Section 1 A long list of gifts

After the field is finished, the rice is basically ripe, and it can be harvested in a few days.

Preparations for a full harvest are already underway.

The newly bought serrated knives were all fitted with wooden handles yesterday. The people of Hainan Island do not use the crescent-shaped flat-mouth sickle of the mainland, but the small kind of short-handled sickle. The edge of the knife has a dense row of fine serrations, when cutting rice, a handful of ears are gathered, just like sawing wood, gently pulled into the arms, the rice ears are cut off one after another. It doesn't matter if you're used to it or not, and it's basically used by local members, you can't afford to bring a sickle from the mainland, and even if you do, they are not used to it. This kind of knife is not overheated, but don't sharpen it, it's refreshing. A hundred scythes, piled up like a hill.

Brooms, fenkei, rakes, ox carts, buckets, poles, ropes, sacks, including twine for packing, thick needles, and various white paper tags with metal air holes were also purchased.

Ma Linxi went to Ledong and Sanya again, went through the plant quarantine and consignment procedures for a batch of seeds, and retrieved the custom-made porcelain teeth in Sanya. Now, I was finally embarrassed to take the initiative to talk to strangers, and I no longer had to keep my mouth shut like when I didn't have dentures, for fear that others would find out that my front teeth were missing, as if people cared about and joked that he was a "living tooth".

Everyone began to be busy buying all kinds of souvenirs, ready to take them back to give to relatives and friends.

There aren't a lot of things you can bring home. Tropical fruits like jackfruit, betel nut, grapefruit, mango, etc., there is no way to bring them at all. It is said that bananas can be carried. You can buy seven or eight ripe green bananas, which can be stored for a long time and will not rot for a week. The best thing to bring is a coconut with a hard shell, which can't be broken and won't deteriorate, and it's easy to check in on the road.

Sea stone flower is a specialty that everyone values. That is, coral stone, except for Hainan Island, it is almost impossible to see in other places. But this is beautiful, fragile, and occupies space, so it must be packed in wooden boxes, and it must be stuffed with cotton wool and confetti around it, otherwise, thousands of miles of transportation to the home will definitely become a pile of broken stones.

Coconut carving is also a good specialty, this kind of handicraft is not seen in the mainland, and practical, coconut carving fruit box put things is also a delicate appearance of handicrafts. There are also basket products, such as basket chairs, which are also everyone's first choice.

Among these local products that can be brought back, these varieties are the ones that Marlinsi is going to bring back.

The day is getting closer and closer to going home from the end of breeding.

As soon as he had time, Ma Linxi, like everyone else, began to carefully prepare souvenirs. I also made a list of the people who were going to give gifts on a piece of paper.

Obediently, looking at this long list made him startled.

First of all, the family. Dad is a writer who climbs latticework and eats pen and pole rice, and Marlincy plans to buy him a basket chair, which is both practical and commemorative, and not so easy to break. But the price is more expensive, it costs twenty-five yuan, and it is more difficult to carry it on the road, and it is not good to consign a single piece, only the things go with the person, which is very troublesome. Everyone else advised him not to bring such a behemoth. But Ma Linxi had already made up his mind, his father wrote so hard, and he worked at the desk in the middle of the night, and he sat on a wooden chair, which was not good for his health. How comfortable it would be to sit on a basket chair, and it was a high-end product brought back by Hainan, how satisfied would he feel? Moreover, it was also a kind of pride. His family has a lot of people coming and going, and he will be proud to introduce it to others. Look, this is what my son brought back from Hainan Island. For rural people, this is a luxury for people in the city. No one in the brigade has this kind of high-end furniture. The heart is ironclad, no matter how difficult it is, even if he doesn't rest on the road, he has to buy a chair for his father to go back, which can be regarded as a filial piety of his son.

A gift for her mother, Marlinsi had already prepared. Two things, one is the kapok picked when I went to Jianfengling last time, and I went back to sew a pillow for her, which is very comfortable to use. One is the gastrodia that I bought on a business trip to Sanya this time, she has a headache, and gastrodia is a very good traditional Chinese medicine. He also knew about this home remedy through others.

The wife's gift was also planned a long time ago. When she was in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Haikou, she bought some trinkets and pendants, and she would definitely like it.

What did the cadres of the brigade send to them? If they don't, they will definitely not work. Of course, there is nothing that should not be done in this, otherwise it will not be reasonable, you are not at home, and people elected you as a deputy to the National People's Congress, you have to show your heart. Also, the compensation for lost work issued here, whether to hand it over to the brigade when you go back. Because he came to breed, his family still got a share of the work. The amount of work to be given is up to each team to decide. If it makes sense, you have to bring them a small gift. What can you bring? How many people do you bring with you? That's also a question. You can't just consider Secretary Cheng Yunhan alone. There are also cadres of other brigades, several good friends of the agricultural science team, and several production captains who usually have a good relationship, all of whom have to express their feelings.

The neighbors are also going to give a little gift. The five Bodhisattvas next door, although the relationship is usually very ordinary, but the distant relatives are not as good as the close neighbors, and the things on the face always have to be done. Brother Jianhua of Dongshan, Fuyou Fourth Master of West Farm, Uncle Fuhai, Jinlong Family, Ruixin Family, the relationship is good, when the farm is busy, rush to harvest and grab seeds, people are uninvited, take the initiative to help, and even the rice bowl has never served his family once. There is no doubt that these people have gifts to bring.

Fumin, Ruifa, and Dehong on the West Farm are all members of the agricultural team, friends, and if they have nothing to say, their neighbors have given gifts, not to mention them.

Between brothers, this is self-evident, the neighbors and the cadres of the brigade have given gifts, how can the brothers watch him go back empty-handed. Needless to say, this gift is really indispensable, not only indispensable, but also not lightweight. The sister who passed the door also had to consider a slightly larger gift, she was married from the countryside to the city, and she cared more about these. She often said that people live to save face.

By the way, there are also a few production team cadres and insect control personnel, and they also have to consider what small things to send. Zhou Yulin is counted as one, Ma Linxi runs the agricultural science team, and his support is the greatest, first in the center team, he gives the best land to the agricultural science team. He was transferred to Xinling as the captain, and even planted the first-class field at the intersection to the agricultural science team, but many people objected, and he insisted on resisting the pressure, saying that the agricultural science team was a model of scientific farming, so it could be placed in a corner and corner that was difficult for others to see? What support do you usually want, and what support do you have. Sometimes, I often eat at his house, and I owe no less than public and private favors. Ruizhi accountant is also one to be counted, the big and small things of the production team, he always secretly helps the Ma Linxi family, divides the grain and grass, and when his mother and himself get the work, he will always take care of their family openly and secretly. Zhang Changshun, the accountant of the Xinling team, also took a lot of care of the agricultural team, some of the accounts that should be reported in the team, or the expenses that were not easy to reimburse, he didn't say a word and reported the accounts, for the agricultural team, isn't it for him Ma Linxi. Cai Rongren, the captain of the new squadron, Zhao Zhengdong, the captain of the Xigang team, and Li Xuesheng, the captain of the Xiling team, actively supported him in the small varieties promoted by the agricultural science team and the test of new pesticides.

When Marlinsi writes this, there are two other aspects of the person, which should not be forgotten. First of all, the backbones of the entertainment propaganda team, such as Tang Yanling, Wang Kexin, and Chen Yan, were all the main actors who supported him at that time, otherwise, how could the literary and artistic propaganda team of the brigade win awards for their performances on the film? Of course, Zhao Qihong, who played the main Hu of the band, Cai Guorong, who directed and played the moon qin, and Yang Lianfu who played the martial arts, without them to hold up the band, the entertainment propaganda team would not have been able to make so much limelight. The second is a few students who got rid of illiteracy in advance, and they also have to bring some small gifts, Yang Qianqian, Dai Huizhi, Hu Hanyun, Chen Yusong, the county came to inspect and hold an on-site meeting for a while, they were really tied up with him desperately, Ma Linxi passed by Yang Qianqian's door in the afternoon before leaving, and she joked that she came back to bring us gifts. Of course, I said yes. Although it was just a joke at the time, the way home had to pass through her door, and if you were bumped in, it was not good to be empty-handed.

I also remembered that Cheng Wanyu, the correspondent of the brigade, Bai Rongfa, who repaired bicycles, and Sun Xuegao, the welding master, also brought a copy to make sense. In those years, Ma Linxi had just talked to someone, and he came and went to bring letters and notes, and it was all him, although he was a fig in the end, but people still worked very hard as messengers. Not to mention Bai Yinfa, when Ma Linxi was squatting in the new squadron, in addition to the bicycle repair, he often ate three meals a day at his house, and he was also sincerely ready to tell his daughter to him. Although I don't talk about the old things now, the love is still there, but if I don't pay it back now, what will I wait for? Although Sun Xuegao said that he was a welder, he didn't have the same scenery as before, but when he was in the processing plant of the brigade, he was busy on the rice milling machine, as long as Ma Linxi went to grind rice, machine rice, and flour, he never had to queue up, and sometimes the processing fee was very small.

Think about it, and ah, when the Xinling team and the central team were engaged in scientific research, many people did not know what to do, such as Wan Dehong, Liu Yixiu, Zhang Aifen, Zhou Lanqin, Luo Yimin, and, oops, I can't think about it anymore, how many will there be.

Marlinsi counted from beginning to end, hehe, one hundred and twenty-eight. If one person buys something for one dollar, it is one hundred and twenty-eight dollars. Just kidding, what a gift of one dollar can you get? But if you want to be generous and decent, where will the money come from, and what kind of things are suitable? If you don't buy souvenirs, of course, you can't do it, you have to think of a perfect plan.