After eating at noon, it didn't take long for the two old men to hurry back to Beijing by car. Because the day after tomorrow is the Qingming Festival, young people may not pay much attention to this festival, but for the elderly, this festival is hardly less than the Spring Festival.

No, it was not yet nine o'clock in the morning of the third day, Wang Qian and Wang Gang each drove a car on the burning buns, Wang Gang's car was still the two Audis, and Wang Qian's car was a bright yellow Beetle, which drove into the village like a gust of wind.

The two first went to the second grandmother, and then did not stay long, and soon came to Wang Yong's house with the aunt, aunt and uncle who had arrived a while early, and would go to the cemetery in the back mountain with Wang Yong, who had just finished breakfast, to burn paper money for the deceased ancestors and fill in the grave.

Except for Wang Gang and Wang Qian, everyone else has more or less experienced the matter of filling the grave during the Qingming Festival, so they quickly burned the paper money, and each person filled in some new soil with a shovel to the grave one by one, and then prepared to go down the mountain and go home.

There is nothing particular about the local industry here now, and when Wang Yong was a child, it was not so simple to go to the grave on the Qingming Festival. The first is to have an elder to take the lead, usually a female elder. Bring a variety of pastries, and use a jug of water in a jug to pass off as liquor. I don't know how the ancestors under the ground will feel after knowing this kind of fooling people?

The first step is to set up the pastry offerings before you start burning the paper. At this time, a group of juniors have to kneel down and kowtow and pray for the blessing of their ancestors. And the elder who led the team poured a pot of wine around the fire and toasted the deceased ancestors.

After all the paper money has been burned to ashes, it is the main event, and the body is alive and well. It is also important to add graves, shoveling soil around the grave mound, and recovering the entire mound with new soil. Filling the graves high means that the new houses were renovated for these ancestors.

When the tomb is over, this ancestor worship activity is not over. At this time, the elders will instruct the juniors. When you go home, you are not allowed to look back, otherwise you will bring the ghosts of the ancestors in the grave home, which is very unlucky.

It wasn't until everyone returned home to wash their hands and face that the entire ancestor worship was completely completed. Then it's time for the family to get together and have a big meal!

"At this time, there are mountain vegetables, so we have to dig some!"

When Wang Yong saw a piece of mountain vegetables with a large area, he immediately remembered the fat man's phone call yesterday. Therefore, he stopped and issued a construction yì. He knew that if others were not easy to say, Wang Qian would definitely be very interested. This girl will be very interested in anything or anything that she has not seen or understood.

Sure enough, as soon as Wang Yong's words fell, Wang Qian looked at Wang Yong with wide eyes and asked, "Brother, what is a mountain vegetable?" Is it better than bitter hemp? ”

"Cut! You know bitter hemp! Do you know the oil dish? Ma Street (transliteration, don't blame) dishes, do you know? Do you know the old buds? Dandelion, oh this one must know. Have you eaten willow leaves? Do you know what shepherd's cabbage looks like? ”

Wang Yong said a long list of names in a row, and Wang Qian's face was getting darker and darker. The two hands clenched tightly, and when the anger reached the door of the head, it immediately stopped.

"Auntie, look at my brother. Just know to bully me! ”

Wang Qian hugged her aunt's arm and complained coquettishly. Just now, Wang Yong said a series of wild vegetable names in a flash, obviously in addition to showing off, he was also deliberately laughing at Wang Qian, a person in the city, for his ignorance. But she didn't say anything, just looked at her sister. He pursed his lips and smiled silently.

When Wang Yong and his juniors were puzzled, the uncle opened his mouth to solve the mystery for a few people.

"Do you two want to eat wild vegetables again?"

"Oh, big brother still understands me. So you're going to dig some more for us today? After saying this, the sister-in-law's eyes began to redden.

There's definitely a story in this! Wang Yong's juniors immediately had a glow in their eyes, and their gossip was flourishing.

It's the uncle, and after becoming a secretary, he has become more and more general-like. After listening to my sister-in-law's words, I couldn't see any fluctuations on the surface, and pointed at Wang Yong, Wang Gang and Wang Qian very calmly and said: "With these juniors, it's not easy to eat wild vegetables!" Just let Wang Yong dig more. ”

"Ahh Uncle, you are so ruthless! ”

Wang Yong shouted, and immediately understood. I originally wanted to pull everyone to dig wild vegetables together, and when the time came to take out wild vegetables from the small world, it would be good to have a cover. I don't mind how much I dig, because this mountain vegetable is not as delicious as bitter hemp in Wang Yong's opinion.

Mountain vegetables, the scientific name is mountain hawthorn, mountain wheat hawthorn. The leaves are opposite, oblong, and the stems have bamboo-like knots. Young shoots and young leaves are edible, and there are many ways to eat them.

Mainly cold salad, hot stir-fry, as well as steamed buns, dumplings. Wang Yong eats mostly steamed buns here, and some eat them cold, but as for hot stir-frying, it is rarely seen.

Although Wang Yong doesn't like to eat this thing, it doesn't prevent him from knowing the fame and nutrition of this thing. When I was in college, I used to look up on the Internet for a long time. This thing is even known as the first wild vegetable, but Wang Yong thinks that this thing is not very delicious, especially after blanching.

"Good! I'll dig it, auntie, you tell me what kind of mountain vegetables are good. Then you go down the mountain first, and wait for me when you go home, and I will dig up a bunch of wild vegetables for you to eat. ”

"Sycophants!"

"Who do you say? Auntie, look at him! ”

"Okay, okay, my aunt will teach you what kind of mountain vegetables are."

The aunt couldn't stand being shaken by Wang Qian, and pulled her to squat on the ground to explain to her what a mountain vegetable is, what an oil dish is, and what bitter hemp is. Why only say these three, because most of the people in this part of the mountain eat these three kinds of wild vegetables, and few people eat the others.

However, it is said that there are still many people who eat willow leaves in some places near the capital. There are even special factories in some places to pickle the willow leaves, seal and store them, and keep them for sale during the New Year, and the locals only buy a little to eat when they are entertaining guests during the New Year. Imagine, when the Chinese New Year comes up, bring a plate of leaves, if you don't know people, what kind of face will it be?

However, willow leaves are still delicious if they are well cooked, but now people are not short of food, and even enough meat is eaten, and eating some willow leaves is just fresh.

"Okay, you three dig slowly, let's go back first."

After the aunt taught Wang Qian how to distinguish the types of wild vegetables, and after picking that part, she stood up and said a word. Then Shi Shiran went down the mountain with his sister-in-law and uncle, leaving Wang Yong to cry without tears, and Wang Qian and Wang Gang, brothers and sisters, who excitedly shouted that there were more wild vegetables there.

Dig it! Wang Yong squatted down and began to get busy. Fortunately, now is the best time to dig mountain vegetables, and there are large patches of mountain vegetables in any place. It's just that Wang Yong is very loveless to the things, he just stares at some of the bitter hemp and oil dishes that are still fresh.

It's just that at this time of year, they have all pumped their stems and flowered, and they are already old and unpalatable, and they are very bitter. But in the middle of the grass, under the bushes. You can still find some that are still very tender, and Wang Yong will specifically attack them.

"How much have you dug up? I've dug a whole bunch of them! ”

Hearing the voice, Wang Yong looked up. Immediately, he shook his head very disdainfully, and then lowered his head and continued to look for his bitter hemp.

As soon as he lowered his head, Wang Qian was already furious over there.

"Brother, you're so stupid. You've dug up the roots, you're really cutting the grass and eradicating the roots! ”

Listening to his sister-in-law's sarcastic words, Wang Gang relied on his thick skin and didn't care.

"What do you know? It's wild herbs. Do you know wild vegetables? The vitality is particularly strong, and the reproductive ability is also very strong. Don't say that I dug up so little, that is, you dug this mountain to the end, this time next year. It's still coming out piece by piece, do you understand? ”

"You quibble! No way! There are no seeds, how can they be reproduced? ”

"You see this large area is so dense, I call it a seedling. Do you know? This is so that they can grow better. I'm embarrassed to say that I don't understand anything, really, how can I eat more salt than you for a few years. Would it be good to walk a few more steps? ”

Wang Qian saw that she couldn't talk about her brother, so she didn't mess around with him, so she was very smart and ran over to Wang Yong to comment.

"Second brother, you see my brother dug up, all of them are whole with roots. My aunt told me that only young shoots and young leaves can be eaten, how can I eat those he digs? ”

"Don't worry, go back down the mountain and let him choose again."

Wang Yong looked at Wang Gang, who was secretly happy when he was standing there looking at his large pile of mountain vegetables, shook his head, and said with a smile.

When I was a child, I used to be the same as Wang Gang, when I followed my mother up the mountain to dig vegetables, in order to show that I dug fast and dug a lot, I directly shoveled down the whole plant with a small shovel.

And my mother looked at herself with a slight smile and praised a few words, which made me feel that I was so amazing, and my heart was beautiful all day.

But after going down the mountain, when I ran to the village and played with Dawei and them crazy, and then returned home, I found my mother sitting alone in the courtyard and choosing the whole vegetables that she had dug up, hammering her sore waist from time to time, and then bending down to continue to choose vegetables.

The little Wang Yong lay in the room and watched for a long time, as if he understood something. Since then, Wang Yong has never dug up mountain vegetables, just digging some oil dishes and bitter hemp. Later, after the death of his parents, he never dug wild vegetables again.

"Second brother, what do you want? I can't even hear you! ”

Wang Qian's loud shout in his ears woke Wang Yong up from his childhood memories. He looked at Wang Qian in surprise, wondering what was wrong with her?

"What's wrong? Got into trouble with your brother again? ”

"No, I've dug a lot, let's go down the mountain."

Wang Qian looked at Wang Yong without blinking, as if Wang Yong had flowers on his face. Wang Yong raised his hand and rubbed it on Wang Qian's head, and only stopped after she kept protesting.

"Second brother, how can we take down so many mountain vegetables?"

"Where's your brother?"

"Hmph, he himself carried the pile of rubbish he dug down the mountain first."

"Oh, then wait a while, if you feel that your brother is home, call your aunt or uncle and ask your brother to send your pocket."

After Wang Yong finished speaking, he looked at the mountain very calmly. Wang Qian agreed, and then immediately understood, and exclaimed: "Second brother, you are so insidious!" (To be continued......)

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