Section 4 Eternal Memories of Youth

"Hey," Marlinsi suddenly remembered something: "You said that the photo studio came to take pictures, why hasn't there been any movement until now?"

"What kind of photo?" Xing Yiyou flashed into the woods to the side, ripped open his pants, and peed into the rubber tapping bowl.

This field is at the bottom of a ditch on a small hill. On the hillside outside the ditch is a rubber plantation, and a small white bowl for receiving gum hangs from the lower part of the rubber tree. In the morning, after the rubber tapper cuts off the epidermis of the wound, the milky white glue drives down the wound into the bowl. The glue is collected and dried, which is a very precious industrial raw material, natural rubber.

When it comes to rubber trees, they are a major force in changing the world.

One day more than 150 years ago, the British botanist Richard Spruce came to Brazil. He found a small tree in the rainforest with smooth and flat bark and small yellow flowers, which were cut with a knife and exuded a white sticky substance, so he brought it back to England and planted it in the Royal Botanic Gardens. In 1823, a worker named Mackinto accidentally got rubber juice on his clothes and accidentally discovered that it was waterproof, so he used it to make the world's first raincoat. In 1887, John Boyd Dunlop was inspired to use rubber to invent pneumatic tires in the process of repairing his son's bicycles, and later in the practice of repairing cars, he made tires that could be disassembled and repaired by the owners themselves, and applied for a patent in 1891. Since then, the demand for rubber has risen sharply, and the whole world has "turned". However, Brazil's rubber production could not meet the demand even when it reached its production limit, so the British introduced rubber to Southeast Asia. By 1900, rubber trees were planted on 2,000 hectares in the British colonies, and in the next decade or so, they had expanded to 400,000 hectares. Brazil, which once accounted for 98 percent of the world's rubber production, now accounts for only 5 percent.

Soon, the rubber tapping bowl was filled with urine by Xing Yiyou and flowed down the trunk to the roots. "Oh. You mean taking pictures of the slopes. Then he suddenly remembered.

"Didn't you say this week?" said Ma Linxi, also learning Xing Yiyou to pee into the rubber tapping bowl of another tree.

"What day of the week is today?" Xing Yiyou lifted his pants and shook twice.

"Thursday. If you don't come this week, you won't be able to harvest next week. Marlinsi was a little worried.

When I went to Banpo to catch the market two months ago, Ma Linxi made an appointment with a photo studio on the side street.

Marlinsi brought with him many small varieties of accelerated generations, such as cotton and rice, and although they usually have detailed field observations, it is great to be able to take a picture of the budding plants before the harvest is fruitful. This is easy to observe and analyze, and can get twice the result with half the effort. Besides, taking pictures of the scenery here and taking it home is also a very precious souvenir.

The two talked as they went down the mountain.

"Lao Xing. You're so generous. No sparrow would have turned the machine on so loudly?" Accountant Gao greeted loudly, followed by a middle-aged man with a camera.

"Yo. It's Master Qiu. I thought you had forgotten about us. Xing Yiyou hurriedly took over the conversation.

"How so. It's been too busy these days, and the breeding team is taking care of everything, so how can you be busy. Master Qiu said.

"Accountant Gao, are you familiar?" Ma Linxi asked when she saw that she was very casual with the photographer.

"What familiar. He's my cousin. Accountant Gao frowned angrily.

"Let's go. See how to shoot. I'm going to finish filming today, and I'm going to shoot in Lichang tomorrow. Master Qiu urged.

"Let's go to the team headquarters first. Director Ji said that he wanted to take a group photo. Xing Yiyou said, turning his head and walking back.

Back to the team site. When I heard that the photographer was coming, everyone was as happy as a festival.

Without waiting for the leader's arrangement, I filmed around Master Qiu, you and me, one by one.

Some have dormitories as the background, some have Jianfeng Ridge as the background, some stand under the coconut trees, and some lean against the banana trees, posing in various poses and shapes, with a bright smile on their faces, and the joy and happiness in their hearts are overflowing.

"Hey, hey, Master Qiu, don't take pictures, County Magistrate Yang told you to take a group photo first. Xing Yiyou hurriedly ran out of the team headquarters, and said to Ma Linxi, who was about to take a group photo: "You wait first, go to the team to take a group photo." ”

"Hurry, hurry, hurry. The last one. Ma Linxi and Hu Longbiao stood side by side, constantly urging Master Qiu, who was busy focusing on the framing.

Deputy Director Ji went to Banpo to do business and didn't come back, and Stationmaster Cheng Houbo beckoned everyone to take a group photo. Xing Yiyou was busy in charge of the whole team, Fan Guangjie and Jiang Sigui were busy moving stools, and Deputy County Magistrate Yang personally went out to invite the cadres of the brigade and production team.

Just when everything was ready, Deputy Director Ji came back on his bicycle. He propped up the car at the entrance of the dormitory, lifted the hem of his sweatshirt with his right hand and wiped the sweat on his face, and sat straight to the empty seat left in the middle of the front row.

As soon as Deputy Director Ji sat down, Master Qiu shouted loudly: "Everyone, pay attention, look at the camera." Okay, three-two-one". The shutter was pressed, and the Hedong breeding team members, brigade and production team cadres were frozen in front of the picturesque coconut grove.

Then, Ma Linxi successively took pictures of them in the seed production field, the small variety test field, on the railway, and under the big iron bridge, and specially put on the Vietnamese-style straw hat of the locals, drove the ox cart to take a picture, and took a set of shots with a flat pole, a bit like a slave rebellion, and took pictures of several small rice varieties with signs one by one, and then gave up with satisfaction.

The next day, Ma Linxi, Xu Feng, Jiang Sigui, and Ke Ruiying and Ke Naying also invited several female liaison officers to Banpo Photo Studio and took a small group photo seriously. There were patients in Ke Meiying's clinic who couldn't leave after seeing a doctor, and later, before the breeding team left, he also gave several photos of his collection to a few good breeding team members, and Ma Linxi was of course indispensable.

Ma Linxi has always cherished the memory of youth that will never fade, and that is all for later.