Like the upper beam cheering, the carpenter beats these lively, the children look at it and think it's fun, the most looking forward is to throw steamed buns, at that time most of the children in the village are short of food, only during the New Year's festival and when you are a guest can you eat some meat, usually can't eat enough, let alone snacks.

Most of the snacks are made of sweet potatoes (also called sweet potatoes, because they come from foreign countries and imported things, so they are called sweet potatoes).

Some people also use sweet potatoes to describe people who are stupid, and shout at stupid people who want to die: "You sweet potato, big sweet potato", which means: "You stupid, big stupid".

The copper lock in the village is often scolded like this by his parents; Maybe it's because the sweet potatoes are all white inside, like brainless brains, and "no brains" is another way to say stupid.

In this land, there are many sweet potatoes planted, sweet potatoes can also grow vigorously in the mountains where water is scarce, the harvest is good, it is a good thing to serve as a staple food when there is a shortage of grain, sweet potato leaves can be eaten as vegetables, sweet potato vines can be fed to pigs and cattle and sheep, etc.

There are many sweet potatoes, and a variety of ways to eat are derived, steaming, boiling, roasting, simmering, raw eating, etc., the most common is sweet potato porridge, which is cut and boiled in porridge; There are also raw sweet potato slices that are dried into white sweet potato blanks, chopped and dried into sweet potato rice, and boiled porridge to eat.

Sangou believes that the best sweet potato snack is "sweet potato date", which is to cook the small sweet potato with three or four fingers is cooked first, and then slowly boil out the sweet honey, and then paste the boiled sweet potato into two finger square grains, accompanied by the boiled honey, dried into a half-dry and half-soft eat, a bit like candied fruit, sweet and soft and delicious.

Sweet potato dates take time and materials to make, so they are not common sweet potato snacks. This kind of thing is not good for long-term storage, you have to eat it quickly, otherwise it will soon be rancid.

The most common sweet potato snacks are "sweet potato pluck" and "sweet potato stir-fry", the sweet potato is first cooked and then sliced and dried into a light yellow transparent dried sweet potato, which is eaten directly is "sweet potato pluck", which is placed in a pot and stir-fried with hot sand, and fried until it is browned is "sweet potato fried".

Stir-fried sweet potatoes are the most common hospitality snacks in the village, and when guests come, they sit down to make a cup of tea and tea, and then hold a large handful of sweet potatoes fried with tea to eat.

Even though it is a cheap sweet potato snack, it is impossible for children to let go of their belly to eat, and their throat is as deep as the sea, how can it be filled? The house should be hospitable to guests, and hunger should be used as a staple food; Therefore, the children are looking for food everywhere in every possible way.

For example, when the children were grazing sheep and chopping firewood on the mountain, they would dig an earthen stove or build a stove with stones, and use their own iron spoons to make pots, and each child made an appointment to steal oil, salt, eggs, rice, etc. from home, and learn how to cook for the adults in the family.

I picked a little green vegetables from other people's fields, and shaved a few sweet potatoes and taro by the way, and buried the sweet potato taro directly in the ashes and simmered, or roasted on the stove next to the pot.

In this way, first cook the rice in a pot (which will be charred every time), and then use another "pot" to fry a few eggs and stir-fry some vegetables; In the end, each person is given a roasted sweet potato or taro, and each person breaks a branch to make chopsticks, a mouthful of roasted sweet potato taro, and a chopstick meal.

In fact, in terms of taste, it is definitely not as delicious as the food at home, but everyone thinks it is very fragrant, this way of eating is fresh, and they all eat it with relish, and they eat everything in a while, even the crispy pot is rushed to eat.

In addition to sweet potatoes and taro in the field, there are also "bamboo shoots" (melons or melons), soft-shell wheat beans (snow peas), etc., which can be picked and eaten directly, which is sweet and delicious; Many people plant bamboo shoots and melons in the yard in front of their homes to prevent them from being eaten by children.

As for tiger beans (broad beans), Tiansheng beans (edamame), etc., they can't be eaten raw, the grass green taste is too strong, and the taste is also astringent and bitter, so they are picked and roasted and eaten over the fire, which is very fragrant; At home, ripe tiger beans and Tiansheng beans (soybeans when ripe) are boiled or fried in water and eaten, and they taste very good.

These vegetables and fruits that can be eaten directly, in the countryside, it is best to plant them together, otherwise your family will be stolen and eaten by the children, such as someone secretly planting cucumbers and tomatoes in the loofah bitter gourd shed, once it is known, within a few days, it will be stolen by the child.

Sangou didn't have time, the cucumber was picked up, and he didn't even know what it looked like, let alone the taste, many years later, Sangou ate cucumbers outside, and he didn't know what kind of dish it was?

I heard that it was a cucumber, and Sangou thought that someone else lied to him, this cucumber is not yellow at all, and the taste is not like the taste of melons and fruits, why is it called cucumber?

Sangou and Mingcheng picked the tomatoes, which were not red or green, and they took a bite of it, oops, they were bitter to death, and they all vomited out, but fortunately they didn't endure the bitterness and ate it, otherwise they would have been poisoned.

Someone planted corn in the sorghum field, and it was actually known by the children like a swarm of rats, and the three dogs they went to pick and eat, the corn cob has not grown up, it has just taken shape, and the thumb is so big, so that everyone has the best time to eat corn raw, so sweet.

Everyone ate the corn cob, and it was also sweet; After many years, when the three dogs ate corn, they even had to eat the corn cob, but the corn cob that had matured could be eaten, and it was a mouthful of slag, and it was laughed at, he was really a hillbilly who had never seen the world.

The sorghum field (green gauze tent) is a good place where the three dogs can hide (hide and seek, hide and seek), "war" (a game that simulates a war), etc.

After the sorghum is ripe and cut, the sorghum stalks can still be chewed and eaten, with some sweetness, like sugarcane, but it does not have as much water as sugarcane, but it is already very good to replace sugarcane.

Everyone had several sorghum stalks in their hands, chewing and chewing, and the hard sorghum stalk skin pulled Ermao's mouth out of blood, no matter what, they still had to continue to eat.

In addition to the fields, most of the village mountains are tea seed trees, so a major specialty is tea oil, but tea oil is very expensive, most of the villagers use it to sell for money, or keep a little for themselves, this can't be used as a snack.

But the tea oil comes from the tea seed tree, the mountains behind the village are all tea seed trees, one or two people tall tea seed trees, but also the main props for children to go up the mountain to herd sheep and cattle to play, three dogs and Mingcheng Mingyue often climbed up and down in the tea seed forest when they were young, chasing and playing hide and seek.

Every spring, the tea seed tree blooms, like snow, but the people in the village are used to it, and they don't think it's a beautiful scenery, so the children don't go into the tea seed forest to play much.

Because as soon as the wind blows, the nectar will be sprinkled on the hair on the body like rain, and the hair will be knotted into pieces, and the comb will not be combed, and mosquitoes, flies, insects, etc.

However, this has also become a natural snack for children, and the three dogs will break the stem of the "rotten coat grass" (fern firewood grass), remove the core inside, and become a straw, which is used to suck the nectar in the petals, which is sweet and silky.

At this time, Sangou and Mingyue simply lay on the grass under the tree, dizzy and dizzy, dizzy and dizzy as they watched the clouds gather and disperse in the blue sky, and they were very happy.

In addition to nectar, the tea seed tree also bears something called tea bubble in the spring, which looks like a peach like white ash, but in fact the inside is empty, but the flesh is thicker.

There is also a kind called tea slices (scientific name tea ear), which is not very common, and it is a mutated thing produced by the tea seed tree, and the taste is light and sweet, slightly bitter and refreshing, and it can be eaten.

So, when the tea seeds bloom in the spring, the three dogs will take the bright moon with them, and go all over the mountains to find tea and tea pieces to eat, and there are more children looking for them, so it is not so easy to find, and sometimes they will walk several miles of mountain roads for a tea bubble.

Sometimes I see a big tea brew hanging far away on the tree, at that moment, all the fatigue is swept away, excited shouting, climb the tree and carefully pick it off, break off your piece and I taste it one by one, maybe at that moment, enjoy not only pure deliciousness, but also the happiness after struggling to find it.

Tea flakes are more difficult to spot, and they look almost exactly like tea seed leaves, only thicker and more transparent, a bit like tea seed leaves wrapped in ice in winter.

When the three dogs grew up and saw the jadeite, they remembered the tea pieces when they were children, which were as crystal clear as the jade leaves.

Mingyue Niang is the eldest lady who married in the county, I haven't seen anything like this when I was a child, but people are very knowledgeable and elegant, and Mingyue and her mother are the closest, and they can't wait to be together every day. Only when they go crazy with Sangou will they temporarily forget their own mothers at home.

In addition to tea slices, there are also some scattered natural fruits in the village, such as "cat cat" (scientific name raspberry, also known as raspberry or cranberry), which grows on thorns, bright red like crystal agate, and has a very good taste, moderate sweetness and sourness, and leaves a fragrance on the lips and teeth after eating.

This kind of "cat", the three dogs always pick up a big handful, wash it for Mingyue, everyone sits on the high threshold together, you eat one by one, and after that, you still smack your mouth, and it will never be enjoyable.

There is also a kind of "eggplant" (similar to wild blueberry) that grows on the grass, and everyone lies on the grass and picks it and eats it, which is sour, sweet and astringent.

Everyone ate until their tongues were numb at the end, and they couldn't speak well and couldn't hear clearly, and they stuck out their tongues to see each other, all of them had blue-black tongues, and they were rolling on the grass with laughter......

As for fruit trees, there are very few in the village. There are peach trees, but there are very few, they are all some hairy peaches, and they can't wait for the peaches to get bigger, so they are looted by the children, and they rub off the fluff on the small hairy peaches, and they can't wait to eat them in their mouths.

Unripe peaches, the meat is very knotty, the taste is very sour, Mingyue basically spits out every time she eats a mouthful, but every year the peaches picked by the three dogs, Mingyue is excited to eat, or eat a bite and spit out.

Looking at the three dogs and their big gnaws and peaches with relish, Mingyue was hard to understand, weren't they afraid of the sour and bitter taste?

Oranges too, there are very few orange trees, a village is estimated to be only one or two, the children stare at the oranges every day to grow up, can't wait for the oranges to be red, grow half the size of the green oranges, so they go to pick and eat, the result is sour to death.

People say, why don't you wait for the oranges to be red before picking and eating? You want to be beautiful, there are so many children in the village, all of them are afraid that they will not be able to eat it, where can they wait for it to be red and then pick, and they should not pick it up as soon as possible, whether it is sweet or sour, it is better than being picked up and not eaten.

There are quite a lot of grapefruit trees in the village, most of the pomelos are made of sauce (pomelo peel slices, multiple passes through water to remove astringency, and the sauce and together steamed and dried into a kind of pickle), the grapefruit peel is very thick, the heart is very small, the taste is very bitter, basically no one picks and eats, and can't wait to pick, the green ones are beaten down to make sauce dishes.

But there are still a few real pomelo trees in the village, but they are all planted in their yards, and they are not stolen, and there are dogs tied to the trunks.

There are a very few old women, who stay under the grapefruit tree all day long, counting every day, if they find that there is a grapefruit missing from the tree, they have to jump up and scold the street, and they have to scold for half a day before stopping; The children had to walk around their doors or they would be suspected of stealing grapefruit.

After autumn, the three dogs watched the yellow, orange and orange grapefruit bend the branches every day, the saliva kept swallowing, the heart fire, burning; As soon as I saw the fierce old lady, I couldn't help but retract my feet.

According to the current statement, there are always more ways than difficulties, and when Sangou took out the yellow, orange, and orange grapefruit from his armpit clothes, Mingyue was always dumbfounded.

Mingyue swallowed her saliva impatiently, and at the same time pestered Sangou curiously, and she must let Sangou tell how she picked it.

At this time, Sangou always had a satisfied smile on his face, slowly peeling the peel of the grapefruit, and the unique sweetness of the grapefruit filled the whole room at once, and several children were immersed in the happy oral deliciousness.