The branches are delicious at this time, but they can only be used as a taste, a taste. At this time, the branches are actually sour and sweet, and it is not yet in season. If you control your temper, the branches will bloom when the cicadas in the street scream desperately and become long and dense.
Peel off the bright red shell, and there is a delicate crystal ball filled with juice. Bite, mouth and hands are covered with sweetness, even discarded litchi shells will be covered with bright juice. The pink inner shell, stained with sweet juice, is really like a peach blossom after the rain. "Lotus petals fall before the wind, and peach blossoms are beautiful after the rain." Xu Bo of the Ming Dynasty also said that peeling a shell is so vivid and fragrant.
"Chew the taste of the sky and smell the fragrance of different worlds." "The shell is red, the film is purple, the flesh is silvery white, the flesh is sweet and sour, and the aroma is clear." Bai Juyi described the color and aroma of litchi in a few simple sentences.
Litchi, commonly known as Yang Guifei, is the most famous and precocious, that is, concubine smiles. Litchi monopolized the market when it was just popular. It's just a little bitter in the sweet and sour taste. I wonder if this is also a portrayal of life in Yang Fei.
Later, the varieties listed, such as white sugar poppy, glutinous rice paste, etc., are thick and soft, with full honey juice and sweet bite juice. But not as delicious as cinnamon.
Compared with other varieties, the cinnamon-flavored fruit is obviously smaller. The shell is thin and crisp, light red, the skin is hard and prickly, the core is small, and the peeled pulp is crisp, sweet and strong. The most attractive thing is that it has a floral fragrance, like osmanthus and roses, with a long and delicate aftertaste, which is fascinating. So it is said that eating cinnamon first makes other lychees tasteless.
Litchi is delicious, no wonder Zhang Jiuling praised it: "The five flavors are mixed, and the sweetness is different." "Yi Zhitian is not accurate, and there is no fine words that cannot be known." It means that there are five flavors in the world: sweet, bitter, sour, spicy and salty, but the sweetness of litchi is unique. Its sweetness is unparalleled and cannot be described by beautiful words.
Listening to my parents' memories when I was a child. Litchi was once rich in the local area, planted in front of my house and beside the pond. The fruit was as big as table tennis, sweet and juicy. When the pears are ripe, grandpa will carry a few baskets and take them to uncle Guangzhou by boat. Later, with many factories, litchi trees gradually failed to bear fruit and eventually became rotten wood. Not to mention the cinnamon smell, the princess smiled, and there was no shadow of litchi in the city.
However, as long as you look far away and farther away, there will still be late-maturing litchi varieties around you, and the red locust branches are equally pleasing to the eye.
When the local Sophora branches are on the market, there will be many grandmothers selling melons and vegetables on weekdays. Although the litchi just picked is not big, it is as red as a burning flame in front of people. Grandma saw people passing by and waved her hand frequently, boasting that it was picked from her own tree and produced from an ancient well in Xinhui.
Although the branches of Sophora japonica in Gu Jing taste bad, they are not as sweet as cinnamon, nor as fragrant as osmanthus and roses. Small in size and too big in core, but the shell is surprisingly bright red, the flesh is soft and juicy, and the juice tastes sweet, which is actually very good.
Gu Jing in June is really hot in June. Litchi trees are planted on both sides of the whole country road. Red lychees are hung on tall trees. When you drive by, you will see a little scarlet, like a beating flame, vaguely waving to people in the dark green canopy.
On the ground, the fruit will fall to the ground, the bright red shell will be broken, and the white flesh will be exposed, which makes people pity.
Fruit farmers in twos and threes set up stalls under the trees to sell litchi and litchi honey. And the cicada's cry will accompany his head, and he will sell "branches, branches." At this time, litchi will make people stay and the car will stay. Picking fresh food under the tree is only for tasting the ancient well Sophora branches that are as bright as fire in June.
However, with the arrival of late-maturing litchi variety Hu Aizhi, we will bid farewell to this season's litchi soon.