Blow up the big pit and win the apricot kernel

Apricots generally ripen in June or July, red and yellow apricots, some dry cores, some sticky cores; some sour and sweet, some pure sweet. As soon as the apricots are ripe, within a few days, there are few apricots left in a tree. The apricots are gone, but the apricot cores must stay. Children, you pick me up, and each accumulates apricot cores.

What is the use of children accumulating apricot cores? It's nothing more than two words: "money" and "play."

Let's start with "money." Almonds can be sold for money, because the almonds in the almonds can be eaten, can also be used medicinally, and can also be used to make skin care products, such as almond honey for wiping the face, which has almond ingredients. In the era of poverty, money came first. With money, you can talk about eating and wearing. So the children at that time knew how to earn money early. For example, picking up rags to sell money, what broken rubber shoes, what torn clothes and pants, what broken hemp rope, what broken sacks, what broken iron basins,......。 As long as it is something that can be sold for money, you can pick up anything. Now all these jobs belong to those who "full-time" pick up the rags. However, people who came from that era no longer pick up rags, but still retain the habit of accumulating rags. Today's young people think that the houses of the elderly are dirty and messy, and the disadvantages are not clean. Mainly because the elderly are reluctant to throw away anything, accumulate this and that, accumulate more, and go to sell a small amount of money. Picking up apricot cores to sell money was a big income for children in that year, and the children all racked their brains and tried their best to collect and accumulate apricot cores. Having almond trees at home is the biggest advantage, but planting almond trees prevents crops from growing. Therefore, most people do not raise almond trees or only raise one. In this way, their own apricot cores are very limited, in order to save more apricot cores to sell more money, everyone will win the apricot cores by "blowing up the big pit".

Let's talk about "playing". One of the most popular ways to play at that time was to blow up the big pit. The tool is simple, as long as there are apricot cores. The apricot core is both a toy and a chip. As many children as you want to play with. On the ground, a round pit is formed by turning with the heel. Everyone bet on the apricot core in the pit, and the children who bet the most were fried first, and the same amount was determined by the "stone scissors cloth". Everyone who blows up a pit needs to find a large, heavy apricot core as a "dock." The so-called "explosion" is to use the "dock" to smash the apricot cores in the pit, and the apricot cores that burst out of the pit are the equal yards won. The more apricot cores you throw, the more you win. This requires the following two conditions. First, the "dock" should sink. Generally children choose a large apricot core as a "dock". I also chose a large apricot core as a "dock", but in order to make the "dock" heavier, I performed a small operation on the "dock", drilled a small hole in the side of the apricot kernel, took out the almonds, poured sand or dirt, and then sealed the mouth, painted a little yellow, and the "dock" suddenly became heavier, and I couldn't see it if I didn't pay attention. The second is to smash deeply. The average child is to use the most force to smash. Of course, I have to do my best. However, in the process of smashing, I gradually found that if the "dock" stood up and smashed in, it would smash deeper, and more apricot cores would burst out of the pit. Later, when I went to school, I learned that this was because the area of resistance to stand up and smash was small, so the smashing was deeper

Anyway, I moved a little carefully, and I won more apricot cores, and sold apricot cores got more money. I can buy small snacks several times and solve my hunger several times!