Lovely apricot cores

When I was a child, apricot cores were also treasures.

The apricot core does not throw away the reason, the apricot core of the old apricot tree can be eaten, the apricot core can eat the apricot is called "bar ta apricot", it is crisp and fragrant to eat; the apricot that the apricot core cannot eat is called "shibuba apricot", and it is bitterer than medicine to taste. The apricot cores that can be eaten will naturally be eaten after eating the apricot meat, and the apricot cores that can be retained are all bitter apricot cores, which have become the children's cherished things after washing and drying, and are used to make games in the summer.

Children's clothes are very simple, but the pockets are usually large and sturdy, and mothers must know that children's pockets are never idle, and they like to carry heavy things. Summer games are few, running too hot, children will get together in the shade of the tree to do the game, this "hit" game is the most popular, is to spread a bunch of smooth small stones, leave a stone in the hand, and then throw the stone in the hand into the air at the same time to complete the task of grabbing two stones in the ground with your hands and then catching the stones falling in mid-air, this process not only to catch the falling stones, but also to catch the two stones on the ground when you can not alarm other stones to win, the winning stones are put aside, Wait until the end to see whose stones are more than who wins. The children went to the middle of the road to find smooth stones, the rain soaked stones are small and light, because picking up stones also takes time and is not easy to pick up, apricot cores naturally replace the stones into the game. In the afternoon, the cicadas are chirping, the frogs are barking, the children's pockets are full of apricot cores and go out to find their partners to hit the stones, and when they walk up, the apricot cores "rattle" and run up, they have to cover their pockets, afraid that the precious apricot cores will fall.

Winter hydrangea games are also inseparable from the apricot core, six pieces of square cloth sewn into a boxy "hydrangea ball", which is filled with things and then sewn up to do toys thrown around, loading stones is obviously not OK, throwing to the body is too painful to bear. Some people load corn into the brie, smashing the body is also hurting, some people are loading the black, and it is too light to float, the key thing is grain, the old people are not willing to let it be loaded. The most appropriate to load the apricot core, the weight of the sound is really the most suitable, throwing on the body does not hurt, but also with a loud sound, listen carefully, in addition to the "whoosh" of the apricot core and the friction of the apricot core, and the whisper of the almond and the almond peel, as if to encourage the children to win a little more seriously.

In the spring, the children run in the spring blossoms, the apricot cores are left out in the cold, the apricot cores on the windowsill are blown under the windowsill, and a spring rain, the apricot cores burrow into the soil and fall asleep. The child suddenly counted the apricot cores on the windowsill less than one, crying and letting Grandpa find, Grandpa did not use sweet words to coax, pulled the child to the window sill to solve the case, only to see that the ground had arch marks, with a flick of the hand, saw the apricot kernels laughed and opened their mouths, a touch of green sprouted out, it turned out that the apricot tree was going to grow out, the child looked stunned, and then broke into a smile.

When the child is born, the mother always thinks of giving the child a gift, better than other people's children wear a silver lock and copper lock, the average person wears a small ornament made of apricot core or peach core, the core is hollowed out, made into a small basket with a handle, the red thread is strung on the chest or wrist, the child is hungry to hold the core and nibble, the core is getting brighter and brighter, the child grows up, the core is not idle, left for younger siblings to use.

There are more peach cores, because peach wood has the saying of avoiding evil, but there are also many apricot cores, and the apricot cores are very smooth and suitable for children to lick.

At that time, it was not easy to save some apricot cores, because there were very few apricot trees, and they were not finished before the apricots were ripe, and at that time the apricot cores and the apricot meat had not yet been separated, and each apricot core was connected with the apricot meat, and the apricots were eaten, and the almonds were convinced that the almonds were bitter to stay. Needless to say, the apricots in my hometown cannot be eaten because the apricot cores can be eaten. In order to collect the apricot kernels, when we crossed the temple, my friends and I went to the street to collect the apricot cores, guarding the apricot basket and refusing to go.

Close to the wheat harvest, there are apricot sellers on the street, big cars with baskets, baskets covered with wheat straw, yellow apricots crowded on the wheat straw from the basket slit to look at the small village, then five cents can only buy three green yellow apricots, while buying while asking people whether the apricot core can eat, if you can eat, feel that you have earned, because you have eaten the almonds; if you can't eat, you feel that you have earned, because the almonds are left.

I don't know if I was too small at that time or what the reason was, walking on the street to find things, walking and picking up an apricot core is a common thing, picking up one feels happy, the mood is happy all day.

Hometown people call apricots rotten apricots, the real ripe apricots can not be put away for two days, more delicate than the lychee, the real ripe apricots are broken open, the apricot cores are alone, very clean, as if they are natural ornaments, just waiting to be attached to the children's wrists, waiting to be thrown around in the hands of the children, dragging pure eyes, after the happy summer, and then waiting for the joyful winter.

The apricot core does not seem to be bad, if it is decayed, I mean if, it will definitely be burned by Grandma in the stove hole, it must be the same as the walnut core, with oil, with a combustion function, so that an apricot core is thrown into the fire, the fire will be a bright fire, and the rice cooked by that fire must have a fresh apricot taste.

Put the apricot map in the circle of friends, Jiangnan friends do not know apricots, so Jiangnan is not suitable for planting apricot trees, do not plant apricot trees can not see the apricot blossoms, can not eat sour apricots, can not taste the delicious apricot core, can not do the game of playing stones and throwing hydrangeas, so think, think how rich it is to be a northerner. As long as you think that you are a child who grew up eating apricots and eating almonds and playing with apricot cores, you can't help but smack your mouth, which is rich and beautiful, only you understand.