Chapter 30 Song of Mujiangzi

Mujiangzi is easily mistaken for the child of the ungrown camphor tree. It is dark green and turns light yellow after being pickled. The pickled Mujiangzi has a slightly sour taste and can be crunched. The small seeds can be stored for a long time.The first time I came into contact with Mujiangzi, I believed that I would like it in the future, because the taste of Mujiangzi is really strange, and I can’t accept it all at once. Generally, things that are not acceptable at the beginning, after accepting them, will love deeply. Mujiangzi is just a smaller camphor tree. Its shape, color and smell are similar, but why don't we

Have you eaten camphor tree seeds?For that volatile and strange fragrance, camphor tree is almost equal to wood ginger. It just so happens that wood ginger is a plant of the family Lauraceae. I think the core of camphor tree is too hard.When I was eating Mujiangzi in Songbai Town, I wanted to see the Mujiangzi tree, but everyone didn’t think so. I felt that I had eaten Mujiangzi, and there was no obligation to show me the Mujiangzi tree. This logic is probably to eat Just lay the eggs, don't look at the hen that lays the eggs, maybe it has been very vicissitudes. However, Mu Jiangzigou's memory of the camphor tree, even though the years have been vicissitudes, still miss this fun tree very much.To play camphor tree, you need to make a bamboo gun. Take a thick-walled bamboo with small round holes 20 cm long, which is generally the kind of bamboo used for mosquito net poles. Then take a round chopstick, which is slightly shorter than the bamboo, and insert the back end about 2 cm long. In the short bamboo joints, the bamboo joints are polished clean, and it is a push handle.Put a grain of camphor tree into the bamboo tube, push it to the outermost end with chopsticks, then insert another grain of camphor tree, push it forward with chopsticks, the two grains of camphor tree are in the bamboo tube, and there is compression between them Air.When the camphor tree in front could no longer bear the pressure of the compressed air, it shot out like a gun with a "snap".When the camphor tree shoots out, it will splash a stream of tree pulp and swell up light green foam.The camphor seed was shot on the forehead, and it was painful.The gun made in this way is still single-shot, and a bamboo tube with a larger inner hole diameter is installed at the rear end of the bamboo tube at 90 degrees. It can be used as a bullet shuttle, and ten or twenty camphor trees can be loaded into it. Push and pull the push rod of the round bamboo chopsticks, and the camphor tree shoots out in bursts of "pa, pa, pa", and the bullets in the bullet shuttle will naturally fall into the magazine. This weapon can be played every year, and the time is about summer vacation.

The grains of wood ginger seeds are much smaller than camphor seeds, smaller than prickly ash grains, and they often grow together in small clusters. Each grain has a long and thin stalk connected to a large handle. Even the handle of Mujiangzi was chewed together.In Shennongjia, wood ginger is one of the important hot pot seasonings. It is spicy and delicious, especially with the scent of camphor. It feels like a mysterious and strange smell. The locals love it and almost all People who eat wood and ginger seeds can't live without wood ginger seeds until Xingshan and Yichang.When asked, they said that Mujiangzi is particularly good for the stomach and smoothes the qi. Thinking about it, it is true. Drinking after eating Mujiangzi always feels refreshing.Check the seasoning area of ​​Mujiangzi again. The fragrance of Mujiangzi is floating in the whole southwest sky, not only in the northwestern Hubei area, but I have the same premonition that the taste of Mujiangzi in the southwest region is very likely to go to the southwest The highland gradually spreads to the city, providing the same fresh and mysterious taste for the increasingly pale urban taste buds.In terms of taste, the mountain is always fresh, it has an inexhaustible taste, it is our dear flavor warehouse, so I love the mountain, I love the forest.