I suddenly remembered those fruits I ate when I was a child!
When I was a child, I lived in the countryside, and the fruits that could be eaten on the mountains at that time included mountain red, mountain grapes, dates, and sea buckthorn fruits.
Mountain red tastes sour, a very small kind of fruit, similar to the shape of hawthorn, the flesh is much less than hawthorn, it is said that mountain red is the father of grafted hawthorn trees, and I have seen adults dig up small red trees in the mountains home, after planting, grafted hawthorn trees, but the taste of hawthorn and mountain red is still very different, mountain red is more sour.
Mountain grapes will ripen at the end of summer, mountain grapes have smaller leaves, grapes are small bunches, you can't eat more, eat a small handful at a time, and more is said to be poisoned, but no one dares to try, eat a little and dare not eat.
Jujube is also called sour jujube, a round kind of jujube, the core is large, the flesh is very small, and a thin layer of skin. Dates mostly grow on the side of ravines or in relatively high hilly areas. In autumn, around National Day, a few companions will go to pick dates and bring a sickle. Cut some of the branches of the dates, and then put them together and beat them with sticks, the branches of the dates are all thorny, and you can't pick them by hand, and the more the branches of the date tree are cut, the more prosperous they will be. Picked home, some are eaten directly, and some are to be dried and kept for winter eating.
I remember when I was a child, there were two large deep ditches in the south of the village, and the sides of the ditch were covered with sea buckthorn trees, probably planted in the past for wind protection and sand fixation, and by our time we were children, they had grown into very thick sea buckthorn trees, sea buckthorn trees were full of thorns, sea buckthorn fruits grew all over the branches, sea buckthorn fruits smaller than soybean grains, dense, we children often go under the tree to pick them directly and eat them, sea buckthorn fruits have red and orange, red ones should be counted some, after eating enough in the ravine, sometimes a branch full of sea buckthorn fruit will be cut and brought home, Just take a few bites if you're okay.
The deepest memory is these three fruits, when I was a child, there was no fruit to eat, plus I loved to play in the mountains, a large group of children were lively, and they thought these fruits were particularly delicious.
Later, I grew up. I left my hometown and went back again, I never saw those wild fruits in the mountains again, and occasionally I met some, and it was not so delicious, I don't know if the fruit changed its taste, or we are eating too rich now!
