Chestnut holiday

□ Guo Huayue

In September, there was a strong chestnut.

In his hometown, chestnut trees are common. Before and after National Day, when the mountain breeze brushed his face, he could always smell the heartbroken chestnut. So, when the National Day holiday, the sympathy became a holiday game for most children.

As soon as the holiday arrived, the children met the symposium in the mountains. In the era of material poverty, chestnuts are the best foods that can be solved. They can be fried, stewed soup, and fried meat. However, behind the deliciousness, it often means to pay more hard work.

The chestnut trees are very high, usually two or three feet high. The child who is good at climbing the tree, went to the tree three or two times, cut the buds, the children under the tree cheered, picking up the buds around. More often, the chestnut trees are too high. The children stand under the tree and cut off the buds with a long pole with a special cutting knife.

Get the buds together and pull it home, the next time is the time to peel chestnuts. On the buds of the chestnuts, the thorns are all over the body, and it looks like a little hedgehog curled out from a distance. Therefore, when peeling chestnuts, you must be particularly careful. Put on thick protective gloves and knock the buds first, and the intensity is moderate. Too hard, hurt the chestnut, the shape is incomplete; it is too light to knock on the bud.

After the buds are cracked, peel the chestnuts with your hands. The pest of the buds is particularly sharp. Even if the children are careful, it is common for the children to be stabbed all the time. However, the children in the mountains are used to it. After peeling the chestnuts and wiping some herbs, the swelling will be swollen the next day.

The peeled chestnut cannot be eaten immediately. After a day or two, dry the water inside, so that the taste is sweeter. You can't get hot tofu in anxiety, and this is also applicable to chestnut. The fragrant chestnut is endless tedious and painful behind it, and waiting for this thick chestnut fragrance.

Chestning and eating chestnuts are the heavy shows of children in the mountains. Today's children, they eat chestnuts, but few people know what chestnuts look like. It's so delicious. Moreover, chestnuts are not only versatile foods, but also have health effects. They can strengthen the spleen and stomach.

Nowadays, although it has not collected chestnuts for many years, the chestnut fragrance is still lingering at the tip of the nose on the National Day holiday every year, faintly, evoking the endless nostalgia.

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