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Chapter 18 falling sunflower

In the most desolate corner, you may also see a small beauty, such as the clump of wild sunflowers. In the most desolate corner, you may also see a small beauty. People always seek perfection; ordinary human feelings are like this, and ordinary things in life are also created with heart. It is expected that in the situation where everything is available, it will start to release emotions, so that people and things can blend together and enjoy the beauty. Therefore, good flowers need to be paired with good bottles, placed in the best place in the hall, and delicately laid with beautiful tablecloths as the background, so that you can enjoy the flowers with confidence.This is of course human nature, to carefully practice a beauty, but the details involved are beyond human control.The same is true for small vase flowers, and it is also the same when it is extended to human relationships and sophistication. Often, there are very few people who can get it.

Perhaps it is getting late, and I know that in the busy world, it is becoming more and more impossible to fully realize the beauty of the ideal, and what I see is mostly fragments that cannot be pieced together.If you want to complain bitterly and resent the world for not providing it, you will turn against yourself in vain.Think about it, but have a casual mood, wherever you go, where to enjoy.Don't ask where it came from, don't be greedy for more, and don't think about whether the first meeting is the last time to say goodbye. That's how it was when I met that clump of wild sunflowers.

During the typhoon season last summer, vegetable prices turned somersaults several times.We decided to help ourselves, and went to the wasteland of more than 60 square meters to find the sweet potato leaves we planted last year.The open space is next to the houses, and the extra flower seeds and saplings are planted casually. Of course, the best ones are five-jointed awns and weeds.Fortunately, sweet potatoes are hard-working, and they barely took a piece of land. The leaves are thin and small, and they can't be picked a few times, so they are helpless. By the side of the fish pond in the back garden, on a net wall, Luo Kui worked hard and climbed half of the river and mountain. Due to lack of sunlight, it looked like a group of veterans and disabled generals.I thought about it for a long time, should I go down the mountain to buy vegetables and admit defeat, or should I last a few more days with dignity?Luo Kui is one of the common herbal medicines in the folk. It is said that it is beneficial to the stomach and can reduce fire. Looking up, it looks like a doctor carrying a medical box and singing in the rivers and lakes.When the purple pearl fruit was produced in spring, I once picked a bowl, crushed the pearl fruit, filtered out the purple liquid and used it to dye plain cotton paper, which is also elegant.I knew that the leaves of Luokui were edible, but I didn't have the chance to eat them in peace and prosperity. I don't know how it tastes?It must be better than the purslane that Wang Baochuan kept guarding the cold kiln to pick food.

Sure enough, it is fragrant, tender and smooth, and it may also be a psychological factor. The more vegetables you lack, the more you want to eat vegetables, which adds a sense of preciousness to the taste. Before the vegetable shortage was resolved, the sunflower tree would have been bald long ago.After resuming the days of spinach, cabbage, and water spinach, when I occasionally eat chopsticks, I still think of Luo Kui's life-saving grace, and its tenderness really slips into my memory. I didn't expect another fate.One day when I went up the mountain, I wanted to find a barley tree that I discovered last year, but accidentally saw a rich sunflower bush among the miscellaneous trees. I hurried home and called for help, and took a big basket to pick the sunflower.That road is a deserted path. Although there are many people, I am afraid that not many people recognize Luokui. Even if they see it, they don't know it is a delicious wild vegetable.

We didn't stop picking until dusk and dusk, happily carrying a large basket of wild vegetables home like a woman in the Book of Songs era. For several days in a row, there was a plate of sunflower leaves fried with garlic, and its unique tender juice became tongue addiction. . Eat up the last handful of sunflowers, and meet again to pick them again.I haven't seen it for a few days, and the deserted path has been completely cleared. It must be the hardworking old woman nearby. She often reclaims the wasteland, sows rapeseed, builds a melon shed, and surrounds a vegetable garden with red plastic ropes.The wild vegetables that everyone could pick in the time of the Book of Songs suddenly became the private garden of modern old women.She didn't know that what the sickle swept down, besides the sunflowers, there are many grasses that can be used to make tea and dispel the heat.At least, she didn't know how good Luo Kui was.

I still remember the plentiful clump of fallen sunflowers, and the first time we met in the wild was also farewell, but in my memory, the first time became the best time.
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