"Jumping Noodles" is a home-cooked snack in Gaoyou. Wang Zengqi described it like this:

It turns out that the noodles sold in our dumpling noodle shop are "Jumping Noodles". Dig a hole in the wall, insert a wooden pole into the hole, and place a table under it. The wooden pole is pressed on a very hard piece of surface, and people sit on the wooden pole and press this surface repeatedly. Because you have to jump step by step when pressing noodles, it is called "jumping noodles". "Jumping noodles" can be cut very thin and thin, and the soup is not muddy in the pot. It tastes tough and very soft. The soup is only shrimp, cooked lard, soy sauce and chopped green onion, but it is very fresh. If you don't add soup, just put the noodles in the seasoning, which is called "dry mixing", You Mei.

—— The Great Monk Wu and the Seven Fists and a Half

"Jumping Noodles" is a strange dialect word for ordinary readers, but it suddenly comes to life after Wang Zengqi's enthusiastic introduction and description, and this floating local snacks with bright oil and green flowers makes people feel wonderful and drool. The impression of Gaoyou instantly melts in the delicious noodle soup, which makes people fascinated.

Master Wu and the Seven Fists and a Half Original:

Wang Zengqi

My hometown has the habit of "eating late tea". At four or five o'clock in the afternoon, we should have a snack, a bowl of noodles, or two baked wheat cakes or "oil chopping block". In 1981, I returned to my hometown where I had been away for more than 4 years, and my hometown people still maintained this habit. One afternoon, "evening tea" was baked wheat cake. I asked, "Is this sesame seed cake from the alley?" My niece said, "It's made of seven and a half fists." "Seven fists and a half" is of course a nickname. It describes this man as short, only as tall as seven fists and a half. This nickname is very vivid. I don't know which sharp-tongued and extremely smart person gave it to him.

I'm eating sesame seed cake, which is very fragrant and tastes the same as it did more than 4 years ago, just like what monk Wu made. So I think of monk Wu.

my house has a back door besides the front door and the side door. This back door opens on the back wall of monk Wu's home. Open the back door and go through the Wu family to get to the alley. Sometimes we cut in and out through the back door, and we can see clearly the situation of monk Wu's house.

monk Wu (this is a nickname, and many people there have big names, but they only use the nickname "Xing" all their lives) to open a sesame seed cake dumpling noodle shop.

there are two kinds of baked wheat cakes in our place. One kind is called "Straw oven sesame seed cake", which is baked with straw in a high oven. Thick noodles, few layers, and cheap, which were bought by country people when they went to town. One is called "barrel furnace sesame seed cake". In a big wooden barrel, a layer of mud is pasted inside, coal is burned at the bottom of the barrel, and sesame seeds are baked on the wall of the furnace. "Barrel oven sesame seed cake" has a large bowl, thin and multi-layered, with many sesame seeds on the cake surface and a salty taste. If you add money, you can also "insert crisp", that is, add more "oil noodles" when rolling sesame cakes, and bake them out, which is extremely soft. If you take lard residue and dried mushrooms at home, you can make dried mushrooms and oil residue sesame cakes with unique flavor. Master Wu's family made "Bai Lu".

It turns out that our dumpling noodle shop sells "jumping noodles". Dig a hole in the wall, insert a wooden pole into the hole, and place a table under it. The wooden pole is pressed on a very hard piece of surface, and people sit on the wooden pole and press this surface repeatedly. Because you have to jump step by step when pressing noodles, it is called "jumping noodles". "Jumping noodles" can be cut very thin and thin, and the soup is not muddy in the pot. It tastes tough and very soft. The soup is only shrimp, cooked lard, soy sauce and chopped green onion, but it is very fresh. If you don't add soup, just put the noodles in the seasoning, which is called "dry mixing", You Mei. We call wonton jiaozi. The Wu family also sells jiaozi. But more people go to eat "dumpling noodles", that is, half wonton and half noodles. I remember that forty years ago, the dumpling noodles of monk Wu's family were 12 Wen and 1 bowl, that is, twelve were ten copper coins.

the pattern of the Wu family is a bit special. My home is in the east of the lane, that is, outside the back door of my house, but the shop is opposite. In addition to the barrel stove for baking sesame cakes, there are pots and pans in the shop, which are used for selling noodles and jiaozi. There is another square table (only one) for customers to eat noodles. Everything is clean.

The Wu family has a simple population. Monk Wu has a young wife who takes care of jiaozi and his subordinates. His young wife is not tall, but she is slim. The skin color is slightly black. The eyes are long and narrow, and the eyelashes are heavy, which is the so-called "peach blossom eye". There is a small scar on the upper eyelid of the left eye. I think it was a sore when I was a child. This little scar makes her look pretty. But she never flirts with customers and coquettes, just bows her head and does things quietly. Wearing is also very simple, just green cloth clothes and pants. She and monk Wu gave birth to a child and are still nursing. Monk Wu has a mother, who is not idle all day, rummaging through a family's cotton-padded jacket and trousers, taking the soles, and shaking her grandson sleeping in the cradle. In addition, there is a little buddy, "jumping noodles" and burning fire. On the surface, it seems that this family is very calm, and there is no dispute. Actually, it is not. Monk Wu often beats his wife at night, because she "cheats on others". Where we call having an affair with someone "stealing others". It was so heavy that we could hear it through the wall by chopping wood. This little woman is stubborn, she doesn't cry, she doesn't shout, and she doesn't say a word.

get up early the next day, as usual, and do what you have to do. Monk Wu rolled sesame cakes and baked them; His wife is under jiaozi.

Finally, one day, the young wife of Master Wu disappeared, ran away, leaving the baby on her nipple and disappeared. We still don't know who her "orphan" is (where we call illegitimate lovers and wild men "orphan").

I have been full of respect for this woman since I was a child, and I always remember her appearance, her peach-blossom eyes, and the little scar on her upper eyelid on her left eye.

monk Wu and this little kannika nimtragol with peach eyes are probably dead. Now, there is a seven-and-a-half-punch biscuit shop in this alley. I always feel that there is some connection between the seven fists and a half and the great monk Wu, which causes me some unclear feelings.

Seven and a half fists is not really surprisingly short. I estimate that he is about 1.56 meters tall. He is a very energetic young man. He is a veritable "self-employed", and he is the only one in the whole store. It is not difficult for him to become a million-yuan household, maybe he is already a million-yuan household. His baked wheat cakes are so delicious and his business is so good. I think for no reason that he will marry the most beautiful girl in this street, and this girl will really love him and be considerate to him. I looked at the appearance of seven fists and a half sticking sesame cakes in the furnace, and I felt that he was full of confidence in this.

The two people who make baked cakes live in different times. I believe that the life of seven and a half fists will be more reasonable and better than that of monk Wu.

maybe this is just my hope.

December 7th, 1988

Appreciation of The Great Monk Wu and His Seven Fists and a Half:

The Great Monk Wu and His Seven Fists and a Half is a prose sketch of Wang Zengqi in the 198s. Like his other essays, this article is plain and simple, and it's just plain. Both language and structure are characterized by "sparse". You see, the author started with eating tea and sesame seed cakes, and immediately mentioned the monk Wu who made sesame seed cakes more than forty years ago, and then introduced in detail the two kinds of sesame seed cakes and the practice of "jumping noodles" there, and then talked about the pattern of the Wu family, family situation and the experience of the monk Wu, and finally came back to write seven and a half punches. At first glance, reading this article gives people the impression that the author's writing is sloppy and disorganized. It seems that there is not much truth in putting monk Wu and seven fists and a half together, just like gossiping. When Zhang San talked about Li Si, he talked about Li Si, all because of the speaker's interest, and there was no overall consideration. It seems that too much pen and ink is used to write sesame cakes and jump noodles. This unconventional layout is unacceptable for a while. In fact, this is exactly what Wang Zengqi called "casual", and what we call the structural "sparse" feature.

It seems that the author has no rules and regulations. In fact, the rules and regulations are deeply hidden in the author's mind, but what the author pursues is to set up a vivid pen inadvertently and deliberately, and to touch the infinite charm of plain nature at will. (Published in No.19, 212, Chinese Newspaper High School Edition)