Story: The legend of sweet noodle sauce

At dinner, I shared watermelon sauce beans with Jiaming, and my grandmother said that I would fry some watermelon sauce this year, and I gladly accepted.

"Have you ever eaten sweet noodle sauce?" I asked Jiaming, and Jiaming shook his head, shaking his head maybe no, maybe he forgot. Sweet noodle sauce, as the name suggests, is a sweet sauce that is fermented with noodles. As everyone knows, this noodle did not initially refer to flour and pastry, but to noodles. It's like the noodle shop owner asking a guest what noodles do you eat? It refers to what noodles to eat, not to ask what flour to eat.

Gossip is not much to talk about, when it comes to the origin of sweet noodle sauce, you have to start from the Yutang Sauce Garden in Jining.

Yutang Sauce Garden is a long-established brand in Southwest Lu, and when I learned to play soy sauce, I played the big vat of soy sauce in Yutang Sauce Garden. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the owner of the Yutang Sauce Garden removed the door panel and prepared to open for business, he sat at the counter, looked out, and there was something dangling on the street, reflecting the brilliance of the sun, like a silver dollar. The owner of the Yutang Sauce Garden quickly walked from the house to the street, walked to the things that were dangling in front of Ming, looked down and prepared to pick up the treasure, and took a closer look, it turned out to be a lump of yellow. The owner of the Yutang Sauce Garden sadly returned to the back of the counter, sat there and looked out, a look was still a bright and dangling thing, like a silver dollar, he did not die, he went to the street to pick it up, looked down, or the lump of yellow. The owner of Yutang Sauce Yuan was very confused in his heart, and sat down at the counter to stare at the dangling things in the middle of the street.

At this time, there was a pair of women who wanted to eat, the women were wearing tattered clothes, and when the mother was carrying a stick and a broken bowl, the seven- or eight-year-old child held the corner of his mother's clothes and nodded when he saw someone. The two ladies who wanted food walked down the street, and the child bent down to pick up something from the dangling lump and stuffed it in his pocket. When the owner of the Yutang Sauce Garden looked at it, he was stunned, and quickly ran to the street again, asking the child who wanted food, what did you just pick up. The child took a silver dollar out of his pocket and said that he had just picked it up. The owner of the Yutang Sauce Garden wondered in his heart, how do I see how it is, this child is god, he can pick up silver dollars in, and the future will certainly be unusual.

Therefore, the owner of the Yutang Sauce Garden called the two ladies who wanted to eat to the shop and asked the child if he would like to work in the store, and the child shook his head and said, No, I work in the shop. The owner of the Yutang Sauce Garden said, this is not easy to do, you two and I left. So, the child became a young man in the Yutang Sauce Garden, and his mother did some light work from piece to piece. Yutang Sauce Garden has been raising two lads and lads who want food until the little guy grows into a big guy.

The owner of the Yutang Sauce Garden thought it was time for the young man to go out to exercise, so he gave him a few hundred taels of silver and asked him to do business along the south of the canal. The young man hired a few boats, invited a group of people to go down to Jiangnan, the boat opened and opened, and drove to Suzhou to dock. This southern God, really hot, hot a group of people got off the boat to cool down to find food here, unfortunately, the southerners eat rice, these people who follow are rough people, eat not enough to eat, coincidentally, there is a noodle restaurant. The young man arranged for someone to buy noodles to drink, this noodle is delicious, one person has eaten several bowls and has not eaten enough.

After eating, the young man continued to go south, to Hangzhou, to see that this business is not good, that business is not good, turn the bow of the boat and open again, all the way to drive, all the way to think, this Suzhou noodles are really delicious, into a batch of noodles back to go back must be good to sell, so, to Suzhou last time to eat noodles, hire someone to use the jar to load two boats of noodles.

The little guy came home, excited to tell the boss what happened along the way, and also said that he had entered a batch of the most delicious noodles, the owner of the sauce garden thought to himself, the noodles in the south are delicious and the noodles in the north are not as delicious as our noodles in the north, but this business is what he let the little guy go, saying that he can buy anything at will, so the owner of the sauce garden did not say anything, let people move the jar of noodles to the backyard and put it up.

After a few days, the owner of Shanxi came to buy goods, and the guys in the sauce garden panicked and loaded the jar of noodles into a cart to pull Shanxi. The owner of the sauce garden looked, finished, finished, this noodle put so many days, early blind finished, in a few days, people have to come to us to settle the account.

Sure enough, after a few days, the shanxi traders came to Jining, and the owner of the sauce garden was ready to be said by others, and he went up to explain this matter and accompany him. No, the owner of the shanxi goods saw the owner of the sauce garden from a distance, greeted him happily, asked the owner of the sauce garden, whether the goods entered last time were not, and then entered a few cars. The owner of the sauce garden looked at this situation, and he roughly counted in his heart, he stabilized the owner of the goods in Shanxi, called the little guy over, asked him where he bought the noodles, the little guy said where he was, the owner of the sauce garden gave him a large amount of silver this time, let him pretend to be dumb and go to Suzhou to learn the practice of noodles.

What happened next, we all know. Later, the young man became the general manager of Yutang Sauce Garden.