Section 1 Mosquito nets and bamboo poles to make flutes

Since receiving the Japanese book from Pu Jinling, Ma Linxi's spare time has passed very quickly.

After dinner, everyone gathered around to chat, play cards, and some people went to the village entrance to see the scenery with nothing to do, or simply sat on the bed in a daze. After a few months, there is no novelty in everything here, and after a month or so, after the seeds are harvested, it is time to go back again. A sense of belonging to the heart is gradually developing.

The breeding team is not allowed to visit the female liaison's house, and there is no other cultural life, and there is really no fun in such a small market town in the nearby Banpo commune, and life is very boring. Especially at night, when there is nothing to do, what can you do but think about it?

Many people always find long nights boring.

As for Marinsi, her spare time is very fulfilling. He has two hobbies, one is playing the flute and the other is reading books.

I learned to play the flute when I returned to my hometown to work as a farmer after graduating from high school. After the Tangshan earthquake in 1976, an earthquake broke out in the Hedong region, which has never had an earthquake history along the coast. I don't know where the gossip came from, saying that there was an earthquake in Hedong recently. For a while, people talked about the shock and color change. Every night when I go to bed, I am all scared.

In order to prevent earthquakes, everyone has tried their best to prevent earthquakes.

Ma Linxi has a habit of preferring hands-on, and he has made ultra-low-volume sprayers for agricultural use with medical syringes and needles. Various old copper locks and various bullet locks have been repaired. When I was in junior high school, I put magnets, coils, and lead wires in the box of Pechoin Skin Cream, or even in a matchbox, and hung them on the radio line to listen to the radio. When I was in high school, I installed a radio according to the circuit diagram in my physics book. Therefore, according to the reality of the ground shaking during the earthquake, Ma Linxi made an earthquake alarm out of a very long strand of hair.

What's even more interesting is that he placed the copper basin at home on the half-hidden door, keeping it balanced, and if there was a slight vibration, the basin would fall from the door.

The floor of the Marinxi house was paved with small green bricks, and the sound of the copper basin falling from the door was louder than the sound of gongs, and in the dead of night, even those who slept to death would be awakened.

An alarm device that is too sensitive is not necessarily a good thing.

Marlinsi had a big cat at home, and one night somehow hit the door of the concealment, and the copper basin fell from the door to the brick floor, so frightened that the family ran outside the field. There was no movement for a long time, only to find that the cat, who was also frightened, looked vigilantly at the owners who fled outside.

It was the height of summer, and in order to be safer, the family followed the example of their neighbors and simply built an earthquake-proof shed with reed wood foil on the threshing floor outside.

Sleeping in an earthquake-proof shed is no problem, but the earthquake-proof shed in the middle of the cornfield is hotter than a steamer, and there is no way to sleep in the first half of the night.

Unable to sleep and without an electric light to read, Marlinsi thought of learning the flute.

Ma Linxi, whose family lives in the countryside, had no way to go to the city to buy flutes, so he thought of making his own flute with bamboo poles. At that time, it was too difficult to find a suitable material for making a bamboo flute, and the minimum requirement was that the bamboo was long enough, thick enough, round enough, and brittle enough.

But to find such materials, it is simply difficult to go to the sky.

After a few days of searching, he finally found that the bamboo pole in his grandmother's room where the mosquito net was hung was very suitable. It's very suitable, but it doesn't mean it's very usable. Her parents are away from home all year round, and Marlinsi has been living with her grandmother. Although grandma loves him, grandma also has god-like majesty. If you want to use a bamboo pole to make that useless flute, it's obvious that the toad wants to eat swan meat. After thinking about it, Marlinsi finally decided to use a bamboo pole.

On the day when her grandmother went to her aunt's house to show affection, Ma Linxi had the courage to take out a piece of the bamboo pole that supported the mosquito net, and then used a small wooden stick to replace it, and then restored the mosquito net.

With this piece of bamboo, Ma Linxi found a large group of iron buddies to help. His father was a well-known carpenter, and while his father was not at home, he made a few holes in the bamboo tube with a drill specially designed to make holes in the wood. The location of the hole was marked in advance by Marlinsi according to his feelings. After the hole-eye was laid, the two ends were sawed neatly, and then climbed to the cement aqueduct at the entrance of the brigade department, and the head and tail were smoothed. When you go home, you carefully polish the flute hole inside and out with a rough iron rod, and paste it with reed underwear, and it is a real bamboo flute.

Although the bamboo flute is made, the sound it blows is not as good as imagined.

Fortunately, Ma Linxi first learned about the simple score, and there was no audience anyway, just to pass the time at night, and as soon as he had time, he practiced blowing, and after a few months, he could also play music. Because he practiced with old songs of the Cultural Revolution, the neighbors could actually hear from the yin and yang weird tunes he played that it was "Dongfang Hong".

This affirmation made him unable to learn the bamboo flute by himself, and he played music and practiced whenever he had time.

After the earthquake warning was lifted, Ma Linxi later went to the city to run errands and bought a bamboo flute from the county department store. In addition, in those years, he had the opportunity to show his hands with the literary and artistic propaganda team in the brigade, so he could really blow the flute out of tune, and later he also did accompaniment for the propaganda team.

This time he came to Hainan, and Ma Linxi naturally brought the bamboo flute. Every day after dinner, "Barefoot Doctor Sunflower", "Red Star Follow Me to Fight", "The Spring Water of the Frontier is Clear and Pure", etc., after blowing the whole thing, there is no interest in blowing again.