I Had a Home In 1982

   Chapter 138 137. Watching Movies on Duobao Island (6.3K)

  The next day on Thursday, the production team became active at dawn, and the top of the mountain was lively.

   In the morning, Wang Yi prepared hot water biscuits for the students, calcium milk biscuits from the Green Food Factory, which are very classic and have become popular since 1982.

  This biscuit is a popular product in the food industry of Qindao in Lu Province, and it is popular all over the country. It is definitely a decent gift in the eyes of ordinary people during the festival.

Jiangnan Province is not far from Lu Province. Calcium milk biscuits have been passed on very early. During the New Year, the people of Wengzhou City visit important relatives' houses and bring two packs of calcium milk biscuits. is even more welcome.

  Because it is sweet and delicious and can fill the stomach, in addition, this biscuit is made of flour, eggs, and milk.

   Hot water soaked calcium milk biscuits are not shabby breakfast even in 22 years. Many middle-aged and elderly people like to eat this. If you use milk to soak these biscuits, you can also give them to children.

   This was luxury in 1982.

  Calcium milk biscuit is too sweet, and it tastes sweeter than dry food after soaking in water!

  Wang Yi prepared this breakfast for the students by herself. Anyway, it was very simple. Just boil a pot of hot water to cool it down to lukewarm water, and then sprinkle bags of biscuits into it.

  Students lined up to get breakfast. As soon as the kitchen door opened, they happily said, "It's so fragrant and sweet."

   Some people with better conditions at home will say: "It smells of milk, do you want to drink milk this morning?"

A bitter child like Wang Ugly Cat can only sniff hard and ask, "Is this what milk tastes like?"

   "Haven't you eaten White Rabbit Toffee?" Wang Zhuangyuan turned around and said, "White Rabbit Toffee is the taste of milk, but it's still a little bit worse. Milk is sweeter and more fragrant."

   He said with a mysterious and contented smile.

  I won't tell you.

  My mother asked Teacher Wang to buy milk powder. This is so delicious. I drink a cup every night before going to bed, and my dreams all night are sweet!

  Wang Yi asked the teaching assistants to help make breakfast for the students, and said, "This is all a big sister named Qiu Weishui—forget it, it's an auntie, an aunt named Qiu Weishui gave you cookies. Do you remember her?"

   "Remember, after watching the performance on Labor Day, my aunt bought us candy to eat." Wang Xinzhao was always the one who answered positively.

   Wang Yi said: "These cookies are also given by her, you must remember her goodness!"

  The students happily agreed, happily drank a bowl of thick biscuits with blisters, and then took out their books to be full of energy.

   The sound of reading aloud echoes on the top of the mountain:

   "In the Daxing'an Mountains, snowflakes are still fluttering; on both sides of the Yangtze River, willows have begun to sprout; on Hainan Island, flowers have bloomed; how vast our motherland is!"

   "Spring Ploughing". The spring ploughing started. Zhihua and I went to see the new machine for farming. On the ploughing field that could not be seen, the machine tractor was running back and forth. Aunt Li drove a tractor over here..."

   ""Tong Dizhou". Tong Dizhou is a famous biologist in my country. He was born in a remote mountain village. Because his family was poor, he helped the family with the farm work and read some books with his father..."

   ""Ximen Leopard". During the Warring States Period, the King of Wei sent Ximen Leopard to manage the place in Ye. When Ximen Leopard went there, he saw that the fields were barren and sparsely populated, so he asked an old man to ask what was going on..."

   Listening to the voices of the students of all grades reading the texts in the morning reading class, Wang Yi strolled around the campus slowly.

   Tianya Island in spring is really beautiful.

   Looking up, there are school buildings scattered in an orderly manner on the mountain, and seaweed houses dotted under the mountain. Looking at the pier, there are large and small fishing boats swaying in silhouette in the morning glow.

  Tianya Island is not big, Wang Yi can see the sea when he looks up casually on the mountain.

  The upper and lower blues are clear and clean, and they complement each other and are precious. At this moment, the sea is the reflection of the sky, and the sky is the projection of the sea.

  Wang Yi tried his best to look into the distance. In the end, the sea and the sky were connected by two blue patches, so that the sky and the sea in the distance suddenly became very close.

In May, the vegetation turns green and red flowers bloom. The strong spring color on the island is like an oil painting sketched on a canvas. The sea is always fresh, and the spring scenery always comes. The environment on the island in 1982 is peaceful and peaceful, but people are active and active. .

   In Wang Yi's opinion, this feels more than 22 years.

   Of course, the active activity of the members today is related to watching movies at night.

   Learning that the Party Secretary approved the use of public boats to go to Duobao Island to watch movies, all the male and female members of the team were excited, their enthusiasm for labor was suddenly mobilized, and they worked extra hard in the morning.

   In order to leave work early and go to Duobao Island, they not only work hard in the morning, but also do not rest at noon, go home to have a quick meal and then go to work.

  Wang Xianghong was not an old-fashioned and unfriendly person. Seeing that the members were working hard and fast, he called the call-off broadcast an hour earlier.

   Now the island is more lively. Although the women of Tianya Island are thrifty and diligent and don’t like to dress up, they are going to the movies tonight after all, and they are going to other people’s fields. They still have to clean up to avoid being laughed at.

  The people of Tianya Island need face and self-esteem.

  If you haven't washed your hair for a few days, wash your hair today; if there is a lot of gray on your face and neck, you should wash it with soap and vigorously.

  They put on clean clothes, combed their hair, and put on some cream and skin care grease when the family is in good condition.

   Snow cream is a good thing, especially the Hudu brand and Yashuang brand. After applying it, it is not afraid of the sea breeze, and it is oily and fragrant when applied to the face.

   Those who can use vanishing cream are all big girls. They have not yet found their in-laws, so they have to save a box of vanishing cream to dress up when they go out.

  Women are reluctant to use vanishing cream, they use skin cream.

  The most popular skin care grease is the Friendship brand, a small yellow-green tin box, divided into large and small boxes. The skin care grease inside is wrapped in tinfoil.

  Wang Yi is a little busy here. Some women come here with money to buy something. In fact, there are only ordinary daily necessities in the store. Soaps are old-fashioned. They are good for washing clothes.

   He couldn't bear to see his sister-in-law and auntie who were in the same team come back disappointed, so he went to the Time and Space Room and took out a pack of soap.

  The very ordinary Shufujia, there are ten pieces in a box, what pure white fragrance, fresh lemon, aloe vera care, red pomegranate, marine minerals, sweet orange, bamboo charcoal, seaweed, tea tree oil, different flavors.

   How can there be such a soap these days?

  Various colors, uniform texture, and unique fragrance.

   The women who saw the soap were instantly moved, and they gathered on the counter that had just dried up and asked, "Mr. Wang, what kind of soap is this? Why did I smell the milky smell?"

   "This soap is red, isn't it blood? Is it pig blood?"

   "Don't talk nonsense, it has the sweet and sour taste of pomegranate, it smells so good, I thought it was a big candy!"

  Wang Yi said, "This is a soap. Now lesbians in the city use this soap to wash their faces and bathe. Do you want to buy them, sister-in-law and aunt?"

  Why don't women want to buy it? But they are all troubled.

   They know the family's savings too well, and they are reluctant to buy food, not to mention the soaps used by the city people? It must be expensive, how can I buy it?

   But after all, some people couldn't resist the temptation of soap, Fengya touched her trousers pocket and said, "Mr. Wang, how do you sell this soap? Do you want a ticket? If not, I want to buy one."

   The other women teased with envy: "You really want to buy the champion? It's not cheap. You spend your family's money and you're not afraid to come back and kick you out of your shoes?"

   "I didn't dare to buy it because I was afraid that my family would come and beat me. If he knew that I took money to buy this fragrant pancreas, the family would have to fight."

   "We're all women who have given birth to several babies. Why don't we buy this, why don't we buy two sweets for the baby."

   Listening to the women's words, Feng Ya hesitated again.

   She had money in her pocket, the money she received when she sold some old items to Wang Yi, but she still didn't have enough money.

   At this time, someone walked up and said, "Mr. Wang, how much is this soap? I'll buy one."

   It was Huang Xiaohua who spoke.

   As soon as he said that, the whole room was shocked.

  The women looked at her in surprise together, and Laifeng said, "Damn, are you crazy? You dare to buy this? The captain will not drive you back to your parents' home when you come back?"

  The conditions of Huang Xiaohua's family are among the poorest on the island. On weekdays, they can only buy the last remaining grain, which is cheaper with broken grain and gravel.

  If Huang Xiaohua didn't even dare to ask about buying soap before, this thing is not in the same world as her.

   is not what it used to be.

  Wang Yi gave her family hundreds of dollars back and forth, but now the money is hidden by her. Every night, she and her husband have to close the door and count them carefully.

  The family has money and is at ease.

She thought that all the money was earned by her parents' old money, so it was nothing to buy something for herself. A few days ago, her man said that she would use the money to pull a few feet of floral cloth to make something for herself and her child. Spring clothes.

  Huang Xiaohua has never worn new clothes since she got married, not to mention using soap, skin care grease, and vanishing cream. She has never used it in her life, not even in marriage.

   Her own man's words made her tempted for a time, but she refused in the end. She wanted to wait for summer to make clothes from cloth. In summer, clothes cost less fabric and save money.

   But today, the temptation of this soap made her unable to resist, and the words of the women around her also stabbed her heart.

  Yes, her family used to be poor, but now she has become rich with Teacher Wang, and there is a lot of solidarity at the bottom of her family's box.

Of course she can't tell the public, but she has the confidence to buy a piece of soap for her own use, and let the women in the team and her sister-in-law and daughter-in-law take a good look. She Huang Xiaohua is not a poor woman, and her family lives a serious life. days, days of prosperity.

   Thinking of this, she was determined to buy a bar of soap.

  Wang Yi priced the soap at one dollar.

  Because he had seen soap in Shanghai, Bai Mao brand soap, that soap was definitely not as good as the one in his hand, but the price was also one dollar.

   And the old soap is cheap, a big block like a brick only costs 20 cents.

   Therefore, the common fishermen who don’t buy soaps usually buy old soaps. Wang Yi considers that the price of soaps is so high that they should be positioned as skin care products and luxury goods of this era like vanishing cream.

  In the eyes of women, it is also like this. They like soap but can't bear the high price. After hearing Wang Yi quote a dollar for the soap, the women are even more hesitant.

   One dollar, this is a catty of meat, two catties of eggs, and several catties of cheap food!

  Huang Xiaohua was trembling in her heart, but she was determined: "Mr. Wang, I, I will buy a piece, buy that milky one."

  Wang Yi handed her a piece of white milk-flavored soap.

  Huang Xiaohua touches it in his hand, this soap is completely different from the soap at home, it is very slippery, touch and smell it, the fragrance of hand milk immediately fills up!

  The old soap has a strange smell, which is caused by the production process.

   A woman next to her reached out to touch it, and Huang Xiaohua generously let them touch it.

   Looking at the envious eyes of the people around her, she felt that the money she spent was worth it, it was worth it!

Seeing that the women were excited but reluctant to buy it, Wang Yi said: "Well, a whole bar of soap may be too expensive, let's divide it up, a bar of soap is divided into four pieces, a piece of soap is 25 cents, you don't have to give money. , just give me half a catty of eggs."

   "That pound of eggs can be divided into half pieces?" Feng Ya asked happily.

  Wang Yi said: "Yes."

"In addition, if you have old money in your family, it is the earliest renminbi. You have seen it when you were young, right? The kind of renminbi that our country has used in the past five years is not allowed to be used now. If you have that kind of renminbi, you can come to me. Use it here!"

   His first edition of RMB is still a long way off from a complete set, and now his activity area is too small, so he can only start with people on the island.

   gave good conditions one after another, and the minds of the women became active.

  Fengya said the fastest: "That's great, I want half a piece, I, I want a red pomegranate, it's so beautiful, it's festive when you look at it."

  Man Shanhua hurriedly said, "I'll get a piece with Zhuang Yuan's mother, and I want the red one too. Teacher Wang, do you charge old money here? That's fine, I have a few at home, I'll go back and look for them."

   "Sister-in-law, you are very fashionable." Aunt Qing said with a smile, "Do you want to use soap?"

  Manshanhua said embarrassedly: "My old wife doesn't even need soap. What's the use of soap? Keep it for my family, and let the girl see that there are good things in my house."

  Soap can be sold separately, and it can be exchanged for eggs. The sales department also collects old money that is generally considered useless on the island, and the women’s enthusiasm has been mobilized.

   A box of ten bars of soap will be divided quickly.

   There are more than 20 women who did not buy soap, and women came after hearing about it!

  Wang Yi is gone.

   He didn’t have much soap in his time-space house. It was originally intended for students to wash their hands and faces. How could he expect that there would be such a demand in the production team?

   So he donated the soap he used and said: "In this way, our store has less stock, and the soap is no longer available. I will sell it when I buy more."

   "Don't worry if you haven't bought it yet. Tonight, you can take turns using my soap. I'm a big one. You can go from house to house and use it in turn, and then return it to me when you're done."

  Liu Hongmei said: "This is not good, Mr. Wang, there are many people in the team, and it will be gone when they are used up in turn."

  Wang Yi said: "If it's gone, it's gone. I should thank my sister-in-law and aunts for their usual care."

   Liu Hongmei said: "You can't let you suffer all the time. In this way, I will supervise the use of the big guy, only for myself, not for the elderly and children in the family, we can't be greedy and insufficient!"

   The matter was settled, and the women were busy again.

   Waiting for them to leave, Huang Xiaohua came back to Wang Yi embarrassedly, and whispered, "Mr. Wang, if you can buy half a bar of soap, can I buy half a bar and return half a bar?"

  Wang Yi agreed, and she left happily.

  Compared to women, the men of the fishermen are easy to pack and have little demand.

   They quickly unloaded the catch and sent it to the warehouse at the bottom of the mountain, and then got on the boat and prepared to set off.

  Wang Yi straightened his eyes: "Don't you change your clothes, wash your face or something?"

   boldly said: "No change, Mr. Wang, you can see that your clothes are clean, and you can see that you have no experience in watching movies. This is your first time watching a movie in the countryside?"

  Wang Yi was stunned, he looked down at his Zhongshan suit and asked, "No, why am I so inexperienced?"

  Wang Dongfeng said with a smile on his face: "If you go to the movies, you have to get a little bit of slaughter. It's so easy to grab a spot. How can you dare to grab someone with a fishy smell when you wear clean clothes?"

   At this time, someone muttered: "Don't mention the fishy smell, how can I smell a sweet aroma?"

  The cleaned up women and girls came aboard, and groups of people walked by, leaving behind the unique fragrance of soap.

   They greeted Wang Yi to take the women's boat, but Wang Yi waved his hand and refused.

   Liu Hongmei giggled: "Mr. Wang is still shy."

  Wang Yi also smiled, helplessly.

   He is not shy.

   Instead, we have to discuss one thing with Bold and others.

  This time he went to Duobao Island not only to watch a movie, but to want to do something while he was out, which needs the support of the militiamen...

  Duobao Island is more than ten miles southwest of Tianya Island. The men take turns shaking the oars and rushing away before the sun goes down.

   There are few opportunities for movies on the outer islands.

  Someone told Wang Yi about this on the way, because there is no electricity in the outer islands, it is very troublesome for the movie projection team to come to show the movie, and they have to bring their own generators.

   is the hand-cranked generator that Wang Yi is familiar with.

   He didn't know before that the job of the film projection team was not easy.

Generally, the projection team is two people, at most three people, and then they have to bring projectors, amplifiers, speakers, transformers, slide projectors, power cords, films, generators, power distribution boxes and other tools every time they go to the countryside, a total of four or five hundred pounds.

  Because they go to the countryside to play movies at night, and the movies are usually played at midnight, they can’t return that night, so they have to bring bedding and cutlery to live in the accommodation arranged by the fellow.

  Some islands have no wharf, like this time Duobao Island has no wharf, so they had to dock the boat on the reef by the sea, carefully move the tools to the reef, and then transfer it to the movie screening location.

   Therefore, the film screening team is reluctant to come to the outer islands. They are more willing to show movies to the commune and production team on the island on the main island of the county seat, so that they can take cars or at least animal-drawn carts.

  In the past, the conditions in Wengzhou City were poor, motor boats were rare, and the film projection team had to shake the oars by themselves when they came to the countryside—this makes me hopeless.

  The film projection team was reluctant to come to the production team on the outer islands, and they were not allowed to come because of the conditions. It was very simple, the sea was windy and waves were strong, and the wind and waves might be encountered at any time.

   Projectors are delicate machines. A little splash of water will damage or even destroy the machine. In the past, almost all of the transformers of the projection team were damaged on the way to the production team on the outer islands.

   There is also a screening team to show movies for free. They have to pay for it. In the 1960s, the price can be adjusted by yourself, ranging from five to twenty yuan.

   Now the screening fee in 1982 is expensive, it costs 50 yuan, and the production teams in the outer islands are not willing to pay the money.

   In this case, it is understandable why the members of Tianya Island were so anxious to watch a movie when they learned that there was a movie on Duobao Island.

   It's been more than four months this year, and they haven't seen a single movie yet.

  There is no such opportunity!

Like them, there are other production teams in the outer islands. Duobao Island was originally a big island with a large population. In this way, with the addition of other production teams to watch movies, the requirements for the venue must be very high today, and a large Only the venue can play a movie.

   boldly introduced to Wang Yi that Duobao Island has a large population and a long history of development. The residents of this island can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty. The earliest Li family lived here, called Lijiazhuang.

   In the 1950s, the state began to carry out the three red flags of the general line and the people's commune, and implemented the people's commune system.

  In the past two years, the social form has changed again. The people's commune has been changed to contract production and contract work, and some production teams have changed back to villages, but Lijiazhuang on Duobao Island has not changed back.

The division of production for more than 20 years has created a gap between the three production teams. It happens that the three production teams have three surnames. In this way, when the big contract is completed, their production team is the most active, and the commune takes the lead in dividing the brothers and establishing it. Three new villages were established, namely Lijiazhuang, Dingjiacun and Dawangjia.

  Wang Yi asked: "Does the Wang family here have anything to do with our production team?"

   boldly said: "The older generation has something to do with it. Many of our ancestors and the ancestors of their great king's family were brothers, but because of something later, we had a deadlock. Our production team and their king's family didn't get very close."

   There are also mountains on Duobao Island, but the area of ​​​​the mountains is not large. The island has farmland, springs and wells. Relatively speaking, it can support a large population.

The only bad thing is that the water level around the island is low, which is not suitable for building a wharf. In addition, the three surnames are not willing to bother to raise a wharf, so they polished the reef beach. A flat reef beach in a village is used to park boats. .

  Tianya Island's boat docked on the reef beach in Lijiazhuang, where the boats were already parked, and it could be seen that there were a lot of people watching the movie.

   Before getting off the boat, Wang Yi greeted him and asked the big guy to come to him to get some snacks.

   He prepared spiced melon seeds, spiced peanuts and alcoholic peanuts, which were packed in big bags. One person and half a newspaper folded a small funnel for peanuts and melon seeds.

   In addition, the sales department provided cigarettes, Hongmantian cigarettes and Hongmei cigarettes, both without filters, of which Hongmantian cigarettes only cost 20 cents per box.

  The smell of this cigarette is very strong, and it smells like straw. Wang Yi hates this cigarette, so he brought out a few boxes and distributed them to the team members.

   The men in the team usually roll their own cigarettes or smoke a bag pot. It is a good day to have such cigarettes, so who cares if there are filters? The one who received the cigarette kept grinning, but he was reluctant to smoke it, and it was caught in his ear.

   The sun is still setting, and the movie must not have started yet. Everyone came early, but they came early on purpose. They had to take up space.

  The film on Duobao Island is the Lijiazhuang drying field. This is a large flat open space. It used to be used for collective drying of dried shrimps, fish and kelp, and so on. Today, it is used for movies.

  The drying yard is already full of tumblers, horses, and small benches, and many people come to occupy space before eating.

After arriving at Tianya Island, I tried my best to find a place near the front and occupied it, and then boldly said: "Director Hongmei, you lead someone to look at our seat first, I will lead Teacher Wang to Lijiazhuang to go around, Teacher Wang is not Are old things rare? There are quite a few old things in Lijiazhuang."

   (end of this chapter)