The summer wind, carrying waves of heat waves, approaches people step by step. That kind of scorching heat invades the body layer by layer like stripping silk, and even the mood will be as restless as this weather.
At this time, it is extremely pleasant to come to the mountain countryside, get close to the natural landscape, get close to individual plants, feel the rural delicacies.
Apricots all over the mountains are flaunting on the trees. Climb over, reach out and pick one. Take a bite. Oh, the sour and fragrant is like a needle prick, ecstatic and bone-eroding, making your taste jolt and wake up! The purplish-red mulberries, like caterpillars, crawl on the short branches and wriggle. Pick one at will and put it on the root of the tongue. The meat juice is rich and sweet as honey, which can be beautiful to the bottom of the heart.
Resting at a farmer's house, the sense of smell catches the fragrance of the freshly steamed steamed buns, coming up in the air, and then the feeling of hunger arises immediately. There is no dish, it doesn't matter. Pull out a new garlic bulb from the green vegetable patch, which is crystal clear and spicy. Squatting in the shade of the wall at the foot of the wall, the new garlic bulb with the hot steamed buns is a perfect match! The new garlic is spicy, like a leather whip gently whipping, fresh and exciting! The steamed bun is soft, like a jade hand wiping, comfortable and soothing.
The freshly picked green amaranth and mint leaves are washed and drained after blanching, then add garlic juice, mustard, and pour light soy sauce to make a side dish for the meal. Drink clear soup noodles by the evening breeze beside the well-ventilated stone table. One chopstick of sweet noodles and one chopstick of green side dish are clean and refreshing, enough to drive away the sultry heat of the day.
Sweet potato noodles are patted into窝头 balls, put on the steamer on the firewood stove in the pimple for an hour or so, and pressed into jiaoluo noodles on the jiaoluo bed. The jiaoluo noodles are cooled completely, and then mixed one by one with sesame oil, mashed garlic, chili peppers, salt noodles, and aged vinegar. The cool jiaoluo noodles are like long hair spreading out strand by strand. The chopsticks can be picked up very high. It is sweet with spiciness and salty with fragrance, with all kinds of flavors mixed. When eating it, there is an indescribable stimulus and the appetite is immediately boosted.
The small river is close at hand. As soon as you lift your feet, you arrive at the river bank. The fisherman is familiar. While greeting, he casually throws over some small harvests - small whitebait, small river shrimps, and mussels. The small whitebait and river shrimps are slightly salted and cooked in a hot oil pan. These two are crispy and refreshing. When three or five people sit together, they pick up one piece after another and send them to their mouths, and then chat about some old things, and blow one bottle of beer after another against the bottle mouth. When the mussels finish spitting out the sand, put them in the pot and boil them, and eat them together. Eat until the sun sets in the west and the moon rises in the east.
If you are lucky, you can dig all kinds of wild mushrooms in the mountains. With a little effort, you can cook a stewed mushroom. It is chewy and smooth, fresh and fragrant. Eating alone is too lonely and suitable for a family to have a meal. You take a bite and I take a bite. While chatting loudly, the delicious food enters the intestines. That kind of mountain atmosphere is bold and unrestrained.
In the mountain countryside, every creature in the landscape is influenced by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the essence of the sun and the moon, and is born with extraordinary quality. Spending the summer in the countryside, especially when the taste is embraced and entwined by these creatures, it cannot be said that it is a rare blessing!