Longing for mountain village life

Grandpa laughed, but he could still see the tears in his eyes.

Jiang Tian sighed slightly, his father is a skilled worker, and he needs to run everywhere in order to make money, and he relies on the money earned to support Jiang Tian to go to college.

My mother is also a technician, but she is engaged in the agriculture and forestry industry, and after Jiang Tian went to college, she ran to the northwest to engage in the great cause of afforestation, running in the desert all day and night, calling her, basically unable to connect.

When I finally came back during the New Year, my face was red and black by the wind, and my skin was even cracked.

The family persuaded her to come back, but they didn't listen at all, no wonder Grandpa would say that Jiang Tian's temper followed his mother.

Leaving aside the matter of his parents, Jiang Tian returned with a heart and saw that his grandfather had gone to deal with the meat.

"Jiang Tian, we can't eat these meats, it's easy to break when you put them now, I'll leave some of the dumplings behind, and the rest will be made into bacon, and you can also put it for your parents and grandparents to eat during the New Year."

No matter if my parents come back or not, my grandfather is still worried about them in his heart, and he will keep anything delicious.

"By the way, you go and cook the corn first, it is estimated that it will be afternoon after the dumplings are wrapped, what kind of stuffing do you want to eat?"

"Cabbage!"

"Even if you can eat it, there are still camelina now, and you will come with me to the yard to get some later." Grandpa gave a thumbs up and praised his choice.

Jiang Tian smiled, took out the pot and flushed, put the corn with several layers of peeled skin in it, loaded it with water, put it on the earthen stove, lit the fire, stayed until the flame was strong, put in the chopped wood, and slowly burned.

Seeing that there was not much wood in the kitchen, Jiang Tian was ready to go to the mountain tomorrow to cut some wood down.

There was a crackling sound in the earthen stove, and the flames were blasted into sparks.

"Jiang Tian, let's go!" Grandpa shouted outside, holding a bamboo basket in his hand.

Jiang Tian hurriedly ran over and followed his grandfather to the courtyard next to it, the land boundary here is quite large, there are a lot of things planted in it, and there is a somewhat dilapidated house next to it.

Grandpa showed a nostalgic expression, "In the past, your mother lived in that house, and at night it rained heavily, thundered, and cried and came to me, but then your mother also left the village, and there was no one to live in."

"Grandpa, let's renovate this house, and the house you live in, there are cracks in the walls."

"Cracks are cracks, I laid the foundation so firmly back then, even if there is no problem for decades, but that room really needs to be repaired."

Walking through the fields of eggplant, pepper, and Chinese cabbage, and through a grapevine shelf, they came to the front of the house.

When I opened the door, there was no dust, and the inside looked quite clean, but it looked very shabby.

As the saying goes, the house lost its popularity and soon collapsed.

There was no one living in it for a long time, and the back wall collapsed, and the wind whistled in.

Grandpa sighed, "In the past, your mother often brought her friends over to play, hiding cats in the yard, picking lotus flowers in the lotus pond behind the house, and running to the river to swim from time to time, which scared me to beat them with straw shoes.

"When I'm old, the lotus pond is also abandoned, otherwise I can get some lotus root to send to you every year."

If it had been left in the past, Jiang Tian might have only thought it was fun, but now he felt that he could completely pick up these abandoned things again.

The house was renovated, the lotus pond was also cleaned, and this side was not so close to the river, there was a big hole, and you could fish there at that time.

Simply the perfect holiday destination.

These lands were all dirt that my grandfather and brothers had picked up one load after another, and you must know that in the past, they were all mountainous land, and the crops could not be planted at all.

This is also the case in other realms in the village, so basically every family's land will not be mistaken.

"Okay, no more small talk, let's find camelin."

This kind of thing is something that Jiang Tian has liked to eat since he was a child, and it is also common, and he can dig up a lot of it when he goes to the field casually.

When he was a child, the family was relatively poor, Jiang Tian's mother especially liked to go out and dig some camelina back and fry with eggs, the taste was simply amazing, and then burned some pancakes, rolled up and eaten, a bite, taste buds were stimulated.

Skillfully digging out the camelin, Jiang Tian saw that there was a horse squeezed vegetable next to it, that is, purslane, which was also a childhood memory.

He hadn't eaten since he entered the city.

This thing is a good thing in the city, the price is not cheap, especially those star-rated hotels, a plate costs at least tens of dollars.

Jiang Tian rarely saw purslane, but now that he encounters it, he must dig it.

Grandpa took the method of half tidying up and half stocking the yard.

Half of the vegetables and fruits are grown, and the other half is kept with manure, otherwise in the long run, it will only lead to the continuous loss of fertilizer, and eventually it will no longer be able to grow crops.

It is that a large number of camelina and purslane grow in this half of the stocking, and Jiang Tianmei has dug up a lot, anyway, there are still many in the ground, which is completely enough for the two of them to eat.

"I'll cut some leeks and mix them in, it tastes better." Grandpa cut some leeks, plucked two more spring onions, and picked a few peppers.

He stretched his waist and moved slowly, "People are old, the lumbar spine is not good, if it is left in the past, I can carry two sacks at once without effort."

He looked at the long bean horns on the shelf and asked, "Jiang Tian, do you want to eat sauerkraut?"

"Okay, Grandpa, do you want pickled sauerkraut?" When Jiang Tian heard it, there was subconscious saliva in his mouth, and the sauerkraut pickled by his grandfather was definitely a must.

"Long beans are now tender, they have a lot of fruit, and we can't eat much, and when they are old, they won't taste good, you go and pick some."

Jiang Tian happily went over to pick beans, while his grandfather continued to pick chili peppers.

"Since you want to pickle sauerkraut, then pickle more things, chili peppers, garlic, cabbage, by the way, I remember that there are still a few vegetable ginger trees next to the house, you go over to see how old it is, if you can pickle it, take it."

Hearing the vegetable ginger, Jiang Tian's whole person jumped up, and he didn't pick the long beans, and quickly rushed over.

This thing he often ate when he was a child, unlike common ginger, not spicy, the taste is crisp and tender, it is said to lower blood lipids, detoxify beauty, as for whether it is true or false he does not know.

Anyway, Jiang Tian is looking for two words - delicious!

Cai ginger also does not have those meridians, and it will not stuff his teeth when eating, this thing he only knows the name of Cai Jiang, as for the scientific name, he really does not know.

There are long-necked plants of about one or two meters growing in the corner of the house, and the tips of the leaves are more oval in the middle, Jiang Tian gently pulled out a plant, and you can see that there are vegetable ginger of different sizes at the root position.

The big one is about the size of a child's fist, the small one is the size of a peanut, and there are a lot of knots under one tree, roughly estimated, there are one or twenty.