Yu Qian Fan
I have been eating money since I was a child, and now I seldom eat it.
When I was a child, I didn't pick up every year, and I didn't continue in spring and March. Fish and vegetables are life-saving food for the poor. Yang Yaer and Liu Yeer can also eat, but they are not as delicious as Yu Qianer, so they can't be eaten as meals.
At that time, I was six or seven years old with a wooden comb on my head; I often follow my aunt who is eight or nine years older than me, picking poplar buds and willow leaves and smoothing my money.
Yagu is a child bride, and her nickname is a girl. Because there is no consummation, I can only call her aunt, not aunt.
Yang Yaer and Liu Yeer appeared first.
Yang Yaer is very tender. Soak it in a boiling pot, and it will turn into a pot of yellow soup and green water, which can't be eaten in his mouth. It's old, bitter and astringent, and hard to swallow. Only those who are neither old nor tender can eat it. Pick it, wash it with clear water, turn it over in a boiling pot, scoop it up and drain it, mix it with shrimp skin and soy sauce as stuffing, roll it up with corn flour and elm skin, and wrap it into a big stuffing for jiaozi to eat. But it won't save much food. Willow leaves can't be used as stuffing, but they should be washed and cooked, mixed with soy sauce and shallots for dinner, but they are more expensive.
Just after Yang Palmers and Liu Yeer passed, Yu Qianer appeared again.
In front of the village and behind the village, in the grave circle of the river beach, the old elms are towering into the sky, and clusters of elms are covered with branches, just like clusters of frost Ling Bing, which makes people drool. Yagu is wild, and her burden is bigger than people's height; She wrapped black big braid around her neck, with white teeth biting her braids and barefoot. She folded her hands around the tree thicker than her waist, swish, swish, climbed to the top of the tree and rode on the branches with her legs crossed.
I stood under the elm tree, a small follower, squinting his face, with a big wicker basket beside him.
Yucaier is very sweet when eaten raw, and the more you chew it, the more fragrant it becomes. My aunt broke some branches, but she still came down. She called my nickname and said, "feed you first!" " "I caught these big strings of money and sat cross-legged under the tree to eat. My aunt rubbed it into her mouth in a big way on the tree.
We packed a big basket and carried it home, and the meal was over.
90% elm seeds are mixed with corn flour and steamed in a drawer pot. When the water is boiled, it will be cooked, and only one stove of firewood is enough. Then, put it in a bowl, soak the chopped green shallots in the old pickled soup of the second year and mix it with the rice with money; It tastes smooth and fills the stomach.
These are the stories of my childhood, which happened in the old society and have been written into my novels.
However, after ten years of civil strife, the long-lost more than 1000 meters appeared on the dinner table of every household. Who said that vegetation is heartless? Old elm came to help again.
The policy is "left" year by year, and grain production is reduced year by year. A man who is more than five feet tall has only 320 to 360 kilograms of coarse grains every year, and he has lost more than ten kilograms after peeling. Big mouth and small mouth, fighting three times a month, the family is full; The little boy, who eats poor Lao Tzu, can eat more than adults, but his rations are less than adults. Eat thin when you are free, dry when you are busy, and count the rice grains in the pot; By the time the spring sowing season in Lebanon stung, eight out of ten families had already lit up their grain and could not open the pot. A clever woman can't cook without rice, and a housekeeper can't draw cakes for children and adults to satisfy their hunger; They are like catching donkeys in an alley, blocking both ends, surrounding, chasing, blocking, intercepting the party branch secretary and captain, and borrowing food with their pockets on their backs. The branch secretary and the battalion chief were cornered, eager to get into the stove, climb out of the chimney and escape to the outside of the cloud nine.
Eating food depends on the collective, and there is no grain in the collective warehouse, and the mice are starving. By who? I only hope that the old elm tree will have more money!
Yagu is over half a year old and can't climb trees, but she has a daughter and a second sister as successors. Second sister is carrying a big basket to save money, and I will be a walk-on for her for forty days. I was moved by her. There are a pair of chopsticks on her dining table, so that I can eat rice with money every year and make a tree full.
I wrote these painful experiences into my novel.
1979 spring, I corrected my "1957 problem" and returned to the city. However, every year at the end of spring, I will go back to my hometown to live permanently. Still green and yellow, 1980 is not short of food. 198 1 year, there is no food at the dinner table, 1982, there is more wine and meat.
I don't know if I want to remember my bitter experience or make a dozen greasy ones. I also want my aunt and my second sister to agree to have a meal with money. My aunt can't climb trees, and neither can my second sister. The more I can't eat, the more I want to eat; However, wearing out the mouth can't impress the second sister. 198 1 When I returned to my hometown in, it was the time when Yu Qian was mature, but my aunt built a new house and recruited a son-in-law for my second sister. How can you clamor for Yu Qian's meal and spoil the scenery for others? Bear with it and wait for next year! 1/2 1
1982 In the spring, I came to my second sister's house early. The second sister lives in a big house with blue bricks, red tiles, high walls and flower doors, and there are flowers and trees everywhere; Give birth to a chubby daughter, just full moon. For several days, chicken, duck and fish, I burned my stomach again. Suddenly, I looked up and saw strings of sticky money hanging on the old elm tree behind the yard. I can't help being greedy again. I piled up a smiling face and said timidly, "Second sister, make me a meal …" My second sister's face was covered with frost and she gouged out my eyes. She said angrily, "There is really no sin that I can't stand, but there are blessings that I can't enjoy. You were born poor.
I know that at present, every family is proud of being rich. If the second sister treats her with money and is seen by her neighbors, she will laugh at her for being stingy. Second sister is afraid of being poked in the spine. How can I slander her?
However, fish makes a fire, meat produces phlegm, and my appetite is gone. I dare not speak. Who knows if Second Sister saw it?
One day after lunch, I was taking a nap in bed when I suddenly heard my second sister shout, "Little Quack, I'll break your leg!" " "I woke up from my sleep and went out to see some urchins climbing to the old elm tree to dig birds. My second sister stood under the tree with a stick and a tiger face.
Several little urchins, some smirking, some wiping their tears, begged the second sister for mercy. I looked soft-hearted and was busy pleading for these little bad guys.
"punish each of you with a pocket of money!" The second sister smiled with snow. This is just a fake play.
I cheered: "I can have money for a meal today!" " "
"Don't you want to be short with me?" Second sister dropped her face again. "Where did I get the corn flour?"
Yes, the second sister is hoarding either wheat or rice; In the jar, there is either rice or white flour. Sister's man contracted 30 acres of land, planting two crops of rice and wheat, not coarse grains.
There are elms without corn flour, so you can only eat them raw.
It seems that I will say goodbye to Yu for the last time. When the second sister's daughter grows up, she will no longer be like grandma and mom, and she will have to spend money to satisfy her hunger in the beautiful spring.
Perhaps scarcity is the most precious. Because of its rarity, Yucai rice will enter several hotels in Beijing and become a unique delicacy.