Chapter 781

Hanging the camera around his neck, Guo Xiang picked some pumpkin flowers.

Ann saw her mother picking flowers and ran over.

"Mom, can I eat this flower?"

"Yes, but cook it." Guo Xiang smiled.

"I'll take it too." Ann stood on tiptoe to pick a flower in front of her.

"Be careful!" Guo Xiang shouted. It was too late. Ann was stabbed by a small thorn on the pumpkin vine, and her hand was immediately red.

Although the thorns on the pumpkin vine are not sharp, the child's skin is too delicate. Many small hairy thorns pierce into his hands, which is still a little painful for the child.

"Mom, it hurts..." Ann raised her hand to Guo Xiang with tears.

Guo Xiang couldn't cry or laugh. "I'm not afraid. My mother doesn't hurt when she blows."

He grabbed Ann's finger and looked at it. He pricked some small burrs on it. Guo Xiang blew it and swept it with a handkerchief, and the rest was pinched off with his fingers.

"Well, it's all right."

"Oh!" Ann, look at her fingers. It's really all right.

"Sister-in-law, can I eat this pumpkin flower?" Guo'er asked that his family didn't seem to have the habit of eating pumpkin flowers.

"Yes, you can make soup or fry it." Guo Xiang said that in her previous life, she had eaten soup in Guangdong Province and thought it was very delicious.

In some places, it is fried with batter with good ingredients, such as tempura with Japanese ingredients. Tempura can be fried for all things, and the fried things are very fragrant.

"I'll pick it for you, too." Guo'er said.

"Only this male flower can be picked." Guo Xiang took one and showed it to the fruit. "There is a small fruit under the female flower. It's going to grow a pumpkin. Don't pick it wrong."

"Well, I understand." Guo Er nodded.

Male flowers are mainly used for pollination. Just like people, men and women have babies only when they love together.

The fruit of nature also needs male pollen to enter the female flower for pollination before it can bear fruit. Otherwise, the female flower will have small fruit and fall at that time.

Of course, plants will not move. The task of pollination is mainly entrusted to bees, butterflies and other insects. If there is a lack of insects, artificial pollination can also be carried out.

It is OK to pick the male flowers, dip the pollen into the female flowers, directly touch or stick the male pollen with a brush and sweep it onto the female flowers. How convenient is it.

For example, in large orchards, many fruit farmers will raise bees, pollinate flowers and collect nectar at the same time, killing two birds with one stone.

Otherwise, a large number of fruit trees have to rely on manual pollination, and the workload will be too large.

They picked a few more flowers. It seemed that there was almost enough for a bowl, so they didn't pick much.

After eating the cucumber, an Jin walked in front of the beans and touched the long beans like chopsticks, "what's this?"

"Just now grandma said it was beans." Ann said.

"Our name is cowpea. That's what grandma's sour beans are made of." Guo'er said.

"Let's pick some beans and go back?"

"Good!" An Jin nodded. Today's experience is very new to him, which has never been before.

It's so interesting to know a lot of vegetables I didn't know before and pick them myself.

Guo Xiang saw them here and photographed them all.

Picked a handful of beans and put them into Gu Zhennan's basket.

"I think it's almost done. Go back!" Gu Zhennan said.

"Good!" Guo Xiang nodded and greeted everyone, "let's go!"

As soon as she got back to the yard, Ann shouted, "grandma, grandma, look, we picked a lot of vegetables!"

Mother Zhang came out of the room, looked into the basket and said with a smile, "that's good, baby. What did you pick?"

"I picked a big tomato and cucumber, but the cucumber has been eaten by me." Ann patted her belly and said.

Everyone laughed.

"It's very hot. Come and wash your face." Zhang's mother said, taking a washbasin, a bucket of water and a new towel.

"We brought our own towels. Don't waste your new one." Guo Xiang said quickly and took out the towel from the room.

Everyone washed their faces. "The water is so cool and comfortable."

"This is well water, warm in winter and cool in summer." Mother Zhang smiled.

"Where is the well? Why didn't I see it?" Let's shout.

"Over there!" Mother Zhang pointed.

"You can't play in the well. It's dangerous." Guo Xiang said in a hurry.

The wellhead here is open and will fall down accidentally. Although Guo Xiang encourages children to try all kinds of things, dangerous things are absolutely forbidden.

"I'll see." Chug your mouth.

"I'll take them!" Gu Zhennan said that he would never let children climb around.

Several people went to see the well again. Gu Zhennan also drew a bucket of water from the water for them to see. Several children thought it was very interesting.

"Come and eat watermelon!" Zhang's mother shouted, and everyone rushed back to eat watermelon.

A line of people sat under the eaves eating watermelon, and an an sat next to an Jin.

"Brother Xiao Jin, do you think it's fun here?" Ann asked.

"Fun!" An Jin nodded.

"Shall we come again next time?" Ann tilted her head and looked at him. "I told you that my grandmother's house is also fun. I'll take you later."

"Good!" An Jin smiled.

Guo Xiang found that an Jin smiled very well. He usually laughed too little.

Yu Yan also sighed that she didn't seem to know her son very well and didn't know what he liked.

I should learn more from Guo Xiang.

After eating watermelon, we washed the vegetables together, and then took them to the kitchen to cook for mother Zhang.

"Ah, I also picked pumpkin flowers. I haven't eaten them. How can I cook them?" Asked Zhang's mother.

"I tell you!" Guo Xiang said that she can't cook, but she has a recipe.

Egg & vegetable soup is very simple. Just like making soup with egg powder, boil the soup with pumpkin flower, wait for the water to boil, beat eggs, then seasoning, sprinkle some chopped green onion.

"Can't this pumpkin flower prick your mouth?" Asked Zhang's mother.

"No, although there are some thorns on the back of pumpkin flowers, they are soft after cooking. It just feels a little rough and tastes very special." Guo Xiang said.

"OK, I'll try." Mother Zhang nodded.

In addition to her own dishes, Zhang's mother killed a duck.

It's too hot to eat chicken. Cook an old duck and white gourd soup, which is nutritious and cool to relieve the summer heat.

At noon, a large table of people eat together.

Guo Xiang scooped a spoonful of scrambled eggs with tomatoes and put them in An'an's bowl. "Come on, this is An'an's own tomato. Try it."

Ann picked up the spoon and took a bite. "It's delicious. Grandma did a great job!"

Mother Zhang couldn't close her mouth with a smile. The little girl's mouth was too sweet.

There are also cucumber, hot and sour and delicious, especially appetizing.

Zhang's mother used eggplant to make an eggplant box. She cut it into two pieces. The center of the two pieces is not cut off. Then she sandwiched the seasoned meat foam in the middle, wrapped it on the outside and fried it in an oil pan. It is crispy outside and tender inside. It's especially delicious.

Several people have never eaten this practice and are full of praise.