Chapter 22

The evening wind was blowing, the setting sun was shining, and the sky turned into a bright rose color. Everyone was walking on the country path, and a faint fragrance came to their nostrils. When they looked closely, it turned out that the mangoes planted in the villager's small courtyard were ripe and yellow. Hanging on the tree, the fragrance spreads far and far.

Everyone couldn't help but be attracted by its fragrance, and looked at this mango tree. The mango tree is not tall, and some fruits hang down to the ground. The fruits are not big, like a small fist, golden and very beautiful.

Su Chen saw that everyone expressed their desire for the mango, so he stepped forward and called, "Grandpa Huang, are you home?"

After a while, there was still no movement from the open door, Su Chen He raised his voice and shouted a few more words.

Su Mu explained to everyone: "Grandpa Huang is getting old, and his ears are not so good."

Two minutes later, a hale and hearty old man came out of the room steadily, and he frowned, " Isn't this Chen Wazi and Xiao Mumu? What's the matter? What's the matter with Grandpa Huang?"

Su Chen and Su Mu stepped forward to say hello to him, and the others also said hello.

"It's like this, Grandpa Huang, we passed by your door and saw that the mangoes were ripe, so we wanted to buy a few from you. Do you think so?" The old man didn't care about the tricks in the city, and walked to the

mango tree quickly. He picked a few mangoes for them in two or three strokes, stuffed them into their hands, and kept saying: "My old man is at home alone. There are so many fruits. I can't finish them. You can come and pick them whenever you want. Don't eat them." Money."

There are two mangoes in his yard, one variety is Tainong No. 1, which has a lot of flesh, small pits, and a lot of sugar, which is very fragrant and sweet. The other is the green-skinned mango, which has delicate flesh. When it is not fully ripe, it is very crunchy and sweet, with a hint of sourness. Su Mu likes this kind of mango the most.

"Grandpa Huang, I'll pick two green awns."

Mr. Huang said with a smile: "The skin of this green awn is relatively thick and hard. The old man's teeth can't eat it anymore. Little Mumu pick more. Do you want to get it back again?" Is the house pickled?"

In the past, people didn't have so many ways to eat fruits, and they usually eat them when they are mature. Later, Su Mu left her hometown to go to school and travel, and then she realized that there are various and complicated ways to eat fruits, which opened her eyes, such as fried yogurt with fruits, fruit tea, Fruit fishing, what impressed her the most was the way Gui Province handled fruits.

Guangxi Province has a long history of eating sour products. Because it is located in southern Xinjiang, the climate is hot and humid all year round. Therefore, local people rely on eating sour products to quench their thirst, refresh themselves and remove moisture. Over time, eating sour food has become a local eating habit. [Note]

There is also a saying that is widely circulated: Heroes are sad for beauties, and beauties are sad for sour stalls.

It can be seen that the sour taste is wonderful.

When Su Mu heard it for the first time, he still thought it was some kind of dark cuisine, adding salt, sugar, vinegar to the fruit, and some were marinated with soy sauce, served with chili sour vinegar water, salt and pepper, etc.

But when she really tasted the sour taste, she realized that she was very wrong.

Just like fresh white radishes, sliced ​​into thin slices and marinated in the secret sour material for half an hour, the radish is soaked in the sour material juice, it tastes sweet and sour, full of spiciness, and it can also stimulate your appetite in summer.

She especially likes the sour radish skin, which is crisp, tender and refreshing, and she can't stop eating it.

In Guangxi Province, most fruits and vegetables can be pickled into sour food.

Su Mu also made a few times at home by himself. Su Mu ate delicious food, so she shared it with the villagers who knew her well in the village, and the method of pickling sour food spread like this.

Therefore, the villagers all know that Su Mu likes to pickle fruits.

Su Mu was not ashamed, nodded generously, and said with a smile, "When I'm done marinating, I'll send it to Grandpa Huang."

Grandpa Huang waved his hand, "I don't want to eat this sour stuff, my stomach hurts. "

These two mango trees bear quite a lot of fruit. Everyone picked a small pile, but the trees are still densely packed with fruit.

The old man saw that it was difficult for them to hold it with bare hands, so he went back to the house and brought them a small bamboo basket, the basket was sticking out.

"Then let's go now, thank you Grandpa Huang for your generosity."

The old man looked after several young people, waved his hands and said, "If you want to eat, you can pick it at home."

After walking far, He Fu sighed and said: "The villagers here are very kind. , is also very enthusiastic."

Wei Liu eagerly took a golden table light and gnawed on it, and nodded in agreement when she heard the words.

"The old man is a good man. Hey, this mango is really sweet."

Su Mu also held a small mango in his hand, but he didn't eat it. It would be indecent to eat this kind of ripe mango without a knife. I don't want to show my bold side in front of Gu Shi again.

"As the saying goes, the rivers and lakes are where there are people. Naturally, there are intrigues in the countryside, but it's not like the people in the city. It's more straightforward."

Su Chen also said: "That's right." The narrower and narrower ridge This can explain the problem. This family quietly took up a little bit of the field ridge when plowing the field, and the other family thought that others did not know, and took up a few millimeters. If things go on like this, the field ridge will become narrower! In this case, a few people who are not from the village have no right to speak.

Wei Liu finished gnawing the mango silently, and threw the core to the side of the road. Curiosity came up again, and she approached Su Mu and asked, "Mu Mu, what's the matter with the pickled acid in the old man's mouth?" Su Mu didn't want to repeat what he did

. So he only revealed a mysterious smile and said, "You will find out tonight."

Everyone's appetites were whetted, but Su Mu's mouth was so tight that he refused to reveal anything.

Su Chen, who was the only one who had tasted sour food, didn't dare to dismantle her sister, even her wife Chen Mengzhi didn't tell her when she asked.

With laughter and laughter along the way, everyone soon arrived at their destination.

It is still a small river at the entrance of the village. Because of the two heavy rains before, the river water has risen a lot and the river surface has also widened a lot.

The shore was a flat slope, and everyone put down their things and started to prepare for fishing.

As the host, Su Chen naturally had the duty to dig up earthworms.

Wielding the hoe vigorously, the soil near the river is kept moist all year round, so it is not difficult for earthworms to dig.

He cuts the wriggling terrestrial invertebrates into small pieces and collects them in plastic cups for later use.

Gu Shi and the other three sons who lived in the city since they were young have never seen such a "big" scene, and they all ran away in disgust, Wei Liu yelled: "This is really disgusting, use it to Fishing, can this fish still be eaten!"

He Fu rubbed the goosebumps on his arms, and said disgustedly: "No way? Are you really using this thing to fish?" You know

, they usually use special bait for fishing, and use flour , bean cakes and other materials.

With earthworms, this is really too old bait.

At this time, Su Mu, who was picking leaves from the tree, came back and said, "This is the only bait in the village, nothing else. Besides, don't look at earthworms as ugly, but they are precious medicinal materials. Improve the soil and protect the ecological environment."

"So don't be disgusted, brothers."

She divided the leaves in her hand into equal parts and placed them on the bank, which was a very simple seat for everyone.

Even if he doesn't want to, the conditions in the village are just like this, Wei Liu has no choice but to accept all this reluctantly.

Of course, they didn't really ask them to do it themselves. Su Chen resignedly hung the earthworms on the fishhook one by one. As a child who grew up in the countryside, he was naturally not afraid of earthworms.

This section of the river is at the bend of the river, the water depth is relatively deep and the water flow is relatively gentle, which is convenient for the accumulation of natural food, so the fish will be more abundant and it is an ideal fishing position.

Several big men took the fishing rod made by Su's father, threw the bait out, and quietly caught the fish.

Su Mu and Chen Mengzhi came to the shallow river beach to see if there were any snails and mussels. Last time, Su Mu's photos in Moments made Chen Mengzhi greedy.

"Sister-in-law, come and touch the snails. I'll take the bamboo basket and see if I can catch some river prawns."

Chen Mengzhi nodded, "Okay, then be careful and don't go to deeper places." "

I know."

Shrimp likes to hide under stones and dense plant roots. It happens that the weeds on this river beach are dense. Su Mu carefully put the bamboo basket into the water, and moved quickly along the bottom.

About ten minutes later, she scooped up the bamboo basket, oh, there were mostly small shrimps in it, occasionally mixed with larger river shrimps, and what surprised her even more was that there were quite a few crayfish stuck in the basket. Inside the child barks its teeth and dances its claws.

Now Su Mu put his eyes carefully on the weeds again. Sure enough, when he opened the weeds, there were a few crayfish hiding under them. Perhaps disturbed by her, they extended their pincers and waved them in the water.

She shouted to Chen Mengzhi: "Sister-in-law, be careful, there are crayfish in the water, don't get caught."