That night, I squatted on the street in Shantou Old Town, eating a portion of wet stir-fried beef kuey teow. The tip of my tongue was hot and the corners of my eyes were sore from the fumigation of heat. At this time, the aunt at the stall next to me suddenly tapped the edge of the pot with a colander and shouted to me: "Sister, don't just bury your head in eating, look up at the moon." I raised my head in response, and the moonlight was just stuck between the gaps between the two arcades, just like the tenderness intertwined by all the contradictions in this land - old but young, stiff but soft.
It's worth a trip for this little light
The sea in Nan'ao Island is not the kind of deep blue that can repel people thousands of miles away.
They are shallow and transparent, like eyes that have just cried.
I watched the sunrise at Qing'ao Bay three times. The first time I was alone, the second time with friends, and the third time...
The third time was to pick up a fragment of glass washed ashore by the waves and polish it into a matte green.
Time here will turn sharp things into tenderness.
The old town of Shantou is actually quite rundown.
The kind of shabby is not decadent, but the popular kind of old.
Under the arcade in Jinping District, mops, school uniforms and freshly washed preserved vegetables are hanging to dry.
I was standing there, waiting for my friend to return from buying bean curd chicken wings. Suddenly, I heard someone on the second floor opening the window. There was a splashing sound, and then the water poured out flickered in the air.
Has the Guangji Bridge been demolished?
At 5:30 in the evening, I saw with my own eyes that the shuttle boat was really pushed away.
"Burning bridges across rivers" is a daily routine here .
There was an uncle next to him. He spoke with a very strong accent and shouted loudly towards the other end of the phone: "It's really been dismantled! I'll take a picture and show it to you!".
In fact, there is nothing good about photographing this kind of thing.
But standing by the Han River, looking at the disconnected opening, you will feel -
Some things are particularly true precisely because they are incomplete.
Those stones live more clearly than people
The stones in Queshi look messy.
Some are like lotus flowers, some are like old men taking a nap, and some simply don't look like anything at all, just standing there upright.
The sea, mountains, rocks, and caves are crowded together, and no one is allowed to leave .
I took the cable car up. The wind was very strong and the cable car shook a bit.
The stranger next to me screamed, but I didn’t scream. In those few seconds, I suddenly thought:
If it fell at this time, the final scene would be such a messy pile of rocks, which seemed pretty good.
The smell of incense from Kaiyuan Temple is mixed with the moisture after the rain.
There was a mother-in-law who knelt on the futon and wouldn't get up for a long time. I thought she was asking for something big.
As I got closer, I heard her muttering: "Bless my grandson to be willing to eat vegetables tonight."
Gods and Buddhas also care about these trivial matters here.
Why are there 22 memorial arch streets?
Teochew people really love telling stories.
Behind every arch there is a story.
Number one scholar, Jinshi, a chaste wife, a filial son...
Stones frame a person's life and stand on the street for people to see.
A friend asked me: "What do you want to be remembered as after you die?"
I said, "Can you carve a bowl of beef balls?"
After I finished speaking, I laughed, but when I smiled, I felt that——
From the beginning of Archway Street to the end, what is truly unforgettable is the steaming bowl of beef offal soup at the entrance of the alley.
There are no lotus flowers on Lotus Peak
But there is a pile of granite petals with vertical cracks, claiming to be lotus flowers in bud.
The wind at the beach is so strong that it can blow people away.
There was a girl who was posing on a rock to take pictures, and her skirt was blown up three times. Then she laughed and fell on her boyfriend.
In fact, when you go out to play, the most beautiful thing is never the scenery, but the person who is willing to accompany you to be blown away by the wind.
1860 Cultural and Creative Park was originally a school.
There is also a half-painted hopscotch grid on the playground.
There were several young people sitting in the cafe, frowning at the computer.
I ordered a cup of American coffee and heard someone at the next table talking about business plans, using words I didn’t even know.
But the youthful atmosphere should be the same as that of the children who studied here a hundred years ago.
About eating, just tell a few truths
I went to Xiongji Beef three times.
The third time the boss lady recognized me and gave me two more slices of meat.
The wet stir-fried beef kuey teow is really delicious. The "big" is the "big" with the flavor of a pot.
For fermented bean curd chicken wings, look for the old one in Jieyang (Longan Main Store).
I’ve tried it from other places, but it’s not good.
It just doesn't work.
The mouth knows the difference between some things, and the heart also knows it.
The old brand Fuji thickened soy milk.
Pour the hot soy milk into the eggs, tear up the fried dough sticks and soak them in.
At one o'clock in the morning, sitting at the table next to me was a worker who had just finished the night shift. He actually cried while drinking.
His back was turned to everyone, his shoulders shaking.
I pretended not to see it and drank the last sip of iced soy milk.
The rice roll thing
There are really many ingredients for family portraits at Changping Rice Roll.
But the taste is average.
The beef rice rolls from Sanzhong Abiao are also average.
I’m not going to lie to you and say everything is delicious.
Sometimes things that are praised to the heavens are just like that.
Later I found out
Chaoshan is so good, it’s not on those must-do lists.
A large box of fresh ones costs 20 yuan at the Aber plum juice fruit stall.
The freshly cooked pork knuckle rings from the fried food stall in Yuejinli.
The owner of the neighboring orchard gave you two extra strawberries.
The statue of Han Yu in the Han Wengong Temple is very solemn.
But there was a kite hanging on the tree outside the ancestral hall, and it had been stuck there for many days.
Don't know whose it belongs to.
I don’t know if the person forgot about it or simply didn’t want it.
On the train back, my friend asked me: "Is Chaoshan fun?"
I thought about it for a long time.
Fun. But it’s not the standard answer kind of fun.
It is in such a situation - you are standing on the beach, the sea water slowly covers your feet, and in an instant, someone who has long been forgotten suddenly appears in your mind.
Then the water receded and nothing was left on the beach.
But those few seconds you stood there count.
Remember to contact Tingting.
Putting aside everything else, she at least knows which restaurant has the freshest beef, and which alleys she knows where there is no need to avoid electric cars when taking photos.
On some roads, you still need to find a local to guide you.
Even if it's just to avoid taking two wrong steps and save more energy to look at the moon.
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