After Xu Guangling left, the small forest protection station suddenly became much quieter.
It was so quiet that even Lao Tan and Lao Lin, who had long been accustomed to the silence, were a little uncomfortable.
Especially Lao Lin, an old man in his fifties. To be honest, he didn't interact much with Xu Guangling when Xu Guangling was here. But now, every morning and evening, he often murmurs to Xiao Tan: "What if Mr. Xu...
How wonderful it is to still be here!"
That was probably not just because Xu Guangling knew how to cook delicious food, nor was it just because Xu Guangling would give him acupuncture every ten and a half months.
Of course, this must also be the second reason.
However, Xu Guangling is gone, but the vegetables he grew are still there.
Tomatoes, radishes, eggplants, water spinach, lettuce, cauliflower, Chinese cabbage, cucumbers, green onions, these nine vegetables that both Lao Tan and Lao Lin have long been familiar with are still growing lush and green, but I don’t know if they are the same.
People have a misconception that after Mr. Xu left, these vegetables did not seem to grow as fast as before.
Take cucumbers for example. In the past, new melons grew out of every tree every day, and there were more than one. They grew really fast.
But now, it often takes two or three days to get a new twist.
Maybe it's because the weather has gotten cooler?
In fact, normally speaking, it’s winter, and these vegetables shouldn’t grow at all!
The number of new cucumbers is decreasing, as are the eggplants. On the other hand, tomatoes are growing like small trees, and each one is hung with heavy fruits one after another. For a while, there is no sign that the number is decreasing.
, no matter how much I eat, I still seem to be eating the same amount.
So Lao Tan and Lao Lin, what they eat the most recently are tomatoes. Eat them raw, stir-fry, or make soup. Anyway, they are delicious. Even if they are eaten raw, they are much more delicious than apples and pears.
Delicious to heaven.
A tomato grows from small to large, from green to white, then from white to yellow, and from yellow to red. The red color grows upward little by little from the tip to the base. When the whole tomato is ripe,
, there is still a little bit of bluish white left at the base.
You can pick it now, and it will come off with a slight twist. It is much easier to pick than cucumbers, which require scissors!
Both Lao Tan and Lao Lin have mastered their craftsmanship, and they are so skilled at it. Lao Lin was even praised by Mr. Xu, but Mr. Xu has left now.
After taking it off, if you want to eat it raw, you don’t even need to wash it, you can just put it in your mouth.
However, both Lao Tan and Lao Lin like to break open the tomatoes and eat them while looking at them.
Break a big tomato in half as big as your palm. Then, after breaking it open, the first thing you see is not red, but transparent. Especially if you look at the sun and shine it, from top to bottom, it will be so transparent to your eyes.
You can almost see it!
Then, there is sand.
Juice like watermelon.
Just like that, take a bite, small or large, and then, all of a sudden, something cool, sour, and sweet, like a "sand block" composed of the finest and finest sand, is in your mouth.
Rolling, just one or two rolls, the countless fine sands will fall from the sand blocks and melt...
At this time, immediately, saliva came out in a gush, completely uncontrollably.
Lao Tan and Lao Lin are not very educated people, but they will be really intoxicated and intoxicated when they eat tomatoes every day, so they can often eat one tomato for more than ten minutes.
It’s not that it’s not delicious, it’s that it’s so delicious.
It’s so delicious that I can’t bear to eat it!
Although there are dozens of tomato trees in the garden, and there are so many fruits hanging on each tree.
In addition to tomatoes, cucumbers and eggplants, there are several other items, such as Chinese cabbage, water spinach, etc., but one less one is eaten.
But these things don’t wait for anyone. If you don’t eat them, just leave them there and let them grow. Otherwise, they will get old in a few days! Yes, they grow very fast!
Both Lao Tan and Lao Lin asked their wives to make pickles, including Chinese cabbage, radish, bamboo shoots, cucumbers and eggplants, all of which can be pickled!
One jar after another was marinated.
Lao Lin said, don't eat these pickles yet. When Mr. Xu comes back in the future, you will give them to him to taste first, and then eat them together.
Lao Tan nodded silently.
But, will Mr. Xu come back?
A few Chinese cabbage trees were the first to grow. The old forest left the seeds and then sprinkled some seeds in the garden.
After a few days, they actually sprouted!
But before Lao Lin could be happy for a long time, the bud quickly withered again, and within a few days, it was completely frozen to death. "That's what I said!" Lao Lin said to Xiao Tan.
There was obvious disappointment in his words, but more of it was relief.
A kind of "Is this right!" The relief that the world has finally returned to normal.
Normally patrolling the mountains and staying behind, except that the food they eat is completely different from before, the lives of Lao Tan and Lao Lin don't seem to have changed much.
But there are still some places that are different from before.
Lao Lin's elbows are not very sharp. In the past, they would become a little stiff in the winter, and sometimes even sore. When he got up every morning, they would often become like stones, but this year, this situation did not happen at all.
Not only are his elbows very, very agile, but his whole person has become very brisk.
When patrolling the mountains, you will not be tired all day long!
The mother-in-law at home used to have a slight cough in the winter. It wasn't a serious problem and she couldn't take any medicine, but she would cough from time to time. But this year, because she ate the vegetables she brought home, she actually coughed.
I didn't cough even once.
The situation of Lao Tan's family is similar.
It's just that Lao Lin is the mother-in-law, and he is the precious daughter.
My daughter's health has become better than anyone else's, and she never has to go to the hospital again.
Ask your neighbors around where you go to see your mother-in-law. Be sure to introduce it to them!
As the days passed, Lao Tan and Lao Lin collected a lot of honey from the bees in and outside the vegetable garden. Of course, they were stung many times. Those bees were really fierce. They even pretended to be here and there.
There are more than ten bottles, one pound per bottle, but neither of them is willing to part with expensive things. I can’t eat them (mode) and waste them. Xiao Tan, can you make some when you go out in the morning?
Drink." Old Lin said to Old Tan.
Lao Tan also shook his head.
He was also reluctant to eat it, so he brought a bottle home for his daughter, and even his wife was not allowed to drink it!
On this day, their small station suddenly received a visitor.
Two very good-looking little girls, and a few people accompanying them.
acquaintance.
"Uncle Lin!" The smaller girl jumped up and down, smiling as brightly as the cauliflowers in the vegetable garden nearby. Her smile was so energetic that Old Lin also laughed together, "Uncle Lin, I'm here again.
La, are you welcome?"
Of course you are welcome, of course you are welcome.
The older one is very polite and the younger one is very cute. Old Lin has a good impression of these two girls.
"Uncle Lin, where is Brother Xu? He went up the mountain again, hasn't he come back yet?"
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