I smiled and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't eat donkey meat. Then let's go eat Northeastern cuisine, pot dumplings and stuff like that?"
Shen Xing shook his head again: "I just ate Northeastern food last night, so I won't eat it today."
I thought about it and asked: "Then let's go eat smoked sauce. There is a delicious soy sauce restaurant nearby. Let's drink some more."
Shen Xing still shook his head: "Tomorrow is July 15th. I am a vegetarian and will not eat meat."
I scratched my head: "Then let's go eat seafood?"
Shen Xing spread his hands: "Isn't seafood also meat? Don't eat it!"
I was speechless: "Didn't you just say it was casual?!"
Shen Xing laughed: "How about we go play skewers?"
I was a little crazy: "Are you sure you don't eat meat when you eat skewers?"
Shen Xing said: "Who said that eating skewers means eating meat?"
I pointed at him and said: "Okay, okay, this is what you said. I will take you to make skewers. If you eat meat later, you will be the one!"
So, I dragged Shen Xing downstairs and went straight to Cao Jun's barbecue restaurant opposite. After entering, I told Cao Jun.
"Bring me ten skewers of mutton, ten skewers of beef, five tendons, five heart tubes, two solid eggs, two silkworm chrysalis, a plate of fried yellow clams, and a tinfoil yellow croaker!"
"Okay, there are two new big waists here today, please?"
"Okay, two of them!"
Cao Jun took the notebook and brushed up the records, then turned around to leave. I quickly called him to stop him and said, "Don't worry, I also want five skewers of potato slices, five skewers of grilled leeks, a plate of grilled eggplant, and a plate of peanuts and edamame." , a plate of preserved egg tofu, a bowl of pimple soup, and two grilled sesame cakes!"
While Cao Jun was remembering, he raised his head and said, "There are only two of you. This is a bit much. How about reducing the amount?"
I pointed at Shen Xing: "Tell him this, the meat is mine anyway, he will eat the vegetarian version!"
Cao Jun looked confused, Shen Xing said with a smile: "No need to lose weight, you can just press this up. In addition, give me five skewers of roasted corn."
Cao Jun looked at him and asked, "Are you sure you want five skewers of roasted corn?"
Shen Xing nodded: "Yeah, five skewers is enough."
Cao Jun said: "I'm not afraid of not having enough, I'm afraid that you won't be able to finish it."
Shen Xing said: "It doesn't matter, five strings are not many."
Cao Jun hesitated for a moment, then glanced at me. I waved my hand and said, "It's okay. I'll give him whatever he wants, but neither of us is allowed to waste it today. We can eat as much as we like. The vegetarian ones are yours, and the meat ones are yours." be mine."
Shen Xing smiled and nodded: "No problem, I happen to be hungry, this little thing is nothing."
Cao Jun lowered his head, quickly wrote down the list, and then went to work in a flash.
Seeing Shen Xing's calm expression, I couldn't help but raise the corners of my mouth slightly, thinking to myself, Shen Xing, Shen Xing, no matter how smart you are, you will still enjoy this little barbecue today!
Shen Xing had no idea what was about to happen, so he smiled and said to me: "By the way, you told me a few days ago that there was a man who sleepwalked out every day in the middle of the night for ten years. Can you tell me about this in detail?"
I said to him: "It's a long story. The man who sleepwalks out every day in the middle of the night is called Li Daguo..."
So next, I told Shen Xing the story of Li Daguo. He listened with great concentration and seemed to be very interested in this matter.
After I finished speaking, Shen Xing said, "You can contact him later. How about we go there in a minute?"
I pointed at Cao Jun who was busy: "I can't contact him about this matter. He has to contact him. That Li Daguo is his classmate and they know each other."
Shen Xing said "Oh", then turned around and looked at Cao Jun, and said to me: "Okay, you can tell him later, and we will go over after dinner."
While we were talking, Cao Jun came over with a plate. Various dishes were quickly placed on the table, and Shen Xing and I started eating separately.
This guy was really a vegetarian. He only ate potato slices and eggplants, not even leeks. Only then did I remember that leeks are actually considered meat.
Generally speaking, Taoists regard scallions, garlic, leeks, green onions, and coriander as the five types of meat.
Many people don’t understand and think that meat is just meat. In fact, meat used to refer not to meat, but to plants.
The word "鍤" is written with the prefix "草" at the top and the word "general's army" at the bottom. Its original meaning is the pungent and smelly things in green vegetables, generally referring to onions, garlic, leeks and the like.
Pungent food is the general in the vegetable world, so it is called meat. Its taste is very strong and can be retained in the mouth for a long time.
But when it comes to meat dishes, we often think of big fish and big meat, so what’s going on?
In fact, the meat here refers to meat and fish.
Here, meat and fish should be understood separately. Meat refers to onions, ginger, garlic, etc. with relatively strong flavors. Fish refers to foods with a fishy smell inside the meat. When the ancients made fishy food, they often added onions, ginger, and garlic to remove the smell, so meat and fishy food went together. The ancients called it meat and fishy food, or meat for short.
Another reason is that in ancient times monks not only had to abstain from meat, but were also prohibited from eating meat. People discovered that the monks did not eat meat, and also heard that they abstained from meat, so they associated meat with "meat". Over time, "meat" became a word related to meat.
In fact, the earliest monks were allowed to eat meat. The order prohibiting monks from eating meat was issued by Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty.
Emperor Wu of Liang was a devout believer in Buddhism. He believed that monks eating meat contradicted the common Buddhist teaching of "compassion and not killing", so he ordered that monks were not allowed to eat meat in the future, and the precept of not eating meat was born and continued.
After talking about this little piece of popular science, my mouth was full of food, and Shen Xing was also shaking his head, saying that the barbecue in Northeast China is different, not only affordable but also very delicious.
I said it must be fragrant, but how fragrant can the roasted eggplant with potato slices you eat be? Why don't you try a whole bunch of kidneys?
Shen Xing waved his hands repeatedly and said that if he didn't want to eat, he wouldn't eat. I would eat the roasted corn later and that would be enough.
At this time, Cao Jun brought the roasted corn...
Shen Xing took a closer look and was immediately dumbfounded.
He looked at the five big sticks of corn on the plate and said in disbelief: "No, I said five sticks. Are these five sticks for you?"
Cao Jun also said in disbelief: "Yes, it is five roots. Isn't five strings five roots?"
Shen Xing said: "Isn't this roasted corn skewered one by one?"
Cao Jun rolled his eyes: "Who has the spare time to string them together one by one? We all do the same!"
I couldn’t stop laughing next to me, and pointed to the five roasted corns and said, “You ordered these yourself, don’t waste them, be sure to finish them!”
Shen Xing looked embarrassed, staring at the five skewers...ah, no, they were five sticks of roasted corn. I felt like there were black lines on his forehead.
At this moment, Cao Dan suddenly walked in from outside the store and shouted to me as soon as he entered.
"Yo, Xiao Fan is so early today, and take his girlfriend to string at noon?"
