Chapter 10 Family
Huangtianba in Rongcheng is a particularly magical place, and for a long time, this place could not be found on the map of Rongcheng. However, whether it is a letter, a telegram, or even a foreign mail or telegram, as long as it is written in Huangtianba, China, it can be delivered accurately.
Because there is an Emei Machinery Factory in Huangtianba, codenamed "State-owned 132 Factory", it is one of the 156 key construction projects of the national "First Five-Year Plan". Due to the existence of a confidential unit, the place name Huangtianba naturally cannot be used casually.
Xu Wangqiu knows that Huangtianba will not be known to the outside world for a long time in the future, but after more than 30 years, it will become a holy place for Chinese military fans, because the J-20, Snapdragon drones, and the nose of the domestic large aircraft C919 were all born here.
In fact, there is more than one enterprise like the 132 factory in Rongcheng, these enterprises are the same as the 132 factory, out of the need for confidentiality, they are replaced by "XX mailbox", and they are called the mailbox number to the outside world, while the locals call the factory code. For example, the Hongguang Electron Tube Factory is a 106 mailbox, and the locals generally call it 773 factory. Most of these enterprises are concentrated in the eastern suburbs of Rongcheng, and only 132 factories are located in the west of the city because of their particularity.
Xu Wangqiu came back from climbing the coal truck, covered in coal ash and looking like an African. Walking in the factory, the oncoming people, both men and women, looked at him curiously, and even looked back twice after passing shoulders.
When I passed by the children's middle school, I was just in time for the students to get out of school, and the students walked out in twos and threes. Two of them were twelve or thirteen-year-old girls who caught Xu Wangqiu's attention, one of them was ordinary, and the other was delicate and cute, a little beauty.
Xu Wangqiu waved at the little girl: "Hey, little beauty!"
In the seventies, not to mention calling beautiful women in public, even calling girls, would be considered frivolous, and under normal circumstances, lesbians should be called. Anyone who shouts other people's beauties on the street will be considered a hooligan in public, and the answer will definitely be "stinky hooligan". The ordinary-looking little girl's face turned red, and she scolded "stinky rascal".
The delicate-looking girl stared at Xu Wangqiu with wide eyes, listening to her voice like her second brother, and usually the second brother always called herself a beauty, not a little positive! After a closer look, it was really the second brother, so she trotted over, pulled his arm and shook it: "Second brother, why are you so dark, I almost didn't recognize you!" She remembered that her brother was going to take the university entrance examination, and quickly asked, "Second brother, how did you do in the exam?"
Xu Wangqiu pretended to be proud and said: "Hmph, second brother, I am talented, handsome and chic, heroic, graceful, Yushu in the wind, and personable, it is not a piece of cake to be admitted to the Peking Film Academy." ”
The girl is Xu Wangqiu's younger sister, named Xu Wangbei, 13 years old this year, in the second grade of middle school, is a lively and cute, especially likable little girl. Xu Wangqiu and eldest brother Xu Wangchuan are very precious to this younger sister, who dares to bully Xu Wangbei in the factory, they will definitely be beaten by the two of them.
Xu Wangbei chuckled: "Second brother, Taizu said that modesty makes people progress, and pride makes people backward. ”
Xu Wangqiu corrected: "Second brother, this is not pride, it is self-confidence. In order to be admitted to the university, I dare to teach the sun and the moon to change the sky. ”
Xu Wangbei laughed even more: "Obviously, it is because of the ambition of sacrifice and daring to teach the sun and the moon to change the sky." ”
Xu Wangqiu touched Xu Wangbei's head and said with a smile: "Let's go home." By the way, nothing happened at home, right?"
"Shanshan, I went back with my brother. I'm looking for you to play at night. Xu Wangbei said to his friend, and said excitedly beside Xu Wangqiu, "Something big happened at home." The eldest brother brought the subject home. ”
Xu Wangqiu immediately said when he heard it: "It's really fake, what does it look like, is it good?"
Xu Wangbei thought for a while, nodded vigorously and said, "It's very good-looking." ”
Xu Wangqiu took his sister and walked briskly to the house, and soon arrived at the building where their house was located. Like most factories in this era, the houses of Factory 132 are roughly divided into three categories: one is the kind of bungalows in a row, which are for students from universities and demobilized soldiers who have not yet started a family, and the space is narrow, and several people are crowded together; the other is the cadre building where the leaders live, an independent unit building, each family has a kitchen and toilet; and the third type, which is the most numerous, is the tube building.
However, Xu Wangqiu's house is a two-bedroom building with a small kitchen, although it is not as good as a cadre building, but it is much stronger than a single-room building, and it has a kitchen and a faucet, so you can cook at home.
Xu Wangqiu took out the key, opened the door, and saw a room of 7 or 8 square meters, with a bed against the wall, and a cabinet and a table by the door. There is a red light radio on the cabinet, a green plastic cover on the table, and leftovers from noon below. This room is the room for the father and mother, and the dining room, and when the guests come, it becomes the living room.
Xu Wangqiu and his sister Xu Wangbei live in the room inside, which is furnished with wooden bunks, desks, bookshelves, and a lamp on the desk, which is convenient for them to study. My father's education level is limited, but he respects knowledge very much, even if it is during the exercise time, even if the intellectuals are beaten into stinky old nine, he has always taught Xu Wangqiu and them, you must study hard, and if you are not educated, you will suffer in the future.
Xu Wangbei is a very diligent little girl, the first thing she did after entering the door was to go to the kitchen to get the basin to receive cold water, pick up the water bottle and pour hot water, and then take a towel and soap to bring Xu Wangqiu over: "Second brother, hurry up and wash it!"
Xu Wangqiu washed his face with hot water, wiped his body again, poured out the water, and came to his parents' room. He sat on a stool and turned on the radio, turned the sound down, and slowly tuned the frequency, first listening to the Voice of America for a few minutes, and then tuning to NHK. In the 70s, television was a high-end luxury, and only a few people had the treatment of watching TV, and the radio was an important means of entertainment for Chinese people. However, radios are not affordable for ordinary people, and many people buy their own components and assemble semiconductor radios.
In this era, overseas radio stations are regarded as "enemy stations", and it is illegal to listen to enemy stations. Many eavesdroppers are afraid of being discovered, so they listen in the dead of night, and even put on headphones, cover the whole person with a quilt, and secretly listen in the quilt. In the early days of the movement, eavesdropping on enemy stations was more serious, but now basically no one cares.
Xu Wangqiu has listened to many enemy stations, including those of the Soviet Union, the United States, Dongying, Australia, Xiangjiang, and Taiwan, and almost all the radio stations that can be received. Xu Wangqiu listens more to the United States, Dongying and German stations, the American stations have more programs, the Dongying NHK is more friendly to China, and the German stations will introduce classical music. Sometimes you can also hear Taiwan contacting the hidden spies through special broadcasts: "Comrade No. 9527 of the mainland, please pay attention, the following is a secret telegram sent to you, please pay attention to copy, 2564, 8795, 2356......"
Hearing the NHK host on the radio say that China and Japan were about to resume negotiations on the "Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship," Xu Wangqiu knew that the honeymoon period between China and Japan was about to begin. Xu Wangqiu can't comment on this kind of national-level problem, but he knows that after China and Japan enter the honeymoon period, exchanges and cooperation between Chinese and Japanese filmmakers will become frequent, and he may be able to attract funds from Dongying to make films.
The movie called "Wang Xuance" that was not finished in the previous life will definitely be made in this life. Xu Wangqiu knows very well that before 2010, it is impossible to support that movie by relying on domestic funds and markets alone, and must rely on overseas forces. But now he hasn't entered Nortel, and it's too early to think about it.
Xu Wangqiu was listening energetically, when the sound of the door opening suddenly sounded, and he hurriedly tuned the radio to the Central People's Radio. Maybe my mother is back, and my father is okay, but my mother is timid, and she will nag when she sees herself listening to the enemy station, worrying that something will happen.
With a creak, the door was pushed open, and a middle-aged woman in her forties walked in. The woman wears gray overalls and blue sleeves, and her eyebrows are shrewd. Sure enough, it was my mother Xie Chunhong. When she saw Xu Wangqiu, she immediately smiled: "Wangqiu is back." Have you eaten? I'll give you a hot spot. Hearing Xu Wangqiu say that he was not hungry, he asked again: "Why did you stay in Chang'an for so long, and how did you do in the exam?"
Xu Wangqiu said with a relaxed face: "I met a few friends during the exam in Chang'an, and I played in Chang'an for a few days after the exam. The exam is definitely fine, if someone as smart as your son can't pass the test, then no one can pass it. ”
When Xie Chunhong heard Xu Wangqiu say this, the whole person was shrouded in joy. She went to the kitchen and got two lunch boxes, turned around and walked out: "I'll go find your dad and ask him to call your brother back and let them buy two more dishes by the way." ”
Xu Wangqiu's elder brother, Xu Wangchuan, came back with his father, Xu Zhuwen, and they each carried a lunch box containing vegetables bought from a restaurant. In this era, residents ask for tickets to buy meat in the vegetable market, but they don't need tickets for meat in restaurants, and when the conditional family meat tickets run out, they will go to the restaurant to buy a plate of meat and come back to improve the food.
Xu Wangchuan looks very much like Xu Zhuwen, both of them have typical national character faces, and both of them have been soldiers, and they both have the heroic spirit of a soldier. Xu Wangqiu and Xu Wangbei are more like their mother Xie Chunhong, they are typical goose egg faces, and their facial lines are much softer.
Xu Wangqiu said hello to his father, looked at Xu Wangchuan and asked with a wicked smile: "Brother, I heard that you found me a sister-in-law, why didn't you bring it back?"
Xu Wangchuan scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "The Xiuying Orchestra plays the violin." ”
Nowadays, film studios not only have their own actors' troupes, but also their own orchestras, and film soundtrack performances are completed by the studio's own orchestra. Xu Wangqiu patted Xu Wangchuan on the shoulder and said jokingly: "It's worthy of my brother, the girls in the Xiuying Orchestra are all arrogant, and their tails are raised to the sky, and they have all taken down such bunkers!"
Xu Wangchuan has always said that Xu Wangqiu is not enough, so he quickly changed the topic: "Don't talk about me, your master has been asking me all the time, why haven't you come back yet, he is very worried about you, you can go and see him at night!"
Xu Wangqiu nodded and said, "I know, I'll go in a while." ”
After dinner, Xu Wangqiu said to his parents and got on the No. 13 bus.
Factory 132 is in the western suburbs of Rongcheng, and Xiuying Factory is between Factory 132 and the urban area, and will pass in front of Xiuying Factory when entering the city from Huangtianba. The stars of this era did not have luxury cars to sit in, and they could only ride bicycles or take buses to enter the city. When the workers of Factory 132 came back from the city, they often said, "I have met anyone, everyone is very polite to people, and everyone is not good, and they don't like to answer people."
The bus stopped in front of Xiuying Studio, and as soon as Xu Wangqiu got off the bus, he saw the label of "Xiumei Film Studio" inscribed by Guo Moruo. Although the security of Xiuying Studio is not as strict as that of Factory 132, it is not something that can be entered casually, and some things need to be kept secret. For example, last year, the higher-level departments selected Xiuying Studio as a training base for filmmakers from the Southeast Asian Brotherhood Party, and some people from Southeast Asia were secretly arranged to train in a closed area in the factory, where they ate and lived in it, completely isolated from the outside world.
The doorman knew that Xu Wangqiu was Su Zhensheng's apprentice, so he naturally wouldn't stop him. Xu Wangqiu walked into the Xiuying Studio, walked along the boulevard for a few minutes, and just walked to the family area, suddenly someone shouted crisply: "Wangqiu!