1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 20 Martial Arts Secrets?!
In October, "Children's Literature" published Xia Tian's "The Little Pony Crossing the River", with illustrations.

Zhang Qilin came personally to deliver the sample issue and also took away "Monkey Catching the Moon".

This is the manuscript for next month.

In the postscript, Dachun said something earnest beyond his years: Go to bed early at night and don’t cling to the edge of the well. If your parents see you, you will definitely be beaten!

There are still many wheel wells these days, the kind where you throw a bucket of water into the well and then use a rope wrapped around a crankshaft wheel to pull it up.

The children in the city in later generations have certainly never seen it.

The diameter of the well mouth is almost one meter, and it is easy for a child to fall in. There is water more than ten meters deep, so the chance of survival is very small.

So if any child dares to climb over the edge of a well, no matter what, give him a beating first so he will remember his lesson!
Along with the sample issue were two letters from readers.

When I opened them, I saw that they were all written by children.

Although the words seem childish, the feelings are still very sincere.

Reader: "Your friend Dachun is absolutely right. When an apple falls into water, it really makes a gurgling sound!"

One of the young readers turned out to be a friend like me, who had graduated from elementary school but had not yet started normal middle school enrollment.

He was very confused about his current situation.

Xia Tian wrote back to Jian Dan.

In the letter, Xia Tian comforted him: Don't worry, just do your own thing and wait. Also, don't give up studying.

Xia Tian: Don’t talk about you, I’m also waiting to go to school now!
You can't travel through time and get an elementary school diploma, right?
That would make him the traveler with the lowest academic qualifications in the multiverse!

Dad Xia is half an intellectual, and he pays a lot of attention to literature and current affairs - anyone with a bit of culture pays a lot of attention to those things these days.

The newspaper and periodical sales in those days are unimaginable in later generations.

People are hungry for all things written.

Many people also have the habit of clipping newspapers and taking notes, and they cherish certain information and knowledge very much.

Later, in the information age, there was an information explosion.

Every day, everyone actively and passively receives a huge amount of information, but at that time, people began to ignore information and knowledge. After all, if you need anything, you can just search directly.

But these days, going to the library to look up information is a very time-consuming and tedious task.

I do morning exercises every day in the summer and get up very early.

In winter, I get up before six o'clock, and in summer I wake up at five o'clock. After washing up, I do morning exercises for more than half an hour to an hour.

Occasionally I would get up early and go to the park to warm up my voice, after all, I learned Peking Opera.

So, he is the first one to read the newspaper every morning.

On October 10, Xia Tian saw in the newspaper that the New H Agency published Chen Jrun’s research results on the Goldbach conjecture.

After breakfast, Xiatian reunited with his friends, and Yanjing discussed this matter very excitedly.

Let me put it this way, among the four people, Xia Tian, ​​Dachun, Yan Jing and Xiaodong, it depends on Xia Tian and Yan Jing to even out the score.

In summer, this is considered cheating and will not be discussed.

What is there to discuss with someone who has a photographic memory and can do mental arithmetic as fast as a "zero" calculator?

As for Yan Jing, he is very talented and hardworking. This can be considered a family tradition.

Glasses' father was a scientific researcher, but he is no longer with us. Now the mother and daughter depend on each other for survival.

But it was Glasses' father who instilled in Glasses the belief in learning.

Yan Jing is talented, has a methodical approach to study and is very hardworking. If he didn't complain so often, he would be a role model for his neighbors.

Of course, back then, grades were not as important as they are now.

But it will be soon. The college entrance examination will be resumed soon, right?
The era when knowledge changes destiny is coming.

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"Dachun, what's wrong?"

I had lunch in the summer, and when I came back I found that my friends and I had a falling out!
Dachun and Yanjing were having a quarrel, and they were both so angry that they ignored each other.

Xiaodong whispered at the side: "Dachun said that Yanjing hid a martial arts secret book and practiced it secretly. He was not polite and got angry."

"I didn't!" Glasses cried out loudly.

"If you don't have it, why don't you take it out? I saw it all!" Dachun was not willing to be outdone.

This kid got a comic book some time ago, and it's the kind of martial arts comic book that is not allowed to appear.

Wow, Dachun is really into it! I must have watched it 17 or 18 times!

He discussed martial arts with Xia Tian every day and asked Xia Tian to teach him martial arts.

Xia Tian: "Let me tell you, this thing I practice can't cultivate internal strength, let alone fly into the sky and hide in the ground. It's not true that I can kill someone with one punch from a distance of ten feet."

Dachun was seriously unconvinced: "No, there must be such a magical skill in this world!"

Isn't it a coincidence that Yan Jing hid a book and read it secretly, and was discovered by Da Chun, who thought it was a martial arts secret book and got angry on the spot.

Dachun: I always save half of the popsicles for you. Are you playing tricks on me?!

Xia Tian was also curious. Although Yan Jing came from a poor family, he was not a stingy person. Apart from complaining all the time, he had no other bad habits.

What is hidden?
"Glasses, what book is that? Can't you show it to us?" he asked.

The expression on Glasses' face is a little hard to describe, it's very complicated, and his eyes are red.

When Xia Tian saw it, he didn't ask, why are the little pearls falling off?

Then Glasses pulled out a book with frayed edges. Xia Tian knew at a glance that it was not a secret book.

What kind of martial arts secret manual could this modern print be?
I was also abducted by Dachun.

Although this world may be different from my original time and space, I have never heard of any magical powers or special abilities.

If it really exists, as one of the few martial arts geniuses of the new generation in Yanjing, I would definitely be exposed to it before Dachun and the others.

Xia Tian took the book from Yan Jing's hand and took a look - "Elementary Physics".

Although Dachun was still angry, he hurried over when he saw the "secret book" being taken out, and as a result, he saw these four words.

The man with the glasses glared at him: "Do you know how to read? How do you read these four words?!"

Dachun shrank his neck and smiled shyly: "Uh, that, it should be ignored at the primary level."

"Is it a secret book?!" Glasses was pursuing the victory.

Dachun: "It's a secret book, but I can't practice it. You and Xia Tian can practice it."

He is still self-aware.

It turns out that this physics book was left by Yan Jing's father.

His dad had...his mom burned all the notes and other things that could be burned, for fear that leaving them behind would cause trouble.

But Yan Jing secretly hid a copy. He was only four or five years old at that time, and he kept it for seven or eight years!

It’s only because it’s over now, otherwise I wouldn’t dare to take it out.

The misunderstanding was resolved, and in order to apologize, Dachun spent all of his pocket money this month - 5 cents - on buying popsicles.

Dachun, like Xiatian, is a rare only child in this era.

Xia Tian suffered from autism before he was nine years old, so his family decided to take care of him alone.

Dachun's parents got married late and had children late, so they don't plan to have more.

That's why he can have 5 cents pocket money.

For example, for Xiaodong and Yanjing, it is a problem whether the two of them can earn 2 cents a month together.

A few months ago, just as summer began, Dachun lost some money and the guy cried.

Even Xia Ma next door heard it.

She asked Xia Tian: "Son, what happened to Dachun? Why is he crying so hard? Is his parents called again?"

Xia Tian scratched his head and said, "That's not the case. I lost the money."

"Dachun dropped a two-cent coin on his way home from school and couldn't find it.

So he cleverly took out another two-cent coin and threw it on the ground to simulate the rolling trajectory, trying to find the lost coin..."

Dachun is really smart!

"Did he find it?" asked Mother Xia.

Father Xia smiled and said, "You can still cry so hard after you found it?"

Xia Tian: "Now he lost four cents, that's why he's crying so hard, it's impossible to comfort him."

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"It's time to empty the toilet~"

Xia Tian heard someone shouting in the alley outside the yard, so he put down the two 40-jin stone locks in his hands and ended his morning exercise for the day.

The shouting shows great skill; it is long and deep, can be heard from far away without being harsh, and the voice will not get tired even if it is shouted for a long time.

How should I put it, it unexpectedly matches some of the singing techniques... it really stands out.

These days the first thing you have to do in the morning is light the stove and empty the toilet/spittoon.

Needless to say, it is necessary to light the stove for cooking.

Nowadays, very few homes have bottled gas, and most people still cook with small stoves.

Emptying the toilet is because there is no toilet at home, so most people go to the public toilet in the alley.

It would definitely be inconvenient to go there at night, so just prepare a toilet or spittoon and empty it in the morning.

As the saying goes, a good harvest depends on good fertilizer.

This high-quality farm manure should not be wasted. In many cases, nearby production teams even brought money to collect it!
So, there are also people who come to your house to empty your toilet.

This job is not shameful these days.

Shi Chuanxiang from the cleaning team was met by General L a few years ago - there is no distinction between high and low levels of labor.

Xiatian went out to empty the toilet and then picked up today's newspaper.

Go buy breakfast and start the day.

Many working class families do not have much time to cook in the morning, so they buy a lot.

For example, in the summer, their family mainly buys some fried dough sticks and other things that they can’t make at home.

I make the porridge myself. I start making it in the summer.

The main reason is that he eats a lot, and it's too stressful to rely on buying everything~
Today is Sunday, but he has to go to the countryside near Yanjing with Dad Xia to show a movie.

Thanks to book friend Yuhua Qingdi for the 500-point reward.

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(End of this chapter)