Prose: That apple jelly when I was a child

Prose: That apple jelly when I was a child

Text: Yang Xiaoguang

　　The unit poverty alleviation subscribed to a batch of unsalable apples in nearby mountainous areas as a benefit for the Dragon Boat Festival. I eat an apple a day, and I still have "fruit" to eat it. First-class Fuji red apples, until the Fuguo "Mixia" apple is about to be listed, still has a rosy color, full juice, and a sweet and crisp taste.

　　I can't help but think of eating apples when I was a kid. A great man said: If you want to know the taste of pears, you have to taste them yourself. I dream of tasting the fruit, and I have to have wow! In the 1960s and 1970s, the sandy land of the hometown was only suitable for growing sweet potatoes and peanuts, and there was not a single fruit tree in the radius of dozens of miles, and none of the villagers knew the appearance and taste of apples. Recently, when I returned to my hometown for a small tour, I saw that the family's backyard was full of yellow apricots that no one picked, and the rotten apricots that were ripe and fell to the ground were piled up, and I really sighed. At that time, the only "fruit" was the mulberry of the May Festival.

　　Listening to my grandmother, I have drunk goat's milk and milk, of course, the most I drank was millet porridge rice soup. In order to supplement my nutrition, Grandma used a small spoon to scrape the apple into apple puree and fed it to me in one bite. When I grew my deciduous teeth, I cut the apple into thin slices and let me grab them in my mouth and chew them to practice my teeth. I searched through my memory inventory for my grandmother's one-sided narrative and found no clues.

　　I only remember when I had a cold and fever, I couldn't eat home-cooked food in my mouth, and my grandmother looked at it and it hurt in her heart. I bought canned apples from the commissary of the supply and marketing cooperative, and the sugar water apples peeled by the machine are delicious and delicious, and I can't eat the original taste of the apples at all. The glass bottle of canned apples was finished, and I was able to get rid of the cold. Grandma said jokingly: The eldest grandson's headache and brain fever are not a problem, but a "hunger disease".

　　My grandmother took me to my uncle's house in Changli County, where the family ate an apple, and I still remember it vividly. My uncle worked at the East Silkworm Seed Farm in Changli City, separated from the orchard of the Fruit Research Institute, and often enjoyed the benefits of the water tower, and could buy cheap fruits cast after selection during the fruit season. My eldest sister and I, with the advantage of age, one person can get two parts, we hold up our own share of the "moon bud", greedily sniffing the fragrance of the apple, instigating the sweetness of the apple, competing with who eats slowly, always reluctant to take a small bite.

　　From qinhuangdao parents' home back to Changli County's home, bring back a few red stars and yellow marshal apples, grandma put the fragrant "champagne" carefully stored in the small wooden cabinet next to the wall, until the apple fragrance dissipated, covered out the mold point before willing to take it out, cut off the moldy part, peeled the skin to let me relieve the worms. Even the apple peel grandma is reluctant to throw it away, but also put it in her mouth to chew the taste, before spitting out the skin residue to feed the chickens.

　　At that time, there was an apple grafted variety called "Big Green". It is as big as a melon, its aroma is bursting, and the storage time is long enough, but it tastes super poor, like a large radish that chews chaff and is tasteless. It's easy to think of lemons that are fragrant but inedible. I brought back a big green from my hometown and "aromatized" it in the cupboard for several months. Until later, the "rotten heart" was gone, and I didn't realize it, and the fragrance was still there.

　　During the years when my father was transferred to the Qinhuangdao Municipal Party Committee Party Cadre School, the school site was located in an orchard farm outside Dongluo City, Shanhaiguan. As a worker welfare, the father was given a small bag of small national light apples. For the first time in my life I've seen so many apples! Xiao Guoguang belongs to the last batch of autumn fruits picked, the most abundant light, and the branches are only laid before freezing. Don't look at the small fruit, but the sour and sweet are moderate, crisp and delicious. I learned to cut an apple like an adult, and at the fastest speed, I skillfully spun out a bottom apple skin with an apple knife. I handed the cut apples to my grandmother and my parents one by one. Once a guest comes to the house, washing apples and cutting apples is my hard task. For this reason, I have not been praised by adults.

　　I also learned to peel and boil apple juice from a small, astringent apple. In the winter, the boiled apple juice is put on the outdoor jelly, and when you eat it, knock a piece of ice cube in your mouth, which is sweet and sour, which is called a natural fruit popsicle. The aunt came to live in the house, I gave the aunt to eat, she could not guess that it was the "freezing" of the apple.

　　Look at the present, think about the time, the difference in material conditions is like a cloud of mud. With the improvement of living conditions, we usually eat more and more varieties of fruits, apples, pears, grapes, peaches, kumquats, pineapples, dragon fruit, avocados, everything. But no matter how much fruit is eaten in the north and south, the apples that were particularly golden and expensive in the poor years of that year are still particularly worthy of savoring.

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