Chapter 3 cool wave

In summer, coolness is a sweet dream.I went to the mountains of Huairou last summer, and it was really a refreshing place.It’s just that I can’t live in the mountains, there’s no reason, I’m just not used to it, I’ve lived in the city for a long time, and I’m always afraid of knocking on the door at night in the mountains.Regarding food, people also want to look for something cool, such as ice cream, frozen mung bean soup and frozen watermelon, which are very cold.Then install the air conditioner to create an artificial cool environment. There is a kind of coolness that grows, that is mint, it is a labiatae plant, the leaves have three shapes, lanceolate,

Oval and long oval, leaves green, pan purple brown.Its calyx is campanulate, the cyme is axillary, and the corolla is lavender.When you get close to mint, you can smell its cool breath. If you rub the stems and leaves, the cool taste will be very strong, which is cooler than Green Arrow chewing gum. The first time I saw mint was when I was a child in my hometown in southern Jiangxi. There was a pigsty on the right side of the west gate of my hometown. There were no pigs, and many sparrows were playing on the straw inside.There is a small open space in front of the pigsty, and a bunch of mugwort is planted under the stone ridge. The villagers, some women who gave birth to children, use the mugwort to boil water for disinfection.My family consists of grandma, uncle and me. My parents are in Hubei, and the mugwort is always picked by the villagers.Next to the mugwort, there is a shallow ditch running north-south. Along the ditch is a piece of mint, and you can smell the cool air. Chickens who are afraid of the heat in summer will flop in it, and they will also emit wisps of cool breath.

But mint can be eaten, grilled fish, or boiled fish soup.Use tea oil to cook fish, sprinkle with pepper oil, and then put mint leaves. With mint leaves, the fishy smell will be eliminated.When I came to Hubei later, I was not used to eating braised fish without mint leaves. Once I brought mint seeds from southern Jiangxi to Hubei and planted them on the balcony. When I returned from a business trip, they withered.Add mint leaves to the fish, and the fish has a cool and refreshing taste. I feel that mint is a very good gift from nature.Starting from mint, I also like other cool things.I remember that in my uncle's pharmacy, there is a kind of Ganji Tang used to treat Ganji in children. The scientific name is also called Pagoda Tang.Ganjitang is cool and sweet.I once stole one while my uncle was going to the market.However, Ganjitang is not the coolest, and the coolest candy is called mint candy.Mints are sold at the supply and marketing cooperatives. The supply and marketing cooperatives in Zhangmu Village are at the bridge on the other side of the river, and they have to walk one mile upstream.Mints are made into cubes with grid lines engraved on them. When eaten, they are broken into small pieces and eaten with a sandy texture.The rectangular mints have four compartments, are white, and have a frosted glass surface.It is housed in a round glass sugar bowl with a pointed lid, which is designed to be tempting and mouth-watering.Mint candy is cool and sweet. With it, do we still need fruit candy and toffee?The supply and marketing agency smells of tide and kerosene, which seems to be as friendly as mints.

When I first arrived in the current community, I found that people on the first floor actually planted mint in the flower garden at the door, on the lace.Mint, a kind of long-lost plant, I wanted to find someone to ask for one or steal one in the middle of the night and plant it back.This plan has not been implemented, and people are always traveling everywhere, and it will be in vain if they fall.The day before yesterday, I found a large clump of mint growing in the cement cracks in the corner of the parking lot of the community. Stinky fish, the smell of mint is not strong.Two days later, I suddenly thought, can mint be used to make soup meatballs?I haven’t eaten pork for a long time, and I want to eat it, but it tastes greasy in summer. It might be different if you add mint. I bought a piece of lean meat, minced it with mint leaves and ginger, mixed it with starch and salt, and boiled it for half a day. Pot of water, squeeze the meatballs and put them into the boiling water.After the glutinous rice balls are cooked, add them to eat. There is a slight coolness in the soup. When you scoop it up, there will be ripples, and the secular smell in the meat will quietly go away.Eat meatballs, cool meatballs, the meat is fresh and cool, and after eating, a ray of fresh air rises in the chest, the brain is as fresh as the sky after the rain, and the five senses are refreshed.