夏初,买菜。老人对我说,买我的吧。看他菜摊,好似堆积着银粉色乒乓球。我说,这么小,还青,远没有冬天时我吃的西红柿好。老人不悦地说,冬天的西红柿算什么西红柿!那是温室煨出来的。先用炉火烤,再用药熏,让它们不合规矩地胖大,用保青剂或保红剂,让它比画的还好看。人里面有汉奸,西红柿里头也有奸细呢。冬天的西红柿就是这种假货。我惭愧了,虚心讨教。老人乐得教诲我:记着,永远吃正当节令的菜。萝卜下来就吃萝卜,白菜下来就吃白菜。节令节令,节气就是令 Early summer, to buy food. The old man said to me, buy me. Look at his vegetable stalls, like stacking silver pink table tennis. I said, so small, green, far better than the tomatoes I eat in winter. The old man said unhappily, what tomato in the winter tomatoes! That is simmering in the greenhouse. First roasted with fire, and then medication smoked, so that they fat irregularities, with green or red agent, let it look better than the picture. There are traitors inside, there are sprouts in tomatoes too. Winter tomatoes is such a fake. I am ashamed, humbly ask for advice. Elder happy to teach me: Remember, always eat proper seasonal food. Radish down to eat radish, cabbage down to eat cabbage. Seasonal festivals, solar terms that is