Lying on the familiar cold, hard kang, Wang Yongmei slept well. When I woke up early in the morning, all my fatigue and haggard were swept away, and I was refreshed.

Knowing that he had returned from the capital, a bunch of friends flocked to him, envious, and curiously asked about everything he had seen in the capital.

For this group of children who have never been far away, even making a car is still an era of luxury, and being able to take a car to the distant great capital alone can be imagined, how they admire, envy, and hate Wang Yong.

The morning passed quickly in a question and answer, and in the call of their parents, the friends reluctantly left. The capital is still too far away for them at this time, so far away that some people may never have the opportunity to go once in their lives.

After lunch, Wang Yong went out of the house, ready to go to the farm to have a look. Passing by the newly built villager activity center next to the village committee, I took a curious look inside and couldn't help but be surprised!

Good guy, I haven't come back for a few days, and Secretary Zhao has a new trick!

The original owners of these houses adjacent to the village committee were abandoned because they were relocated and built new houses. Lao Secretary Zhao bought it in the name of the village committee, and after re-strengthening and renovating, he opened up all eight rooms.

Not only was the room opened, but the wall between the two houses was also removed, and the two small courtyards became one large courtyard. After leveling, pave red bricks or pave a layer of concrete and then plaster a layer of cement, this grade will be immediately improved.

Two rows of simple awnings were built with asbestos tiles on the east and west floors of the courtyard, leaving only the middle aisle unobstructed.

In this scorching summer, sitting in the shed drinking the saccharin water mixed with the cold water just from the well or the steaming tea, playing chess and playing cards is undoubtedly a wonderful and leisurely day for many idle old people.

More than a dozen old people sat around playing and singing, showing their powers, and a piece of drama was actually sung in a similar way. Wang Yong had never seen it. These uncles and uncles who are very familiar to him still have such artistic cells!

On the other side, four or five old men were playing chess, divided into two groups and arguing over one move. Especially watching the lively cheerleaders, they are even more excited than the players who played.

Look, look, this grumpy, what's the matter, do you still have to do it? Oops! I said, three uncles, your temper really needs to change!

Ah! Second master! Why do you keep talking about it? Oops! Quietly, how old are you, why can't you learn to be calm?

Follow the aisle in the middle of the yard. Looking further ahead, the old wooden windows have all been removed and replaced with beautiful, trendy, bright aluminum alloy doors and windows, and when you look into it from the outside, the inside seems to have become a library.

Rows of bookshelves were crowded with all kinds of books, and at this time, there were several villages eager to learn. Young people who like to read are rummaging through their favorite books in front of the shelves.

There were also a dozen or so little children who came over to join in the fun, skillfully ran to the children's area, pulled out a few comic books, and ran back to the reading area to sit at the table and look at it with relish.

"Wang Yong? What are you doing here, kid? ”

Wang Yong, who was frightened by the sudden voice behind him, trembled. Good hanging on the ground. Soon, however, he regained his composure, for he could already tell in his voice who it was.

"I said, Second Master, when did you get this? I didn't move at all when I went to the capital, did I? ”

"Nonsense! Construction began last month. You didn't pay attention to it, did you? ”

Wang Yong scratched his head embarrassedly, this place is so close to his house, and he is not a hundred meters away from home. It's been so long, and I've never paid attention to it. Look at what a mess!

"Alright, go, go, come in with me. It's not just the stuff you see from the outside, there's a lot going on the inside. ”

After speaking, the proud old Secretary Zhao pretended to drag Wang Yong mysteriously, and walked inside. The villagers who were playing in the activity center saw the secretary and the little god of wealth in the village coming, and greeted them warmly.

"Okay, what should I do, I'll take Wang Yong around, don't surround us!"

Surrounded by enthusiastic people, it was difficult to move an inch, Secretary Zhao frowned, pulled down his face, and directly roared. This voice. This temper, this character is naturally suitable for being a village cadre!

As a village cadre in the village, it is not okay to be gentle and drizzly, most of the time only lightning and thunder, and violent storms can suppress the people below and make the people below obedient.

Doing ideological work for ten days and half a month may not have been effective yet. This is all too common in the countryside, especially before the new century.

Dispersed the enthusiastic villagers, Wang Yong, under the leadership of Secretary Zhao, pushed open an aluminum alloy sliding door that was rare in the countryside in this era, and walked into the house with floor tiles in Sao Bao.

"Look, isn't it pretty? This is an aluminum alloy, and I heard that this is used to build airplanes! ”

Looking at Secretary Zhao with a proud look of me, Wang Yong shook his head secretly, and finally did not dare to say the words that came to his mouth. It won't take ten years for this thing to be popularized in the countryside, and it won't take fifteen years before it will be eliminated and no one will use it!

After entering the new century, rural families built new houses, and almost all doors and windows were made of aluminum alloy or plastic steel. These things are good-looking, but they are easily deformed, and they don't last long.

So it didn't take long for it to be replaced by better broken bridge aluminum. The doors and windows of many newly built residential areas in the city have been replaced with broken bridge aluminum, instead of the plastic steel or aluminum alloy that has been used before, and this trend soon spread from the city to the countryside.

Entering the hall, Wang Yong found that this place had been completely opened, and the original two families had a total of eight rooms, but they became three large rooms.

Two of them were the library and reading room I had seen before, and the other was locked on the door of the easternmost east house near the village committee, and the curtain was hung on it, so that I couldn't see the inside at all.

"Look, this is the place to read books, and the room in front of you is where you can put your books. There are more than 3,000 kinds of books and 10,000 books. In addition, 21 magazines and 16 newspapers were ordered by the village. ”

Lao Secretary Zhao was very conspicuous and led the way in front. While introducing Wang Yong. Soon, the two of them walked through the reading room to the library, which was about the size of a normal three-room room.

As far as the eye can see, rows of two-meter-high bookshelves are densely packed throughout the room, and Wang Yong roughly calculated, there are about eleven or twelve rows in this room.

In addition to these bookshelves, there are seven or eight newspaper shelves and bookcases in the southernmost window by the window, on which all kinds of newspapers and magazines are neatly arranged.

Wang Yong casually pulled out a book from the bookshelf next to him, and it turned out to be a masterpiece!

"How Steel is Made", a famous work of the former Soviet Union. There are excerpts in secondary school textbooks today. In a few years, CCTV will go abroad and cooperate with others to remake this famous book that has influenced generations of people in the Republic into a TV series.

"Second master, you're here!"

A woman's voice whispered, and Wang Yong put the book in his hand back on the shelf and looked back. It turned out to be the second sister of the aunt's family in the village, and her house was opposite the activity center.

This second sister Wang Yong is too familiar, the second sister's name is Liu Jie, and her nickname is the second girl. Since childhood, she has also been a simple woman who climbs over the wall and climbs trees as simple as crossing a bridge.

For a while, Wang Yong also had another young man in the village, Liu Bin, who was the same age as him, and was also the cousin of his second sister Liu Jie. The two of them followed behind this second sister and fooled around, and they were beaten and scolded by adults for this.

What impressed Wang Yong the most was that one year, the apricot tree near the courtyard wall of the second sister's neighbor's house finally began to bear fruit. It's just that a group of children have waited for a long time through the autumn water. The apricots on the trees are still green, and there is no sign of turning red.

Some people wonder if this is the case. The apricots of this tree were originally green apricots, but are they red? So the eldest sister Liu Jie stood up and volunteered to climb the tree and pick a few for everyone to taste.

Next, a scene that Wang Yong will never forget for the rest of his life appeared. A few little radish heads stood under the tree, looking at the second sister hopefully.

I saw her holding the thick trunk of the bowl with both hands, jumping with both feet, jumping onto the tree and kicking hard. With this momentum, his hands quickly rotated to climb up the tree. The speed was definitely comparable to that of a monkey, and the three-meter-high trunk climbed up in a few seconds.

It's just that the second sister didn't live happily later, and an unsatisfactory marriage made her become a madman who sometimes became sick and crazy.

Her husband's family soon didn't want her, and she was driven home because she had no money for treatment, and her condition became more and more serious.

In my memory, Wang Yong came home from work that year and met the second sister who was taken home by his aunt. But the second sister, who was really sick at the time, no longer knew her younger brother who played around behind her when she was a child.

Thinking of this, Wang Yong's eyes turned a little red.

"Wang Yong, this is Liu Jie, do you know? After graduating from junior high school, he no longer attended, and now he is in charge of the newly built activity center in the village. Secretary Zhao introduced with a smile, obviously he also knew that the two families were so close, and there was no reason why the two didn't know each other.

"Second sister!"

Looking at the second sister who secretly grimaced at herself, Wang Yong said hello with a smile.

"Okay, you go and open the East House, and I'll take Wang Yong to see our KTV!"

These words came out of the mouth of Secretary Zhao, but Wang Yong was really surprised. This old man accepts new things so quickly? Even if this kind of thing is in the city and county, it hasn't been around for long, and the village has built one by itself?

Driven by curiosity, Wang Yong followed closely behind the second sister, as if he had returned to his childhood, he and Liu Bin wore open crotch pants, followed the second sister with his calves and ran around, chasing chickens and dogs, venting his energy that seemed to never end.

When she arrived at the door, the second sister took out a bunch of keys from her trouser pocket, skillfully turned them out, and inserted them into the keyhole. This door is not equipped with the usual padlock in the village, but a hidden lock that is rarely used.

As a door was pushed open by the second sister, Wang Yong suddenly saw the 29-inch large color TV placed on the wall on the north side of the house, as well as two boxy electrical appliances in the TV cabinet under the TV.

“VCD!”

Wang Yong shouted its name out of his mouth, yes, it was VCD. This new playback tool, which is now crazy in China, is booming.

However, this kind of expensive household appliances that cost 35,000 yuan a piece is not something that ordinary rural people are willing to buy, at least until now, Wang Yong has not heard of anyone in other villages who has bought this thing.

Of course, Wangjiazhuang, which is full of local tyrants, is not among them. There are a few fashionable families who can't wait to move them back home.

But in the next two or three years, this kind of thing will start to spread at an incredible rate. First of all, there are newlyweds who are going to get married, and this thing in the new house is a must. Even if it is not a home theater, with a complete amplifier and audio, there must be at least one VCD player.

"Hey, how's it going? This thing is put on the song plate, just like the KTV in the city! When we bought it, they gave a few song plates, and the village also bought a lot of them, in addition to songs, operas, movies, there are more than 100 copies! ”

After a few glances, there was no expression, and Wang Yong lost interest in this thing. Just kidding, no one used DVDs in later generations, everyone went directly to the Internet, and VCDs were swept into the garbage heap of history early.

"This set doesn't cost less, does it?"

Wang Yong looked at Secretary Zhao, who was grinning to his cheeks, and asked softly.

"It didn't cost much, it's just more than 8,000 yuan, not much, not much!"

Looking at Secretary Zhao's indifferent look, Wang Yong smiled. It seems that the village is really rich, huh? If this was in the past, let alone eight thousand, it would be eight hundred, eighty would be enough to make his old man feel white! (To be continued......)

PS: When I thought of the days when I was a teenager and a few friends took a box of movie CDs that I bought in the market and ran around the village looking for VCD players to play, it really felt like yesterday!

Time flies, so let's cherish the present! Maybe in a few years, when you recall it, you can't help but smile and change the good mood of the day!