black egg
The scientific name of black egg is Solanum nigrum, alias: seven buttons, eggplant, wild grapes, black sky, etc. And the names vary from place to place. Because the fruit is black, we call it a black ball figuratively. 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 grains buckle". Mature fruit is black, like black pearls, which is why we call it black ball. Solanum nigrum is popular because it can leave such a deep impression, because its black fruit is edible and because it carries the childhood memories of countless rural people.
Solanum nigrum, which does not grow up, is mixed in the grass and is equal to other grasses. Not noticeable, in many cases can not be identified. It is often cut home as pig grass and becomes delicious for pigs and sheep. Solanum nigrum, the fish that escaped from the net, grew up day by day until it blossomed with white flowers and bears green fruits, which 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 the black fruits of Solanum nigrum feel like a treasure. I can't wait to pick the ripe fruit and put it directly in my mouth. It is sweet, slightly sour and has a different taste. When we were young, we were short of materials, so we seldom ate fruits, 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 touches clothes. It is said that the juice of Solanum nigrum fruit has been used as a dye for a long time. After eating the fruit of Solanum nigrum, there are stains on teeth and tongue, and sometimes if you don't pay attention, it will be all over your mouth. If I exaggerate a little, I may be like a monster in a modern ghost film. Think about it, sweat all over your face, maybe mud, and grass seeds in your hair. It should look silly and ridiculous, but I didn't think so at the time.
When you meet a black nightshade with green fruits, you will pick the fruits and cover them with grass for fear that others will find out, and then you can enjoy them in a few days when the green fruits are ripe. But most of the time, it is broken glass. When I came back, the fruit was still green, but it was much less. I don't know who picked the ripe fruit, so I covered it with grass in the same way.
The fruit of Solanum nigrum has the bud of youth, and the fruit of Solanum nigrum has the affair of youth.
Ray, Jun and Hua are classmates. They often go to school together and mow the grass together. Hua is a quiet girl and is often taken care of by them. The three of them had a good time. When three people mowed the grass, they saw that the fruit was not ripe, so they covered it with grass and said it would be better to come back in a few days when the fruit was ripe. After another four or five days, Lei suggested picking ripe black nightshade fruit. The army said that the time was too short and the fruit was not ripe, and it would take two days to leave. Hua also said that the time was too short and he was afraid of making a trip in vain. The next day at school, Junjun said that his father asked him to do other work and could not mow the grass. Hua felt that she didn't mow the grass with a boy because she was afraid that her friends would gossip about her. Ray walked slowly on the road with a basket on his back and a sickle. Without friends, he can't hold his head up at work. Ray casually waved a sickle on the big furrow in the field. The grass on the furrow is old after harvest one after another, and it is difficult to cut. Cattle and sheep don't like to eat it. There are tender grass on the ridge and in the corn field, so Lei dare not go to the corn field alone. Lei misses Hua. At this moment, Ray heard Hua's voice. Ray was puzzled, thinking that he had missed the auditory hallucination of his little friend. However, Hua's voice continues. He stopped the sickle and listened to their voices. Jun said, you see, this fruit has matured a lot. I picked it for you to eat. Hua promised to come, and ray will be unhappy when he knows. The army said that we should pick a few leftovers and go with Lei tomorrow. He doesn't know. Ray walked forward. Through the cornfield, we can see the vague figure of Jun Hehua. Jun gave all the fruits of Solanum nigrum to Hua, but Hua took them away and didn't eat them. Jun says you can eat, Hua says we can eat together, Jun says I won't eat, you can eat whatever you like. Hua is a little embarrassed.
Ray suddenly understood why Hua said something was wrong at home. From then on, Lei Hejun never mowed the grass together again. 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.
The song "Red Mountain Fruit" was popular a few years ago. "You picked the red mountain fruit again and gave it to me one by one." I thought of nightshade fruit. If I were older, would Jun Lotus be the happy ending of "accompanying me for a hundred years"? If there is no intercepted rumor that "Hexi waits for me", will Hua Hejun become a stranger?
Teenagers' things are beautiful and have regrets, but perhaps it is regrets that make them better.
Masor
Mazuo is also called Mazuo, and its scientific name is Qingma, also called Qingma. We call it wild hemp tree in this area. This plant is much bigger and stronger than Solanum nigrum, and it is common on the roadside and in front of and behind houses, especially in potholes.
It seems that abutilon does not belong to grass. Anyway, when we mow the grass, we should never be hemp. Abutilon is very fertile, and a few scattered trees can spread into a large area. If left unchecked, it can quickly engulf crops. Therefore, if it is found at the scene, it must be removed.
The plants of abutilon are erect and the stems are stout. "In the bitter fleabane bitter fleabane, you don't stand upright" refers to the importance of the environment, which actually shows that the abutilon is upright. From small to large, abutilon is like a cotton plant, and it takes a lot of effort to uproot it. The stems, leaves and fruits of Abutilon are all green, and the leaves are palm-sized and can be used to wrap things. I remember dyeing my nails with impatiens and wrapping my fingers with hemp leaves when I was a child. When I was a child, I also played hemp leaf games, that is, I put hemp leaves in the tiger's mouth and beat them to see who made the noise. The skin of hemp stalk can be peeled off and rubbed into hemp rope. I remember there was a big pit in the east of the village. After the heavy rain, most of the pits were flooded. Someone put bundles of hemp in the water, saying that it was soaked to a certain extent, and the hemp skin was easy to peel off. Later, when I learned the poem "plow the fields during the day, collect the horses at night, and the children in the village mind their own business", I often thought 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 ornamental flowers. Rich fruit, that is, hemp spindle, is green, similar to lotus, but there are more regular folds around it. Hemp spindles can be eaten. The edible hemp spindle should not be too tender or too old. As soon as the skin of the tender hemp spindle is peeled off, there is not much left. The skin of the old hemp spindle can't be peeled off, and the seeds are too old to eat. There are tricks to eating hemp seeds. First of all, the hemp seeds you are looking for should be old and tender, and then peeling should be skillful. First remove the seedlings from the root of the hemp seed, 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 ball will be fine. Edible hemp seeds are white, arranged in a circle, with more than ten columns, each with three grains. Hemp seed tastes slightly sweet and has a woody root, which is a bit astringent and crunchy when eaten in the mouth.
Abundant abutilon has high medicinal value. Fresh abutilon leaves can be crushed and mashed into mud and applied to swollen parts to reduce swelling and relieve pain. Hemp seed is also a kind of Chinese herbal medicine, which has the functions of clearing heat, promoting diuresis, diminishing inflammation and detoxifying. It can also prevent "three highs", accelerate the metabolism of fatty acids and cholesterol in middle-aged and elderly people, and prevent the increase of blood pressure and blood lipids. When I was a child, I accidentally cut my hand while mowing the grass in the field. I pinched a hemp leaf and wrapped it around some grass without delaying my work. Now I think it may be because of the medicinal value of abutilon.
Ziwei and Mapuche
Born in the countryside and playing in the fields, I have a special affection for the fields and have 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 its outer skin is lantern-shaped. Fruits can be divided into yellow and red when they are ripe. It can be eaten fresh. It tastes a little sour and spicy. I don't like it very much. According to the data, the fruit is not only rich in vitamins, but also rich in Physalis alkekengi, Physalis alkekengi acid, alkaloids, Lycium barbarum acid and carotene. Regular consumption can promote human growth and development. If I had known that I had eaten more when I was a child, I might have grown a few centimeters, and I could have changed from an innocent little girl to a slim one.
There is also a well-known wild fruit called horse cannon, also called horse cannon melon. The leaves of the horse gun look more like cucumber leaves. They are vines with small yellow flowers. A vine can bear many hemp bags. When immature, the bubbles are green and hard. When the bubbles 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 smells as good as melon and can be smelled far away. Children are obsessed with the smell of horse bubbles, so they pick a few and put them in the desk bucket. However, horse bubbles are so fragrant that they are often found by teachers. But teachers sometimes just ask and warn that they are not allowed to bring them into the classroom next time and will not really throw them out. Yes, who can refuse the fragrance of plants? Everyone loves beauty and cherishes fragrance. Sometimes I put horse foam in the closet, so that my clothes are also contaminated with the smell of horse foam. However, sometimes it is self-defeating. If you 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.
Edible wild vegetables
In addition to some wild fruits, many wild vegetables were also common on the table at that time. When I was a child, I often ate wild vegetables, such as apricot, broom, gray, purslane and salsola, but I didn't often eat shepherd's purse. Almond vegetables and purslane are often used to make big buns, broom vegetables are best steamed, and salsola and gray vegetables are cold. According to my mother, in the famine years, wild vegetables could not be found, and all edible leaves were ground flat. By the time our generation can remember, eating wild vegetables is not entirely because of poverty, but because there are some early adopters. Now, there are still many people who eat wild vegetables, purely for the sake of early taste and rarity. Another reason is that many wild vegetables have high medicinal value.
When spring comes back to full of green, many mothers-in-law will look for wild vegetables in the surrounding fields or the grass in the park, take a spatula and a food bag, look for them carefully, and dig them carefully. It seems as if they are looking for treasures seriously and intently. I think what they are looking for and picking is not just wild vegetables, but a period of time and a memory.
Green fields, wild vegetables, bright clothes and smiles are memories and memories of the past, as well as eulogizing and cherishing the present life.
Big fish and meat are no longer rare, and wild vegetables have become good things. Whose old mother always gives her children a few wild steamed stuffed buns, or lets relatives and friends try them. Now there are many potherb restaurants, potherb steamed buns, potherb soup, steamed cold dishes, and those close to potherb seem to be advanced, because the prices 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 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 plants also came into being, and the production chain of wild vegetables was gradually improved. Many people with economic minds have made a fortune by operating wild vegetables.
In China people's ideas, some are naive and self-disciplined, while in China people pay attention to returning to nature. A group of wild vegetables are early adopters, memories and sweet memories. But who can say that it is the return of nature, the memory of suffering and the treasure of happiness?
Cherish what you have at the moment.
In the era of material scarcity, wild fruit is a snack for children. In the poor years when hunger is unbearable, wild vegetables help people through famine. Nowadays, the standard of living is getting higher and higher. Wild fruits that used to be treasures gradually fade out of people's sight, and wild vegetables become rare and return to the table. In the face of familiar wild fruits and vegetables, I can always think of my childhood and fields.
Grateful years and fields!