Hanging the camera around his neck, Guo Xiang picked a few pumpkin flowers.

An An also ran over when she saw her mother picking flowers.

"Mom, can you eat this flower?"

"Yes, but you have to cook it." Guo Xiang said with a smile.

"Then I'll pick it too." An An stood on tiptoe to pick a flower in front of her.

"Be careful!" Guo Xiang shouted, it was too late, An An was pricked by the small thorns on the pumpkin vine, and his hand suddenly became a red mark.

Although the thorns on the pumpkin vine are not sharp, the child's skin is too delicate, and many small burrs are pierced into the hand, which is still a little painful for the child.

"Mom, it's so painful......" An An raised her hand to Guo Xiang with tears in her eyes.

Guo Xiang couldn't cry or laugh, "Don't be afraid, it won't hurt if my mother blows it." ”

Grabbed An An's fingers and looked at them, pricked some small burrs on them, Guo Xiang blew it, swept it with a handkerchief, and pinched off the rest with his fingers.

"Alright, it's okay."

"Oh!" An An looked at his fingers, he was really fine.

"Sister-in-law, can you eat this pumpkin flower?" Guo'er asked, their family doesn't seem to have the habit of eating pumpkin flowers.

"Yes, you can make soup, or you can fry it." Guo Xiang said that in her previous life, she had eaten soup in Guangdong Province and thought it was quite delicious.

In some places, it is fried with a batter with a seasoned seasoning, like tempura in Japanese food, and tempura can be fried in everything, and the fried things are very fragrant.

"Then I'll pick it for you, too." Guo'er said.

"You can only pick this kind of male flower." Guo Xiang took one and showed it to the fruit, "There is a small fruit under the female flower, which is going to grow pumpkins, don't pick the wrong one." ”

"Well, I understand." Guo'er nodded.

Male flowers are mainly used for pollination, just like people, men and women will have babies when they love each other.

The fruits in nature also need male pollen to enter the female flower for pollination in order to bear fruit, otherwise the female flower will fall when it has small fruits.

Of course, plants do not move, and the task of pollination is mainly left to bees and butterflies and other insects, and if there is a shortage of insects, pollination can also be done by hand.

It is to pluck the male flowers and dip the pollen into the female flowers, directly touch or use a brush to stick the male pollen and sweep it to the female flowers, how convenient and how to come.

In large orchards like that, many growers raise bees to pollinate the flowers and collect nectar at the same time.

Otherwise, a large number of fruit trees will have to rely on manual pollination, and the workload will be too large.

The two picked a few more, and when they saw that it was almost enough for a bowl, they didn't pick more.

After eating the cucumber, An Jin walked in front of the beans and touched the long beans like chopsticks, "What is this?" ”

"Grandma just said it was beans." An An said.

"We call it cowpea, and grandma's capers are made from this." Guo'er said.

"Shall we pick some beans and go back?"

"Good!" An Jin nodded, today's experience was new to him, which had never been done before.

It was so interesting to get to know a lot of vegetables that I didn't know before, and to pick them myself.

Guo Xiang saw this and took pictures of them all.

picked a large handful of beans and put them in Gu Zhennan's basket.

"I'm almost there, let's go back!" Gu Zhennan said.

"Good!" Guo Xiang nodded and beckoned everyone, "Let's go!" ”

As soon as he returned to the yard, An An shouted, "Grandma, grandma, look at us picking a lot of vegetables!" ”

Mother Zhang walked out of the room, looked at the basket, and said with a smile, "It's really good, baby, what did you pick?" ”

"I picked a big tomato and a cucumber, but the cucumber was already in my stomach." An An patted his belly and said.

Everyone laughed.

"It's hot, come on, wash your face." Zhang's mother said, took a basin and brought a bucket of water, and took a new towel.

"We brought our own towels, so don't waste your new one." Guo Xiang hurriedly said and took out the towel from the room.

Everyone washed their faces, "This water is so cold, so comfortable." ”

"This is well water, warm in winter and cool in summer." Mother Zhang said with a smile.

"Where is the well, why didn't I see it?" Ping Ping screamed.

"Over there!" Mother Zhang pointed.

"You can't play in the well, it's dangerous." Guo Xiang hurriedly said.

The mouth of the well here is open, and if you are not careful, you will fall down. Although Guo Xiang encourages children to try all kinds of things, dangerous things are absolutely forbidden.

"I'll take a look." Ping Ping pouted.

"I'll take them!" Gu Zhennan said that with him by his side, he would never let children climb around.

Several people went to see the well again, and Gu Zhennan also brought a bucket of water from the water to let them see, and several children thought it was so interesting.

"Come on, come and eat watermelon!" Zhang's mother screamed, and everyone swarmed back and ate watermelon.

The group sat in a row under the eaves eating watermelon, and An An sat next to An Jin.

"Brother Xiao Jin, do you think it's fun here?" An An asked.

"It's fun!" An Jin nodded.

"Shall we come next time?" An An tilted his head to look at him, "I told you that my grandmother's house can also be fun, and I will take you there in the future." ”

"Good!" An Jin smiled.

Guo Xiang found that An Jin's child also looked good when he smiled, and he usually smiled too little.

Yu Yan also sighed with emotion, she seemed to know her son too well, and she didn't know what he liked.

I have to learn more from Guo Xiang.

After eating the watermelon, everyone washed the picked vegetables together, and then took them to the kitchen to make them for Zhang's mother.

"Ah, I also picked pumpkin flowers, I haven't eaten them, how do you cook this?" Zhang's mother asked.

"I'll tell you!" Guo Xiang said that she doesn't know how to cook, but she has recipes.

It's very simple, just like you usually make egg drop soup, take pumpkin flowers to cook soup, wait for the water to boil, beat an egg, and then season, sprinkle some green onions. ”

"Doesn't this pumpkin flower scratch its mouth?" Zhang's mother asked.

"No, although the back of the pumpkin flower is a little thorny, it is soft after cooking, but it has a little rough feeling, and the taste is quite special." Guo Xiang said.

"Okay, then I'll try." Mother Zhang nodded.

In addition to the vegetables she picked, Zhang's mother also killed a duck.

It seems that eating chicken is too hot to make up, and cooking a duck winter melon soup is nutritious and cool to relieve the heat.

At noon, a large table of people eats together.

Guo Xiang scooped a spoonful of scrambled eggs with tomatoes in An An's bowl, "Come, this is An An's own picked tomatoes, how about tasting it." ”

An An picked up the small spoon and took a bite, "It's so delicious, grandma did a great job!" ”

Mother Zhang couldn't close her mouth with a smile, and the little girl's mouth was too sweet.

There are also cucumbers, which are sour and spicy, especially appetizing.

Eggplant Zhang Mu took it to make an eggplant box, cut it into two slices of two, the center of the two slices is not cut, and then the seasoned meat foam is sandwiched in the middle, wrapped in batter on the outside and fried in an oil pan, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, especially delicious.

Several people have never eaten this practice, and they are full of praise.