Xie Yongtao prose: The long sweet potato seedlings in memory

At the end of the phone, the elderly father suddenly mentioned that he bought seedlings and planted sweet potatoes on a idle wasteland. After graduating from college, I started another job and life in the city. It has been many years without living in my rural hometown. Rural life is getting farther and farther away from myself, and the chance of getting in the land with close contact is getting less and less. But when you mention sweet potatoes, he suddenly pulled back his childhood memories.

Every spring, the family always hangs a basket of sweet potatoes in the sweet potato cellar in a basket of baskets in a basket, and then opens a seedbed in its own small vegetable garden. The ground is good, and then covered with a layer of sawdust. Finally, a brand new plastic film was opened on it to warm up. The next time will sprinkle water intermittently according to the dry and humidity. Under the warmth of the spring sun, the sweet potatoes on the hotbed woke up from their sleep, and slowly took root and sprouting. Smile. Whenever the adults in the family see these red tender sprouts and green leaves, they will show a smile full of hope.

After the sweet potato seedlings are almost half a feet, the planting season is ushered in. In the early morning, the adults in the family accompanied the morning light, holding scissors, picking the fat sweet potato seedlings, and cutting off the sweet potato buds from the seedbed like cutting the baby's umbilical cord like cutting away the baby bed. In the prepared basket. At this time, the crops have already become a ridge, with a basket of sweet potato seedlings on the shelves. Men, women, and children picked the barrels and carried iron, and set off to the crops.

You can live with sweet potato seedlings. As soon as the freshly planted sweet potato seedlings, as soon as the purple -red buds came into contact with the heavy loess land, they won all the time and opportunities to spread the stems and leaves. It shows a stubborn head and vitality. To go to the summer solstice in spring, it is on the soil, and the root must be drawn from the nutrients deep in the earth. During the day, the ground is sticked under the sun, and at night, looking up at the stars and sucking the limited dew in the air. For four or five months, they were climbed into the entire field, responding to the test of nature and the hard work of the workers with the green color.

As the saying goes: big summer heat, sweet potato messy pestle. When sweet potato seedlings spread, it is necessary to perform a special repair on it, and it cannot be allowed to grow wildly. The knot of sweet potato is no, many, and small, and it is small and small, so the sweet potato seedlings should be "tormented" in summer after the rain, and it is also called "flip seedlings". Turn out the glory of the furious seedlings from the soil. By the way, repair the side branches or take it down and take it home to feed cattle, sheep, chicken and rabbit. When I was a kid, the material living conditions were not good. These folded sweet potato leaf stalks can be used as green vegetables. The fat leaves can be directly below, and the crispy stalks can be used for cold dishes after the water. The sweet potato leaves are slightly bitter and sweet, and the fragrance of sweet potato stalks is crispy. Now when I think about it, they will still be born with the bottom of the tongue and swallow. After several trimmed sweet potato seedlings, the essence of qi is all concentrated on the main root, and will eventually end up with a large rhizome, that is, the sweet sweet potato we usually see.

Mai to Mangu Valley to autumn, and after the cold dew placed sweet potatoes. The hot summer passed and ushered in the frost descending season. At this time, the mature sweet potato arched the ground around the main root out of the radioactive cracks. Sweet potato "color. It tells you that the season of sweet potatoes is here. Starting from the seedlings, the harvest naturally starts with the seedlings. The first thing is to cut the sweet potato seedlings and place it to the field or the monopoly. Fatty fat, fat and stable sweet potato. This is a very tiring job. Generally, it takes a whole day, and the whole family usually needs to be dispatched together. In the evening of late autumn, the fat sweet potato was filled with a shelf, and the long and short sweet potato seedlings never abandoned it. It also covered it on the sweet potato like a baby. Full car sweet potatoes are transported home safely. As a result, the village courtyard under the smoke of the cigarettes, the sweet potatoes of the households were piled up, and the dinner table of the households had a basket of steaming sweet potatoes with hot air and sweet potato fragrance. After eating the umbilical belly full, adults also sort sweet potatoes with the help of moonlight or light, so that they can be collected in a new sweet potato cellar the next day, and the winter is spring.

At this time, sweet potato seedlings that absorb the sun, transport nutrients, and dedicate their lives are far from ending its mission. After eating sweet potatoes, the children who eat it are even more unreasonable. At this time, my friends and I began to choose some thick and tough seedlings from sweet potato seedlings to make rope skipping in the yard and the wheat field. He woven two or several sweet potato seedlings, and a bunch of people jumped together and jumped together. Everyone screamed together, and everyone laughed together. In fact, the interest of adults is not lower than that of children. Sometimes, the family or the adults of each family compile big ropes, big ropes, and jumping ropes. They are mighty and majestic. It also inserted flying wings to the happiness of harvest.

Sweet potato seedlings are rich in trace elements and various compounds, and there are many vitamin A. Therefore, after drying, you can cut into small sections of water and drink. Put rock sugar as tea and drink. Some people have sprained their feet. It is also effective to use it to cook water and wash their feet. If you have a animal in the family, you can use the pieces to use a crusher to make it as a kind of auxiliary feed to feed the cow to feed the horse. The most common use of sweet potato seedlings is when the firewood is burned. Even in the stove, it is more resistant to burning than ordinary firewood and the flames released. The endless sweet potato seedlings can be covered on the wind and rain on the cow shed and shepherd, which can be used on the tree salamander to prepare from time to time. In the winter night, I will take a flashlight from bottom to top to look at the trees on the trees after the trees. If you look closely, you can see the sweet potato seedlings out of the small holes after one after another, and it will be exposed to it. A small white belly, I know that it is a little sparrow that hides his head and body tightly and sleeping warmly and sweetly, and I do not disturb them, I will leave quietly, and then keep the warmth in my heart. Bring to Dreamland.

Sweet potato seedlings belong to the kind of melon that can hold you into the dream of spring after the long winter; it belongs to the kind of concern that you can look back at the road of happiness after chewing. So many proverbs about sweet potatoes express their heartfelt love for sweet potatoes, and they have less thanksgiving and hopes for sweet potato seedlings.

Sweet potato seedlings lack the posture of 身 红, do not have a delicate torso, and do not need to take care of it. It is simply a simple way from the slim tender buds to the long vine. Stumble soft and tough posture. It sacrifice its own opportunity to develop and grow, and sends energy to flowers, stems, leaves and fruits, and dedicate all life. After getting rid of the embrace of the earth, he did his best to bring joy, sweetness and warmth to people and birds and animals, dedicated life and dedicated the whole body. Its selflessness is the original intention of the sun and rain, and its dedication is the kindness of the earth. It connects people's feelings of gratitude and traceability, leaving my dream back to my hometown love and nostalgia.

Xie Yongtao, love life, love text.

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