This kind of wild fruit is sour and bitter in the past, farmers were bored when they saw it, but now it is a rare commodity worth 30 yuan a jin.

Now that it is summer, when it comes to what is most popular in summer, I think it is air conditioning, watermelon and mosquito incense. After all, the weather is so hot and there are many mosquitoes. Without these things, summer is not good.

However, in the rural areas in the past, there were no such good conditions. At that time, it was basically hand-shaking pu fans and eating wild fruits to spend the summer. Speaking of wild fruits, the author remembers that when I was a child, when it came to summer vacation, my favorite thing was to make an appointment with a few friends, and then go near the farmland or go to the mountains to pick wild fruits to eat.

Below, I would like to share with you a kind of wild fruit, which looks very good-looking, but in the past, many farmers were annoyed to see it.

In the past, there was always a kind of wild fruit growing in the farmland. It was shaped like a watermelon, but it was much smaller than a watermelon. It was only as big as an adult's thumb. This kind of wild fruit was called "dung melon" in my hometown. It not only had an ugly name, but also tasted bad, because it was sour and bitter.

In the past, many farmers were annoyed at the sight of this kind of wild fruit. The reason for this is that the wild fruit called "shit melon" especially likes to grow in farmland. It is not delicious to eat, and it also affects the growth of crops, so it is very annoying. Trample it down when you see it.

However, for rural children, although this "shit melon" is not delicious, it can be used as a toy. At that time, many rural children would grab a handful of "shit melon" in the field and throw each other around with their buddies, so they also prefer "shit melon".

In fact, the scientific name of this "shit melon" is "macaron". It usually begins to bear fruit around July, and it will mature around September. When it is not ripe, it does not taste good, sour and bitter, but it can be eaten after it is ripe. And it tastes sweet and delicious (but it can't eat much, it's easy to numb the tongue), but in the past, because farmers hated it. It is often cleaned up before it is mature.

In the past, the author has always thought that Mapogua is basically useless except as a toy for rural children, but now I find that this view is wrong, because the value of Mapogua is actually very high.

The seeds in macaroni contain a lot of oil, which can extract oil, and it is a kind of good and promising raw material crop. A farmer friend of the author in Henan told me that there are people there who specialize in growing this kind of macaroni. After being refined into oil, it is now sold for 30 yuan per jin. Compared with the past, it is rare to get rid of it.

In addition to oil refining, watermelon is also rich in a variety of vitamins, such as vitamin C and vitamin E, which can be dried to make tea, relieving alcohol and preventing alcoholism. however, this watermelon is rarely seen in my hometown these days.

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