Chapter 35 Beautiful words floating on the tip of the tongue

Zhou Huacheng  Eating is an extremely vulgar thing, saying people are "rice buckets" is not to praise their big belly; but eating is an elegant thing, there is culture in eating, and there are endless leisure and leisure.A few years ago, I started to read Gu Qingsheng's eating words on the Internet, so whenever I had free time, I would calm down and search carefully. Meditation effect. The prose he writes about eating is as pure as the bright sunshine and the dewdrops on the tip of the grass in the morning, like an old friend in the neighborhood after the autumn harvest, sitting under the plane tree after the sunset, with two cups of tea and a few autumn peppers to go with the wine, Poetry can be stretched very long.

 I was studying in Hangzhou in 1997. One day, I bought a discounted new book "The Transformation of Men" at a second-hand bookstore by the West Lake. I knew Gu Qingsheng, and I knew from the text that he had been a geological team member in the southern mountains for many years. Later, he ran to the capital with the 286 computer on his back, and started selling calligraphy for a living.At that time, when he wrote about the rainy nights when he stayed in the capital, he also recalled the lilies in the mountains in the south, and talked about the old days when he went to the mountains with a hoe to dig lilies, fry them and eat them. poor.It's a pity that I couldn't find that book afterward.

Thinking about loving a person's words is the same as eating, with a strong personal nature and emotional tendency.In recent years, Gu Qingsheng has traveled to many places in the north and south of the river, so there are many words about eating all the way. They talk about eating, but actually contain the customs and customs of various places. When reading leisurely, they do not feel that the food is closely related to the local environment. They are combined in one place, and the tempting aroma of food will float in my heart when I read it.For example, when he wrote "Yanggu Cooking Cake", he started from the hero Wu Song of the Water Margin beating Ximen Qing on the Lion Tower. I was writing about cooking cakes, so my stomach growled, and I wrote about this earthy dish, saying "cooking cakes is my dream in this life, and cooking cakes will be served later".When the biscuits are on the table, when you read the text again, the fragrance will overflow. "When chewing, there is a crackling sound of sesame seeds, and the fragrance is overflowing. When you enter the deep chewing, the tough noodle biscuits contain wheat, moisture, saltiness and Pepper flavor, mixed together, chewed into a cake and swallowed, successfully gave the eater the pleasure of swallowing vigorously." Therefore, I often read his words on the Internet in the middle of the night, and finally aroused hunger, and then Unable to sit still, he went to the kitchen to cook and eat.

This year, Guqing produced four books, ,,,, all of which are about eating, which is very enviable. It looks like a blessed person in front of him, chewing smoked chicken legs with his left hand, and crackling on the keyboard with his right hand, telling others that the chicken legs are delicious. How delicious.I met on the Internet some time ago, Gu Qingsheng said that he wrote and eaten by his mouth, and this method was the safest and most reliable.When other writings are overused, this kind of writing is still fresh, because the taste buds belong to oneself, and others cannot taste your taste.What I admire most about him is that he can write a long novel, turning a chili pepper into an encyclopedia of chili peppers, and reading it all the way down is hearty and addictive.

Among several books, I like this one the most. I have excerpted a few of the articles included in it: Wujiangnan, Supper, Grapefruit, Mulberry, Corn Bread, Bamboo Leaf Vegetables, Crispy Rice Porridge, White Goose and Gray Goose, Sweet Peanut, My beloved sweet potato, loofah.Such a list is originally a memory of hometown on the tip of the tongue. "Autumn peppers are a little bit small. Bigger and mature autumn peppers are extremely spicy. They deliberately break the tongue, like countless ants gnawing at the taste buds. I like this kind of autumn peppers. The tender autumn peppers Peppers have the unique green taste of some peppers, which can feel the coolness of autumn, that is, looking at the empty blue autumn, sighing: the sky is cool and autumn is good.” ——In the wind blowing sand In the city of Beijing, Gu Qingsheng looks up to the south. Such words are clearly nostalgia for the taste buds.