She frowned and turned her head to look to the west, and saw a crooked tree on the hillside swaying in the wind. A white flower on the tree was in full bloom, looking beautiful.

"This... this is a locust flower..."

[The deciduous tree of the genus Acacia is successfully identified, also called acacia, belongs to the deciduous tree of the genus Acacia deciduous family. It is native to North America and is now widely introduced to Asia, Europe and other places. The flowers are white, fragrant and spike-like inflorescences; the honey produced by the genus Acacia flowers is very sweet and the honey yield is also high. But many people may not know that the genus Acacia flowers are actually edible. Of course, some people who know know and have even eaten it, but they are usually eaten raw, slightly sweet and fragrant!]

For the people in Ma Tianyao, people in the world cannot be associated with eating. They can only use the tight wood of the locust tree to build houses, or create tables, chairs and benches.

Most of the locust trees are wild.

For example, the tree Ma Tianyao saw.

"Brother Sun, whose family belongs to this locust tree?"

Ma Tianyao originally wanted to pick it directly, but she had just seen Wang Chen being slandered, so she asked Sun Dafu carefully.

She pointed to the locust tree on the hillside, and Sun Dafu shook his head.

"This is wild, not someone's family. Why? Boss Ma wants to collect wood? There are so many mountains behind the house."

"The mountain behind your house?"

Ma Tianyao subconsciously turned her head, then widened her eyes. Behind Sun Dafu's house was a forest area. When she saw a large area of ​​white, all of them were wild locust trees. It was already in the flowering period, and it was basically about to fall for a week at most.

"Boss Ma?"

Seeing Ma Tianyao frowning and not speaking, Sun Dafu shouted. Ma Tianyao quickly withdrew her thoughts and responded with a smile.

"Oh...hehe, I don't collect wood, I'm...oh, you have taken care of Boss Wang for so long, and I have no thanks, so I plan to make a meal for everyone before leaving to express my gratitude. That... Brother Sun, can you pick some acacia flowers for me?"

"Pick... flowers? What are you doing when picking flowers?"

Sun Dafu scratched his head, but still didn't understand what Ma Tianyao said, but he still nodded and agreed. After taking two steps, he called out two or three other villagers. Ma Tianyao put his hands together and shouted behind him.

"By the way, Brother Sun, if it is convenient, I will take more picks. I will invite the whole village to dinner."

Some villagers who didn't understand only heard the word "invite for dinner" and immediately ran over to help pick it.

The locust trees are the most pitiful. They are violently picked every year when they are young. No matter how big or small trees, their branches are broken, and some even have their "heads" cut off.

But every second year, the tree returns to normal and grows even more fiercely than the previous year. They seem to express their indomitableness in this silent language, and then receive the second violent baptism.

The villagers are not polite and polite, nor do they understand the thoughts of locust trees. For them, these are wild trees, and they usually feel that they are thorny when cutting trees and cooking fires.

After Sun Dafu climbed up the tree, he spitted into the palm of his hand, picked up the hatchet in his hand, and with one knife, three or four branches as thick as a thumb were cut off, and all the branches and leaves fell down.

Some of the others helped to cut down the branches while others cut down the lush branches on other trees.

With so many people, there was a strong force. In less than half an hour, a sea of ​​flowers had become at the door of Sun Dafu's house. Ma Tianyao called Qin Huixia and several other women in the village, each carrying baskets and pulling the locust flowers and leaves into different baskets.

Qin Huixia and the other women were confused and asked her with awkward smile after a while.

"Boss Ma... didn't you invite everyone to dinner? Why are you doing these flowers again..."

"That's right, I just invite everyone to eat acacia flowers..."

"Ah? Just eat this? Isn't this just taking your um as a cow?"

Qin Huixia is more realistic. She thought that the rich people in the city are stingy, but she didn't expect that the person in front of her was simply scalp---nothing!

Is this locust flower originally a wild one in my village? Is it okay? Do you still need to invite it?

The more I thought about it, the more I felt uncomfortable, and my face was a little unhappy, and I said with a whisper.

"Boss Ma, these acacia flowers are not something that humans can eat. Usually, they are very troublesome to feed cattle. You won't really want to let them be cows and eat grass as horses. Eating acacia flowers is not enough to relieve their anger? Do you still have to eat locust tree leaves?"

She snatched the locust tree leaves in the basket next to Ma Tianyao, and the other women immediately agreed.

"Yes, you're not cows and sheep, you can't eat leaves..."

"When my family couldn't open the pot, I ate locust flowers before, and I could swallow them even if I chewed them raw, but the leaves of the locust tree are just for feeding pigs..."

...

Seeing the crowds of people, Ma Tianyao gradually became uncontrollable. She coughed hard and spoke with a smile.

"Sisters-in-law, don't worry. Follow me later. I promise you won't let you eat leaves raw... In fact, this thing is not good or bad, but how do you do it? For example, give you a fish, braised, barbecued, steamed, and garlic tastes different. What you can do is to greed for people who can't make it, and what you can't make it fishy for people."

She didn't explain too much, and after that, she continued to pick locust flowers. Although the others were full of suspicion and complaints, they did not dare to go too far. After all, the old man owed money these days, and they were still counting on Ma Tianyao to help Wang Chen pay back the money.

After picking all these locust flowers, more than a dozen pots were picked. Ma Tianyao mixed the locust tree leaves into the locust flowers and explained the methods to several women.

"Now we go to the kitchen, pour the appropriate amount of flour and water into the locust flowers and start stirring, and then add appropriate amount of salt to enhance the flavor and add oil to prevent it from sticking to each other. Stir until all the locust flowers are covered with flour without sticking to each other."

...

These women can cook, so she roughly said it and the others understood.

Ma Tianyao was doing it while explaining the method to everyone.

"Put the stirred locust flowers on the steamer now and steam them. Remember to put them on the steamer with a layer of wet rag! This is to prevent the locust flowers from being bubbled and sticking to steamed. Put them in the pot for about ten minutes!"

After hearing this, most women understand that in rural areas, "steaming" is a panacea. You can eat something that can be eaten but not eaten. You can eat it by steaming it in a steamer.

Corn, sweet potatoes, radish, and potatoes can be steamed, some wild vegetables can be steamed, and even some wild grasses, leaves, and flowers can be steamed.

Especially in spring, especially the lazy and unacceptable women in Sunjiagou, while they are poor and destitute, they have also become famous wild vegetable experts.

The behind-the-scenes of wild gourd trees, elm seeds, gray-gray vegetables, alfalfa, broom vegetables, purslane, wheat-bottle grass, etc.
Chapter completed!