Sweet potato complex prose
I heard the old man say that sweet potato leaves can't be served on a summer mat since ancient times. In rural areas, sweet potato leaves are used to feed pigs. It would be rude if they were used to entertain guests. Think about it, too. How tacky the sweet potato leaves are! It has no gorgeous appearance and is as ordinary as us ordinary people. It is easy-going, simple and does not compete with the world. You see, just give it a little soil and throw it on the ground, and it will flourish. Because we live far away from the vegetable market, the open space of the factory is full of sweet potato vines. We don't need much effort to manage them, and we don't need to use pesticides. Occasionally, we water some urine and it rains. These sweet potato leaves will grow like the headquarters, and those tender leaves will become our delicious meal.
Now people advocate eating green pollution-free plants, and sweet potato leaves bear the brunt and are deeply loved by people. I query noticed that sweet potato leaves are known as "the queen of vegetables", "longevity vegetables" and "anti-cancer vegetables" in Hongkong and even in the world, and the Asian Vegetable Research Center even lists sweet potato leaves as a highly nutritious vegetable variety. It can be seen how lovable sweet potato leaves are. Whether it is specially used as pig feed or a high-nutrient vegetable that everyone likes, it has realized the value of nourishing others. Just like this sentence: "If you are in full bloom and butterflies come, if you are wonderful, arrange it naturally."
Seeing this sweet potato leaf often reminds me of the past. In this dead of night, those scattered sweet potato memories, like stars scattered on the horizon, light up one by one.
In rural areas, every household has sweet potatoes. When I was a child, I helped my parents grow sweet potatoes. I remember at that time, my mother first cut the sweet potato seedlings, tied them into a bundle and put them on the ground. When my father plowed the land into rows of straight ditches, my mother and I sprinkled farmyard manure and compound fertilizer, and then buried the sweet potato seedlings one by one at a certain distance. In a few days, the sweet potato seedlings survived. Under the hard work of mom and dad, the small sweet potato vines began to escape, and slowly, sweet potato vines were everywhere. The most exciting thing is that when harvesting, my father raked off the vines of sweet potatoes with a plow and then plowed. I saw round, oval or spindle-shaped sweet potatoes scattered in ditches like artificial ones, red and white, and my mother and I ran after him to pick them up and bag them. I remember at that time, our hearts were full of joy and we didn't feel tired at all.
There were several pigs at home at that time. My mother cooked the rice in the morning, and then cooked the sweet potato for the pigs. We'll eat by ourselves. Shredded sweet potatoes and rice are cooked into porridge. At noon, the weather is very hot. When I drink a bowl of sweet potato porridge soup, I feel very comfortable. In the evening, we peel the sweet potato, cut it into pieces, pour it into the pot, add glutinous rice, add water just to submerge it, add appropriate amount of salt, cook it, and mash the sweet potato and rice with a spatula to make dried sweet potato. When I was a child, I ate dried sweet potato rice, which was sweet, delicious and memorable. The most interesting thing is that after school, we go to pasture the cows together. When the cows are grazing, we work together: some people go to find dry wood or dry cow dung, some people are responsible for digging sweet potatoes in the fields of nearby people, and then set fire to the sweet potatoes. We play games while eating baked sweet potatoes. It's getting dark, the cows are full, and so are we.
At that time, there were a lot of sweet potatoes. At the market, my parents picked some big sweet potatoes with smooth skin and sold them at the market. I don't remember how much they can earn by selling a car full of sweet potatoes. At that time, sweet potatoes were really worthless. However, in those days, in order to provide us with education, as long as we can get money, it is precisely because these sweet potatoes can sell some money to supplement our families, and our brothers and sisters can grow up and study in the city, and those sweet potatoes account for a lot of credit. During this time, my husband has been helping others pull sweet potatoes to the fruit market for wholesale. I heard that the better sweet potatoes can be sold for five or six yuan a catty now. The sweet potatoes planted by that boss yield five or six kilos per mu. He was really furious at such a good price.
It is said that sweet potato can effectively inhibit the occurrence of colon cancer and breast cancer. Can relieve constipation, prevent constipation, lose weight, and resist aging. No wonder sweet potatoes are so popular now. It's really a turn of the tide. The status of this sweet potato is not what it used to be.
I like sweet potato not only because of its efficacy and function, but also because we grew up eating sweet potato rice. Every cell in my body has had close contact with it. Every step of my growth is inseparable from it. When we were young, it satisfied our stomachs and enriched our taste buds. I have deep feelings for it, and it will accompany me all my life.