After solar terms? Xiaoman, Wheat and Xinger began to enter the mature season. Standing at the entrance of the village, you can smell the first ripe wheat fragrance and the
After solar terms? Xiaoman, Wheat and Xinger began to enter the mature season. Standing at the entrance of the village, you can smell the first ripe wheat fragrance and the gradually ripe fruit fragrance in Xinger. The ears of wheat in the south of the village have turned yellow, and Xinger in the apricot garden has changed from green to red or yellow. This is exactly: I like to see the wheat in the village turn yellow, and I like to smell the apricot in the orchard.
? I don't care about the mature wheat, but my eyes long for the mature Xinger. ? Apricots have been riveted for more than 70 days from the opening of apricot flowers around February 15 of the lunar calendar to the picking of apricots in Xinger at the end of April of the lunar calendar. From the moment I began to pay attention to apricot flowers in mid-February, the apricot garden in the south of the village could no longer satisfy my visual desire, so I often rode my bike to the huge apricot forest in front of Jinghe Beach to see apricot flowers.
? In early spring and February, the weather is still neither warm nor cold, and the cold wind blows gently in front of Jinghe Beach, making it chilly. Impatient apricot trees are bare branches, without a leaf, or white or pink or red are budding buds, waiting to open on the twigs like twists. One or two impatient apricot flowers, as big as a wine glass and as cold as ice, have blossomed on the high branches. After ten days and eight days, I went to Xinglin in front of Jinghe Beach to see apricot flowers, and the petals fell like rain. I stood on the side of the road, looking at the flowers and admiring them. I can't bear to walk under the tree, for fear that my humble body and messy steps will crush the broken apricot flowers.
? At the beginning of March, the apricot garden at the head of the village was covered with green leaves as big and round as birds' eggs, and green fruits with big fingers were hidden under the apricot leaves, like stars and jade. I didn't go back to my hometown for ten and a half months, but Xinger never forgot to grow up secretly every day. Today, when I returned to my hometown, Xinger in the village head apricot garden was as leafy and winding as garlic braids. No matter how dense the leaves are, they can't hide the fruitful results of the branches. The joy of harvest has already opened a smile on the branches. Rhubarb apricot is a golden sun, and small yellow apricot is a placer red apricot. I can't name some varieties. At this time when I was a child, I often heard the old people in the village say: When the barley came to power, the wheat turned yellow, and I wanted to see a cage of yellow stubble (before harvesting the wheat when I was a child, my married daughter would carry a cage of steamed bread and bring some fresh apricots back to visit her parents, which was an important etiquette in rural areas).
? Wheat is yellow and Xinger is ripe. I have a preference for apricot since I was a child. Apricot is not only the first early-maturing fruit in the north, but also the flesh and stone of apricot can be eaten, and other fruits can't be eaten. When I was a child, when my family finished eating apricots, I put them away together and sat on the pier in front of my house. I broke the almonds one by one and slowly tasted their sweetness. Almonds have a faint fragrance of breast milk between the lips and teeth, as well as the bean fragrance of stone mill soybean milk, as white as nectar. Until now, I still like the feeling of smashing almond and eating almond, recalling my mother's faint frankincense. Chew slowly, savor carefully, and the lips and teeth are full of sweet frankincense. Almond can also be used as medicine, which has the effects of relieving cough, resolving phlegm and relieving asthma. Later, there was a drink with almond dew that sold well. It is as white as nectar, slightly sweet and milky.
I like Xinger since I was a child, but I hate peaches. Compared with peaches, the flesh and stone of apricots can be eaten, but peaches can't. Apricot garden, peach pit pointed, when I was a child, a few friends often sat in the shade and played games with apricot pit to catch five sons, but the peach pit was too pointed and too big. The light on the thin side of apricot kernel is easy to be typed out. It's very cool to take out almonds and make whistles. Children often listen to vendors selling: almond cold eye drops, almond cold eye drops, which are made of boxed empty almonds, and are sold as cream in almonds, just like shell oil used to wipe faces in those years. When they were young, apricots were ripe. They often climbed into the orchard to steal apricots in the name of mowing grass, poked vests into shorts, stuffed the picked apricots on their backs and climbed out of the orchard, and then sat by the canal to share the stolen fruits. Once I climbed into an orchard, stuffed an immature peach on my back and climbed out. Peach's stomach itches, and I feel sick all over for several days. From then on, I hated peaches until today.
I often hear my mother say that peaches and apricots hurt people and people are buried under plum trees. ? I don't know what this means. I only vaguely remember my mother saying that apricots are hot and plums are cool. Eating too much is bad for your health, but peaches are not. I am stubborn by nature and still prefer apricots to peaches. I have always felt that when eating peaches, the peach core and pulp can't be separated smoothly. The pulp on the peach core is flocculent and my hands are sticky. Apricots, on the other hand, are mostly beneficial to stones. Sticky peach stones are like some people who are dragging their feet and slurring their words, rather than simply being clumsy. Like me, apricot is full of passion for human nature, hard and brittle in doing things, clear in love and hate for friends, and clear in accounting with people's money. This is like the relationship between apricot kernels and apricot meat, which will never stick together.
? Apricots are ripe! I sat on the riverbank of the village head apricot garden, picked some fresh apricots, and then broke the apricot core to eat almonds. Chew slowly, savor carefully, and fill your lips, teeth and mouth with the mellow breast milk only found in almonds. ?
? May 24, 2020? Sunday afternoon