I used to like sweet potato, tired of sweet potato, love sweet potato and hate sweet potato.
That was in the 1960s and 1970s. At that time, rural life was too bitter, saying that three meals a day were sweet potatoes. Stir-fry sweet potatoes early, put them in a salty soup pot at noon, and burn sweet potatoes for tea at night. All the year round is a good year to eat sweet potatoes, and even sweet potatoes can't be eaten when the harvest is not good.
Sweet potatoes are divided into spring sweet potatoes and wheat stubble sweet potatoes. Spring sweet potatoes are planed around August 15 of the lunar calendar, scraped into red potato chips, scattered in the ground to dry, and then stored in chariots. I remember that if sweet potatoes meet a bumper harvest year, a family will have several sweet potato slices, which will be ground or cooked later. The sweet potato after wheat stubble is planed late, usually after bitter frost season. Most of the sweet potatoes after wheat stubble are not scraped, but cellar, and each cellar is two or three times. Seeing so many sweet potatoes, I like them very much because I don't have to worry about being hungry. However, sweet potatoes after wheat stubble are easy to deteriorate, especially after the Spring Festival. If it is not well preserved, the sweet potatoes in the cellar will go bad. In this regard, farmers are reluctant to throw it away, cut it into pieces and dry it. No matter how bitter it tastes, it can be hungry.
Is sweet potato delicious? Especially after the Spring Festival, sweet potatoes have been stored for a winter, and starch has been converted into sugar. You can't bring it when you are mature. It's sparse and sweeter than honey. However, after eating it, I can't stand it. I can't stop eating. People are moaning. At about four o'clock in the afternoon, I witnessed some people working in the field, squatting there and spitting sour water. One person can spit a big piece. Many people get stomach trouble because they eat sweet potatoes.
That's my father. His stomach trouble is very serious. Every afternoon, he has heartburn for several hours, which makes him unbearable. However, at that time, I was poor and saw that I had stomach trouble and had no money to treat it. Fortunately, I have a cousin who works in the army and is a doctor. She should call her father my uncle, but she is a great help. Shortly after I wrote to her to tell her about my father's stomach trouble, she sent us medicine from more than three thousand miles away. Up to now, I remember the most clearly and unforgettable medicine is weishuping. Every time it comes by mail, there are several boxes, which are enough for my father to eat for many days, and his illness has also been alleviated a lot. Looking back now, I am still very grateful.
It is from this time that I hate sweet potatoes very much, because they are too harmful to people's health.
After the rural households were separated, farmers gradually took off the hat of eating sweet potatoes all the year round. From then on, I made a curse: I can't eat sweet potatoes for the next eight generations. However, with people's life getting richer day by day, they are tired of eating delicious noodles and meat for a long time and just want to eat something simple. As a result, sweet potatoes have become fashionable goods on people's tables, and people will panic if they don't eat them.
Get up early, I often go out for a walk. When I left, my wife kept telling me not to forget to bring some sweet potatoes back to the market when I came back. I swore I would never eat sweet potatoes again. Since my wife says so, sometimes I buy some. Because I haven't eaten sweet potatoes for many years, I will taste them early and late. Really sweet and beautiful!
However, looking back, I will never forget the eventful years when I used to eat sweet potatoes!