We don’t plant banana, but when I was young, there were many plantain trees. Plantain doesn’t taste as good as banana. But perhaps it is much easier to bear fruits, so they could be seen all along the roadside of the village. By the roadside there were also lon gan trees, leechee trees, Chinese wampee fruittrees, guava and so on. However, they were not planted by the villagers, but grew by themselves after people throwing their seeds onto the soil.

Sadness aroused when the road was rebuilt. It had to be broadened so all the fruit trees had to be cut down and removed or buried. It was really a pity because the trees not only bore delicious fruits but also contributed a wonderful paradise for us children. I missed one of the big longan trees so much that I could not find any other one produces tastier longans, and I missed the little green house the small guava tree and the vines set up for us. By the way, I remembered there was a nice species of guava alongside a brook by the farm land, but, god, it was also be killed! I wonder whether it was because they adults were angry at us for as soon as the guava became ripe, they were all picked off by us children.