The old place is back to the new, and the world is full of thoughts.

The plain fragrance is diffuse, the velvet is dense, and the lips and leaves of the Xuanhua flowers. It is shaped like basil, tastes like mint, and is a nepeta tree.

I still remember, spring food of water pherd's terrestris, elm money, and more memory, spring food of endive and toad alfalfa. Slightly bitter.

Huaichun admires occasionally, amaranth is also difficult to dislike, and wild vegetables are "fake Su". Clear away heat.

Gradually dissolve the steaming clouds and the day, the temperature is as hot as fire; Gradually, the smoke gathers in the low dome, and the evening mist and autumn are cool.

The Xunfeng breaks through the moon slowly, but the cicadas are chattering more and more, how to stop the joy?

Nature is most afraid of loneliness and, how about gradually decreasing. indulge in love songs, waiting until the leaves fall, like yesterday.

- "Autumn Words: Every View of the World"

Remarks: Most of the time, nepeta is not just a plant for Fuyang people, but a borrowed generation from their hometown and a concrete representation of homesickness. The origin of Fuyang people's craving for nepeta has been a long time, and now, it has long been "no nepeta and no joy".

Nepeta plant, also known as "false Su", has white flowers in the shape of a tower, lip leaves, accompanied by fine soft hairs, the appearance is like basil, the smell is like mint, it is sown before and after the rain in the spring valley, and it is eaten in the summer, and it withers in late autumn.

The way to eat nepeta is mainly to eat raw, with freshly poked stems as the most. At the beginning of summer every year, the greedy Fuyang people pinch a piece of yellow-green, still fresh and tender nepeta tips with a strong fragrance in their own vegetable furrows or nurseries, and then wash the picked nepeta heads, put them on a plate, or supplement them with other ingredients, or make a dish alone, and it becomes a medicinal meal that can clear heat and detoxify.

The nepeta plant, after the "brutal" picking, not only will not wither, but will also stimulate the plant to tiller in the damaged area, forming multiple stems, which makes the whole more vigorous and dense.

Of course, if you are diligent once in a while, get up early in the summer and go for breakfast, you can see the ceremonial cooking of the famous "sa" soup in the steamed bun shops on the street in the early morning—a golden fresh egg in an empty bowl, pouring the old hen soup that has melted the flesh and bones for a long time, then spreading a few traces of dehydrated dried seaweed, sprinkling the shriveled shrimp with a fishy fragrance, and finally covering with a green and turquoise nepeta with a mint-like fragrance (a few slices of coriander can also be used).

Or, in the scorching noon weather, those who don't want to cook their own meals because they are too hot can go to the "Gratiao" shop to enjoy the thick sesame sauce mixed with a small half bowl of fat and fragrant, and the long-known Fucheng delicacy Gratiao, which is served with rich soybean sprouts or adzuki bean sprouts and sprinkled with several slices of nepeta stalks.

Of course, if this still does not quench your thirst, you can ask the boss to pat one or two or three green sweet and watery cucumbers, pound some delicate yellow and white garlic paste stripped of the buds, pinch a few fresh and fragrant nepeta mustard heads that have just emerged from the branches, and dripping a few drops of mustard sesame oil that are refreshing but have an endless aftertaste, and it will become a refreshing and delicious summer meal to relieve heat and heat.

Even, in the summer, there will be rainy weather, the coolness is new, the temperature plummets, people who are afraid of the cold can also go to the Taihe plate noodle restaurant that is known as "the first noodles in the world", to eat the steaming, firm and strong noodles, poured with mixed with Chaotian pepper, fennel and other spices made of spicy and fragrant soup with a few small pieces of mutton, and two or three leaves of four seasons of cabbage between the noodles and a few pieces of mint-scented nepeta noodles mutton noodles, if you eat it with braised chicken feet, braised eggs and spicy dried tofu, that tastes, Not to mention how cool it is.

Nepeta, a plant that has a deep memory and profound influence on the people of Fuyang, is so that from a certain point of view, the best taste match of Fucheng cuisine is nepeta (only from the summer and autumn seasons). Therefore, in the hot summer every year, when the autumn is cool, whether it is from the snack cart selling cold vegetables and meat on the corner of Fucheng Street, or from the local restaurant on the street, you can see the scene of Fucheng shopkeepers boldly stuffing the cold dishes purchased by diners with nepeta with a special fragrance.

Of course, because generations of Fuyang people have formed an indissoluble love relationship with nepeta, so the plant of nepeta has become a silent love object for generations of Fuyang people who are far away from the ends of the world to communicate with their hometown, and this special complex for thousands of years has also been integrated into the blood and blood of generations of Fucheng people, and has become the nostalgia of countless Fucheng people: whenever Fucheng people leave their hometown to make a living abroad, in the summer and autumn seasons when the weather is hot, the food that they will never forget and can best relieve their homesickness is Nepeta. Therefore, some Fuyang villagers who need to be away for a long time and can't return home will ask their relatives to send some nepeta seeds, and then raise themselves in spring and harvest them in summer and keep them in autumn, and pinch a few fresh and tender stems and leaves to eat each time, in order not only to dispel their own greed, but also to remind themselves not to forget their hometown roots...