Chapter 17 [Video Hall]
After sweeping the tomb, Chen Tianlang pushed his bicycle back and left the suburbs, perhaps because of drinking on an empty stomach, his head was a little dizzy.
Looking up at the sky, it is estimated that it is only two or three o'clock, and I can't go to school at this time, let alone go home, where to go?
Suddenly, Chen Tianlang's eyes lit up, and he knew where he should go.
As one of the most prosperous areas in Nandu, Dongguan is very famous, and here, there are also several relatively early video halls. Sweeping the eyes, there are four or five, and it seems that the competition is also fierce, because those bosses are standing at the door, with a warm attitude, friendly language, and red sleeves, but unfortunately they are all male compatriots, and if they are female compatriots, it is even more interesting.
Chen Tianlang was looking for a place to tie up the bicycle, and just saw an empty place, and before he could kick the station, he saw an aunt with a meaty face coming over and said in a very arrogant tone: "It's a dime to tie the bike." ”
Chen Tianlang was stunned for a moment, looked around, and the paid parking place was eight zhang away from here, so how could it be charged.
seemed to see Chen Tianlang's doubts, and the aunt still had a little conscience, so she explained: "The places here are all rented by us, and there are usually few cars and no one stops." ”
Chen Tianlang smiled, didn't care about her, asked for a car license plate cut from playing cards, and prepared to leave.
The aunt reminded, "Pay the money first." ”
Chen Tianlang was speechless, "My car is still here, are you still afraid that I will run away?"
Auntie: "That's the rule. ”
Chen Tianlang: "Rules are dead, people are alive, and besides, I am a student." ”
Auntie: "It's the students that I collected the money first, and I ran three last time." ”
Chen Tianlang finally understood that the credibility of students in this era is the lowest, skipping school, skipping classes, and skipping tickets...... It's all home-cooked meals.
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Chen Tianlang spent a dime and bought a comfortable one, and at this time, there were all kinds of martial arts sounds in his ears, including the sound of weapons, the sound of fists and feet, and the sound of dialogue between characters, either heroes, young heroes, or women.
Look at those video halls again, all of them are similar, the façade is narrow, shabby, hung with coarse cloth curtains that can withstand both heat and cold, the curtains are dirty, and the dirt is one by one, and it is estimated that they can be erected if they are thrown on the ground; a broken table, on which is leaning on a large poster board of one person high, on which the name of the videotape is written with a brush pen, what "Laughing Boxing Strange Moves", "Whirlwind Eighteen Riders", and "Boxing Essence", etc., are all old-fashioned martial arts films.
It's just that compared to other places in the southern metropolis, business seems to be better here, going from south to north, carrying big bags and small bags to do business, going to the countryside and going to the countryside, having nowhere to stay, and looking for a place to stay, and those who are idle and have nothing to do, and spend time and have fun, basically drill into it, so that the video hall at this time is more like a black mouse hole, and the door curtain is lifted, full of mystery.
Chen Tianlang no longer wasted time, and walked over after looking at a video hall. The owner was a lame man, in his forties, with a big waist and a round waist, and tattoos on his bare arms, which were of a howling wolf with his legs and his head up. Probably due to the lame's shape, the wolf's belly was so large that it looked like a pregnant wolf mother......
But then again, no matter what kind of tattoo it is, it was very rare in the early nineties, one is because tattoos are expensive, and the other is that people's concepts are still very old, thinking that tattoos are not good people, unlike in the future, both men and women are very keen on this thing, and even many celebrities join in the fun, tattooing a "love tiger oil" on the butt egg, or tattooing a "three lives and three lives" on the chest, and then the man splits the leg and the woman divorces.
The lame uncle saw Chen Tianlang and greeted him warmly, asking if he wanted to watch the video.
Chen Tianlang nodded, pretending to smile very shyly.
The lame uncle was immediately happy, he had seen a lot of this kind of sullen boy in his eyes, so he gave a slap, "Five cents, just look at it!"
Chen Tianlang paid five cents, then opened the door curtain and walked into the video hall he was once familiar with.
As soon as he was halfway inside, he smelled the long-lost smell of urine, musty, and foul air.
It's very dark inside, basically no one can be seen, and the lame uncle doesn't have the kind of service quality of a movie theater aunt who helps light the way with a flashlight, so he left Chen Tianlang's eyes black and stayed at the door.
Finally waited for his eyes to adapt to the light inside, Chen Tianlang vaguely saw the inside clearly, the place is not big, that is, eighty or ninety square meters, which is good in Dongguan, where every inch of land is expensive. There are about eight rows of seats in the small place, almost forty in one row, and three hundred and twenty seats in eight rows.
At the moment, the people inside are not full, and they are almost two-thirds empty. Therefore, Chen Tianlang easily found a seat and sat down.
Next to him was a peasant brother, bare-chested, reclining on a chair, supporting his head with one hand, doing a reclining Buddha posture, one person occupied three seats, and a pair of feet were so stunned in front of Chen Tianlang's eyes, so that Chen Tianlang could clearly see a pair of green flat rubber shoes that were about to wear out, and clearly smell the smell of foot sweat that had not been washed for many years.
Chen Tianlang frowned, tried to stay away from these stinky feet, and then looked at the film being played, which turned out to be "Jingwumen" starring kung fu superstar Bruce Lee.
It is said that this movie was a hit at the box office in Hong Kong that year, so much so that it later derived the Hong Kong TV series "Huo Yuanjia", which became popular all over the country as soon as it came out, and then Hong Kong TV took the opportunity to launch a sequel "Chen Zhen". ”
But this is already the early nineties, no matter how good this drama is, as a video hall, it should be a little forward-looking, and put some new films out to warm up, but the people who watch those video halls still watch it with relish. Especially the stinky foot brother next to Chen Tianlang, he even digs his nostrils and sees it fascinatingly, and when he sees the highlights, he even eats his fingers and boogers into his mouth together, and he makes a sound.
In addition,Look at the TV that shows the video,It's a black and white TV pasted with color film,At most14 inches,Although there are two left and right,The distance is a little farther,It's still not very clear,It can be said that the whole projection equipment is extremely cheap。
Seeing this, Chen Tianlang can only sigh at the lack of entertainment culture in this era, and the people's low requirements for entertainment culture, as long as it is a film that can be watched.
But Chen Tianlang roughly calculated that if this business mode is followed, the video hall will not be able to attract old customers, that is, in this kind of place with a large flow of people, it can survive. It is only in this era that such a deformed entertainment project can be created, mainly because the people are too easy to fool.