60s Splendid Life

What is rare is that the rain stopped the next day, the sky cleared up, and the sun came out in the morning. The sun shone on the wet earth, and the sky washed by the rain was an endless azure blue, dotted with a few white flowers. clouds.

When the weather is good, people's mood also improves. It is no longer like a few days ago when the mood becomes sticky and irritable when it rains.

The rapeseed that has been sown in the yard for a few days has grown a small green shoot. At first glance, it looks like the ground is covered with a layer of green quilt, and the color is different from the surrounding ground.

"Little Treasure is gone, let's go outside to pick wild vegetables." The children in the family went to school early in the morning. After packing up the things at home, Lu Jin hugged their children and carried a small basket out the door.

Little Bao'er sat on her brother's arms, her two little hands tightly wrapped around her brother's neck, her eyes looked around curiously.

On the road, he met Xiumei's sister-in-law who was carrying a small basket like him. After asking, she found out that his sister-in-law Xiumei also came out to pick wild vegetables, and asked him how to make the shepherd's purse dumplings he sent yesterday.

"This is easy. The collected shepherd's purse should be washed with water, and then soaked in salt water. Remember to cut off the roots. Boil water in a pot, put the soaked shepherd's purse in and scald it, and remove it as soon as the water boils. , remember not to cook it for too long, or the taste will not taste good when it is too old. Take it out and pour cold water a few times, and put it in a basin with grain tax for half an hour." When it comes to cooking, Lu Jin Just put it clearly and logically, he will remind the other party to pay attention to every detail.

"The other thing is that shepherd's purse is more oily. It doesn't taste good without oil, so it's best to put some fatty pork in it and stuff it together. If there is no fat pork, put some lard in it. The one I made yesterday was put in Eggs, the eggs need to be fried, and then they are stuffed with shepherd's purse after frying. Put a little salt, soy sauce and sugar in it to taste. If you have green onions, you can add some green onions. It will be more fragrant if you pour hot oil on it. It doesn't matter if you don't leave it "Yesterday theirs had green onions in it, and he happened to have some shallots in his hand, so he chopped them up and put them in together.

Of course, the shepherd's purse dumplings they made last night also put a lot of pork, otherwise they wouldn't be so fragrant.

"No wonder, I just said that the shepherd's purse dumplings you made are so delicious, so you are so particular about them. We usually wash them, chop them up and put them in bags. We don't pay much attention to them. I will follow what you said when I get back. Try a way." No wonder the whole family said that the bowl of dumplings was delicious yesterday, it turned out that it took so much effort to make it.Wang Xiumei thought she was already good at eating, but compared with Lu Jin, the dishes she cooked were simply too crude. Fortunately, she asked too much, otherwise the dumplings made after picking the shepherd's purse would be sent to Lu Jin's family It's different, I'm afraid that people in their family don't like to eat it.

"Okay, just try to do as I said, and if it doesn't taste good, you can come to me. Shepherd's purse is delicious at the beginning of spring, and it will get old after a while. We can pick more and go home. , making dumplings, making wild vegetable cakes, and cold salad are all delicious, and the first treatment method is similar, but the latter method is the same." Lu Jin talked about several ways to eat shepherd's purse, as well as shepherd's purse tofu soup It's also delicious!

I just don’t know where they can buy tofu in the countryside, or change the name. If he has time, he can make some tofu skin and yuba to eat slowly, or he can take it to the town to help Brother Hou sell it.

"Oh, you're making my mouth water." Just hearing Lu Jin's words, Wang Xiumei couldn't help swallowing. Why didn't she realize that this little wild vegetable was so delicious before?It turned out that the way they ate it was wrong!

"I saw it in a book before." Lu Jin said with a smile.

The two walked and talked all the way, and met people in the village on the way. When they saw Wang Xiumei, they would greet Wang Xiumei. Lu Jin was not familiar with the people in the village. When he saw people looking at him, he just nodded slightly to others. , send each other a smile.But Lu Jin didn't know that it was his polite appearance that gave a good impression to many people in the village who were not familiar with him. In the future, when people talked about him, they would say, oh, that person who met everyone Laughing boy.

From a distance, there are many people working bent over the field. They are all members of the production teams in their villages planting rice seedlings and sowing seeds in the field, working in full swing.

It's the beginning of spring now, and there are many wild vegetables in the field, not only the shepherd's purse they ate yesterday, but also many other wild vegetables.The leaves of the wild vegetables after the rain are still stained with rain dew, and they are all over the place at a glance. There are so many that can't be picked, and they are all green.

It's just that everyone has enough to eat these days, and there are not many people who come out to pick wild vegetables.

"Nowadays everyone doesn't like to go out to pick these things. Everyone is hurt by eating them, and they are afraid when they see this thing. In the early years, those years when people starved to death, not to mention the wild vegetables in the field, even the grass roots and bark Being picked up by everyone to eat, it’s not like the wild vegetables everywhere are rare now.” Wang Xiumei looked at the wild vegetables all over the ground and no one picked them, and talked about some old things in the past, and talked about the situation in their villages at that time.

"A lot of people died of starvation in those few years, those who died lying on the side of the road, those who dug a hole in the mountain and buried themselves, those who sold their sons and daughters...there are too many, hey..."

Lu Jin only read the records about people who starved to death in those three years in the history books of his previous life. The book is just a brief history, and many people in later generations will not be able to feel too deeply from those few lines in the book.When he was in it now and heard it from people who had actually experienced that disaster, he realized that some things were far more real and tragic than what they saw in the history books.

"Look at me, what are you doing with these gossips? Our life is getting better now, and it will be even better in the future." Seeing Lu Jin looking at her, Wang Xiumei thought that what she said had frightened the young man.

Lu Jin said: "Sister-in-law, you are right, our days will get better and better."

"Look, this is red cabbage, which is edible, and this is..." While picking wild vegetables, Wang Xiumei taught Lu Jin how to identify these wild vegetables, which ones were edible and which ones were not.

Needless to say, Lu Jin knew four or five kinds of wild vegetables before, but after hearing the introduction from his sister-in-law Xiumei, he realized that there are so many wild vegetables that can be eaten.He would pick some when he saw it. Looking at the wild vegetables all over the place, you must know that these wild vegetables are things that many people will not be able to buy with money after decades, but now no one picks them and eats them.

There was a distance between the two of them picking wild vegetables, and when no one was paying attention, he quietly threw the wild vegetables in the basket into the space, then lowered his head and continued picking wild vegetables. It can be filled.When you go to the town next time, you can bring some to Mrs. Shen to taste, they can't eat this kind of food in the town.

It's been so long since they've been home, and they don't know if the old lady and Shen Xing have missed them... and Shen Yu.Thinking of that person Shen Yu, Lu Jin couldn't help laughing, he probably didn't even know what he was laughing at, but when he thought of such a person, he felt a little happy and wanted to laugh.

"elder brother."

"Sit there and don't move, my brother will pick it up soon, just wait."

It was inconvenient to carry the child to work, so Lu Jin found a big rock and put the child on it, and let the child sit on it and wait for him.

It's just that the child waited for a while, afraid that he was getting impatient, and wanted to come down and pick wild vegetables with him. After the child called him four or five times, he had to go and pick up the little guy and let the little guy lie down. On his back, he bent over to pick wild vegetables.

Wang Xiumei, who was not far away, heard laughter, looked up at the two brothers, and saw the child lying on the elder brother's back, smiling with crooked eyes, the two brothers were very good-looking.

When they were picking wild vegetables, they met a few girls from the old house of the Lu family who were also picking wild vegetables in the field with a basket on their shoulders. After all, they were still cousins, but when they saw them, they turned their faces away. After walking away, Lu Jin pretended not to see them.It was their sister-in-law Xiumei who couldn't help them, "These girls are not educated at all, they don't say hello and turn away when they see people, I have never seen such a thing, just like their mother. "

"How much have you picked? I've picked it here, how about picking some for you?"

"I've picked enough. If you don't pick it up, let's go back."

Lu Jin's basket was also full of wild vegetables, and several baskets were poured into the space. Today's picking is almost enough. He wants to pick more when he comes out with Xiao Bao'er tomorrow, otherwise he will keep picking more. There is only such a thing in the picking basket that can arouse suspicion in others.He was not angry at the fact that his cousins ​​turned away when they saw them turn away. To him, these cousins ​​were just a few strangers, and it was not worth wasting his expression on a few strangers.

The two of them finished picking wild vegetables, and one of them headed home with a basket full of wild vegetables. The sun shone on their way home.

There was a child sitting on Lu Jin's arm. The child didn't know if he was a little sleepy after waiting outside for a long time. He lay motionless on his neck, and the neck was warm with his little face pressed against his forehead.

"Do you want my sister-in-law to help you hug my younger brother?" Wang Xiumei asked because she was afraid that Lu Jin would get tired after hugging her for so long.

"No, I can. Little Bao'er is not as heavy as this basket of wild vegetables." Lu Jin weighed the child in his arms.In fact, the child has grown a little flesh these days, and he can clearly feel a few catties heavier when he is held in his hand.

Now that the child is still young, he can still move it with one arm. After a few years...the child's feet should be healed and he can walk by himself, so he won't need to be carried around.

But the child lying in his arms didn't think so far away. He only knew that he would eat enough every day, go to bed when he was tired, and play with his brothers and sisters when he woke up.The other two older brothers and sisters went to study, and he was the only child.