Tony is an English boy. He is 16 years old. He studies in a middle school. He often watches TV and likes the popular hair（头发）. His parents and teachers tell him not to do so, but he doesn’t listen to them.

One Sunday afternoon, his mother buys him a beautiful T-shirt and he loves it very much. The next morning, it is cold, but he still puts it on. That evening he gets a bad cold（感冒）, so his parents takes him to the hospital.

About thirty minutes later, a nurse（护士）brings him to a women’s ward（病房）.

“Don’t you know I am a boy?” Tony says. “Oh. I’m sorry. I don’t know you are a boy, because your hair is too long.”

Crossing-the-bridge rice noodles is a very famous dish in Yunnan. When you eat crossing-the-bridge rice noodles, you are served with a big bowl of hot chicken soup, some uncooked meat and vegetables, and of course a bowl of rice noodles.

It is recorded that during the Qing dynasty, a scholar (书生) from Mengzi city, Yunnan province, needed to prepare for imperial exams (科举考试). To study hard for the exams, he decided to go to a small and quiet house on the island on Nanhu Lake. The scholar had a loving wife who brought meals to him every day. Because of a far distance, including crossing a long bridge, the food always got cold when she arrived. One day, the wife brought chicken soup and rice noodles to him. When she got there, she found that the chicken soup was still hot. After putting the rice noodles and other things into the soup, she found it tasted very delicious. So she started bringing separated chicken soup, rice noodles, and other things to the house and mixed them after arriving. Soon this way of cooking became popular around the city. People named the dish “crossing-the-bridge rice noodles” in memory of its inventor.

Now crossing-the-bridge rice noodles is the first choice of many visitors to taste in Yunnan. This special dish not only lets them feel the hospitality (好客) of people in Yunnan, but it also reminds them of the hard-working husband and the wise and loving wife.