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Childhood after the 70s, playing pig grass and wild fruits (original)

Childhood after the 70s, playing pig grass and wild fruits (original)

Thornberry

Thornberries are much more delicious than mulberries, and more delicious than the strawberries that are now raised in the shed, especially sweet, with no peculiar smell. This kind of sweet fruit, ripe and sweet, black oil, unripe, but bright red, can sour the teeth. Sweet is sweet, but it grows on thorns, so in order to understand hunger, I have not been pricked.

Sometimes, the partners plucked the leaves of the tung trees, made a funnel suit, put the picked thornberries all in it, filled with the tung leaves folded back, inserted with a small stick, sealed the mouth, squeezed hard, and there was a sweet black juice flowing out below, and we sucked greedily, one by one, the mouth was black. At the end, we picked up the juice-dried thornberries and threw them as grenades.

"Goat's Milk"

This is the name of the wild fruit. It was small, only the size of a corn kernel, but it was forked, like the milk of a sheep. It is also red-passed, and the sweetness is very special. We usually pick a bunch and swallow it, no seeds, no slag, but not too many at a time.

Mallet pear

This fruit, like a kiwi fruit, is much smaller, only the size of a fingernail cap, red, sour, but sour, but sour, and the flesh is only an outer layer, and the inside is a core. But it is not grown in the thorn bushes on the edge of the ditch, and the tree is only one person tall, which is very easy to pick.

Childhood after the 70s, playing pig grass and wild fruits (original)

Soft persimmons

The children of this city know it, but they have only seen it sold in a basket, far less sweet than what we get with our own hands.

At the turn of summer and autumn, when we were playing pig grass on the mountain, we paid the most attention to the persimmon tree, and we ran far and near to see if there was any redness. Pick the trees that are within reach, and throw small stones at the tall and far away. Because of this long-term work, often three or five stones are thrown, and the bright red thing will be knocked down. It's just that sometimes the target is too accurate, the persimmon is too ripe, and after landing on the ground, it is already a yellow soup, and I have to sigh with joy.

These are wild game. In addition, occasionally digging sweet potatoes in people's fields, picking cucumbers, folding sugar cane, burning corn cobs, picking peas... In short, all year round, pig grass in the mountains has the freshest food to eat.

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