Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 260: Lao Fang! Your luck is about to start! (3K)

After giving Fang Chen acupuncture, Fang Yan just came out of the room and heard bursts of muffled thunder in the sky outside and the trees in the yard rustled in the wind.

After moving to the new home, the first heavy rain is about to fall.

Zhu Lin hurried to collect the clothes hanging in the yard, and his mother-in-law quickly brought the puppies and their dog bowls under the eaves.

Fangyan remembered the motorcycle he had parked next to the porch, so he quickly ran to the door and pushed the motorcycle into the room in the front yard.

"Boom"

With a loud thunder, raindrops began to fall.

Before Fangyan even remembered to return to the main courtyard, he was trapped in the back house in the front yard by heavy rain.

He was not in a hurry at all. He took this opportunity to check if the roof of the house behind was leaking.

The tiles used in courtyard houses are divided into two types.

The most common type is the tile, which is not a flat plate but has a curvature. It is made of four or six sections of a cylindrical ceramic blank, that is, the curvature is one-fourth or one-sixth of the cylinder.

It is widely used in courtyard houses and is a major type of small green tiles. It has a simple texture, is commonly used throughout the country, and is inexpensive. It is the most common type of tile in slums when paired with white walls or green brick exterior walls.

The courtyard houses here use another kind of glazed tiles called tubular tiles.

The cross section is semicircular and is most commonly used in imperial palaces, royal mansions and temples.

Compared with flat tiles, tubular tiles have higher production requirements. They are usually made of clay and are fired through multiple processes.

The only difference is that the Forbidden City is golden, the royal palace is green, and the courtyards here are black like the temples.

After the heavy rain, mud and sand on many roofs were washed down and soon flowed into the sewer along the ditch. Fangyan checked the back house back and forth several times but found no leaks, which showed that the street office was very careful when they did the inspection.

"Fangyan, let's go!" Just as Fangyan was admiring the roof, he heard his wife's voice coming from the door.

When he turned around, he found that it was his wife who came to pick him up with an umbrella and a pair of slippers.

Fang Yan took the umbrella, put on slippers, and asked Zhu Lin:

"Are there any leaks in other rooms?"

Zhu Lin was startled and said:

"I haven't seen it yet."

Fangyan walked into the rain first with an umbrella and said:
"It's okay. I'll check each room one by one."

"Okay, I'll go with you." Zhu Lin also followed him into the rain.

Then the couple began to check every room.

Left and right wing rooms, ear room, main hall, bedroom, and study.

After checking around, no leaks were found.

After returning to the main hall, Dad looked at the roof and recalled his days in the forest farm:

"When I was at the forest farm, it rained heavily in the middle of the night and the roof leaked. The rain fell right on my bed, and when I woke up, the bed was soaked."

"Then I could only put a bucket on the bed in the middle of the night. I had to get up and watch it every time I slept for a while. If I saw that the bucket was full, I had to take it out and empty it. It was really torture for me the whole night. I still remember it vividly when I think about it now."

Fangyan said to his father:

“You really suffered during those years.”

Dad waved his hand and said with a smile:

"They are all different life experiences. If life is uneventful, it would be so boring to look back on it when you are old!"

Fang Yan nodded, and then said to his wife:

"Who said there's no literary talent in our family? Look at how philosophical my dad's words are."

Zhu Lin lowered his voice and reminded:

"It seems that your mother said..."

Dialect suddenly:

"That's okay."

……

Generally, when there is thunder and rain in the summer, there is always a power outage, at least that is the case in the Beihang University staff compound.

But what was surprising was that there was no power outage in the courtyard.

Fangyan guessed that maybe because there is Union Hospital here, some equipment is not allowed to be powered off, so some of the problems that may arise when it rains should have been solved here.

The rain died down after a while, but the thunder in the sky didn't stop. The two puppies were frightened by the thunder at first and ran into the room trembling. After a while, they got used to it and lay down at the door again, watching the electric snakes flashing in the sky and the thunder outside, and barking from time to time.

The mother-in-law looked at her babies closely and kept praising the two puppies for their courage.

Soon the TV program started. It was another Czechoslovak movie that Fang Dialect had never seen before, "If I Run Away from Home". There was a prompt jumping on it: "Color TV Pilot Program".

This is a television signal test that started in April 1977. However, the TV in Fangyan's home is a Panda brand black-and-white TV, so even if it is a color TV signal, they will receive it in black and white.

In December 1970, the first color TV in China was born, but it was rarely seen in that era. The one placed in the living room of Director Hu’s home last time should be a color TV. Also, my dad said that there were color TVs in their school, but they could be counted on one hand.

Most families didn't even have black and white televisions, so this was considered good enough for a family with dialect backgrounds.

However, after the child is born, Fangyan plans to buy a color TV.

At least give your children a colorful childhood.

As for the black and white TV, it can be placed in the couple's bedroom.

So in order to buy a color TV as soon as possible, Fangyan still had to work hard at night and continue to work hard with his wife.

……

Time flies to the next day.

After breakfast, Fangyan went out on his bike.

My dad was going to drive the motorcycle to buy something this morning, so Fangyan didn't ride it.

When he left, Fangyan told his wife that Meng Jimin would come to their house for lunch and asked her to prepare food for one more person.

Zhu Lin agreed and said that he would go to the photo studio to get the wedding photos at noon and cook when he came back.

Fangyan then remembered that when they were picking up the photos today, the photographer had said that if the results were good, he would put their photos in the store as a sign.

Cameras these days don’t have electronic viewfinders, so there’s no way to see how the photos will turn out, and I don’t know how they were taken that day.

But even if it's not filmed well, we can ask Director Chen to shoot a new one next time.

……

After saying goodbye to his wife, Fang Yan rode his bike towards Tong Ren Tang.

It rained last night and there was a lot of water on the road. The young street cleaners were working hard to clean it up.

Now that more educated youth have returned to the city, all cleaning jobs are unfilled.

When Fangyan arrived at Dazhalan, he saw Meng Jimin standing at the door chatting with someone.

"Lao Meng, you're here early!" It was the first time Fang Yan saw him so enthusiastic.

Meng Jimin waved his hand and said:

"Oh, don't mention it. I had a headache when I got home last night and didn't sleep well the whole night."

After carefully observing the complexion on his face, Fang Yan guessed:

"Is it because of the fortune-telling yesterday afternoon?"

Meng Jimin nodded and said:

"I guess it's because I feel very tired but I just can't fall asleep."

This is similar to Fang Chen's symptoms before, so Fang Yan said:

"Then I'll give you two injections later."

Meng Jimin shook his head and said:
"I pierced it myself but it didn't work."

"The root cause is that I watched too much."

The dialect said:

"Then I think you'd better not show it to others. If it really causes you some sequelae, it will be more trouble than it's worth."

Meng Jimin nodded and said:

"I will also set a rule for myself to read my fortune in the future. If it is not necessary, I will only use it three times a day."

Chatting in dialect, I walked into Tongrentang with Meng Jimin.

When Jia Dapeng saw Fangyan coming, he had already made tea, and the same thing was done for Meng Jimin.

Meng Jimin was so envious that he said he didn't even have such treatment in Dongzhimen Hospital.

Fang Yan smiled and said that the next time he saw Dean Ouyang, he would ask him to arrange an assistant for Meng Jimin.

After hearing this, Meng Jimin said forget it, there is no such thing in the hospital.

Besides, he wants to take the college entrance examination according to Fangyan, so he can't stay in the hospital for long.

Fangyan nodded after hearing this. In a few months, everyone would be college students, and their identities would be the same regardless of their previous identities.

Thinking of this, Fangyan asked Jia Dapeng curiously, wanting to know if he planned to go to college.

As a result, Jia Dapeng said that he was not good at studying and decided to work honestly in Tongrentang.

Fangyan thought about it and realized that most people here would take the college entrance examination. When they left, Jia Dapeng would be a long-term employee here. Maybe he could take advantage of this time to become a deputy store manager or even a store manager.

He can clearly understand himself, which can be regarded as a kind of survival philosophy.

Using dialect, he chatted with Meng Jimin about their acquaintance Le Miao, and said that because of his status, he could only go to Hong Kong to study at university.

Meng Jimin said to the dialect:

"Don't worry about that. I've read her fortune before, and it's her destiny to be a life without poverty. Don't worry, things will get better and better as long as you work hard. Maybe it's a good thing that she didn't go to college in the mainland."

"A blessing in disguise."

Fangyan nodded, agreeing with Meng Jimin's statement.

Then Meng Jimin covered his head and took a breath.

"What's wrong with you?" Fangyan asked.

Meng Jimin smiled bitterly and said:

"I couldn't help myself just now. I wanted to show you my face."

Fangyan was speechless. This kid Meng Jimin was really not afraid. He hadn't slept all night and was coming now. He said to Meng Jimin:
"Okay, you better be quiet. Be careful that your cultivation level is not enough, or you will lose your life."

Meng Jimin nodded:

"I'm scared, I won't watch it anymore."

Seeing his awful look, Fangyan finally took out the money and bought two taels of Changbai Mountain ginseng slices, and then added three taels of Zhejiang Ophiopogon japonicus, and asked Jia Dapeng to boil a ginseng and Ophiopogon japonicus soup for Meng Jimin.

It can just cure his symptoms of damaged Qi and Yin, and lack of nourishment for his mind and spirit.

It is said that local medicinal herbs take effect quickly. After Meng Jimin drank it, he immediately felt his condition returned to normal.

Now he was completely honest and didn't dare to look at other people's faces.

"By the way, what did you see from my face just now?" Fang Yan asked Meng Jimin.

I can't waste the money I spend on medicine.

Hearing the question about the dialect, Meng Jimin turned around and said to Wen Zouzou:

"I see your expression and eyes, they are as bright as the sun and the moon, shining and clear, bright and clean. A person with such an appearance must be at least a little noble!"

"From your face, you're going to be lucky soon!"

(End of this chapter)