Mountain village, the memory of sugar orange.

Going to the small mountain village of Sihui to pick sugar oranges has a long-lost feeling. Not a long-lost mountain village, but a sugar orange. The sugar orange of Sihui was once a smash hit, but it also experienced ups and downs. In recent years, it has been quiet and the river has flown. Therefore, it is a bit overjoyed to have sugar oranges. The village picking fruit is not too far from the city, less than an hour's drive. But it's remote I have been to that small town before. I wrote in my article that there is only one street and a restaurant, but there is no factory. Go around the west of the town, climb all the way and turn into a fork in the road. The road is getting narrower and narrower, but it is difficult to come to an end. It takes three kilometers to reach the village. Seventy or eighty families, the bungalows with chessboard layout are neatly packed, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there is a reservoir on the side of the mountain. There are two or three acres of sugar oranges planted on the edge of the village. It is the mature period, and the ripe fruits are scattered under the fruit trees, which makes people feel sorry.

However, this year, the epidemic situation is good and the crops are bumper. The village is dominated by farming, and the harvested paddy fields have withered. Lvye is an orchard, but the scale is not large. There are also some crops such as pueraria lobata, taro and vegetables. There is a signboard under a big tree near the village, which introduces the situation of the village and also carries the village rules and regulations. The villagers all go out to work, mainly engaged in jade processing. Many families have settled in the city, and the old people left behind do simple farm work. The village is quiet and leisurely, but it is warm in winter. A few years ago, I went to a family that went deeper into the mountains here. The village appearance and conditions were strikingly similar to this village. Accustomed to the rapid development of the city, I feel that the countryside has fallen behind for decades. While admiring the good air, I ask how I live here every day, but I feel that only such a place is suitable for producing sweet and refreshing sugar oranges.

The first time I ate sugar oranges was more than twenty years ago. I can't stop at the entrance. I ate two or three Jin at a time. From then on, I never eat oranges again, but I fell in love with sugar oranges. I still remember the orange stalls lined up along the Sihui National Road, stretching for ten miles and eight miles, which is spectacular. Even if you don't pass by, you have to make a detour to help. Later, when I came to the center of Sihui, I suddenly saw the tall sculpture of "transporting oranges", and I was very sad. At this time, the sugar orange is no longer brilliant, and it is a change for the better. This kind of thing, oranges, will be new every few years. Together with oranges and oranges, it is a dazzling huge fruit family. Therefore, since ancient times, there has been a saying that Huainan is orange and Huaibei is bitter orange. There have been famous products such as Luogang orange, Xinhui orange, Chaozhou orange, Hongjiang orange, navel orange, imperial orange and tangerine. You can sing it to me, sweetheart.

Sugar orange is worthy of the name, which is very rare in the "sour and sweet" citrus family. However, sugar orange is not only sweet, thin-skinned, juicy, with little residue and seedless, but also "thin and easy to eat", which makes sense to look down on the world once. There are different opinions about sugar oranges sinking sand and smashing halberds. In my opinion, there are only three reasons. One of the environmental reasons is that sugar oranges can't survive without wind and clouds. Secondly, due to social reasons, the market is mixed with good fish and dragons, shoddy and ruined the good reputation of sugar orange; Third, biological causes, pests and diseases and natural degradation. Therefore, the fate of sugar orange can be imagined. In the final analysis, the good quality of sugar oranges is bred by good mountains and good waters, and it is also the crystallization of a good market and a good society. People like sugar oranges in pursuit of a better life.

The process of picking sugar oranges is quite lively and warm. At present, the labor price is high, and the cost of receiving finished fruits is heavy. Picking, processing and transportation double the income of fruit farmers. I once heard a joke that only one orange in a village made money because his orange orchard just passed the newly planned expressway and was requisitioned. We went to pick sugar oranges this time to play as familiar friends and to celebrate the birthday of an 80-year-old man in the village. By the way, we went to the orchard to taste and pick fruits. Labor is just a symbol, and the owner of the orchard has already prepared the finished product. This form of farming, business and tourism is also a bright color in the lonely mountain village in winter.