Prose about loofah and chili pepper

Inadvertently, I found a loofah vine hanging out from the kitchen window sill, and the vine grew longer and longer. The "beards" of the vine tightly grasped the steel bar on the windowsill. Along the steel bar, the head of the vine kept trying to stretch upward, and the fresh vine leaves were waving in the air like a child's palm.

My lover also discovered this secret. She was a little surprised and asked me: What is this? Wall-creeper? No, I smiled: It’s loofah flesh. When my wife heard this, she said: That's amazing. Our house is on the second floor. Loofah actually likes our house. Could it be that our house is a Feng Shui treasure?

I turned around and asked my lover: Green is coming to my face, does it feel like spring? Um. My lover couldn't help but feel happy: It really smells like spring, but the season has already entered autumn. My lover can’t help but feel a little sad. I still smile: Su Shi said, who knows that there will be no less in life, but the water flowing in front of the door can still flow to the west. In the golden autumn, my house is still full of spring and full of vitality. This means that spring is back in our house.

Next to the family building is a vegetable patch. When I was planting vegetables in the spring, I dropped a few loofah seeds beside the vegetable patch. I didn’t expect that the loofah seeds would germinate. In the dog days of summer, loofahs are crawling all over the roof of the small house next to the family building. The little yellow loofah flowers attract swarms of buzzing bees. Under the huge loofah leaves, one loofah is lying on the vine. I don’t know. Who was it that attracted me? A loofah vine poked its head out from the window sill of my kitchen. Two days later, the vine settled down. After that, the vine continued to grow, and its branches had jumped up to the window sill, but it still didn’t stop. meaning.

I searched on Baidu. Luffa, native to India, is a climbing herbaceous plant of the Cucurbitaceae family. The stems are five-ridged, green, with luxuriant main and side vines. The stem nodes have branching tendrils and are prone to adventitious roots. Fruit is a summer vegetable and contains higher nutrients than melons. When mature, the network fibers inside are called loofahs and can be used to clean stoves and furniture. It can also be used for medicinal purposes, with cooling, diuretic, blood-activating, menstrual flow, detoxifying, anti-allergic and beautifying effects.

Nowadays, in our rural areas, every household can see the scene of planting luffa, especially on the courtyard walls or big trees, and beside the river outside the village. When the loofah is tender, as long as you have good cooking skills, eating loofah with green peppers is really popular with everyone. Every family grows luffa, and there will inevitably be times when there is a surplus of fruit. If the loofah fruits are too heavy to be eaten in time, they are allowed to stay on the vine and continue to grow until they grow old and are dried in the sun. People then let the loofah leave the vine and harvest them at home, removing the outer skin and using them to wash pots and pans. . This kind of environmentally friendly and energy-saving sanitary ware is very popular among "cooking couples".

The functions and effects of loofah go far beyond these. Once, I went to study in the urban area of ​​Zhumadian. When I was walking on the street at night, I met someone buying insoles made of loofah from an old man. While explaining the benefits of loofah insoles to everyone, the old man picked up the newspaper next to him: Look, this is about me. Under the street lamp, I read the report clearly. The reporter published his processing of insoles with loofah in the provincial newspaper. No wonder he has a good income every year. The old man also said that in addition to promoting blood circulation, stimulating menstruation and relieving fatigue, loofah insoles are also good for treating and preventing athlete's foot and foot odor. Out of curiosity, I also bought a pair and wore them on my feet. They were soft and felt so comfortable.

Ten days later, two green loofah fruits appeared on the kitchen window sill. I picked them off and cooked a small plate of loofah with chili...