Winter is coming, and the weather is getting cooler. Although winter is solemn, it also has its beauty. The white world is not available in other seasons. Eating a bowl of hot spinach noodles in frozen weather is also a kind of happiness. Or buy a hot roasted sweet potato on the street, and eat hot sweet potatoes while breathing, which is really satisfying.
Sweet potatoes are low-cost foods and are easy to feed. The sweet potato vine you throw down, or rotten sweet potato, will survive as long as it falls to the ground, and the ground will not be covered with sweet potato vines. It can be said that it is full of treasures. Sweet potatoes can be eaten by people or fed pigs. , sweet potato leaves, , and sweet potato vines can be fed to livestock. In an era when food and clothing are short, it is a reliance for people.
I remember that every time the rice harvest is summer, my family will leave a few pieces of land for growing sweet potatoes. Use cattle to plough the soil and fertilize the house, and then cultivate the soil into one and one. These are the best varieties for people to eat. Those varieties with high yields are used to feed livestock. In the next few months, weeding, fertilizing and watering will take a lot of effort. You have to be on guard against voles , otherwise your strength will be exhausted. When autumn comes September and October, the sweet potato vines are sparse, and the fields are swollen by the sweet potatoes and cracks are all there. You can see sweet potatoes by just pulling them. Not to mention how happy that mood is. Of course, there are some that produce less production every year, which makes people feel depressed.
The season when sweet potatoes are ripe is our happiest season. A group of children drove the cows to the fields after autumn harvest. The fields were empty and unblocked, so the cows were allowed to eat grass everywhere. Next is our happy time. We find a place to shelter from the wind and do a good job of division of labor. Some people build dirt houses, some people pick up firewood, some people dig sweet potatoes, some people make fires, and some people take care of cows. The division of labor is clear and everyone has something to do. Digging sweet potatoes is the most fun. Digging sweet potatoes from your own home can make you swagger. When you see someone else's home has a better variety, you have to sneak into the fields and dig them secretly. The fields are covered with pieces and are generally not discovered. Everything was ready, and everyone gathered around and talked and laughed. Sometimes, the friend who was in charge of the cow also added, forgot about the cow, ran to the other person's sweet potato field, stole the sweet potato leaves, and was discovered, and he was inevitably scolded. However, everyone still enjoys it. When the earthen house burned red, the firewood was gone. Put the sweet potatoes into the earthen house, then turn the earthen house down and break it, cover the sweet potatoes, and cover them with raw soil to prevent heat from overflowing. After the work was done, everyone was having fun in the fields. An hour later, dig up the soil and fragrant roasted sweet potatoes were right in front of me. Everyone swallowed it, not even their skin was left.
After eating, my belly rolled around and looked satisfied. When the sun sets west, smoke from the villages in the distance is rising, and a group of cows and children slowly move towards their home direction.
This is just a way to roast sweet potatoes. We often roast sweet potatoes in the tobacco-cured tobacco house, burning firewood at the village entrance, or roasting sweet potatoes in the stove pit at home. I can't remember what the best meal I've ever eaten? But I can't forget the scene of eating roasted sweet potatoes. In those hungry years, it was the delicacies of mountains and seas.
Today, sweet potatoes are not a high-end thing. The sweet potatoes grown by farmers cannot be sold at very high prices. But it is still a condiment in our lives. We eat too many delicious foods and drink too many delicious wines. The only thing that is unforgettable is the inconspicuous roasted sweet potatoes. In the streets and alleys, there are always people who set up stalls to sell roasted sweet potatoes. Before we arrived, the fragrance of sweet potatoes was already floating all over the world. In front of the sweet potato stall, a couple, and a family were holding the roasted sweet potatoes and eating them with a smile. I could see the sweetness in their mouths.
