The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 89 Watching a Movie

Jiang Cheng came out of the room with the remaining shoes and asked his father to pick out a pair as well. Since the treatment was effective, he would return to normal sooner or later.

Jiang Changhe happily accepted the shoes given by Jiang Cheng. No matter whether he could walk in the future, it was a token of his son's love. When he returned to Jinhe Commune, he could tell his neighbors that the shoes were given by his son as a token of filial piety.

Zhou Lingying and Zhao Yuxia were washing rice, making fire, boiling water, etc. Jiang Cheng was really bored after his father picked out a pair of shoes, and the cicadas on the tree were still chirping.

Anyway, Jiang Cheng felt like playing, so he went out for a walk with a dense net bag.

Jiang Cheng came back soon with some cicadas in his net bag. He didn't plan to waste oil and salt to fry them. He just threw them into the coal stove and roasted them. To be more precise, he roasted them. The faces were burnt black and the wings were burned off.

The flesh of cicadas is actually very tender. Peeling a cooked cicada tastes even better than eating peanuts.

Zhou Lingying saw Jiang Cheng peeling and eating the cooked cicadas, so she immediately followed suit and started eating too.

Jiang Cheng is certain with an 80% probability that Zhou Lingying is a foodie. She will not waste and dare to eat anything that she can eat.

After eating cicadas, it was almost time for dinner. There were no leftovers from dinner, and the two hens locked outside the kitchen had little chance to eat leftovers.

After dinner, Zhou Lingying didn't clean up the dishes today, and wanted to go to the movies with Jiang Cheng.

When I went out, I took the flashlight I just bought today. The flashlight I bought was made of iron sheet and took two batteries. The flashlight cost me 4.5 yuan, and the batteries were 20 cents each, and they were the big size AA batteries.

Jiang Cheng followed Zhou Lingying and walked for more than ten minutes before they reached the cinema. The movie showing that evening was "Harbor", a new movie released this year.

In fact, you can't choose movies these days. There's only one movie shown in the evening, and the cinema closes at 8 or 9. You can watch whatever is on, and don't watch it if you don't want to.

Moreover, the movie tickets are all standardized, just like the hand-torn tickets on the bus. The name of the cinema and the ticket price are on the front, and the time stamp is on the back. The cinema ticket inspector mainly looks at the time on the back of your ticket. If it doesn't match, you will not be allowed in.

At the entrance of the cinema, Jiang Cheng saw that there was someone selling popsicles.

"Lingying, have a popsicle each." Jiang Cheng said. The weather was hot, and it was also very hot in the cinema, and there was no air conditioning in those days.

"Yeah." Zhou Lingying responded with her head down.

In fact, when Zhou Lingying came to buy movie tickets in the afternoon, she saw that there were popsicles for sale here. Now she lowered her head and agreed because she bought one for herself at that time. She bought a salt water popsicle, which cost two cents each. Now she felt like she was caught eating something secretly.

There are only a few flavors of popsicles here. Ordinary sweet popsicles are one cent each. Mung bean popsicles are two cents each, and salt water popsicles are also two cents each.

The popsicles were packed in wooden boxes, covered with something like a thick cotton-padded jacket. Jiang Cheng opened it and took a look. He remembered watching a documentary before, which seemed to show that a kind of popsicle with a doll head was very popular. But now it seems that it should not have appeared in this era.

After asking Zhou Lingying what flavor she wanted to eat, Jiang Cheng took a salt water popsicle for himself and bought her a mung bean one.

After paying for the popsicles, the two entered the cinema in advance with their movie tickets and waited for the movie to start.

There are actually quite a lot of people in the cinema. In this era, there are few entertainment options and information is not well developed. Many people will learn about different local cultures through some movies. Many people who come to the cinema to watch movies are not in a relationship. Some families are well-off and come to watch movies alone. There are also some people who like to watch movies and come to watch movies with several colleagues.

Of course, most people who go to the cinema are men and women together. After all, it is when men and women are in a relationship that they are willing to spend some money and pursue romance.

Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying found their seats and ate popsicles while waiting. When the movie started, the lights in the cinema were turned off, and the movie screen lit up after a while.

It has a dim feeling. Although the era is different, the atmosphere is the same.

But when the movie officially started, Jiang Cheng was stunned. This movie turned out to be a Peking Opera. After the movie started, the people in the cinema watched it very seriously.

This brings up a question that puzzles Jiang Cheng. Many people of this generation are uneducated, but in fact many of them like to listen to operas such as Peking Opera.

Some people who had radios would go and listen to opera programs if they heard about them. Also, those who went to the countryside were not necessarily just projectionists, but also opera singers who performed for the public, and they were also very popular.

As Jiang Cheng watched, he suddenly found that he seemed to be possessed by the devil and actually liked watching movies in the form of Peking Opera performances.

You have to know that Jiang Cheng in the 21st century has no interest in opera or anything like that.

But Jiang Cheng thought about it carefully. If he was given a mobile phone with Internet access, he would still not be interested in the current movies. He understood that the main reason was that there were too few entertainment programs in this era. Sometimes it was not what you wanted to choose, but when you were bored, you would be interested in any program you chose.

While Jiang Cheng was watching the movie seriously, he found that Zhou Lingying's left hand touched his thigh.

Zhou Lingying's behavior made Jiang Cheng a little unbelievable. He was an experienced person who could have evil thoughts without any atmosphere. He could do something evil in any environment, but he didn't expect that Zhou Lingying, who was pretty, would also do that.

"Jiang Cheng, this movie is quite interesting." Zhou Lingying followed the tune of Peking Opera, shaking her head and saying, while the hand on his leg was also tapping the beats to the rhythm.

"Yeah, it's good." Jiang Cheng responded. He had misunderstood Zhou Lingying. But even if you don't want to watch this movie, you can still listen to it with your eyes closed.

As the saying goes, it is impolite not to reciprocate. With the help of the dark light of the cinema, Jiang Cheng also put his hand on Zhou Lingying's thigh. Then he tapped the rhythm of the Peking Opera in the movie on her leg.

In fact, Jiang Cheng wanted to put his hands on Zhou Lingying's buttocks, which were more elastic than her thighs and suitable for clapping. But this damn movie theater actually had patrol officers even when watching a movie.

Although the patrol is mainly to prevent some people from making loud noises and running around, you will be stopped from being too intimate in the cinema. Holding hands in the dark is fine. If you kiss or something like that, it is inappropriate and will affect other audiences watching the movie.

The movie lasted two hours. Maybe it was because there was really no entertainment in this era. Jiang Cheng actually finished the whole movie without falling asleep. The plot was not interesting to Jiang Cheng, but the way of performing the Peking Opera was quite interesting.

When I get older, I will find a comfortable place, have a cup of good tea, and listen to some opera. Even if I don’t understand it, I will find the atmosphere very interesting.

It was already past 8:30 when we came out of the cinema. It wasn't pitch dark on the way back, but there was only one dim street light at a long distance.

So the two of them did not turn on the flashlight when they returned. Jiang Cheng held Zhou Lingying's shoulders on the way. It was enough to be able to see the general road clearly. Turning on the flashlight would make it easier to be seen.

(End of this chapter)