My parents were frugal, but sometimes they were willing to buy a few apples, and usually they would only take one at a time, cut them into many slices, and divide one or two slices for each person.

The fruit is too scarce, the taste is too delicious, and I am often reluctant to eat it when I get it in my hand, and I often have to suck it for a while before eating it, and sometimes I will pretend to eat it, but in fact, I will secretly stay, and when the sisters have finished eating, I will take it out and taste it slowly in front of them, as "you don't have me" to dazzle.

Childhood fruit memories seem to be only apples, but we are not short of fruits, they are all over the mountains, they taste just as delicious, and they can be found all year round.

There is a chestnut forest not far in front of my house, when I beat chestnuts, I always climb the highest, lie on the treetops and hold my breath, with the treetops swaying up and down, stabilize the body, hit the top of the chestnuts that others have not been able to hit, fortunately the treetops have never been broken, and I have been in the eyes of my friends again and again, and my vanity has been greatly satisfied.

There are times when showing off also fails, the drying racks at home in rural areas are made of bamboo shoots, and the bamboo branches of the bamboo tips are cut off to leave about a foot to form bamboo branches, and bamboo poles are placed on the bamboo branches to make drying racks. This kind of drying rack is very convenient to use, it can be buried in the small yard in front of the door, or it can be leaned against the wall.

Once, when playing together, there was a little friend pointed to the bamboo frame that the adults had just made, and said to me, "Do you dare to climb up", I didn't even think about climbing up, after climbing, I didn't forget to brag, when I was blowing, I don't know what was going on, the bamboo branch on the bamboo frame was inserted into the mouth, and the bamboo branch that had just been cut out was extremely sharp, and it was worn from the inside of the cheek to the outside.

My father, who was not far away, found out in time and immediately removed me from the bamboo stick. When I came down, the first thing I did was to cover my cheeks and chase after my partner who had provoked me to climb the tree.

I had a hole in my cheek and I couldn't eat properly for several days, and after I got better, I was left with a visible scar that confirmed the success of my childhood. The high-intensity training of the troops unconsciously wiped out this scar, I couldn't reach out and touch it, I couldn't see it in the mirror, and I was a little unaccustomed to it.

In spring, the mountains are full of Yingshan red can be eaten, we take off the ground and send it directly to the mouth, and we heard the adults say that eating too much will cause nosebleeds, so we didn't dare to eat more. It is a type of azalea, which blooms red, and there is a purple flower, which cannot be eaten.

On both sides of the dirt road in the mountains, there is a kind of grass that grows close to the ground, blooms in spring, the flower color is slightly pink, and then it will bear fruit shortly, and the unripe fruit is green, like a small apple, and becomes purple-black when ripe, because it grows close to the ground, so we call it "ground bud".

At the foot of the mountain, there is a kind of grass with fine thorns, which can grow to a foot high, and also blooms and bears fruit in spring, and the fruit that grows is similar to the strawberry sold in the market now, but it is much smaller, and the inside is hollow when picked, and the small red particles on the outside are neatly arranged, which we call "bud".

There is another kind of shape that looks similar to the "bud", which is smaller than the "bud", but it is solid, and grows on tall and long thorns, as if it grows on a tree, so we call it "tree bud".

In autumn, the mountains have the most wild fruits. There are hawthorn, walnut, hairy chestnut, sharp chestnut, wild kiwi, bayberry, mulberry, pine seed, wild pear, and some are not named, the local people call "August fork, glutinous rice yellow, yellow widow egg, weighing seeds, sugar li, chicken feet, silkworm mother".

The fruit trees planted in the mountain people's homes also ripen in autumn, including plums, peaches, chestnuts, dates, pomelo, pomegranates, persimmons, etc., and the number of varieties is far less than that of wild fruits, and in my personal judgment, the taste is not as good as that of wild fruits.

Hawthorn, walnut, wild kiwifruit, "August fork", "glutinous rice yellow" is the most delicious, but also the most difficult to pick, grow in the deep mountains, pick these fruits to climb the mountain and walk a long way, but also climb the tree, among which hawthorn, walnut number is the largest, it is best to find, "August fork", "glutinous rice yellow", wild kiwi fruit number is the least, not easy to find.

Mao Li, "Yellow Oligovid", "Weighing Seeds", there are on the hill in front of the door, and there are many of them, which belong to small shrubs, and they can be picked by raising their hands. Wild kiwifruit is smaller than the grafted kiwifruit on the market today, but the taste is sweeter. Hawthorn and walnut are the favorite fruits of the locals because they have very good medicinal properties.

"August Fork" and "Glutinous Rice Yellow" are similar in appearance, but when "August Fork" matures, it will be forked into four parts, and the fruit inside is white, inlaid with countless sesame seeds, and the outer skin is brown; After the "glutinous rice yellow" is ripe, the outer skin is golden, and the inner fruit is also yellow and has a core, and the reason why it is called "glutinous rice yellow" is that it is ripe when the glutinous rice is harvested.

Like chestnuts, hairy chestnuts are covered with sharp and long spines, which are much smaller than chestnuts. After the "yellow oligovid" matures, it turns from green to yellow, which is smaller than that of persimmons, and the characteristics of the fruit and persimmon are similar. "Weighing seeds" are as big as corn kernels, purple-black when ripe, and can grow a lot on a tree, and when playing in the mountains, they often grab a large handful and stuff it into their mouths.

"Sugar Bowl" is a kind of thorn that grows, shaped like an elongated pocket, dark red when ripe, and the surface is covered with slender thorns, and when eating, the thorns on the surface and the seeds inside must be removed, which is quite sweet, and is said to be the raw material for making sugar.

The "chicken feet" tree can grow very large, similar to the camphor tree, and many villages have "chicken feet" trees and camphor trees at the same time, and the branches hang the top part of the tree seeds, growing into flesh, like chicken feet.

"Silkworm Mother" is an anomaly, how it grows, I still don't know, the shape is a bit similar to Cordyceps, it doesn't grow on trees, it doesn't grow on grass, only on a sandbar by the river has I seen it.

In autumn, after the rape on the sandbar is harvested, you can find the "silkworm mother" by digging in the fine sand, especially after a light rain. It is a root that closely resembles a mature silkworm in size and shape, with pointed ends, white skin and flesh, and can be eaten raw, and the mother's method is deep-fried, crispy and crispy.

Wild kiwifruit, "August fork", "glutinous rice yellow", "yellow widow egg" can be picked home and ripe, the local people pick them back, put them in the deflated valley or Gukang, cooked one by one, eat one by one, can be eaten until autumn and early winter.

The partners have a soft spot for bayberry. First of all, the bayberry tree grows good-looking, usually about ten meters high, belongs to the evergreen tree, the leaves are green and narrow and narrow to grow, the tree shape is neat and the osmanthus tree is on par, and now it has become a kind of landscape tree.

When the bayberry is ripe, the branches are covered with clusters of bayberry, revealing dense leaves, or green and white or red, which is both beautiful and beautiful, and makes people salivate. It is according to the color and taste difference after ripening that bayberry is divided into two types: water bayberry and fire bayberry.

The fire bayberry is about the size of a quail egg, and when ripe, it is dark red or even purple. The bayberry is larger than the fire bayberry, and it is green or even white when ripe. Fire bayberry is smaller, more sour and better-looking; The bayberry is large, acidic, light, thick, juicy, and has a better taste and is more popular.

Every time the bayberry is about to ripen, the partners are ready to move, looking at the mountains affectionately, hoping that the bayberry will ripen early, and saliva will flow out. When I was a child, I ate a lot of food on the tree, and then picked a big bag and came back. It was so sour that the roots of my teeth were soft, and I couldn't even bite the food when I ate.

There is no shortage of delicious food in the mountains in all seasons, in addition to the aforementioned these, there are also thorny willows, sour willows, "dried beans", grass roots, etc., which are grown in all seasons and are available all year round.

Not long after the thorn has just grown or the tip of the thorn has just grown, pinch it off and tear off the thorny skin on the outside, which is the edible thorny willow. There is a local plant with red skin, hollow knots, can grow more than one meter high, and it is not long after it grows or not long after it grows at the top, pinch it down, and it tastes very sour, it is called sour willow.

There is a kind of thorn-like thorn with thick leaves, and we call this kind of leaf "dried tofu", and when we pick many of these leaves and stack them on top of each other, it really tastes like eating dried tofu. In the soft sand soil by the river, there is a knotted grass, the roots of which are thick and juicy, and the taste is very sweet.

This kind of grass root, when playing outside, is often dug up, cleaned in the stream, and chewed in the mouth, coveting its juiciness and sweetness. In the season of wild fruit depression, partners do not lack them to satisfy their hunger.

At that time, a penny could buy several pieces of candy, and even so, we could only eat a few during the Chinese New Year, but because of the wild fruits all over the mountains, we never lacked "snacks" in childhood.