Chapter 19 jackfruit

I was driving a friend along Tianmu East Road, and suddenly saw a large wooden board hanging from a truck on the side of the road: "Jackfruit is delicious." I asked my friend, "Have you ever eaten jackfruit?" "No." "Go buy one and eat it." Although my car had already driven far away, in order to let my friend taste the taste of jackfruit, I immediately turned the car around, made a circle, and stopped beside the truck with the jackfruit brand. The jackfruit was sold by a young and petite lady, and it seemed that the jackfruit was even bigger. The jackfruit was indeed a giant fruit, and only the big watermelon could barely compare with it.

"Miss, please help me weigh a jackfruit." I said. With some difficulty, she put the jackfruit on the scale and said, "Three thousand and six hundred yuan." I listened, and took three steps back, because I expected a jackfruit to be at most five or six hundred yuan.Thinking back to last year when I was at Bulao Hot Spring in Liugui Township, Kaohsiung County, I picked the biggest jackfruit for only 500 yuan. The smallest one is seven times the price. Seeing the fear on my face, the young lady said, "Otherwise, you can buy half of it, only about two thousand yuan."

I shake my head. She said, "A quarter? About a thousand dollars." I shook my head again. She said, "I still have stripped ones, one box is 350 yuan, three boxes is 1,000 yuan." In the end, I bought a box of peeled jackfruit. It was very cool because it was frozen in the freezer. Unfortunately, there were only a dozen pieces, which was too expensive. However, my friend finally ate jackfruit. I told my friend that it was unexpected that jackfruit would become such an expensive fruit. In the past, there was a jackfruit tree planted on the mountain in our hometown. It bears twenty or thirty fruits, each of which weighs more than twenty kilograms.

At that time in the countryside, no one wanted to buy jackfruit, so when it was harvested, it was the most troublesome, and they always had to give it to relatives. Sometimes relatives thought it was troublesome and even refused to take it. Cutting jackfruit is a big project, because the fruit is very sticky, and the knife often sticks to it. Every time my father cuts the jackfruit, his clothes and pants are always sweaty. The flesh of jackfruit is golden yellow and has a strong taste, just like pouring honey on cheese. I think there is no fruit in the world that is sweeter than jackfruit.

The seeds of jackfruit are as big as olives. Stir-fried with coarse sea salt, the taste is crispy, and it is better than Tianjin fried chestnut. Jackfruit heart, as soft as coconut meat, is usually used to cook sweet soup. On summer nights, sitting in the yard drinking hot sweet soup, sweating freely, is really a great enjoyment in life. My father who used to live in Nanyang often mentioned the hard life in Nanyang during the war when he ate jackfruit. Sometimes he used jackfruit as a meal. At that time, he always felt that the jackfruit was not big enough, but now he thinks that none of them are too big. Big, a dozen children can't finish it.

The reason why the jackfruit is too big is because there were no refrigerators more than 30 years ago, and the cut jackfruit had to be eaten on the same day, otherwise it would rot overnight.In order to eat one jackfruit at a time, we also eat jackfruit as a meal. Until now, whenever we think of jackfruit, the strong and special aroma will immediately emerge in our hearts. It never occurred to me that jackfruit, which used to be a bother to give away, is now the most expensive fruit in Taipei.Sitting in the car with my friends, I tasted the iced jackfruit in a small box, and I really felt a little unpredictable.

A friend said: "Jackfruit is so expensive, it may be because of the prevalence of Buddhism in recent years. 'Jackfruit' is such a good name, it seems that eating it will enlighten you!" "Jackfruit" is indeed a good name. It originated in India. According to Li Shizhen in "Jackfruit, Sanskrit, it also has a sweet taste, so it is named after it." The original meaning of jackfruit in Buddhism is "to the other side". Calling a fruit makes people sink into a new realm easily when eating it. Is it golden yellow and full of the aroma of stone honey and sober?

When I was a child, every year when the pineapple was ripe, it was already the beginning of autumn, and the tropical rainy season came. Every afternoon, heavy thunderstorms ran and drifted across the southern mountains and forests like an appointment.I often lean against the window, look at the jackfruit tree in the rain, and watch the fruit grow day by day, and I will be moved by the power of the land and the sky.Then I would think, one day I will definitely pass through the round leaves of jackfruit, climb over the mountains behind me, and go to a prosperous place.That prosperity is my other side.

However, at the moment I am living in the bustling city that I longed for at that time, the hut in the heavy rain of the beginning of autumn, and the child leaning against the window has become the other side of me now. Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva has a lot of deep prajna jackfruit. In the deepest place of wisdom experience, where is this shore?Where is the other side?Between this shore and the other shore, does the sailing of the ship also have good scenery?Is there a resting place between this shore and the other shore? Before middle age, our whole life is to go to the self-determined "other shore". Love, fame, power, and success are all scenery on the shore; The twists and turns became helpless, and we began to rush for another "other shore", liberation, eternal life, freedom, and pure land. It was not until we saw the message in our hearts that we suddenly realized that the other shore is endless, and jackfruit is always in the end. Town of.

Where is the real "other shore"?Is there any news of the other shore in "This Shore"? Jackfruit is the last relief?Or just a fruit?If you can eat a fruit well, can you also feel the fragrance of Jingshang? It was good to be forced to eat jackfruit as a meal when I was a child, because "jackfruit is plentiful"; now that jackfruit is so expensive, it is also good to eat jackfruit as pearls, because "jackfruit is sweet". There is no high or low, right or wrong, high or low in jackfruit, and it has always been like that. The same is true of our hearts. The heart yearning for prosperity in childhood is the same heart as the heart longing for seclusion in middle age;

The true nature of the heart is the same, it just floats in time. The true color of jackfruit is also the same, but sometimes the subtle fragrance floats, and sometimes the five aggregates are all empty. After eating jackfruit, I drove around Tianmu East Road and drove to the small road to Yangmingshan. Acacia trees and pine forests fluttered in the wind along the road, resembling the mountains and forests of our childhood. A sentence like this suddenly appeared in my mind: May Matsukaze priceless green hills everywhere jackfruit The aroma of jackfruit then surrounded the entire mountain forest along with the pine wind.