When I was a child, every New Year's Festival, my mother would go to buy two pounds of red melon seeds, whenever a relative came to my house, my mother would always take out the red melon seeds, put them on a small plate, and shout at relatives to eat together, and then they would gather together, one person and a handful of melon seeds, while gossiping while watching TV, and the hands kept sniffing the melon seeds.
I didn't understand at that time, but also wanted to learn the appearance of adults, pick up a handful of red melon seeds and start snorting, but the technique is clumsy, the adults always bite a bite to the middle position, and then the red melon seeds to the left and right sides of the separation, the red melon seed shell piled together, as if flowering, very beautiful, on the contrary, I snorted out of the melon seeds, not as regular as adults, in my mother's words is "messy", like the sunflower melon seeds on both sides of the whole part of the also have, learn adults to eat half but half can not eat there are also.
Until I gradually understood things, I learned that this kind of red melon seed is called Xindu red melon seed, and the task of going out to buy New Year goods every year is handed over to my shoulders, and my mother is busy worshiping God's things at home, and I do not forget to tell me to buy red melon seeds to buy dark and red, this kind of red melon seeds are thick and fragrant.
When I first sniffed two or three melon seeds every time, my mother told me not to sniff, and also showed the results of her so many years of sucking melon seeds, I saw that my mother's front teeth in the middle position had a crack, like a small triangle, as if it were collapsing. Mom said that everyone who likes to snort red melon seeds will have this small crack, and she is still a small crack without a mouth, and some people even split their front teeth until they crack and split into two sides. However, even if you have a crack in your teeth, you still like to snort, you can say that you have true love for the red melon seeds, and I think this is also the charm of the red melon seeds.
There are poems: southern red melon seeds, eight steps of unique title, cinnabar color fragrant sweet, ladies compete for return.
My mother-in-law's family and a few aunts live in Guangdong, whenever my parents and I want to visit relatives in Guangdong, the aunts do not forget to instruct us to bring a few pounds of xindu red melon seeds down, according to their sayings, the red melon seeds in Xindu are more delicious, compared to their local red melon seeds, xindu red melon seeds are larger, easier to sniff, and sweet, put for a long time will not be moldy.
I think it may be because of these reasons that the red melon seeds of Hezhou City will become famous and become one of the traditional export products of Hezhou City.
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