After a few days, the weather was getting hotter and hotter, and the two locust trees in front of Li Xin's house had bloomed a lot of locust flowers. Big bunches of white flowers hung on the trees, which was beautiful and pleasing to the eye.

On a hot day, everyone felt a little sleepy. Li Xin didn't want to go out, and he didn't go to Zhuangzi either. He just stayed at home all day. Occasionally he would go back to Osmanthus Village to take a look and take care of the things at home.

Watermelons are planted in several acres of land at home and in Li Xin’s vegetable garden. They all grow the same crop, which is relatively easy to manage.

Li Xin also thought that as for food, it would be natural to grow it in Zhuangzi. In the past, the few acres of land at home would only be used to grow something for the family to eat. Last summer, Wen Hao and others always said that the heat could not be tolerated, so they did not

Something to relieve the heat. Li Xin thought of planting some watermelons so that when the weather gets hot, he can eat watermelons to relieve the heat.

Watermelons already exist in the world, but their cultivation is not yet widespread, and even fewer are planted in the countryside. Rich people will plant some to relieve the heat in hot weather. People in the village have always believed that fields are used for planting.

If food is used to grow things like watermelons, it would be too extravagant and wasteful. Therefore, Li Xin has never seen watermelons in the village, nor at the market.

Last year, shopkeeper Sun sent some watermelons to the family as a Mid-Autumn Festival gift. After cutting them, the children at home liked to eat them.

It just so happened that Li Xin looked for the seeds in the bracelet and found that there were indeed watermelon seeds. Even the planting method was written in detail on the package. Li Xin took out the watermelon seeds and handed them over.

Wang Fu and his wife asked them to raise seedlings first and then plant them when spring begins.

It has been almost two months since the planting, and the watermelon is about to mature. Li Xin also likes to walk in the watermelon field to check the growth of the watermelon. It seems that those watermelon seeds are really good.

The watermelons grew very big, most weighing about ten pounds, and there were a few very big ones. Li Xin thought that he should weigh them carefully when picking them.

The green melon hills are covered with big watermelons. This scene makes people like it no matter how you look at it.

"Sister, aren't our watermelons ripe yet?" Wen Hao asked Li Xin as soon as he came home. This kid had been thinking about watermelons for some time, and always asked Li Xin when the watermelons would mature. Li Xin

Xin also said that it can be cooked in March. Entering March, this guy asked more frequently.

"It's almost there. Didn't you see that Zhu Yong has been running to the village all day? If there is a ripe watermelon, he will definitely pick it."

"I saw that the watermelons at home have grown much bigger than the watermelons that shopkeeper Sun sent last year. Why are they not ripe yet? I don't know how big they will be when they are ripe!"

"When it's ripe, you can eat it. The watermelon isn't ripe yet, but the locust flowers at the door are blooming well. Why don't we cut some for food!" Seeing the locust trees begin to bloom, Li Xin also thought of many things.

Delicious food made from locust flowers. I remember that there were many locust trees in my hometown in my previous life. When the locust flowers were in bloom, the children in the village would always go to pick locust flowers in groups. To pick the locust flowers, you need to

Either suck the nectar inside and eat it, or take it home and let your family make delicious sophora flower rice, sophora flower steamed buns and the like.

Li Xin liked this kind of activity when he was a child. It was really interesting at that time. Children can always find their own fun in a poor environment. Maybe there are no fun toys or good-looking dolls.

But the fun is never less than that of children in the city, or even much more.

That kind of childhood is really special and meaningful. Many small things in the past will make you laugh when you think about them now.

All kinds of flowers and plants are beautiful, but villagers can also make beautiful flowers and plants into delicious food. Li Xin still remembers many fragments of those days in the countryside.

Together with her friends, she dug wild vegetables such as shepherd's purse and Houttuynia cordata in the fields. She also collected goat's hoof beetles and sophora japonica in the mountains. Li Xin had the deepest memory of picking flowers that could be used for cooking.

The most famous ones are the crocodile beetle and the sophora japonica. These two flowers are very beautiful when they bloom, and they are also delicious when made into various foods.

The beetle and the locust flower are very similar. When the flowers are in bloom, they are both so colorful and lively, and they have a flower season of their own. The beetle blooms brightly and brightly, while the locust flower is as white as snowflakes.

I still remember that there were several old redbud trees in the village, and the seeds multiplied into new trees not far away. When I was young, I didn’t know it was called redbud, just because the leaves were shaped like redbuds.

People in the village call it the crocodile flower. The flowers and leaves of the crocodile flower are very interesting. Its corolla is composed of five separate petals. Four petals are symmetrically distributed on both sides, and one is raised above. It is full of rich colors.

Spots. This aspect is actually a bit like the phoenix flower. The phoenix flower also has five petals, four of which are fiery red and one petal is covered with colorful spots.

The flowers of the palace pink sheep's hoof beetle are large and colorful. In mid-spring when the leaves are semi-deciduous, the flowers bloom before the leaves. The trees are full of flowers, red and green. When the flowers bloom, it creates a lively and lively atmosphere of spring.

The leaves of the sheep's hoof beetle are also very interesting, as its name suggests, they look like sheep's hooves. Each leaf is without exception, composed of two symmetrical sides of a kidney, with the end concave. Fold it

It looks like a green butterfly.

When the flowers are blooming, you can smell the faint fragrance when you walk under the tree. The breeze blows and the fallen maidens are in full bloom. It is as beautiful as a fantasy. The flowers bloom like a phoenix in flight, and the leaves dance lightly like butterfly wings. It is really...

The most beautiful scenery in my memory.

Later, Li Xin traveled to many places and saw a lot of redbud flowers, and he could also see a lot of palace pink sheep's hoof beetles. However, it seemed that it was no longer as beautiful as he remembered. Maybe the countryside was interesting in itself.

No matter how imitated it is in the city, it cannot be compared.

When the goat's foot flowers bloom, the children in the village always like to pick them, and then pluck the petals one by one, wash them and then cook them. You can also make them more complicated, or just stir-fry them without adding too much.

The more condiments, the more fragrant it will be.

It's a pity that she has traveled to many places, but she has never tasted the taste of sheep's hoof nails again.

"Can sophora flowers be eaten too?" Wen Hao looked at Li Xin in disbelief.

"Of course you can eat it. When you make something delicious, you may be drooling!" Li Xin rubbed Wen Hao's head and invited several children at home to go to the door to hunt sophora flowers.

I can't find it, and I can't eat it. However, the sophora japonica flower is right in front of me, and it's delicious when I make it.


Chapter completed!