It's the golden autumn season again, and the fruits are ripe, and it's harvest season. This reminds me of more than 40 years ago, in Xinjiang, whenever this time, I would go to the West Gobi with my friends in the family home to pick sand dates.
40 years ago, I was only seven or eight years old. At that time, the living conditions were very bitter, and there were not so many fruits for us to eat now. Therefore, every year from January to October, the sand dates of the sand jujube trees on the Gobi Desert are ripe, and it becomes the happiest and happiest time for our children.
Every Sunday holiday, the family home's small partners will make an appointment in advance, saturday afternoon after school, everyone rushes to finish the homework, let the parents check, and then tell the parents that the next day is fine, to pick sand dates to go. As soon as the parents saw that the homework was done, they agreed.
The next morning, the children of each family got up early, and the parents made the meal and after eating. Fill the back of the water with the aluminum kettle that my father used to go out in the wilderness, and then take a sac. Carrying empty school bags on their backs, some of them took a few empty cloth bags, went out and shouted, and went to pick up sand dates. Immediately, one or two dozen small partners came out, large and small. Together, everyone set out for the Western Gobi Sand Jujube Forest.
In the west of our county seat, there is a large windbreak forest seven or eight kilometers away from the county seat, which the people of the whole county have spent more than ten years to plant, and there are many sand date trees planted inside, and the sand dates are big and sweet. So every October, after the dates are ripe, we have to go a few times.
Out of our family home, it is a big Gobi Desert, if you take the road, you have to go around a long way, so every time we go to pluck sand dates, we are through the Gobi Desert. We were a group of small children, walking on the Gobi Desert, one would catch grasshoppers, and the other would find geckos. Sometimes you can also meet a mother puppy with a puppy. We'd go after them, chase the big dogs away, and take the puppies home and raise them. In this case, whoever grabs the puppy is the happiest.
Just like that, I stopped and walked along the way, and I came to the protective forest. The big guys saw patches of jujube trees. It was covered with yellow dates. So I rushed up. Climb up the tree and pick the sand dates. Happy not to notice, the jujube tree was overgrown with thorns. Some people scraped their legs, some scraped their arms and bled, and some scraped their clothes or pants. Just this, I don't know the pain, but also happy to show off, this said, you see how big this string of sand dates I pulled out? The one that said, I dialed sweeter than yours.
In this way, I happily filled my bag with dates and the cloth bag I brought, and kept playing
In the afternoon, it was almost dark, so he hurriedly carried a bag and cloth bag full of sand dates, and walked back with the puppy snatched on the road.
Although they were tired, everyone was very happy along the way. Wait until I returned to the family home. It was dark. The parents of each family gathered around and waited at the door for us to return. Look we're back. Quickly lead us back and bring us the dinner that has been prepared for us long ago. After playing for a day, I was already hungry and couldn't do it, and I devoured my meal. Went to bed early.
At that time, life was hard. Nor is there so much delicious food now. But everything we eat is fragrant. Unlike now, eating anything is not fragrant.
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