Talking about grapefruit

It's the season to eat grapefruit again.

After dinner, I discussed with two maids to buy some fruit, and suddenly remembered that I had not eaten a grapefruit I bought in the city last time. The two girls actually cheered: "There are grapefruit to eat, grapefruit to eat!" I gave them a contemptuous look: "What's there to scamper about? It's just a grapefruit. My mother couldn't finish all the grapefruit when she was a child. "

"I know, mom, you were the happiest when you were a child. Not only are there so many grapefruit to eat, but there are also many August melons and loquats that we have never seen before. " Lala looks a little sorry. I can't help but comfort her quickly: "But I still think you are very good now. We haven't seen Barbie dolls, we haven't had yogurt, and there are many snacks you eat now. Mom didn't even read it when she was a child. "

"But you will eat when you grow up, but when we grow up, we still can't eat what you ate when you were a child?"

Don't say that. It seems reasonable. "Well, mom promises that the next time you go to grandma's house, you will definitely take you to the mountains to find the wild fruit that mom ate when she was a child, as long as you can still find it." "Well, retractor! You can't change the hook for a hundred years. Whoever changes it owes me 10 thousand. Come on, mom, give me another high five! "

Oh, the word hook is not the same as when we were children. It has something to do with money. Keeping pace with the times is really everywhere.

"Mom, then tell us about picking wild fruits when you were a child."

"Well, let's talk over dinner."

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I spent my childhood in a small village in the northwest of Hunan Province, where there are mountains and four distinct seasons.

Unlike the north, every household doesn't have its own yard, but every household will plant all kinds of fruit trees around the house, such as chestnut trees, pear trees, plum trees and peach trees, most of which are orange trees and grapefruit trees.

There are many kinds of grapefruit. The first kind is a kind of especially sour red grapefruit, which we call sour grapefruit. When writing this, I unconsciously have sour water flowing out of my mouth. It can be seen that it was really sour to a certain extent at that time, but we didn't realize it when we were greedy when we were young. We can deal with them one by one, but even if we bite a bean curd tooth, there is nothing we can do.

Later, new varieties were grafted, mainly Shatian pomelo and honey pomelo. Many people like to eat honey pomelo, because honey pomelo is sweet and slightly sour, but it is big and full of water. But I prefer Shatian pomelo, which is nearly one-third smaller than honey pomelo. It has no moisture, but it is sweet without a trace of sour taste. If you peel off its shell and leave it for a day, it will taste better.

Shatian pomelo is the most planted in our family. Today, many fruit trees have been burning matches because of their age or neglect of management, but there are still more than a dozen Shatian pomelo trees that grow well in the garden diagonally opposite the old house and hang a lot of fruits every year.

Because we have been married for a long time, we have been married for more than ten years, but we seldom go back. Those two girls may not remember our third aunt and seventh aunt, but they have a deep memory of grandma's grapefruit since childhood. Every time I go to my grandmother's house, the biggest motivation is to have grapefruit to eat freely. Otherwise, they still have some palpitations in the face of a long journey.

Let's talk about the gift from the mountains when I was a child.

In fact, our place is not a deep forest, but a hilly area. The winding mountains are gentle and quiet. Our primary school is located in the mountains. At that time, it was basically a narrow path that shuttled between mountains. We are all like children in the mountains. They woke up smiling in our frolicking and reading.

At that time, we lived near the school and left school collectively, especially after school. This is called excitement. As long as it doesn't rain cats and dogs, we will scatter in the mountains looking for wild fruits this season. Whoever finds them first will shout hi from a distance, and then we will rush to him and share the delicious food together.

Of course, there will be some care, such as August melon and carambola (wild kiwifruit), which are not particularly common wild fruits. Even if they are found, they won't say anything. They will proudly sneak them into their schoolbags, cover them with millet for three or five days when they get home, and then enjoy them alone when they become soft.

But most of them are naughty children who can't hide things. They secretly took it off and didn't forget to show it off on the way back. As a result, some naughty guys will grab it, occasionally fight, or make the wild fruit disappear. However, at that time, we didn't seem to hold grudges. We were flushed on the road, and when we got home, we put down our schoolbags and went to play together.

In my impression, at that time, it seems that the most eaten food was honey (goat's milk), hanging (strangely, I googled it and called it goat's milk), giving it to Gazi (chicken claw pear), eight-treasure fruit (wild apple) and loquat (please see the picture for those who don't know). Because they are the most common, and they are one after another, which is what we are most willing to share.

It's time to eat Katz (chicken claw pear) and Babao fruit (wild apple) this season, but after a while, it will taste better after frosting.

Honey (goat's milk) seems to turn red and mature in April and May. As for loquat, I remember it best. This is the product of summer. How many scorching sun, a group of children squatting on the ridge, sweating on the hillside, rummaging through the boxes. Even the children in the city who came to the relatives' house in the countryside during the summer vacation rummaged behind us, but the result was imaginable.

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Grapefruit was eaten by two girls. I was very picky, but I was more excited and wanted to return to my childhood world. But I also know that I can only think about it. Moreover, even children living in the mountains now are afraid of not having that fun.

After all, more people go out to work, and the concept of life has changed. Adults feel better and eat more nutritious snacks. The most important thing is that people with children are not as busy as before and have more time to restrain their children. So the free generation, the children who crawl around in the embrace of nature every day, should not happen again.