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Chapter 99

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    [1] Zhang Xian. Poem "Dengqi Zhenglou-Shangque"

    The storeys are arched to clamp the thoroughfare,

    ? Drums play bells and Zhuang Diji;

    Eternal morning and evening often treat,

    Two pills, the sun and the moon fly together.

    The New Year's goods were basically ready, and Zhen Yougan finally dragged the carriage to the driveway at the foot of the Qizheng Building [now the Drum Tower].

    Qing Wan sat on the big box in front of the car, opened the curtain and asked, "Is parking allowed here?"

    "I won't stop here." Yougan asked Youcai to sit in the co-pilot and said, "Let's go now!"

    "I can't even walk!"

    "You don't understand this. During this period of time, it's okay to walk for a while."

    Chidao is the emperor's special lane, and ministers, common people, and even relatives of the emperor have no right to walk.  But there are exceptions, that is, during major holidays, temple fairs, fairs, etc., the emperor allowed the people to park their cars on both sides of the road or take a short walk in order to provide convenience for the people.

    Seeing that the carriage passed Wanning Temple [today's Bell Tower] and was still going north, Qingwan asked, "Where are we going?"

    "send you home."

    "Stop shopping for clothes?"

    "Buy in the afternoon."

    "Afternoon," Qing Wan was obviously displeased, "Why don't you buy it all at once?"

    "First give the 'annual gift' to your father and send it home."

    "Oh~, go to my house!"

    "Then what do you think?"

    "I thoughtdon't you go southeast to go to my house?"

    "Fengji, how can you go to the southeast, turn east at Guangxi Street [now North Third Ring Middle Road], it's the same."

    "Actually, it's okay to watch my father go in the afternoon."

    "Go home to visit your parents, how can you go in the afternoon? You have to go early in the morning."

    "My family is not so particular!" Qing Wan patted a large box of New Year's goods and said, "You are afraid that this box will be damaged!"

    "How can the current things be destroyed?"

    "Since the things can't be put away, it's the same after ten or eight days to go home!"

    "Why do you have to spend ten or eight days?"

    "Don't you see, what I'm wearing today is a bit shabby, why don't you wait for me to make new clothes and put them on when I go home, wouldn't it be better!"

    "New clothes, it's not too late to show off when you go home during the Spring Festival! As the old saying goes, a girl can't go home to see her parents after the twenty-third of the twelfth lunar month."

    "Why?"

    "On the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, girls and uncles do not come to the door."

    "You made it up!"

    "I don't have the ability to make up old sayings. The old man said that after the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, girls will step on the roots of their mother's family when they go home. This is called 'Girls don't step on the dust and weeds of their mother's family'."

    "Isn't the root of our Yu family kept in our Zhen's house? It won't be broken by stepping on it!" Qing Wan laughed again, "Oh~, you are afraid that I will go back and step on your nephew Yu Mufan! His  Big tall man, can I step on it"

    While talking and joking, the carriage made a straight turn and turned towards Wenming Street [now Dongdan North Street]. After walking for about an hour, it arrived near Qihuamen [now Chaoyangmen], where Qingwan's natal family lived.

    Her home wasn't here before.

    Since the Tonghui River was connected, the grain in the nine warehouses inside the gate was transported from Qihuamen, which is the nearest city gate to Tongzhou Wharf.  At that time, officials and merchants who left Beijing to the south, or officials and merchants who entered Beijing from the south for pilgrimage and business, all stopped at this gate.  Some merchants carrying high-grade Chinese medicinal materials were snapped up before they landed. Qingwan's grandfather moved his family here for the convenience of purchasing medicine.

    After entering the house, Qing Wan asked Aunt Zhen, "Where is my father?"

    Aunt Zhen said, "Go to work."

    "Are you still on vacation?"

    "When did your father go on vacation so early?"

    "Didn't our Da Khan live in Shangdu all the time, so he didn't need my father to take care of him at all. He didn't hurry up to take a vacation with his gang of imperial doctors and go home as soon as possible to celebrate the New Year."

    "The emperor is not here, so we have to stick to our posts." Aunt Zhen said, "I heard that officials in most capitals will take longer annual leave this year."

    "How long can it grow? It's only ten or eight days!"

    "Hey~" Seeing so many gifts and a big box moved into the living room, Aunt Zhen said with a smile on her face, "Your father said that you will have a holiday when you are young, and you will not go to work until fifteen"

    After putting away the gift, You Gan instructed: "Sister, let someone put the things in the box in a cool place, but don't let them go bad."It became the royal meal of the court.

    ?Because there are many time-honored bean juice shops in Beijing, many old Beijingers like this one.  The Old Ciqikou Doujuice Store was restructured from the Jinxin Doujuice Store many years ago. Some staff reorganized and opened this store, and quickly developed a number of branches.  There are various traditional snacks of old Beijing, such as screw turn, pier pastry, coke ring, sugar fire, etc.

    (1) Special snacks

    Soybean juice has the characteristics of gray-green color, thick and mellow soybean juice, sour and slightly sweet taste.  Soybean juice is a traditional liquid food snack in winter and spring with unique flavor in Beijing.  Especially the old Beijingers have a special preference for it.  In the past, there were two kinds of soybean juice sold: raw and cooked.  Most of the uncooked sellers push wooden barrel carts and sell them together with mochi tofu; most of the cooked ones carry a bean curd pot on one end, and coke rings, fried dough twists, and spicy pickles on the other end.

    Soybean juice must be served with very finely cut pickles. Generally, kohlrabi baskets are used in summer, and old salt water mustard should be cut into thin shreds, mixed with chili oil, and fried brown and crispy.  .

    (2) About soybean juice

    When it comes to Beijing snacks, the first thing people think of is soybean juice.  Beijingers love to drink soybean juice, and regard drinking soybean juice as a kind of enjoyment.  But the first time I drank soybean juice, the swill-like smell made it hard to swallow, and I pinched my nose and drank it twice, and the feeling was different.  Some people are so addicted that they search everywhere and have to drink in line.  "Yandu Small Food Miscellaneous Songs" said: "The dregs can be used as porridge, and the flavor of the old pulp is thin and thick. There is no distinction between men and women. Come and sit together, each with a palatable salt." And said, "The taste is sour and salty  In addition, the eater knows it himself, which can be described as exquisite."

    What is soybean juice?

    In fact, it is the leftovers for making mung bean starch or vermicelli.  It is soaked with mung beans until they can be twisted and peeled, then taken out, ground into a fine slurry with water, and poured into a large tank for fermentation. The starch that sinks to the bottom of the tank is the starch, and the floating one on the upper layer is soybean juice.  The fermented soybean juice must be boiled with water in a large casserole, then mixed with the fermented soybean juice and then boiled, then kept warm over a low heat, and served as you like.  Don't look at its ugly appearance, but it has always been loved by Beijingers because it is extremely rich in protein, vitamin C, crude fiber and sugar, and has the functions of dispelling heat, clearing heat, warming yang, invigorating the spleen, appetizing, detoxifying, and removing dryness.

    (3) Healthy food

    Soybean juice is a naturally fermented soy product. Scientists collected samples from Dongzhimen Soybean Juice, Longfusi Soybean Juice, and Laociqikou Soybean Juice, and identified the microbial composition through DNA sequencing.  It was found that the main fermenting microorganism is actually Lactococcus lactis, in addition to Lactobacillus, Streptococcus, Acetobacter and other microorganisms are involved in the fermentation process of soybean juice.

    Although the fermentation of soy milk is similar to that of yogurt, due to the presence of bacteria, its flavor is far more complicated than that of yogurt in supermarkets.  After the detection of modern scientific instruments, there are at least 40 flavor substances in soybean juice, mainly various alcohols, followed by organic acids, aldehydes, and ethers.

    Some old Beijingers especially like to drink soy juice, and they also like to go to specific soy juice shops to drink it. There is also a scientific reason for this.  The fermentation process and fermentation environment of different stores are different, resulting in different fermentation microorganisms and flavor substances produced by fermentation.  For example, the bean juice in Huguosi has more alcohols, while the bean juice in Laociqikou is richer in aldehydes.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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