Rural children really have more experience of mountain life than urban children. The mountain forest is a source of flowers and fruits from childhood!
The mountain forest in spring is a sea of flowers! The first to bloom is the wild plum tree! Full of white flowers, white flowers, squeezed together, in the distance to see a tree white, dotted in the green mountain forest. Then the opening is the wild rose, carmine flowers, the fragrance is fragrant, I always love to pick a bouquet after school and raise it in the bottle, the refreshing fragrance of flowers, lit in the incomparably simple room, so that people forget all their troubles. The jar flowers also bloomed, with white petals and large flowers, attracting swarms of bees and butterflies.
At the turn of spring and summer, a red soybean-sized wild fruit, dragon bean, ripens first. It grows close together, and because the fruiting bushes are not tall, it is very good to pick! However, because there are too many thorns on the bushes, it is still difficult to pick. I have accumulated a lot of experience, and I can probably tell from the shades of red color of the fruit how good the fruit tastes. Eating this fruit can be put in the mouth one by one, sweet and sour, with a little astringency. Spitting out the seeds in one breath after eating is very enjoyable! The wild mulberries were also ripe, sweet and sour, and the taste was much better than what was sold on the street now.
When summer comes, one of the children's favorite wild fruits is ripe. That fruit bears fruit on the vine, and the vine crawls on the ground, and the fruit grows on the ground. The fruit is about the size of a button, pale pink, and we call it "sweet potato". This fruit is fragrant, as long as you see the vine with this fruit growing, you will mostly produce "sweet potatoes". When it ripens, children are keen to look for this fruit. But then came the crisis. Because the vines of this fruit like to grow on the slopes of the mountain, it is the height of summer, and most children will look for this delicacy. Summer is the season when all kinds of snakes are infested, so almost every year there are cases of snake bites and bites from snakes in search of fruit! And unfortunate things happened to my mother. She found a place full of "sweet potatoes". Our family was looking for "sweet potatoes" on the ground. As a result, my mother accidentally disturbed a nest of horned wasps. Horned bees flew out a lot at once, stinging my mother. After a while, I stung my mother's face and head with many large bags! My mom's whole head was deformed! It was terrifying. After that, my father did not allow us to go up the mountain to find sweet potatoes, for fear of danger. But we still sneak out the door to find "sweet potatoes" while our parents are napping, after all, what a delicious food! Dad would often find some "sweet potatoes" for us after doing farm work. At that time, Dad could always take out "sweet potatoes" from his pocket and give them to us, which really touched us.
Eat sweet potatoes is also very careful, be sure to wash the stem after washing! Wash it because the fruit is so sweet that the ants have to nibble on it. It is said that after eating the "sweet potato" of the tip, it will grow sores, I don't know if this statement is not credible, but every time I eat it, I must remove the tip clean. You should also be particularly careful when looking for sweet potatoes, because there are several kinds of "sweet potatoes", some of which are poisonous, and they will definitely be poisoned when they eat them.
At this time, there is also a wild fruit that ripens, called "Masan". This tree is not tall, caterpillars like to eat its leaves the most, and a horse mulberry tree will be eaten clean by caterpillars in almost a few days! Its fruit is similar in color to mulberry and has a sweet taste, but adults often warn us that we cannot eat it and are poisonous. I also occasionally pick one or two to taste.
Autumn came, the prickly pear and the jar were ripe, and the two fruits were ripe, yellow with red, both had thorns, and when they ate, they tried to remove the thorns. The fruit is sweet and sour, and it is also very suitable for my appetite! There is also a wild fruit, which we call red seed, and the scientific name is sea buckthorn. Small round red beans, put into the mouth, astringent sweet and sour taste, dare not eat too much, otherwise the teeth will not even bite the tofu.
In autumn, there will be some fruits that are not dare to eat, such as wild grapes.
When it comes to fruit that I don't dare to eat, there are two more. One is the fruit that we call rake red in the summer, which is big and red, very sweet to eat, and it will feel very greasy to eat a few, and there are barbs and fine thorns on the fruit, so few people like to eat it. But another unknown wild fruit, a strange thing happened. It was on the slope of Dazhu Bay, and there was a forest with a fruit that my fathers could not name, and it was dark red in color, pure and sweet, and none of us had ever eaten it. So, my dad made the first person to try it, and there was no discomfort. He called on our cousins and children, took a large basket, washed it, carried it to the field, sold it, and exchanged it for some meat. Now that I think about it, the fruit was about the same as a raspberry.
Fruits are not only edible, but also dyable. There is an unknown tree whose fruit, when ripe in autumn, turns black-brown, the size of a bean, and cracks. We could pull out the fruit and dye it on our nails, and we could dye it orange-red, and now I see that there are such trees in the green trees in the neighborhood where I live. There is also a tree whose fruit is used for play. We can first find the bamboo, cut a section as long as a ruler, and then cut it into two pieces at one-third. Insert a chopstick in the short part. Then the fruit of the tree is stuck at both ends of the long section of bamboo pipe, grasp the two bamboo pipes with your hands, and use chopsticks to insert the fruit on the bamboo tube, you will hear a "pop" sound. One after another card fruit, insert the fruit again and again, will "pop" the sound continuously. Very fun 1 This is the toy of our rural children, called "cat cannon". There is also the green bar tree, which, when its fruit is ripe, cut a small hole from the top, take it clean, and blow it as a whistle. Directly inserting a bamboo stick or nail into the top of the fruit can also make a small gyroscope. These are all local toys for children in the countryside.