Entertaining Children

  Chapter 560 Journey to the Old City

"How did I lie to you? This is indeed Yanjing's traditional delicacy," Xiao Yao said, pointing to the surrounding diners. "You see everyone drank this too. They all drank with relish. This was brought by the waiter, and I again I didn't do anything in there."

Xiao Yao picked up a piece of Jiaohuan and put it into his mouth, "At most, you are not used to drinking because of your taste! If you are not used to drinking, you can't say I lied to you if you change it to another one!" Shen Man It's not Sun Tingting, Xiao Yao is not afraid of being forced by her to finish the bowl of soy juice by herself.

   "You!" Shen Man glared at Xiao Yao, but found that he couldn't refute, so he gritted his teeth bitterly. However, she also grew a little minded, and started to follow Xiao Yao to eat. What Xiao Yao eats what she eats, if Xiao Yao doesn't touch it, she also decides not to touch it.

However, it seems that in addition to the bowl of soy juice in front of him, Xiao Yao eats everything on the table, and he also introduced to Mei Fang enthusiastically: "This is called Jiao Quan'er. Use flour and water. It is made into dough and then cut into noodles with a knife and fried. Generally, after the dough is kneaded, it takes 3 hours to squash and slice. Uncle Li's cooking is the most authentic. When I was a child, I often came to his house to eat burnt rings. Early."

"This is called donkey rolling," Xiao Yao ate a scorched ring, then picked up a piece of donkey to roll, "because the last process is to sprinkle soybean noodles, like the loess rolled up by the wild donkey in the suburbs of old Yanjing. It got its name. This is a snack, not a traditional breakfast, but you can also eat it early..."

"August Day, you haven't been here for a while." Xiao Yaozheng said. An old man in his 60s and wearing an apron came over to greet him. He was happy to see the camera carried by Wang Dachuan. Asked, "Oh, why are there still cameras? Are you filming a show?"

   "Uncle Li," Xiao Yao stood up and said, "It's a show, let me introduce them to Yanjing's characteristic traditional snacks, and by the way, I will also help you promote this little shop, okay?"

   "Okay, okay, then dare to love it!" The old man said cheerfully.

  Xiao Yao exchanged a few words with Uncle Li, and also deliberately pulled Uncle Li and waved hello to the camera. Uncle Li left.

   "You are very familiar with the people here, and the boss knows you." Shen Man asked strangely, "Do they know you are a star? It seems that you haven't seen the star you are so excited."

"I lived here when I was a child. At that time, my grandfather took me for a walk around this place. These are my grandfather's old neighborhoods, of course they are familiar." Xiao Yao smiled, "In their eyes, I just Whether the grandson of the old Xiao family is a star has nothing to do with them, so there is no excitement."

   Xiao Yao wiped his mouth and said, "Is it good to eat? If you eat, I will take you to the neighborhood. Let me introduce you to this old alley where I lived when I was a child."

   "You're done!" Shen Man and Mei Fang said immediately.

   "I haven't eaten yet!" Wang Dachuan, who carried the camera, said with a bitter face, looking at the snack on the table.

"I'm sorry, I forgot about Brother Dachuan." Xiao Yao said embarrassedly, "You eat slowly, don't worry, we will wait for you. So, you eat, the camera gives me, I will shoot!" Xiao Yao extended his hand to Wang Dachuan.

   "Okay!" Wang Dachuan handed the camera to Xiao Yao. When he was in the United States, he had seen Xiao Yao personally carrying a camera to take pictures of Sun Tingting, and he was relieved of Xiao Yao's camera skills.

  Xiao Yao first took some close-up pictures of snacks on the table, and then took some shots of other diners in the store eating breakfast, and finally enthusiastically carried the camera to the side of the stove to take pictures of Uncle Li making breakfast. When he turned around, Wang Dachuan had already eaten.

  Returning the camera to Wang Dachuan, Xiao Yao took the three of them out of the breakfast shop and walked into the alley.

   "Then uncle!" Not long after he left, Xiao Yao saw an old man carrying a birdcage and proactively greeted him.

   "August 1st, come to see Grandpa again?" The old man nodded in response with a smile, and also looked at Wang Dachuan behind Xiao Yao, "Why are you still carrying a camera?"

   "Grandpa went to film, and I'm not here today." Xiao Yao smiled, "I took part in a show and took them to the place where I lived when I was a kid, and just take photos."

   "Okay, okay, you guys can take any pictures." The old man laughed.

  "Have you seen Dunzi?" Xiao Yao asked the old man.

   "Go to school, this is not a weekend." The old man said.

   "Yes," Xiao Yao patted his forehead, and then said, "Dunzi should go to elementary school, right?"

   "No, I'm going to preschool." The old man said, "In the second half of the year, I will go to elementary school."

   "No school! No school!" The bird in the cage carried by the old man cried.

  "Did you learn from Dunzi?" Xiao Yao asked with a smile.

   "Yeah, that kid doesn't love school." The old man smiled and nodded.

   "Does this bird still speak human words? Is it a starling?" Shen Man curiously looked at the black bird in the cage.

"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded, and motioned to Wang Dachuan behind him, "Brother Dachuan, give me a close-up!" As he said, Xiao Yao squatted down and teased the starling bird in the birdcage, "Xiao Hei! Xiao Hei!"

   "Hello! Hello!" The bird cried again.

   "It's fun!" Shen Man happily knelt down and leaned forward to the bird cage and exclaimed, "Xiao Hei! Xiao Hei!"

  As a result, the starling ignored Shen Man at all, and deliberately turned sideways.

   "You still recognize people!" Shen Man stood up in frustration.

   "Then sir, we won't delay your birding, let's go to the front to go shopping." Xiao Yao said goodbye to the old man.

   "Okay, you are busy with you." The old man smiled and waved.

  Farewell to the old man, Xiao Yao led a few people to the depths of the alley.

"There used to be a quyi troupe in this," Xiao Yao pointed to an old-fashioned house. "When I was a child, I often sneaked inside to listen to their rehearsal. They knew I was the grandson of the old Xiao family, and they found out that I would not rush. I'm going. Inside, the Beijing Rhyme Drum, Erhu, Suona, Sanxian, etc. They are all folk artists, and there are not many performances, just to play together. I first received the influence of folk music and folk art here. But this The team seems to have been disbanded last year, and it will be difficult to hear it again." At the end of the talk, Xiao Yao's tone was full of melancholy and regret.

   "You learn to play the erhu and engage in folk music in the "women's band", are you influenced by them?" Shen Man asked, "Want to promote folk music?"

"I have been influenced by them," Xiao Yao nodded, then shook his head, "but I can't say to carry forward, I never carry these noble and great responsibilities on my shoulders. I bring folk music and modern music together, In fact, it’s also fun. It’s not the same as their authentic traditional folk music and folk art. I just hope that the things I play will also make people listen to folk music more satisfying."

After walking forward for a while, Xiao Yao's emotions rose, and he pointed to a yard with the fragrance of wine and said excitedly: "It's amazing here. Private wine shops have existed for decades. My grandfather's wine is just They make it home."

   "You wouldn't have sneaked into a bar when you were a kid?" Shen Man said with a smile.

"Don't drink it secretly," Xiao Yao said with a smile, "After I sneaked in, Uncle Wang always teased me with wine and asked if I wanted to taste it. The first time I drank white wine, Uncle Wang was dipping it with chopsticks. I licked the wine, but I just leaned over and took a sip from the wine bowl in his hand, and then I was drunk. That year, I was only four years old! For this, my grandfather almost got anxious with Uncle Wang ."

"But it's different now. After the age of eighteen, my grandfather supported me to go to Uncle Wang to beg for a drink." Xiao Yao walked to the yard and began to wave his hands and clap the door, and shouted in a loud voice, "Wang uncle!"

   "August Day! I haven't seen you someday!" The courtyard door opened, and an old man with a gray goatee said to Xiao Yao, "Why are you here? Do you give your grandpa a drink?"

   "No, my grandpa is not at home." Xiao Yao smiled, "I am looking for you!"

   "Why are you looking for me?" the old man said.

   "Of course I asked you for wine, why can I still find you?" Xiao Yao said with a smile.

   "Okay, there are a few big tanks in the yard. Scoop it out by yourself. Have you brought wine bottles or jugs or something?" the old man said cheerfully.

   "I don't want those," Xiao Yao said, "I want the ones that you have kept in your cellar for more than ten years, not too many, just one altar!" Xiao Yao raised a finger.

   "I want to be beautiful!" The old man changed his face and he was about to close the door when he returned.

  "Don't rush to refuse, listen to me." Xiao Yao took the old man's arm and said, "I didn't ask for it for myself."

   "Then who do you want to help? Old Xiao?" the old man said, "Let your grandpa take things for yourself!"

"No, it has nothing to do with my grandfather. I asked for it for an American." Xiao Yao said, "I went to the United States some time ago and encountered a problem. It was an American friend who helped a lot to solve it. I did it. He just said to give him a bottle of wine to express his gratitude, but he said that Huaxia’s wine is not as good as whiskey and other foreign wines, no! I said I can get a hand-brewed cellar from a master who has decades of brewing experience for more than ten years. Good wine is definitely better than his family’s foreign wine. He doesn’t believe it, neither believes that I can get hand-brewed wine for more than ten years, nor does he believe that Huaxia’s wine is better than his family’s foreign wine. I have to take the good wine from your cellar. Go to the U.S. and slap that **** in the face!

   "Really?" The old man looked at Xiao Yao suspiciously.

   "Of course it is true!" Xiao Yao nodded very sincerely.

   "Okay, you wait." The old man released his hand holding the door and turned back into the yard.

   "Xiao Yao, you came to cheat and drink in the morning?" Shen Man looked at the old man's back, and whispered beside Xiao Yao.

   "What kind of lie?" Xiao Yao also lowered his voice, "Although it has been slightly modified with artistic techniques, most of it is facts. I did ask for this wine for an American."

   "No way?" Mei Fang interrupted, "When we went to the United States last week, it seemed that we didn't see any trouble with you?"

   "Look, have you exposed it?" Shen Man smiled, "Although I didn't go to the United States, Sister Mei and Brother Dachuan went with you."

"I didn't say it was last week," Xiao Yao said, "I went to the United States last summer, and I promised it at that time. It's just that I forgot about it after I returned home, and I just walked here just now. I just remembered that there was such a thing."

   "It's almost a year now?" Shen Man curiously asked, "Which American friend is so unlucky that you let the pigeons go for almost a year?"

   "The lead singer of daydreaming, Keith Craig!" Xiao Yao laughed.

   "Uh..." Shen Man's smile froze on his face, "You just forgot about such a big star?"

  "Isn't this busy?" Xiao Yao scratched his hair and said, "I went to school in Shencheng after coming back from the United States last year. Even if I remember, I didn't have time to come and ask Uncle Wang for it!"

Not long after, the old man came out carrying a pottery wine jar and handed it to Xiao Yao: "I don't care if you really have something to do with Americans. Since you are so painstakingly asking me for this wine, just Give you an altar."

   "Thank you, Uncle Wang!" Xiao Yao immediately took it over happily and bowed to thank you.

   "Wow, these wine jars are so beautiful!" After leaving the wine shop, Shen Man looked at the antique wine jar in Xiao Yao's hand and exclaimed.

   "Are you going to buy caskets and return beads? Is the wine in it the key point?" Xiao Yao smiled.

   "I know the wine inside is the key point, but this is what you are going to give to the American stars. I can't drink it, so I can only admire the wine jar." Shen Man pouted.

   "Okay, where are we going next? You can see the head in this alley." Mei Fang interrupted and asked Xiao Yao with a smile. Before they knew it, they had almost finished walking the alley.

   "The front is the yard where my grandfather lives. Let me take you to see his study. That is the place where my grandfather taught me to read and read and gave me cultural enlightenment when I was a kid." Xiao Yao pointed to a courtyard road in front.

   "I seemed to hear you say that Mr. Xiao went to filming, and he is not at home today." Mei Fang said.

   "It's okay, I can go in if he isn't home." Xiao Yao said confidently.

   Xiao Yao took the three to the door of a courtyard, and saw that the door was closed tightly.

"Here you, help me get it!" Xiao Yao handed the wine jar he was holding to Shen Man, and then exhorted him, "Take it well, don't drop it, just this one, it will be difficult to get it again. ."

   "Don't worry." Shen Man took the wine jar with both hands and held it in his hands, and curiously asked Xiao Yao, "What are you doing again?"

   "Of course I entered the courtyard." Xiao Yao smiled, walked to a tree not too far from the courtyard wall on the side of the courtyard gate, and climbed up the tree with his hands.

   "Isn't he? Is he going to go over the wall?" Shen Man and Mei Fang looked at Xiao Yao who was climbing the tree, and they were speechless.

   "Hey, what are you doing?" Xiao Yao just halfway through the crawl, a shout rang. Mei Fang and Shen Man turned around and found that a middle-aged woman about fifty years old was pointing at Xiao Yao who was climbing a tree with an angry face and shouting.

  Mei Fang and Shen Man are about to step forward to help explain, Xiao Yao on the tree has already turned around and shouted: "Aunt Zhang, I am on August 1! My grandfather is not at home, I want to go in, and I don’t have the key!"

   "August 1st," the middle-aged woman disappeared from her anger, put on a smiling face and said, "Why are you still climbing a tree and over the wall when you are such an adult? How about going to the aunt's house and moving a ladder?"

   "I'll go!" Mei Fang, Shen Man, and Wang Dachuan were all overwhelmed, "What kind of existence is Xiao Yao here?"

   "Thank you Aunt Zhang, no more!" Xiao Yao shouted, climbing to a position above the height of the yard wall on the tree trunk, and then he jumped and disappeared into the yard.

  "Please come in!" After a while, the courtyard door was opened from the inside. Xiao Yao stood at the door, reaching out his hand and making a request.

  (End of this chapter)