(Feng Zikai)
A common idle young gentleman is holding a cigarette in one finger and melon seeds in the other, sucking and biting, biting and eating, talking and laughing. Easy and easy, really "freehand brushwork!" They don't have to pick melon seeds or peel them with their fingers. When you put a melon seed in your mouth, all you have to do is take a bite and spit it out. You've spit out all your shells, and you're still chewing melon seeds there. That mouth is really like a delicate and sensitive machine. You don't need to fortress melon seeds, and you don't need to work hard ... it will never stop.
Women and ladies have a wonderful attitude towards biting melon seeds: they hold the round end of melon seeds with orchid-like fingers, put the melon seeds vertically in the middle of front teeth, and bite its tip with front teeth. "Yes, yes" rang twice, and the tips of the two shells split left and right. Then the hand quickly turned in one direction, and at the same time, the head slightly helped, so that the melon seeds were placed horizontally on the front teeth, and the upper and lower front teeth separated the two shells, biting the tips of the melon seeds and taking them out to eat. This way of eating is not only crisp and audible, but also the posture of turning hands and head sideways is elegant and charming. Even the dropped melon seeds look beautiful, like orchids. From this perspective, biting melon seeds is the specialty of young masters in China, especially the ladies and wives in China.
The inventor of eating melon seeds is really a genius! This is one of the most effective "leisure" methods. There is no better way to kill time than smoking opium and eating melon seeds. The most effective reason is that it has three conditions: first, it is not tired of eating; Second, do not have enough to eat; Third, we must shell.
As the saying goes, you can never get tired of eating melon seeds, which is called "no rest until you finish eating". Because it has a fragrance that is neither sweet nor salty, it can make people want to eat it constantly. I don't want to eat another one, but after chewing and swallowing, the fragrance in your mouth is endless, and you can't help reaching into the basin or paper bag. When we eat something, whether it is sweet or salty, we tend to get bored easily. Only those that are not sweet or salty can be eaten for a long time. It is for this reason that we can never get tired of eating melon seeds.
As the saying goes, melon seeds are not enough to eat, which is called "eating for three days and three nights, and growing a pointed shit." Because this thing is small, you can't get enough to eat anyway. Even if you eat for three days and nights, you will only excrete one more excrement tip. This is a very important condition for leisure.
Shelling is also a necessary condition for snack food. If there is no shell, it is too easy to eat and full, and it doesn't take much time. Be sure to take off your clothes, and the method of taking off your clothes must be vivid, so that it is not like hard work, but like a game, suitable for the life of the leisure class and let them spend it happily.
There are three conditions conducive to killing time. Of all the foods in the world, only melon seeds can be thought of. So I say that the person who invented eating melon seeds is a great genius. China people who can enjoy melon seeds as much as possible are really great active practitioners in leisure! If you look at the best-selling melon seeds in candy stores and southern goods stores, and see the melon seeds all over the floor in teahouses, hotels and families, you can imagine the time spent by China people in the sound of "Ge, Pei" and "De, De". The annual statistics are certainly amazing. If this road continues in the future, I'm afraid all of China will be wiped out in the voice of "dignity, respect" and "virtue, virtue".
I'm afraid of melon seeds. I feel even more scared when I write here.