old city newcomer

Chapter 13

Qi An arrived after a short ride.

Gu Tong and Gu Yan have driven in this area several times, but they never noticed that there are still many small roads interspersed with tall buildings, each of which is very deep, and there is always a fork in the end, like a maze .

Qi An said, this is called an alley.

Gu Tong sat on the back seat of the bicycle with his arms around Qi An's waist. He pressed his left cheek against Qi An's back for a while, and then pressed his right cheek for a while, looking at the passing scenery on both sides. Tired, he finally stood directly behind Sitting on the seat, holding Qi An's shoulders, he climbed up and looked into the distance.

"Qi An, I'm taller than you." Gu Tong said with his arms around his neck.

Qi An wanted to nod, but his head was strangled.

The face of the century-old store is particularly dilapidated, without even a decent signboard, so a nail is directly driven into the wooden pillar next to it, and a wooden signboard with three words written in chalk is hung.

Gu Tong stood on tiptoe on the steps and looked at the writing seriously. The writing was crooked, and it took him a long time to barely recognize it.

"Haiwan Pavilion?" Gu Tong pointed to the white characters and asked Qi An.

Qi An parked the little blue car: "Go in."

After walking for more than ten meters, we came to an open place, the light was very dark, surrounded by gray brick walls.There are more than a dozen wooden tables in the room, and four long benches are placed around each table.

"Master An, here we come." A young male waiter put a towel on his shoulder.

Gu Tong listened to their conversation, but stared at the pictures on the wall.

"Help me take a look at the little blue car at the door, don't let other people ride it away, it's too deep for you to get in, and it's hard to get out with your legs." Qi An pulled out the two long benches under the table by the window, He said to the waiter while taking chopsticks from the bamboo tube next to him.

"Okay, no problem." The waiter rubbed his hands and smiled: "Still the same?"

"Well, pour cold water over the noodles." Qi An raised his cup and signaled him to serve a pot of tea.

"What's the old look?" Gu Tong sat on the bench and looked around excitedly. He had never been to this kind of place, and it felt like an ancient tomb. The type that Hitomi hardly notices on the street.

"I'll find out later." Qi An took off the Bluetooth headset and put it in his pocket, and the red beads on his left wrist made a sound against the edge of the wooden table.

"What is this?" Gu Tong pointed to the bead in Qi An's hand.

"South red agate." Qi An said, "Do you like it?"

"It's very festive." Gu Tong stared at the beads and said, "You can still see the lines in the sunlight."

"If you like it, I'll give it to you." After saying that, Qi An was about to pick off the beads in his hand.

"No, no, no." Gu Tong hurriedly stretched out his hand to cover his wrist: "I can't take it, this is your thing."

"Then wait for your birthday, I'll find something to wear for you." Qi An said with a smile.

Gu Tong wanted to politely refuse, but to be honest, he really liked the string of red beads. He liked red things since he was a child, and it made people look very happy.

Qi An stared at the white porcelain bowl and didn't know what he was thinking, Gu Tong straightened up and looked around carefully, then turned his eyes back and landed on Qi An.

Gu Tong looked at him for a long time.

Qi An was not as scary as he imagined.

Qi An's hands were long, thin, and warm. He was turning the teacup up and down on the table with his index finger bitten by Gu Tong. The teeth marks were almost gone, but the blood marks could still be seen.

Qi An's eyes are very beautiful, the double eyelids make the eyes look big and energetic, the long eyelashes hang down slightly, even though the room is dark, you can still see a small shadow cast by the fundus of your eyes.

Gu Tong looked a little dazed.

Qi An took the earrings he gave, and a small one adorned his ears.The side face has exquisite lines, and the excess fat on the face and neck can't be seen even when the head is lowered. The line on the chin is very smooth, and if you look carefully, you can vaguely see a little fluff.

Little fluff!

so cute.

Qi An turned his head, and Gu Tong quickly tapped the bowl twice with his chopsticks, as if knocking on his heart, "Boom, boom, boom."

The waiter came over with a long tray and put two bowls of noodles and a plate on the table... Looking at the caterpillar-like thing, Gu Tong shrank his neck back.

"It's called fried belly, you can't eat it, it's too hard." Qi An put the fried belly to his hand after a few words of introduction, along with a small bowl of sesame sauce.

It was the first time for Gu Tong to see authentic noodles with fried sauce. In the cafeteria, Aunt Zhao prepared the ingredients. There were only noodles, shredded cucumber and meat sauce in the bowl. Now there was a huge blue and white porcelain bowl on the table. Served with white noodles, surrounded by a small bowl of meat sauce and six or seven small plates of different things.

Qi An started to make fun of Gu Tong.

He only put in one-third of the meat sauce, stirred it well, and poured the contents of the small dish into it, shredded cucumber, shredded radish, bean sprouts, soybeans and shallots, these five were recognized by Gu Tong.

"There are two more?" Gu Tong asked, pointing to the unknown Xiao Die next to him.

"Diced mustard and garlic, one is spicy and the other is strong, you can't eat it." Qi An continued to stir the noodles evenly.

"Why are there no crushed peanuts?" Gu Tong asked.

"Crushed peanuts is the way we eat noodles in our family, not the authentic way." Qi An handed him the chopsticks: "Eat while it's hot."

Gu Tong moved her body back, arched her back and bent down to grab the noodles into her mouth, her eyes lit up: "tasty!"

Qi An didn't know what he was talking about. There was no one to translate when Lu Chunze was away, but he could tell from his expression that he thought it was delicious.

Qi An picked up a "caterpillar", dipped it in sesame sauce and ate it with noodles.

Gu Tong ate the noodles without saying a word, eating one by one, his mouth was covered with meat sauce, he licked it and straightened up, Lan Tong stared at the "caterpillar".

"Give me a 'caterpillar'." Gu Tong raised his chin towards the plate in Qi An's hand.

Qi An brought over the plate, and Gu Tong picked up the thinnest "worm", imitating Qi An, dipped it into the sesame sauce, and put it in his mouth.

Sure enough, it was very hard and could not be chewed. Gu Tong chewed vigorously, and after a while put down the chopsticks and continued chewing vigorously.

Qi An drank a bowl of noodles, drank the jasmine tea that the waiter poured into the quilt, and looked at Gu Tong.

Gu Tong's face was full of seriousness, and sweat began to drip from his busy forehead.

"If you can't chew it, just spit it out." Qi An handed him a piece of paper.

Gu Tong shook her head: "How did you swallow it?"

"Swallow it in two bites, you have to eat it while it's hot, unlike other dishes that can't be re-cooked, it will get old." Qi An ate the last two "caterpillars" that were already a little cold.

Gu Tong almost lost his taste in chewing, so he swallowed the food and continued to pick at the noodle bowl.

"I know why it's called Haiwan." Gu Tong sucked on the chewy thick noodles and said, "This bowl is twice as big as the school cafeteria."

"I have a chance to show you my grandpa's bowl, it can't be called a bowl anymore, it has to be called a pot." Qi An took a sip of tea.

Gu Tong nodded with a smile and rolled his eyes.Qi An glanced at him, and stayed a little longer this time.

"Qi An." Gu Tong called him softly.

Qi An hurriedly turned his head away, and then back again.

"It's very fresh to be with you." Gu Tong said tiredly, "It's like hunting for treasure, like digging for treasure."

Qi An smiled.

"Actually, when I returned to China, I didn't expect that I could make friends like the three of you." Gu Tong wiped his mouth with a piece of paper, pulled the last noodle into his mouth, and wiped it again: "I finished high school here. I have returned to the United States, and I may leave in a year or two. My family is in the United States, and I am an American citizen, so I cannot take the college entrance examination.”

Qi An didn't speak.

"In the future, when I recall you, it will be like a dream." Gu Tong rubbed her belly: "I'm so happy."

"Just be happy." Qi An swallowed his tea, got up and put the bench back under the table.

The little blue car was not ridden away by others, but neither did they.

In fact, this road is nothing to Qi An. It is not a problem for him to run two or three laps around the clock tower at the foot of the old city on weekend mornings, but with Gu Tong, Gu Tong does not exercise very much, and he is a precious body , Tired, he thought he could take him by bike.

Back at the entrance of U-Tang Hotel, Gu Tong's face was still red.

"Let's go." Gu Tong took out the wax gourd skin from his coat pocket and continued to apply it.

"It's all dry, don't apply it, just use a cold towel when you go home." Qi An parked the little blue car.

"Yeah." Gu Tong nodded, "How did you go home?"

"Run." Qi An said with a smile.

"Is your home near here?" Gu Tong asked.

Qi An parked the car, stretched his legs and stretched his arms, and moved his shoulders and neck greatly: "It's more than ten kilometers."

"Ten..." Gu Tong's eyes widened: "This is a big road, how do you run?"

"Walk back through the alley." After Qi An simply stretched, he waved his hand at Gu Tong and jumped into a small road not far from the hotel.

After Gu Tong had dinner, she lay on the bed and looked at the ceiling, on which Meng Ya had pasted a lot of stars and moons glowing at night.

At this moment, they were emitting yellow fluorescence. Gu Tong looked at them for a while, then sat up and propped his head to think about something.

First, Qi An's profile flashed in his mind, and then the long and deep alleys.

Gu Tong pondered for a long time and made a decision.

He took out the calendar and looked at it. Gu Yan said that there are many statutory holidays in the country, and there will be three to seven days off. The nearest statutory holiday is National Day, which has seven days off.

Gu Tong wants to sign up for a tour group.

Once this idea popped up in his head, he couldn't press it back. The more he thought about it, the more he wanted to do it, and he couldn't sleep until he finished what he wanted to do.

But Gu Tong didn't know how to report to the group, and he didn't want Gu Yan and Meng Ya to follow him, so he wanted to walk the alleys alone and see what Qi An could see while running.

He had to get this done right away, otherwise he would toss and turn on the bed and couldn't sleep for a long time.

Ask Lu Chunze for help.

Who made him hold his mobile phone all day long?

-What kind of group do you want to apply for?

Lu Chunze replied within ten seconds.

-There are many alleys, where you can eat authentic Jajangmyeon and the like.

-If it’s just these, you don’t need to sign up for a big group, a small group with a few people is fine, you can sign up for a student group.

-good!

-"Old Town Day Tour"?

- Is one day enough?

- Enough is enough, the area of ​​Laochenggen is not very big, just a few of them, I will choose the most representative one for you.

-OK.

- Is it during the National Day?

- Well, National Day, any day will do.

Lu Chunze sent him a QR code.

Gu Tong stared blankly at the QR code.

- Check it out for you, take a taxi from your home, tell the driver "Shinahai" park and he will know how to go, there are two gates in the east and west of the park, no matter how big or small tourist groups enter from the east gate, and call a person at the gate Xu Nanhai's old man called and just showed him the QR code.

-Okay, thank you Junze.

- no thanks, can one do it alone?Do you understand?

- I can do it, I understand.

Gu Tong put down the phone, feeling a little excited.

He couldn't explain why he was excited, but he just felt excited.So he leaned back, smashed back on the bed, and bounced twice due to inertia.

Obviously this has been resolved.

Still can't sleep.

Count the sheep.

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