In the suburbs of Shanghai can see a whole piece of a whole piece of cauliflower has not easy, only in the rural area in front of the house, the small piece of home-grown vegetables can not harvest and let it bloom in the ground, but also just east of a cluster, west of a cluster, there is no kind of give a person to marvel at the grandeur. Many times after the flowers are cut off as fodder or as green manure to return to the field.
I remember when we went to school, when this season on both sides of the road can be seen a whole piece of a whole piece of rapeseed, and rapeseed intervals is wheat. This yellow and green landscape is like a magnificent painting blanket with stripes, shining in the sunlight on a sunny day. For the countryside, this rape is also a cash crop, and a considerable income for the farming family. But in this bright spring season, walking by the side of this rape road, it is inevitable that you will be attracted by this cauliflower. At this time there will always be a number of beekeepers not far from the vegetable field where the beekeeping box lined up, from time to time you can see the honey in the cauliflower between the busy. As a child, we will also be attracted to this canola field from time to time, sometimes hand cheap can not help but pick flowers to play, a short while is a hand of cauliflower pollen sticky in the hand.
Speaking of picking flowers, there is a small story. When I walked from home to the elementary school way a large area of farmland, whenever this season cauliflower bloomed, a few small friends companion, childish, we will be waving and fiddling with picking flowers. Once, a child learned the palm technique of Hinomoto in the Japanese TV series "Zi San Shiro", and used his palm to cut across the columns of rapeseed flowers, which fell with a thud. Not long after this flower cutting technique everyone learned. They all waved their palms to cut at the innocent cauliflowers, and in a short while the flower columns of the cauliflowers on the roadside fell mercilessly to the ground. We were still enjoying ourselves all the way. Soon after we arrived at school, a farmer came to complain that a few schoolchildren were not walking properly, spoiling the cauliflowers, and asked our homeroom teacher to ask which children had done the bad thing. Since the children could not withstand the class teacher's torture, we all confessed one by one. The teacher didn't say anything, but told us to go to the cauliflower field to retrieve the cauliflowers that we had cut ourselves and count how many there were. Then do a deep review in front of the whole class. "See for yourselves, how much canola oil can be made from these cauliflowers if they go to seed in the fall? If we continue to sow the seeds, how much rapeseed oil can be harvested in the coming year?" At that time, we didn't have this ability, we only knew that we were too wrong, and the review was indispensable. Just from now on see rape flowers will inadvertently think of this matter, see the rape flowers will be far away.
Rapeseed rape is generally planted in the winter of last year, to the spring when the flowering and seeding, to the fall on the maturity of the beginning of the harvest. The whole plant of rape cut down, and in the sickle when harvesting rape can not make brute force, because then the pods are already yellow, if the force is too big, it will not be able to crack, the inside of the rapeseed will mercilessly fall to the ground and can not be helped. So you can only use skillful strength, one by one to hold and put them lightly. Usually a very large cloth bib is used to wrap the whole rape plant around it and drag it home on a trailer. Then in the use of wheat yoke in the home of the field to knock these rapeseed, collect a good threshing under the rapeseed, those rapeseed stalks are generally used as home cooking firewood.
Threshing good rapeseed, after several rounds of sun exposure, and then bagged and transported to the nearby town of the specialized buying station to sell for money, or their own to the oil mill rolling rapeseed oil. The canola oil rolled by these local oil mills is black, and has a unique amber color when poured out for cooking. There is also a by-product, rapeseed cake. These canola cakes are generally used as farmyard fertilizer or as feed for fish. It's all natural, and it's rare to see it today.
Now every time I go back to my hometown, I can't see the grand scene of rapeseed blossoms, only in the far suburbs of Fengxian Zhuangxing is said to have rapeseed blossoms, and there is a special rapeseed festival. But it is not the kind of rape that we used to see when we were children that is unknown.
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