In recent days, I’ve resident cell farms, have sometimes sell fresh peanuts. Yuyao selling peanuts, and my hometown is very different: the countryside on the age of the male and female villagers, driving or riding on a small three, just out of the earth will come together peanut seedlings even shipped to farms in the alley, now pick and sell, look peanuts, half tender half old, full adhesion layer of black wet sand. I asked the price, but it is a lot of money, or eight dollars a pound, or seven, there are eighteen outcry, and raspberry. Early adopters to buy a pound to two pounds, but also hesitant contemplating for a while.
So they think of peanuts to home - in fact, that is twenty or thirty years ago, leaving memories in the brain.
Village after village in front of the mountain nest, all the same color of red soil dry land, planted peanuts every year on schedule to open a small yellow peanut seedlings when looking ahead, a verdant green stretches into the distance. At that time, our daily work mostly uphill gather wood, and small groups, walk slowly along the radial direction between peanut mud hill, stealing peanuts is only natural thing: walk into a flower habitat, a visually lush stump, reaching a pull, roots break, crisp natural sound, rustle and shake off the dirt, and capsules as white as rice tender mouth peanut on shining on hanging roots, off to press into the interdental , crisp, such as jelly. Finally, the peanut seedlings readily toss, and pull up a stump.
Peanuts grew up, looks inanimate strong, small yellow flowers gone on seedlings, thick dark green foliage. To pull out a stump, densely filled with peanuts hanging, I much peanut, peanut less mouth tender, peel peanut shells, peanut child inside round, Pretty in Pink, and thrown into the mouth, chewing a mouthful of white pulp. This time, the rice fields Shuangqiang almost busy farm work, and pull peanut seasonal predictable, as the sun baked, coincided with the brutal summer.
Pull peanut day, village or hats with a straw hat, sitting on a stool in the hot sun or soil off the tender appearing in front of a mountain of peanuts from the peanut seedlings were thrown Luokuang Li. Will pick up a stump stump after peanut seedling backhand toss, and piling up beside and behind the dark hill to a seat. Luokuang Li peanuts, and a basket full, and a basket was full. Sweat, smile, sun, southerly, together rendered in peanut fields.
In those days, the village washing drying peanuts peanut spectacular scenes, pond, water canal side, a small river, a bucketful of a basket of peanuts splashed in the water, scrub, slide dry, then scrub. Threshing floor, a piece of a long square peanut spread to dry in the sun, shining white to very brisk. Every household have a continuous feast on the peanuts, children born in chewing mouth peanut brittle and tender, the pot boiled a pot of tender mouth peanuts. Put on a big Haiwan boiled peanuts, 往桌子上一 put a big hand little hand stretched both in the past, not the knot of his mouth a tender mouth chewing peanuts, sweet swallow; knot a tender child of peanuts, stripping open Niechu wrinkly white peanuts, a chew, tender, another on, swallow. Mouth bite, tut sound, satisfied smile, quietly slid in the side corner of the mouth. On the table, under the table, are pools of peanut shell peel.
The aroma of roasted peanuts Hong Mei village also drift off. Dried peanuts, village to carefully examine the election, the empty flat, the only child of tender son, rotten shell, and pick out their own fry to eat. Good friend of peanuts, leaving some holidays, put wood cabinets, tile urn, most of the day in a hurry dike, with baskets or bags of fertilizer sold the field to pick the dike.
When adults were busy pulling peanuts, picking peanuts, peanut washing, drying peanuts, fried peanuts, selling peanuts, we are more interested in unwinding peanuts. Unwinding peanuts, mostly children and women, old people love doing live. Put a small square handle baskets, Dutch hoe a plate, pull finished in the ground inch by inch after peanut dig soil, every hidden peanuts from the soil pop up, often causing a burst of joy in my heart. Peanuts left in the soil, sometimes digging Waduan rotten, which are harmless, should be thrown into the basket. Each one peanut, and repeatedly give the villagers do not know how many times the plane. Sometimes, one or two heavy rain, after a few days, ground peanuts grown buds, thickness and length like a children fingers, glowing, unwinding peanuts when to pick up, can make a bowl of fried peanut bud dishes, sweet, crunchy, tender Shuang Shuang.
Today’s era, left his home and went to different places to learn to make a living has been very unusual, but the face of a foreign land scenery, consciously or unconsciously, invariably with some hometown contrast, even some small peanuts as Yuyao, after eating, after all, still feel than not on peanuts and sweet childhood home, there will be a faint trace of a sense of loss rises from among heart.