Many people write in their memoirs that learning English was the only way for young people to pretend to be forced in the early eighties. The young man with an English tape and a cassette recorder was full of spirits.

Pretending to be looking for is the feeling.,Large tape recorders are particularly popular because they are more eye-catching.。

The large cassette recorders produced by the Linshui Radio Factory were sold out when they were put on the market. Each cassette recorder made a profit of more than 300 yuan, and before such a high profit, the factory increased the pace of reconstruction and training.

Nowadays, rural families have three houses, with a hall in the middle, and a large table against the north wall, on which objects symbolizing family wealth are usually placed.

As soon as guests enter the door, they will be greeted by a table clock and a radio that display the wealth of the owner. At this time, due to Liu Lanfang's storytelling program, the radio became the "guest" of every family.

The most expensive large radio is 30 yuan, and the small one is less than 20 yuan, and the average family can afford to buy it.

There are also top-notch families in the countryside, and they don't buy a TV or a cassette recorder. In fact, this is also the case in Hantun Village, and now almost every family in the village has a TV, and they are all 18-inch large color TVs. Only children in the family who learn English buy cassette recorders.

What is laughable and sad is that when I saw children in junior high school buying tape recorders, many people followed suit to buy them for children in elementary school.

Their reasoning is even more ridiculous: "Didi just heard a lot of foreign dialects in Kyoto, and he learned to speak them himself." I bought a tape recorder and played Didi's foreign words at home every day, but I could still learn it. The teachers at the school all said that Didi's foreign dialect was better than that of the teachers. ”

They don't need to record tapes with wisdom, they go directly to Didi to record them. For this reason, Yoyo had to find an interesting English textbook suitable for primary school students, so that Didi could read it well before recording it for them.

Baoshan's grandmother didn't let Zhao Ping and Zhao He, who were in junior high school, buy one for Baoshan, but she kept the tape recorder herself.

She didn't know how to use it herself, and she was afraid that Baoshan would be broken when she was young, so she had to call the two sisters to turn on the machine, and after opening it, she would drive them out, and she wouldn't let them listen.

In the old lady's mind, I am afraid that the two granddaughters will study well, and they will have to spend money to be admitted to school. Now it basically doesn't cost her money to go to school, and she is still bent on dropping her two granddaughters out of school.

Zhao Fang, the third gear, found out about it, and bought one for each of them at her own expense, so angry that the old lady scolded for several days. The two sisters also got used to it, and avoided her to go to Yoyo's house to study.

Luo Xincai's hosiery technology training class has also become popular, and although there are not many farmers who can come up with 500 yuan, there are several households in every village.

The first to participate in the study were the idle people in the county, and after a month, the benefits came out. A hosiery knitting machine, with an income of about 20 yuan a day, can return to its original cost in a month.

The normal income is 10 yuan a day, but now people can endure hardships, and they are reluctant to be idle from morning to night, more than 12 hours a day.

The facts are in front of you, and Luo Xincai's training class is once again famous. There were more than 200 people who signed up for the second phase, and he happily called his grandmother to report the good news.

"Sister-in-law, I can earn double money by doing this, the socks they knit are especially easy to sell in the countryside, and the people still want to be cheap. ”

Luo Xincai's recycled nylon socks are sold for 1.20 yuan per pair, which is 0.50 yuan cheaper than those in the supply and marketing cooperatives, and the low price is still quite attractive.

At the end of July, the results of Haohao and Zhiliang's high school entrance examination came out, one of them ranked first, one ranked second, and of course Zhiliang was second.

It was originally a good thing, but Zhiliang was unhappy, looked at Hao Hao and said helplessly: "I'm so unlucky, I'm behind you every time." ”

Youyou comforted him and said: "Second brother, it's not easy to be the second thousand-year-old child, so you can be content." ”

Zhigao followed behind to mend the knife: "Yes, brother, you are much stronger than me, at least Haohao is brother." I'm unlucky, Yoyo is younger than me, and I miss school all day, don't I be second every time. ”

When it comes to learning, Zhiru is the happiest. She said proudly: "I follow Sister Youyou, and I take the first exam every time." I can also cook pots and cook. ”

Zhiru followed Youyou in the kitchen, and now she can mix a cold dish, and her family praised her for doing a good job, making the child happy, but she didn't know that she was cheated by her family.

The family still thinks that girls have to be able to do housework and cook, but there is no such requirement for boys.

Yoyo doesn't think so, she agrees with her father's point of view, men must also learn to cook, at least their mouths are not bent.

Didi is very good at this, he has been greedy since he was a child, and when he saw that Zhiru could cook, he also learned from Youyou, but he came up with new tricks every time, and he didn't even eat what he made.

But he was not tired of it, and his grandmother saw him trampling things, and ordered him not to enter the kitchen several times, but Yoyo supported him.

Zhiru looked at his bitter gourd face, and he was happy every time, feeling that he was better than his brother.

Before the results were announced, the third uncle specially called to report the good news: "Our children are really angry, and I also followed the children to get wet, and several people congratulated me." ”

Zhiliang made a request on the phone: "Third uncle, I don't live in school, I have to eat and live with you and the third aunt." ”

"Okay, your aunt has cleaned up the room for you, added two beds to Zhiyuan's house, and you both eat and live at home. ”

It turned out that when Zhiliang and Haohao took the high school entrance examination, they had lunch in the room of Zhangji High School for three days, and they stewed vermicelli with winter melon every day, which scared him.

"The school food is really unpalatable, some of the winter melons are stewed, some are undercooked, salty and bitter, there is no oil at all, it is the most unpalatable dish I have ever eaten.

The steamed buns are sour, they don't make them yet, they are hard and hard, and the white buns are not delicious, which is really bad. ”

This is the reason why Zhiliang does not live in school.

Originally, the family didn't plan to let them live in school, after all, they were young, only 13 years old, and they were both underage children.

Despite their tall heights, both of them are almost 1.8 meters tall. Adults are still afraid that they will lack nutrition and delay their growth.

When school started last summer, Katsunan's aunt's father was transferred to Linshui Sanwan Primary School as the vice principal. The family courtyard behind the school is a three-room main house courtyard.

Although they and their daughter do not live together, they eat together. The point is that Zhili is too small, and she has to work hard to watch it alone.

Aunt Shengnan was busy with work, Zhiyuan was still eating at home, and Nanny Wang couldn't take care of it herself.

Katsuo's aunt's parents get up early every day to go to their aunt's house and go back after dinner.

Her mother and Nanny Wang are two, one takes care of the children, and the other cooks and does housework. The steamed buns are bought in the room, and the house of the local party committee provides hot steamed buns three times a day, which saves a lot of trouble.

The three uncles and their two moved to the study on the east side to live, the bedroom facing the west gave way to the old couple for a lunch break, and the bedroom on the north side, Zhibin and Zhixin lived.