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Green plum wine, a summer obsession

Apr 20, 2021

In May, the air gradually became hot and dry, but when I read the word "green plum", I felt a sharp coolness.
The sourness of the green plum makes people awaken from the sleepiness of summer, and the fruity fragrance between the lips and teeth is rich, like the unexpected summer rain, which is jerky and fierce but pure and moving.
The jerky plums on the tree are brewed into wine to retain the greenness of another summer.
Choose eight mature plums patiently, and the green plums will fall into the water and clean them carefully. Sprinkle a layer of salt, pour water, and soak into yellowish plums.
Then just like that, a layer of green plum, a layer of sugar, and then pour the clear wine, gradually filling the bottle with the green summer flavor, waiting for the clear taste brought by the time.
After three months of waiting, green plum wine can be consumed. But if you have enough patience to wait until the next summer, when the spirits have been "tamed" by the green plums, and the plums have gradually lost their jerky due to the mellowness of the wine.
In the afternoon when no one cares, bring a pot of green plum wine uninvited.
There is no sophistication of pushing cups and changing cups, and drinking intermittently, no one hesitates. In the early summer, when the insects sang with a long tail, I thought of the heroic elegance of the hero of the green plum boiled wine a thousand years ago. The heroes of the Three Kingdoms struggle have long since ended, leaving today's people to be lost in the astringency of plum wine, until the white sunset, and the dusk is deep.
The two childhood sweethearts, who have no doubts about guessing, pick a green plum and the greenness has not faded, just as sure as they have not changed their original intentions. It's just that the person who planted plum trees with his own hands and picked plums in the early summer of each year, where is it now?