Steamed buns are called "wheat cakes" in Xiangshan dialect, and I feel that this name pays more attention to the content, after all, it is a cake made of barley as the main raw material, indicating that the ancestors of Xiangshan are still quite educated.

There is a row of two-story buildings on the west side of Qiancang Station, upstairs is a guest house, downstairs is a bakery, the owner is the sister of the brigade secretary, called "Ah Ying", everyone calls her "Mai Cake Ying".

Ah Ying is in her 30s and married a tall local man "Changlin", and the two couples are very easy-going, and they have a very good relationship with the firm, and everyone knows each other well.

Their home is not close to the station, but the soldiers in the station like to visit their house and chat about family life, which also alleviates everyone's homesickness to a certain extent.

For another reason, A-Ying also has an unmarried sister who is one year older than me and is very beautiful. The name is "Little Flower", which looks better than the actor "Little Flower" in the movie Crossing the River Reconnaissance, and is known as a flower in Qiancang.

It is also common sense that the soldier brother who has been away for many years likes beautiful women.

One day after dinner, Shen Guoxing and Zhang Guoxing and I walked to Ah Ying's house.

They also had just eaten and were chatting.

Xiaohua and one of her best friends are also there.

This best friend later learned that I had found a partner with a veteran in the office. At that time, there were regulations in the army that soldiers were not allowed to look for targets at the station. In places where troops are concentrated, even cadres are not allowed.

The veteran was later expelled from the military and escorted home.

Xiaohua's best friend followed the veteran to Haining for a period of time, and then returned to her parents' home, which is said to be because the man's family conditions are too poor.

Everyone knew each other and chatted around the dinner table.

Ah Ying's family also has two low bungalows, one for cooking, one for cooking, one for cooking, one for two 10-year-old children, a man and a woman, a very ordinary family, the conditions are not good, but they live quite self-sufficiently.

Zhang Guoxing asked Ah Ying a lot of techniques for making steamed buns, and I also listened carefully to the side, and I remember the most important thing is to use "old cake" to make flour and baking soda to make bread plump.

The next day, I went grocery shopping in Paints and bought a bag of flour at the grain station. When the lights were turned off at night, I accompanied Zhang Guoxing to make the flour with the "old cake" he asked for from Ah Ying's shop, hoping to make his own steamed buns for everyone to eat the next day.

I barely fell asleep that night, worried that I wouldn't succeed, so I got up before dawn the next day to see that Shen Guoxing was already cooking porridge.

The troops did not have the habit of eating alternate meals, and the main consideration was health and safety.

There is a pig in the house, and the rest of the food is fed to the pigs, which is quite a waste when I think about it now.

Cooking porridge is supposed to be the time to cook the second dry rice, and the cook has to get up early.

Zhang Guoxing graduated from primary school, 4 years older than me, and has been a farmer for a long time.

When everyone got up and had a good morning exercise, the steamed buns were also steamed, and they were a little yellow overall, and everyone ate very deliciously.

Later, I also did not make a cake successfully, a small piece of hard stick, and it tasted sticky to the gums, but fortunately, everyone also understood, and barely ate a little.

After A Ying's guidance several times, I also bought a little better flour, and Zhang Guoxing's bread is getting better and better.

However, I soon discovered that the cost of eating bread was significantly higher than eating rice, especially the meat bun on Saturday night.

At that time, the price of meat was 6 jiao and 4 cents a catty, and the leg meat and strip meat were the same. Cooking a meal of meat buns is worth a day's food per person just for the money to buy meat.

When making meat buns, everyone helps the kitchen pack them together, and takes them to eat after steaming a cage, often after eating a cage and the next cage is not cooked, as if everyone can't eat enough!

I remember that Shen Guoxing ate 20 in a row at a time, which was a big meat bun the size of an adult's fist!

I can actually eat more than 10 of them, but I basically don't eat them after 3 or 4 of them, because I'm afraid that everyone won't have enough to eat.