Chapter 38 Golden Sugar

Passing by a small country town and a grocery store, a familiar image suddenly attracted me. A large glass bottle was placed on the glass cabinet of the grocery store. The bottle was full of candies, red, green and white, shining in the sun. It's "Jin Han"!I almost jumped up. "Jinhan" is a kind of candy that I think has been lost for a long time. It is shaped like a marble, the size is like an orange or a sour plum, and its color is like the skin of a watermelon. Some are green and white, and some are red and white. "Jinhan" is also called "Diamond Candy" because it is as hard as an iron stone. If you don't bite it, you can hold it in your mouth gently from noon to sunset.

"Jinhan" is almost our childhood dream, the only candy we can eat and the only one we can afford.You can buy two pills for 10 cents, put them in your mouth at the same time, and your cheeks will bulge like a bulging wind, and other children will know that you are eating gold, and stand aside and swallow your saliva, and you will feel Very proud and satisfied. Mom and Dad are very opposed to us eating candy and will never buy us candy, so it often takes a lot of effort to eat gold. When mowing grass in the field, take the opportunity to take some toads or four-legged snakes to sell to Chinese medicine shops; or go to the suburbs to collect broken copper, old tin, glass bottles, books and paper to sell to antique dealers; ...

Because it is so hard to earn a dime, I feel very happy when I go to buy Jin Han to eat, as if I have a lot of happiness in my mouth, and I am reluctant to eat it in one bite. The small shop selling diamond sugar is on the corner of the street on my way to school. Every morning when I pass by, the sunlight passes through the foot of the pavilion and shines on the bottles in front of the shop. "Jinhan" is usually packed in a large glass bottle, and the sunlight In one photo, red, green, and white are intertwined into a charming light and shadow. Sometimes I can't help but stand in front of the small shop and look at the beautiful light and shadow. My heart is moved by the sweet taste, and my heart is buzzing music.After more than thirty years, the sweetness of Jin Han is still deeply imprinted in my mind.In the era of "residual pork liver cut into five corners", because of material poverty, many insignificant things give us profound happiness.

It can be seen that happiness is not a pursuit, but a kind of satisfaction with the status quo. I spent five dollars to buy two golden salts from the grandma who looked at the grocery store. I almost held my breath and put them in my mouth carefully. Just like my childhood, my cheeks were round and swollen, and the taste of gold It is still as sweet as before, the small shop in the country is still simple and amiable, and there are still scattered lights and shadows in the glass bottle, which makes me feel extremely happy. I walked briskly, as if I was a child, and wanted to yell loudly and tell everyone: "I'm eating gold! Have you seen it?"