Chapter 21 miss sand onion

From Lanzhou to Jingtai, Gansu in 2000, the old bus was panting and bouncing on the road in the wasteland. There were clusters of drought-tolerant Artemisia annua growing in the wasteland, and they pointed the greenery to the sky.When approaching Jingtai, I saw a piece of flax field. The flax field looks like a pebble beach, and the pebbles the size of a fingernail are densely packed. There are flax about two feet long growing on this rocky land. The flax stalks are light red and sparse, expressing the land. At that moment, the setting sun was like blood, and flax was like rouge. It is said that there are two must-see places in Jingtai, one is the Stone Forest of the Yellow River, and the other is the Wufoyan Temple. There are five giant Buddhas in the Wufoyan Temple, which were formed by digging holes along the west bank of the Yellow River.Looking at the Yellow River going east from here, the yellow soup is surging for thousands of miles, the sunset glows all over the sky, and there are pieces of golden sand flying over the ancient wasteland.Hungry, return to town for dinner.The opposite bank of Jingtai is Jingyuan, Gansu, so in Jingtai, every restaurant has Jingyuan lamb meat, which is a hot pot with red waves.I once ate the famous Jingyuan lamb meat with Ye Zhou and Yang Yong brothers in Lanzhou. When I saw Jingyuan lamb meat in Jingtai, I said that Jingyuan lamb meat is everywhere in Gansu.Unexpectedly, the people of Jingtai said that Jingyuan's lambs came from Jingtai. It seems that this place is full of sheep fortune.I said, Jingtai's lambs are all gone. Does Jingtai have any other delicious food?An old man told me that there are shallots and bitter herbs, but this store doesn't have them anymore.What a simple old man, I went out of the shop to look for Sha Onion.

I went to look for sand onions, thinking that local specialties must be found. I searched for them one by one. I searched all the important restaurants in the county. There were no sand onions. I was told that I had to wait for the rain to eat sand onions. When it rains, the shallots will grow.I think, from the south of the Yangtze River to Jingtai, there is still a need for a rain, no matter, I will leave Jingtai without waiting for a rain.Just eat Jingyuan lamb.Until Yinchuan, I ate Sha Onion, which is similar to the small garlic in the south of the Yangtze River, but it is solid and has a rustling sound when chewed. I think Sha Onion got its name from this.When I walked to the Urad Front Banner in Inner Mongolia, I saw the real sand onion on the grassland by the seaside of Wuliangsu, the endless sand onion, growing close to the grassland towards the slope, with water-red flowers, like a layer of rouge The clouds spread out, and the white sheep and brown horses grazed slowly on the slope, thinking silently: getting close to the grassland is like sheep and horses grazing, getting close to the grassland is like saying goodbye to Jingtai, and standing on the Urad Front Banner.Later, when I met Deng Jiugang, a writer from Inner Mongolia, he said, "Urad Front Banner, why do you never forget Urad Front Banner?"I said, there is a piece of shallot there.