"Little lanterns" hang from the orange trees, and the seductive fragrance wafts with the wind... Wherever this fragrance wafts, people can't help but swallow and lick their mouths.
My hometown is in Southwest Feng, Jiangxi, where oranges are abundant. Whenever the orange harvest came, my mother would take my sister and me to pick oranges.
My favorite thing is to carry a small basket and wear a small straw hat through the orange trees. Bursts of aroma surrounded me, and I couldn't help but revel in it. Not just intoxicated, but integrated into it. I imagined myself as a big orange, dressed in red lantern-like clothes, standing on the branches and fluttering with the wind. Small oranges flutter and flutter, big oranges shake and shake, shake out the harvest festival, float out of the orange fragrance. That's not enough! I peeled off a small orange, the red flesh overflowing with sweet smell, and took a light bite, the plump fruit grains filled my gluttonous mouth, and the juicy orange made me eat it without stopping, eating one after another.
By the time the oranges of the mountain were picked, it was already twilight. The last rays of the setting sun shone on the bare trees that had been plucked all over the mountain, which was somewhat feminine. The box of oranges was so fresh that my mother said, "The picking speed is much faster than before!" In the past, the neighborhood was somewhat strange, no one helped, and if there was a rainy season, the oranges would rot. Where is it like now, everyone is so enthusiastic, you help me, I help you..."
before? Wasn't it the same as it was now? I couldn't hear what my mother said later.
When I came home in the evening, I told my mother about the doubts hidden in my stomach. Mom smiled, tilted her head and thought about it, and answered me seriously: "When I was as old as you, there was no way in the village, and our oranges were far from home." A basket of oranges to pick home will take at least 20 minutes to arrive. If it rains, pick slowly, and the oranges on the mountain are easy to rot when soaked in water. Now that the road has been built, where else will anyone choose it? Two or three trips are done. In addition, the government has also assigned experts to the countryside to guide, the previous orange skin thick meat less seeds, now the skin thin flesh plump less seeds. Thanks to the party! ”
A little moonlight sprinkled on Mom's face, and I seemed to understand something.

Comments:
Starting from the oranges in his hometown, the young author wrote about the contrast between life in the present and the past. The changes in my hometown are so great, and it is precisely because of the government's support and help for many years that I have today's happiness, and the oranges that emit a seductive fragrance are the best witnesses.
Instructor: Su Yue