1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 369: Carrying the TV Home

In February, when he couldn't go out to sea, Liang Ziqiang finally had some free time. He took this time to go to a forest farm in another town to buy a large number of wooden boards and started laying the floor on the second floor.

He had originally planned to lay this when he was building the house, but he had no spare money after the house was built last year. Later, when he saved up some money, he still couldn't get away from it. He didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, it had been delayed for a year.

There are less than twenty days left before the Spring Festival, and time is still tight. He did it all by himself and then asked a few people to help him.

Carpenter Liu was the best at this kind of work in the village, but unfortunately he was still busy building a house for his elder brother Liang Tiancheng, and could only come to help him lay the floor slabs occasionally. Fortunately, in just a few days, the tile roof of his elder brother was completely completed, and Carpenter Liu came over to help Liang Ziqiang lay the floor slabs.

February 2th, the sixteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, is a good day for moving into a new house.

That day, Liang Ziqiang, Lizhi, Liang's father and mother all helped Liang Tiancheng's family move. It was early in the morning, firecrackers were set off all the way, and blazing straw torches were lit in front of the new house. Except that there was one less house than Liang Ziqiang's, the whole scene was exactly the same as when Liang Ziqiang moved last year.

The villagers came over in the morning to drink and eat, and they congratulated each other again. They all said that Liang Ziqiang had been prosperous from the beginning of the year to the end of the year since he moved into his new home, and Liang Tiancheng would surely be prosperous if he moved in.

Liang Ziqiang couldn't tell whether his elder brother would be blessed with wealth and fortune, but there were two things he couldn't avoid.

First, in the long run, Juzipo will definitely develop homestays in the future, and the land value will definitely increase significantly. Then my brother will definitely be able to make a fortune.

Then there are the prawns in the prawn pond, which my brother also raised. Seeing that the price of prawns has begun to rise, my brother will be able to make a lot of money in a while!

My younger brother Liang Zifeng came back just in time. We moved into our new home on February 2th, and he returned for winter vacation on February 5th.

The eldest brother Liang Tiancheng laughed at him: "A Feng, you are so lazy now! Don't you know what the heaviest thing is during this move? It's your pile of books! If you had come back two days earlier, I wouldn't care about those books, you would have moved them by yourself!"

All of Liang Zifeng's books, whether useful or not, were moved from the old house to Liang Tiancheng's new home.

At present, of Liang Ziqiang's four rooms, except for the main room, the other three are occupied by themselves, their parents, and Lizhi, so the room is full.

There is a room in Liang Tiancheng's new house where Liang Zifeng and Xiaohai can sleep.

So after Liang Zifeng came back, he slept at his eldest brother's house at night, but ate at his second brother's house during the day with his parents and second brother.

After several days, Liang Ziqiang finally finished laying the wooden boards on the second floor. Now the couple lay on the bed, looking up, they no longer have to face the tiled roof directly.

The room is filled with the smell of fresh wood, but it's quite light and not pungent.

A year later, Liang Ziqiang's new house is finally complete.

The next day was February 2th, the day for the ICBC Binzhou District Branch to draw prizes.

After arriving there, Liang Ziqiang consciously gave way to his wife this time. Unexpectedly, this time his wife picked more than a dozen cards in a row, but they were either "thank you for participating", or towels or matches, and she didn't get any grand prize.

"I'm not that lucky today," Chen Xiangbei said a little disappointedly, "You can take the remaining few!"

"I can do it too. Just pick up a bunch of soap and don't blame me when you go back!"

Liang Ziqiang reached in and said, well, unfortunately, it turned out to be a piece of soap...

His face twitched, and he fought again with tears in his eyes. This time he picked up a piece of paper and took it out directly.

As soon as he opened the folded papers, he rubbed his eyes subconsciously and didn't dare to recognize the words on them.

But his wife pulled his arm hard:
"Second prize! What are you daydreaming about?"

The staff on site was also stunned for two seconds before they shouted out loudly:
"Second prize! The prize draw was just started today, and a second prize came out so early. This is also the biggest prize so far today. Congratulations to this comrade! A Baihua brand TV set, which can be taken home soon!"

"Wow, a TV! I wish I could be so lucky!" Everyone in the team was envious.

The sound was loud in his ears, but Liang Ziqiang felt like he was dreaming. He reached into the cardboard box twice more in a daze, using up the remaining two chances.

One said "Thank you for participating", and another time I got a box of matches, which was just a consolation prize.

After exchanging the prize, I didn't stay any longer, I took the TV and hurried back. I originally planned to buy some New Year's goods in the city, but it's not convenient to carry the TV with me now, so I'll buy New Year's goods in the county or town next time.

"You're really good, this is better than the bicycle I had last time!" His wife was very happy sitting on the boat back to the village, "I have only seen a TV once in town, and it seems to be similar except that it is smaller than the movie screen of the projection team and doesn't have the same color, and it has sound and picture."

"It can actually be in color, but the TV we touched is black and white, and now some families in the city are watching color TVs!"

"I think having a black and white TV is good enough." Chen Xiangbei was content. "I just wonder if it will consume too much electricity?" "The electricity bill is not that much. We have already brought the TV back. Are you still worried about that little money?"

In fact, as far as Liang Ziqiang knows, black and white TVs actually consume more electricity than later LCD TVs due to technical reasons, but of course he won't say it. In fact, his family doesn't have to worry about the electricity bill now.

Coincidentally, when the boat reached the county town, it encountered another boat heading back to the village. It was Zhong Yongrui and his son Zhong Ming. On the boat was a large brown paper box with "Peony Brand Full Channel Transistor Black and White TV" printed in red.

The moment he touched the TV, Liang Ziqiang was thinking that he now had the first TV in the village. Unexpectedly, Zhong Yongrui also brought back one on the same day.

Zhong Ming had already noticed him and spoke loudly to him:
"Aqiang, are you buying a TV to watch at home during the New Year? What a coincidence, we went to buy a TV today, and luckily my cousin in the city helped me get more than ten industrial tickets, otherwise we wouldn't be able to buy it! How many tickets did you use?"

Liang Ziqiang certainly didn't want to talk about the lottery at the bank, so he hesitated for a moment before replying:
"I used ten of them. I exchanged them with the people in the city when I was selling fish!"

Zhong Yongrui saw the words printed on his paper box and asked:

"Baihua brand? How much does this brand sell for?"

This... Liang Ziqiang really doesn't know. He didn't rush to answer, but looked at Zhong Mingdao:

"Hundred flowers are definitely not as good as peonies! Look, they need fewer tickets, and the price is definitely not as expensive as yours. How much is your Peony brand one?"

Zhong Ming immediately answered: "Exactly four hundred!"

"Let me tell you, mine is 380, which is 20 bucks cheaper than yours. Yours is definitely better quality!"

In fact, Baihua brand should also be a very good brand. The one produced in Shanghai is just "Shanghai Television Factory No. 11".

The full text written on both sides of the carton is:
"Baihua brand D35-2U, full-channel transistor black and white TV, 35cm, Shanghai TV Factory No. .

毛重13.5公斤，数量1台，体积550X355X400=0.078 m”

As Liang Ziqiang said this, his wife, who was sitting in the boat, tilted her head and looked at him, as if she didn't quite understand him.

As soon as he returned to the cabin, Chen Xiangbei smiled with an ambiguous meaning and said in a low voice:

"I didn't realize it before, but you lie so easily without blinking an eye!"

"Just don't lie to your wife!" Liang Ziqiang chuckled.

"That's hard to say. I can't tell if you're lying to me, and I might even be kept in the dark if you sell me out!"

Although she said that, her eyes clearly showed some compliments on him. It was obvious that she didn't want people to know that she often went to those banks to deposit money and then win prizes.

When we got home, we used iron rods to make a fishbone shape, which became the outdoor antenna. The antenna was tied to the wooden rods and fixed firmly on the tile roof.

When I went back into the house, I plugged in the TV and turned it on.

The first channel was full of snowflakes. Then I twisted it again and a human figure appeared.

He was reporting the news in a clear and loud voice.

"Let's try again!" Chen Xiangbei held Cheng Cheng in her arms, watched the news for a while, and then pushed Liang Ziqiang.

He twisted his body twice more. "After a century of slumber, the Chinese people are gradually waking up..."

A man's singing voice suddenly floated out from the gray plastic shell.

Such a distant memory was ignited all of a sudden.

"What is this? It looks like a movie?" The daughter-in-law obviously didn't feel familiar at all and asked with some curiosity.

"It's a TV series. Here comes the title. It's called 'Heroes of the Underworld'!"

There was no television when Liang Ziqiang was a child, and it was only in his previous life that he watched the TV series Huo Yuanjia through repeated reruns.

Now, as the New Year is approaching, I accidentally watched this classic drama with my family...

(End of this chapter)