Chapter 12: August 1993 Cloud Shadow
August 1993 Cloud Shadow
The most difficult months are finally over, the summer vacation is over, I go to school and the world is beginning to usher in a bumper harvest.
The first to harvest is the yellow lilac. The berries that are the size of the little finger hang on the branches as beautiful as topaz. The children like to go to the yellow lilac bush to select the most mature, golden yellow and almost starting to soften. The rotten fruit was squeezed and stuffed in his mouth, and then he ate it with a smile.
The golden yellow lilac seeds have a strong sweetness and can almost cover the original sour taste, but after all, the sour taste is still there. Even the greedy little guy can only eat five or six. If you eat more, your teeth will be sour It was poured, and after that, I couldn't even bite the boiled ginseng potato.
There are several shrubs around the village, which are the favorites of the birds and the rat lizards. It is not uncommon for the birds to chirp and land on the yellow mulberry to find ripe berries to eat, and sometimes the rat lizards will climb up in the daytime. Tall bushes, just for a taste of sweet and sour berries.
I definitely can't eat a few of the yellow lilac seeds myself, but my heart is attached to our commissary. I spend a lot of time in my rag pockets to collect the golden yellow lilac seeds, and place them evenly one by one. I opened the sun on the stone flat ground covered with hay beside my hut, and hired the big dogs from the village to help take care of the roasted ginseng and potatoes, and drove away birds, mice, lizards, and greedy little devils to protect the safety of my personal property.
During the day, when the sun is good, the yellow lilac seeds will be dried by me outside, and when the sun is about to go down, I will take them back.
The autumn sun is very good. It can dry the golden lilac seeds into wrinkled dried fruit in two or three days. It looks a bit like a raisin, but the seeds inside the yellow lilac seeds are very finely divided, and they are crunchy when bitten. Sesame, sweet and sour taste great.
The thoroughly dried lilac seeds were carefully sealed in a can, which I was also busy with during the hottest summer.
More than 20 cans were filled to the brim. After the Shimen opened, I took them all home. I didn't make any pickles this month, because in my plan, if the yellow lilac seeds could be sold, then I would I have money to buy food.
I took off what could hardly be called "clothes", stuffed it into a plastic bag, rolled it under the bed, scrubbed my body, wiped clean cans of dried lilac seeds, and cut out a note for use Scotch tape is attached to the bottle, and finally the price is marked with a pen.
Smaller cans cost five dollars a can, and larger cans cost eight dollars a can.
I brought back a total of twenty-three cans, one was kept for my parents to eat, one was opened for the guests to try, one was distributed to the school and given to my classmates to taste, and the other twenty were placed in Sold over the counter at home.
When I woke up in the morning, my dad was the first to notice two extra rows of cans on the counter, and he asked me what was in the cans.
I told him that it was the dried wild fruit I got from my classmates in the countryside and tried to sell it at home.
My dad looked left and right with the can, curious about what was inside.
I directly opened the jar left for them for him to eat, and he squeezed out one and looked left and right, but he couldn't recognize what kind of wild fruit it was.
"What's this wild fruit called?" my dad asked me.
"Huang Lizi," I said, "you try it."
My dad squeezed one and put it in his mouth to chew.
Sun-dried liangzi looks like a raisin. The fruit of Huanglizi is smaller than grapes, but the flesh is fuller. After drying, it is slightly larger than raisins, and its color is golden. After breaking it open, the sugar inside is like honey. Just as shiny and beautiful.
"Huh? It's sour and sweet!" My dad squinted his eyes as he ate the dried fruit. I couldn't help drooling when I remembered the sweet and sour taste of the yellow lilac, and I squeezed one and put it in my mouth.
It's really delicious, especially the sesame-like feeling when the seeds are chewed, which is great.
My dad couldn't help but took another one and put it in his mouth and ate it with relish.
"Don't eat too much, this is too sour, it's easy to hurt your teeth." I reminded him.
"It's okay, I know," my dad put down the can after eating another one: "It's delicious."
I asked him, "Dad, do you think anyone would buy a can for five yuan?"
"I think there will be," my dad said, "this one is better than raisins, raisins are sweet, but this one is sour and sweet, and the seeds inside are extra crispy, chewy and fragrant!"
Listen to my dad When I said it was delicious, I also gained confidence. I told him that there was a jar that was opened for customers to taste, and only one for each person. My dad nodded and agreed.
"This is very sour, you can't eat more of it, it will hurt your teeth." I told him one more time when I saw him eating the yellow lilac seeds from the can.
"I know, it's up to you to say that?" My dad waved his hand in annoyance. He said that he had never eaten sour apricots, and of course he knew how to turn his teeth.
When I only had porridge for breakfast, my dad asked me specifically, "No bread?" He thought I would make multigrain bread for them at the beginning of every month.
"No, you sell the dried fruit obediently, and I'll buy you big steamed buns when you have the money." I comforted the two of you.
My mother drank the porridge slowly, raised her head and said, "Multigrain bread is more delicious and filling." She has a strange taste, but she likes the slightly sour taste of ginseng potato. Every time she eats ginseng potato bread, it is better than I eat a lot with my dad.
I carried a bottle of dried yellow lilac seeds to school, and distributed dried fruit to my classmates one by one, and a bottle of yellow lilac seeds was worth two to each of the classmates. Everyone was very curious about this strange fruit that they had never seen before. The sweet and sour taste and chewy seeds also surprised them and asked me what it was and where I got it.
"My family sells them. Five yuan for a small can and eight yuan for a large can. Give me the money if you want, and I'll bring it to him in the afternoon!" I shouted a wave of advertisements before the bell rang for class. Attract a few clients.
Three people paid for it on the spot, and the other two didn't have that much cash on them, so they made an order with me, and they paid for it and delivered it in the afternoon.
It was a good start to get the five orders in one fell swoop, and I was in a good mood. I was even more energetic in class, and even raised my hand to answer several questions.
Before returning home from school at noon, I went to the vegetable market to buy some vegetables, a small piece of meat and some rice, and went home to cook a sumptuous meal.
It's been a long time since our family could have a good meal happily, so this time can be considered a luxury, and it's a very good start.
It's a pity that both my father and my mother had bitter faces at the dinner table and didn't use their chopsticks very much.
"What's wrong?" I was inexplicable: "Isn't it delicious? Why don't you eat it?"
"My teeth are falling and I can't bite..." My father was pitiful.
"Me too." My mother also drooled at the few dried meat dishes, but she couldn't say anything, she wanted to cry but not tears.
Should! Who told you to be so hungry?
And the taste of dried lilac fruit is really popular. My dad said that four customers came to buy things this morning. After they had tasted them, two people bought small bottles of dried fruit. I said that my classmate would buy five bottles, three When I was a child, my parents were overjoyed.
In the afternoon, I carried five bottles of dried fruit to school, collected the money and delivered it, and repeatedly told everyone that the yellow lilac is very sour, and if you eat too much at one time, it will easily hurt your teeth, but it doesn't work at all. At the end of the day, at least half of the classmates had their teeth broken, and even the biology teacher who had the best relationship with the classmates clenched his teeth and said that he might not be able to eat dinner.
Fortunately, the sore teeth will gradually ease after a few hours, otherwise everyone would really dare not eat this stuff again.
The power of Huang Lizi is not small. Now, as long as anyone in the class mentions "Huang Lizi" or "dried fruit", a large group of people will swallow their saliva. Thinking of the sweet and sour taste, they can't help it.
There is no need to worry about selling good things. Before school, another four classmates ordered Huang Lizi, saying that they wanted to take them home and give their family a taste. You must know that with so many students in the class, plus the knowledgeable biology teacher, it is hard to No one can recognize what this fruit I call "Huang Lizi" is.
Twenty cans of yellow lilac seeds were sold out in three days, and my classmates still wanted to buy them, but I ran out of them, and my small shop sold eleven cans, and there were even repeat customers asking if they still had them. Want to buy more.
This wave of yellow lilac seeds sold for over 100 yuan, which is not too much for my small shop, but it solved my urgent need to buy vegetables and cook. I saved 30 yuan to buy vegetables and cook, and the rest I handed over to my parents and they continued to maintain the operation of the canteen.
My parents are actually very anxious. The commissary doesn’t make any money. They frown every day. I can only try to comfort them and tell them that I will find a way to get something to sell, so that they can stay calm and stay at the stall with peace of mind.
Huanglizi is not completely out of season yet, so apart from going to school, I also spend a lot of time getting canned jars, preparing to pack and sell the dried Huanglizi again.
In addition, I found out how to make jam in a book. The book said that very sour fruits can also be turned into jam by adding sugar and boiled into jam. Since almost no sweet lemon can be turned into jam, then There's no reason why the sweet and sour yellow lilac seeds will not work, so I bought two big bags of granulated sugar and prepared a large plastic bag. Next time I come back, I will boil some of the yellow lilac seeds directly into jam.
The first semester of the third year of junior high school was barely stable. Many of the classmates’ families were already planning where to go to high school for them. Some people wanted to go to the best county middle school in the county, or even wanted to take the key classes. Some people felt that their strength was average. , I look forward to spending money at home, otherwise I can only go to ordinary classes. I am very boring. There is no choice. I can't go to the county middle school. If I go to high school, I can only go to vocational school.
Vocational middle school is also called vocational middle school. Students who are poor in study in our county will go there. I heard that it is crowded with hooligans. The students do not study, and they fight and fall in love all day long.
In my opinion, there is no need for me to continue studying at all. Anyway, I am not a material for reading. I need to be stronger and learn some farming skills. Maybe I can open some fields in the opposite world and plant enough things to move Back to the commissary to sell money to support the family.
I'm not greedy, as long as our family can have enough food and clothing.
I won't tell anyone these thoughts in my heart. I know my parents definitely want me to finish high school, or I'll shame them and keep them out of their heads.
Ugh!
At the end of the month, I walked across the Shimen wearing clothes that had been repaired and worn out. I didn't bring any bottles and cans this time, only some thick plastic bags. I can totally bring the dried fruit back in a plastic bag and then jar it.
The ginseng potatoes are about to mature, and if you cut the soil a little, you can see the tender tubers under the soil. My field has not stopped fertilizing, the soil is fertile and soft, and the ginseng potatoes are growing wonderfully.
Even if the results have not yet been fully revealed, people in the village have already come to me to "learn scriptures" every once in a while, and I don't hide anything at all. I always explained to them that some of them tried my method in their own fields, and it really worked.
Now all the people in the village are looking at my ginseng potato field. If my ginseng potato harvest is good, it will be big news for the whole village. Next year, there will be many more villagers who grow ginseng potato.
People in the village of Huanglianzi also saw me picking and drying them, but they didn't understand why I picked so many small berries that couldn't be eaten more.
The weather is still warm, and the fruiting period of yellow lilac seeds can last for a long time, but I have no patience to wait until they become golden and soft before picking them. After all, birds, mice and village children are all my competitors.
The yellow lilac, which has just turned yellow for a few days, is as beautiful as a small jade. It tastes sour and makes people squinting, but it has a sweet aftertaste. Sometimes the golden fruit cannot be found, and greedy children will eat it. This kind of yellow fruit, some adults in the village even like to eat this kind of fruit with a strong sour taste. They feel that the fully ripe yellow lilac is too sweet, and it is easy to feel uncomfortable after eating it.
What I have picked a lot now is this kind of fruit that has just started to ripen and is not fully ripe. They are bright in color and full of flesh. Even if they are not dried, they can be stored for many days. I have already planned to start half a month. Try to make dried fruit as much as possible. In the second half of the month, you will directly collect fresh fruit and put it in a plastic bag. Then, at the end of the month, the big roll will be brought to the opposite side to make jam overnight.
I get up early every day to inspect my fields, weeding and catching insects; drying and picking yellow lilac seeds at noon; in the afternoon, I will patrol the village with the big dog, or play with the children in the village, and occasionally check whether there is any freshness in the woods by the village. The wild vegetables, time flies so fast.
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