Chapter 16: Stealing Coconuts

Section 1 Contrary to the traditional way of transplanting rice

A few days after the Spring Festival, the breeding team was busy again.

The third male parent is sown first, followed by the female parent.

The transplanting workload of the seed rice mother Zhenshan 97 sterile line is relatively large, which is four times that of the first, second and third phases of the male parent, and the time is tight, and a series of farm work such as fertilizing, turning the ground, making seedling boards, and falling grain are almost all done by the breeding team members themselves, although the liaison officers of the production team have also participated in the labor from beginning to end, but there are few people who are not short of work. Objectively, they are not only the liaison of the Hedong breeding team, but also the liaison of the brother breeding team, who are pulled around by several breeding teams all day long, running around and busy, and the time to really settle down and work with them is very limited. Despite the short time spent doing farm work together, the mental effect is still great.

The liaison officers are young and beautiful, full of energy, and are originally attractive to men, plus they are all young men.

When there was no liaison officer, everyone worked lifelessly, and no one was too lazy to speak. Perhaps, at that time, I was thinking about my wife and children at home, or a girl who was a childhood sweetheart, or a lover of my dreams. Perhaps, he was thinking about the young and beautiful woman, or maybe he was thinking about his liaison at this time. Wife and lover, this is far water does not quench the thirst of the near, only the liaison, at least there is a spiritual satisfaction. I can't touch it, I can't touch it, look at it, talk and laugh, everyone is happy, and time is so wasted.

These days, when they are working, they have not taken off the liaison in the field. The strange thing is that the liaison officers seem to think of going with them, always like to get together with the people of the Hedong breeding team, and the serious things of other breeding teams are always slowly swallowed, very reluctant to deal with it, and immediately come to work with them again. Therefore, these seven or eight days, although the farm work is relatively tiring, the time seems to pass very quickly.

In the days of transplanting the mother of the mother, in addition to the liaison to assist them in planting, the production team also sent a lot of labor, and in a week before and after, the mother of 200 acres of rice was finally planted, which was also unexpected by the leaders.

When all the female parents are transplanted, some breeding teams still have a lot of seedlings that have not been moved, and they are all anxious to jump, arguing with the production team leader and liaison officers all day long, competing to increase the labor force. The production team leader and liaison officers promised it, but they didn't take action, and they almost drove people crazy. After the transplanting of the female parent of the Hedong breeding team is completed, the liaison and labor are arranged to other breeding teams. They also felt strange, there was a grapevine that Deputy Director Ji had made a trick and privately bought off the cadres of the brigade, the captains of the production team, and the liaison officers. How did you buy it, and I don't know what to do.

Whether the mother can be transplanted in time is an important part of the flowering period, and if the seedling age is exceeded, there will be problems.

Seeing that all the seed rice was transplanted at the right age, everyone was not only happy, but also admired the leaders for their good work. Only when the flowering period meets, will there be a higher seed production yield, and the task they complete will be more complete.

When transplanting the female seedlings in the field, they also discovered an interesting phenomenon, which is the unique method of transplanting the seedlings by the locals.

According to the tradition of rice planting in northern Jiangsu, Malinxi's hometown, each person makes a trip.

The so-called "trip" is about the distance of about eight seedlings. In the paddy field that is ready for transplanting, pull a straight line in the field with a rope.

This rope is called "seedling rope", and it is very particular. The texture of the rope is exquisite. The best seedling rope is the rope made of "Huanmen grass (rush grass)", which is light, delicate, good toughness, less water absorption, tight, and will not be out of shape in the paddy field. The next ones are hemp rope, thatch rope and straw rope. Commercial hemp rope is something that no one can afford, and even if they can afford it, they are reluctant to use it to make rice rope. In the sixties and seventies, after the large-scale flat land preparation was realized, the thatch was difficult to find, and the straw rope became the main body of the seedling rope. The straw rope is heavy, rough, has poor toughness, absorbs a lot of water, and is very easy to break when it is tightened. Only people with general economic strength can afford to use the rope of "returning the grass", and ordinary people are straw ropes made of local materials. In the straw rope, according to the toughness, there are japonica rice, glutinous rice, and indica rice, and japonica rice has the strongest toughness. Before the problem of eating was solved, the basic indica rice planted in a large area was indica rice, so the vast majority of families only used indica straw to rub ropes.

In the mid-seventies, nylon rope began to be used in rural production. When planting seedlings, fold a reed from the edge of the ditch to make two rulers of the same length, which are used as a symbol of the seedling rope at both ends of the seedling field.

The person who planted the rice generally put down the first seedling rope according to the ridge, and planted six or eight seedlings from left to right with this rope, which is called the first trip to the seedling, and the others "go down" in turn. Ordinary people will not plant the "first seedling", if the planting is slow, it will often be "dumplings" by the people who go next, which is ugly.

When planting seedlings, hold the seedling handle with your left hand and cooperate with your fingers to remove the seedlings, and plant the seedlings with your right hand. From left to right, and then from right to left, the cycle repeats, planting and retreating.

Hainan people are just the opposite of the planting method in Ma Linxi's hometown, planting while moving forward. They thought it was funny, because it went against the traditions of their hometown. What's the use of being ridiculous, people are planting seedlings like this, and the speed is not slower than theirs.

Ma Linxi thought, what a trick everyone can do, each with its own ingenious differences. Besides, whether it is a backward method or a forward method, the key is to see who can plant quickly and well. Later, the seedlings returned to green, and Ma Linxi carefully studied in the fields, and the seedlings were planted like them. What's so strange about that?

The small varieties of rice brought by Ma Linxi from the agricultural science team were arranged to be transplanted in the Dacun team of Lichang. Although it is a small terraced field with irregular conditions, the soil is relatively fertile. The transplanting is done by the people of the technical group themselves, because there are many varieties, there are 100 or dozens of them, and it is easy to mess up when there are more people.

At the end of the first month, the second and third phases of the male and female parents are all transferred, and the seedling field is full of seedlings.

After the transplanting of the mother parent, Ma Linxi was busy alone for a few days, during which He Meiying also took the time to help him for a day. Now, the seedlings are so long that they can't see the water.

The acres of land that cotton is bred by the generation are also growing well. Due to the dry weather, it is all sandy soil, and the habits and moisture of the soil are not mastered, and as a result, after planting, the water evaporates quickly, and the cotton seedlings do not produce ideally, and one-third of the seeds become dumb seeds. Fortunately, the management was timely, the fertilizer and water also kept up, and the cotton plants grew very strong. In the blink of an eye, buds began to appear.

The small vegetable garden next to the cotton field is growing very well. The breeding team members take turns to water every day, loosen the soil in time, control insects, and everything goes smoothly, most of the greens, cabbage, eggplant, and orchid are self-sufficient. After the Spring Festival, there is nothing to go to the market to buy vegetables, in addition to eating fresh, but also saving a lot of food expenses, so that when you go home, you can send some money.

The breeding team members breed in Hainan, and each of them gets double salary.

According to the regulations of the county government, the income of the breeding team members at home is also included, and the production team gives them the same strong male labor, and they have at least 10 points of work a day. Ten days of work is a whole working day, and if the year is good, one working day can be worth one dollar at the end of the year, which is a good income.

During the breeding period, from the day of leaving home, each person takes a dollar of lost work subsidy from the county seed station every day, and the time on the way is an additional business subsidy, taking a night bus and boat, and adding a night meal subsidy, which is a lot of income.

According to the regulations, two cents should be paid to the production team every day for lost work, in exchange for the daily value of full-time work at home. However, the old breeders who have been to Hainan secretly told the new team members that they don't have to pay the money at all, and that they can just bring some local products to the cadres of the brigade and the production team, and if they meet a good team, they will send you some money and food stamps. So, Nan Fan is really a fat shortage.

Of course, few people know these secrets. Except for Nanfan's people, no one will shake these out and tell outsiders.

Second Quarter: The first round of the unsuccessful return

Parents this transplanting is over, until the pumping of flowers, this period of time has more than a month, basically there is nothing to do, is to manage water, weeding, insect control, remember the age of the leaves and other trivial things. The days are relatively leisurely.

As the saying goes, if you are idle, you will not be happy. No, Marlinsi, they began to set their sights on coconuts.

As early as Guangzhou, when they saw the coconuts on the fruit stand, they began to be hungry and swallowed saliva in their stomachs. When I saw the price, it was a penny a piece, which was too expensive. It's too expensive, it's not worth it, wait until Hainan Island, anyway, Hainan Island is a coconut town, so it's not just a casual meal. However, when they arrived on Hainan Island, eating coconut was not as easy as they thought.

Before arriving in Hainan, Ma Linxi naively imagined that coconuts were similar to peaches and pears in his hometown, and if he wanted to eat them, he could just pick one from the tree to satisfy his cravings. Even if a stranger picks a handful of peaches and pears from your tree, no one cares.

The coconut on Hainan Island is not as simple as Ma Linxi thought, and it really subverts the imagination.

The coconut tree is not as good as the ordinary fruit tree, the peach tree and the pear tree in front of the house and behind the house, even for children of a few years old, can also reach it. Coconut trees, no matter how short they are, are at least as tall as a two-story building, unless they are locals who grow in the soil, people from the mainland generally can't go up and pick them directly. If you want to steal it in broad daylight, it is even more impossible. If you want to eat, you have to buy it obediently out of your pocket.

For the locals, eating a coconut is like digging for something, and anyone can climb a tree several stories high with their bare hands to pick it. Mainlanders, you have to buy it.

In Haikou, Ma Linxi thought that coconuts would be very cheap, but in fact, they were still very expensive, costing seven dimes each, which was half the price of Guangzhou. But for them, the price is expensive, equivalent to a working day of the production team with better economic conditions, and it is expensive. Let's talk about it at the station, anyway, there is time, half a year, and it will not be difficult to eat coconut.

It's been two or three months since the breeding team was stationed, and there seems to be no time to spare, walking around under the coconut trees every day, but there is no way to get one down to taste it. I went to Banpo a few times, and there were also coconuts sold in the market, and the price was more expensive than Haikou. There are too many breeding team members from all over the world, and the locals think that people from the mainland are rich, so they have raised the price of goods, seven or eight dimes a piece. Every time I go to the market, there are five or six people together, and no one is willing to pay for this guest. Time flies, months have passed, and no one has really tasted what coconut tastes like. Write home and say I've eaten coconut, that's to brag.

I have never tasted the taste of coconut, but I have heard a lot about its introduction, what is the first fruit in the south, what is a treasure all over the body, what coconut carving is an elegant work of art, and so on. It is also said that green coconut water is the best to drink, coconut water before sunrise is the sweetest, and coconut picked with dew is the most nutritious. The temperature difference between day and night on Hainan Island is large, and the low temperature is the most conducive to the accumulation of sugar, and after the sun comes out, the temperature continues to rise, and the sugar in the coconut will slowly dilute. Temperatures are lowest just before sunrise. Morning is the best time to pick coconuts.

Although they have not eaten coconut, many people have already become experts in eating coconuts. Interesting, isn't it?

As for Marinsi, she has been playing the idea of a coconut for a long time. It's hard to get the right time. The target has long been reconnoitred.

At the head of the sugar cane field on the north side of the village, there is a very low coconut tree, leaning its body. There are many typhoons in the rainy season on Hainan Island, which often blow the trees in the area of the tuyere to the ground and even uproot. There were seven or eight crooked-necked trees, and the third-to-last tree had coconuts on top of it, and the tall man could reach it.

Every day when he goes to work, Ma Linxi can't help but sneak a few glances.

Don't look at the tree is short and crooked, the coconuts are no worse than normal trees, there are a large bunch between the axils of each leaf, each bunch has eight or nine coconuts, and there are more than thirty of them when they are ripe.

Bunches of coconuts are so tempting.

In private, Ma Linxi conspired with Fan Guangjie and Hu Longbiao several times, but he didn't have a chance to do it. Now, here's your chance. In the past half month, there was no major farm work in the breeding team, and there was nothing to do in the field. During the three meals of morning, noon and evening, no one in the breeding team will enter or leave the village. It's hard for people in the village to say that no one is coming in or out. But for an hour or two after lunch, no one will pass by the entrance of the village.

In order to grasp the bigger picture, they made full preparations.

Prepare the tools first. A wooden stick thicker than an arm and seven feet long. Marlinsi envisioned using a wooden stick to top the coconut, and the coconut knot should be hard and certainly not able to withstand the top. He had never seen the locals picking coconuts, but he had only guessed for himself. I was also going to use a machete, but after estimating it, I felt that I couldn't use the knife, and the seven or eight coconuts were tightly connected, and there was no way to solve the problem quickly and conveniently with a knife.

Usually, Ma Linxi and his team secretly observed the pedestrians entering and leaving the village around noon. The three also divided their labor, and every other day one person quietly ambushed into a nearby sugar cane field to observe, twice each.

From the analysis of the six-day field observation, between 12 and 1 o'clock in the afternoon, no one will enter or leave the village entrance for this one-hour period.

Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.

At the end of work that morning, Fan Guangjie asked Ma Linxi: "When will you start?"

"What do you see?" asked Marinthia rhetorically.

"Today, the three leaders are not at home. Fan Guangjie suggested.

"Oh. Where?" said Marinthie, feeling a little strange.

"County Magistrate Yang went to Sanya, Ji Bureau and Cheng Station went to Banpo to what's the matter. Fan Guangjie said, smiling and revealing a row of big yellow teeth.

"That's noon. You informed Hu Longbiao that after lunch, they would gather in the sugarcane field in the north of the village. Malinthi thought for a moment and said affirmatively.

"Good. Fan Guangjie agreed very simply.

After lunch, the breeding team members went to bed one after another. Ma Linxi brought a basin of dirty clothes and pretended to go to the Sand River to wash them. Halfway through, seeing that there was no one around, he secretly hid the basin in the grass half a person high, and then took the path to the north of the village.

"What about Fan Guangjie?" Hu Longbiao had already taken out the wooden stick that he had hidden in advance.

As he was talking, Fan Guangjie came out of the sugarcane field: "Mom, Qi Moxiang pulled me to play chess with him." ”

"Hurry up. Hu Longbiao, you go to the intersection in front and watch, and I look at the village here. Fan Guangjie, it's up to you. Malinsi said.

"Give me the stick. Fan Guangjie took the stick from Hu Longbiao's hand.

"Hurry the fuck. After Hu Longbiao finished speaking, he strode towards the intersection outside the village. The intersection is about 100 meters away, and the pedestrians on the road can see it at a glance.

"You do it. After Ma Linxi finished speaking, he quickly hid into the sugarcane field, and the place where Fan Guangjie was going to pick coconuts was only ten steps away, and the line of sight could just see Hu Longbiao at the intersection, and the right front was the threshing floor of the production team.

Fan Guangjie began to poke the coconut on the tree with a long wooden stick.

Strings of coconuts were densely packed, and he opened his bow left and right, "Knock-knock-knock-" There was a sharp sound, and the leaves made a sound of clanging.

After a while, Fan Guangjie was sweating profusely. But the coconut on the tree did not move.

As soon as Ma Linxi looked up, he found that Hu Longbiao was waving his hand in this direction, and the agreed sign language was in place.

Ma Linxi hurriedly coughed loudly twice.

Hearing the alarm signal, Fan Guangjie didn't even have time to wipe his sweat, dragging a wooden stick, and the cat's waist flashed into the sugarcane field.

After a while, a large truck full of sugar cane drove past the road in front of it, and a puff of yellow smoke rose from behind.

After the car disappeared, Hu Longbiao beckoned again and signaled to continue working.

"Fuck. A false alarm, what's the matter with the car. Marlinsi cursed in his heart. As long as no one entered the village, there would be nothing at all, and it was delayed for ten minutes in vain.

Fan Guangjie continued to wave the wooden stick and did it. This time, for half an hour without any disturbance, not a single coconut was plucked.

Ma Linxi was anxious: "You go and let the wind out." Give me. ”

"Good, good. It depends on your ability. Fan Guangjie was unconvinced, and wiped his sweat with his sleeves.

Ma Linxi had just picked up the wooden stick and hit the coconut a few times, when Fan Guangjie coughed violently. Ma Linxi hurriedly hid into the sugarcane field, squatting quietly, not daring to move.

After a while, an old lady of the Li nationality came out on crutches, bent her waist, and moved forward almost half a step and half a step, which made Ma Linxi anxious. didn't wait for her to leave the village, Hu Longbiao gestured again. Then, a man rode his bicycle from south to north.

Marlinsi continued to poke the coconut with a wooden stick, but to no avail.

The fruit is tightly intertwined, and the impact is actually very large, but the coconut growing on the tree can shake it slightly at most, and it can't move its foundation at all.

Marincipir thought about it for a moment, changed his approach, and inserted the stick into the space between the coconuts to say goodbye. But they rotate in a whole string, and because they can't rotate at a larger angle, they also have no effect. The appearance of the coconut of the green terrier is scarred and miserable due to the repeated impact of the wooden stick.

In the following time, there were constant situations that had to be stopped.

In the end, he replaced Fan Guangjie and tinkered for a while, but it still had no effect. Before I knew it, more than two hours had passed, and the number of people entering and leaving the village and on the road had increased one after another. When it was time to go to work, the peasants began to work in the fields.

They had to go home in a huff.

After returning in vain, Ma Linxi felt a little angry in his heart, isn't it just picking coconuts, and how can he be a dignified man, why is he not as good as other children? No, he has to pick them.

Not only Ma Linxi has this idea, but Hu Longbiao and Fan Guangjie are also unconvinced. "Next time you let it go, let me pick it. Hu Longbiao said.

"And next time, when is it?" Fan Guangjie was a little unconfident.

"It can't be at noon, you have to change the time, noon is too short. Hu Longbiao said.

"At any time, there was no one at noon. "Marlinsi is at a loss.

"Got it at night. Long hours at night. Hu Longbiao suggested.

"Yes, at night. Not as scared as it was during the day. It's a thief. Fan Guangjie was not convinced.

"Ho. Aren't you just a thief? What are you afraid of?" Hu Longbiao raised the bar with him.

"Don't fight. What's the big deal. Lao Tzu stole this time. Dry again in the evening. Malinsi said.

"If you do it at night, you'll have to step on something else. Not here, the method has to be changed. Fan Guangjie suggested.

"Where to step on it?" asked Marinthi.

"There are a lot of acquaintances here, so how embarrassing it would be if you ran into it. You can try it in other villages. Fan Guangjie said.

"Yes. We can go to Omura's side. Stay away from here and you won't run into acquaintances. Hu Longbiao agreed.

"That's fine. So what do you use without a stick?" Marlinsi couldn't think of a new way for a while.

"If you stick a stick, it's too loud at night, it's easy to be noticed, and it's not necessarily useful. Or, so. Didn't we have a basket from the mountains, so we put the coconut on the stick, and then the two of us pulled it hard, and we were sure to pull it down. The rope is stronger than the hemp rope. Hu Longbiao seems to be confident.

"Yes. This method is good. Fan Guangjie also actively supported.

"If it's night, it's when the movie is shown. This way you won't run into people, and the horn sound in the movie can also be used as a cover. Marlinsi added.

"Then I'll step on it tomorrow. Step on it and do it the night of the movie. I don't believe it can't be done. Hu Longbiao volunteered.

"Okay. Ma Linxi and Fan Guangjie agreed in unison.

Third Quarter: A humiliating second round

Three days later, Team Omura released the movie "Black Triangle". Hu Long's point had already been stepped on, and they proceeded according to the plan.

The film was screened at the threshing floor in the center of the village, and the Hedong breeding team also went to many people today. Watching movies is an important thing in the village, as soon as the movie starts, there will be basically no one in the village to move, in case it is late, they will rush to the field along the way, and just bury their heads and walk.

Soon after the opening of the "Black Triangle" movie, Ma Linxi glanced at Fan Guangjie and Hu Longbiao respectively, and the three of them quietly left the movie venue one after another, slipped outside the village, and began to implement the great plan in the place where Hu Longbiao stepped on it in advance.

This is next to the main road into the village on the west side of the big village team, and the trees around the village are lush, and the shrubs that are one and a half people tall are dense and impermeable, becoming a natural green barrier. Tall coconuts, banyan trees, betel nuts, and plantains, as well as dwarf bananas, pineapples, and papayas, are scattered among the high and low houses. The village is surrounded by a shallow ditch with rice paddies and some sugarcane fields for flower arrangement.

There is a very crooked coconut tree by the ditch at the entrance to the village, with bunches of coconuts between the leaves of the tree head. Although there is no moon, through the faint starlight, the huge coconuts can be faintly seen.

Hu Longbiao took out a long strip from his satchel, Fan Guangjie flowed and let the wind go, Ma Linxi slowly unfolded the slightly thinner end, and then stood on the shoulder of Hu Longbiao, who was already squatting on the ground.

Hu Longbiao slowly stood up with his hands on the trunk, and Ma Linxi also climbed up by the trunk, and his hands could easily reach the coconut.

This was the first time I had touched a coconut growing on a tree, and I felt an indescribable excitement in my heart.

Marlinsi leaned against the trunk of the tree, then stretched out his free hands and gently put a live buckle on a coconut.

After going down to the ground, the two of them gently pulled, and the hoop that was tied into a live buckle firmly covered the coconut, and the more they pulled, the tighter the buckle became. However, no matter how hard they tried, the trapped coconut just couldn't fall. After tossing for an hour and changing directions and angles several times, there was no substantial effect.

Time passed by minute by minute, and it made them anxious. Because someone passed by the intersection, they stopped three times and delayed a lot of time. Seeing that the time for the movie to end is approaching.

Fan Guangjie said: "Mom's, I'm here too, isn't the strength of three people enough?"

The strength of the three people is indeed different from the strength of the two, and under their vigorous pulling, the coconut tree sways and startles, and the sound it makes startles the dog. Several dogs barked in the vicinity. They don't care about that anymore, anyway, the sound in the movie is loud.

Suddenly, the lights on the threshing floor came on, and there was a lot of noise. "Not good. Loose movie too. Hu Longbiao panicked.

"Hurry up. And then one last drag. Marlinsi whispered.

It was too late, but it was too late, and all three of them showed the strength to drink milk. It's really amazing, "Bang-" The strip broke off in the middle, and the three of them were thrown to the ground hard.

Half of the basket hangs in mid-air.

I can't go into the details of the reason, the people who ended the movie are almost at the entrance of the village, and the three of them patted the dust on their buttocks and disappeared into the night.

When I woke up the next day, Ma Linxi was still a little sore when I touched my buttocks. It's really hard to cry and laugh, the coconut was not stolen, and it was given to others.

A few days later, when Ma Linxi went to contact the liaison Ke Ruiying's father to release water from the seedling field, he passed by the entrance of the village and saw that the half of the basket was still on the coconut, which was really embarrassing.

Marinthi wondered, how could this coconut be so strong, and was there no better way to pick it?

Later, when she had something to do with Ke Ruiying, she inadvertently got involved with the "Eighteen Monsters", and Ma Linxi took the opportunity to ask her: "Hey, you Hainan people climb trees faster than monkeys, aren't they?"

"Of course. Ke Ruiying smiled proudly.

"Can you climb too?" asked Marlinsi deliberately.

"I won't tell you. Ke Ruiying is poor.

"Climbing trees and holding knives, how can you cut coconuts?" said Marinthi, trying to get the know-how of picking coconuts from her mouth.

"It's stupid, how can you cut it with a knife. She smiled contemptuously at Malinthie.

"Oh. Ma Linxi asked in surprise: "How can you pick it without a knife?"

"Hand ba. Ke Ruiying's slender fingers shook in front of Ma Linxi's eyes.

"Hands?" asked Marinthi.

"Hands. He Ruiying said, making a gentle rotation posture with her wrist: "It's as simple as that." ”

After coming back, Ma Linxi hurriedly told Fan Guangjie and Hu Longbiao this important information.

"No wonder it can't be done, it's the wrong method. Now it's all right. Hu Longbiao was so excited that he almost clapped his hands.

"If you do it again in a few days, you will climb the tree to pick it, and it will definitely be successful. Fan Guangjie clenched his right hand into a fist and waved it firmly in the air.

"Okay. I'll do it in a few days. Marlinsi gathered the five fingers of his right hand and gently pressed against his chest.

Section 4 The Final Conquest

To climb a tree and steal a coconut, you have to think about concealment and safety.

After repeated reconnaissance, Marlinsi chose a small coconut grove far southeast of the village.

In fact, it is not a forest at all, just a dozen coconut trees, which grow on an irregular terrace, surrounded by large rice fields. From the entrance of the village, they looked lonely, as if they were malnourished, standing there delicately and vertically.

When he was a child, Ma Linxi was a good hand at climbing trees and digging birds' nests. Thinking in my heart, it is definitely not a problem to deal with these trees. The key is that they have acquired the core technology of coconut picking, as long as they can climb the tree, hold the coconut with the palm of their hand, and twist it gently.

Marlinsi thought to herself, feeling sweet, as if she had drunk coconut water that she had loved for a long time. This night, I had all kinds of sweet dreams related to coconuts.

After some conspiracy, the three of them began the third operation to steal coconuts after dinner the next day.

The tools used this time are mainly ropes. They arranged the rope, put on a loose shirt, hid the rope around their waists, and quietly slipped out of the dormitory, taking a shortcut outside the village and heading straight for the isolated coconut grove.

The moon had not yet risen, the night was very thick, and it was an unfamiliar path, and there was a section of the road that was still from the narrow ridge of the rice field, which was very difficult.

What kind of ridge is it, the palm is a little wide and narrow, and it is overgrown with knee-high weeds, revealing crystals, and if you are not careful, your feet will fall into the air and slide into the seedling field.

Hu Longbiao walked in a hurry in front, fell into the seedling field twice, and the clothes on his body were soaked, although he was carrying a flashlight, he was afraid that people would find out, so he didn't dare to open it. Three or four miles, walking around for an hour.

When they came to this long-cherished forest, they were stunned.

Ma Linxi was shocked: "Oh my God!"

Looking at this forest from the entrance of the village, there is a little bit of it, and the trees are also carefully selected. But the coconut trees in front of you are majestic and upright, looming in the thick night. The trunk of a tree is thick, no matter how thin it is, and one person cannot hug it. They wandered through the forest, and there were dozens of coconut trees, not a single one of which could be climbed with bare hands. Thinking of the experience of going into the mountains to cut kapok a few days ago, my heart is cold.

Fan Guangjie and Hu Longbiao were both small people who were much shorter than Ma Linxi, and they were completely deflated when they looked at these behemoths.

"Forget it. The last two times the tree was smaller than this, so don't bother with it. Hu Longbiao sat on the ground. He is usually sharp-mouthed, but now he is the first to soften.

"Mom, it's so tall. I really can't see it. Fan Guangjie surrounded a tree and hugged his hands together: "There is still a big difference." He sighed, very helpless.

Ma Linxi stared at this coconut grove, his eyes were a little wandering, and he was unwilling.

After a closer look, Marlinsi made a new discovery.

The roots of the coconut tree are relatively thick, and they are not very thick from the ground to more than two meters, and at best they are pot-thick. If you climb from a height of two meters, it is easy to succeed. The skin of the coconut tree is very rough, with rings of bumps after the leaves fall off, and those marks are very good for clinging to the body when climbing the tree. Marlinsi thought that with the experience of climbing trees he had cultivated as a child, he should have no problem conquering them.

"I'll do it. Fan Guangjie let go of the wind, and Hu Longbiao played high shoulders for me. Fast. Ma Linxi said, tied the prepared hemp rope into a circle, and then, stepping on Hu Longbiao's shoulder, when he stood up straight holding the trunk, Ma Linxi easily hugged the trunk in his arms.

"Don't move. Marlinsi whispered, slowly putting the rope snares around her bare feet, the soles of her feet spread apart, and the soles of her feet clinging to the rough bark, hugging tightly.

In this way, Marlinsi hugged the trunk of the tree, tightened his abdomen with his feet, lifted his body up, moved his hands upwards again, and so on, slowly climbing towards the top of the tree.

The night is dark. Tree, stout and tall.

Marinsi, who was attached to the trunk of the tree, did not dare to look up or down now. He closed his eyes slightly, gritted his teeth, clung to the trunk, climbed for a while, hibernated on the trunk for a while, and kept panting.

"Haven't you arrived yet?" Hu Longbiao was anxious and asked in a low voice below.

"It's coming. "Ma Linxi kept cheering himself up, giving himself courage, and he must hold on, otherwise, it will be over as soon as he lets go.

Ma Linxi is located in a three-story building, and if he falls, he will not die, and he will be disabled for life.

When the nearest leaf to the top was still a meter or two away, Marinsi's eyes went dark and he almost let go. Thankfully, he held on, and finally climbed to the top of the tree, grasping the thick petiole of the straw-like coconut leaf. On the head are strings of tempting coconuts within reach, large and small, and there are hundreds.

There was a burst of ecstasy in Marinsi's heart.

After a short rest, Ma Linxi adjusted his body, the flesh of his chest, legs and the soles of his feet were close to the bark, his left hand hugged the trunk, and his free right hand began to pick coconuts.

According to what Ke Ruiying said, Ma Linxi held the coconut with five fingers in his right hand, and turned the coconut with very little strength, and then turned it slightly, and the heavy coconut really fell off.

The coconut fell to the ground with a dull sound.

"Hi. Fell. Hu Longbiao exclaimed.

Marlinsi was thrilled, excited to conquer such a tall tree, excited to pick a coconut so easily.

Damn, I finally got my wish. Marlinsi couldn't hide the sense of accomplishment in her heart!

Marlinthi spun vigorously, spin, spin, and after a while, he switched to his left hand and continued to spin the coconut, spin, spin, spin.

One, two, three, a total of eight. I really don't have the strength anymore. If this continues, Marlinsi will not be able to get down the tree.

Now Marlinsi is covered in lead, and his hands, arms, and legs are exhausted. Although he stung on the trunk of the tree, he could not slack off, because he was in danger of landing at any moment.

But now no one can help him.

Marlinsi gritted her teeth, closed her eyes, and engaged in a dangerous duel with death.

Inch, inch, slowly moving down.

Move for a while, rest for a while, with gold stars in your eyes, you really can't hold on.

The more Ma Linxi thought about it, the more nervous he became, and the more nervous he became, the more terrifying he felt in his heart, and he was sweating profusely. The instinct to survive made him unable to give up the slightest hope of life.

"Not good. Someone. Hu Longbiao lowered his voice and called the police under the tree.

"It's over. Ma Linxi's heart tightened, his eyes darkened, and his hands loosened in fright.

The body slid down the trunk of the tree and fell heavily to the ground.