Nongmen Rice Flower Fragrance

Chapter 101

After a few days, the weather became hotter and hotter, and the two locust trees in front of Li Xin's house had already bloomed a lot of locust flowers.Large clusters of white flowers hang on the tree, beautiful and gratifying.

On a hot day, people were a bit sleepy, Li Xin didn't want to go out, and Zhuangzi didn't go there either, and just stayed at home all day.Occasionally, I would go back to Guihua Village to have a look, and also take care of the few acres of fields at home.Watermelons are planted in several acres of fields at home and in Li Xin's vegetable garden, and they are all planted with the same crop, which is relatively easier to manage.

Li Xin was also thinking that Zhuangzi would naturally grow the food. In the past, the few acres of land at home would grow something for the family to eat.Last summer, Wen Hao and the others always said that the heat was unbearable, and there was nothing to relieve the heat.Li Xin thought about planting some watermelons, so that he could eat watermelons to relieve the heat when the weather was hot.

The world of watermelons already exists, but they are not widely planted, and even fewer are planted in rural areas.On the contrary, rich and noble families will plant some, which is good for relieving the heat in hot weather.People in the village have always believed that the field is for growing food, and it would be too extravagant and wasteful if it were used to grow things like watermelons.Therefore, in the village, Li Xin has never seen a watermelon, nor did he see it in the market.

Last year, shopkeeper Sun sent some watermelons to his family for the Mid-Autumn Festival. After cutting them, the children in the family liked to eat them very much.

Coincidentally, Li Xin searched among the seeds in the bracelet and found that there were indeed watermelon seeds, and even the planting method was written in detail on the package, so Li Xin took out the watermelon seeds and handed them over to Wang Fu and his wife.Let the two grow seedlings first, and plant them in spring.

It has been almost two months since planting, and the watermelon is about to ripen.Li Xin also likes to take a walk in the watermelon fields to check the growth of the watermelons.It seems that those watermelon seeds are really good. The watermelon grows very big, most of them weigh about ten catties, and there are a few big ones. Weigh it.

The green Guaman mountain is full of big watermelons, such a scene, no matter how you look at it, it makes people like it.

"Sister, isn't our watermelon ripe yet?" Wen Hao asked Li Xin as soon as he came home.This kid has been thinking about watermelons for quite some time, always asking Li Xin when watermelons will ripen.Li Xin also said that he could be familiar with it in March, and in March, this kid asked more frequently.

"It's almost there. Didn't you see that Zhu Yong ran to the village all day! If there is a watermelon that is ripe, he will definitely pick it."

"I saw that the watermelon at home has already grown much bigger than the watermelon that shopkeeper Sun sent last year. Why is it not yet ripe! When it is ripe, I don't know how big it will be!"

"When it's ripe, you'll have something to eat. The watermelon isn't ripe yet, but the pagoda tree flowers are blooming well at the door, why don't we hunt some down for food!" Li Xin also thought of a lot when seeing the locust tree blooming. Sophora japonica is delicious.I remember that there were many locust trees in my hometown in my previous life. When the locust flowers bloomed, the children in the village would always go in groups to pick the locust flowers.Pick off the Sophora japonica, or suck the nectar inside to eat, or take it home for the family to make delicious Sophora japonica rice, Sophora japonica buns and the like.

Li Xin liked such activities very much when she was young.At that time, I really found it very interesting. Children can always find their own fun in a poor environment.Maybe there are no fun toys, no good-looking dolls, but the fun is never less than that of the children in the city, and even much more.

That kind of childhood is really special and meaningful. Many small things in the past, when I think about it at this time, I will laugh out.

All kinds of flowers and plants are beautiful and beautiful, but the villagers can also make beautiful flowers and plants into delicious food.Li Xin still remembers so many fragments of those days in the countryside.

Together with her friends, she dug wild vegetables such as shepherd's purse and Houttuynia cordata in the fields.I also picked sheep's hooves and Sophora japonica on the mountain.Among the flowers picked on the mountain that can be used for cooking, Li Xin's deepest memory is the sheep's foot and Sophora japonica. These two kinds of flowers are very beautiful when they bloom, and they are also delicious when made into various foods.

There are very similarities between the sheep's foot and the Sophora japonica. When the flowers bloom, they are so colorful and lively, and they have a flower season of their own.The sheep's hooves bloom brilliantly, while the Sophora japonica is as white as snowflakes.

I still remember that there were a few old gongfen sheep's hooves in the village, and some new trees were bred from the seeds not far away.When I was young, I didn't know that it was called Bauhinia, but because the shape of the leaves resembled a sheep's hoof, people in the village called it Bauhinia chinensis.Both the flowers and the leaves are very interesting. Its corolla consists of five separate petals, four of which are symmetrically distributed on both sides, and one of which is tilted up above, covered with colorful spots of strong hues.This point is actually a bit like the Phoenix flower, which also has five petals, four of which are fiery red, and one petal is full of colorful spots.

Gongfen sheep's hoof beetle has large and colorful flowers. In the mid-spring season when its leaves are half deciduous, the flowers bloom first, and the trees are full of flowers, red and green.

The leaves of the sheep's hooves are also very interesting, as its name suggests, they look like sheep's feet.Each leaf, without exception, is composed of two symmetrical sides in the shape of a kidney, with concave ends.Fold it up, it looks like a green butterfly.

When the flowers bloom, when you walk under the tree, you can smell the faint fragrance, the breeze blows, and the falling flowers are so beautiful that it looks like an illusion.The flowers bloom like phoenixes flying, and the leaves dance lightly like butterfly wings. It is really the most beautiful scenery in memory.

Later, Li Xin traveled to many places, saw many redbud flowers, and also saw many palace powder sheep's hooves.However, it seems that there is no such beauty in memory anymore.Perhaps the wild taste of the countryside itself is incomparable no matter how imitated it is in the city.

When the sheep's foot flowers are in bloom, the children in the village always like to pick them, and then pick off the petals one by one, and then they can cook after washing.You can also make it more complicated, or just stir-fry it, without adding too many condiments, it will already be fragrant.

It's a pity that she has traveled to many places, but she has never tasted the taste of sheep's hooves again.

"Acacia flowers can also be eaten?" Wen Hao looked at Li Xin in disbelief.

"Of course you can eat it. You may drool when you make something delicious!" Li Xin rubbed Wen Hao's head, and then called several children in the family to go to the door to pick Sophora japonica.Although you can't find or eat the sheep's foot flower, but the Sophora japonica flower is right in front of you, and it's delicious when you make it out.

(End of this chapter)