Acacia flowers?

Acacia flower cake, acacia flower soup, acacia flower buns, acacia flower nest ...... Qi Shufang, who was depressed because she was not pregnant, was in good spirits, and thought of a series of locust flower-based delicacies, carrying a ladder borrowed by the production team on her shoulders, and carrying two large bamboo baskets on her left and right arms, to find the old acacia tree full of locust flowers hanging behind He Jian's house.

According to Wang Chunling, in the past, the trees were not mainly poplars, except for common fruit trees such as jujube trees, pear trees, pomegranate trees, ginkgo trees, etc., every household planted acacia trees and elm trees, most of the acacia tree trunks are strangely shaped, curved, like their He family house so straight and slippery three old acacia trees are really rare.

Now the family is only allowed to plant one self-kept tree, and the He family left these three acacia trees, which belong to He Jiandang, He Jianjun and He Jianguo, but they are all behind the house of He Jiandang's family, because this was once the old house of the He family.

The fragrance of acacia flowers has long tempted many children who have not gone to school to wander under the tree, and He Daoxing took a thumbs up and stared up at the treetops.

"Three eggs, you are not allowed to climb the tree, if you climb the tree again and grind your clothes, I won't make it up to you, and you will be embarrassed to wear bad clothes every day!"

As Zhang Cuihua scolded, He Daoxing's body trembled.

"Mother, I heard it, I don't climb trees, you and my third aunt will give me enough acacia flowers to come down, I want to eat!" He Daoxing smiled and ran to Qi Shufang to offer courtesy, "Third aunt ......"

Qi Shufang put down the ladder and leaned against the tree, and put down the bamboo basket, "Okay, the acacia flower tube is enough for a while!"

He Daoxing happily circled around Qi Shufang.

Wang Chunling and Zhang Cuihua had already prepared a long bamboo pole tied with a sickle, holding the bamboo pole and first hooking the acacia branch lower with the sickle, pulling it down hard, and the whole branch fell down.

He Daoxing rushed over with a cheer, pulled a branch of acacia flowers to the side, and stuffed a handful into his mouth.

"Don't just eat for yourself. Zhang Cuihua instructed her youngest son to drag a few acacia flowers to the side for the salivating children, so that the branches would not fall and hit them.

When seven or eight children heard this, they cheered and dragged away a few acacia flowers that they had taken a fancy to.

"Sandan, your mother is so good. ”

"Oh, yes, your third aunt, my third aunt and my eldest mother are also very good, and they didn't say that they wouldn't let me eat. ”

"That's it, the Shen family's delicate baby is really a baby, his mother took a bamboo pole enough acacia flowers this morning, I stood next to me for a long time, her mother wanted to give me a handful of acacia flowers to eat, Shen Jiaojiao's fake girl jumped and shouted not to give me, her mother took it back, I was angry, and when my father and my mother had enough elm money, I didn't give him food. ”

"Shen Jiaojiao can pick the door, Xiaodong, don't play with him in the future. ”

"Yes, we don't play with Shen Jiaojiao. ”

Listening to the children's gossip about squeezing out Shen Jiaojiao, Qi Shufang couldn't help laughing, and after hooking the branches below, she went up the ladder and continued to hook the branches on it with a sickle tied to a bamboo pole.

After a while, there were many locust branches piled up on the ground, one by one, and the long bamboo pole was no longer able to hook the branches when they climbed to the top of the ladder, Qi Shufang didn't want to climb the tree like a monkey in front of everyone, so she came down and put down the bamboo pole, and the three of them sat on the ground, while putting the locust flowers on the branches into the bamboo basket, gossiping.

"Shufang, I heard that you can exchange the grain for the game you hunt?"

Hearing Wang Chunling's question, Qi Shufang nodded with a slight smile, and told the two sisters-in-law the amount she had told Aunt Ma and Shen Erdan's wife, "I am short of food, not enough to eat, so I can only exchange game for some food and come back." It's a pity that so far, only Aunt Ma and Erdan's wife have asked me to change. ”

Wang Chunling laughed: "Other people's lives are worse than ours, who has grain for meat to eat? A pound of meat is worth several pounds of grain! I have only seen someone take fine grain to the production team for coarse grain, but I have never seen grain for meat, so how much surplus grain must be saved to exchange for meat to eat? Eat that meat, can you grow an extra piece of meat than others?"

"Sister-in-law, you can't say that, it's difficult to eat meat now, and you can eat that meal at the end of the year, who doesn't crave meat? It's just that no one loves their daughter as much as Shen Erdan's family, and they want to make a big show, lively and lively, and they are willing to exchange dozens of catties of grain for game to make a banquet, and the people who sat at the table that day did not give a thumbs up and said that Shen Erdan was arrogant. Zhang Cuihua said a fair word, no matter when, some people are extremely poor, and some people hoard a lot of food.

"I haven't seen how much they hurt and want to fight. Qi Shufang muttered, feeling unfair for Shen Yaowu, the day she recruited Zhao Tiezhu, Shen Erdan and his wife, who were their fathers and mothers, did not say anything, but when Shen Lingling got married, they thought that Shen Yaowu's two-yuan gift was too little, not to say that she was her own sister, at least ten yuan in gift money to be reasonable.

That's a good boy, but he didn't have a good father. Zhang Cuihua sighed.

"Why is her father so eccentric? Qi Shufang has been curious about this for a long time, and she can almost think of the reason for her affection for Shen Jiaojiao, she is still patriarchal, but where is Shen Lingling stronger than Shen Yaowu?

"I know that. Wang Chunling entered the door earlier and knew more things, and under Qi Shufang's curious gaze, she told the past of the Shen family.

It turns out that Shen Yaowu is not the boss, there used to be an elder brother above her, named Shen Haohao, two years older than Shen Yaowu, a good child, especially as an elder brother, very much Shen Yaowu, at that time, the family was poor, not good to eat and wear, Shen Haohao will remember to give half a bite to Shen Yaowu, who was still called Shen Binbin at the time, and Shen Lingling, who was two years younger than Shen Yaowu.

Ten years ago, a famine swept through most of the impoverished areas, and they were also affected here, and Shen Haohao secretly distributed the little food that Shen Erdan had finally gotten to his two sisters who were distressed and said they were hungry.

So, Shen Yaowu and Shen Lingling were alive, and Shen Haohao died, and when he died, his limbs were skinny and his belly was swollen like a bulge.

"Shen Erdan and his wife hated Yaowu?But Shen Lingling also ate it, why did she hurt Shen Lingling so much?" Qi Shufang felt very strange, this is too unfair, right?

Zhang Cuihua pursed her lips, "What can it be? Eccentricity is eccentricity! What other reasons do you need for eccentricity? I remember what Shen Erdan and his family said at the time? Oh, she said that if Wu is old, she should be polite to her sister, if she doesn't eat that mouthful of food, but lets Hao Hao and Lingling eat it, Hao Hao won't be able to survive. gave birth to Shen Jiaojiao every other year, they felt that this was Haohao's reincarnation, and the food at home was eaten by Shen Jiaojiao first. Yaowu just felt that her brother died for her, and her father and mother took the food and wages she earned over the years, and she never said anything. Shen Erdan and his wife intensified, and wanted Wu to be her second master's granddaughter, but she definitely didn't want to endure her father's oppression anymore. ”

Qi Shufang sighed, and made up her mind that she must cherish food, and her current life is really hard-won compared to the famine years!

Seeing the children eating acacia flowers with relish, I couldn't help but stuff them into my mouth.

A bunch of locust flowers with palm length are in full bloom, there are half-opened, there are also buds to be released, the acacia flowers that can't wait to bloom first are as white as snow, the half-opened white and blue, the flower buds are mostly green calyxes, the green calyx wraps the flower buds, even the flowers are chewed together with the calyx, sweet silk, and the mouth is full of the aroma of locust flowers.

It's delicious, and the acacia cake is even more delicious.

Acacia flowers wash twice, pick up the leaves that are unintentionally picked down with acacia flowers, boil water once, drain the water, sprinkle with salt, like to eat spicy and then put a little chili noodles, stir evenly, add flour and batter, heat the iron pot and pour oil, pour the batter into it and spread it, a cluster of simmers at the bottom of the stove, turn over and fry on both sides of the pot, after the pot is golden on both sides, the aroma is tangy.

The wild goat that I got a few days ago, half of the sheep went to the city to exchange for dozens of catties of coarse and fine grain, and then Qi Shufang stopped hunting to exchange for food. In the summer, the grain that can't be put in the camphor wood box is easy to get insects!

Another reason is that Qi Shufang didn't plan to do this often, and she didn't go to look for wild boars.

Fortunately, only the Huo family knew about this matter, Qi Shufang had always done it quietly, and the people in the production team, including the eldest uncle and the second uncle, did not know, so it did not cause any trouble.

After the other half of the wild goat was processed, it was either cooked or roasted, and the old man He, Professor Jin and others shared the food, and the mutton fat she left behind, and she made more than a jar of mutton fat, so she was very willing to put oil when she baked the locust flower cake, and used the leftover lard, the mutton fat has a smell, and the lower noodles or fried cabbage are more delicious with mutton fat, and the pancakes are still fragrant with lard.

The first locust cake out of the pot, the second out of the pot, Qi Shufang cut the acacia cake out of the pot into pieces, take the chopsticks and eat it, the locust cake is slightly charred on both sides, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, crisp is the noodles, tender is the flower, very delicious.

It's delicious!

Qi Shufang ate one piece after another, couldn't help but want to eat again, suddenly heard the sound of swallowing saliva, and looked up at Shanghe Daoxing's salivating big eyes, he, ah, was lying at the kitchen door, poked into a round little head, staring at the sophora cake cut into pieces on the board, and kept chirping.

"Sandan'er, didn't your mother make you a locust cake?"

Qi Shufang deliberately didn't greet him first, picked up a piece of acacia cake with chopsticks and put it in his mouth to chew, causing He Daoxing's saliva to flow down, and jumped into the kitchen, "Third aunt, your acacia cake is so fragrant, I smell the fragrance in my house! Third aunt, give me a piece to taste! My mother is reluctant to put oil, salt is reluctant to put it, it must not be as delicious as the third aunt!"

Qi Shufang knew very well that Wang Chunling and Zhang Cuihua were thrifty, and gave him a pair of chopsticks, he screamed, ran to the board, stretched out his chopsticks to pick up the locust cake, and Qi Shufang shoveled the second cake out of the pot and spread it on the board.

He Daoxing ate his mouth full of oil, and when he saw Qi Shufang pouring oil into the pot, he exclaimed, "Third aunt, you put so much oil!"

"The more oil you have, the more delicious it is. If there was no oil and no salt, would you still come to my house to eat?" Qi Shufang smiled at him, and when the oil was hot, she poured some of the batter into the pot and baked the third acacia cake.

"Of course not!" He Daoxing smirked.

After he was full, he wiped his mouth, his hands were full of oil, Qi Shufang pointed to the door and said, "Go wash your hands, your grandpa is mowing grass on the ground, you can send some for me to your grandpa." "The third and fourth locust cakes were cut and put in a bowl, and let He Daoxing go for a run.

"Okay!"

He Daoxing carefully held the big bowl, found the old man He who was beating pigweed, and shouted when he was far away: "Grandpa, grandpa, grandpa, my third aunt asked me to send you acacia flower cakes! The cakes made by my third aunt are delicious, and there is a lot of oil!"

Old man He took a few steps and took it in his hand, "Your third aunt picked up acacia flowers today?"

"Yes, my mother and my aunt are enough, and I have enough to partner with my third aunt!" He Daoxing saw that Old Man He was eating acacia cakes with chopsticks, smelled the fragrance, touched his bulging belly, and couldn't help but swallow saliva again.

"Have you eaten it?"

Must have eaten it, Old Man He saw that the corners of his little grandson's mouth were not cleaned, and only the little daughter-in-law was willing to put the oil, saying that he put a piece of acacia cake in the little grandson's mouth, the latter bit it unceremoniously, while eating, he nodded, and ran away with a happy face when he couldn't eat it.

"Oh, Brother Zhaoming, you are really blessed, your son and daughter-in-law are filial. The old elm tree in my house was full of elm money, and when I got up in the morning to see it, I didn't know when I asked my son and daughter-in-law to clean it, but I didn't see a piece of elm money. The old man He Zhaoping, who was mowing the grass with the old man He, smelled the aroma of acacia cakes and said to him enviously.

Old man He smiled and gave him a few pieces of acacia cake.

The acacia cake is not big, an inch square, half a centimeter thick, He Zhaoping swallowed a few pieces and tasted it and shook his head and didn't eat it, "It is said that raising children to prevent old age, I look at my old age and hang it enough, I still rely on myself." I'm going to collect the rags tomorrow and earn two dollars, do you have anything you want?"

"What can you collect?" Old man He quickly wiped out the remaining acacia cakes, cleaned the dishes and chopsticks with the flowing water in the river, and put them on top of the straw stacks of the trolley, ready to take them back to his daughter-in-law.

He Zhaoping smiled: "I can still receive good things." In the past, there were many landlords, but now they are defeated, and they have more or less stored something in their hands, and the wind is so tight that they dare not sell it, so they will cheapen my country to collect tattered ones. Last time, I received five yuan yuan, nine cents a piece, and I took it to the bank to redeem it, and a silver dollar earned a dime, which is enough to earn five cents!"

Old man He's heart moved, "Zhaoping, if you receive a silver dollar or something, don't rush to the bank to redeem it, and don't rush to send the old furniture made of good wood to the scrapyard, you can take it to me first." ”

"Alright, big brother, just wait. ”