Lyric prose with shepherd's purse fragrance in February spring breeze

In the early morning, the weather is particularly good. It is already the season of "warm wind makes tourists drunk", and there is naturally a feeling of "starting my home on that green spring day". Back in the countryside, I felt better when I saw my mother recovering from a minor illness. So I became interested and took my niece and the children next door to pick vegetables in the wild.

The scientific name of the local dish is shepherd's purse, but the hometown people call it shepherd's purse. Before going out, Sister-in-law specially told her, "Your eldest brother hoed your vegetables. Pick the cultivated land on the opposite mountain. " People in the village use "picking" to describe picking vegetables, perhaps because the word "picking" is too elegant and delicate, while the word "digging" is too exaggerated-a flower-sized twig and leaf is too rough to dig with a hoe. That is to say, the word "Tiao" just means to pick her out from the miscellaneous, which shows the beauty of her hometown dialect.

It's rare to have a sister-in-law, otherwise, according to my experience of chopping Malan's head, I must have gone directly to the front field. Naturally, there are fields, but it is not as good as cultivated land. After all, eldest sister-in-law has worked and lived in this land for nearly sixty years. In fact, as early as more than 3,000 years ago, there was a saying that "sparse words are a new field" in the Book of Songs Xiaoya. According to records, shepherd's purse is a spring wild vegetable, although it is not shepherd's purse, and its growing environment is not far from nature. The so-called "Xintian" means cultivated land for more than two years.

Sure enough, the cultivated land was covered with purple-brown shepherd's purse. This cultivated land originally belonged to my family. Later, because there was no labor force at home, I lent it to my neighbor for a while. After a long time, neighbors were embarrassed to take it back and eventually became neighbors' land. This is in line with my mother's rural proverb: "I would rather abandon the wasteland than lose my job." Fortunately, this country is not like a city, where every inch of land is contested and the soil is precious. In rural areas, especially in mountainous areas like hometown, as long as you are willing to work hard, you can sweat in fields, corners, corners and roadsides for a few days, and a new land will suddenly appear. Of course, if it is a territorial dispute, it is another matter. But at present, these are not my concerns. What I want is shepherd's purse everywhere. I picked it up in front and two children picked it up in the back. In a short time, two dishes of shepherd's purse were put into the basket. The next step is picking and cleaning, which is very busy. It turns out that picking wild vegetables in spring also has such fun, but I didn't feel this way before!

I didn't have much interest in picking wild vegetables when I was a child. My mother also thinks that shepherd's purse "has nothing to eat when it's dark", so she seldom comes to my table. My experience in digging wild vegetables comes from "begging for pig grass". Asking for food from nature for pigs is to make a living for livestock, and the word "begging" is also very accurate. Surprisingly, this simple language only divides the creatures in nature into three categories.

During the Cultural Revolution, it was popular to "remember the bitter and think sweet", and the school held a "remember the bitter and think sweet" meeting every semester; Recall the sufferings of the old society and the revolutionary ancestors. Chen Yi once wrote in his "Guerrilla Poetry in Gannan": ... The grain has been blocked for three months, and there are still a few grains of rice in the bag. Wild vegetables and boiled water. "Of course, we have to taste the bitterness of our revolutionary ancestors, and only by recalling the bitterness of the past can we think of the sweetness of today. Therefore, every "memorial service" will have the content of eating wild vegetables. Boiled wild vegetables without a drop of oil star are terrible, and the black water in that pot is bitter. Fortunately, everyone didn't really eat it, just grinned at the encouragement of the teacher and snapped. Therefore, the wild vegetables in childhood memories are bitter, not delicious today.

In fact, shepherd's purse is really delicious There is a saying in the Book of Songs, "Whoever suffers is as sweet as water." Shepherd's purse has different ways of eating, which can be fried or cold; Green and sweet, with fragrant teeth and cheeks. Shepherd's purse jiaozi is a delicious and famous dish in Jiangnan spring recipes. According to some medical books, shepherd's purse not only tastes delicious, but also has health care effects such as clearing away heat and toxic materials, invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis.

Picking shepherd's purse once again made me feel the tenacity and tenacity of its life. Shepherd's purse clings to the earth with the most humble gesture in the world, and has been trampled by others, but it has been growing healthily. Who would have thought that under its brown leaves, it is a green full of fresh vitality. Because it clings to the earth, it is spared from the disaster of stepping on the wind, and because it clings to the earth, it will not suffer from the disaster of livestock eating. Perhaps this is the real endless grassroots life.

Shepherd's purse is just "as sweet as water chestnut"? Every time mankind encounters extinction, who can say that shepherd's purse is not a living ganoderma lucidum?