After marriage, the eldest aunt Yunling, in addition to returning to the door at the time of marriage, would always come back with her uncle to send the festival during the New Year's holidays, bringing pork, biscuits, and candy.

For pork, the skin, fat, and lean meat in a piece of meat, and the skillful grass grandmother are all useful to them, and the methods are different.

For the pork skin, Grandma Cao'er will separate it from the meat, scrape it and dry it, and put it away and fry it for the New Year's holiday.

The fat meat is fried in the pot, and the fried lard is hoarded and solidified into a white lard paste, and a spoonful is put into the pot when the farm is busy in the summer, so that the sweaty uncles can eat it extraordinarily. After frying the lard, the remaining fat residue is called lard residue, which is fried together with the cabbage that has just been pulled out of the vegetable field, so that everyone can feast on it.

As for the lean meat, most of it is cut into grass and a large cuboid with two fingers thick and one thumb high, fried in an oil pan to become lean jerky, and also stored for the summer and autumn harvest to replenish the energy of the uncles.

Cao'er once tried to pick up a piece of pork jerky and put it in his mouth to bite, crispy, dry, but he couldn't chew it, so he ate a few bites and gave it to grandma, grandma was reluctant to eat, and gave it to the third uncle of Cao'er who was sitting next to him laughing Yunjin, and he and his granddaughter smelled the fragrance and ate with green vegetables and chili peppers.

As for the biscuits and sweets, only a small part was taken out for everyone to eat at that time, and most of the rest was put in the bedside table in the room according to custom, and kept for the grass.

Occasionally, when the grass is eaten, when the little aunt Yunxiu is next to her, she will eat several pieces by herself, and then give the little aunt one or two.

Grandma never eats them, she always says that she is an adult and doesn't eat these snacks.

But what makes Cao'er puzzling is that when others come to the house, or go to someone else's house by themselves, the red melon seeds that adults give themselves will not be cut off every time and will not be eaten, and they will throw them away at will, and grandma will say to herself:

"Don't throw away the melon seeds you don't like to eat, give them to grandma, grandma will eat them."

Aren't melon seeds a snack? Didn't grandma say that adults don't eat snacks? Why do you love to eat what you don't eat so much? The grass was puzzled.

However, Cao'er didn't think about it that much. In the back mountains, there is grass and wild game that children can pick all year round. Qingming seeds, wild mushrooms, red mountains, lichens, wild raspberries, myrtle in spring and summer...... Wild chrysanthemums all over the mountains in autumn......

In addition to the gifts from the mountains, there are also natural delicacies grown in the fields throughout the year.

For example, in her and her grandmother's room, there is a whole bunch of all-you-can-eat delicacies: sweet potatoes!

When the sweet potato is still in the field, sweet potato leaves, which are popular sweet potato leaves, are the home-cooked dishes on the table.

When it is time to harvest sweet potatoes, the grass must follow. Like a little adult, she wore a yellow straw hat and a small hoe, and walked majestically on the green road with her uncles and aunts, a very capable look.

But as soon as they arrived in the sweet potato field, the adults were digging sweet potatoes, and the grass was exposed, and a few sweet potatoes were dug out, and the little uncle Yunyi and the little aunt Yunxiu dug holes and lit fires to bake sweet potatoes.

The smell of roasted sweet potatoes all over the fields made the uncle and third uncle who were doing the work can't help themselves.

Cao'er will stay until the roasted sweet potato is cold, first take a roasted sweet potato peel that has been peeled off the black and yellow, pinch some of the golden sweet potato naan inside and stuff it into the mouths of the uncle and the third uncle, and then run back with Yun Yiyunxiu and continue to eat while roasting.

At lunchtime, Lao Yuntou watched at home, and Grandma Cao'er sent everyone's meals to the ridges. Everyone casually folded two branches of small shrubs as chopsticks, and the little grass originally had chopsticks, but she also used her own broken sticks to eat sweet and delicious, just like the adults.

The fragrant meals in the field and the delicious roasted sweet potatoes make everyone busy in summer and autumn.

When the sweet potatoes were dug up, they were piled up in the corner of the room where Grandma and Cao'er lived, like a small hill rising next to the corner of the wall.

Grandma Cao'er makes sweet potato syrup from time to time. It is to peel the sweet potato, cut it into small square pieces, put it in a large iron pot with cool well water and boil, and after the sweet potato pieces become soft, add sugar. Usually Cao'er can eat two large bowls of soup with pieces, touching his round belly and giggling and shouting:

"Grandma, grandma, another bowl!"

"Little ancestor, no matter how delicious it is, it can't hold on! Eat slowly, you go to play first! ”

Grandma Cao'er would always take away the empty bowl from her granddaughter's hand and coax her to play, worried that she would break her stomach.

From time to time, the little uncle Yun Yi would take two or three sweet potatoes and throw them into the stove to simmer and roast while Grandma Cao'er was cooking and stir-frying. When the vegetables are cooked, the sweet potatoes are simmered and baked. The grass would come, and the uncle and nephew ate their hands and faces covered with the black ash of the roasted sweet potato skin.

There are also many times, there is no snack to eat in winter, and the grass runs to pick a sweet potato that looks tender from time to time in the morning or afternoon, takes it to the basin with well water and washes it, bites the skin and spits it with his teeth, and then eats it in a big gulp.

When I meet my friends to play with me, the grass will also be generous to share with them. The yellow sweet potato flesh with a light red color is crispy and sweet, and it always makes Cao'er and his friends eat one after another.

In addition to sweet potatoes, which are indispensable by-products for the whole village, there are also those tomatoes that have just been picked from the vegetable field in summer, red, yellow, big and round, small oval, sweet and sour. The newly grown cucumbers, yellow-white, blue-white, and green, are sweet and sweet, whether you put them under your nose and smell them, or put them in your mouth and bite them, they also make the grass have an endless aftertaste.

In summer, the peanuts that have just been pulled home under the scorching sun are directly picked from the peanut seedlings, put into the clear well water and rinsed, eaten raw, boiled or fried, or boiled with salt and peppercorns, and then put on the threshing field to dry and eat slowly, which is the best food.

Of course, the biggest function of peanuts for farmers is to extract oil to eat. But the by-product of peanut oil is a favorite of children: the peanut kernels will have the remaining oil residue, and the peanut shells will turn into oil cakes.

Needless to say, the aroma of peanut oil when cooking is needless to say, but the oil residue from the peanut kernels and stir-fried with green onion and cabbage are delicious, but they are the ultimate food that every household can enjoy. And the maroon oil cake squeezed from peanut shells, which is coarse to the touch, looks thin, smells fragrant, and is warm and crispy when put into the mouth, and clicky when chewed, which is also a delicious snack for rural children like grass.

As for the soybean clips and broad beans that have just been picked home, they must be boiled immediately! Just sprinkle a little salt in the pot, and the fragrance of beans fills the room. After a while, beside the grass, there was a small hill of green bean husks.

The little grass, and her family, live like a sweaty poem in this land where treasures are hidden, and they enjoy it deeply and become the soul of this poem.

It is also worth mentioning that what is particularly amazing is that Grandma Cao'er took Cao'er to wash clothes in the small river canal, and felt that the instep was a little itchy, and when she reached out and touched it, it turned out to be a palm-sized wild river turtle.

Grandma Cao'er happily said to her granddaughter who was playing with her head down:

"Look, God has brought you nutrition."

Cao'er looked up at her grandmother and put the adult-sized turtle into the basin, mumbled, lowered her head and continued to play by the river.

In the evening, the delicious turtle soup all gave the slightly thin grass nutrients.

The uncles would go to plant rice and often harvest some field chickens, eels, and loaches from the paddy fields, which also became the food of the grass and everyone. Even some wild mice in the fields, the grass has been eaten with everyone, it is crispy and refreshing, and the grass thinks it is quite delicious.

Many years later, Cao'er recalled again, grandma's voice and smile at that time were still in front of her, but the taste of the turtle had faded, and she really couldn't remember it. This is the only kind of food that Cao'er only remembers the love of her relatives and forgets the taste of food.

As for rat meat, Cao'er has never eaten it again when she grows up, and she has never dared to ask to eat rat meat, but every time she recalls the scene of the family sitting together, I don't know why, Cao'er always has an indescribable sourness that wants to shed tears.

That scene, in fact, in Cao'er's memory, is a memory of laughter and sparkling all over the body. But why did it make her feel something sour?

Perhaps, in addition to the mother who died early, the Cao'er family is the most reunited and beautiful, and the grandparents, fathers, uncles and aunts are the most energetic, which makes the older Cao'er the most emotional? This is the mystery of the memory that life has left to Cao'er, and it is not known.

Indeed, when we look back on the past, we will find that in time, there will always be some sparkling and clear memory pearls, and you can't think of her origin, nor do you understand why it was chosen and imprinted by your own brain or heart. But they're just there, for no apparent reason, and you can't help but have mixed feelings when you see them in a limited memory pearl. Perhaps, this is the mystery of life, which no one knows, and no one has yet been able to answer.