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"The imperial palace still makes Wowotou?!"

Han Xiaodong said that the palace still eats corned buns, and his eyes almost popped out of shock.In fact, he has only heard of Wowotou. As a high school student born in modern times, he has never seen what the real thing looks like.

In other words, things like Wowotou have been far away from people's lives for too long. Except for a very few restaurants with special signs, you can't find this kind of thing at all.The reason for this is that for the Chinese people of the last era, Wowotou is a symbol of suffering. Occasionally, when they recall bitterness and sweetness, they sigh that life is okay. If you really want them to eat this stuff as a staple food , that is absolutely impossible.

Today's young people don't even want to steam steamed buns, let alone steamed buns, which are more complicated to make.

"Grandpa, is this too extravagant for the emperor? How about making such a good thing?"

Due to the influence of certain remarks, Han Xiaodong still has a certain prejudice against the food of Wowotou.

"What's wrong with Wowotou? Do you know how many lives have been saved by Wowotou's big pancakes? If there is no Wowotou, would it still matter if you were there? How dare you look down on your savior."

Grandpa Qiu chewed the peanuts and complained while eating.

Han Xiaodong was so angry. When did Wowotouer become his savior? Even if there was, it was more than two generations ago. His parents' generation may not have caught up with that era.

He thought so in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it out of his mouth, because when he saw old man Qiu, he picked up the pair of chopsticks that were specially used to punish him.

"I remember when I was young, there were many children in my family, and I had nothing to eat. I was hungry. What should I do? I went to the vegetable market to pick up vegetable leaves. At that time, the only food I could eat was corn noodles, or rough Corn noodles are not ground so finely. What do you do with the vegetable leaves? Go home and chop them up, then mix them into the corn noodles, and then steam the steamed buns.

Did you say it was delicious?It’s definitely not delicious. The cornmeal used to make Wowotou is too thick, and it scratches your throat, so you mix it with water to dry it out. It’s also delicious. Why?Because I'm hungry.If you haven't been hungry, you won't understand. "

Mr. Qiu tapped his chopsticks lightly while talking about the past. Although the old man spoke lightly, Han Xiaodong could still feel the pain in his tone. He could get anything if he didn’t eat or drink. He has never experienced the pain of satisfying hunger, but for some reason, he can understand that feeling.

"When I'm free, I'll make you that coarse-grain steamed bun, and I'll let you feel it."

Mr. Qiu then added this sentence, which almost made Han Xiaodong sit on the ground. There must be a limit to remembering bitterness and thinking sweetness. He can feel it in his mind. Is it necessary to really experience it?
He quickly changed the topic:

"Grandpa, the reconciliation is over."

"Drink up!"

Making noodles is a very important part of making noodles. After a long period of standing, let the noodles ferment, which can make the noodles stronger and taste better.

After finishing all these, Han Xiaodong sat across from Mr. Qiu and asked, "Grandpa, the first time I come to my door, I give them some food. Is it appropriate? You are not afraid of Wang... Hao's father." Don't you like it?"

He originally wanted to talk about Wang Jiayuan, but at last he paused, thinking it would be more appropriate to mention Wang Hao.

Hearing what he said, old man Qiu rolled his mouth: "Food and sex are also human nature. It is human nature to eat delicious food, especially for delicacies. No matter how dull a person is, he still wants to eat after all, especially the one surnamed Wang. This kind of scene person must have seen everything, even if you give him a dragon liver and a phoenix marrow, he should look down on you and look down on you."

"Then we can't break the pot, can't we?" Han Xiaodong said half-jokingly, winking his eyes.

"You know what a fart, if this thing was placed more than 100 years ago, let alone his surname Wang, even the princes in the underground of the imperial city would not be able to eat it. If they could eat it once, it would be a risk from the ancestral grave." It's smoke!"

Han Xiaodong was very disdainful when he heard Grandpa Qiu say this. A broken corn bread is what ordinary people eat. Yes, he admitted that the golden osmanthus sauce is really refreshing, but no matter how delicious it is, it is a corn bread after all. How good is it, can the princes not eat it?People don't like to eat it?
Looking at Han Xiaodong's proud face, old man Qiu was amused: "Little bastard, you still don't believe me, okay, grandpa will let you learn a lot today."

Hearing this, Han Xiaodong knew that there was another story to listen to, and he was immediately amused. Anyway, this meal will take a while, so it's better to listen to a story to relieve boredom.

So he sat up straight and waited for Mr. Qiu to tell a story.

Seeing that he was ready, Mr. Qiu also set up a plate of peanuts, and started his story conference:

"By the way, this was the year when the Eight-Power Allied Forces entered Beijing. The Qing bear bag, dare to provoke it, dare not carry it, and finally let people break the door of the house, and even the emperor and the Empress Dowager Cixi were driven out of the Forbidden City. That is really embarrassing. .

Cixi was chased by the Eight-Power Allied Forces, how could she have suffered such a crime, and there was no imperial cook on the way, so she couldn't keep up with the food.If you say that Cixi can bear it, if you say that she is hungry, then she can't bear it. Cixi is a person who loves to eat, so it is absolutely impossible to have no food. "

"Hehe, dare to love the old demon woman is still a foodie? The idiot is talking about her, right?"

Han Xiaodong didn't like this woman who was quite controversial in history, so when he heard that she was also hungry, he was very happy.

"There is some truth in what you say, but who is Cixi? That is the empress dowager, can that really make her hungry? So the ministers who ran with them tried to find a way. Later, there was a person named Jia Shili. It’s all good, so don’t worry about delicacies from mountains and seas, use local materials, eat whatever you can, and don’t starve Lafayette to death.

Using local materials, ordinary people in the Qing Dynasty only ate Wowotou, so this Jia Shili simply asked the local people to make a big meal of Wotou for Cixi. At first, everyone was worried, saying that Lafayette was so expensive. If you get a pot of coarse grains that the common people eat, then you will lose your face at that time, and you will lose your head at that time.

Unexpectedly, Cixi was really hungry, and whenever there was something to eat, she would just stuff it into her mouth. When is the best time to eat?Of course it was time to be extremely hungry.That's why Cixi appreciated that big meal.

Later, when the Eight-Power Allied Forces left, she went back to the palace, and she never forgot about the wowotou, so she asked the palace cooks to make a copy. When the palace cooks heard this, their legs were so frightened that their legs went limp. , Give Lafayette thick corn noodles and steamed buns, don't die.

It's not what it used to be. When she's hungry, everything tastes good, but now that she's not hungry, if she serves a plate of big corn buns, there won't be enough heads to cut off.

So they had an idea, and they improved a small Wotouer specially for Cixi, which was specially used for the court, and they saved their lives. "

Only then did Han Xiaodong understand the origin of this wowotou. It turned out that it really had something to do with a secret history of the palace. He let go of his heart a lot, so he said proudly:

"So that's what happened. Grandpa, what you taught me to make today is the imperial steamed bun that Cixi ate back then?"

Old Man Qiu smiled slightly, narrowed his eyes, put a peanut into his mouth, chewed and swallowed it, and then said two words in a serious manner:
"Really not!"