On June 5th, the twenty-four solar terms of the mango seed. According to the season, this time is the season when all kinds of melons are on the market. On the way to work, I saw the scene of roadside melon vendors shouting "watermelon mile" and "melon mile", and I couldn't help but think of a scene of watching melons when I was a teenager.
I remember when I was about thirteen or fourteen years old, and not long after the production team was disbanded, the peasants were given some land. Some families with a lot of labor always grow some melons and sell them for a few dollars. It's the same with my family. "Before and after the rain in the valley, plant melons and beans". That year, on a sunny day, my parents sprinkled the seeds of the croissant melon that had been soaked in advance, watered them, smoothed the soil, and waited for them to blossom and bear fruit. The melon field is located in the south of the village, more than ten miles away from home, with more than two acres of land. Under careful management, the melon field can finally be opened for picking. One of my brothers, who is 5 years older than me and 2 years older than me, each has a 28-type water pipe bicycle, and a large wicker basket is carried on the left and right sides of the car, and each basket weighs 1,200 pounds after being filled with melons. They set off at one o'clock in the afternoon, along the 106 National Highway to the north, through Gu'an, Bazhou, riding more than 200 miles to a farmer's market in Beijing, after a short rest, hurry up to the morning market to sell **, and then hurriedly ride back, more than 400 miles back and forth. Every time I get home, it's always one o'clock in the afternoon, and sometimes it's late because of the road.
Ten. It is also common to arrive home at one or two o'clock, which makes parents very worried. At that time, when I saw their tired bodies that were about to fall apart after arriving home, I felt an indescribable feeling in my heart, and tears welled up in my eyes. Their strong will to endure hardships has imperceptibly influenced me, and laid the ideological foundation for me to Xi study hard, endure hardships and hardships in the future, and stand out in the college entrance examination.
Compared with my two elder brothers, it is much easier to take care of the melon fields, commonly known as melon ---, given to me by my parents. After the small melons grew, my father set up a melon shop in the reserved place of the melon field. The melon shop is 3 meters long, more than 2 meters wide before and after, each of the four corners is buried with a high wooden pile, the top is set up above the wooden pile, the plastic sheet is laid on it to cover the rain, and then the paving board is set up at a height of more than one meter from the ground, and a simple melon shop is built. This has become my position to watch melons.
In the middle of summer, the night in the melon orchard is beautiful. The sky was a deep blue, and the moon hung like a silver platter on a cloudless curtain, and the moonlight poured down quietly, smearing the melon fields with a silvery white. Countless stars blinked, motionless in the night sky, looking so distant and clean. The crickets hid under the seedlings and tirelessly sang their own bright and bright songs. In the XiXi evening breeze, I would shake the fan, sit under the moonlight and think about my so-called thoughts, and when I was tired, I would get into the melon shop and lie on the plank and fall asleep quickly. In summer, the day dawns early, in the slight cool breeze, I will be like the ruler of this land to get the melon field to inspect, see the melons that are ripe and taste good, I will taste them first, not to mention the cool silk, crisp, sweet and sweet feeling. Sometimes melons, vegetable melons, ground yellow and other melons are harvested, probably because the melon seed seller accidentally skewered the melon seeds. The melons that hedgehogs steal at night are the sweetest, but they tend to nibble only half of them and give up the remaining half. When I found this kind of melon, I picked it off and threw it away, saving me from consuming nutrients.
Watching melons is easy and fun, but what makes me unbearable is the heat in the middle of the day. Although the air is not as humid and muggy as Futian weather, the strong dry and hot wind blows through the melon shop with a boiling heat wave, and a thin layer of plastic sheeting cannot resist the hot sun. On the cloudless plains, a small melon shop looks like an ant being focused under the sun with a magnifying glass. Later, my mother said that if the weather is not hot, how can the wheat be ripe. At this time, my only way to resist is to lie calmly on the melon bed, not thinking about anything, and using meditation to dissipate the torment of heat.
Sometimes there are torrential rains and strong winds. I remember one time, when the weather suddenly rained heavily, I hurriedly used all the guys who covered the melon shop to cover the rain, and made all the front, back, left and right tight, and curled up on the pavement alone. The basin outside was clanged by the hail, and the roof of the melon shop also made a crackling sound, and the rain wet the bedding in the shop after a while, and the plastic sheeting to cover the rain was also beaten into a sieve eye by the hail. Soon the wind blew again, and the melon shop swayed under the force of the wind, as if it was about to be blown down. At that time, it was still rumored that the "two kings of the Northeast" had just wandered here after committing the crime, and the reminder of "children should try not to go out at night" was still in my ears. In addition, not far from the melon field, there is a new burial of a new daughter-in-law who died in a car accident, and the ghost may not be gone. Fear, loneliness, and helplessness hit me. Fortunately, the second brother quickly braved the wind and rain to see me coming, and gave me the courage to relieve the siege.
The biggest reward of watching melons is that it gives me a lot of time and provides me with an excellent learning and Xi environment. I packed the textbooks and Xi materials into my school bag and brought them to the melon shop. I don't have to worry about being ridiculed for not being able to pronounce English aloud, I can recite the text with my eyes, hands, brain, and mouth like a madman, and I can also calculate the homework and the Xi Xi in the practice book one by one. In the morning, when the sun was shining in the east, I was learning Xi on the west side of the melon shopIn the afternoon, when the sun was shining, I moved to the east side of the melon shop to learn XiWhen I was tired of sitting and standing on the ground, I lay on the floor and wrote and read. With the mastery of knowledge points one by one, with the cracking of one problem after another, it has greatly enhanced my confidence in learning Xi, made up for the shortcomings of weak subjects, and successfully entered an undergraduate university in the province with the first place in the liberal arts in the college entrance examination, which opened up a possible and wonderful life path for me.
Today, looking back on the 55 years of life, I already have the feeling of "seeing the blank, the hair is pale, and the teeth are shaking". Many of the past have been forgotten, but the time spent guarding the melon orchard is something I will never forget.
Thank you so much for the wonderful time you had watching the melons!