Buckwheat's interesting prose

This is a remote mountain village in our country. People in the mountains are simple, but they are also stubborn. They love the land, so they don't want people to forget it, let alone its crops and crops.

In the early years, there was a joke circulating here, and people often used this joke to warn future generations. Let people remember this land.

It is said that there was a college student here as early as I don't know what age. The college student went home to visit his parents after finishing his studies. Father knew the news and went to meet him. On the way, his father picked out the luggage for him, and he followed. As we approached the village, we passed a hillside covered with buckwheat. When college students saw buckwheat, they asked their father, "What is this red pole with white flowers?" When my father heard that it was a foreign accent, he became angry at that time. He immediately put away his pick and scolded, "You forgot your roots. Buckwheat doesn't even know you. Don't be ashamed to come home with me!" Say that finish, and a person went home. Leaving my son staring at buckwheat for a long time.

The story soon spread as a joke in the neighboring village. But it is not the father who people laugh at, but the children. Later, if someone's children don't want to go home, or leave home and forget the local accent, their parents will teach them: "You don't know what a red stick is!" "Some children don't understand, just look at their parents in a daze. But others listened, but they all laughed jokingly.

Of course, few children have heard of buckwheat now. Fewer people can know and see buckwheat.

Buckwheat, with red stems, knotted stems and small white flowers. But there are often more flowers and fewer seeds. It is said that the seed setting rate of buckwheat flower is often less than 10% of buckwheat flower. Those buckwheat flowers that can't bear seeds don't fall off after closing, but stay on the branches. Therefore, when buckwheat is ripe, the branches will not only bear buckwheat seeds, but also leave dry buckwheat flowers.

Buckwheat seeds are dark brown and triangular, which is also a major feature that buckwheat is obviously different from other crops. Of course, there is also a big feature, that is, the "stalk" of buckwheat, that is, the stem. The stems of other crops are green; Only the stems of buckwheat are uniquely red. Therefore, it is no wonder that the child came back after studying for several years and made a joke.

Of course, this joke is only circulated among neighbors, and no one knows how true and credible it is.

Buckwheat likes shade and drought tolerance, and its growth period is short. It is often planted in hillside fields. In the early years, when the land was scarce, it was often planted in the sweet potato field with early harvest, and then wheat was planted in the buckwheat ridge before the buckwheat matured, so that the land was fully utilized.

Buckwheat seeds fall off easily, so farmers are especially careful when harvesting. Buckwheat cannot fall to the ground after harvesting. It is often piled up in piles, seeds are piled up on and under poles, and then put in dung baskets and transported home with heavy loads.

In groups, buckwheat is usually harvested in the early morning, and then picked to the threshing floor in front of the village, where it is spread out and dried. When airing in the afternoon, all the buckwheat grains fell off with a light knock on the straw rack. Then use a simple Mu Cha to fork the buckwheat stalks to one side and raise them together to pile them up. So there are only buckwheat grains left on the field. So sift and remove dust, clean the leaves and dust inside the buckwheat, and then put the clean buckwheat grains into the warehouse, and the cultivators will call it a day and go home. In the field, only buckwheat stalks are left.

So the children who came out to play with their parents never wanted to go home again, and they found their natural happiness again. They climbed up the straw pile and jumped down. Then I kept circling around the straw pile, chasing, playing and hiding. So I also made a lot of jokes.

At that time, the hill in the village was playing hide-and-seek with his friends. He suddenly found that the buckwheat stalks were fluffy, so he secretly dug a hole, hid himself in the buckwheat stalks and covered the hole with some buckwheat stalks. He hid in it for a long time and dared not say a word. People outside can't find him. He was so proud that he finally found a place where no one could find it. He held his breath inside and dared not make a sound no matter how noisy it was outside. But gradually, he felt that the noise outside was getting thinner and thinner, and then it became very quiet. He couldn't hold it any longer, and slowly walked out of the straw pile, only to find that there was no one outside.

Seeing that he couldn't be found, the partners felt very depressed and went home one by one. When he came out, he couldn't see anyone. As soon as he saw it, he was anxious. A man felt very scared and burst into tears.

Parents heard crying and they found it. Sweep the buckwheat leaves on his face and take him home. When he came home, his parents cursed his friends and said they had played a trick on him. His friend listened and ignored him for three days.

Naughty children always leave a lot of jokes. But when I was a child, I was greedy and picky about food, and I always felt particularly wronged.

Buckwheat is not good food. That's just a tonic that people used to fill their stomachs occasionally. Once in a while, I have a meal or two, but I think it tastes good and fresh. But after eating too much, I gradually feel that I can't eat any more.

Buckwheat is coarse and astringent. There are three ways to eat buckwheat in our place. But they are all ground into powder with a stone mill, and then sieved with a fine-hole sieve. The flour sieve is placed in a dustpan (a big round dustpan), and the floating buckwheat shells and skins on the sieve are peeled off. Then pour the flour into the pot and mix it with water to make buckwheat cakes.

If it is steamed, put less water to knead it into pieces, and then steam it one by one in the pot. If it's fried, make it thinner, so it's easier to drip after pouring it into the oil pan. There is another way to eat it, that is, first boil a pot of water in a pot, then boil the water, and then slowly pour in buckwheat flour, stirring while stirring until it is not hard or thin.

In my childhood impression, I used to eat more when I was stirred like this. This is simple and convenient, and it is also convenient to match other things.

Later, I got tired of eating too much and often didn't like eating. So parents came up with a way to mix pumpkin with buckwheat and cook it together, or when grinding buckwheat powder, mix dried sweet potato rice with buckwheat and grind it together. In that way, the ground flour will be sweeter and we will like it better after it is made into buckwheat cake. Later, a neighbor was surprised to eat our buckwheat cake and asked me how my buckwheat cake was sweeter than theirs. Mother smiled. The neighbor asked again and again before mother told the truth. The neighbors laughed at this. Mom said, "This is also a way to force the family to have more children." Later, everyone in the village followed suit. Actually, it's just to deal with children.

Buckwheat cake tastes bad, and it's even harder to make. At that time, buckwheat flour was mostly ground by hand stone mill. We call it the mill. Sometimes, my mother has a hard time grinding, so she asks me to help. And I always find excuses to hide.

People are like this, eating too much delicious food will make them tired; Things that can no longer be eaten will occasionally feel delicious and fresh. Today, when we are eating flour and rice every day, our nutritionists and nutritionists have repeatedly advocated eating more coarse grains and repeatedly emphasized the nutritional value of coarse grains. If it is not excluded, buckwheat may be an option.

If you don't know anything about buckwheat, I'll tell you: that "red pole hits glistening" is buckwheat. If there is a triangular brown seed, it is buckwheat.

Yes, that's right, this is buckwheat-"red stalks hit white flowers"!