Prose

I went shopping in the supermarket yesterday. In the dazzling fruit section, I saw neatly arranged grapefruits. The bright red packaging bags were about the same size. They were particularly eye-catching on a shelf with the best ranking.

The neat arrangement and the festive outer packaging attracted many people to watch and choose, and they also successfully caught my attention.

I once read a grapefruit recipe, which said that when choosing grapefruit, you should pay attention to one, two, and three pressures. Weigh the weights of the same size, the top tip should be wide, the neck should be short, the bottom should be flat, and the skin should be clean and bright.

Taking this as a criterion, I carefully selected two grapefruits of good quality and took them home, which made me feel happy.

Grapefruit is my favorite. I like the sweet and sour taste. My son’s taste is mine and he likes to eat it. Only my husband makes his mouth water when he sees us eating and he can’t stop eating. Every time I eat grapefruit, I can only shake my head and sigh.

After I got home, I was so greedy that I couldn’t wait for a moment. I quickly peeled off the skin with a knife and broke it into small petals. Seven or eight small red crescents appeared in front of me like flower fairies wearing black gauze. before. I specially found a beautiful fruit plate, and arranged these flower fairies in a circle, with two layers inside and outside. In an instant, the flower fairies seemed to be dancing on the plate, vivid and vivid, which made people laugh. I was really afraid that the plate would accidentally flash if I didn't handle it well. their small waists.

I brought the dancing flower fairy to the table. My son Yang impatiently picked up a crescent moon and gently peeled off the fairy's veil. Suddenly, a crystal clear little fairy revealed her "true face" "Come on, each little fairy has multiple purple-red elves hugging each other, they are watery and charming! My son opened his mouth and took a bite, and my saliva was about to stay. I quickly picked up a piece and took a big bite of Wusha, and bright red juice flowed from my lips.

My husband laughed and said to me: "It's not polite to be a foodie."

I also laughed at him: "You can say grapes are sour if you can't eat them."

The whole family was laughing and joking, and after a while, most of the grapefruit was eaten.

Yang and I were intoxicated by the sour and sweet grapefruit. Although my husband couldn’t eat it, seeing Yang and I eating it with gusto, we were not intoxicated by the happy atmosphere of the family.

Everyone has been a little angry recently, mainly because the food is a bit spicy, so eating grapefruit is the right time.

I was afraid that the leftover grapefruits would go bad, so I peeled off the outer thin skin, broke them into pieces and boiled them into grapefruit tea, cooled them down, added honey, and a pot of authentic honey grapefruit tea was ready. .

In the evening, while watching TV, everyone had a bowl of honey grapefruit tea to quench thirst and reduce internal heat.

During the dog days of summer last year, I went to the supermarket to buy honey grapefruit tea. When I came back, I brewed it with cold boiled water. Each person had a bowl. It was very sweet and delicious. Sometimes I put it in the refrigerator to cool down. After a while, it will become more cool, delicious and refreshing. Yang still remembered the smell.

Yesterday I took a sip of the homemade honey grapefruit tea poplar, frowned and asked me:

"Mom, why is it so bitter?"

He asked again : "Why are the fruits bought in the supermarket so sweet?"

Then he asked: "Why do fruits that are so delicious taste bitter when boiled into water?"

After asking three times, Mr. He smiled at me and looked at Yang lovingly.

"I don't understand the merger of the first and third questions, so let's find out together," I said.

Yang immediately took out his mobile phone to find the answer.

"Yes," Yang said: "There is a kind of limonin naturally in the grapefruit skin. When the skin is peeled, the fiber structure of the skin is destroyed, and the limonin will be emitted. Some grapefruit pulp also has this kind of limonin. "Picrin."

As for the second question, the finished products have to be specially processed during production, and some simply add too much sugar.

With the answers to the two questions, Yang Xinyue was convinced, took another spoonful and tasted it and said: "Strange, this time it seems not as bitter as before!"

My husband and I smiled again : “That’s because you reacquaint yourself with it and accept it with your heart.

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The three people looked at each other and smiled without saying a word, and quickly drank the grapefruit tea in their respective bowls.

The two flavors of grapefruit pulp and grapefruit tea are very different. The taste of life is Isn't it so sweet and bitter?

I remember that although I was simple and happy when I was a child, children living in rural areas all took on family responsibilities too early, such as herding sheep, feeding pigs, and pulling pig weeds...

I have been able to do these things since I was five or six years old. I remember the first time I went to herd sheep. My father tied a rope around the lamb's neck, and we took the lamb to the field bank and handed it to me. Then he left.

The lamb was hungry at first and could eat grass quietly. Then it became naughty and dragged me around. I wanted to pull it home, but it pulled back with all its strength. , the sheep and I were in a tug-of-war. Until dark, the naughty lamb couldn't pull it home, until his father came to come and he praised me for looking after the sheep. From then on, herding became my speciality.

When I was seven or eight years old, I could carry a bamboo basket on my back, so I went to weed the pigs. With a group of friends who were about the same age as me, each of us carried a big bamboo basket and walked through the fields. On the field, when I came back, the pigweeds in everyone's bamboo baskets were standing out, and everyone was bent down by the frame that was heavier than themselves.

I remember one time, I wanted to be lazy. I broke off a few small branches from the tree and placed them across the mouth of the bamboo basket, and only pulled a little grass to cover it. It looked as sharp as usual. When I passed by the wheat field, my mother was working in the wheat field, and I saw that I had no frame at all. It didn’t take any effort, I already knew it. When I got home, my mother went directly to the pig pen to see that there was no pig grass left in the pig pen. She turned around and slapped me on the head. My mother always carried a thimble for needlework on her finger, and the slap from the thimble hurt me.

In fact, when I got home, I went to the pigsty to feed the pigs the little grass they had. I regretted it so much. My mother's slap gave me a headache and my heart hurt even more. My mother felt sorry for me and I felt sorry for the pig.

I was almost ten years old. When I was young, I was able to cut wheat. Once my Chinese teacher saw me and said with emotion: "A person who is not as tall as a sickle can cut wheat." ”

When I was in the first grade of junior high school, my father didn’t want me to go to school anymore. He said he had no money to pay the tuition. So I followed the adults on my bicycle and went to the vegetable market to sell vegetables. Since then, I have saved up my annual tuition by selling vegetables.

I feel sad when I think about every detail of the past. Compared with the past, my life now is too happy.

The ups and downs of life can only be remembered if you experience them.

Just like grapefruit, eating it in different ways will give you different tastes. Fu, no one can control it. Everything you have today may have nothing tomorrow.

If we can season life like grapefruit, life will always be sweet. Unfortunately, this is just one kind. It's just a fantasy.

What's more, society has its dark side. How can you tell the difference between falsehood and falsehood? When I went to the vegetable market to help the fourth child sell vegetables, she accidentally took one. The one hundred dollar counterfeit bill, the old man burst into tears, and all the grievances that he had suffered from waking up early and working late at night came to his mind at this moment, and the hard work of the past few days was wasted.

Disaster may suddenly strike at any time, and it cannot be avoided. If you feel that misfortunes are coming, you will not be able to cope with the future. Don't be paralyzed by the superficial good things in life. For example, the grapefruit tea you buy in the supermarket tastes sweet, but swallowing it may not be good for your body.

My Yang Tingzhuo. Being sensible means that life still needs training. Sometimes it is not that parents have to let their children endure hardship, but that life is not always smooth. Only when you experience and understand the experience of life can you truly cherish the hard-won happiness.

Most parents protect their children too well. Who knows that children who have not experienced hardships are more likely to be overwhelmed by life?

Therefore, I suggested to Yang: "When the postgraduate entrance examination is over, Went to deliver takeout for a while. ”

Yang knew: “OK! ”

The three of us laughed together.