Chapter 151: Rare
Yang Xiaobei couldn't cry or laugh. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info vaguely remember the first fan I bought at home in my last life, and it was about 88 years. At that time, they were still waiting for a family in the village to buy, which caused a sensation. Many people come to see it and buy it when they think it's good. What's more, it's only 80 years now, and there aren't many people with fans in the county, so it's a rarity!
Grandma was old, so she came over from afar, rested for a while before getting up again, and looked in a circle around the fan. "Why doesn't this iron fan look like a fan?"
Yang Xiaobei smiled and said, "Wife, the iron fan looks like this!" To be honest, the electric fan of these years is really not flattering, and there is only one sentence to describe it - stupid and stupid. It's all made of iron, and the connections are welded, the workmanship, the paint...... It's just spicy to the eyes.
But in everyone's eyes, this is "high-tech", in the era when air conditioning has no concept, what a magical thing it is to be able to fan the wind without having to do it yourself! Grandma sighed again and asked strangely, "Why don't you see it turning?"
Yang Xiaobei...... But the power has been out since yesterday, and it hasn't come yet, and I don't know where the problem is. Sometimes, it may be that the power is insufficient, and the gate is directly opened.
It took a lot of effort for Grandma to understand that the electric fan needs electricity to spin up, and now it can't be turned without electricity. Grandma still wanted to see if there was electricity, so she waited for a long time. As a result, the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, and the electricity never came.
In the end, Grandma only regretted going back. When he left, he muttered, "This iron fan is still not good, it can't rotate without electricity, what's the use? It's better to use a big pu fan!"
This is the case in mountainous areas, where the problem of electricity has been a problem for generations to come, because the mountains are high and the roads are far away, and the households are scattered. Han Jiachong has undergone two major electricity reforms, and the infrastructure can meet the daily electricity needs, and the country's investment in this is indeed huge. It wasn't until the Three Gorges Dam started generating electricity that people in the surrounding areas were much cheaper to use, so it was more convenient than the developed coastal areas.
But all this will be 30 years later, and there will be a long time from now on to be the rhythm of power outages for no reason. I remember that there was really no way to do it later, every household has a battery, and when it is a little time to fill it quickly, when the power goes out, the lights, TVs, etc. can be connected to the battery. Thinking about it now, it should be quite dangerous, but at that time, everyone was forced to come up with a trick out of desperation.
There was no electricity, and it was so hot that in the afternoon the room was like a steamer. It's more comfortable outside under the shade of a tree. Yang Xiaobei and his mother had no choice but to move the battlefield and move the reclining chairs and benches to the shade of the trees. At this time, there are generally no patients, and if they come, talk outside first, and then go in to get the medicine. This is good in private clinics, there are not so many rules, and they are very free.
It's hard to get through the day, and it's not easy to feel at night. It's too hot and there is no wind to sleep, but you can't sleep and use your hands to play a fan, right? Yang Xiaobei finally knew the reason why the ancient nobles had to use two maids to play the fan, this is definitely not pretending, it is an actual need!
But the wisdom of working people is endless. The hot weather has its own hot equipment, bamboo beds, bamboo reclining chairs, etc. are moved to the rice field at night, and everyone brags and chats while enjoying the cool. Generally, I like to tell ghost stories the most, or when I tell about ancient times, it is by the fire in winter and on the rice field in summer. The family gathered around to talk about the shortcomings of the parents and listen to the elders tell the stories of the past.
If it is a future life, even if everyone in the family is together, it is rare to sit together and chat. The juniors held their mobile phones, and the old people had to stare at the TV, everyone did their own thing, although they were in a room, but the distance was extremely far away. The development of science and technology has shortened the distance between people, but it has also made the closest people more and more alienated.
After a good meal tonight, everyone carried their equipment to the rice field to cool off as usual. In the evening, when the heat dissipates and a little breeze blows, it is especially comfortable to sit outside - except for the mosquitoes that are everywhere. So everyone has a big fan in his hand, and he beats his body while talking.
There is no smog and the air is exceptionally pure. There is no moon tonight, and the Milky Way in the sky is like a silver ribbon, lying quietly in the night sky. Countless stars were shining, Yang Xiaobei pointed to the stars in the sky, and told Sister Rong that this side is the Cowherd Star, on the east "shore" of the Milky Way, there is a bright star, and there is a fainter star on each side of this bright star, and the three stars form a flat shape. It was the Cowherd carrying his two children.
On the west "shore" of the Milky Way, across the river from the Cowherd Star, there is a particularly conspicuous bright star with white light, and there are 4 fainter stars near this bright star to form a shuttle shape. This bright star is called Vega. She was blocked by the Milky Way and couldn't get by, so she kept watching them.
Yang Xiaobei didn't know much about the constellations, and later learned about the big bear, the little bear, the scorpion or something in geography, and she memorized it in the exam, but she couldn't tell it at all when she put it in the sky. I still listened to the stories told by adults since I was a child, and I knew the Cowherd and Vega, the Big Dipper (Spoon Star), and the Daystar. Of course, Sister Rong is just interested in the story, although she tells it every day, but the next day she has to ask, "Which sister-in-law is the Cowherd Star?" and "Why didn't the Weaver Girl fly over?"
How do I know why they don't elope? Yang Xiaobei shook her head, no wonder when she was young, adults always fooled themselves, and they couldn't answer the strange questions asked by children! "Why didn't the two children grow up after so many years?"
Children are children, and after a while, after hearing enough stories, they went to catch fireflies again. The sky is dotted with stars, but the ground is dotted with countless fireflies, dancing. They are not afraid of people, they are slow to fly, and sometimes they can even fly in front of you. Sister Rong is small and short-handed, and Yang Xiaobei was afraid that she would run into the grass on the side and step on the snake, so she hurriedly went to help.
Fireflies are easy to catch, and you can catch several of them in a short time. When I was young, I always like to grab a handful and put it in gauze, put it in a mosquito net, sleep and watch it at night, but adults say that fireflies stay in cow dung during the day, and sweat is the first ......
Yang Xiaobei has a small lace bag with a headdress, because it is very beautiful, it is usually kept like a baby by Sister Rong. Now I took it out to put fireflies in it. No, not to mention, the bugs with fluorescent tails look particularly beautiful at night, satisfying all the romantic and beautiful little daughter mentality.
Yang Xiaobei helped her put it in a bag, like carrying a bright ball of light, she took it in her hand and shook it off, she was so happy that she took it to sleep contentedly, and ignored the adults who said "worms crawling out of cow dung".