127. Watermelon Field

After a few days, after a light rain, several ancient trees were rejuvenated in the second spring and grew a lot of tender buds.

It surprised many people in the village.

Sun Gang's survival was no longer a problem, so he breathed a sigh of relief. After several days of falling leaves, he was really worried that these trees would really die.[]

The hot summer heat always makes people curl up and don’t want to move. The village covers the green shade, and the lush trees in front of and behind the houses have grown into the sky. The high temperature and sunshine are good at rendering green. The crops are crowded together and cannot bear it. They exude a rich sweetness, condense one fruit after another, expanding rapidly, and nothing can stop it.

Scoop up a scoop of clear water, and the bones were churning, and my throat was cold and I was still thirsty, so I put the scoop into the water tank again. With a sound, I scoop up a scoop of clear water, and my belly was churning. My stomach was already filled with water, like a watermelon, and I still wanted to drink it in my mouth.

In broad daylight, the villagers are busy in their own fields. The soybeans planted after the wheat harvest grow half a foot tall, and they are in need of human handicraft seedlings, weeding and pesticides.

The little melons in the watermelon field are filled with stars, bulging out like balloons day by day.

I saw that the watermelons were about to mature. In this season, there was no need for farm work in the field. Those who should fertilize, those who should weed, those who should bury, those who should bury, those who should water, and those who should water, those who should wait for the watermelon to ripen.

When the watermelon grows to 70 or 80 years of ripening, adults use four purlins to form a triangle-shaped shed, use door leaves as beds, and lay grass fences on top. Simple melon sheds are transparent from north to south, blocking wind and rain, and resting in the summer. They are looking out for all the melon fields. Several nearby families have also set up melon sheds, which are in a remote response. In the hot summer, it is the time when the fruits and sorrows are fragrant. Adults sweat in the fields, while children hide in the melon sheds, calling friends and companions, telling stories and playing games, which is cool and comfortable.

Staying in the melon shed at night and watching the melon sleep, everything around is silent, and sometimes whirling breeze blows, the surrounding crops rustle, listening to the rustling of crickets, watching the fantasy stars in the vast sky, being in the quiet nature, sleeping soundly until dawn.

Nowadays, there is no need to take care of the melon garden, and no children will come to steal melons. The former melon thieves, such as Sun Gang, stubbornly fought against melon farms, and took advantage of the noon to appear, one, two, three... The watermelon and its belly were close to the ground, transported into the river, and feasted with their partners who were taking a bath.

It is suitable for growing watermelons on both sides of the river. People here also like to grow watermelons here. A piece of watermelon field is connected to a piece of watermelon field, spreading along the river from south to north. There are as many as thousands of acres and as long as a few places.

In the sun, when the wind blows, the melon leaves shake, light and dark, dark and bright, but the watermelons on the ground remain motionless, allowing the flashing spots of the melon leaves to flash and shake on the green surface. The calmness and atmosphere of the watermelon before ripening also appear at this time.

The sun's spots blinked and jumped on the river surface, and the river waves pushed towards the river bank again and again. The river wind blew wet from the river surface, chilly and itchy, like a pair of itchy hands reaching into a pair of itchy hands.

Sun Gang and his parents came to the watermelon field, surrounding the melon field. Sun Mom planted a few rows of corn to produce green sticks and pink tassels, which attracted bees in the wind.

Sowing seeds, we shed too much sweat and expectation.

Harvest, but there is too much joy and sweetness.

The watermelon sown by yourself is heavy, like a heavy dream and hope...

When the watermelon seeds planted in the past became ripe watermelons hanging on the vines, the sweetness in my heart was beyond words. Sun Gang looked at this, touched that, and was selecting the largest and best watermelons. Happy laughter echoed in the harvest fields.

The dense watermelon vines are still creeping on the ground in an orderly manner. A few old vines and a few goose-yellow flowers bloom. If not stopped, they will also produce melon seeds. Melon seeds that cannot grow, and waste their land power for no reason.

As the saying goes, you are not afraid of not knowing the goods, but you are afraid of comparing goods. Sun Gang’s watermelons are more numerous than other people’s watermelons, with large size and bright patterns. The eyes look different, but isn’t it even more different to eat them in your mouth?

The villagers working nearby walked into the watermelon field of Sun Gang's house one after another, staring at the big round watermelons, and sucking with their noses as if they could smell the unique watermelon smell wrapped in watermelon skin that was different from other people's houses.

Dad Sun found a big watermelon and gave it to the person to try it. The tip of the knife touched the flesh slightly, and the watermelon cracked a crack, revealing the red and sandy flesh. He ate it with a piece of it, sweet and refreshing.

After the villagers tasted it, they decided to plant your watermelon seeds in the next year, the next year.

The sun rose little by little, shining little by little, and burning little by little. Sun Gang was naked on his upper body, and the sweat on his body surged and flowed. The sweat on his head flowed on his face, the sweat on his face flowed on his body, the sweat behind followed the spine, the sweat in front flowed along his belly, and then flowed on his legs, feet, and finally flowed into the soil.

"You guys, you haven't put on your clothes yet, you've peeled off your skin." Sun's mother looked at the sun and her arms turned red.

"It's okay." The main reason is that the clothes are sweaty and sticky to the body, it feels uncomfortable.

Dad Sun also shook his head and said, "You should put it on, otherwise you will suffer at night."

When I am exposed to the sun with my shirtlessness during the day, I always feel dry all over my body at night, especially after taking a shower, I often feel itchy all over my body, and a few white marks will appear when I scratch my body.

At the request of my father, Sun Gang put on a long-sleeved shirt that was almost dry on the grass by the ground, and reluctantly put it on.

Sun Gang's family planted three or four points of land and picked ripe melons. Generally, a snakeskin bag could only hold four large watermelons. After noon, the sun became more and more fierce, so the three of them had to go home. The car was filled with a truck full of watermelons.

The soft-bodied melon seeds in the melon field will be picked out, washed, stuffed into a large tank in the storage room for marination. The melon seeds have thick skin and less flesh, coated with salt water, and add pine branches, pepper, strong wine, etc., count the time, open the tank to eat, and have a comfortable taste, salty and sweet and spicy, soft and soft, soft and mellow, which greatly enhances appetite and is suitable for digestion.

I got home and gave my relatives a few, and I temporarily stored the rest in a cool place. Sun Gang secretly kept a lot of them in the space. The space has a fresh-keeping function. No matter how long it is left, I don’t worry about it being broken.

Take a big watermelon, put it in a net pocket, add a rope, and put it in a big well to cool it. It will be cold and sweet at night, and it is much better than what you take out in the refrigerator. Therefore, rural people generally do not put it in the refrigerator to cool it, but directly connect it to the well, which is a natural large refrigerator.

127. Watermelon Field

127. Watermelon Field
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