First taste of apples

In the 1970s and 1980s, Sanxing Town, a scene of Jiangnan Water Town. In the center of the market, a stone arch bridge spans the north and south banks of Changtong Port, and there were already iron railings at that time. People on the bridge come and go, go shopping, watch movies; boats come and go under the bridge, sell rice, and transport goods.

In order to repair this bridge, a wooden bridge was built next to it, and I did not dare to walk from the wooden bridge when I went to the cinema to watch a movie. Because our little children's feet can fall from the cracks in the paved planks.

There are many fruits in this area of Jiangnan, including peaches, pears, apricots, and dates, but they can't grow apples. At that time, logistics was not developed, and it was rare to see apples selling on the street.

Facing the Xinhua Bookstore was a businessman's family, and there was often a bird cage hanging in front of their door, and the canary jumped around helplessly in the cage. His family often put some unusual things to sell at the door. Once, Chen Yong and I passed by his door and saw a few fruits in his house. I didn't know it at all, the fruit was very unfree, it was crumpled by the wind, and there was a small spot, as if it was rotten.

Chen Yong bought this fruit. He asked the shopkeeper to dig up the rotten ones and cut them in half, and Chen Yong and I were one and a half. Later, I learned that this was a Guoguang apple, which was shipped back from a long distance.

The first time I ate an apple, I thought it tasted good, crispy, sweet, even the skin was eaten, and the remaining apple cores were still in my mouth for a long time before I spit it out. Even the current red Fuji can't eat the same taste as it was then.

There used to be three apples that changed the world. The apple of the Garden of Eden became the forbidden fruit that Adam and Eve stole, symbolizing temptation and desire. Newton's apple smashed out the law of universal gravitation. Jobs's apple, symbolizing this mutilated beauty, bites out a culture, a world brand.

What has changed with the half apple I ate?