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New Year's Spring New Meteorology,
New thing new fashion;
4. Joy at the door
Love as deep as the sea will never forget.
Time is like flowing water, the sun and moon are like shuttling, in the blink of an eye will arrive in 1990 New Year's Day.
Zi Peng moved from the six teams to the four teams in March 1989, watching a 14-inch black-and-white TV. His mother was in her seventies, he thought. She had worked all her life to pull us four siblings, so she should have seen color TV. Enrich her old people's spiritual life, let her old people happily spent the last years of her life.
At that time, the price of the color television was very expensive. Even if Zi Peng wanted to buy a color TV, he didn't have enough money, so he told Village Head Deng Chunming about this idea. After the village chief heard what Zi Peng said, he said:
”Secretary Wang, I truly envy you for your filial piety. How about this, I'll help you buy the color TV back. Now, the lumber processing plant lent the village 2000 yuan, letting us Village cadres celebrate the Spring Festival. ”I'll lend you this money first. If it's not enough, I'll lend you some more personally so that you can fulfill this wish.”
Zi Peng was deeply moved by Chun Ming's words. He said:
”Chun Ming, as you know, I bought this house and renovated it for a total of 10 thousand yuan. I can't afford a color TV with our lousy wages. Since you're going to help me, I'll thank you first. You can deduct 100 yuan from my monthly salary and I'll pay the rest by the end of the year. ”
”Alright, let's do that. We'll go to City tomorrow to buy the color TV.” Chun Ming said straightforwardly.
On the 25th of January, Zi Peng and Chun Ming went to City to buy color TV sets. Today was the 29th of the 12th lunar month. Tomorrow was the 30th lunar year. They went to the places in City that sold Home Appliances such as 100, 200, 300, and 5 gold. They were all very expensive. Because at that time, color television was still not widespread. As a result, the price remained high. They wandered around City for more than two hours before finally choosing an 18-inch 'Chrysanthemum' color TV set from a department store. It also sold for $3,050 in October and now sells for $2,670.
Buy this television, Chunming personal loan Zipeng 400 yuan. When they shipped the TV back home, Zi Peng had returned 200 yuan to Chunming. As for the remaining 200 yuan, he would return it after the Spring Festival.
Just like this, on the first day of the Spring Festival, Family caught his eyes on the color television. At that time, Zi Peng's neighbors didn't have any color TV. He was the first one to have a color TV. My mother looked at the color TV and was so happy. She said:
”Zi Peng, I didn't live my life in vain. In the 1970s, I listened to radio. In the 1980s, I watched black-and-white TV. In the 1990s, I watched color TV. I was so happy. ” Zi Peng continued with his mother's words:
”Mother, you have brought us up through so much suffering, and now you are willing to let us study. Now that you're old, you should enjoy your blessings. It's only right that you like color TV. It's all thanks to Village Head Deng's help. We have to rely on ourselves, but we won't be able to buy this set within three years. ”
”Zi Peng, you must thank properly. Don't forget the benefits he has given you.”
”Mother, don't worry, I got along well with Chun Ming.” In the past few years, his work had also become very compatible, and he was also very satisfied with his work in the village. In the work, I support him a little bit, then have; in the work, I share for him a little bit, is very good reward. ”...
January 26th was the Spring Festival of 1990. On New Year's Eve, the weather was clear and cloudless; the morning sun rose from the east like a giant fireball, golden and dazzling. For people to celebrate the auspicious Spring Festival plated with a layer of golden splendor.
Zi Peng woke up early in the morning. He had a lot of work to do today, busier than any other day. Because this year he had four great things to celebrate:
The first joyous event was that he had moved from the grass hut of the sixth team of Taoyuan into the fourth team's new brick house. He bought the house in 1987, renovated it in 88, and moved in in in the spring of 89. This house is 102 square meters wide, bright and new and comfortable. It was the best house he had ever lived in in his life. The snow-white walls, the snow-white ceiling, the glass doors, the windows, the concrete floor. He was content to live in such a house in those days. Especially since her mother was in her seventies and had never lived in a new house like this.
The second joyous event was that his account had changed from the Ota Team of Peach Blossom Team Six to the field team of Peach Blossom Team Three. Family ate and provided food. He also received 12 catties of flour, 18 catties of rice and 2 catties of 4 taels of soy oil every month. These were things that he didn't even dare to think about before, but now they had magically become reality.
The third happy occasion was that Zi Peng's eldest daughter, Cheng Hua, was married on the 14th of May last year. In Zi Peng's eyes, this could be considered a happy occasion.
The fourth happy occasion: Yesterday, the 25th of January, was the 29th day of the Lunar New Year. Zi Peng and Chun Ming went to City and bought a colorful television set. In a situation where color TV wasn't widely available, he had bought it back first. How could he not be happy? How could it not be a good thing? For this reason, Zi Peng felt that these four happy events were the most perfect, joyful, and meaningful thing in his life. Thus, he wanted to properly celebrate …
Zi Peng once celebrated the success of his ginseng planting in the yellow soil on the Spring Festival in 1987. Compared to this year, this year, it was truly insignificant.
After finishing breakfast, Zi Peng continued to follow the usual sequence, act according to the plan, and act the same as usual …
Zi Peng had arranged all the goods for this year's New Year. Although he did not kill the pigs, he bought half a pig of pork meat. He bought a set with head and hooves, and two sets of ribs; everything else was available, and firecrackers and fireworks were roughly equal in quantity and variety to 87 years of age.