The watermelon I bought recently is not bad; Not to mention the melon seeds, I am very satisfied when I see the melon seeds are black, shiny, plump and full. And I prefer watermelon seeds and peels.
There are several tricks to buy melons. Although I often trip now.
One is to look. Look at whether the vines are fresh and whether there is frost on the melon body to judge the length of watermelon leaving the field; Look at the color of the epidermis near the navel of Guatigua. If a considerable part of the area has turned white and yellow, it is mature.
? The second is listening. You can knock the melon with your knuckles. Raw melon pulp is hard, so the sound is crisp and high when knocking, "bang bang"; And if you feel dull and muddy when you knock, or you feel vibrato, the melon will not be too bad. To make it easier to understand, you can go to the top of Shanjuan Cave with me one day and stamp your feet with me to feel it. A solid stone mountain is different from a mountain with caves, whether there is an echo or not.
? Memories about watermelons are always full.
? Less than 100 meters to the west of the old house, there is a roughly eight-point farmland. This land was originally owned by my uncle (of course, the collective land is not really owned by a farmer), but because it is far from his home, it is at my door, so for a year or two, my family is responsible for farming, sowing and harvesting. My parents have discussed how to use this land. Instead of transplanting rice, it is better to plant watermelon for one or two seasons, which may fetch a good price.
When cuckoo crows, the seedlings are green and the ears of wheat are yellow, mother will plant watermelon seedlings one by one among the wheat ridges; A few days later, the wheat was harvested and the seedlings began to climb all over the ground. In a few days, the little yellow flowers, one flower and the other, opened shyly, and then countless butterflies, fireflies and ladybugs came to help (by the way, many of these enthusiastic people are actually villains); Forget a few days later, unconsciously, the glass ball is already the size of a fist, but the size of a volleyball. Of course, they are all made of jade, with a background color, dim patterns and dark green and green spaces.
When watermelons came on the market, dad said that he would build a melon shed. Thieves are still very rampant.
Guapeng is very simple. Shovel a flat land, take four pillars, tie them together and support them on the ground in pairs, and then cross a wooden stick with a layer of straw on both sides, so that people can sleep in a narrow space.
There are simpler ones. Directly in Gua Tian, move two benches, put things aside, put a bamboo bed on the long bench, and then tie a bamboo pole at each end of the bed and hang mosquito nets. The premise is to ensure that it doesn't rain that night, otherwise it will be miserable.
? In contrast, I prefer the latter way to see melons. Imagine: under the cloudless moon in Wan Li, fireflies fly around with lanterns, and the refreshing fragrance of lotus flowers or seedlings is everywhere, far from being felt in the haystack; More importantly, when you wake up in the middle of the night and feel thirsty, you can put your hand out of the mosquito net, touch a watermelon under the bed, hit the bed, then stick your head out, chew a few mouthfuls at random, and then go to sleep at random. Extremely convenient.
? In rural areas, every summer vacation will be picked up by some relatives and elders for a few days; And with my little uncle, who is not much older than me, helping my aunt's husband's family look after melons in the mountains seems to be a routine treatment and a fat job for many years.
My aunt's Gua Tian is on the hillside about 1.5km away from home. The direction here is good, the sunshine is abundant, the iron red soil is rich in nutrition and the water is low. The watermelon that grows out has nothing to say in taste; Gua Tian, a mountain family, is usually like this. And like a family next to a family, or even a piece, convenient for care and centralized irrigation water. At that time, even in the dry season, the trickle from Hengshan Reservoir always moistened everything downstream. Now only willing to supply drinking water to urban and rural residents, the name of the reservoir has also been changed to Yunfu Scenic Area.
? Every time after lunch, the two of us usually take Yang Jiajiang and Xue Gang's "Anti-Tang" and other folk songs and stagger to the melon shed.
? Nietzsche, a cow, said that innate inertia makes most people slowly become mediocre and eventually lose themselves; And Nietzsche's brother is also a great man. According to his observation and proposition, no matter rich or poor, everyone is born with a small idea of making windfall and taking advantage: as long as he thinks it's worth it, or what others can't get, or what he can have for himself, whether it's stolen, robbed or found, even a feather on the cock's ass can make him happy for a while, let alone the dining tools on the plane, he always wants to stuff it into the suitcase. This is human nature.
For example, every time you pass someone else's Gua Tian, if you find that the melon watcher is not there, you will have the intention and impulse to steal melons. My uncle and I work together: one walks along the ridge at the top of Gua Tian, and the other runs parallel to the bottom of the slope. People who walk on it observe all the way and feel right. They stretch out their right hand, pinch the vines at the pedicel with their thumb and forefinger, then pick up the watermelon and put it in the ditch, and drain it in rainy days or irrigate it in drought. Seeing the melon rolling down, the people below picked it up and headed for their own Gua Tian. Not greedy every time, two or three. Because such stealing melons is purely to satisfy a psychological feeling.
At first, I was curious, excited and scared: I thought it was a thief. My uncle looked disdainful and argued that it was not a real theft. Neighbors often do this to each other, which means stealing and having some fun (stealing is like stealing), but it is more of a secret competition to see who looks good. There seems to be some truth.
? Watching melons is mainly to prevent thieves, but for us children, it is more interesting to prevent those small animals from eating melons. For example, when I see rabbits, such as hedgehogs, such as badgers, I can't wait to grab a skinning barbecue directly. As for whether the hedgehog steals melons and sticks them with thorns or rolls watermelons like dung beetles pushes dung balls, I have never seen it, but the way he eats watermelons is very similar to those who eat goods: he likes to sell cute eyes and keep his mouth shut, not only greedy, but also likes to eat alone. He is full of thorns and can't stand being robbed by others. At first glance, it is a dead face, a twisted face, pretending to be innocent.