Pork, shepherd's purse

Shepherd's Purse is what I call it when I grow up. When I was a kid, I called it "Shepherd's Purse". It is said that eating vegetables can prevent meningitis. When I was a child, I didn’t know what meningitis was. I only knew that vegetable and egg soup was delicious. It’s fun to go to Tao to eat local food with other kids. At that time, there were many Taoists, and it would take a long time to find one. If you find a place with a little too many Taoists, you have to draw the territory. This is mine, and you are not allowed to Tao. When I wrote this paragraph, I played in my mind the joy of finding a ground vegetable in a vegetable basket when I was a child.

I left the place where I found wild vegetables many years ago. It has been so long that I have forgotten what the place looked like, but I remember the appearance of the wild vegetable I found and the color of the land where it grew. .

Later, when I returned to the countryside, I was very surprised when I saw the shepherd’s purse in patches for the first time. I had a hard time finding shepherd’s purse when I was a kid, but now I can get a basket of it with my head down. I wonder if it’s because they grow so tall. There's a lot of it, so it doesn't taste as strong as the flavor I had when I was a kid. But every time I still look for a knife to dig.

I went out to eat today and parked my car in the field. I found a small shovel and started looking for shepherd's purse. There are not many cabbages growing in the field, many have already bloomed. The shepherd's purse growing on the surface without any protection from plants is close to the ground, with a light golden brown color in the middle of the stems and leaves. I don't want those shepherd's purses, they are already old. . What you are looking for is the kind of tender green shepherd's purse that is hidden under vegetables or other things.

I walked through a cabbage garden and found a large patch of tender shepherd's purse hidden under some abandoned pea shelves. I pushed aside the dead branches and found that there were newly planted pea seedlings. I carefully pushed aside the pea seedlings. Put the shovel on the root of the shepherd's purse and cut it off. Don't shovel too deep, otherwise too much mud will stick to the roots, and don't shovel too shallow, because the leaves will fall apart.

After cutting off the roots, take the middle leaves of the shepherd's purse, gently pat off the excess soil on the ground, and throw it into the basket. Suddenly, the fragrance of shepherd's purse mixed with the smell of fresh earth came to my nostrils. I brought the basket closer and smelled the smell of shepherd's purse in my distant memory. I felt a long-lost feeling called satisfaction.

Carrying the vegetables back, I told my mother-in-law to leave some roots when picking them up and not to rub them when washing, so as not to wash away the smell. My mother-in-law said it wouldn't be clean if I didn't, so I said you just soak the mud in water and it will come off. When I was washing strawberries for my children, I found that the shepherd's purse was still soaked in water. I don't know how long it had been soaked. I quickly took them out and wondered if the smell had been submerged.

Lao Ye said that the brown vegetables will be more fragrant when exposed to sunlight and rain, and I was mentally prepared to dig them out happily as before and not taste the flavor of the vegetables. However, the local vegetable egg soup was finally served to the table. When I took the first bite, I couldn't help but exclaimed, wow, this local dish is delicious. Then I hurriedly greeted the guests. This local dish was really delicious. (I wanted to find a bunch of adjectives and metaphors to describe it, but when the fragrance of local vegetables spread in my mouth, I could only think of these two words) I want to say that I tasted the taste of my childhood. I think I have I talked too much and worried about what I would eat if they all ate it. Then eat vegetables and soup until you are full. There was a large table of dishes, only the ground vegetables were finished and the soup was almost gone.

How many people can experience this kind of happiness when they suddenly reunite with a taste that they thought they would never see again in their distant memory. Ha ha.