Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 157 Sesame Leaf

The weather in July was still hot and dry, and those tireless cicadas played and sang monotonous songs endlessly.

After a light rain, the sesame seeds in the fields are all blooming, and those small white or pink flowers look like bells hanging upside down, looking very beautiful.

Several sesame plants in Liu Junhao's front yard also bloomed pink flowers at this time, attracting many bees to collect honey on them.

When these sesame seeds first grew under the eaves, it was very surprising. Even he himself didn't remember when he sprinkled sesame seeds in the yard.

Finally, after thinking about it for a long time, I remembered that Chunshang seemed to have bought a few catties of sesame seeds to make sesame salt. It must have been at that time that he picked up the yellow tip with a dustpan and leaked it on the ground.

It's not easy for them to grow. You must know that this group of chickens and ducks are digging around in the yard every day.

Later, when the sesame seedlings were about ten centimeters long, Liu Junhao thought they were getting in the way under the eaves, so he moved them to the corner by the flower pond and left them alone.No matter how well these seedlings grow, they can't harvest a catty of sesame seeds, so why waste time on them.

But what he didn't expect was that the sesame seeds would grow rapidly after being moved into the flower pond. The bottom part of the stalk was a bit thicker than the bamboo in Professor Zhao's courtyard, and several branches branched out from the top.

Looking at this momentum, I'm afraid Qiuli must have made a lot of sesame seeds.

Liu Junhao was originally afraid that the villagers who came to the village would see something abnormal, but finally he thought that he was too worried.Sesame is a crop that likes thinness but not thickness. Although such a situation is rare, it is not uncommon.You can often see one or two solitary sesame seeds growing in the peanut field or soybean field, and the head is as tall as a person.

Zhang Qian was very interested in sesame blossoms, so she stood by and asked Liu Junhao to take five or six photos of her at the risk of being stung by bees.

The sesame blossoms were blooming, and she stood there with a smile on her face, which seemed like "the peach blossoms on a human face complement each other".

Liu Junhao was a little moved when he saw it, and was about to go up and take a photo with her little hand, but Zhang Qian jumped away screaming, yelling "Bumblebee!"

Liu Junhao is very troubled by these things that destroy the atmosphere. It is said that they have increased again recently, and it seems that they will be divided into groups in two days.

"Shall we pinch sesame leaves tomorrow morning?" Zhang Qian looked at the sesame seeds for a while, and then remembered eating sesame leaves.

Aunt Six got up early two days ago, led Aqin to pinch sesame leaves in the field for a long time, and made noodles with sesame leaves in the evening.

Zhang Qian was very disapproving at first, but after tasting it, she immediately became interested.

The fresh and tender sesame leaves are dried and then stir-fried with chopped green onion, pepper, and shredded ginger, and then thrown into the pot for serving.The sesame leaves are fragrant, the noodles are smooth, and the taste is really good!

"Are you sure you want to fight in person? Why don't we go to the street to buy some dried sesame leaves and try them out in a few days, which will save trouble." Liu Junhao looked at her suspiciously, and it didn't look like he was going to work in the fields Look, the scene of the last wheat harvest is still vivid in my memory.

Zhang Qian was so tired after harvesting the wheat for a day that her waist ached and her back ached. She said she was helping out for the rest of the day, but she actually helped make wheat waist when she was in the field, and stayed in the shade for the rest of the time.

"Why, I can't go to the ground?" Zhang Qian blushed and looked very dissatisfied.

"No, I mean the eggs are delicious, we don't have to know the hen that lays the eggs." Seeing his girlfriend throwing a fit, Liu Junhao immediately apologized.

"I still want to know each other today." Zhang Qian really wants to have another addiction in the field.She has also developed some interest in farm work these days, of course it is only interest, if she is really allowed to work hard for a long time, she will be designated to complain.

"Okay, okay, I completely agree." Although Liu Junhao didn't want to move, he still raised his hands to support Zhang Qian in order to satisfy Zhang Qian's curiosity.It's just that I don't grow sesame seeds myself, so if I want to pinch them, I can only go to other people's plots.

This problem was quickly resolved. Er Mazi's daughter-in-law happened to come to buy rice field eels. When she heard that they were worried about this matter, she immediately asked them to pick them in their own fields.Her family has planted more than five acres of sesame seeds this year, and there are so many sesame leaves, you can eat as much as you want.

Sesame leaves are the tender leaves of sesame seeds, a vegetable that is often eaten by rural people in summer.

"Sesame leaves are half a year's grain, and if there is less drying, there will be famine." Every year in mid-July, men, women and children in the village all take action, one by one, they rush to the field with bamboo baskets to pinch sesame leaves.

In less than a week, the sesame seeds in the field became bare stalks, leaving only bare sesame stalks and sesame seeds.

Freshly picked sesame leaves cannot be stored for a long time, and must be steamed in the pot immediately.After steaming, take it into the basket, rinse and rub it, and then put it outside to dry. The whole process is quite time-consuming.

At that time, every household had to put a few sacks of sesame leaves in the sun, and throw them away when there were no vegetables in winter.It is often fried sesame leaves in the morning, noodles with sesame leaves at noon, and cold sesame leaves in the evening.In a word, sesame leaves are indispensable for three meals a day.

When Liu Junhao was a child, this food was a little nauseating, so he was not very enthusiastic about Zhang Qian's suggestion.But he turned his head and thought, he has eaten too much rabbit meat these days, so it would be good to change the taste.

So after breakfast the next day, he and Zhang Qian went to pinch sesame leaves with bamboo baskets in their arms.

The sesame seeds in Er Mazi's land are a bit thick, and it is impossible to walk in the field.The two were afraid of breaking the sesame seeds, so they could only stand on the side of the path and pinch them, but after a long time, they also made a big bamboo basket full.

After another busy afternoon, the sesame leaves were boiled and dried.

In the evening, Zhang Qian anxiously made a meal of sesame leaf noodles.

After not eating for such a long time, Liu Junhao really misses it.Taste it with two chopsticks, it's really delicious!Slightly bitter, mixed with a thick and long-lasting mellow aroma, the red pepper is spicy, and the noodles are slippery, don't mention how exciting it is!
In this way, he was out of control. He ate a large bowl of sesame leaf noodles with soup and water "sucking and sucking" in less than 5 minutes, and his forehead was sweating.
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The rain fell as soon as it said it would, and at night it was just a small trickle of raindrops, but in the morning after eating, the raindrops began to gather.

Unlike the two little guys running around in the yard with umbrellas to catch fish, Liu Junhao is currently moving a chair and sitting at the door watching the heavy rain in a daze.

It is said that whenever it rains, there will be fish in my yard, such as crucian carp shells, shredded meat and wheat, and loach, etc., rushing upwards along the current, making it impossible for people to catch them.Those teal ducks and Qing Zhuang were making a fuss in the front yard at this moment, they kept sticking their heads out and pecking fiercely at the ground.

"Uncle Xiaohao, someone is here, pick two big flower skins for me." He was in a daze, and Xiaowazi ran over with an umbrella.

"Now, eat watermelon in such a cold weather?" I don't know which tourist has such a personality. He still eats watermelon when it is raining heavily, and he is not afraid of catching a cold.

“Not to eat now, but to take away”

Since the watermelon ripened at the end of June, the sales of the big flower skin in Liu Junhao's courtyard have been very good.He also has a rough idea of ​​how many watermelons he has sold. Up to now, he has sold more than 6000 catties, which means that he has received more than 6000 yuan.

Like last year, the big flower skin in the backyard is still blooming. According to this, we should still be able to harvest a lot of watermelons.

People who came to visit from the village also inquired about the production of watermelons in his family. Liu Junhao was afraid that the real data would be too surprising, so he doubled the data.Even so, this number is still impressive.

"It's broken, I forgot to open the water channel eye"

As soon as we arrived at the backyard, we were greeted by a scene of water flooding Jinshan. Many vegetables had been submerged, only a few leaves were still exposed in the water, and those eels and loaches were running around.

It was only then that he remembered that a few days ago, in order to prevent raccoons from sneaking in and stealing melons, he deliberately blocked the two outlets of the water channels in the backyard.Now the water in the whole yard is rushing forward, no wonder the water flow in the front yard is so big.

Liu Junhao quickly rolled up his trouser legs and ran to the corner, and pulled out a few big bricks blocking the waterway.

After standing in the backyard for about ten minutes, seeing the rain gradually receding, he finally felt relieved, picked two big watermelons and carried them to the front yard.

"What are you doing, what are you doing?" He just left for a while, why did Xiao Haoyu chase the teal ducks all over the yard and chase them away.

"Uncle Liu, look, we have picked up so many river prawns, you will cook them for us later..." Tongtong showed him a small bucket as if offering a treasure.

Well, it looks like she is addicted to food.A few days ago, when Liu Junhao was catching rice field eels, he also made a big bowl of river prawns, so he made a salt water river prawns at noon.As a result, I didn't take a few bites of this dish at all, and it was divided up by the two little guys.

Not to mention, the river prawns here are not big, but they are delicious.

Pour shredded green onion and sliced ​​ginger into the boiling water, sprinkle with salt, then put the river prawns in and cook with peppercorns, and then sprinkle some coriander on it and eat it.It was absolutely delicious, with the flavor soaking into the shrimp.

"Liu Junhao, you are at home." Hearing this voice, it was Sun Yutao and Xu Dongfang who came over.They have been living in Liujiagou these days, and they usually go to Liu Junhao to check information on the Internet, so they are quite familiar with it.

"Aren't you going up the mountain today?" Liu Junhao hurriedly invited the two of them into the house to sit down.

"With such a heavy rain, there is no way to go up the mountain to investigate and take a day off."

Originally, I thought that people would come to surf the Internet, but who knew that they just came here to chat, and I had nothing to do with them, so I just talked nonsense with them.

While chatting, Xiaopi ran into the house wet all over. The hare in "Plop"'s mouth was thrown in front of Liu Junhao, and then it began to tremble, shaking off all the rain on its body.

Feelings This guy doesn't forget to go hunting even in rainy days, he's really dedicated.

Naturally, Sun Yutao and the two were left here for lunch at noon, but Liu Junhao didn't eat a few bites of the braised hare, most of it was divided between the two brothers.He has been eating it these days, and he is really tired of eating it. Now he thinks that rabbit meat is not as delicious as the cold sesame leaves.

If you don't eat sesame leaves for a few years, it's really a good thing. Not only does he like to eat it, but even Zhang Qian can't get enough of it.

In the past two days, they ate differently. Of course, the most common one is sesame leaf noodles.

(End of this chapter)