Chapter 11 Kiss potatoes (1)

If you look at Lizhen in July from the Milky Way, you will see a field of flowers in full bloom.The flowers are spike-shaped, hanging like golden bells, and glowing a psychedelic silver-gray under the stars and moon.When you hold your breath and listen to the gentle sound of the wind blowing it, your soul first smells a long-lasting fragrance from the earth, a scent of ordinary potato blossoms.You couldn't help crying in the splendid heaven, and the tears struck the golden bell-like flowers, sending out a patchwork and pleasant echo, and you felt relieved that you had carefully cultivated this kind of flowers in your previous life.

The person who left Lizhen forever conveyed such nostalgia to his relatives and people who love potatoes through dreams more than once.Thus, in the morning light, the conversation between two people who have just escaped from the dream to work in the potato field swaying in the morning dew is commonplace: "Last night, the child's father said that he only wanted to eat new potatoes over there. Why is he so anxious when you say that the flowers are only blooming?" "Isn't our old Xing the same? He thinks that I planted few potatoes this year, and he can't smell the fragrance of flowers in my potato field. You think his nose is still so good?"

Potato flower opened its round ears, listening to the conversation between heaven and earth. Every household in Li Town grows potatoes.Qin Shan and his wife are big potato growers in Li Town, and they planted a full three acres on the southern slope.Many bags of potato seeds are used for sowing in spring. When potatoes bloom in summer, only his field has the most complete flower colors, including purple and purple, pink and pink, and white and white.In autumn, they are naturally the ones who have harvested the most.At the end of autumn, they went to the city to sell potatoes, and what they sold was naturally saved as money, and the rest, except for making seeds, was shared by humans and animals.

Qin Shan is dark and thin, and likes to go barefoot in summer.His daughter-in-law is half a head taller than him, not beautiful, but very fair, named Li Aijie, gentle and virtuous.When they went to work in the potato field, they always walked side by side, and their nine-year-old daughter Fenping followed behind, picking flowers for a while, catching grasshoppers for a while, and teasing the honest cow with a wicker stick.Qin Shan is addicted to cigarettes, and people see him always smoking comfortably with his cigarette in his mouth and his eyes closed.A lot of tobacco leaves are planted in the garden of his house. In autumn, the tobacco leaves grow up, and they are tied into bundles like cattail fans and hung under the eaves, like antique chimes, blown by the autumn wind.In winter, Qin Shan would sit on the kang and smoke every day, sometimes attracting a group of smokers.His teeth and fingers were burnt yellow from the smoke, and his lips were the color of pig liver. Qin Shan's daughter-in-law often quarreled with him because of this.

Qin Shan often coughed because of excessive smoking, especially in Chunqiu, and Chunqiu especially at night.Li Aijie often complains to other women that she has to wash her head every two or three days, otherwise the smell of smoke in her hair will make her stomach upset.The women just teased her, can't Qin Shan smoke with his arms around you every day?Li Aijie blushed and said, fuck you, Qin Shan didn't bother so much. But who knows whether to be entangled or not? Qin Shan and his wife love potatoes, and so does their daughter Fenping.There are many ways to eat potatoes in the Qin family, such as steaming, boiling, roasting, frying, frying, making soup, etc., the tricks are as complicated as tassels on the cuffs of a bride.In winter, Fenping often bakes whole potatoes on the second-tier grid of the stove, and the family eats them as a snack after dinner.

People in Lizhen began to touch new potatoes to eat at the end of July.The children rushed to the potato field on the south slope, saw a thumb-wide crack in the ridge, and stretched their fingers in along the crack. They were sure to find a round potato, put it in a small basket, and take it home. It is wonderful to eat stewed beans.Of course, when the cracks in their own land were touched one by one and no potatoes showed any signs of premature ripening, they stooped into Qin Shan's potato field, touching the potatoes sensitively like little foxes, for fear of being seen by Qin Shan who was going to the field. .In fact, Qin Shan didn't care about the potatoes, so when he came to work in the potato field this season, he coughed loudly on the field first, to give the children a signal to escape, so as not to scare them.The child who stole the potatoes thought he was a good thief, so he went back and told his parents, "Qinshan coughed a lot from smoking, and it all went to the potato field."

In early autumn, Qin Shan coughed unbearably after eating potatoes one day. His shoulders shook like a clothes hanger being beaten by a strong wind.Li Aijie yelled at him while beating his back: "Smoking, let you smoke, tomorrow I will set all your tobacco leaves on fire." Qin Shan wanted to refute his wife a few words, but he didn't have the strength anyway.That night, Qin Shan coughed violently again and felt sick.His cough woke up Fen Ping, and Fen Ping said childishly through the door boy, "Dad, let me pull a green radish for you to suppress your cough?" Qin Shan stretched his chest and said, "No need, Fenping, you can sleep."

Qin Shan was tired from coughing and fell asleep in a daze.Li Aijie was worried about Qin Shan and woke up early the next day.She turned her head to Qin Shan, and found a pool of blood on Qin Shan's pillow.She was startled, and wanted to push Qin Shan to wake him up to let him see, but then she thought that vomiting blood was not a good thing, and if Qin Shan knew about it, wouldn't it be worse than worse?So she gently picked up Qin Shan's head, took off his pillow, and put her own pillow on it.Qin Shan was so disturbed that he opened his eyes for a while, but he couldn't hold back the great fatigue brought to him after coughing, and fell asleep again.