Chapter 21 golden fruit

The mountain people in Shennongjia still call potatoes yams. Sometimes they don’t understand them before they change their name to potatoes, even though potatoes are one of their staple foods.People in the town sometimes joke: what to eat?Fried potatoes with yams!Potatoes are potatoes.There is a way of eating whole potatoes in Shennongjia, which is called eating yam fruit, which is a good name.The potatoes in Gai Shennongjia are small and round, the small ones are like beans, and the big ones are just like those seen in conventional markets. They are planted on hillsides at an altitude of about 1,000 meters. They have high starch content, fine texture, sweet and fragrant powder.The potatoes in Shennongjia can be compared with the potatoes in Wuzhai, Luya Mountain, Shanxi. The only way is that the potatoes in Shennongjia are hidden in the mountains and people don't know them.

It is one of the staple foods.Peel the fresh potatoes, simmer them in a pot, put them on a low heat, and fry them with a little oil. The golden fruit will turn yellow and shiny. Put it in a bowl, put it in your mouth with chopsticks, and chew slowly. Mouthful of potatoes.Potatoes for golden fruit are best freshly dug. In the dry land on the hillside, new potatoes dug out of brown soil are originally golden and round, so it is quite appropriate to call the fruit.Potatoes are not beans, so they are called beans, such as soy sauce is not oil, pandas are not cats, because the color contrast between potatoes and brown soil is large, it is clear at a glance when you dig the soil.I was at the foot of Tianxing Village in Niulantou, watching Yu Yinggang's family digging potatoes. They lined up, each holding a hoe, and placed two baskets in front of them. After digging potatoes, they picked them up and put them in the baskets.The soil is dry and loose, with mixed gravel and rotting leaves, potato seedlings and weeds grow together, and sumac trees are scattered in the middle of the ground.Under each potato seedling, there is a nest of medium and small potatoes, like a nest of golden eggs.The handles of their hoes are only one meter long, and the sides of the blades are sharp. The angle between the hoes and the handles is 60 degrees, which seems suitable for digging slopes.After digging the potatoes, put the potatoes in the basket into a big bamboo basket and carry them home.Bamboo back baskets specially used for loading things are in the shape of a trumpet, with a large top and a small bottom.That night, I ate three bowls of golden fruits, which were made by Tang Yunxiu's mother in Shennongjia, and they were the most delicious potatoes in my life.Oh, golden fruit.There is a poem by the mountain people: Roast pimples on fire, eat yams, and drink grain wine with bacon. Except for the gods, I am me.

After eating golden fruit, I drank some loose-packed grain wine as usual. There is a hot pot on the old wooden table, which is set on a three-legged iron stove. The stove is made of charcoal. It is very strange to eat at the beginning, it has a taste of camphor leaves, it turns out that it is also a Lauraceae plant.Tang's mother put some bacon in the hot pot and scrambled eggs. They were bright yellow, and they were real eggs from the mountains.It is not easy to eat meat at Niulantou. I arrived there after walking for 6 hours in the mountains and rivers.According to the description in the poems of the mountain people, I happen to be roasting pimples, eating yams, and drinking grain wine with bacon.In late June, sitting by the fire and drinking, listening to the babbling of the river in the valley, watching the moon rise in vain, the grass and insects singing, and the forest birds screaming, this is Niu Lantou.