Tell me about vermicelli in my hometown of Yuzhou.

Early in the morning, when I opened the headlines, the first thing I saw was the news that 3. 15 party exposed the pure "potato" fraud of Yuzhou fans. Sending the news to the students, some people felt: "2022 is destined to be extraordinary. The epidemic situation made the universe know about Zhangzhou, and cassava flour made Zhangzhou famous again. "

Under the headline news, some netizens left a message "Zhangzhou vermicelli, goodbye." "I will never eat vermicelli again." "The products here will never be bought again."

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Seeing these comments, as a Yuzhou person, I can't tell the taste in my heart. Because of some people's bad behavior, Yuzhou has become synonymous with dishonesty, involving the whole Yuzhou place, the whole fan industry and the whole Yuzhou industry. Think about buying sweet potato vermicelli from farmers' homes before the New Year and giving it to friends in other places as a specialty. What an embarrassing thing it would be if you were misunderstood by your friends because of this news.

I grew up in "sweet potato nest" and "vermicelli nest". As long as I can remember, most of the year, the whole family is busy around sweet potatoes. After the second half of the lunar calendar, my father used a sieve to screen out the residue that had been saved for a year and spread it on the seedbed to raise sweet potato seedlings. In April, start sowing. Sweet potato planting is divided into sweet potato and wheat stubble sweet potato. Sweet potatoes should be planted early. To plant them in spring, you need to leave the land fallow for half a year and store enough fat. Sweet potato is planted late after wheat stubble and after wheat harvest in early summer. When planting sweet potatoes, the whole family goes out and has their own division of labor, including digging holes, watering, losing seedlings and burying roots. At that time, every household in the village had to plant sweet potatoes, and the least one acre was two acres.

I still remember that the land contracted by my family is on the river bank, and there are some open spaces on the edge of the land, all of which are stones and yellow mud. Father picked up stones bit by bit, loosened the soil and fertilized it, and slowly reclaimed a piece of cultivated land. This kind of land can't keep moisture. After planting sweet potatoes, my father will pick a cart of water to water the next day. In autumn, we can harvest several baskets of sweet potatoes.

Sweet potato is a creeping crop, and its vines can be as long as ten feet, which can be used for skipping rope. Many aerial roots grow on the vines of sweet potatoes, slowly approaching the ground and reaching into the soil. In order not to consume the nutrients on the vines, our task is to turn the sweet potato vines over and separate them one by one in the summer vacation. Several acres of land have been turned over and become black girls.

In October of the lunar calendar, sweet potatoes are harvested, washed, ground with a mill, and the starch in the slag foam is filtered out bit by bit with a rocker arm (a white cloth with four corners tied on a moving cross), and water is continuously added for dilution. In the cold winter, my parents are often busy until late at night. This is how the mother's scapulohumeral periarthritis fell.

Sweet potato starch can be made into vermicelli after twice filtration, solidification and drying. Making vermicelli can't be done by one family, it needs the cooperation of seven or eight male laborers. The main family only needs to take care of two meals at noon and evening. At that time, labor was worthless in the countryside. I always remember that one year, vermicelli cost 341 Jin, and my father packed vermicelli in the warehouse, earning 30 cents a day.

Drying vermicelli is also a tedious physical labor. Listen to the weather forecast before dinner. If the temperature is below zero, pull the vermicelli out of the village and lay it flat in the wheat field. The next morning, pull the frozen vermicelli home, break the ice with a stick, put it in a hot water pot to melt the ice, and then hang it on a rope tied by the roadside to dry. A finger-thick straw rope was used to tie fans, so my mother spent all her spare time knitting ropes.

In my hometown, making vermicelli as a child was the main source of income for every family. Parents rely on it to send our siblings to school and get us out of the countryside. In my impression, sweet potatoes and vermicelli are closely connected with my hometown. You will feel kind when you hear it.

Now I suddenly see that Yuzhou vermicelli has been criticized by the whole network because of the unscrupulous behavior of several factories. I feel ashamed, indignant and wronged. I am ashamed and indignant at the bad behavior of some business people; I feel wronged for those old farmers who are self-produced and self-sold, honest and dutiful.

Now, Yuzhou has begun to rectify the three powder enterprises in the city. Please give Yuzhou vermicelli a trust again. This is my land, my love, and we will try our best to protect it.