Chapter 40 Chapter 40

Ground rice and vegetables always grow in the south of the Yangtze River. On the shores of the lakes and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, the greenery of the stars spreads out little by little. In the fields where the crops have been harvested in the autumn in the south of the Yangtze River, on the hillside bamboo forests and streams, the ground rice and vegetables will be tender and persistent throughout the winter. The ground is green, the cold wind shakes its small corrugated leaves, the sun is setting and the moon is setting, it will suddenly bloom a small white flower like a grain of rice in the warm and cool, faintly... faintly filled with a bitter taste, there is I have experienced the bitter and soft Jiangnan.

My Jiangnan is the Jiangnan by the water, the Jiangnan slightly contaminated by rice and vegetables.The bitter ground rice and vegetables, with a touch of bitter taste, float on the other side of the years, like a winding river suddenly turned away, faintly retained in the deeper part of the memory, which makes people think of it inadvertently, and there will be Faint fragrance.I know that ground rice and vegetables are very inconspicuous. Its small and thin appearance is like a poor peasant boy. It grows silently on the land in the south of the Yangtze River. The cold wind combs it. It silently holds its rice-like flowers and seeds, and quietly bids farewell to the spring breeze and the blowing sky.

Suddenly looking back, some of the simple and simple days in life like rice and vegetables have gradually disappeared. They have disappeared, hidden in the colorful market, and there is no farm girl in a floral dress digging rice and vegetables in the field of vision. Under the sky, when I was terribly lonely, I remembered the warm sunshine in the south of the Yangtze River in winter, shining like a fire cage in my hand, and I was obsessed with the rice and vegetables on the moist and soft land. Fragments of geese, some disjointed plots are scattered in the poems of the turtledoves that melt snow in the south of the Yangtze River.

I think so, there are not many opportunities to eat ground rice, but it is a kind of yearning in childhood, because ground rice is very small, digging ground rice requires such a small mood, in the field, in the fragrance of the soil , carrying a small basket, holding on to a small shovel, digging for a whole afternoon, then washed it in the stream, washed it until the little hands were red, returned home and chopped it, made thin egg skins in the pot, wrapped the ground rice and vegetables , steamed or fried, it is called spring rolls.Spring rolls are very popular among children. In places where wheat grows in the south of the Yangtze River, dumplings are made with local rice and vegetables. If the flour is of good texture and the dumpling skin is unusually thin, the dumplings will have a faint green color like emerald jade. , It tastes like a light bitter taste of ground rice and vegetables.While both of these methods are very popular, I only like stir-fried ground rice dishes.Tea oil must be used for frying ground rice and vegetables. Tea oil is naturally the best among vegetable oils. I remember that adults used to arrange cooking oil like this: one pig, two teas, three beans and four hemp.I was still very puzzled at the time, why is sesame oil still fourth-rate?After leaving Gannan, Fang knew that tea oil was delicious and hard to find.The ground rice and vegetables fried with camellia oil are absolutely not as greasy and turbid as other oils. Compared with salad oil, it has a unique tea fragrance of camellia oil.

It is difficult for me to find the mood to dig rice and vegetables now. The main thing is to have a naive company. When I go back to the south every year, I just go to the market often. Occasionally, I can meet a village girl who sells rice and vegetables in a small basket. Washed clean in mountain streams, emerald green with white roots, the rice vegetables grown in the fertile soil have relatively thick leaves, and the edges of the leaves are lavender, and some are dark green.These are all excellent ground rice vegetables, they don't wait to bloom, and if they bloom, they won't be able to eat them anymore.I bought a basket of ground rice and vegetables, and I liked it very much, so I looked at it at home. I should make spring rolls, save some stir-fries, or make pure ground rice and vegetable dumplings.With such an idea, life suddenly adds some flavor, as if it has returned to the countryside.But stir-fried ground rice and vegetables must be very particular, the pot must be washed clean, no miscellaneous smells of other dishes are allowed, only a little refined salt is allowed, and no other condiments are allowed, it is not like cooking oil. For water spinach and oiled cabbage, put some minced garlic and dried chili, it will change the smell.The heat should also be appropriate, just slightly cooked, if the ground rice and vegetables are fried to death, it will be similar to pig food.In today's days, I thought it would be enough to use salad oil, and other oils are really too cloudy.

It is March 3rd when ground rice vegetables bloom.There is a saying in the agricultural proverb that "three dragons raise their heads in March". On March 3rd, everyone goes to the field to pull back the tall, flowering and seedy ground rice vegetables, and use them to boil eggs. The egg whites of ground rice vegetables are as green as Burmese. Like jade, it also has a green fragrance. When I was young, on March 3rd, I would put this kind of egg in my schoolbag. It is said that eating eggs boiled with ground rice and vegetables will make children no longer have buns on their heads.This is of course the effect of ground rice and vegetables on clearing fire. Thinking of ground rice and vegetables, it is a kind of food that clears away fire and heat. Eating it often is really beneficial to people with strong liver fire. I think it’s better not to think too much about its utilitarian aspect. I always have a pragmatic understanding of ground rice and vegetables. I think its significance is more to give me a good memory for a wanderer in the Northland.