1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 392: The Powerful King of Destruction

I was planning to take the tape recorder and go home, but suddenly I thought, no, I only have a tape recorder but no tapes!

I remembered that the Xinhua Bookstore and department store on Yingbin Road both sold tapes, so the boat sailed to Sham Shui Po and stopped again, then went ashore and returned to Yingbin Road.

He had been looking for the 83 version of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, his favorite, but to no avail. As expected, since the TV series had not yet been broadcast in the mainland, the theme songs and interludes had not been sold in Yanghai City.

It seems that if he wants to listen to his favorite songs, he will have to wait for half a year or even a year until "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" starts to be released in mainland China.

After looking around, I found that there are already record companies that specialize in compiling film and television songs and making them into complete tapes for sale.

After a quick glance, this box of "Selected Film and Television Songs" includes "Love Across Thousands of Mountains and Rivers", "Grace of the Earth", "The Sea, My Hometown", "The Wise Ikki", and "Thank You".

It was printed by Huacheng Branch of my country's record company in 1984 and released last year.

When I asked about the price, it turned out to be not cheap at all, only five dollars and fifty cents!

Five yuan and fifty cents could buy almost five kilograms of pork in those days. It seems that not only the tape recorder is a luxury item, but even the tape is also a luxury item to a certain extent in this era.

Liang Ziqiang was selecting cassettes when two young men with curly hair came over. After a while, they finally asked the salesperson, "Do you have any blank cassettes for one dollar a box?"

"Want to copy the songs yourself? No, we only sell regular tapes!" The salesperson gave the man a cold look without any courtesy.

Liang Ziqiang understood. Since tapes were selling for four or five yuan a box these days, many people could not buy many tapes with their monthly salary. So they found different ways to buy cheap blank tapes at one yuan a box, and then borrow other people's music tapes to copy.

The two men were disappointed and walked away awkwardly, probably going to look for another place along the street to sell blank tapes.

Fortunately, the money for the tapes was not a problem for Liang Ziqiang.

I bought both the first and second volumes of "Selected Film and Television Songs".

There is also the "Bright Stars TV Concert" produced by the Shanghai Stock Exchange, which was released in 1983.

There are quite a lot of songs in it, and he plans to buy two boxes of them, Baihua Collection and Yinping Collection.

There is also a tape containing two songs, "By the Butterfly Spring" and "Sister Looking for Her Brother with Tears in Her Eyes".

"By the Butterfly Spring" is a song from the movie "Five Golden Flowers". He heard his mother humming it when he was very young.

"Sister Looking for Brother with Tears in Her Eyes" is a song from another movie, "Little Flower". This movie was shown outdoors in the rural areas around them in recent years, and he sometimes heard his wife humming it occasionally.

There are both movie songs that my mother likes and movie songs that my wife likes. One tape can attract two people, and the cost performance is very high. Needless to say, I have to buy this tape.

I saw a special Cantonese opera tape, which included the Cantonese opera version of "The Female Prince Consort" and "Su Liuniang", and also included the Spring Festival Gala Cantonese opera program "South China Sea Fisherman's Song". My parents both like Cantonese opera, so I bought this tape for them to listen to when they have time.

(Note: This is the Cantonese opera version of "The Female Prince Consort" that began to be sung in the late 1970s, not the Huangmei Opera version.)
Finally, I glanced at an album by Cheng Lin, which was full of childish songs such as "The Little Trumpet", "Mother's Kiss" and "Childhood Rocking Carriage".

Hmm... this one is also okay. I'll buy it and play it for a while. It will be Xiao Jingcheng's exclusive tape from now on...

Six tapes, thirty-one dollars in total, pay and take them.

When I got home, I saw my wife and son at a glance. This time, my wife supported Liang Jingcheng and let the little guy walk forward step by step along the open space.

It is now more than five months old and my son is almost eleven months old. He is no longer satisfied with crawling or occasionally standing. Instead, he lifts his feet and always wants to take a few steps like adults.

Liang Ziqiang and his wife would help him walk a little bit every day, but they didn't plan to let him walk for too long. He stumbled along the way, but Cheng Cheng seemed to have a special sense of accomplishment, and felt like he was flying, dancing and making excited noises.

"What did you win this time? A tape recorder?!" Chen Xiangbei hugged her son and stopped, squatting there and looking up at him. When she recognized the words on the paper box, her eyebrows and eyes lit up with joy. More than a year ago, when she heard that Lin Baixian brought back a tape recorder that could play songs, she had expressed a little yearning. Although she had a television later, she was still very yearning for a tape recorder that could be used to listen to songs.

After bringing the tape recorder into the house, she saw the tapes he had bought and immediately found one that she liked. This time, she didn't hesitate and immediately handed him the tape with the theme song of "Little Flower" and asked him to play this one first.

While his parents were tinkering with the tape recorder, little Jingcheng was not idle either. He stood there holding on to a chair and played by himself. Now, as long as there was a wall, table, chair or something like that to help him, he could stand without falling.

When the song was about halfway through, Liang Ziqiang and Chen Xiangbei turned their heads and glanced at the kids beside them.

It would have been better if he hadn't looked at it. When he did, Liang Ziqiang's liver trembled, and Chen Xiangbei even exclaimed in surprise.

I thought Liang Jingcheng was happily playing with something, but what he touched was actually a cassette. The plastic box of the cassette was sparkling, and it was obviously "kissed" by him with his saliva.

That’s not all. Right now, Cheng Cheng was using his fingers to pick out the long and thin strip from the tape, doing it meticulously.

In the blink of an eye when I didn't look back, a small circle was pulled out, and the brown and black thin belt was floating in the air...

"Oh my god!" Chen Xiangbei was at a loss, not knowing whether to save the tape first or hold the baby down. If she was not careful, the whole tape would be ruined.

It was the first time that Liang Ziqiang heard his wife being forced to call her child "daddy".

He quickly came over to hug his son and comfort him, but he unexpectedly still held on to the tape and wouldn't let it go. I don't know if he saw that his parents treasured this thing and thought it was a rare treasure or something. This wasn't just pulling the tape, it was heartbreaking!
All the frantic coaxing and persuasion didn't make him let go. It turned out that the two of them couldn't even take care of one baby.

If you try to pull it out of his fist by force, he will cry and look aggrieved, as if someone is taking his toy away.

The noise was so loud that it alarmed Liang's mother, who glared at Liang Ziqiang as soon as she entered the room:
"Why did you make the kid cry? What rare thing is that? If he wants to play with it, just let him play with it. There's no need to snatch it away!"

Liang Ziqiang made a bitter face:
"Mom, this is a new cassette I bought for playing songs. I haven't listened to it yet..."

"I thought it was just a treasure. There's no need to snatch it from him!" Liang's mother disagreed.

"The box he's holding seems to be from the Cantonese opera The Female Prince Consort..."

"You bought 'The Female Prime Minister'? Look at you, you should have said so earlier!"

The next second, Liang's mother became the one who felt the most grief. This time, the three of them worked together to coax the baby and find other serious toys.

Fortunately, Liang Ziqiang bought a "tin frog" last time that can jump by itself by twisting the spring. He had originally planned to give it to his baby to play with when he was a little older, but now it has made its grand debut ahead of time.

The green tin frog was twisted a few times and then placed on the ground and it started jumping up and down by itself.

Liang Jingcheng's clenched fists loosened at once, and he threw down the tape without hesitation and kicked his legs to catch the frog.

Liang's mother carried him to play with the tin frog, and the dying tape was finally saved.

Liang Ziqiang had finally managed to wind the tape back in, but he was not sure if he could still sing this part.

"Put all the tapes you don't need somewhere he can't reach them!"

Liang Ziqiang learned from his mistakes and immediately gave instructions to his daughter-in-law.

I used to think that I just needed to be on guard against Liang Xiaohai, but now, a powerful and powerful saboteur king has appeared in my house...

(End of this chapter)