Since my aunt contracted a few plots of land, as soon as there was a harvest, she asked us to go to the field to pick vegetables every five to five minutes.
The vegetable patch is moving forward in Jiangmen Lidong. The idyllic scenery of Lidong is full of water town charm, the small river flows on the edge of the field, and the tall and straight Metasequoia and some trees unique to the southern country are planted by the river.
I was wandering by the river, the winter sun was warm and warm, the flowers and trees, vegetables, melons and fruits around me were plated with golden sunshine, and everything was transparent in the sun, so beautiful.
The papayas at this time bear the best fruit, and under the leaves as large as a fan, the fruit is full of tree trunks. Big and small, green and yellow, with papaya flowers on the top of the tree, a thriving look.
There was a banana tree planted next to the papaya, and the leaves of the banana tree and the leaves of the papaya tree overlapped each other, and I walked under the umbrella made of the leaves, and the sunlight leaked through the cracks in the leaves.
There was a neem tree on the other side, strings of golden neem hanging upside down on the branches of the tree, the shadow of the fruit on the water, and the small bridge made of wooden planks on the small river, and the poetic mood came out.
There are also sugar cane planted along the river, but there are not many, several stems of sugar cane, leaves facing the sky, cane leaves fluttering, cane green like bamboo, from a distance it is a good scenery.
Back at auntie's vegetable patch, my mother and aunt had gone to the field to pick vegetables. Looking at this endless green, I couldn't help but walk to the head of the field and admire this kind of dish along the way.
The farmland in the southern country is always divided into pieces by ditches, irrigation is very convenient, take a long-handled water spoon into the water and then throw it around the vegetable field, the shape of the spilled water is like a peacock opening the screen.
In the winter, the vegetable fields are planted with cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli, all of which are members of the kale family. In addition to these, only a few rounds of radishes, spring onions and tomatoes accompany them.
The best dish in the vegetable patch belongs to the kale family. The leaves of cabbage and broccoli grow like a lotus flower, and the blue-blue fan-like leaves are stacked on top of each other like lotus petals, and the "flower heart" is a round vegetable ball.
It turns out that their leaves are covered with wax powder, and when it rains, they are not wet, and the raindrops will stay on the leaves, and the crystal water droplets will roll around in the middle of the leaves.
Now, the broccoli in the winter field has been covered with "quilts", in order to prevent the cold, but this leaf can only be covered at night and morning, and when the sun comes out, you must remove the leaves, can not cover for a long time, broccoli cover will change color after a long time.
Originally also thinking about antifreeze, did not expect, the day before yesterday there was a passing by stealing vegetables, those who did not cover the leaves broccoli were stolen off, covered with leaves but there was nothing, which was a bonus.
The tomatoes planted by my aunt's family also have many results, a tomato tree is fruit from head to toe, red, red, green and green, and the fruits of all sizes are strung together and extend to the surface of the soil.
Auntie said that this time the tomato will automatically crack a hole after ripening, but she has not been able to find the reason. However, everyone said that the tomato tasted good this time, and it had the taste of tomatoes from childhood.
I have always been indifferent to eggplant, except for eggplant, I think the taste of other eggplant fruits is strange, so I have not been too active to eat tomatoes.
When I think of tomatoes when I was a child, the sweetness is low, and the sour taste is more obvious. At that time, when eating tomatoes, only by peeling and adding white sugar could I take a few bites. If I had to make scrambled eggs with tomatoes, I wouldn't be soft at all when I put in the sugar.
Later, when it was popular to eat Western food, I drank the famous borscht soup and found that it was originally a soup with tomato and potatoes, and the taste was sour and chirping, which was really unacceptable.
Suddenly I remembered going to Huangshan Mountain more than ten years ago, and I climbed to the top of the mountain. There are no other vegetables on the mountain, only the only choice of tomato scrambled eggs, but also to sell more than 20 yuan a plate. However, the tomato scrambled eggs and rice that time made people feel very appetizing.