Let me briefly introduce Comrade Yuan Mei. He is our old county magistrate in Shuyang. More than 270 years ago, he worked in Shuyang for two years and had a good reputation. Later he was transferred to Nanjing. Return to Shuyang. I think there are three types of people who should remember him. One type is engaged in literature. Yuan Mei’s literary achievements are quite impressive. There is no problem that "Xiaocangshanfang Poems and Essays" won the Lu Prize now. The second type is foodies. , I feel that Yuan Mei is a benchmark for foodies. He not only knows how to eat, but also writes down the delicacies he eats, which is called "Suiyuan Food List". The third type is those who like to collect. Yuan Mei specially built a 300-acre Suiyuan to collect all kinds of rare treasures, especially book boxes. At that time, he had a collection of more than 400,000 books. He was definitely a rich man. I admire him!

Do you think a comrade like this is worthy of admiration for an administrative manager who takes his business hobbies to the extreme?

Therefore, everyone still misses Yuan Mei. Yuan Mei was invited to Shuyang at the age of seventy-three. When he was about to return half a month later, Lu Fengting asked, "When will I see you again, sir?"

"I can't answer, it's not that I don't answer, I can't bear to answer. Sigh! I am seventy-three years old this year, how can I bear to deceive you and come again? Can I bear to hurt you and come again? However, with the order of fifty years ago, Yin , I came to the old country, and there are very few people like me in the world."

The words indicate that I still want to come, but it is just because of my age. Now that we are well and can travel through time and space, how can we bear to have such a good comrade like Yuan Mei still feel regret? Especially now that it is the peak of spring, it is much better than the early cold when he last came.

Comrade Yuan was so excited that he burst into tears when he heard someone invited him to return to Shuyang. After more than two hundred years, does anyone in Shuyang still remember him?

Don’t worry, Mr. Yuan, the people of Shuyang are grateful. No matter how long it takes, they will remember the officials who have benefited the local area. If you don’t believe it, you will know it when you go to Shuyang. Your statue, your Wherever you name a place, people in the future will recall your past achievements.

"The old rain does not forget the foreign guests, and the official voice has been paid to Jinyang for a long time." I feel ashamed and ashamed. I remember that when I became an official at the age of twenty-eight, I had only been in Shuyang for two years, and many of my ambitions had not yet had time to be realized...

01/The water of the Yellow River shines on my head, and it is so heavy that Tong Yang recognizes me as my old friend.

Whenever local officials have the opportunity to return to their old place of governance, they usually do nothing more than catch up with old friends and revisit their old places. Although Yuan Mei is talented, he is no exception.

In the fifty-third year of Qianlong's reign, when Yuan Mei returned to Shu, the Yamen still had two old relatives, Zhang and Shen. They were still there at the age of eighty, chatting with him and reminiscing about the past. But today when he returned to Shu, he no longer accompanied him. He was nostalgic about old people, not to mention that the original county government had long since been destroyed. A community was rebuilt on the old site. Full of fireworks.

Fortunately, the wisteria that was planted by hand is still there. Now it is lush and green, with strong branches. Comrade Yuan stroking his beard said with emotion that the years are graying.

I told him that this wisteria is, firstly, to commemorate you as an old man, and secondly, as a warning to officials in the past to serve the people as diligently as you.

That is, Yuan Mei said that when I was at the Yamen, I wrote a special couplet. The first couplet is that prison is more expensive than love, and it is better to get married early; the second couplet is to prevent many mistakes and punish lightly. Just remind yourself not to hurt people easily.

We all know this. When my husband was transferred to Nanjing, he also rewrote this couplet and hung it in the government office.

A trace of pride flashed across Lao Yuan's face. He regretfully said that it was a pity that the "place where our ancestors gathered their meals, where the sisters fought with grass, and where we met guests in the past and wrote papers" have all become memories, and there is no place to pay homage to them anymore.

02／If you have eyes, you must be lustful, and if you have a mouth, you must have good taste

I quietly said to Mr. Yuan, times have changed, lust must be hidden in the heart, the spring scenery is boundless, feast your eyes , yes, but if you want to take action, the police will have to take care of it. You can let go of the good taste. I know that you have eaten good food all your life and now you are back in Shuyang. Just ask if you want to eat.

There is almost no delicacy in the world that I have not tasted. Back then, the farmhouse I opened in Suiyuan had a wide range of delicacies from all over the world. Otherwise, my husband would be called the number one foodie in the Qing Dynasty. He pondered for a while and said, "How about this? It's up to you to decide for once today."

It’s up to you to decide. I prepared braised stinky mandarin fish from the Shooting Range Restaurant, stir-fried grass chicken, stir-fried small dried fish with Miaotou Lengzhuang Qianzhuang peppers, and wrapped it with Machang small bean cakes. Sweet and sour. These items are not recorded in his foodie bible "Suiyuan Food List".

Sure enough, when he took a bite of mandarin fish meat, put it into his mouth, savored it carefully, and praised it endlessly, saying that he had eaten Huangshan stinky mandarin fish, and the meat was rotten but not rotten. He had a secret recipe. It smells bad but tastes delicious. What I ate today can be said to be naturally fermented, with a pure taste and mellow flavor. Compared with the method of adding stinky tofu in some stores, it is actually a good taste.

I said you didn’t record this kind of taste in "Suiyuan Food List". What you said was like this: "Jiyu (mandarin fish) has few bones, so fried slices are best. Those who fry it use Thin slices are more expensive. Use autumn oil to stir-fry them, add fiber powder and egg white, and add seasonings to fry them. "There is no technical content in this method now, and ordinary pickled fish can be used. To reach this level, few people in Shuyang can do it now.

Advance with the times and keep pace with the times.

Lao Yuan said with some lack of confidence, how about this? Next time if I have a chance to reprint "Suiyuan Food List", I will make some modifications.

It still has the same taste as before. Yuan Mei rolled out another piece of dried fish wrapped in red pepper, and a circle of sweat appeared on the tip of her nose. What was a little embarrassing was that because the spicy taste was too spicy, she sneezed, and the two dentures that were blocking the door spurted out. A small dried fish refused to close its eyes and even took the opportunity to jump right in front of my eyes. It was about to jump before it could jump.

03／The spring breeze is like a distinguished guest, and it becomes prosperous as soon as it arrives

Shuyang in the peak spring season is naturally like a distinguished guest, and it becomes prosperous as soon as it arrives. Come to sweep away the snow from thousands of mountains and return flowers from all over the world. No matter what, I want to see the thousands of acres of flowers in Yintai in the west of the city, turn around the ancient chestnut forest along Zhaxin Road, take the Hu Family Garden, and go to Yuji Valley. Standing on the Bawang Bridge today, Comrade Yuan had three emotions.

One is that the Temple of Concubine Yu is no longer there. When Shu returned in the 53rd year of Qian Kun, he came to Yanji in a sedan chair to pay homage to Concubine Yu and left a poem:

To owe Yu Ji a poem, I went to the ancient ancestral temple.

The three armies have dispersed and the beauties are here. Who is the martyr woman of the Six Kingdoms?

Death has become a spiritual home, and the soul is still dancing with grass and wet rouge.

Beside the seat is a statue of Wu Zui, so that he can visit the king and ride under the moon.

Nowadays, Shuyang Zheng'er Bajing promotes the hometown of Yu Ji, and there is not even a Yu Ji temple. Is it not as good as the ancients? I quickly said that the county had already taken some action on restoring the former residence of Yu Ji, and Lao Yuan looked better and said that he had planned to write a poem about returning to Yu Ji Temple this time, but it seemed that he would have to leave it to Yu Ji Temple next time. Let’s write it after it’s completed.

The second is that I am quite disapproving of the Hu Family Garden. They say this garden is too small, can it be called a garden? It should be called a courtyard. My garden at that time was called Suiyuan, covering an area of ??more than 300 acres, which was still too small. Today, the Hu family garden is less than ten acres, which shows that the current pattern of politicians is too small.

He said that when I was in Shu, I paid a special visit to the Hu family's ancestral hall. Hu's Jian Jing senior was a guest in a foreign country. His son Hu Songlin had a long conversation with me, and I later bought it. The garden is indeed influenced by the Hu Family Garden.

Third, I didn’t expect that an old man here could make a career out of raising flowers and grass. Looking at 300,000 acres, there is no grain. This shows the scale. It completely subverts the concept that food is the most important thing for the people. . It seems that what I wrote about the eyes must be lustful, and it is very appropriate to apply it here, haha...

On the way back, I walked along the embankment of Yihe River. The Yihe River was green and green, and the clear water was gurgling. Near Wangzhuang, a large piece of rapeseed is like a yellow cloud, meandering along the winding river and drifting eastward. In the sea of ??flowers, butterflies are flying and bees are dancing, and a group of tourists are taking photos and enjoying it.

My heart is different from that of tourists. I don’t envy gods and young men. Yuan Mei suddenly felt infinite emotion. He thought about the time when I was in charge of Shuyang, floods were rampant and hungry people fled. Where is the leisure and elegance? It can be seen that "people in ancient times often paid close attention to the places where they were governed. A wise man regarded the people as his home. Those who were in official positions and could not forget their place, and the people in the place could not forget it either."

Night Shrouded, a piece of neon bloomed in Shu City. I express my deep admiration for Comrade Lao Yuan’s understanding of serving as an official. I would like to record it in the hope that those in power will plan for it.