Then, everyone started talking about food, and I couldn't help thinking of the fruit I ate when I was a child.
When I was a child, I lived in the countryside, and every household had fruit trees, but fruit trees were only a limited variety. Of course, it won't bother us. There are still many ways to eat fruit, such as: wild, relatives and friends, friends bought or sent, and finally, stolen from others' homes.
Common wild species are: water chestnut, wild strawberry (dialect: Duanyangpao), wild hawthorn, lotus flower, Gordon Euryale seed (dialect: chicken embryo), jujube, thorn bud and Dryopteris (dialect: Zhan). Water chestnuts are very common, but our water chestnuts are small and hard to bite. Some old ones can't bite at all, so they don't like eating them very much. Wild strawberries are delicious, and the dialect is called Duanyangpao, because it is just near the Dragon Boat Festival. When I was a child, I planted rice in the field, and the Duanyang bubble growing on the edge of the field was a rare delicacy.
Euryale ferox is eaten in summer and its stem can be used for cooking. It tastes good, except that he is covered with thorns. Every time he went to pick it, he was stabbed. Later, he became smart and asked adults to pick them. Finally, he put it in a flat place with pliers and stepped on it with his feet, so that he could eat the gorgon nuts inside. Euryale ferox is hard to eat, but it is rare.
As for hairy crabs and thorn buds, they are the most popular and cost-free foods, which are basically everywhere and very easy to find. In fact, the brush is a kind of grass in its infancy. The circle of grass is wrapped in a little white, like cotton wool, which tastes soft and slightly sweet. But the growth period of upland cotton is not long, usually only one week. After this time, the upland cotton will get old, and the white things inside will not be eaten.
I haven't found its official name yet, just like bamboo was a bamboo shoot when it was a child, and its thorn was a thorn bud when it was a child. There are two kinds of thorn buds, one is white and thin, and the other is purple and thick. Adults say that purple has been crawled by snakes and can't be eaten, but it tastes similar when eaten secretly. The thorn buds should also be eaten while they are tender. Generally not longer than chopsticks. If it passes, it will not taste good. It should be noted that eating thorn buds requires peeling, and after peeling, it is stuffed into your mouth, which is sweet.
There are several kinds of fruit trees in my family, such as hearts (peaches), apples, pears, plums, oranges and persimmons, which are quite common. Plums in our family are very astringent, not delicious, and persimmons are delicious. When I was a child, I picked them when they were almost mature, and I put a sesame stalk behind my ass. After a while, I can eat. They are soft and sweet.
Unusual numbers: water chestnut (dialect: pitch), jujube, goat's milk, pear. Relatively speaking, water chestnut is much more common, and now this kind of fruit can also be seen in the south. When I was a child, every family would grow this fruit, plant it in rice fields and dig it out in winter. It's too small, and peeling is super troublesome. But my fruit cutter has made a lot of progress because of cutting water chestnuts.
I have seen date palms in Hangzhou, too. They are strangely shaped. When I was a child, people often took a bunch of dates to the school gate to sell them. They are very sweet, 20 cents a bunch. What impressed me deeply was that the tip of jujube would bear seeds, like a small bell. When you break it, you can see black and bright seeds. But I don't like dates. Too much trouble. A jujube is killed in a few seconds, and you have to prevent the seed from being eaten. Grandma always said that seeds germinate when eaten. ...
This kind of goat milk has never been seen outside my hometown, and I don't know why it is called this name. Of course, it may be because the dialect is too different from the actual name, so I have never known its name. Goat milk is not common even in my hometown, and there are few trees. Fortunately, there are two big goat milk trees in front of my house, which have white or yellow flowers in spring and can be eaten in late summer. Goat milk is green when it is immature, and there are many white spots on it. One bite will make your whole mouth astringent. It's sweet when it's ripe. There are two colors, one is red and the other is yellow. It's lovely to mix together.
I've never seen Mary outside. I don't know whether our species are too rare or the fruits in big cities are too limited. Ma pear, as its name implies, is a kind of Ma pear, with green skin and hemp face, ugly, uglier and thicker skin than ordinary pears. This pear ripens late, while other pears ripen in summer, so it won't ripen until early autumn. Ma pear will be much sweeter when it is ripe, but I prefer the kind that is not ripe. This kind of pear will have a sour taste and occasionally feel stuck in the neck, but it tastes really good.
Although there are many fruit trees in my family, I don't have any, such as my uncle's peaches, my grandmother's mulberry, my uncle's cherries, plums and flat peaches. These fruits were basically ripe during the summer vacation, which also gave me a good reason to spend the summer vacation at my uncle's house.
Grandma's mulberry is not grandma's, but I don't know whose mulberry it is. These two mulberry trees are so huge that they usually need 2-3 children around the age of 10 to hug each other. Because it is too thick, the trunk is difficult to climb, usually through the branches hanging from it. It is because it is difficult to climb, so I will come down when I am full in the tree. The process of eating is very refreshing, but at night you will taste the bitter fruit of indulgence. Because my teeth are too sour, I can't eat, so I can only drink rice soup with a bowl in my arms. ...
The rest are all kinds of peaches, and you can eat all kinds of peaches all summer. I prefer peaches. When it's ripe, I bite it, and the meat core is separated, crisp and sweet. What else is August tie (dialect: split), white peach, peach, cherry, well, cherry is not a peach. ...
At that time, I also liked stealing other people's fruits. The grapes from grandma's house next door are frequent visitors. Usually when the grapes are dull, I start to pick them secretly, and my eyes are narrowed, so I have to pick them. The wild persimmons in the community behind us, the hairy chestnuts in the community, and the sugarcane, yellow peaches, peanuts, sweet potatoes and oranges on the way to school were all badly hurt by us.
There are two things in the memory of stealing vegetables. Once I went to steal someone else's pear and was stung by a bee collecting honey from the pear. I fell from the tree and cried. Another time, when I was at school, my teacher caught me stealing someone else's sweet potatoes with my friends. Line up honestly and name your parents one by one (because they are folks, they basically know their parents). After the training, the host gave us sweet potatoes to eat. He was scared and ran away because he was afraid of not letting us go. ...
Rare fruits can only be sent or bought by others. Among the fruits sent by others, three are still in my mind.
The first one is loquat brought by my classmate from home. It is small and big, sour and sweet. Remember that classmate with loquat. His name is Li Shuanglin. The second kind is the walnut my aunt brought back from her hometown Wushan, a whole bag of snakeskin bags. At that time, the happiest thing after school every day was to knock walnuts at menstruation's house with bricks. Thirdly, my neighbor came to my house to eat snake meat and brought me Sichuan bayberry. Now I can only vaguely recall the appearance of Yangmei, but it is not any kind of Yangmei I have seen now. In fact, this is also very good, even if you eat that kind of red bayberry again, you may not get the original taste.
The fruits you buy are nothing more than apples and pears, because these two kinds of fruits are easier to keep, and the goods are just right during the Chinese New Year. Speaking of new year's goods, I think of eating bananas for the first time. When I was a child, bananas were a luxury fruit in my hometown. At that time, my father bought a bunch of bananas, and after dividing them, I had three left and gave them to me. I took two sips and prepared to leave one for home. As a result, a monkey came and ate it with a brush and almost didn't cry, so I don't like monkeys very much so far.
Now, with the growth of age, more and more fruits can be eaten outside, but I always inadvertently recall the taste of those fruits when I was a child. Maybe it's not so delicious, but it's the taste of childhood ...