When I stopped to have a rest after going through a small bridge in the morning exercise, I saw a common plant for mowing grass in my childhood-black balls. Then, I thought of those edible wild fruits and wild vegetables, and I thought of my childhood fields.
Black egg
The scientific name of black egg is Solanum nigrum L., alias: Qiqikou, Tianeggplant, Wild Grape, Heitiantian, etc., and the names vary from place to place. Because the fruit is black, our image calls it black balls. Solanum nigrum has large plants, oval leaves, white flowers and strong vitality, which are common in fields and in front of houses. The fruit of Solanum nigrum is a string, with seven or eight grains growing together, which may be the reason for the nickname "seven-grain buckle". Ripe fruit is black, like black pearls, which is why we call it black balls. The reason why Solanum nigrum is popular is that it can leave such a deep impression, because its black fruit can be eaten, because it carries the childhood memories of countless rural people.
Black nightshade, which doesn't grow up, is mixed in the grass and is equal to other grasses. It doesn't attract attention and can't be recognized in many cases. It is often cut home as pig grass and becomes a delicacy for pigs and sheep. The Solanum nigrum, which escaped from the net, grew up day by day, until it bloomed with white flowers and received green fruits, and it was "treated differently" by us, and even hidden like a treasure. Most of the seedlings of Solanum nigrum were cut off by us, so there were not many fruits when they grew up. Therefore, mowing the grass and meeting Solanum nigrum with black fruits felt like a treasure. I can't wait to pick the ripe fruit and put it directly into my mouth. It is sweet, slightly sour and has a different taste. We seldom eat fruits in childhood when we are short of materials, especially grapes. The ripe black eggs of Solanum nigrum are like delicious grapes in our eyes.
Solanum nigrum juice is black, and it is not easy to wash off when it is stained on clothes. It is said that the juice of Solanum nigrum fruit was used as a dye in a longer time. After eating Solanum nigrum fruit, my teeth and tongue are stained, and sometimes I don't pay attention to it, which makes it all over my mouth. If I exaggerate a little, it may be like a monster in a modern ghost film. Think about it, a full face of sweat, maybe mud, and grass seeds on your hair. It should look silly and ridiculous, but I didn't think so at the time.
When you meet the Solanum nigrum with green fruits, you will pick the fruits and cover them with grass for fear that others will find out, so that you can enjoy them after the green fruits are ripe in a few days. But most of the time, it was shattered glass. When I came again, the fruit was still green, but it was much less. I don't know who picked the ripe fruit, and I used the same method to cover it with grass.
there is youthful germination in the fruit of Solanum nigrum, and there is juvenile affair in the fruit of Solanum nigrum.
Lei, Jun and Hua are classmates. They often go to school together and mow the grass together. Hua is a quiet girl who is often taken care of by them. The three of them play well. When three people mowed the grass, they saw that the fruit was not ripe, so they covered it with grass and said that it would be better to come again in a few days when the fruit was ripe. Four or five days passed, and Lei proposed to pick the ripe black nightshade fruit. The army said that the time was too short and the fruit was not mature, and it would take two days to go. Hua also said that the time was too short, for fear of making a trip in vain. The next day at school, the army said that dad asked him to do other work and couldn't mow the grass. Hua felt that he didn't go to mow the grass with a boy for fear that his friends would gossip about her. Lei walked slowly on the road with a basket on his back and a sickle. Without friends, he couldn't lift his head when he was working. Lei casually waved a sickle on the big furrow at the head of the field. The grass on the furrow was old after harvesting one after another, and it was hard to cut. Cattle and sheep didn't like to eat it. There were tender grass on the furrow between fields or in the corn field, but Lei dared not go deep into the corn field alone. Lei misses Hua Hejun. At this moment, Lei heard the voice of Hua Hejun. Lei felt puzzled and thought that he missed the auditory hallucination of his little friend. However, Hua Hejun's voice continued. He stopped his sickle and listened to their voices. Jun said, look, this fruit has matured a lot. I picked it for you to eat. Hua promised to come together, and Lei will be unhappy when he finds out. The army said that we should pick some left and come with Lei tomorrow. He couldn't tell. Lei walked forward. Through the cornfield, we could see Jun and Hua's shadowy figure. Jun gave all the picked Solanum nigrum fruits to Hua, but Hua took them and didn't eat them. Jun said you should eat them, Hua said we should eat together, Jun said I wouldn't eat them, so you can eat them all if you like. Hua is a little embarrassed.
Lei suddenly understood the reason why Hua Hejun said there was something at home. Since then, Lei and Jun no longer mow the grass together. Later, the sentence "Wait for me in Hexi" spread in the class, which is said to be the content of a small piece of paper intercepted. Later, Jun and Hua stopped talking.
A few years ago, the song "Red Mountain Fruit" was popular. "You picked red mountain fruits and gave them to me one by one." I thought of black nightshade fruit. If I were older, would Jun Hehua be the beautiful ending of "staying with me for a hundred years"? If there is no intercepted rumor of "waiting for me in Hexi", will Huahejun become a stranger?
Juvenile affairs are beautiful and have regrets, but perhaps it is regrets that make you feel more beautiful.
hemp shuttle
hemp shuttle is also called hemp shuttle, and its scientific name is qing hemp, which is also called green hemp. We call it wild hemp tree in this area. This kind of plant is much bigger and stronger than that of Solanum nigrum, which is common on the roadside and in front of the house, especially in pits and depressions.
it seems that abutilon doesn't belong to grass. Anyway, we never want abutilon when cutting grass. Abutilon is very fertile, and a few scattered trees can spread into a large area, which can quickly engulf crops if allowed to develop. Therefore, if it is found in the field, it must be removed.
Abutilon plants are upright, with stout stems. "In the bitter fleabane, keep straight without help" refers to the importance of the environment, which actually shows that abutilon is upright. Growing up like a cotton plant, it takes a lot of effort to uproot it. The stems, leaves and fruits of Abutilon are all green, and the leaves are the size of palms, which can be used to wrap things. I remember that when I was a child, I dyed my nails with impatiens and wrapped my fingers with hemp leaves. When I was a child, I also played a game with hemp leaves, that is, I put hemp leaves in the tiger's mouth and beat them to see who made the sound. The skin of hemp stalk can be peeled off and rubbed into hemp rope. I remember a big pit in the east of the village. After heavy rain, most of the pit was flooded, and some people put bundles of hemp in the water, saying that it was soaked to a certain extent, and the skin of hemp was easy to peel off. Later, when I learned the poem, "When the fields are cultivated by day and the horses are harvested by night, the children in the village are in charge of their own affairs", I often think of the work of rubbing hemp rope and the hemp in the puddle.
Abutilon is green all over, and the flowers are yellow, which is very eye-catching and beautiful. But it never belongs to the ranks of ornamental flowers. Abundant fruit, that is, hemp spindle, is green, similar to lotus, but there are more regular folds around it. Hemp spindle can be eaten. The edible hemp spindle should not be too tender or too old. Once the skin of the tender hemp spindle is peeled off, there will be little left. The skin of the old hemp spindle cannot be peeled off, and the seeds are too old and hard to eat. There are also tricks to eat hemp seeds. First, the hemp seeds you are looking for should be old and tender, and then peeling should be skillful. First, remove the nursery at the root of hemp seeds, then peel off the wrinkled blue skin from the middle, peel it once, and then lift it up to remove the skin at the top, and a white grain ball will be fine. Edible hemp seeds are white, lined up in a circle, and there are more than ten columns, each with three seeds. Hemp seed tastes slightly sweet, with a kind of woody root and a little astringent feeling, which makes it crunchy in your mouth.
Abundant abutilon has high medicinal value. Fresh abutilon leaves can reduce swelling and relieve pain by grinding and mashing them into mud. Hemp seed is also a kind of Chinese herbal medicine, which has the functions of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, diminishing inflammation and detoxifying. It can also prevent "three highs", accelerate the metabolism of fatty acids and cholesterol in the body of middle-aged and elderly people, and prevent the increase of blood pressure and blood lipid. When I was a child, I accidentally cut my hand cutting grass in the field. I pinched a piece of hemp leaf and wrapped it around a few grasses without delaying my work. Now I think it may be because of the medicinal value of abutilon.
Lagerstroemia indica and Mapuche
Born in the countryside and playing in the fields, they have a special affection for the fields and a special liking for the plants in the fields. The wild fruit that can be eaten in the field is also the lantern fruit, which is named as sour pulp because of the lantern-shaped outer skin. When the fruit is ripe, it can be divided into yellow and red. It can be eaten fresh and tastes a little sour and spicy. I don't like it very much. Now, according to the information, it is known that not only the content of vitamins in the fruit is particularly high, but also it is rich in Physalis alkekengi alcohol, Physalis alkekengi acid, alkaloids, Lycium barbarum acid and carotene, which can promote human growth and development if used frequently. If I had known I had eaten more when I was a child, I might have grown a few centimeters, and I could have changed from innocent girl to slim.
There is also a kind of wild fruit that is more familiar to everyone, namely Ma Pao, also called Ma Pao Gua. The leaves of Ma Pao look more like cucumber leaves. They are vines with small yellow flowers. A vine can bear many Ma Pao. The bubbles are green and hard when they are immature. When the bubbles are mature in August, the color of the bubbles will gradually change from cyan to yellow, and the fragrance will become stronger and stronger. The most attractive thing about horse foam is its fragrance, which is as good as that of melon and can be smelled from a distance. Children are infatuated with the scent of horse bubbles, so they pick a few and put them in the desk bucket. However, the horse bubbles are so fragrant that they are often found by teachers. However, teachers sometimes just ask and warn that they are not allowed to bring them to the classroom next time, and they will not really throw them out. Yes, who can refuse the fragrance of plants? Everyone loves beauty and cherishes fragrance. Sometimes I put the horse foam in the wardrobe, so that the clothes are also contaminated with the fragrance of the horse foam. However, sometimes it is self-defeating. When I forget the horse foam in the suitcase for a long time, the horse foam will rot in the suitcase, and the fragrance will become sour and unpleasant.
Wild vegetables
Apart from some wild fruits, many wild vegetables were also common at dinner tables in those days. When I was a child, I often ate wild vegetables, such as almond vegetables, broom vegetables, gray vegetables, purslane and salsola, but shepherd's purse was not often eaten. Almond vegetables and purslane are often used to make big buns, broom vegetables are best steamed, and salsola and gray vegetables are cool. I heard from my mother that in the famine years, wild vegetables could not be found, and all the edible leaves were smoothed away. By the time our generation can remember, eating wild vegetables is not entirely due to poverty, but has some early adopters. Now, there are still many people who eat wild vegetables, purely for early taste and rarity. Another reason is that many wild vegetables have high medicinal value.
When spring comes back to the earth and green is everywhere, many mothers-in-law look for wild vegetables in the surrounding fields or in the grass in the park, bringing a spatula and food bags, looking carefully and digging carefully. That kind of earnest and attentive appearance seems to be looking for treasures. I think what they are looking for and picking is not just wild vegetables, but a period of time and a memory.
The green fields, the wild vegetables, the bright clothes, and the smiling faces are all memories and memories of the past, but also eulogizes and cherishes the current life.
Big fish and big meat are no longer rare, and wild vegetables have become good things. No matter whose old mother packs wild vegetable buns, she will always give them to her children or let her friends and relatives taste them. Now there are many potherb restaurants, potherb steamed buns, potherb soup, steamed and cool dishes, and the ones that are close to potherb seem to be advanced, because the prices that are close to potherb are not low, and they are all well managed. A few years ago, there was a popular saying that "the poor eat meat and the rich eat grass", and the grass here mostly refers to wild vegetables. You see, wild vegetables are no longer a symbol of poverty, but have become a symbol of status.
where there is demand, there is supply, and where there is market, there is origin. Wild vegetable planting bases and processing factories also came into being, and the production chain of wild vegetables was gradually improved. Many economic-minded people made a fortune in operating wild vegetables.
In China's philosophy, people are simple and prudent, and the Tao is natural. In China, people pay attention to returning to the original. A group of wild vegetables is an early adopter, a memory, and a sweet memory. But who can say that it is a natural return, a memory of suffering and a treasure of happiness?
Go ahead and cherish
In times of material shortage, wild fruits are children's snacks, and in poor years when hunger is unbearable, wild vegetables help people survive the famine. Nowadays, the living standard is getting higher and higher, and the wild fruits that used to be treasures are gradually out of sight, and wild vegetables become rare and return to the table. In the face of familiar wild fruits and wild vegetables, I can always think of my childhood years and fields.
Be grateful for the years and the fields!