Author丨Zhao Yumei
Reader丨Luo Yuejuan
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Yellow bubbles
Yellow bubble is a plant of the Rubus genus of the Rosaceae family, and the fruit ripens in April and May every year. Whenever I see the walnut trees stretching out large green leaves, I think of the sweet and sour taste of yellow bubbles, and the fun of going up the mountain to pick yellow bubbles when I was a child.
There is a saying in our local area: "The cuckoo is called, the yellow bubble is cooked, and the cattle and children have a good fortune." "As soon as we heard the cuckoo call, a few of our friends invited us to pick yellow bubbles. There are few yellow bubbles in the mountain behind our village, so we have to go to the back mountain of another village to pick them. There are sharp thorns on the stems and branches of the yellow bubble tree, and there are also sharp thorns on the back of the leaves, so you should be very careful when picking, if you are not careful, the thorns will pierce into your hands, itchy and painful, very uncomfortable, but you can't resist the temptation of yellow bubbles, and you will still pick them if you prick your hands. Every time we found a yellow bubble tree, we carefully surrounded it and chose a location that was easy to "start". The place where the yellow bubble tree grows is generally uneven, either on the slope or on the edge of the ditch, it is very difficult to pick, after the location is selected, I will use one hand to pick the fruit, the other hand to pick the fruit.
Yellow bubble trees bear fruit while flowering, and it is indeed not easy to pluck the ripe fruit from the bunch of flowers and fruits next to each other.
Sometimes, only one or two of the flowers and fruits in a bunch are ripe, and we pick them, not in the palm of our hands, but in our mouths first. At that time, life was hard and there was hardly any fruit to eat, and with these gifts of nature, of course, you had to taste it first. We don't care about the taste of the fruit, sometimes the fruit that is hurriedly thrown into the mouth is not yet ripe, with a bitter taste, we can also swallow it in the stomach, and when it reaches the stomach, it is a delicacy, a kind of food that can satisfy the stomach; Sometimes the fruit that is thrown into our mouths has a strange smell, and we know that it is crawling over by a bug with a strange smell on the body, and we will always laugh and say something to curse the worm while spitting out the fruit.
When the number of yellow bubbles picked is large, we will take out the walnut leaves prepared in advance, use a small stick, circle the walnut leaves to make a small bowl, and then put the yellow bubbles into it one by one. However, it is not possible to pick a yellow bubble every day, and sometimes you can't find a mature yellow bubble tree after climbing several mountains; Sometimes I found it, and the children from other villages were picking, so I had to walk away in a huff; Sometimes the tree is full of yellow fruits, and when you pick them and taste them, your mouth is full of strange smells, and you can only go home with empty pots in despair.
childhood
Now, people's lives are getting better and better, and there are endless fruits to eat. However, every time I see someone selling yellow bubbles, the golden little fruit is lying in a white porcelain basin, covered with green walnut leaves, the sweet and sour taste immediately makes my saliva secrete quickly, quickly buy a cup, pour it into the walnut leaves, hold it in the palm of your hand and put it in your mouth one by one.
At this time, they are not fruits, they are the "spirits" that I have hidden deep in my heart, the "spirits" that have given me happiness and deliciousness in my troubled childhood.
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