Spring is indeed coming, the warm sun shines on the grass and trees, the flowers are vibrant, the insects that have been dormant for a winter also arch out of the ground one by one, looking for a new home among the flowers and plants, and the birds that do not know where to hide also fly into the air, playing with the little friend named "kite" and the blue sky and white clouds. What a spring full of life and life!
On the weekend, my classmates and I also went to join in the fun: we went to the fields to blow the breeze, bask in the sun, look at the wheat seedlings, smell the flowers, and dig up some wild vegetables that used to be "stinky and rotten" but are now flocking to them. When I came to the field, I couldn't help but give a big thumbs up to the spring!The sun was shining warmly, and the breeze drifted through like a veil, bringing the fragrance of wheat seedlings and earthy flowers and plants. Looking at it, the sky is blue, the clouds are white, and the wheat seedlings are green, and an inexplicable joy wells up in my heart, thinking of Tao Yuanming's "There is a true meaning in this, and I have forgotten to distinguish it." If you look at your feet again, you can recognize at a glance shepherd's cabbage, dandelion, sheep's feet (noodle dish), etc., etc., all of which are old acquaintances from decades ago!Suddenly I can't care about enjoying the scenery. As the wild vegetables were dug up, the past stories hidden in the spiritual soil were also dug up one after another.
The first thing that catches your eye is all sorts of fun things that happen when you dig pigweed in the spring. When I was a child, I was in the *** period, and the peasants living under the ultra-left policy could only increase their economic income by raising pigs. But in the spring, people have nothing to eat, what to feed the pigs?Therefore, digging pigweed has become the first task of the friends after school. Groups of people carrying baskets and shovels dig on the roadside, the edge of the ditch, and the ridge of the field. Pigs are not picky eaters, so they don't have to pick and choose when digging vegetables, so they spend most of their time playing in the fields. At that time, the most fun and fun was a kind of "masochistic" behavior!At that time, there were two kinds of wild vegetables that were our main props, one was called thief garlic, and the other was called rabbit sour, and I still don't know what their scientific names were, thief garlic is equivalent to pocket-sized garlic, but the leaves are empty like the leaves of chives, and they can be eaten from beginning to end, and they are spicy with a little fragrance of wild vegetables. Rabbit sour looks a little like shepherd's cabbage, but there are no stems and no flowers, dark green leaves have dark purple-red stripes, don't look at it, it is not good-looking, but it is a typical real person does not show up: a small leaf is enough to sour your big teeth!Those who eat thief garlic are spicy and blow their mouths, pout their tongues, and their tears and snot seem to be afraid of spicyThose who eat rabbit sour grin and saliva drip down their chin and onto their chest clothes. The boys deliberately look like each other, some have crooked mouths and slanted eyes, some stretch their necks and bow their heads and spit, some shake their heads and blow their heads, some raise their hands and stomp their feet and scream, all of them are extremely exaggerated, and the competition is more "amazing"!He also pointed to the other party: "Your snot has crossed the river (river: mouth)"!Hello, your teeth are clenching your ears"!While talking and laughing, you pushed me, and then there was a collective fake fall, lying on the ground on all fours, covered in mud and hay!We girls are the most loyal spectators and cheerleaders, laughing back and forth, and seeing that it is getting late, we hurriedly dig some wild vegetables and go home. But the thief garlic eats too much, the heart burns hotly and uncomfortably, and the rabbit eats too much, and the upper teeth of the fallen teeth dare not touch the lower teeth. But the next time we dig pigweed, we still eat it correctly, which makes parents often poke our scalps: "Silly boy, Han Nizi, I don't remember even if I know it's uncomfortable to eat"!From today's point of view, we staged a series of self-written, self-directed and self-performed live-action comedy sketches, and the effect was surprisingly sensational, to paraphrase an advertising slogan: "The happiness of childhood is so simple"!
Let's talk about the story of eating wild vegetables, which were full of wild vegetables that could be called and unnamed in the spring. But these wild vegetables are fed to pigs, and I don't remember who used them to make dumplings, steamed nests, steamed vegetables, cold vegetables, and so on. I only remember drinking a salty soup made with shepherd's cabbage, and it was difficult for my mother. Once, after digging up shepherd's cabbage, I said to my mother, "I've heard that shepherd's cabbage is delicious in salty soup." The mother said slowly: "It costs fire and oil." But I still agreed, and the salty soup made was really delicious!It's not just that I like it, but the whole family says it's delicious. At that time, three meals a day were sweet potatoes and carrots, so drinking a salty soup was also considered to improve life, because some oil and salt should be put in the salty soup. More than ten years ago, the matter of letting my mother eat yo-yo vegetables also broke into my mind, and it was also one day in spring, I bought sheep's trotters from the vegetable market to prepare steamed vegetables to eat, and casually said to my mother: "When I was young, there were so many wild vegetables in the field that could be eaten, I don't remember that our family ate them." Mother sighed: Our generation has been injured, and we don't want to eat for the rest of our lives!In 58 years, every family was short of food, and every day they steamed vegetables and nested their heads, steamed vegetables, and drank vegetable paste. Later, there was no flour at all, so I had to boil wild vegetables and leaves. Later, the wild vegetables and leaves were gone, and even the bark of the elm tree was peeled off and boiled and eaten. A certain family starved to death of a daughter, a certain family starved to death of a father, I didn't even dream of eating white bread that year... As he spoke, he burst into tears. I hurriedly stepped on the brakes: "Just steam a vegetable, you still have bittersweet memories." At noon, I brought the steamed vegetables to the table: "Mother, you taste it, if it's not delicious, we won't eat it." The mother picked up the chopsticks and put one in her mouth very reluctantly. It's harder than taking medicineI was puzzled, but I saw my mother then clipping a big lock: "I thought I would never like to eat it again in my life, but now I think it is delicious"!After the meal, my mother smiled and said to me, "It's not the wild vegetables that are delicious, it's the juice that makes them delicious." It's like the sauce eggplant eaten in Lijia Mansion in "Dream of Red Mansions": an eggplant, marinated with a chicken and more than a dozen kinds of condiments, can it be delicious?We ate wild vegetables at that time, and we didn't even have salt, so it was deliciousMy mother's words made me ponder: in the era of industrialized greenhouse vegetables, people naturally favored wild vegetables that grew freely in the sun without chemical fertilizers and pesticides;Material abundance, chicken, duck and fish meat are tired of eating, so there are various ways to eat wild vegetables with the help of various condiments;In addition to the simple food meaning, there is also an important factor for middle-aged and elderly people to like to eat wild vegetables, a heavy nostalgic emotion contained in it, as they grow older, they are more and more nostalgic for the past time, and they reminisce about their bittersweet years in the chewing of wild vegetables.
For thousands of years, eating wild vegetables has been our people's helpless move to satisfy hunger and life in the famine years, during the natural disasters in the fifties and sixties of the last century, wild vegetables have become an important food for people ** and indelible pain, for me it is a direct witness and close partner of my poor childhood. It is the development of the times that has helped them complete the "great shift", and they have become a healthy and nutritious delicacy respected by the whole society. It's really "the prince will have a kind of Xiangning"!