Digging wild vegetables to write prose.

In March, spring returned to the earth, everything revived, and the weather gradually warmed up. All kinds of wild vegetables began to sprout and grow. At this time, it is also a good choice to take your family to enjoy flowers and exercise on weekends, dig wild vegetables in nature and improve family life.

Speaking of digging wild vegetables, I have entered middle age and always think of those innocent and sour memories when I was a child. It was in the early 1970s, and my hometown, a remote village in central Shandong, was still on the verge of poverty. In the early spring, almost all the vegetables such as cabbage and radish in the cellar of every household were eaten up, so we had to eat with pickles. After a long time, people lost their appetite ... In that era when material life was extremely difficult, everyone was looking forward to the recovery of everything on the earth in spring, just like the stars were looking forward to the moon, so that when the weather got warmer, they began to dig wild vegetables in the ground to improve their material life and solve the urgent need for family meals. Maybe it's because the man is outside and the woman is inside. In my hometown, adult men rarely engage in this work, and the task of digging wild vegetables mostly falls on women and children. At that time, primary schools were everywhere around our village, and ravines, fields and graves were covered with all kinds of wild vegetables. Every time after school, under the arrangement of my mother, I put my schoolbag at home, bring a basket and a knife, jump like a bird, follow my brother and sister closely, and happily come to the open space outside the village to dig wild vegetables. At this time, the warm spring breeze slowly brushed our tender cheeks, stood on the mound and looked at the beautiful scenery of the countryside. Willow trees that have just spat out new buds are full of light yellow and light green peculiar to early spring. The green grass is about to drip, like blue waves, and the endless wheat fields are inlaid with pieces of green jade. Golden rape flowers are like yellow carpets, which makes people feel full of passion ... We are entrusted by our mother, but we have no intention of enjoying such beautiful scenery. Under the urging of my brothers and sisters, I had to reluctantly follow them and look for wild vegetables in a large field of crops. When my sister suddenly found a large vegetable field, just like Columbus discovered the New World, she happily told us to hurry over. Suddenly, my brother and I walked in three steps and made two steps, shouting together. Everyone hurriedly squatted on the ground. Pick a big, watery wild vegetable, grab it with your left hand, gently dig it with your right hand, gently shake off the dust on it and put it in a basket ... In the era of planned economy, there were a lot of fermented beans in the countryside, and due to neglect of management, all kinds of wild vegetables were very suitable for growth. Sometimes, the ground is covered with clumps, patches and roads, which are evenly distributed in that barren land like bright stars in the sky. There are green dandelions, green bitter herbs, hairy shepherd's purse, wheel-shaped duck's paw, fat and big plantain seeds, and small root garlic buried deep in the ground ... Maybe wild vegetables are easy to dig, such as bitter hemp leaves, which have just been drilled out and the roots are not deep, so dig them out with a knife. But some wild vegetables are difficult to dig, such as dandelion and bitter rapeseed. Its roots are thick and hard, and it takes a lot of effort to dig them out. Qu Cai is more difficult to dig because they like to grow in crevices and on the sunny side of mounds. In addition, they are often covered with thorns next to the cracks, and sometimes they accidentally hang their clothes or scratch their fingers ... Of course, the wild vegetables we dug most when we were young were shepherd's purse, bitter vegetables, Quya, mother-in-law and mugwort leaves, because these wild vegetables were the favorite varieties of the villagers at that time. For example, shepherd's purse, dug and washed, can be dipped in soy sauce, vinegar, garlic paste and eaten cold, can also be used to make soup, wrap jiaozi, or make pancakes and fried eggs. The taste is really fragrant, and the pure taste is particularly rich. Bitter vegetables are the easiest way for an old wife to eat. After washing, people like to dip in the sauce or mix it with garlic, sesame oil and sesame sauce. Although it is bitter and astringent at first, people never tire of eating it because of its functions of clearing away heat, sterilizing, diminishing inflammation and diuresis.

In the open field, sometimes when you are tired of digging wild vegetables, everyone will put the basket underground and sit down and have a rest. Either watching the afterglow of the sunset, watching all kinds of unknown birds slide across the sky, and then pulling up nonstandard voices and singing children's songs taught by the teacher, the exhaustion of the body suddenly vanished ... or in the case of many people, everyone got together and played a game of catching chickens with an eagle, so in the joke, the joy and innocence of childhood were vividly displayed ... After the wild vegetables were dug back, my mother greeted us at the door. In the dim light, she dumped the wild vegetables we dug out of the basket on the ground and sorted them one by one. Fresh and tender wild vegetables such as shepherd's purse, bitter vegetable and distiller's yeast buds are for family consumption, while other wild vegetables such as mugwort, Confucius Temple and plantain seeds become "rations" for livestock and poultry. In my childhood memory, when I was eight years old, what impressed me the most was eating shepherd's purse porridge cooked by my mother. As a result of adding a small amount of flour and dropping sesame oil, it tastes natural and fragrant and has a long aftertaste. Maybe it's because I can't eat oil and water at a young age, so I drank as many as two bowls at once. My mother sees it in her eyes and keeps it in her heart. She stroked my head and said softly, "Xinger. I believe that after hard work, we will become better in the future ... "Listening to my mother's words and watching her eyes full of vicissitudes, I nodded sensibly ... In that unforgettable era, when we were young, we went out to dig wild vegetables, which was not only an important task arranged by our parents, but also a job we had to take the initiative to do every day besides studying, so the fun and passion gradually disappeared with time. Moreover, in our rural areas, almost every family's children have the experience of digging wild vegetables, so when we talk about the understanding and experience of digging wild vegetables, we always think that it is just a survival skill and skill, and learn to survive.

Probably from 1978, with the convening of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee and the implementation of the rural contract responsibility system, land was gradually distributed to farmers, and everyone began intensive management. People's attachment to wild vegetables became less and less, so the habit of eating wild vegetables in rural areas faded. Who knows that more than 30 years have passed, perhaps because of people's nostalgia and scarcity. No one expected that the price of wild vegetables would continue to rise. In the market season, I saw 10 yuan's pound of shepherd's purse and noodles, 20 yuan's pound of bitter vegetables and dandelion, 15 yuan's pound of garlic ... really. In order to find the taste of spring and let children get close to nature, many city residents take pains to drive luxury cars to dig wild vegetables in rural areas and open spaces in Shan Ye ... Some flexible farmers collect wild vegetables from villagers and sell them in the city, and some experts vigorously promote the health care, treatment and anti-cancer functions of wild vegetables on TV and the media, so in some people's eyes, wild vegetables have become life-saving vegetables. No wonder people dig wild vegetables everywhere on weekends.

Now, I have entered middle age and have always regarded digging wild vegetables as my favorite. Not only helped me find my childhood memories, but also enriched my dining table. The key is to exercise, make yourself physically and mentally happy and experience the happiness of life!