Oh, soy sauce snails

In the early years, the most popular snack in the Jinan street market was when pushing soy sauce snails. At that time, stalls selling soy sauce snails abounded in Baotu Spring and Ximen areas, "Five spices - soy sauce snails!" The shouts and shouts went on and on. The snail shells in the moat by Baotu Spring are piled up like mountains, which has become a scene in Jinan, which can really be described as a grand moment. I remember when I was in middle school, I once chatted with my classmates about famous products from all over the world, such as "Yantai apple Laiyang pear, can't catch up with Weixian radish peel" and the like. When talking about what famous products Jinan has, a classmate blurted out: "Soy sauce snails!" As he spoke, he swallowed hard and spit. Everyone echoed in unison, I think it seems a little wrong, but I really can't find a sufficient reason to oppose it becoming a "famous property" in Jinan, so I have to admit it.

Indeed, the shiny and oily snails of cooked soy sauce, paired with a few slices of bright red peppers, really made me salivate as a teenager. At that time, some of the classmates occasionally had a few "brothers" in their pockets, and they would show off: "Eat soy sauce snails after school!" "Unfortunately, there are very few opportunities, especially for me. At that time, the money that my family paid for my tuition, bought textbooks, pencils, erasers, etc. was accurate, and as for other pocket money, don't think about it. And my stomach is very uncontentious, and whenever I pass by the snail stalls, they always have to squirm desperately for a while. Helpless in the bag, often only the eyes stare at the dry addiction. Therefore, I often hate my classmates together: "When I earn money, I have to eat a meal of soy sauce snails!" ”

Sometimes I also play a little clever, deduct a few points from the money my family buys me vegetables, and go to addiction. The stall I love to go to is on my way to school. The stall owner is an old man with kind eyebrows and silver beards, and instead of soliciting customers like others, he is sitting precariously, with a few plates of bright snails in front of him - quite a bit of Taigong fishing style. The others are extremely kind, and they do not dismiss the little tricks of our few children in the bag as other stall owners do. At that time, the market price of soy sauce snails was five cents a piece of plate, and I rarely had the opportunity to make up this whole number. But as long as you go to the old man's stall, whether you give two points or three points, he always picks up a plate, symbolically takes one or two - to show the difference, and handed it to me: "Boy, sit down and eat slowly!" Sometimes, when I'm happy to eat, I'll pick up a few more and say, "Eat, eat, it's a child's play." So, as long as I have a few dollars, I will run to him to "rub the oil." Even if I don't have any money, I still have things to rub here for a while, listening to the old man say that the old man is very talkative. The old man also sold wine, but he only paid for the sale of wine, in order to facilitate those addicts who loved to take two sips of the snail. Yes, on summer nights, the neighbors who live around here to spend eight cents of money, and they are addicted, and they are cool, and they can also pull the sky long and short, which is not a happy thing.

One Sunday, I came to the old man's stall with two cents and saw a girl selling snails for the old man, and this girl was my classmate. When she saw me, she was embarrassed—she was the granddaughter of the old man. I was also ashamed that I had escaped when I boarded. Since then, I have never dared to go to the old man's stall again. For a "big boy" in the hall, it is too embarrassing to go to a female classmate's stall to "pick up the oil".

In the future, I have been away from Jinan for more than ten years, and I still remember the soy sauce snail. After returning to the economy, because I was busy all day, I did not have time to take care of this way. One day, a good friend came to visit from afar, talking about the customs and customs of Jinan, I suddenly remembered the hateful words I made when I was young, and I had to drag him to taste the snails. Friends suspect that there is a schistosomiasis parasite in it. While snickering at his "foreigner", I was suspicious: "Schistosomiasis parasite, nail snail also; soy sauce snail snail, field snail also." Field snails are rich in nutrients and contain vitamins such as abcdefg." When he came to the stall, he knew that his value had changed compared with the past. If the price index were to be measured in this way, it would be an incomprehensible percentage. The beer sold on the stalls is also high-priced. Fortunately, the bags I wait for are far from being comparable to what they used to be. When I ate it, I felt that today's soy sauce snail seemed to have no flavor of the past, but my friend ate it with relish. After eating heavily, I laughed at my "pearl emerald white jade soup" and suffered from it. Yes, nowadays, I am afraid that teenagers who eat soy sauce snails as a major pleasure in life are no longer common. When I was in front of the small book stall, I saw today's teenagers buying a set of popular novels for tens of yuan, or even hundreds of dollars of toys, without any flesh pain, and I sighed.

Oh, soy sauce snails!

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