I remember when I was in elementary school, a lot of such folk artists, almost every school in front of the stall selling sugar people. At that time, the sugar man variety is also rich, there are classical beauty, there is the Monkey King, there is the Tang Monk, there are a variety of different postures of other characters ...... and my favorite is the classical beauty - willow leaf eyebrows, Danfeng eyes, face with peach blossom, lips stained with vermilion, clothes fluttering, diamond belt flying. When I was a kid, I always liked to use my pocket money to buy one of these candy figures and admire it for half a day while I walked around, not being able to eat it for a long time. Or I would buy a small amount of malt candy (the kind wrapped around three tiny bamboo sticks). On the way home from school, I could walk around the malt candy with three bamboo sticks. It was fun to wind the maltose around like this, watching the maltose in my hand become tougher and tougher, and the color gradually changing until it went from golden yellow to white. At this point, the malt candy is ready to be eaten. I usually can't be bothered to eat it all at once, but instead I separate the three bamboo sticks and eat them one by one, and lick them in small bites. The taste of the maltose, I can never forget, licked into the mouth, sweet, through a honey-like fragrance; and then gently sip, is a soothing feeling of the whole body, sweet to the heart, but not greasy. This is the unique flavor of maltose.
Now maltose and maltose made of sugar people rarely seen, many years, I almost did not see. Perhaps this kind of folk art, which can't make much money, is being gradually lost?
Today's world is much more colorful, and children nowadays have everything they need to eat and play, except for those things that were once popular when we were kids. Now the food, is more and more exquisite, supermarkets, chocolate, and a variety of high-level candies are available, but there is no maltose that unique sweet flavor, the kind of tasting a mouthful of the whole body invigorating feeling.
The maltose is the maltose of childhood, and the maltose is full of those sunshine and simple happiness in childhood.
On that day, I was surprised to see the folk artists selling candies and malt candies. I was so happy and overwhelmed with emotion that I felt like I was in a trance, and it seemed like I was going back in time. It was as if I had inadvertently picked up a cherished possession that had been lost for a long time. I didn't hesitate to take out money to buy a candy cane for my daughter and two malt candies.
I let my daughter take the candy cane, and I held the two malts in one hand and drove the battery car in the other. But after I drove out for a while, I found that the maltose melted and dripped all over my hands. It turns out that the maltose has to be wrapped around as you go, and the golden-colored maltose is not tough enough to flow down easily, while only when it is wrapped around to white will it be tightly fixed on the bamboo stick. I forgot about this and was going to ride home and then wind it with my daughter. However, I ended up getting it all on my hands, and when I saw it, we didn't have the heart to eat, and I rubbed my hands halfway through the day, and they were still sticky and uncomfortable.
We didn't get to eat the malt candy, and we didn't get to experience the fun of wrapping the malt candy. So, we went back to buy two more, this time ready to wrap the good and take it home.
But when we got there, we found that the old man who picked up the burden had disappeared and was nowhere to be found.
The malt candy of childhood, that kind of engraved flavor, can only be left in the memory of childhood ......