After a few days, the weather was getting hotter and hotter, and the two black locust trees in front of Li Xin's house had already bloomed a lot of locust flowers. Large clusters of white flowers hang on the trees, beautiful and delightful.

On a hot day, everyone is a little cowardly, Li Xin doesn't want to go out, and Zhuangzi doesn't go there, so he stays at home all day. Occasionally, I will go back to Osmanthus Village to have a look, and I will also take care of the few acres of land at home. A few acres of land at home and Li Xin's vegetable garden are planted with watermelons, and they are all planted with the same crop, which is relatively easier to manage.

Li Xin also thought that if there is grain, Zhuangzi will naturally grow it, and in the past, the family's few acres of land would grow something for the family to eat. Last summer, Wen Hao always said that he couldn't stand the heat, and there was nothing to relieve the heat. Li Xin thought about planting some watermelons, and when it was hot, he could also eat watermelons to relieve the heat.

Watermelons are already in the world, but they are not widely cultivated, and even fewer are planted in the countryside. However, rich and noble families will plant some to relieve the heat on hot days. People in the village have always believed that the fields are meant to be used to grow food, and if they are used to grow things like watermelons, it is too luxurious and wasteful. Therefore, in the village, Li Xin has not seen watermelons, nor can he see them in the market.

Last year, there were a few watermelons in the Mid-Autumn Festival gift sent by the shopkeeper Sun, and after cutting them, the children at home liked to eat them.

It just so happened that Li Xin looked for the seeds in the bracelet, and there were really watermelon seeds, and even the planting method was written in detail on the package, so Li Xin took out the watermelon seeds and handed them to Wang Fu and his wife. Let the two of them raise the seedlings first, and plant them when spring begins.

It's been almost two months since the planting, and the watermelons are about to ripen. Li Xin also likes to take a walk in the watermelon field to check the growth of watermelons. It seems that those watermelon seeds are really good, the size of the watermelons is very large, most of them are about ten catties, and a few are very large, Li Xin thought, when you pick them off, you have to weigh them well.

The green melon vine mountain is full of big watermelons, and such a scene, how to look at it and how to like it.

"Eldest sister, isn't our watermelon ripe yet?" Wen Hao asked Li Xin as soon as he ran home. This kid has been thinking about watermelons for a long time, and always asks Li Xin when the watermelons will be ripe. Li Xin also said that he could be ripe in March, and when he entered March, this kid asked more diligently.

"It's almost over, didn't you see Zhu Yong running around the village all day long! If a watermelon was ripe, he would have picked it. ”

"I saw that the watermelons at home had already borne much bigger than the watermelons sent by Shopkeeper Sun last year, why are they not ripe! I don't know how big it will be when it's ripe! ”

"When it's cooked, you'll have something to eat. The watermelon is not ripe yet, but the locust flowers at the door are blooming well, so let's beat some down and make something to eat! Seeing that the black locust began to bloom, Li Xin also remembered the delicious food made from many acacia flowers. I remember that there were many black locust trees in my hometown in my previous life, and when the locust flowers bloomed, the children in the village always went to pick locust flowers in groups of three or five. Pick the acacia flowers, either suck the nectar inside and eat them, or take them home and let the family make delicious acacia rice, acacia buns and the like.

Li Xin liked this kind of activity very much when he was a child. At that time, it was really interesting, and the children were always able to find their own fun in a poor environment. There may be no fun toys, no beautiful dolls, but the fun is never less than that of the children in the city, if not much more.

That kind of childhood is really very meaningful, and many of the little things in the past, when you think about it at this time, you will laugh.

All kinds of flowers and plants are beautiful and beautiful, but the villagers can also make beautiful flowers and plants into delicious food. Those days in the countryside, many fragments, Li Xin still remembers vividly.

Together with her friends, she dug up wild vegetables such as shepherd's cabbage and Houttuynia cordata in the field. I also picked sheep's foot nails and locust flowers in the mountains. The flowers that can be used as vegetables are picked on the mountain, and Li Xin's most profound memory is the sheep's foot nail and locust flower, both of which are very beautiful when they bloom, and they are also very delicious when made into various foods.

There are very similar places between the sheep's foot nail and the locust flower, when the flowers bloom, they are so colorful and lively, and they have a gorgeous flower season of their own. The sheep's hoof nails bloomed brilliantly, and the locust flowers were as white as snowflakes.

I still remember that there were a few old palace pink sheep's hoofs in the village, and the seeds had bred some new trees in the surrounding area not far away. When I was young, I didn't know that it was called Bauhinia, but because the shape of the leaves resembled sheep's foot nails, the people in the village called it sheep's foot flower. The flowers and leaves of the sheep's foot beetle are very interesting, and its corolla is composed of five separate petals, four symmetrically distributed on both sides, one of which is upturned and covered with colorful patches of intense hues. This point, in fact, is a bit like the phoenix flower, the phoenix flower also has five petals, four of which are like fiery red, and one petal is full of colorful spots.

Gong pink sheep's hoof nail, the flowers are big and colorful, in the mid-spring season of its semi-deciduous leaves, the flowers and leaves are open, the trees are full of flowers, the red and green reflect each other, the flowers bloom in the season, showing a warm atmosphere full of spring and vitality.

The leaves of the sheep's hoof are also very interesting, as its name suggests, like sheep's hooves. Each leaf, without exception, is composed of two symmetrical sides of a kidney-shaped, with a concave end. Fold it up and it looks like a green butterfly.

When the flowers bloom, when you walk under the tree, you can smell the faint fragrance, the breeze blows, and the beauty is like an illusion. The flowers bloom like a phoenix flying, the leaves dance lightly, like butterfly wings, it is really the most beautiful scenery in memory.

Later, Li Xin walked a lot of places, and he also saw a lot of redbuds, and he could also see a lot of palace pink sheep's hoof nails. However, it seems that there is no longer as good as I remember. Perhaps the wild taste of the countryside itself is incomparable to imitation in the city.

When the hoofers bloom, the children in the village always like to pick the petals, and then pick the petals one by one, wash them and then cook them. You can also make it more complicated, or just stir-fry, without putting too many condiments, it is already fragrant.

It's a pity that she has traveled a lot of places, but she has never tasted the taste of sheep's hoof nails again.

"Sophora flowers can also be eaten?" Wen Hao looked at Li Xin with some disbelieving.

"Of course you can eat it, and when you make something delicious, maybe how you will drool!" Li Xin rubbed Wen Hao's head, and beckoned several children in the family to go to the door to play locust flowers. Although the sheep's hoof flower cannot be found or eaten, the locust flower is not close in front of you, and it is also delicious to get out