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"The melon is blooming, go and get the melon ..." The children shouted one after another, making the swallow nesting under the eaves and the people in the small mountain village suddenly boil. Men, women and children have pushed open the door, carrying big baskets of soil, carrying sacks, dragging children and dogs, and rushing to cantaloupes outside the village.
Melon has opened, which is a long-awaited happy event for farmers and the happiest day for children.
During the production team period, the land was collectively managed, uniformly planted and uniformly distributed. There is no fruit to eat in the countryside. Only eating melons is fruit all year round. In order to let farmers eat cantaloupe, each production team takes out a fertile field near the village to plant a melon. After the melon is opened, it is distributed to each family according to the population, which makes people have a good time.
Planting melons is an important event for the production team. The people who choose to grow melons are all selected by the production team leader, and they are required to grow melons. People should be kind and serious and don't like children. They are generally elderly people. Generally, two people grow melons in a Gua Tian, from planting, field management to stopping melons, completing a production cycle.
People who grow melons have a good conscience. In order to protect the melon garden, they all set up shacks in the field or in the middle to wait for the melon garden.
The melon shed was built by the melon farmers themselves. Wooden poles are used to build herringbone on both sides of the pit. Like a cucumber frame, it is fastened with nails or hemp rope, and the periphery of the frame is covered with cut thatch. Get some "wheat slip" from the production team's yard and spread it in the pit, put a few broken sacks on it, then spread one or two sets of bedding, and hang a curtain made of grass or rags at the door. Even if the melon shed is built, it can shelter from the wind and rain and provide shade. It is a unique "villa" in China and a watchtower guarding the melon garden.
Guawopeng is the home of melon farmers. They wear straw hats and hoes every day, and carefully trim the seedlings, soil, fork tips and pinch tips. They are afraid that when the wind blows, the flowers will be blown away and there will be few melons. Worried about drought, afraid of melon seedlings dying of thirst, but also pay attention to the "big-eyed thief" stealing holes to eat raw melon balls. Hami melon seedlings are like a lovely child. When you see their branches and leaves stretching day by day, they produce yellow delicate flowers, and you see furry melon eggs lying on the ground playfully, which is sweeter than eating them. In the evening, they sat in front of the melon shed and drank two or two shochu, and their eyes were bent with laughter. The wrinkles are full of honey, and the hookah ignites the burning clouds on the western horizon.
Children like Gua Tian best. They couldn't help looking at the melon shed every day, counting the ripe dates with their fingers, and went to Gua Tian again and again to peek, hoping that Gua Tian would open early. Sometimes, as soon as several friends get together, they start stealing melons and let the melon watchers run all over the fields.
Corn is strung with red tassels, and Gua Tian blooms in succession. The team began to divide the melons. Adults and children, everyone has a share. The first crop of melons can be divided into three kilograms to five kilograms. If you want to buy more, you don't sell them. The number of ripe melons is limited. When picking melons, half-sized children run in front, and adults follow behind at a distance, which is as lively as a fair. When they came back, the small children in the village were as happy as New Year. When they play with clay guns, they all have melon seeds on their faces. As soon as I finished eating this crop, I thought about the next time I divided the melon until it reached the garden.
The day cantaloupe went to the park was also very lively. Generally, after picking melons three times, it's almost time to garden. The seedlings in the field are yellow, and the rest are small balls and melons. It is bitter to take it off and chew it, and there is no hope of maturity.
As soon as people in the village heard which production team's melon strike garden was, they immediately prepared baskets, baskets and bags to rob the melons in the strike garden. They stayed in the field early, waiting for the captain or the melon farmer to talk. Then, they swarmed into Gua Tian, regardless of their heads, and sprouted an egg from the melon seedlings. Sometimes because everyone robbed a melon, they made a scene and dumped each other.
People snapped up all the melons in the garden. Everyone picked and picked and tasted greedily. This is the last time I have eaten melons this year, and I will eat them for another year. Too raw melon has no pulp. Wash it and throw it into the sauce jar. Pickle cucumber and make noodles for pickling. It is smooth and full of flavor.
It has been decades since the production team started. Although it has been a long time, the memory of the opening of Guayuan is like an altar of strong wine. The longer it is, the more fragrant it is, and the aftertaste is endless. That Gua Tian, that melon shed, that summer night, that childlike interest are unforgettable for a long time.
In fact, happiness is subtle, and memories are also a kind of happiness.