Chapter 15 Chapter 15 Grapefruit

There are many pomelo trees in the courtyard of Zhangmuxi. Looking from the front of my house, the farthest one is a pomelo tree. Closer in turn, there are three palm trees. The wind blows, stirring the fan-shaped leaves of the palm trees, blowing the tranquility of the countryside years.Closer, there is a loquat tree I planted, which is a corner on the ridge. When I dug back the loquat sapling, it was only three inches high.I remember that grapefruit trees were planted, but they didn't grow up. The pomelo tree is tall and straight, with a straight trunk and few forks. The leaves are like orange leaves that have been magnified several times. Grapefruit.Looking at the Leilei grapefruit on the branch, there is only a silent sigh.Grapefruit is an evergreen fruit tree of the Rutaceae Citrus subfamily Citrus genus. The smell of grapefruit tree is like a strong citrus tree smell, which can be smelled from a long distance.The pomelo has white flowers, wild bees with big butts are flying around on the pomelo flowers, and the small grapefruits are green.When the pomelo is ripe, it looks like a big yellow ball, round and full of pomelo branches, and the extremely thick pomelo leaves cannot cover it. When the wind is strong, the pomelo leaves frequently pat the round pomelo, confident, complacent, calm and relaxed. No modesty, it is such a full circle, it is impossible to draw such a circle, how many times I dream that it will fall down with a plop, but unfortunately, grapefruit does not have the habit of falling naturally.The pomelo tree is really like an extremely indifferent adult who never cares about children. It is not easy to provoke it, and it has no mercy. There is nothing to do with it.We once attacked grapefruit trees, shooting grapefruits with slingshots, throwing grapefruits with stones, and then the grapefruits had thick skins, and when we shot grapefruits, they were unscathed and didn’t even bounce. When facing grapefruits in vain, How much hate and how much love!

Autumn is here, grapefruits are ripe, many students will bring grapefruits to school, and eating grapefruits is a grand event in school.Zhangmu Primary School is an old ancestral hall with white walls and black tiles, carved beams and painted buildings. The ground under the eaves is cement floor, clean and flat. There are wooden railings outside the main hall. Outside the door, you can see an old Roman clock in the hall. There is a bronze bell hanging on it, which is clear and loud.One year, looking at the registration form on the list, 97 of the 100 students had the surname Gu, and only three miscellaneous surnames. At that time, we all agreed that Gu was the most common surname in the world.In the school rebuilt from the ancestral hall, one of the wing rooms happens to be a classroom, and the classroom for the lower grades is in the wing room. When I was in the first grade, I was only five years old and tall. The teacher assigned me to sit at the end. The same table was an 18-year-old young man wearing a blue long gown. , looks like Mao Zedong who went to Anyuan, he will answer every question asked by the teacher, and yes, we have nothing to say, once, my grandma handed me a purple plum from the window, and he took it with his long hand, but put it in his own In his mouth, I was a little annoying to him. In the second semester, he skipped to the third grade.The third grade is a large classroom. In the main hall, there are three rows of desks. One row is a grade. The teacher is like a symphony orchestra conductor. The third grade students read silently, the fourth grade students make sentences, and the fifth grade students teach arithmetic, or vice versa.Students come from various hills. When school is over, they line up in four teams. The principal or teacher gives a lecture, and then each team is sent off by a teacher. The long line disappears into the mountains, and the teacher sends the farthest students back.Therefore, in the first lesson, freshmen must learn to wave and say "goodbye, teacher". My home is only a few dozen steps away from the school, so there is no queue.At that time, there were not many textbooks in the schoolbag, and there was enough space for a large grapefruit. Students who came from afar in the morning came to school panting from the dewy path, and their schoolbags might bulge into a huge circle. Very exciting.After class, hold the grapefruit to the base of the wall outside the classroom, use a knife to draw six openings on the grapefruit skin, break the grapefruit peel symmetrically with the thumb, then insert the grapefruit peel and press down until the six grapefruit peels are broken apart, a round The white pomelo appeared in front of the eyes, and then divided into pomelo flesh.The pomelo has about 12 petals, shaped like a half-moon comb. When the inner skin is opened, the pomelo flesh is crystal clear, what a beautiful little tooth.Grapefruits are eaten separately, and those who surround them have a share, so when killing a grapefruit, a circle of people will automatically surround them, and most of them will get a piece.Peeling a grapefruit is a very laborious task, and the laborers are especially welcome.

Grapefruit is very cheap, you can buy one for two cents, and you can also exchange grapefruit with other fruits.Therefore, looking at the circles of people surrounding and killing pomelo, and looking at the variety of pomelo, there is a kind of red pomelo with red quartz flesh, which is extremely noble, and there will be many people around, and some people will not be able to get it, and they will go away angrily, expressing that in the future If you have something to eat, you will never give it away.There are some grapefruits of different grades, with a little green skin, and there are not many people around them. The grapefruit has a sour and bitter taste.A good grapefruit is more sweet and less sour, followed by more sour and less sweet, and the second best, it has all three flavors of sour, sweet and bitter.Occasionally, a classmate would bring a very bad pomelo. Under everyone's ridicule, they would not kill and eat it, but would use it as a ball to play, pass each other, and then shoot.After eating the pomelo, there will be a battle, that is, breaking the pomelo peel at people, the juice of the pomelo peel will sting people's eyes, and senior students like to do this.

The adults in Zhangmuxi disdain pomelo. They like to say that shochu is served with dog meat, and they also do a kind of thing of feeding capons in a dark room. It is said that with a load of grain, a capon can be fed to nine It weighs a catty, but the meat is tender.However, I like pomelo. My family has two fruit baskets. Inside the baskets are chaff shells. My grandma puts plums, peaches, loquats and grapefruits from others, as well as fruits picked or bought by myself, into the baskets. Bury it with bran husks, which is Zhangmuxi's fresh-keeping method.When I was out of school, I ran to the fruit room, pulled the pomelo out of the chaff, admired it, and then buried it in the chaff. I felt very good admiring the grapefruit, and after eating it, I lost my spiritual sustenance.My uncle said that only Shatian pomelo is delicious. Shatian pomelo originated in Rong County, Guangxi. It is sold in Zuo'an Town during fairs. They are all sold in thick bamboo baskets, with orange twists on the side. , citrus, chickens, ducks and piglets, Zuo'an Town has a fair day on February 48th.Grapefruit also has some aliases, Wendan, Qigan, Luan, and Piao.I don't know why it's called throwing.Famous grapefruits are roughly as follows: Shatian pomelo, Wendan pomelo, Wanbai pomelo, Sijipo, Dianjiang white pomelo, Jinlan pomelo, Anjiang pomelo, Sangma pomelo, Bilian pomelo, Guanxi honey pomelo, Duwei no pomelo Nuclear pomelo.People in Zhangmuxi also use pomelo peels to cook, and the pomelo will be less sour when eaten after roasting.