幼年过春节时,我最盼望的是见到住在深山里的外公。他一定会在腊月二十三送灶神前一天赶来,过了正月初十才回去。外公不坐轿子,是自己背着一个大布袋走山路来的,他走到时连大气都不喘一口。大布袋里除了他亲手种的甜山薯,就是在山上采的各种草药,一捆捆像枯藤似的。他说百草治百病,说我母亲忙得脚后跟痛,要吃草药补一下;说我越长越瘦,也要吃药补一下。草药熬成汤,加一种树胶和红糖结成冻儿,每天早晚吃一汤匙,百病消除。 When I was young, I was looking forward to seeing my grandfather who lived in the deep mountains during the Spring Festival. He will certainly come to the stove God 23rd on the twelfth lunar month, before returning to the first ten days of the first month. Grandpa does not sit sedan chair, is carrying a big bag to go his own way, he came even when the atmosphere did not breathe. In addition to his sweet hand-planted sweet potatoes in large bags, is a collection of herbs in the mountains, a bunch of bark like withered. He said Baicao cure all kinds of diseases, saying my mother is so heel pain, eat herbs to make up; that I am longer and leaner, but also to take medicine to make up. Boiled soup herbs, add a gum and brown sugar to form frozen children, eat one tablespoon a day sooner or later, eliminate all the sickness.