"I'll come to deliver the food every other day, Sister Huaxi takes good care of me, so my brother doesn't have to be polite, if there is anything that needs to be done, just say it!" The boy looked a little shy, but his words were very simple, and the first impression left on me was also very good, "What do you call my brother?" ”

"My name is Lu Shining. I hurriedly replied, "We are here for a trip, and our boss is a friend www.biquge.info of Sister Huaxi." ”

"I see!" The boy smiled happily and seemed to be a little closer to me. He quickly took out all the dishes in the basket.

"Today's dishes are fresh, do you want to use a little?"

I took a look, and it was full of new seasonal vegetables such as spring leeks, wild amaranth, and camellia, which were grown in the field, which was different from what I bought in the city. Most of the vegetables I buy, even if I buy them at the morning market, are grown in greenhouses. Since the invention of the great thing such as greenhouses, there have been more vegetables and fruits at the four o'clock, but the vegetables and fruits have lost the taste that should have been there.

In the basket, there were more than a dozen eggs and two grass carp. The grass carp is still alive, and its gills are slowly opening one by one.

These fresh ingredients evoke a pleasant feeling in my heart, and the recipe for a dish quickly takes shape in my mind.

The information I consulted said that during the spring equinox, people wore camellia flowers, cooked spring vegetable soup, washed liver sausages, and kept safe and healthy.

I haven't eaten this "spring soup", and I haven't even seen it. The description on the Internet is very unspecific, and there is no specific recipe, only that "spring vegetables" refers to wild amaranth, and the ingredients, some say that they add egg drops, some say they add fish fillets, and what it looks like when they are made, and there is not even a picture. But I decided to do it on my own terms. In fact, the key to the food of the solar term lies in the sense of ritual, isn't it? As long as I do it with my heart and mind in it, it doesn't seem to matter much whether it is authentic or not.

If the spring soup contains fish flakes, even if it is the beginning of summer, I don't think it's okay, right?

When Ah Chu saw that I was going to make fish fillet soup, he helped me clean up the fish. Don't look at his age, but he works surprisingly neatly, killing the fish, removing the scales and internal organs, and then cleaning the fish body, the action is done in one go, which is amazing.

Very few children my age are so capable. Most of the current conditions are good, and parents want to shelter their children from the wind and rain, and do not want them to endure hardships and contribute. Even in places where conditions are more difficult, it is not uncommon for parents to spoil their children and pamper them.

I couldn't help but feel a sense of respect for the boy.

I took the washed fish, cut off the head, held the body of the fish, and put the knife against the bones to cut the meat on both sides whole, and then cut it into five centimeter long slices. I practiced the technique of cutting fish fillets deliberately, so I cut it well. After cutting, mix the fish fillets with rice wine, fine salt, monosodium glutamate, and pepper, and marinate slightly for a while.

While the fish fillet is being pickled, the pot is set up, the stock is boiled, and the washed amaranth is boiled into a soup and served in a large soup bowl. I brought the broth, and it took me a long time to slowly boil it out with pork bones, duck bones, and ham, and when I cooked rice and made soup, the effect was immediately different.

Boil another pot of water, wrap the marinated fish fillets in the egg white noodle lake, put them in boiling water to slip and cook, take them out and put them in the spring vegetable soup pot, add salt to taste, and a fresh soup is ready.

I tasted it, and it tasted very good as a fillet soup, especially the fish and vegetables were fresh, which added more points. I made this spring vegetable soup according to the fish fillet soup I remembered, but I replaced the ingredients with these ready-made ones. I don't know what kind of "spring vegetable soup" is a folk custom?

As a result, today's appetizer was a great success. Of course, they all like to drink, and they are mainly drinking, but there are people who like every dish, and I have received a lot of praise for this meal.

Especially the spring vegetable soup, Li Qing said while eating it, how many years have there been no spring soup, and her eyes sparkled when she spoke.

When she's happy, I always unconsciously follow suit.

Soon, the banquet became lively and very forgetful.

I'm done with my work, and I'm relieved. Ah Chu also stayed to eat with us, he was still underage and could not drink, so he ate quickly. Seeing that the feast could not be finished for a while, he stood up first and took his leave. I wasn't much of a drinker, so I got up and was going to see him off.

He hesitated, smiled happily, and nodded to me in thanks.

Ah Chu's family lived at the bottom of the mountain, and we chatted while going down the mountain. From him, I learned a lot about this area.

It turns out that this is a thousand-year-old village, and the age is very old, and I don't know when its history began. The terrain of this generation is more complicated, and the traffic is not very convenient, so it is in a state of relative isolation from the outside world. In recent years, modern things such as water, electricity, and the Internet have been gradually used, and information can be communicated with the outside world, but due to the inconvenience of communication, the villagers still rarely communicate with the outside world.

Therefore, this village still retains a lot of customs and habits that have been handed down since ancient times, which is very simple.

The consequence of isolation is that in most cases people have to strive to live a life of self-sufficiency, which means poverty and hardship.

Strangely, the vast majority of people here have not chosen to leave, but have taken root and lived here from generation to generation. The reason for this is that people are accustomed to this kind of life and do not adapt to the hustle and bustle of big cities, and secondly, the feng shui here is excellent, which is said to be conducive to the peace and well-being of people for generations.

Saying that feng shui is good, in fact, the main reason is that there is a thousand-year-old tree hidden in the deep mountains here, and I don't know how many years it has lived. People who have seen it say that this ancient tree is extremely huge, and it is extremely verdant and beautiful, especially in spring, when it blooms, it is like a sea of dreams.

But the location of such a huge ancient tree is not clear in any way. Sometimes I remember that it was this road, but I walked along the road and never saw it again. Therefore, this ancient tree can only be seen by chance by fate, and gradually, it has become a legend, and people worship it as a sacred tree.

When I heard this, my heart moved--the thousand-year-old divine tree, that should have evolved into a demon, right?

In my mind, I couldn't help but think of Hua Xi's smile.

Is it her? Is the god in people's minds actually living with them in another form?

If that's really the case, Huaxi should also like humans very much, and have a lot of feelings for humans, right?

We were at the foot of the mountain. At the foot of the mountain is the ancient village that Ah Chu said, built next to the mountain, and the flowing water flows along the village zigzagly, full of spring and picturesque scenery.

Ah Chu stopped at the door of a low hut at the head of the village and politely invited me in for a bowl of water.

"Thank you, Brother Shining, for accompanying me down the mountain." Ah Chu said a little embarrassed, "It's really a little strange these days, there are always some strange things around me, and it's really a little apprehensive to go down the mountain alone!" ”

"What's wrong?" I was a little surprised.

"Does Brother Shining believe that there are ghosts in this world?" Ah Chu hesitated for a moment, and suddenly said, "I feel like I'm haunted by me!" ”