Chapter 156: Sesame Leaves
The weather was still hot, and those tireless knew the endless tune of singing.
After a light rain, the sesame seeds in the fields bloom, and the small white or pink flowers look like upside-down bells, which look very beautiful.
Several sesame seeds in Liu Junhao's front yard also bloomed pink flowers at this time, attracting many native bees to collect nectar on it.
The first few sesame seeds grew under the eaves were so surprising that he couldn't remember when he sprinkled them in the yard.
Finally, after thinking about it for a long time, I remembered that he seemed to have bought a few catties of sesame seeds in the spring and wanted to make sesame salt, which should have been leaked on the ground with a dustpan at that time.
It is not easy for them to grow, you must know that this group of chickens and ducks is shaving around the yard every day.
Later, when the sesame seedlings were about ten centimeters long, Liu Junhao thought that they were in the way under the eaves, so he moved them to the corner of the wall by the flower pond and left them alone. No matter how well these seedlings grow, they can't harvest a pound of sesame seeds, so why waste time on them.
However, what he didn't expect was that the sesame seeds grew rapidly after being moved into the flower pond, and the bottom was a few points thicker than the bamboo in Professor Zhao's courtyard, and there were a few branches on the top.
Looking at this momentum, I'm afraid there must be a lot of sesame seeds in the autumn.
Liu Junhao was originally afraid that people in the village would see the abnormality, but finally thought about how much he was worried about. Sesame is a crop that likes to be thin and does not like to be thick, although such a situation is rare, but it is not uncommon. It is not uncommon to see one or two solitary sesame plants growing in peanut or soybean fields, and each head is more than a person tall.
Zhang Qian is very interested in sesame blossoming. Standing next to her at the risk of being stung by a bee, Liu Junhao took five or six photos of her.
Sesame flowers are blooming. She stood there smiling. It has a bit of a "peach blossom on the human face" taste.
Liu Junhao looked a little moved. I was just about to go up and take a photo with her little hand. Zhang Qian screamed and jumped away. Screaming "Soil Bee"
Liu Junhao is very troubled by these things that destroy the atmosphere. Anyway, they've been on the rise again lately. It looks like we will have to divide into groups once in two days.
"Shall we get up tomorrow morning and pinch sesame leaves?" Zhang Qian looked at the sesame seeds for a while. I thought about eating sesame leaves again.
Two days ago, the sixth aunt got up early in the morning. led Aqin to pinch sesame leaves in the ground for half an hour. In the evening, I made a meal of sesame leaf noodles.
At first, Zhang Qian was very unimpressed, but after tasting it, she immediately became interested.
Fresh sesame leaves are dried and stir-fried with chopped green onions, chili peppers, and shredded ginger, and then thrown into the pot for serving. The sesame leaves are fragrant, the noodles are smooth, and the taste is really good!
"Are you sure you want to go into battle yourself? Why don't we go to the street in a few days to buy some dried sesame leaves and taste fresh, so it will save a lot of trouble. Liu Junhao looked at her very fondly, no matter how she looked at it, she didn't look like she was going to work in the field, and the scene of the last wheat cutting was still vivid.
Zhang Qian was tired from cutting wheat for a day and had a sore back, and for the rest of the day she said that she was helping, but in fact, she helped make wheat waist when she got to the field, and stayed in the shade the rest of the time.
"Why, I can't go to the ground?" Zhang Qian blushed and looked very unconvinced.
"No, I mean the eggs are delicious, we don't necessarily know the hen that lays the eggs." Seeing that his girlfriend was furious, Liu Junhao immediately apologized.
"I still want to get to know today" Zhang Qian really wants to have another addiction in the field. She has also developed a little interest in farm work these days, of course, it is only an interest, if she is really allowed to work hard for half a day, she will complain about hardship.
"Okay, okay, I completely agree" Although Liu Junhao didn't want to move, he still raised his hands to satisfy Zhang Qian's curiosity. It's just that I don't grow sesame seeds myself, so if I want to pinch them, I can only go to other people's plots.
This problem was quickly solved, and the daughter-in-law of Er Mazi happened to come to buy yellow eels, and when she heard that they were worried about this matter, she immediately generously let them go to their own fields and pinch them casually. Her family planted more than five acres of sesame seeds this year, and there are so many sesame leaves that she can eat as much as she wants.
Sesame leaves are young leaves that grow from sesame seeds, and they are a kind of green vegetables that rural people often eat in summer.
"Sesame leaves are half a year's grain, and if they are less sun, they will suffer from famine." Every mid-July, men, women and children in the village take action, one by one, they rush to the fields with bamboo baskets to pinch sesame leaves.
In less than a week, the sesame seeds in the field became the commander of the bare stalks, and only the bare sesame stalks and sesame seeds were left.
The sesame leaves that have just been pinched off cannot be left for a long time, and must be steamed in the pot immediately. After steaming, take it to the basket to rinse and rub it, and then put it outside to dry, which is quite time-consuming.
At that time, every household had to dry a few sacks of sesame leaves, and throw away the pot when there was no vegetables in winter. It is often fried sesame leaves in the morning, sesame leaf noodles at noon, and sesame leaves cooled in the evening. In a word, three meals a day, sesame leaves are indispensable for meals.
Liu Junhao was a little sick to eat this thing when he was a child, so he was not very enthusiastic about Zhang Qian's suggestion. But he turned his head and thought about it, he had eaten too much rabbit meat these days, and it would be good to change the taste.
So after breakfast the next day, he and Zhang Qian went together with a bamboo basket to pinch sesame leaves.
The sesame seeds planted in this piece of the house are a little thick, and I can't get out of the ground at all for fear of breaking the sesame seeds, so I can only stand on the side of the road and pinch it, but this half a day has come down, and I have also made a big embroidery basket.
Then it was busy at noon before the sesame leaves were boiled and dried.
In the evening, Zhang Qian anxiously made a meal of sesame leaf noodles.
After not eating for such a long time, Liu Junhao really misses it. I took two chopsticks and tasted it, it was really delicious! Slightly bitter, mixed with a thick and long mellow aroma, red pepper spicy, noodles slippery, not to mention more energetic!
In this way, he was out of control, a large bowl of sesame leaf noodles with soup and water "sucked and sucked" in less than five minutes, and he sweated on his forehead.
The rain rained as soon as it fell, and at night it was just a small dripping droplet, and in the morning after eating, the raindrops began to intensify.
Unlike the two little guys running around in the yard with umbrellas to catch fish, Liu Junhao was moving a chair at the moment and sitting at the door watching the heavy rain in a daze.
It is said that every time it rains, fish are allowed to be caught in your yard, crucian carp shells, meat and wheat shreds, and loaches and so on are desperately surging up along the current, making it impossible to catch. Those water ducks and Qingzhuang were completely noisy in the front yard at the moment, and they kept sticking their heads out and pecking on the ground.
"Uncle Xiaohao, someone is here at home, pick two big flower skins for me" He was in a daze, and the little baby ran over with an umbrella.
"Now, eating watermelon on such a cold day?" I don't know which tourist has such a personality, eats watermelon in heavy rain, and is not afraid of catching a cold.
"It's not to eat now, it's to take the ground"
Since the watermelon ripens at the end of June, the large flower skin in Liu Junhao's courtyard has been selling very well. He also has an approximate number of watermelons sold in his mind, and now he has sold more than 6,000 catties, which means that more than 6,000 yuan has been earned.
Just like last year, the large flower skin in the backyard is still blooming, and according to this, there should be a lot of watermelons to be harvested.
People from the village have also inquired about his family's watermelon production, and Liu Junhao is afraid that it will be too surprising to tell the real data, so he doubles the data. Even so, this figure is emotional.
"It's broken, the water channel eye forgot to open"
As soon as you arrive at the backyard, you will see a scene of flooded gold, many vegetables have been flooded, only a few leaves are still exposed on the water, and those yellow eels are scurrying around.
Only then did he remember that a few days ago, in order to prevent the grass civets from coming in and stealing melons to eat, he deliberately blocked the two waterways in the backyard. Now the water in the whole yard is rushing forward, no wonder the water in the front yard is so strong.
Liu Junhao hurriedly pulled his trouser legs and ran to the corner of the wall, and pulled out a few big bricks blocking the waterway.
After standing in the backyard for about ten minutes, watching the rain gradually subside, he relieved himself and picked two large watermelons and carried them to the front yard.
"What are you doing, what are you doing?" He had just left for a while, how could Xiao Haoyu chase the water ducks all over the yard.
"Uncle Liu, look, we have picked up so many river shrimps, wait for you to cook them for us to eat......" Tongtong carried a small bucket for him to see.
Well, it looks like she's addicted. A few days ago, when Liu Junhao caught yellow eel, he made a big bowl of river shrimp, so he made a saltwater river shrimp at noon. As a result, I didn't eat a few bites of this dish at all, and it was divided between the two little guys.
Don't say it, the river shrimp here are not big, but they are delicious.
Pour shredded green onions and ginger slices into boiling water, sprinkle with salt, then put the river shrimp in and add Sichuan peppercorns to boil, and then sprinkle some coriander after the pot is released. It was absolutely delicious, and the flavor was soaked in the shrimp meat.
"Liu Junhao, you're at home." Listening to this voice, it was Sun Yutao and Xu Dongfang who came over. They have been living in Liujiagou these days, and they usually go to Liu Junhao to check information on the Internet, so they are quite familiar with it.
"You're not going up the mountain today?" Liu Junhao hurriedly invited the two of them into the house to sit.
"It's raining so hard that there's no way to go up the mountain to investigate and rest for a day."
originally thought that people came to surf the Internet, but who knew that they were purely coming to chat, and they had nothing to do, so they accompanied them to talk nonsense.
While chatting, Pippy ran into the house soaking wet. The hare in its mouth was thrown in front of Liu Junhao, and then it began to tremble, and all the rain on its body shook off.
Feelings: This guy doesn't forget to go out hunting on rainy days, it's really dedicated.
At noon, Sun Yutao and the two of them naturally stayed here to eat, but Liu Junhao, the braised hare, didn't eat a few bites, and most of them were divided between the two brothers. He has been eating it these days, and he is really a little bored, and now he feels that rabbit meat is not as delicious as that cold sesame leaf.
To say that this sesame leaf has really become a good thing if you don't eat it for a few years, not only does she like to eat it, but even Zhang Qian never gets tired of eating it.
In the past two days, they have been eating in a variety of ways, and of course, the most common thing to make is sesame leaf noodles. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the chapter for more, author,!) )