Things about village flowers

"Hey, all around," Sister Man threw the last handful of dried corn stalks into the kitchen hall, straightened up and said to me,"Next spring, come home to see the azaleas. Our east mountain is just like what you said all over the mountains and plains. It’s azalea, so beautiful!"In the firelight, I felt that her face was as red and beautiful as azalea.

"Ah, that must be so beautiful! I have never seen azalea on my hometown mountain."I sighed as I faced east toward Dongshan. For a moment, my eyes were filled with azalea.

"The azaleas on our east mountain are blooming in large numbers and red. What word can I use to describe it? Oh, I think about it. The flowers are in clusters, like fire, and they are red in clusters, and the flowering period is also long. , is famous far and wide, and even people from the surrounding villages come to see it. They all say that the feng shui here is good, and they pick a lot of flowers and take them with them when they leave. But there are just a lot of flowers, and we can never finish the flowers on the mountain."Ling Liping put the bowls and chopsticks on the dining table and said, her eyebrows were dancing with excitement, as if her face was blushing, just like azalea.

"So tempting!"I still faced the direction of Dongshan and sighed. But no, I will graduate from high school and face the college entrance examination next spring and summer. It is impossible to come here to enjoy the flowers. I am afraid that I will not be able to realize this wish for a long time in the future. If I am admitted to university, at least I have to wait another four years before I have the chance. Thinking of this, I couldn’t help but sigh

"Hey, what's wrong? Why are you sighing?"Sister Man asked, patting my arm.

But Ling Liping acted very calmly, as if she understood my mood at the moment.

"I'm going to take the college entrance examination next year, so I won't have time to come!"I sat down at the table, picked up a pair of chopsticks and tapped the edge of the bowl, saying

"Hee hee, look at me, I am so happy that I have forgotten this problem."Sister Man poked the fire stick into the kitchen hall a few times and said with a smile.

"Then I'm afraid you haven't had time to go back to your hometown to see Azalea."Ling Liping, who was sitting next to me, patted my arm and said

"Alas, who says otherwise!"I looked at her hand that quickly retracted and sighed.

"Okay." At this time, grandma came into the house from outside with a big head of garlic and said to Sister Man,"Man'er, there's no need to burn it. Just cover it for a while and you can start eating."

"Grandma gave me the garlic."Ling Liping stood up and said, taking the garlic from grandma's hand, then went to the cupboard to find a purple porcelain garlic mortar and put it on the dining table. She began to peel the garlic cloves and prepare to pound the garlic for dipping and then eat the steamed buns.

Sister Man and I helped Peeling the garlic cloves, the three of them put the peeled garlic cloves into the mortar in a flash. Ling Liping picked up the wooden hammer and started to pound the garlic in the garlic mortar. After a while, the garlic cloves were pounded into minced garlic. She was not very skilled in this business. It felt like She was very energetic in everything she did, and her work was very rhythmic and entertaining. It was like watching her perform on stage. I kept staring at the wooden hammer and garlic mortar in her hands and her face when pounding garlic. Her expression, the corners of her mouth were pursed, and the two dimples on her cheeks were constantly squirming with the rhythm of pounding garlic. Her eyes were smiling and pointed at the garlic mortar, without squinting, concentrating, but I seemed to feel that she noticed that I was staring at her. , deliberately ignoring me, for fear of breaking the warm aura at the moment, she must be praying silently, look, look, I just want you to see me all at once, obviously she really enjoys my love for her. of keen attention

"Okay, Ping'er, that's almost enough. The mashed garlic is too mashed and doesn't taste good!"Grandma leaned over and looked at the garlic paste that had been pounded in the garlic mortar (the garlic was pounded too finely), and said to Ling Liping

"oh. Ling Liping stopped and used a wooden hammer to stir the minced garlic in the garlic mortar a few times. She got up and went to the cupboard to take out a bowl and a bottle of soy sauce and put them on the dining table. Then she sat down and picked them up. Using a pair of chopsticks, carefully put the minced garlic in the garlic mortar into the bowl until there was no more minced garlic left in the mortar. He filled a small half bowl of minced garlic, then picked up the soy sauce bottle and poured it into the bowl to cover the minced garlic. Put down the soy sauce bottle, Then she used chopsticks to stir the garlic paste in the bowl evenly. At this time, grandma took a bottle of sesame oil and dropped a few drops in the bowl. Ling Liping continued to stir the garlic paste a few times, and finally a small bowl of fresh, salty and spicy garlic dipping sauce was ready. I still enjoyed Ling Liping's aesthetic work process, and she still felt my concern for her. The work was too delicate, and it was even a bit delayed. It was obvious that she was trying her best to prolong the good time for each other to enjoy each other.

Looking at Ling Liping Li gently pushed the small bowl of garlic sauce to the middle of the table, and I couldn't help but ask,"Why not add vinegar?""Although I know that my folks don't get jealous very much, but every time I'm around, when I eat steamed buns or dumplings, or when grandma makes dipping sauce, she usually forgets to add vinegar. Maybe this time, seeing Sister Man and Ling Liping here, it's okay. Save it, or maybe I just don’t have any jealousy

"No more jealousy."Grandma said to me. Sure enough, I guessed it right.

"City people like to be jealous, unlike us in the countryside, who rarely get jealous and generally don’t use vinegar in cooking unless they are cooking fish."Ling Liping said to me, then stood up and said to her grandma,"Grandma, give me the vinegar bottle, I'm going to make vinegar now."

"I'm going too!"I stood up immediately and said

"Just to get jealous, I can just go by myself. Just stay here. I'll be here soon."Ling Liping held my arm and turned around to leave.

"Hey, hey, wait for me!"I quickly chased after her and said to Ling Liping,"You have nothing to do anyway, let's go together."

"Aren't you afraid of seeing Widow Qin?"Ling Liping said as she walked, looked back at me and laughed.

"Why are you afraid of her?!"I chased after him and said

"You can go, but this time you and I have to keep a distance."Ling Liping stopped and said,"You're not afraid of letting her see us together. I'm still afraid. You don't know that her flirty mouth is better than a storyteller. A sesame seed can be blown up to the size of a balloon. , the talk was very colorful and very popular. As for you, you will leave and go back to the city another day. Nothing is your fault, but I still have to stay here and live my life. How can I endure her rumors! Didn't you see her malicious eyes that day? She must have been eyeing us two. She was waiting for us to serve her food, adding fuel and vinegar to the hype, using it to relieve her boredom. She was just showing off."

"Haha, are you tired, dear... (I actually said such harsh words, so I quickly stopped. It seemed that I was too jealous. For some reason, Ling Liping didn't seem to have any reaction to this. She didn't hear clearly. Still pretending to be indifferent), he was actually troubled by a little widow. Okay, I obey your order and keep my distance from you. Tell me, how much distance do you want me to keep?"

"Do you really listen to me?"She then continued to walk forward and asked

"Well, absolutely!"I raised my hand towards her and promised

"Well, now you just stand there and don't move until I come back jealous!"I don't want to," she said, pointing to her feet.

"……Well, okay then."I paused and agreed first.

"No cheating! whee."She pointed at me and said, then she held up the vinegar bottle with a smile, and ran forward, quite fast, and looked back every three steps, for fear that I would regret it. I didn't expect that she was serious, and I had no choice but to be patient. I stood still, originally waiting for her to walk away not far away, and then followed her, but now it seemed that I could no longer catch up with her. I watched her running along the village road, more than a hundred meters away from me, and then Turn left towards Widow Qin’s canteen. I immediately ran after her, not too fast. There were several young and old women waiting on the roadside. But when I caught up to the intersection, Ling Liping happened to be walking away with a bottle of vinegar. Come over, as soon as she saw me, she immediately pointed back at me, and then waved at me to tell me to go quickly.

I looked behind Ling Liping, and saw that Widow Qin was standing in front of the canteen with her arms folded, giggling towards me. Her whole body was shaking like a sieve, and it felt like a lot of the powder on her face was shaken off.