eat, dance, love

"Brother Xu, Brother Xu!" Someone outside suddenly tapped on the window, listening to the sound, it was a guy from the next street, who used to play cards with me, his name was Huang Tianxiang.

I glanced at the top of the phone screen, it was less than seven o'clock.

I was wondering why this kid came to me so early in the morning, and he was still in a hurry, so he yelled out the reason himself: "Will you go to my grandfather's house? The village is starting to pick up fungi!"

I heard it, and secretly called out "beauty is detrimental to the country"...

Huang Tianxiang's "picking up fungi" refers to collecting litchi fungi that are a specialty of the litchi forest in their hometown. This kind of fungus has high environmental requirements and only grows on termite nests in the orchard.Because it cannot be cultivated artificially so far, and it is rare, the market price is very high.

Every year in May of the lunar calendar, people in their village will devote themselves to picking lychee mushrooms to increase their income.In previous years, our store would go to the village to talk about harvesting mushrooms in advance. Recently, I have been too distracted and almost forgot about this matter.

Fortunately, Huang Tianxiang's reminder came not too late, and now is the time to go.I replied: "Go! Give me 5 minutes!"

Immediately got up, washed quickly, and changed into an outfit suitable for going to the countryside.Every time I go to the village, the ground must fall, and the clothes should not be too good. It is best to bring your own straw hat and sickle.

Five minutes later, I packed up and went out with Huang Tianxiang.Then, he met Gu Yu head-on.

...no time to cook for him.

"Where are you going?" He came over and looked me up and down, "Come up the mountain with a sickle in your clothes?"

"Yes, we are going up the mountain! Are you going?" Huang Tianxiang answered first.

Among the young people in the nearby streets, there is no one who does not know Gu Yu.Gu Yu doesn't necessarily know them, but they are all friendly and friendly, pretending to know them, and he replied happily: "Okay, I haven't been to the mountains on your side yet!"

Me: "...Let's go together then, are you hungry? If you're not too hungry, I'll make breakfast for you over there, with local specialties and a new experience."

He replied quickly: "No problem."

So, we got into Huang Tianxiang's car together.

This is a van that cross-transports various sea goods and mountain goods on a daily basis. It is estimated that the last time it was carried was not long ago, and there is still a faint smell in the car.

Subconsciously, I was worried that Gu Yu could bear it, so I turned my head slightly to observe his reaction, but I saw that he seemed oblivious to the smell in the car, and he lay down on the back of the passenger seat where I was with great interest, and asked Huang Tianxiang, what about us? What is this line for?

Huang Tianxiang spoke mandarin with a strong accent, and said, "Go to the fruit forest of my grandfather's house, and slaughter Lychee mushrooms."

Gu Yu: "Chicken...chicken fungus, what is it?"

I held back my laughter, Huang Tianxiang quickly explained: "It's not chicken fungus, it's litchi chicken, the kind of fruit..."

Gu Yu suddenly realized: "Oh, litchi!"

Huang Tianxiang nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, yes!"

Gu Yu asked again: "Is it delicious?"

Huang Tianxiang: "Good seven, especially good seven, fresh and sweet!"

Now, Gu Yu himself held back his laughter a little.But his good self-cultivation made him try not to show his smile. His eyes swept around the car, and suddenly fell on me. The corners of his mouth twitched, and he yelled at me: "Why are you smiling?"

How could I laugh... Well, I cooperated with his performance and smiled: "No, no, the corners of my mouth are cramping."

Huang Tianxiang said honestly: "It doesn't matter, I didn't learn Mandarin well since I was a child, and I can't speak it well. Brother Xu is from Beijing, and he often helps me get it wrong. He laughed at me, and he didn't have any malice."

Gu Yu patted the back of Huang Tianxiang's chair: "Don't pay attention to your brother Xu, it's wrong to make fun of other people's accent, even if you don't mean it."

I immediately followed suit: "You teacher Gu is right, but I am wrong!"

Huang Tianxiang took a little effort, looked at me, then at Gu Yu, with a rich expression, and a bit of confusion in his strange eyes.

Gu Yu and I were also confused, looked at each other, and asked him in unison: "What's wrong?"

Before he finished speaking, he shook his head: "It's okay, it's okay."

We were both baffled.

It's not far from Haibao Town to Huang Tianxiang's hometown. People like him often drive back and forth and enter the village in less than an hour.

The road into the village is a bit narrow, basically only allowing a car and a motorcycle to run side by side, with hills on one side and fruit forests on the other.

I gave Gu Yu a popular science: "Those are lychee trees. Every household in their village grows lychees. When the business near the city was just developed, many laborers in the village went outside to make a living. The last two governments have specially supported the local lychee industry. There are more young and strong labor force.”

Gu Yu: "Are we going to enter these woods later?"

"You don't have to go."

"Why don't I go?" He gave me a strange look, "I want to go with you."

I knew he was going to say this, so I replied casually: "Okay, okay, I'll take you there."

After finishing speaking, I saw Huang Tianxiang trembling from the corner of my eye... I suddenly understood that his strange eyes before and his trembling now are all because of the conversation between Gu Yu and me, or the atmosphere?Anyway, that sort of thing.

……All right.I don't have anything to clarify.

When the car stopped in front of Huang Tianxiang's hometown, a native dog barked at us a few times. Huang Tianxiang yelled at it twice in Haibao dialect, which shocked it.Immediately, an old lady ran out of the room, holding a lychee fungus with an open umbrella in her hand.

That is Huang Tianxiang's grandma, she likes me the most, every time she sees me she dances with joy.

Right now, she just ignored her grandson, walked towards me, and said in local words: "Brother Xu, it's just in time for you to come here. I picked up a few catties of fungus this morning, and I packed all the good ones for you, and opened the umbrella for the rest." Yes, cook for you."

I ended up with the one in her hand, the mushroom cap was not too big, and it wasn't too bad to mix in the good stuff.But she was very honest with me, never greedy for such cheap things, and let me cook for myself when I was around.

"Okay, I'll cook." I answered, and entered the house familiarly.

Gu Yu came in right after, and there was a piece of greased paper on the kitchen floor, on which were scattered lychee mushrooms that were not in good condition.The small basket next to it is filled with high-quality products that are straight and straight, with the mushroom cap half closed.

"Is this all wild?" He squatted down to look with great interest.

I said: "Pure natural, no pollution."

He chuckled: "Follow you, you will be lucky."

I also squatted down, and while demonstrating to him how to clean the stipe, I told him the rarity of this rare ingredient.

Growing up in a small town on the 36th line, and often going up and down the mountain, I had a prejudice against people in big cities for no reason: I felt that they were half-blind in the face of nature.So, I said it very carefully.

At the end, add a heartfelt concluding sentence: "So, people must know how to appreciate nature, be in awe, and get along well."

"Oh." He paused and blinked at me, "Do you know what you look like?"

I intuitively feel that he has nothing good to say and doesn't pick up on it.

But it can't prevent him from continuing to say: "You are like the narrator of a food documentary! Hey, why don't you try dubbing, I think your voice is very nice."

After finishing speaking, he smiled to himself.

I:"……"

After cleaning up the bacteria, I divided it into two parts.One is with the umbrella handle fully opened, and the other is only [-] to [-] percent opened.

The better the ingredients, the simpler the cooking required.Everything is kept simple, which can preserve the best and most authentic taste of the ingredients.For lychee mushrooms, this taste is pure.

Only [-]% to [-]% of the mushrooms are opened, I use it for steaming, and only add a little oil and salt.Fill the pot with water, set it on an iron frame, and steam it across the water.Steam until it is four mature, and then you can take it out of the pan.At the same time, there is also the one with the umbrella open, which is used for boiling soup.

In the end, two servings were served at the same time.

I went out to greet Huang's family to come in and eat. Grandma Huang shook her hand and said with a smile: "Brother Xu, you can bring your friends to try it, we won't eat it anymore!"

They found this fungus in the fruit forest early in the morning. Of course, I can't accept this politeness with such a shame.Without further ado, he went to pull up Grandma Huang, half-carried her into the house, and called Huang Tianxiang in as well.

"Is there any rice? We haven't had breakfast yet!" I asked rudely.

Grandma Huang hurriedly moved the rice cooker to the dining table.

I turned around and took out a few bowls from their cupboard, rinsed them in a basin filled with clean water, and put them on the table: "Come, try something new while it's hot!"

Grandma Huang just sat down.

Gu Yu was the only person who hadn't eaten this food, and became the target of greetings.Grandma Huang and Huang Tianxiang have a chopstick with each other, and there are two handfuls of steamed lychee mushrooms lying in his bowl.

He frowned and smiled, accepted all the kindness, and tasted one.

After a while, he gave me a thumbs up with a serious face, and said in a tone of voice: "This steamed lychee mushroom has rich and delicious juice, crisp taste, tender and sweet, revealing a natural elegance."

Grandma Huang and Huang Tianxiang were both amused by him, but I was a little embarrassed to see him staring at me seriously.

But in front of Huang Tianxiang, I don't want to be angry with him anymore, lest Huang Tianxiang interpret it as "flirting".

After a late breakfast, we went to the fruit forest of the Huang family.

In the beginning, when I went to the countryside, I had to see the fruit forests for the so-called investigation of the origin.Now there is no such meaning, just a routine stroll.

At this time, the sun was already a bit venomous, so I put my own straw hat on Gu Yu's head.

He was wearing a casual suit of an unknown brand. Although the patterns on the clothes were low-key, the temperament and design sense of the big brands still had a sense of presence, which formed a funny contrast with the straw hat.

"Come on, take a photo for your fans." With a smile, he took out his phone and quickly took a photo of him.

His helpless expression was frozen in my camera, I looked down, he was quite cute.

Huang Tianxiang looked at us from the side, seeing that we had had enough fun, he led the way ahead.

In the fruit forest, Huang Tianxiang introduced: "At this season, the weeds in the fruit forest are very lush. People in our village come in at night to look for fungi, and they are most afraid of encountering evil spirits. During the day, evil spirits are not so easy to come out, and at night It's different..."

Gu Yu quietly tugged on my sleeve, I looked over, and he asked with his mouth: "Snake?"

I nodded and said, "Snakes like your skinny skin and tender meat the most, so be careful."

After hearing this, Huang Tianxiang looked back at Gu Yu and said, "That's right, Gu Laoxi, you have to be careful!"

He curled his lips and ignored us.

Lychee forests are planted from the flat land to the mountains, and the grass grows thicker as you go higher.We encountered a typical lychee fungus growth environment in the middle of the mountain - a damp ant nest.

I stopped, stepped over, and studied this place with Huang Tianxiang. The two of them were communicating in dialect when I heard Gu Yu calling me, with a different tone and address than usual: "Zheng Zixu..."

I turned my head suspiciously: "Huh?"

"I..." He stood in a strangely stiff posture, his face and lips were pale, his eyes hesitated and frightened, and he tried his best to keep calm.

I suddenly realized something, and stared at his feet with wide eyes.

...Huang Tianxiang and I really had a crow's mouth today.