In 1957, my mother was transferred from the township cadre to the agricultural department and was assigned to the gardening field. It is said that the horticulture farm is actually Huahong Garden (later expanded to include apples, pears, peaches, and walnuts). Huahong Garden was originally a private orchard surnamed Zhao. In 1956, after industrial and commercial renovation, it was handed over to the government, which established a garden garden. In 1958, my father and I followed my mother from the countryside to Huahongyuan. My father was a gardener, and I went to study at the Experimental Primary School.
The Huahong Garden at that time was natural and simple. It is located on the southwest side of Qinglong Street, with an area of about two hectares. It faces Qinglong Street and is surrounded by a wall. But it is very simple, built with earth, less than five feet high, and the top of the wall is covered with wild wormwood and wild thorns. Some areas are surrounded by vines of Polygonum Multiflorum, Trichosanthes Trichosanthes, Horse Shit Paozi and Lala Fujiko. It runs about 200 meters north to south.
At the southernmost end, there is a foreigner family named Wang living outside the wall. Outside the northernmost wall lived two households of cadres from the County Department of Agriculture and Industry. There is about 2 hectares of land on the east side of Linqinglong Street. It is said to be the land prepared for the expansion of Huahong Garden. On it are planted Begonia seedlings and mulberry, peach and Tangli trees, all of which are rootstock trees to be grafted. Nearly ten households live in the southernmost part of the reserve area.
There are three or four households with the surnames Wang, Zhen and Ding living in the northernmost part. To the west of Huahong Garden is a pond three to four hundred meters long and more than ten meters wide. There are naturally growing wild crucian carp, mullet, Wangya and white fish. Later, residents from both sides jointly tried to release silver carp, black carp and other fish species many times, and achieved good profits. On the west side of this long pond is a large open space of about two hectares. People who come to the city are accustomed to calling it the stadium. It is an important place for outdoor movies, festivals, and sports events.
My family lives in the middle of the wall of Huahong Garden. There is a gatehouse on the protruding part of the wall. The gatehouse is not high, not big, not eye-catching, and just ordinary. A small tiled house on a ridge spans the wall. There are two thin wooden pillars supporting the small tiled house, making it stand like a pavilion. The door frame is made of miscellaneous trees, and the doors on both sides have door shafts that can be freely rotated, closed and opened. When you enter the gate and turn to the right, you can see two small tile-roofed houses. The walls are made of small adobe and the floor is made of mud. There is a white iron door with holes standing in the middle of the room. Our family has lived in these two rooms for more than fifty years (later renovated). The hut faces south. There is a jujube tree growing lushly towards the gate. There are two tall persimmon trees standing tall behind the house. Every autumn, the rich aroma of yellow and orange persimmons wafts out. There are more than ten crape myrtle trees on the west side of the house. From early summer to mid-autumn , the flowers are in full bloom, as rosy and bright as a girl's face. About ten meters in front of the left side of the hut, there is a charming purple bamboo. Next to the purple bamboo, there is a small well, which leads to a spring. The water is pure and cool. The girls and their wives in this street often carry water here, chat, joke and tell each other about home affairs.
Looking at the entire garden, the owner of the original Huahong Garden is very insightful and original. He planted more than twenty high-quality trees about fifteen meters in front of the house. If you take a bite of a good variety of red wine and leave it there, you will see almost no "rust" when you look at it an hour later. In order to effectively pollinate the flowers, he planted begonias and sand fruit more than 50 meters in front and back of the house.
In addition, in order to effectively protect the fence, a large number of Polygonum multiflorum, Trichosanthes trichosanthes, and horse excrement are planted in the fence, so that these vines can effectively protect the earthen fence. In addition, there are also Solitary Lotuses scattered in the Huahong Garden to relieve the discomfort caused by the venom of poisonous snakes, scorpions and centipedes. There are some strange phenomena in this garden: there are many yellow weasels in Huahong Garden. I personally witnessed them lining up and squatting on the wall, but no chickens were lost in my house, neighbors or neighbors.The trees in Huahong Garden are low and humid. Here, earth-spotted snakes, black-headed snakes , and fire-red snakes often appear. Snakes visit my house almost every year, but our family has never been attacked by snakes. During the rainy season, the water in the pond will rise to the garden. Almost every year, crucian carp, Aconitum , and old turtles follow the heavy rain and run to my yard along the ditch to give us a delicious meal. It is really a godsend. ah!
Let’s talk about bonuses, there are really endless stories to tell. First of all, more than ten species of rare wild birds come to visit the bonus garden every year, such as thrush, lark, white-headed eagle, starling, turtle dove, Cuckoos, cuckoos, swallows, oriole and copperbills sang heartily in the garden, and the cicada lost no time in joining the chorus. I was often woken up by them in the spring mornings, making me sleepy. No.
Bonus Every mid-to-late April, thousands of trees are covered in green and bloom with pink flowers. Under the sunlight and the surge of air, the patterns are charming and the flowers are fragrant and attractive. It attracts countless bees and butterflies. The colorful butterflies are dancing all the time, and the orioles are chirping at ease. Bees admire the attractive stamens, revel in the sweet fragrance among the thousands of flowers. The butterfly flutters its thin wings gently, calling its thousands of friends to dance gracefully and beautifully. When you are here, there is a buzzing music in your ears, and your nose is filled with a rich fragrance. You seem to have entered the fairy mountain and the palace.
Whenever the bonus is ripe, city government cadres, school teachers and students, and farmers from the suburbs flock to the flower garden like a tide. Everyone rushes to buy and people enjoy the joy of the bonus. Some of them use the red flowers to make wine and tea, and some hide the red flowers deep in their homes to enjoy the aroma of the red flowers that become more and more ripe and more like sweet-scented osmanthus. Others are packaged and given as gifts to relatives and friends far away, passing on the sweetness of hometown to both inside and outside the province, allowing them to remember their hometown and remember their homesickness.
Let’s An Huahong (formerly known as Ringo ) really has a story that is endlessly memorable.
During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, a third-rank official emerged in Lai'an - Wu Tang, the censor of Dongtai. He took his mother to live in the capital, but unexpectedly she suddenly contracted dysentery. All the famous doctors in the capital could not cure him. Master Wu was so worried that he had to send his mother, who would rather die in her hometown, back to her hometown to be safe. He also found a village girl named Huahong to take care of her at the bedside. Huahong is kind-hearted and tries his best to serve the old lady, but the old lady refuses to eat or drink. It happened that Ringo was on the market, so she bought some on the street and brought it back. She asked Mrs. Wu to eat it to appetize. Unexpectedly, Mrs. Wu found it sour and sweet, and the more she ate, the more she wanted to eat it. After eating it for several days, her illness became much less severe. The taste is greatly improved and the food feels delicious. Everyone in the Wu family was very happy.
Soon Wu Tang's son brought dozens of kilograms of Ringo to Beijing to visit his father. Wu Chang presented the fruit to Emperor Renzong. It happened that Renzong also felt gastrointestinal discomfort in those days. The fragrance flows through the entire body, making you feel refreshed and refreshed. Looking at Lin Qin, he was very curious, but he didn't know what it was. It was so fragrant and so red. Long Yan was so happy that he blurted out: "This fruit is called Huahong!" Wu Tang thanked Miss Huahong and hurriedly knelt down and said, "This fruit is called Huahong. Renzong was very pleased and gave the fruit "Lai'an Huahong". Since then, Lai'an Huahong has become famous both inside and outside the province.
In 1987, due to urban construction needs, the bonus was transferred to Fuxing Forest Farm for protection. Wandong's bonus business card has been seriously recognized. I sincerely hope that Laianhuahong will become more and more prosperous, more tasteful, and more and more dazzling.
Lu Shaolian, male, born in January 1947, is from Lai'an. He graduated from Hefei University of Technology. He joined the army in March 1968 and was discharged in January 1973. He worked in enterprises and institutions for many years and retired in 2007. He was awarded the title of Anhui Provincial Model Worker on May 1, 1988, and the title of National Model Worker on September 30, 1989. After retirement, he continued to write, and his prose works were published many times in "Southern Literature", "Yellow River Literature and Art", "Chuzhou Daily", "Anhui Local Taxation", "Lai'an Literature and Art", "Lai'an News" and "Lai'an Reader" Published in."Children's Leader Tiezhu'er" created in 1970 was published in Shanghai Red Soldier Newspaper and Liaoning Daily. In 1973, it was published in comic form by Shanghai People's Publishing House and Guangdong People's Publishing House respectively, becoming the memory of a generation. The ownership of this article belongs to teacher Lu Shaolian.
