Watermelon, the most authentic taste, will always become more and more intense as the years go by, making people miss it. In the early autumn, I was in a quiet village. Looking eastward, I saw patches of dark green melon fields scattered in the fields in the distance. Each melon field has a nunnery, built in the center of the melon field. There is probably an old man in the nunnery, and a dog accompanying him, guarding the endless melon fields. Neighbors who were busy farming took some time to buy watermelons on a donkey cart and transport them to the market to earn some pocket money for oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. When the moonlight is thick, Brother Hong will call me, take a sickle, bathe in the frost-like moonlight, climb over two ditches and ridges, stand on the high mound, and you will see dots dimly. The light is the melon field of the third uncle, and the nunnery on the melon field that provides shelter from wind and rain.
The night deep in the fields is extremely quiet, so quiet that you can hear your own heartbeat. When my third uncle heard our footsteps and voices, he would always say loudly, "Go back, it's too late." We refused, hurriedly walked to the end of the field, and sat on the stone next to the nunnery. The third uncle took advantage of the moonlight, squatting in the ground, flicking the skin of the melon with his fingers, and selected a melon weighing more than ten kilograms. It was sandy and sweet. After eating watermelon, I ran home in a hurry. Only the huge watermelons on the ground were left, the third uncle holding a long pipe, and the little squeaking pug. No matter whose melons they came from, they were always so sweet. Because the melon farmers use sesame paste to make sesame oil, ferment it, and use it as fertilizer, which is applied to the roots of each melon. Watering melons is usually done in the morning, when buckets of mountain spring soak the roots of the melons. Even in the Mid-Autumn Festival, everything begins to become desolate, but the melon fields are still green.
Summer is at its peak. People buy a few watermelons from the melon fields and use rope nets to unload them into their own wells. In the unbearably hot evening, they open the watermelons refrigerated in the well and cut them into crescent-shaped pieces. , the family ate a watermelon that had been refrigerated for a day or two, and the heat dissipated immediately, and they fell asleep peacefully. The years have gone by. However, that village, the melon fields in the village, the nunnery in the nunnery, the old man in the nunnery and the silent pug dog have been deposited in the depths of the years and transformed into an ink painting. Every dog ??day or early autumn, this ink painting will be particularly clear and intimate. In that village, there are fewer and fewer people growing melons due to soil compaction, lack of rain, high costs, and low yields. Wei County, located in the southern part of the North China Plain, has fertile soil and abundant underground water resources. With the help of scientific melon cultivation, Wei County watermelon has become a popular variety in the markets around Xingtai.
They are not very big, but they are all sweet. Every morning, Xingdong Market is bustling with people coming and going. Citizens buy bags of watermelon from there as a drink to cool off the summer heat for their families. The fellow selling melons shouted: "Big watermelons from Wei County, keep the sand and sweetness!" Another fellow villager said with some satisfaction that in recent years, with good rural policies, the yield of melons is high and of high quality, so they don’t have to worry about selling them, which is a huge income for farmers. When the heat is unbearable, or guests are coming, take out the watermelon refrigerated in the refrigerator, cut it in half, add a little sugar and lemon and mix it, it will become an excellent drink to dispel the heat and cool down. Nowadays, watermelon has become a common fruit at home. Even in the severe winter, there are a wide variety of watermelons on the market. If sown, it will grow and it will mature. It doesn't matter if it's not ripe, a dose of medicine can make the watermelon ripe overnight. There are melons with black skin and red flesh, green skin and yellow flesh, and seedless melons.
When I cut it open, it was so red that I was afraid to enter it. The sun and moon are changing, the climate is changing, and science and technology are exerting force. However, people always expect that the genes of watermelons that once grew in fertile soil and matured can reproduce forever without deteriorating or changing their taste.