I miss a certain year the free and fresh air, the distant mountains and smoke from cooking, the dogs and the fields, and I sleep all summer long.
by Han Han
The beginning of the movie The heroine Shizi rode a bicycle on a mountain road that was rarely visited. The camera was full of greenness, and the wild flowers were smiling. At this moment, the rain was drizzling, and the birds stood wet on the top of the tree, and after a while, they flapped their wings and flew away. And through the end of this conquered green field, a village emerged faintly in the mist among the mountains.
Komori is a village located in northern Japan. If you go to the large supermarket in Linzhen to buy daily necessities, it will take a day to ride a bicycle. This place is far from the modern cement forest we are familiar with, and the villagers are truly companionship with the earth and forests.
During the day, the cicadas screamed like crazy. The tired sky is beautiful blue. The sunshine falls everywhere and the clouds walk freely. At night, bullfrogs start a dance party by the pond. The frogs roar rise from the water, jump over the grass, steps, floor, and jump into the hometown of sleep. It's like the summer that only appears in Miyazaki's anime, with fairy tale-like colors everywhere.
Even autumn is not to be outdone. When the autumn is getting stronger, the forest is dyed into the color of a fox. Various white smoke will float in the village, including the water vapor from the mushroom greenhouse, the smoke from the cooking stove rising, and the smoke from burning rice husks. The air became quiet, and even the birds' chirping became lonely. The sound of villagers chopping firewood echoed for a long time in the empty fields in autumn.
This movie is adapted from the popular manga of the same name by Japanese cartoonist Daisuke Igarashi. After graduating from university, Ichiko once worked, fell in love and lived in Tokyo. However, because she could not integrate into the noisy and noisy big city, she came to the countryside cabin where she once lived with her mother.
Ichiko's mother suddenly left her alone and left quietly five years ago. The reason for her departure did not tell us, but Ichiko returning to Komori's life is more like a memory of her mother and a relive of her beautiful life.
Kamori's summer is stuffy and humid, and the air is as clingy as a sweat-soaked shirt. Opening the door will make people have the urge to put on their paddling palms and flippers, jump into this wet world and swim happily.
The wet weather caused more than this. The weeds in the fields began to become lush. The mugwort that had just been pulled out the day before yesterday sprouted again today. Even the wooden shovel mixed with jam at home became moldy. So Ichiko had to set up a stove in the house to drive away the water vapor in the house. In summer, it is terrible to create a stove in a stuffy room, but the stubborn Ichiko was not easily defeated because of this. Instead, she would cook delicious food in the hot room.
The high temperature and humidity environment caused by the ignition furnace is exactly the best condition for fermentation when making bread. The residual heat from the stove will not be extinguished can also be used to toast bread. If you master the temperature, you can bake a wonderful delicious food. In this way, when the bread was baked, the moisture in the house ran away. "All bad emotions can be cured in food."
works in summer, and you have to pay attention to the invasion of mosquitoes while enduring the humid and hot weather. At this time, Shizi will reward himself with sour rice wine. After finishing the farm work, I took out the sour rice wine from the refrigerator, which was like drinking a cold drink after steaming the sauna, which made me feel so satisfying! Sometimes I brew too much, and I can also ask friends to drink late at night.
There is a huzi tree growing next to the Shizi home. When the season arrives, the bright red fruits will hang on the branches. But because of the bad taste and many other delicious fruits around it, they are often skipped by people, and those overlooked fruits can only fall to the ground and gradually rot. "Growing up desperately, but in the end, it was in vain."
Despite this, the smart Ichiko still had a way to turn them into delicious ingredients, "Then make you into jam."
"My home is surrounded by swamps, fields and forests, so there will be many uninvited guests at night."
Xiaosen in the middle of the night, the galaxy is clearly visible. With the gentle light reading, there will be big moths and unicorn fairy flying over to hit the glass door outside the house, turning off the light to see fireflies in summer nights; when the owl is tired of flying, she will sit on the roof with insomnia eyes and rest; sometimes there will be stupid bears running into the house to steal plums after taking advantage of the night, and the owner of the house gets up the next day and can only find the broken fence.
Youta is a junior two class younger than Shizi. He returned to Komori shortly after graduation. Once, Ichiko asked him why he was willing to come back to live in Komori. "I don't want to live a life of complaining about the way others kill people after being killed." (About this sentence, "Su Bai" on Douban gave a more appropriate and easy-to-understand translation: someone has prepared the food for you, and put it there, and he has to complain about what others did not do well. I don't want to live such a life.)
Youtai thinks that although life in the city is convenient and prosperous, people live too false and shallow, "I have never done anything, but I think I know everything." So in the end, Yuta returned to Komori and faced sincere people with a sincere heart.
After hearing Yuta's answer, Ichiko fell into deep thought and returned to Komori, but her purpose and Yuta were completely different. "Yuta came back to face his life, but I escaped."
In Xiaosen, where the rain is abundant, the villagers all use plastic greenhouses to grow tomatoes, and only Shizi insists on open-air cultivation. Because tomatoes like sun and drought tolerant, too much rain makes them prone to rot, so the harvest in the city is not very good in many cases.
In this regard, although Shizi said on the surface that she was unwilling to lose to the weather like this, she actually knew that she was afraid that she would live here for a long time after building a greenhouse. She still did not regard Xiaomori as a place of life (on the one hand, she was also tired of life in the city, but on the other hand, he did not seem to really want to stay in Xiaomori), but regarded it as a harbor for escapism.
"Childhood habits are always difficult to change." To this day, Shizi still writes "frog in the well" as "frog in the stomach" because of his mother's influence, because his mother once joked to her that when she is hungry, she will call her because "frog in the stomach"; every time she makes fried chicken chops, she always feels that it is not enough to not put her own special "Worcester soy sauce"; when eating bread, she will also use her mother's "nutera" brand hazelnut paste. Every time I cook, I remember what my mother once said, "You must be careful when cooking." Indeed, the process of making delicious food is complicated and requires careful and patience to prepare a good food that captures taste buds.
It is like recalling what my mother did in daily life little by little. Gradually, Ichiko began to feel her mother's heart.
One day, Shizi made fried vegetables by himself, but found that no matter how they stir-fry, the taste was different from what his mother made. Obviously the order is the same, there seems to be something missing. Until once when I was removing the tendons for celery, Ichiko had a flash of inspiration. She tried to peel off the tendons of the vegetables and found that the taste was correct after frying.
I remembered that every time my mother cooked vegetables, she always complained about her casualness, and she could only simply fry some vegetables, but she ignored her mother who was peeling the gluten behind her. Now we have suddenly realized, "It turns out that lazy and casual person is me!"
At this time, we seem to have guessed the reason why "mom" left. "Even though others have prepared the food for you, they have to complain about what others did not do well." Ichiko's mother is the same as Yuta, to escape from a life where she cannot get gratitude, but has worked hard but no praise?
Many things that I don’t understand now are not understood until many years later. But time flies, people’s hearts become cold, and time silently asks you. Why do you find out now? And we were speechless.
Sometimes I really feel that "Xiao Sen" is a fairy tale town, and living here is like having a beautiful dream.In summer, there are dull ducks swimming in the rice fields, and the vegetable garden is planted with vegetables that are constantly supplied all year round. When needed, you can also go to the swamp to pick rainy flowers to change your taste. Drink the sour rice wine you made by yourself, drink it with your friends on a cool summer night, and sleep with your feet. I used my own jam toast for breakfast. When the weather was too hot, I would revive my blood with an iced tomato.
In autumn, you can climb on the trees to pick grass fruit , treat it as an autumn dessert, hang orange dried sweet potato under the eaves of autumn, and jingle with the wind like a wind chime, and the leaders gather together, discussing crops and homework while roasting dried sweet potatoes, sharing and teaching various experiences of planting and cooking.
Sometimes you have to compete with small animals to pick up hazelnuts, and even when picking walnuts, you have to be careful of bears appearing! When you say this, it seems that a stupid bear really rushed out of the hillside where autumn leaves are dyed yellow, shouting at you loudly, "Damn humans, don't steal my walnuts."
Here, you don't have to squeeze into the bus and subway with murderous aura. Pedestrians will not be anxious, as if there are sneaky monsters following behind them. There will be no one asking you what job you do or whether you have a promotion or a salary increase. Here, people will wonder whether to bring walnut rice or to eat 30% of rice when cutting rice today? Only in the season when rice is harvested will people ask you, "What is the harvest this year?" People are self-sufficient, and their lives are no longer focused on salary performance, but return to the ordinary three meals a day.
Ichiko spent the bitter summer and golden autumn in such a long-lasting day as Xiaomori, and at the end of this autumn, she finally received a letter from her mother in the distance.
