what I wanted. Here, I'll give you some gloves. You really have to eat this pork elbow with your hands to enjoy it."

"Thank you."

Li Ying thanked her and, imitating Zhou Ruoqing, pinched a small piece of elbow meat in her hand.

There is still some difference between the elbow just out of the pot and the elbow that has been left for a day. The originally soft and glutinous skin of the elbow becomes a little more resilient and chewier, but the taste remains the same and it is still very delicious.

Li Ying's eyes lit up and she said, "Wow, this is delicious. Where did you buy it?"

Zhou Ruoqing chuckled, "This one's at the snack street across from the Ice and Snow World. Speaking of which, it's quite interesting. I've known the boss selling pork elbows before. He started out selling rice noodle rolls in the capital, and then he seemed to have switched to selling steamed buns. This time when I came to the Northeast, I didn't expect to run into him again, and he's also changed his career to sell braised meat. Honestly, the food he makes is really delicious. If I didn't have someone I liked, I'd definitely chase him. I'm sure there would be endless delicious food for him in the future, hahaha."

"Haha, that's really interesting. But I've been to the snack street you mentioned, and I didn't see any braised meat there."

Zhou Ruoqing thought for a moment and said, "Did you go somewhere else to play? It seems that the boss has only started setting up the stall these past two days."

Li Ying nodded with some regret: "No wonder, I went to Xuexiang the day before yesterday and haven't been to Harbin since then."

Zhou Ruoqing nodded. "Then you're at a big loss. This meat is still a little worse than when it was freshly cooked. Back then, the skin was wiggling like it was dancing. Wow, that scene makes me drool just thinking about it."

"Hey... Miss, I've been trying to contain the aroma of your meat. Why did you insist on describing that scene? Now you're making me hungry too. I have some white meat, blood sausage, and Jilin Province braised pork. Can I share some with you?"

"Um... I have some frozen shrimp and cherries here. I'd like to try some too..."

"Everyone come, come, it's lively with more people, hahaha."

Zhou Ruoqing said this and invited the other two to come and eat together.

The two of them took things out of their bags and filled the small table in no time.

Several people introduced themselves. Most of them were from the south who came to Northeast China to play in the snow. They ate and talked, telling about what they saw and heard and what they gained from their trip to Northeast China. For a while, the small box was filled with laughter.

Zhou Ruoqing had never dared to imagine such a scene before. Many times, the journey ended without her even saying a word to others.

Could this be the expressive power of the Northeast?
Maybe it's magic.

(End of this chapter)