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In early spring, a plate of tender green and sparkling wild vegetables quietly walked onto the table of the croppers, and the fragrance of the earth also spread in the air in the courtyard room, which was the lettuce that grew in the rural field.
It is a genus of Asteraceae, a perennial herbaceous plant. Because of its strong resistance to stress, drought tolerance, cold tolerance, and barrenness, it is found in rural fields, barren slopes, roadsides, and mountains. In the long winter in the north, lettuce enjoys the moisture of snow in the embrace of the earth, absorbs the nourishment of the soil, nourishes and recharges, and waits for the arrival of spring. Therefore, every year after the winter, as soon as the spring arrived, the lettuce could not wait to run out of the ground: two pieces of raw and wide lanceolate green first protruded their heads, and then ran out of the second pair and the third pair arm in arm, and with a pinch of the hand, a milky liquid flowed out, licked with the tongue, bitter. At this time, people only need to carry a small blue, take a small shovel, and in less than half a day, they can exchange for the freshness and fragrance of the table.
When I was a child, lettuce was a home-cooked dish on the farm table, especially in the spring and summer, three meals a day can not be separated. Life was difficult at that time. Parents work in the fields, carrying a basket on their arm, putting a shovel in the basket, and cutting a few lettuce vegetables whenever they have free time. When you get home, you will pick the white vegetable roots, wash them twice with clean water, and put a plate of green and raw lettuce on the table, plus a plate of home-brewed sauce, which is the next meal for the family. The fragrant and bitter taste urges people to eat, and the coarse grain and light rice will fill the belly in a while. In the face of natural disasters, poor harvests, and difficulty in sustaining the grain in the rice bags in the granary for the arrival of a new autumn, people began to think of lettuce. I remember that there was a drought in one year, and there was not a drop of rain in the whole day, the grass and trees dried up, and the crops were seriously under-harvested. The following spring, as soon as the various wild vegetables appeared on the ground, the fields were filled with people digging wild vegetables. Every day after school, going to the field to shave lettuce has become an important task for me. After the mother washed and blanched the pickled lettuce, she put a little grain, or made into a vegetable dumpling, or made into a vegetable dumpling, or made into a vegetable porridge, or made into a vegetable bun. Changing the form, changing the different ways of eating, the purpose is to mobilize the enthusiasm of the stomach, so as to fill the stomach. After some processing by her mother, wild vegetables became a staple food, and the family survived the famine smoothly.
Nowadays, people's living standards have improved, and they no longer have to worry about eating and drinking, but lettuce has not fallen out of favor because of this, not only has not withdrawn from people's tables, but has been favored by people. People every day big fish and big meat, eat tired, eat tired, to change the taste, to adjust the appetite, more importantly, people's life is better, pay more attention to the maintenance of the body, look at the lettuce vegetables to clear heat and detoxification, cool blood and dampness, reduce swelling and pus, stasis and pain relief, deficiency and cough health effect. Lettuce vegetables from the countryside into the city, from the small table of the farmhouse to the big banquet of the city hotel, into the room, the value of the double. Lettuce has changed from a rustic, stomach-filling dish to a luxurious nutritious dish at great prices.
The villagers are diligent and diligent, and in addition to farming, they casually cut the turquoise lettuce into the basket and take it to the city, so that the people in the city can taste it. A pound of wild lettuce in the farmers' market in the city costs twenty or thirty yuan, which is several times the price of pork, and the price is not cheap. Spring lettuce has become a way for industrious villagers to generate income.
Savvy farmers will not miss any business opportunities. Someone introduced lettuce into the greenhouse of the sun and carefully cultivated the waiter. In the cold winter, lettuce is subjected to sunshine and rain, and it is thick and full of water, becoming a vegetable in all seasons. But in the end, because he has not experienced the torture of wind and snow and the experience of time, although his appearance is taller, fatter and more watery than the wild, his taste and nutrition are really not flattering.
Every spring, I think of the lettuce in the fields of my hometown, as well as its strong fragrance and faint bitterness.
About author:Che Chengjin, male, Mongolian, civil servant. Member of Liaoning Writers Association, member of China Prose Literature Society, began prose creation in 2010, his works have been scattered in people's daily supplement, prose selection, etc., some works have been selected as middle school students' language reading test questions. He won the 24th "Dongli Cup" National Sun Li Prose Award, etc., and twice won the Chaoyang Annual Literature Award.