flavor
The street lights are dazzling because I can't forget the gentleness of the night. The evening breeze rides on this gentleness to stay at a quaint and modern crossroads.
Listen to the older generation, the "sea paradise" at this intersection is an old brand. Retired old people have nothing to do, set up a table in groups, a deck of cards, and order a sea paradise turtle paste is a long and comfortable afternoon.
Once, during a summer vacation, I ate a bowl of authentic "Sea Paradise" turtle paste with my grandparents, and I smelled the sweet and slightly bitter taste from a distance, which stimulated my taste nerves and made me shiver. The coagulated paste is tender and elastic, dotted with yellow honey. With the cool tortoise cream in its mouth, from the tip of the tongue to the throat, it is full of the sweet and bitter taste.
Outsiders are not accustomed to this slightly bitter taste, but my hometown people have a fondness for this taste.
In my memories, summer in my hometown is such a taste.
There is also an herbal tea shop not far from the sea paradise, I remember that the hostess was very enthusiastic, remember that herbal tea is very bitter, and remember that it was an authentic taste.
"Hey, lady boss, two bowls of herbal tea to clear the heat!" Dad called the hostess in the local dialect.
The lady took off her reading glasses, put away the newspaper and clipped it under her armpits, and trotted over with a pair of flip-flops.
"Hey, pretty boy, two bowls, huh?" Hold on. ”
The taste of cold vegetables is very bitter, but my dad likes to drink and talk to this sixty-year-old lady. The hostess is familiar with the local customs and customs, and even tells others about the secret herbal tea recipe without reservation.
I had come to visit once every two or three weeks before, and each time it was crowded, and the line kept lining up to the end of the alley. If it is an adult with a child, the hostess will send chen pidan every time.
The evening breeze of memories swept across the intersection, and when I reacted, there were dazzling street lamps in front of me. The crowds were bustling, like tides; the neon was glaring, the lights were foggy, the city was changing too fast, and those two stores had been replaced by tall buildings.
To this day, people in their hometown still love this unique bitter taste, and every household will make turtle paste and boil herbal tea.
According to the older generation, the reason why the people of our hometown love the unique, bitter and not astringent taste is because they have eaten bitterness, they have suffered a lot of suffering, and this fertile land in their hometown is moistened by their sweat. Suffering is the character of our water townspeople, and it is also the temperament of the water townspeople. Generation after generation of Lishui people have used the spirit of hardship to build a modern small town with a prosperous government and a prosperous industry, and they have bred the wealth and civilization of the dream water town with diligence and wisdom.
The wind and rain come and go, and it is precisely because of these unique "tastes" that the old times are so warm and unforgettable.
The water town is quiet, it is the sound of the small paddle paddle in the blue waves; the babbling in the dream is the bitter taste of the water town people.
