Longing for mountain village life

Tall star anise tree, dark green leaves, with oily luster, sunlight on it, you can see dense small oil spots, octagonal fruits are full, some star anise is actually ripe, but most of them are in high places, often illuminated by the sun, which is ripe quickly.

The breeze blows, the leaves move slightly, and the star anise also sways slowly, and the fragrance wafts from above, drifting in the woods with the wind.

Jiang Tian found a small stone and aimed it.

With a whoosh, the stone fell on a relatively thin branch, and the branch suddenly broke and fell.

There were several cooked star anise on it, Jiang Tian ran over and plucked the star anise, and the juice stained his hands with a special fragrance.

He was about to call his grandfather back, but found that he had disappeared.

I looked around and didn't see anything.

Jiang Tian shouted, "Grandpa! He

was not afraid, if a wild beast approached, he would definitely be able to sense it, and if Grandpa was in danger, he would not be so quiet, the only possibility was that he quietly did not know where to run.

"Over here!"

Grandpa's voice came from behind the star aniseless tree.

Following the voice, Jiang Tian found that his grandfather was squatting in front.

"What's wrong?"

Grandpa beckoned, "Look what good things I found!"

Jiang Tian went over and saw that there was a palm-sized Lingzhi, and couldn't help but say: "Is there really a Lingzhi?"

"Yes, it seems that my nose is still good, just such a large Lingzhi medicinal value is not ordinary, just can be used for soup."

Grandpa is a very solid person, if other people see Lingzhi, the first thing they think about is how much money they can sell it for, he is different, he wants to make soup for his grandson to replenish his body.

Grandpa said as he took off his coat, covered it, and gently took off the Lingzhi.

"I didn't expect to enter the mountains and forests, and found a lot of unexpected gains, and it seems that I still have to come to see it often in the future, that is, I need to consider the problem of beasts." Grandpa muttered.

"When I was young, I would go into the mountains every few days, and I would find a lot of food from them, and if I was lucky, I could catch some small beasts, such as pheasants, hares and whatever."

Grandpa showed a nostalgic expression, "At that time, there was a famine, there was no food to eat, and it was thanks to this mountain that so many people survived, but there were also many people who died in the mouths of wild beasts."

"Later, I went to the battlefield, and when I came back, I rarely went into the mountains, and I didn't have the hard work I had when I was young, after all, I was married, and I had children, lest I be afraid that I would have an accident."

"Thinking of the previous things again, let's go back, it's time to eat, today I will boil an old hen Ganoderma lucidum soup, what do you want to eat, steamed buns or pancakes?"

Grandpa thought of something good, "Or I'll cook you sweet potato porridge, it just so happens that the sweet potato is ripe now."

"Okay!" Jiang Tian agreed.

When they returned home, my grandfather went to the field, broke some corn, and dug up a lot of sweet potatoes.

There are two kinds of sweet potatoes planted by my grandfather, one is yellow skin and the other is red skin.

Red sweet potatoes are suitable for boiling, while yellow sweet potatoes are used to be roasted.

Jiang Tian had already brushed the pot, and he and his grandfather washed a part of the red sweet potato, peeled off the outer skin, cut it into chunks, and put it in the pot.

The washed rice is put in, and the rice water is poured on the flowers.

Jiang Tian lit a fire, put corn on the cob and branches into it, and a crackling sound sounded.

The flame is constantly burning, baking the bottom of the pot, and when it burns out, the ashes fall into the mouth under the earthen stove.

Jiang Tian hurriedly took the yellow-skinned sweet potato and threw it in, gradually covering it as the grass and wood ash continued to fall.

He has loved roasted sweet potatoes since he was a child, and when he grew up, he often bought roasted sweet potatoes to eat, but he always felt that the taste of those baked by machine was not as delicious as that baked in his own earthen stove.

When I was a child, as long as I cooked in the house, I would throw a few sweet potatoes into it, make a meal, and after eating, I could take it out.

Grandpa had also cleaned up the old hen, cleaned it and began to boil the soup.

Jiang Tian quipped: "Grandpa, these roosters and hens you raised have eaten a lot in just a few days."

Grandpa said with a smile: "Isn't it just to raise these to eat, what's the matter, but I really need to get some chickens in a few days, just wait for tomorrow to go to the big fair to see if there is anything for sale."

"Now it seems that there are quite a lot of things to buy, the weather will slowly get cooler after heavy rain, it is fine during the day, the temperature drops sharply at night, you don't bring much clothes when you come, wait to go to the supermarket to buy some, and then buy a quilt or something."

"No, I can buy it directly online, the village can't deliver it, you can go to the town to get it."

"I forget that you can still shop online, now new things are emerging too fast, I am a little out of step with the times at this age, so can you buy anything online?" Grandpa asked curiously.

"En, now there is everything on the Internet, what you want to buy directly search on it, and then a large number of merchants will appear, and then you can click in to see the goods, but the quality is not easy to say, after all, it is not as intuitive as offline."

"Grandpa, if you need something, just help you buy it."

Grandpa waved his hand, "I don't have anything I need, I have everything here, and I don't lack anything." "

Jiang Tian can't help it, wait for tomorrow to go to the mall to buy clothes for grandpa."

The village is still too remote, and if it is convenient, the courier can deliver it here.

Grandpa put the ingredients in a soup pot, lit the fire, and found a stool to sit next to him.

"When you were a child, you liked to eat this roasted sweet potato, and you often ate it with black and gray on your face, like a big flower cat."

Jiang Tian also remembered what happened at that time and laughed.

Grandpa was a little hesitant, "Can I see how that one goes online?"

Jiang Tian was stunned, "Of course you can, that's it."

He took out his mobile phone and explained: "First connect the mobile phone to the Internet, and then you can click on this software, and there are various items inside, all of which are classified."

"You'll wait first." Grandpa ran out of the house and took out his reading glasses and looked at them seriously.

It can be seen that grandpa is still very interested in emerging things, but the conditions here are not good, so he has not really understood.

Jiang Tian is now like a teacher, and his grandfather is a primary school student and listens to the class very seriously.

One old and one young, there is still a fire flickering in the earthen stove, and the fragrance in the pot slowly wafts out, thus forming a wonderful picture.