Chapter 10 chapter Ten

Maybe Ye Shengnan studied too hard for the college entrance examination, maybe my son was worried that his birth would conflict with Ye Shengnan's college entrance examination and be canceled by her, so my son crawled out of her belly two months in advance.This is a thin boy who looks very similar to me. My dad said that since he is a boy, he should be called Dandan.Seeing this skinny kid, Ye Shengnan was very disappointed. Our family, like all Chinese families, is patriarchal. We hope to have a boy, but she hopes to have a girl. She likes girls, saying that girls are good-looking and considerate to their mothers.Besides, she was also dissatisfied with our son's name. She thought it was a bad name, and murmured in private: "Your dad is so uncreative. It's not enough to have two eggs. A boy is called Eggy, what's a girl's name?" I Said: "This is a small name, you can give it a good name." So she named the child Yang Chenglong, saying that the child was conceived in the Year of the Dragon. I think this name is too sweet. Conventional, just say: "Just follow your surname, called Ye Haolong."

Ye Shengnan asked me: "What do you mean? Do you want others to think that this child of mine came from a wrong path?" I said: "It's better to call Ye Haolong better than Yang Chenglong. Mr. Ye is a good dragon, an idiom." Ye Shengnan said: "You are really Mr. Baizi, that is called Ye (she) Gong Haolong, and he is not in the same league as Ye in our family." Ye Shengnan also said that since you don't think the name I chose is good, you should also choose one. I thought about it for two days and nights but couldn't think of a good name, so I just made do with Yang Chenglong.From then on, I called my son Dandan, and Ye Shengnan meticulously called my son Yang Chenglong to express his dissatisfaction with my father's name.

Three months after the child was born, the college entrance examination began, and Ye Shengnan insisted on taking it. I advised her not to go, and asked her: "Even if you pass the entrance examination, what will happen to the child? You can't take the child to college, can you?" She said: "After passing the exam, we will naturally find a solution. There are so many people in your family and mine, who can't help take care of the children." If you can't beat her, you have to follow her.God has eyes, she struggled for several days and finally failed the exam. She was extremely disappointed and depressed.I was secretly happy, but on the surface I sympathized with her deeply. She knew that I was fake sympathy, and would pinch me a few times every night to relieve her hatred.She didn't pass the exam, but my younger sister was admitted to the finance and accounting major of Northwest Normal University, and went directly from the countryside to the provincial capital.When sending off the younger sister, Ye Shengnan said enviously: "My younger sister is really lucky. There have been no college students in ten years. They are the first batch of college students to be admitted. They must be very popular after graduation." "It's Yang Chenglong's fault. If it wasn't for you, I would have gone to college." Yang Chenglong took a good soak in her arms, and the urine dripped down her skirt, but she didn't notice it.

After failing to pass the college entrance examination, Ye Shengnan's biggest wish changed from going to college to buying a TV.Unknowingly, our country has begun to develop into the TV era, and some people in the city have already owned the baby that can watch movies and listen to music at home.After her father retired, she wanted to go back to her hometown for a visit. Her older brothers and younger brothers were busy with their own work, and no one had time to accompany her father back to their hometown. Therefore, the glorious mission of accompanying her parents back to their hometown fell on her historically.I said: "You have a bunch of buddies, why do you have to let you go? Eggy is still young, and it will be a pain to take it with you when you travel far."

Ye Shengnan said: "You don't know, the children in my family are different from yours. They are like herding sheep since they were young. They will rush to the dormitory as soon as they start work. They are absolutely not allowed to eat at home. There is no way. My mother has heart disease. Gu But come here. So our brothers and sisters are very independent, and no one cares about each other. My dad is a retired cadre, and when he returns to his hometown to visit relatives, he can send an escort according to the regulations. There's nothing wrong with a trip." This trip opened her eyes, the most obvious example is that she saw the TV with her own eyes, this kind of "drama box" that can sit at home and watch movies. TV set.

I can't help her realize this wish. It's not that she doesn't have money to buy a TV, but that she doesn't sell TVs at all.Even if there are TVs sold, we don't have a TV station here, and if we buy a TV, we can only put it at home as a decoration.At this time, the stewed pig's trotters appeared, and he came to my house with Ye Shengnan.At this time, we had bid farewell to the small old house that my mother bought. Ye Shengnan’s father used his power for the last time before retiring to build us a one-and-a-half-bedroom house. Although the house is small, it is independent. The toilet and kitchen can be solved without going out to eat and drink, which is much more advanced than living in the small room without kitchen and toilet in the past.The stewed pig's trotters followed Ye Shengnan, helping her carry the vegetable basket, while Ye Shengnan held Eggy, and suddenly I felt that the two of them were a couple, and the three of them were a family.

The stewed pig's trotters put the dishes on the ground by the door, and asked me casually, "Get off work?" His tone seemed like we had just met yesterday, I broke my fingers in my heart, we haven't seen each other for ten years up. "Why did you meet together?" Our place is not too big, if we don't want to meet each other specially, we can still hear each other's voices, and we will never see each other.So it was a bit of a surprise to me that they met and came to my house together. Ye Shengnan was very excited: "The stewed pig's trotters said that the city is installing and debugging a TV station, and we will have a TV to watch next month."

The braised pig's trotters have grown up, and they are no longer annoyed when others call him by their nickname like they were when they were young, and they will not be annoyed by Ye Shengnan when they call him by their nickname.He frankly agreed: "It's a relay station, not a TV station. We are currently under construction, and it is estimated that we will be able to broadcast it next month." I don't know the difference between a TV station and a turntable. Anyway, I just know that there will be TV next month.So far, I have never seen a TV. I have a semiconductor radio at home, a Panda brand, and there is a leather case outside, which can be carried with me when I go out.My dad bought this radio when he went to Beijing for a meeting. When we got married, I had the cheek to ask him for it, and he reluctantly gave it to me.I really can't figure out what a TV is and how I can watch movies on it.Ye Shengnan repeatedly explained the appearance of the TV to me. The more she told me, the more confused I became. According to what she said, the TV was similar to my electronic tube radio. It is a piece of glass that bulges outward. As long as it is opened, movies and sound can be played on the glass.

The braised pig's trotters sit in front of the dining table in my house. My living conditions do not have a special living room. Visitors sit in front of the dining table. Watch us eat.It's not time for dinner yet, and when the braised pig's trotters sit in front of my dining table, I don't have to worry about whether I should invite him to dinner.I didn't have a good impression of him since I was a child. When I went to the countryside, I finally had a chance to mediate with him. As a result, he caused all the educated youths we ordered to be wiped out by the commune dictatorship team, but he himself avoided seeing each other. So I made up my mind that I won't talk to this kid again in my life.Ye Shengnan used to tell me that he also gritted his teeth, somehow the wind direction changed, and he laughed and laughed like a friend.

"It's time to buy a TV. By the way, put the TV here, and watch TV while eating." The chief stewed pig's trotter inspected my house all over, and finally pointed to the high and low cabinets in the corner and said. Ye Shengnan immediately looked like a wind-up toy soldier: "Yes, yes, yes, I said a long time ago that I should buy a TV, and the money is no problem. When we got married, my mother gave me more than a thousand yuan and never moved it. Even if we saved up later, there is nowhere to buy it.” Braised pig's trotters looked at me and said, "If you don't need that much money, why don't you just buy a TV? Put it on my buddy."

I asked him, "How much does it cost to buy a TV?" He shook his head and calculated for a while and told me: "Imported original 12-inch black and white, about 600 yuan. If you buy color ones, it will be more expensive, and a 14-inch one will cost about 1,500 yuan." I breathed a sigh of relief and thought about it for a while. Ye Shengnan and I have a total of more than 1,800 yuan in savings, including more than 1,000 yuan that my mother gave me when we got married. It is no problem to buy a black and white TV. A color one is a little tight, and once you buy it, you will have no money to live on. "Just buy a black and white one, and of course the original one." Ye Shengnan was the first to express her opinion. Her opinion is very much in line with my wishes, and I can't live just to buy a color TV. "Yes, yes, just buy a black and white one." "It's easy to say, it's on me. I have friends in the south. It's cheaper to buy smuggled ones from them." Braised pig's trotters patted their chest again. "How much cheaper can it be?" "If the smuggled one is two or three hundred yuan cheaper, I'm afraid it will be fine." "Great, you wait, I'll cook, and you'll eat here today, it's not easy for old classmates to meet, so let's have a good chat." Ye Shengnan started to cook in a hurry, and said with a mouthful of braised pig's trotters I said no, no, no, but I didn’t get up to say goodbye, so I had no choice but to pretend to be enthusiastic: “If you meet me today, don’t be too polite, just eat here.” Eggy swayed over to lean on my lap, I hugged him, and asked me, "How old is the child? Is he going to nursery school or is someone taking care of him?" I said, "I'm two years old, and I've got a name in the nursery. My mother likes him and won't let him send it away, so I send it to my house every day. My mother and father tease him." The stewed pig's trotter exaggeratedly made an envious expression and said false words: "You are blessed. Look, you are the only one of our classmates who lives comfortably. You want a house to have a house, a wife to have a wife, and a son to have a son." If you want money, you don't have to worry about anything. I have been inferior to you since I was a child, and I have been bullied by you. I went to the countryside and wanted to ease the relationship with you, and there was such a scene..." Just as he said this, Eggy suddenly said: "Shut up!" Eggy is in the stage of babbling, and usually speaks like a bird's egg in his mouth, and he has to analyze carefully to understand the meaning of what he says. Sometimes Ye Shengnan had to be his interpreter, but today this sentence was very clear.The braised pig's trotters were stunned: "What's the matter with this kid? Is it because you don't like me or is it because of your influence that you are dissatisfied with me?" I told him that when the child was sent to the nursery school, the auntie in the nursery school would not allow them to speak, and what they often yelled at them was this sentence: shut up, so this child has a conditioned reflex, and when he hears others talking, he shouts to shut up and not to speak.Braised pig's trotters suddenly realized, and burst out laughing.He smiled and said, "The chicken is crowing, the chicken is crowing." The stewed pig's trotters were stunned again, and I quickly explained to him: "I learned this from my mother. Whoever laughs louder, I will laugh." Mom said croak croak, and the child followed suit." Braised pig's trotters said: "This kid just learned these few tricks and used them for me today, so I'm unlucky." In fact, my explanations for the braised pig's trotters were all improvised. At that time, I didn't understand why Eggy was so rude to the braised pig's trotters. It took me a long time to think of another possibility: maybe the child really has an adult Instinctive intuition that I didn’t understand, at that moment Dandan already felt that braised pig’s trotters were not a good thing, it was the disaster of our family, so he expressed his strong dislike and rejection of braised pig’s trotters in his limited language . I haven’t had any contact with braised pig’s trotters for so many years, and even my former classmates such as braised pork, battered bread, and pork ribs have also lost contact. Days, when nothing happens, no one can think of whom to visit.But after all, we still know what the other party is doing now, how his life is going, whether he has children, whether the children are boys or girls, and so on.As for the stewed pig's trotters, I don't know anything about him. If Ye Shengnan hadn't brought him to my house today, I'm afraid he would just become a character in my memory.In fact, so far, he is still only a figure in my memory. I don't know everything about him today. In this sense, he is no different from a stranger to me. "What are you doing now?" I began to inquire about his present. "In the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee." I think he answered this question with a bit of complacency.I was stunned. In my consciousness, he was inferior to me in every aspect, including academic performance, organizational ability, interpersonal relationship, and even physical strength, but he sneaked into the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee. "What do you do in the Propaganda Department?" When I asked this question, I was actually not interested in inquiring about his current situation. "Those of us who have been to the countryside are expected to be workers when we enter the factory. How can there be any good fruit for us to eat. Your father is the leader of the city, and Ye Shengnan's father is also the leader. Aren't you all still working as workers? Do you think about what else I can do in the Propaganda Department? Repair amplifiers for others, repair large broadcast speakers, and now I am installing turntables, in a word, as a worker doing odd jobs." My mood has improved a lot. It's not that I'm narrow-minded, but that I really don't want to see any unfair things happen between me and the braised pig's trotters in this world.I thought I was indeed better than him, and Ye Shengnan chose me instead of him as a realistic example. Ye Shengnan's cooking is at the level of a three-legged cat, and we rarely cook. At this time, she began to yell at us in the kitchen to prepare for dinner.I suddenly remembered that according to normal circumstances, both she and I should go back to my house after get off work, and after dinner, we should pick up our balls and go home together.I am going to participate in the skilled worker skills competition in the city these days. It is said that the top three in each type of work can be rewarded with a first-level salary. I am a fitter and have passed the rematch of the fitter in the factory.Both the workshop and the factory attach great importance to it. Whoever can get a good ranking will be honored in the workshop and factory. Therefore, the factory specially gives vacations to our skilled workers who participate in the skills competition.The technical requirements of a fitter are relatively complicated. I have no problem with basic skills such as hand hammer, file, and scraping. My weakness is reading drawings, measuring calculations, and grinding guns behind closed doors. But he brought back the stewed pig's trotters, which was a bit abnormal.The question I need to find out is whether they are by appointment or just by chance. "Why did you remember to cook by yourself today?" I put Eggy in the stroller and asked casually while helping Ye Shengnan serve dishes in the kitchen. Ye Shengnan put vinegar and shredded potatoes into the plate. The shredded potatoes were cut like bench legs, and the thickness was uneven. They were like a pile of rotten firewood on the plate. "Today, your parents went to the old cadres to attend the report meeting. There was a dinner party in the evening, so I sent Yang Chenglong to the nursery. When I went back at night, no one cooked, so I bought some food and came back directly." My father and mother are both retired, and I often have to participate in activities organized by the veteran cadres. What she said is probably true. At this time, I was most concerned about how Ye Shengnan got in touch with braised pig's feet, so after listening to her explanation, my train of thought continued to follow the clue of her and braised pig's feet: "How did you meet braised pig's feet today?" gone?" Ye Shengnan stared at me sensitively, then pursed her lips and smiled: "I just met him today, we have been in touch for a long time." I don't quite believe what she said. Like most children from cadre families, Ye Shengnan has a kind of carefree self-confidence, a kind of unscrupulous frankness. Live two taels of ghee, if she has been in contact with braised pig's trotters, it is impossible for her not to show it in her words, even if she deliberately conceals it, she will feel uncomfortable and let me find out that she has something to hide. I took the plate containing Ye Shengnan's vinegared bench legs and went back to the house. The braised pig's trotters looked at the dishes on the plate and grinned. I deliberately amplified my voice and said, "Don't joke, that's all she has." The braised pig's trotters quickly said, "I'm not joking, it's pretty good." "I clearly saw you grinning, and you said you were not joking. Our family's Sheng Nan's food is characterized by being edible or not, so don't look down on her." The braised pig's trotters blushed, and he kept saying that he didn't and dared not look down on Ye Shengnan's cooking skills.Ye Shengnan brought out another plate of dark stuff, braised pig's trotters asked her what it was, and I answered for Ye Shengnan: "Stir-fried kidneys, can't you see it and can't smell it? You idiot." The braised pig's trotters laughed, and I quickly said, "Look, I'm making fun of him again." Braised pig's trotters said: "I'm not kidding Ye Shengnan, how dare I have such courage. I'm just kidding myself, I really have some special abilities to eat at your house, especially the sense of smell is so good, it's really hard to recognize your house with eyes alone dishes." Ye Shengnan has a particularly good temper. If I said that, she would have turned into anger long ago. She smiled and said to the braised pig's trotters: "It doesn't matter if my cooking is good or not, as long as you eat the food I cook, you must make sure to turn the TV on." Buy it back for me. Otherwise, I will let you spit it out for me as you eat." The braised pig's trotters began to slap their chests again: "This matter is on me, so don't talk about it anymore, do you need me to swear to God?" Ye Shengnan rummaged through the boxes and chests to find a half bottle of white wine and put it on the table: "You guys drink first, and I'll make two more dishes." I found two teacups, divided the wine into two and poured them all into the cups. "Come on, braised pig's trotters, take a sip first." We both took a sip from our respective glasses. "How many years have we not seen each other?" Braised pig's feet asked. "You killed that yellow dog and invited us to eat dog meat. I haven't seen you since then. You can count how many years." "Probably nearly ten years?" "Almost, how did you get into the Propaganda Department?" "After I came back from the countryside, I worked as an electrician. I worked for seven or eight years. Later, the tweeters in the Propaganda Department broke down after a long time. I needed a full-time electrician. I knew one of their section chiefs, so I Go, and have been working until now." "How did you meet Ye Shengnan?" The braised pig's trotters took a look at me, and grinned: "I went to get the wires from Paste Bread, and she went to Paste Bread to inquire about buying TVs, and she met me." After finishing speaking, he took a sip of his wine and added He said: "Don't fucking think about it, we only met at three o'clock this afternoon, and we had never even met before that." His explanation gave me the embarrassment that he would see through my inner secrets, so I used alcohol to hide my face: "What the hell am I thinking about, you are right not to think about it." At this time, Ye Shengnan put her masterpieces, two gray-black braised fish that looked like rotten socks, and a pile of fried leeks that looked like weeds, on the table.By the way, he also brought three steamed buns as a staple food. The steamed buns were puffy and beautiful, but they were not steamed by Ye Shengnan, they were bought from the market. Braised pig's trotters bit the bullet and chewed Ye Shengnan's work, swallowing leeks that couldn't be chewed.Ye Shengnan felt a little embarrassed, and laughed at herself: "Let's make do with it, no matter what, it's four dishes and one soup." The stewed pig's trotters looked at me with compassion and said, "Eating this all day is hard for you." I put on a gesture: "What are you talking about? I eat it very well, but your taste is not right." Thanks to the fact that we usually eat at my mother's house, if I really rely on Ye Shengnan to feed me, I'm afraid I'd lose weight It's chopping wood. As soon as Ye Shengnan came, our topics started to increase, classmates, teachers, going to the countryside, work, current affairs news, wife and children... During the chatting process, I learned that braised pig's trotters got married earlier than us, and he married when he went to the countryside. The educated youth at the same spot now have two children, and the older child is about to graduate from elementary school.The braised pig's trotters can't hold enough alcohol, just drank one-half of a teacup of Lao Baigan, his tongue turned into a rotten rag, his face was as red as the water that had just been pulled out of the belly of a pig, and his words seemed to be unstoppable. The cow's intestines were pulled out endlessly, praising Ye Shengnan over and over again for being beautiful, good at studying, and organized, while Eggy kept yelling, "Shut up..." When the stewed pig's trotter was about to leave, it was a bit lost. Ye Shengnan repeatedly told him to help us buy a TV. The stewed pig's trotter slapped his chest loudly and vowed to help us buy a TV.After sending away the braised pig’s trotters, I just remembered that I forgot to ask him if he has any channels or methods to guarantee that he can buy cheap imported TV sets for us. "Braised pig's trotter is just an ordinary electrician. Where does he get a TV? I think this kid is bragging." "Whether he is bragging or not, we are sowing seeds everywhere and focusing on harvesting. As long as we can buy a TV, we will ask him for help. It is better if we can buy it. If we can't buy it, there is nothing to lose." Ye Shengnan said freely, I But I thought, if people all over the street say they can help us buy a TV set, we will take them to the house to wait for a meal, even if we don’t buy a TV set, we will have to pay for it. The next day I hung up the phone for Paste Bread. He is now working as a warehouse keeper in a supply and marketing cooperative, specializing in electrical appliances.Without waiting for me to ask, he took the initiative to tell me about the coincidence between the stewed pig's trotter and Ye Shengnan at his place. Ye Shengnan asked him to ask him to help buy a TV, and it happened that the stewed pig's trotter met. Immediately promised to help Ye Shengnan buy a TV.Paste Bread told me not to trust braised pig's trotters too much. There are rumors that braised pig's trotters are secretly doing business to make money.I don't care what the braised pig's trotters are doing outside, and it has nothing to do with me. What I care about is whether Ye Shengnan and the braised pig's trotters have lied to me. Although I also feel that it is not proper to investigate Ye Shengnan like this, but I can't control myself. I'm not afraid of what she has to do with braised pig's trotters, I'm afraid that I'll be kept in the dark and look like a fool. I underestimated the energy of braised pig's trotters.After eating the dishes made by Ye Shengnan himself, even though the dishes were worse than the skills of the breeders in the commune, the stewed pig's trotters really fulfilled his promise. Within a month, it was the third day when the TV broadcasting station started to broadcast the TV program , The stewed pig's feet were sweating profusely and brought us an imported Panasonic black and white 12-inch TV. "I'm really sorry. The smuggled ones are temporarily out of stock. Now the TV station has started broadcasting them. I'm afraid you won't be able to wait. I asked a friend to buy this one from the south through legitimate channels. The price is a little higher, five hundred and fifty yuan." Seeing his face covered in sweat, I was really moved, I was busy thanking him, and I was eager to see what the thing called a TV set in that delicate cardboard box that could watch movies at home looked like. appearance.The stewed pig's trotters skillfully opened the box, and skillfully took out the small box with a large glass on the front and black plastic on the back. This is what the TV looked like, not much different from what I imagined.He put the TV set on the dining table in my house, then inserted the plug into the socket, turned on the switch, pulled out the antenna, and twisted the knob on the panel a few times, suddenly there was a sound, and a real scene appeared on the glass on the front of the TV. The picture is vague and unclear, but it can still be seen that several foreign men and women are talking about a person who came out of the bottom of the sea. ""The Man From the Bottom of the Atlantic", an imported TV series, aired on CCTV, it's very good." Braised pig's trotters introduced it expertly. "Can you make it clearer?" Ye Shengnan's voice trembled with excitement. "You have to find a good location, the signal here is too weak." Braised pig's trotters walked around my house with the TV in their arms, just like a Kuomintang spy with a radio detector to find the underground party's radio station.Finally, I chose the clothes box in the corner: "The signal here is good, so let's put it here." Sure enough, the picture on the TV was much clearer, and I saw a strong foreigner swimming in the water in a strange posture. "This is Harris, a man from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. He can't do without water. Once there is water, he will be infinitely powerful." Braised pig's trotters introduced the plot to us. The plot is not important to us, what is important is that we can see the lifelike pictures of the activities at home and hear the pleasant sounds that match the pictures.TV series is an unfamiliar term for us. As the name suggests, I thought it was a drama broadcast on TV, so I didn’t pay much attention to it. I’m most interested in movies. If I can watch movies without spending money, and You can watch while smoking, which is really a great enjoyment.It is inappropriate to put a TV on top of the clothes box, and it is inconvenient to take clothes every time. However, at this time, the TV is the most important member of our family. As long as it is needed, even if it takes up my bed, I will not complain. Make room for it. After placing the TV set, Ye Shengnan took out the money and counted 550 yuan for the stewed pig's trotters. The stewed pig's trotters said that if it was inconvenient, don't worry, we said it was convenient and convenient, and I would be grateful if I could help buy the TV set How can I let you advance the money again, and the braised pig's trotters also took the money.We had just had dinner at that time, and we just remembered to ask if the braised pig's trotters had eaten. The braised pig's trotters said he had eaten, and he still had something to do, so he got up and said goodbye. The turntable had just started playing, and we were afraid that something would go wrong and we would have to go back to work, so we asked him to come and play if he had nothing to do, and he happily agreed to leave. It was the first time I watched TV that night. At that time, there were no commercials on TV, and there were only two channels. We stayed in front of the TV from the beginning to the end that night. Reluctantly turned off the TV.The next day, I was going to participate in the company’s technical competition. I had a skill test in the morning, tutoring in the factory at noon, and a theory test in the afternoon. After a busy day, I was full of energy, but I couldn’t concentrate. I always wanted to go home and watch TV , I feel that living with a TV at home will not be the same from now on. As soon as the competition was over, I rushed home in a hurry, and I couldn't help being surprised when I entered the door. The house was full of people, my father and my mother, the couple, Ye Shengnan's father and mother, her brother and sister-in-law... and a few more In our upstairs neighbors, people are watching programs attentively around my 12-inch black and white TV. The older ones are sitting on various chairs and stools that can seat people. My mother and Ye Shengnan’s mother are sitting on the bed, My mother is holding Dandan in her arms, and my father is holding the second-prospect baby daughter in his arms. The others are standing on the ground. Ye Shengnan is proud and energetic, serving tea, water and cigarettes to everyone, and Dandan keeps ordering. The TV "shut up", and the second-time daughter kept asking my mother if the villain in it could come out. A children's program was playing on TV, a group of children followed a handsome girl to guess riddles.When I came back, I had no place to sit. It was all my family members and no one cared about me. I just stood behind the crowd and watched the back of their heads listening to TV. Ye Shengnan's father said: "This thing is good, really good, how about it, Lao Yang will buy one too?" When discussing the handling of the objects of the investigation at the end of the investigation, my dad helped Ye Shengnan's father speak at the Standing Committee, saying that he was just a veteran cadre with a little ambition and had no direct dealings with the "Gang of Four". No, so it can't be counted as the remnants of the "Gang of Four", so education should be the most important thing to deal with, so no organization is given to him to deal with it, which can be regarded as letting her father go.I don't know how her dad knew it, and he has been nice to my dad since then.Now that they are all retired, they all live in the same courtyard, and they are in-laws. You come and go, just like China and the Soviet Union, but the relationship has gradually been normalized. My dad said: "I saw it in color when I was in a meeting in Beijing, it's nothing." I know that the reason why my dad didn't answer his words directly is because my dad has nothing to say on such issues, and my mother has to make a final decision. Ye Shengnan's father said: "That's right, if you want to buy one, just buy a colored one. It will be in place at one time, and you will have to change it when you can save it." Ye Shengnan said: "A color 14-inch one costs more than 1,500 yuan. How can there be so much money? Even if you have so much money, you can't buy it." My mother said: "If you can buy it, you can really buy a color one. Isn't it more than one thousand yuan? You should enjoy it when you are old." My dad immediately responded with support: "That's right, we'll buy one sometime later, and if we want to buy it, we can buy it in color." Ye Shengnan's father said, "Buy it. If you don't buy it, why keep the money? If you have the money, don't spend it. The money belongs to others." As usual, Ye Shengnan's mother didn't participate in this kind of discussion. She put one hand of Eggy in her palm and rubbed it gently, as if she was caressing a cute bird, and stared at the TV screen intently. When it was time for dinner, the neighbor reluctantly left and left. Ye Shengnan was not afraid of making a fool of himself. With the help of my mother, she made a pot of porridge, fried shredded pork with pickled mustard, and boiled a few salted duck eggs. Everyone made do with it. Yes, and then watch TV, news broadcasts, TV series, movies, news...it was not until late at night that everyone disbanded. After seeing off the family members, Ye Shengnan and I started to clean the battlefield. This was the first time the two families gathered together at my house. Ye Shengnan was very excited and warm and thoughtful. It was a mess, the ground was covered with cigarette butts and melon seed skins, the air was filthy like a thick liquid, the sheets were crumpled like twisted twists, and there were a lot of water stains on them, and the reddish-brown residual tea in the cup was like stale urine... ...Ye Shengnan and I cleaned up in the middle of the night, and it was already two o'clock in the morning when we went to bed.After lying down, Ye Shengnan suddenly asked me: "Do you think this is okay? Let's move the TV over there. If we want to watch it, we can watch it over there. We invite the old people to come and watch the TV. They have to run back and forth in the middle of the night. Don't ask them to watch it." Well, we don’t feel safe at home enjoying ourselves.” I didn't say a word, she didn't say clearly whether to move the TV to her mother's house or her husband's house, so I can't judge whether she really has good intentions or has ulterior motives.At the same time, I felt a little bit sad in my heart. After a lot of effort, I managed to ask someone to buy a TV. I was about to enjoy the modern comforts, but I had to send it somewhere else, no matter if it was my dad or her dad’s house. , I didn't put it in my own home for convenience.She didn't continue this topic either, she curled up and leaned into my arms, and after a while, she snored, like an old cat having a temper tantrum. Since then, our home has become a small movie theater. In addition to our own family members, neighbors and friends often come to watch TV programs.After we finished work every day, the rest of the time began to rack our brains thinking about how to place as many seats as possible in the limited space, thinking about how to make the guests who came to see them satisfied and at the same time Can save tea and cigarettes at home.After living like this for half a year, I had to raise my hands in surrender and agreed to Ye Shengnan's plan to move the TV to the old man's house, whether it was in her natal family or her in-law's house, as long as it was not in my house.When we were about to implement our plan, the city issued a purchase ticket for an imported original 21-inch cheap color TV to each retired veteran cadre. My father and Ye Shengnan's father each bought a 21-inch color TV Since then, the function of our small movie theater has weakened a lot.Later, everyone started trying to find ways to buy TVs, and the number of families with TVs gradually increased, and gradually there were no people who came to our house to harass us just to watch TV. He helped us buy a TV, and the stewed pig's trotters considered himself a hero and became a guest of my house. He came to my house to eat and drink when he had nothing to do. Fortunately, my house rarely had friends. He mainly just drank and held a cup of tea. You can sit in the middle of the night.Gradually, I got used to him and got used to him, and felt that communicating with him was no different from interacting with other people.One time when Ye Shengnan was not at home, I remembered how he stubbornly opposed me when I was a child, so I asked him why he had to oppose me at that time, and what made him dislike me.He took a sip of tea, raised his eyelids and looked at me for a while, as if he was evaluating whether he should tell me the truth, and then he made up his mind and said: "Now we are all grown up, married and have wives and children, here you go. It's okay to say, don't laugh at me." I tried my best to put on a sincere expression, and he lit another cigarette before saying, "It's not because of Ye Shengnan, your wife." At that time, I was already aware of it, and chatting now only confirmed my guess, so I didn't feel the slightest surprise.In order to make him proud, and to show my innocence, I still made a surprised expression: "Really? I didn't have much to do with her at that time, and I even annoyed her a little at that time, why are you jealous. Besides Well, she didn't look very good when she was in elementary school." Braised pig's trotters said: "You're right. In all fairness, you were still stupid at that time. You were not as sensible as I was. But Ye Shengnan was different. She was as sensible as me. You didn't think what was going on, but she was like a person in heat. The little hen, her eyes shine when she sees you, and she flaps her wings after your ass, but you don't pay her much attention.尿我，你整天淘得像个恶鬼她就偏偏喜欢你，我不忍心对她怎么样，也不敢对她怎么样，怕她更烦我，我就跟你闹别扭，跟你过不去，不让你得意。” 我哈哈哈地笑了起来，说实话，至今我也不知道叶笙楠竟然会在那个时候就对我好了，经卤猪蹄这么一说，好像真有那么回事儿似的，尽管这件事究竟是卤猪蹄的主观臆断还是真实情况就是这样，并没有结论，但仍然让我挺得意。 “那时候你他妈真横，打起人来手一点不软，我可真没少吃你的苦头。” 我以一个胜利者对失败者应有的宽容向他道歉：“好兄弟，不打不成交嘛，今天我给你赔礼了，走，我请你喝啤酒去。” 卤猪蹄二话没说就跟我出了家门，路上他对我说：“说真的，一直到下乡我对叶笙楠也没断了想法，那条狗抢了你们一条羊腿，我替你们报仇，勒了那条狗请你们吃狗肉，说到底还是想取悦她。没想到你们跟那条狗是哥们儿朋友，结果拍马屁拍到马腿上了，你们又让公社专政队关了，结果落了个大伯子背弟媳妇过河出力不讨好，至今那帮人见了我爱搭不理的，倒好像我真是卑鄙小人似的。” 我调侃他：“如今叶笙楠对你也不错嘛，你多做好事，慢慢别人就都知道你不是卑鄙小人是堂堂君子了。不过如今你可不能对叶笙楠再有想法了，她可是我老婆。” 卤猪蹄摇头苦笑：“其实小时候我对她也没啥别的想法，就是想跟她亲近，想跟她做朋友，想让她对我好，真还没发展到想娶她做老婆的程度。如今就更不想了，活了一大把岁数了，老婆孩子都有了，最重要的就是安安分分过日子。再说了，叶笙楠如今看起来也就是一般人，我自己有时候都想不通，怎么小的时候看她就像看天仙似的。” 我们找了个小酒馆开始喝啤酒，那天我心里有事儿，技术比武我只得了第五名，奖励一级工资的事儿泡汤了，跟卤猪蹄喝酒聊天刚好解闷，不知不觉就喝多了，怎么回家的都不知道。后来我问叶笙楠，是不是她上小学的时候就恋上我了，叶笙楠供认不讳，说：“你那个时候长个大傻个子，眼睛贼溜溜的，满身大补丁，带着红烧肉他们几个整天跟人打架，现在想起来你那时候真恶心，可是我那时候傻乎乎的就觉得你挺男人，不过也没别的想法，也可能咱两家一直在一个院里住着，心理上觉得关系近一点。”想了想她又问我：“你怎么想起来问这事儿？” 我告诉她这是卤猪蹄说的，卤猪蹄还承认他从小就喜欢她。没想到她一下子就暴跳如雷了：“卤猪蹄是个什么东西，想想他那个德行就恶心，他的话能信吗？我还没告诉你呢，糊面包买了一台电视跟我们的一模一样才四百五十块钱，那家伙多要了我们一百块。” 我说：“也许糊面包的电视机是走私的，咱们家的是正规渠道的，所以贵一点儿。” 叶笙楠怒气冲冲地说：“狗屁！我问清楚了，糊面包家的电视是他舅从广州的商店买的，运费才二十块钱，哪里是走私的。我估计肯定卤猪蹄这家伙搂我们的钱了，这小子真不地道，谁的钱都想赚。” 尽管叶笙楠言之凿凿，可是想到卤猪蹄那无辜坦然的神情，我还是难以相信卤猪蹄会加价赚我们的钱。卤猪蹄不知道他的事发了，继续到我家来串门，叶笙楠虽然没有直接问他倒卖电视的事儿，可是对他的脸色非常难看，说话也冷嘲热讽的。卤猪蹄坐不住，连忙告辞，我倒有些不忍心，出来送他，卤猪蹄朝我家努努嘴：“犯什么毛病了？是冲你还是冲我？” 我说：“当然是冲我，嫌我技术比武没拿上前三名，把一级奖励工资耽搁了。她那人就那样，脾气上来了逮着谁咬谁，属疯狗的。她娘家人都不搭理她，你别往心里去。” 我尽我的能力宽慰卤猪蹄，卤猪蹄半信半疑地点头，从那以后他就很少到我家来了。