The call was coming forward.

"Brother Xiang, do you have anything to do?" Jiang Xiaobai asked.

Xiang Qian laughed and said, "I got the TV you wanted." ”

Jiang Xiaobai was overjoyed, after the new house was installed, the refrigerator, washing machine, cassette recorder, and air conditioner were all helped by her sister who was moving forward, and they were all done one by one.

There are only televisions, and at this time Qingzhou did not have color televisions, not even 17-inch black-and-white televisions, only 12-inch ones. Jiang Xiaobai felt that it was too small and wanted to make a bigger one, so he hadn't bought it yet.

"How big?"

Jiang Xiaobai asked a little expectantly.

"17 inches, now I can get the biggest." ”

Although 17 inches is not ideal, it is only 83 years old now, and it is already rare to be able to get one.

Jiang Xiaobai thanked him and asked, "Shall we go to the department store to pick up the goods now?" ”

Xiang Qian said: "No, this is a hot goods, my sister deducted it before it entered the warehouse, you just wait for me in the store, and I will send it to you." ”

Jiang Xiaobai was stunned for a moment, but didn't say much.

Not long after, a small truck drove forward.

The two moved the cardboard box containing the TV to Jiang Xiaobai's jeep, Jiang Xiaobai took the money to move forward, but he refused, "You move to a new house, this is a congratulatory gift from me!" ”

Jiang Xiaobai hurriedly said: "This is not good, it is too precious." ”

A 17-inch black-and-white TV cost 780 yuan in '83.

Even if they are workers in the city, they have to save for two or three years before they can afford it.

Jiang Xiaobai was naturally reluctant to accept such an expensive thing.

Xiang Qian said: "You told me the idea of disposable paper bowls and paper cups, such a big gift, is it not worth a TV?" ”

Jiang Xiaobai had nothing to say.

Between the two, there is no comparison at all.

Disposable paper bowls and cups now bring hundreds of thousands of yuan of profits to newspaper printing houses every day, while a television set is only a few hundred yuan, and it is still a consumer product.

"That'...... All right! ”

Jiang Xiaobai reluctantly agreed and thanked him again.

Moving forward laughed, "Oh, that's right, good brother doesn't talk about this." ”

Jiang Xiaobai smiled and said, "When I go home now, I won't accompany you, I'll ask someone to pack two crayfish for you and take them back for my sister-in-law to taste." ”

He was very happy to move forward, and said: "Those who know me, brothers, this is what I am good for." ”

After waiting to move forward and leave, Jiang Xiaobai took Lin Jiayin and Jiang Shan back to Jiangwan.

"Baba, what's in this big box?"

In the car, Jiang Shan looked at the big box beside her, and asked curiously and a little unhappily.

The main reason is that this big box occupies her usual position when she sits in the car, seriously compressing her activity space, and she is not comfortable at all.

Jiang Xiaobai said: "This is a TV!" ”

"What's the TV?" Jiang Shan asked curiously, she had never watched TV before, and she didn't know what a TV was.

Jiang Xiaobai felt pity in his heart, in later generations, children as old as his daughter would not only watch TV every day, but also computers, mobile phones, game consoles and various toys, and children born in this era would come into contact with mud, wood, and stones every day.

The dual backwardness of science and technology and economy has limited the vision of children in this era, and they do not understand the outside world and cannot get in touch with those advanced knowledge and ideas.

Most of their toys are made by themselves, and give full play to their imagination, take toy guns as an example, use bamboo tubes to make water guns, or use paper stacked shell guns, use wood to carve pistols, etc., these homemade toys, they can play happily for a long time.

The games that I remember deeply are skipping rope, rolling hoops, playing tops, slapping cardboard, zhua'zi, turning bamboo sticks, and so on.

Perhaps the children of this generation are materially lacking, but their spirit is full.

No!

Maybe it's better with pure.

In this era, the childhood left to children is simple, and it is full of a sense of age many years later.

At the same time, the backwardness of this era has also shaped the moral character of the children, so that they dare to fight and stand at the forefront of the subsequent tide of reform, creating one miracle after another.

"Baba, what about you?"

"What's the TV?"

The little guy's voice interrupted Jiang Xiaobai's thoughts, he smiled apologetically, and said, "Shanshan, you can watch TV on TV, there are good-looking TV series in it, you can see people in it, and they are interpreting all kinds of stories......"

"Why did people get into this big box?"

The little one blinked and looked curious.

Jiang Xiaobai was stunned for a moment, he didn't know how to explain this, so he said, "When you get home later, you can watch it." ”

"Okay!"

The little guy said a word, full of anticipation.

The jeep got out of the road and ran very smoothly on the wide cement road, Lin Jiayin sighed: "If it were all like this, how good it would be!" ”

Jiang Xiaobai said with a smile: "It will be like this in the future." ”

Yes, in the future, not only will there be cement roads everywhere in the country, but also high-speed roads and high-speed railways.

And people, in a little change in the world, support their desires bigger and bigger.

In the beginning, it was nice to have a road, a bicycle was beautiful, and then a motorcycle was satisfied, and when there was a car, the motorcycle was not willing to sit.

When everything is realized, people mistakenly think that they can be satisfied, only to suddenly find that satisfaction is always just a station for people's hearts, and there is always the next station ahead.

Even if Jiang Xiaobai is a human being in two lives and has the foresight and wisdom beyond this era, he knows from Lin Jiayin's emotion that he will never be able to jump out of this trap.

Shaking his head and smiling bitterly, it's okay, I'm tired of thinking too much.

Since you are living a new life, you should accompany your wife and daughter, and leave the philosophical affairs to those philosophers.

Lin Jiayin found that Jiang Xiaobai was a little distracted, and asked suspiciously, "Why are you bored?" ”

Jiang Xiaobai shook his head, "I don't have it, I thought about what happiness is and how to be satisfied." ”

Lin Jiayin tilted his head, as if thinking, and said for a long time: "I think I am very happy in this life now."

I feel at ease when I go to work, go home, and eat with you every day, and I feel at ease.

Seeing the booming business in the store, I felt that the future was full of hope. ”

Her ideas are still unpretentious, and she has no extravagant desires.

Jiang Xiaobai smiled: "I also feel very happy, it's good to have you and Shanshan by your side!" ”

"Baba, I also feel very happy!"

The little guy suddenly interjected in the back, Jiang Xiaobai and Lin Jiayin couldn't help but smile at each other, and the jeep was full of happiness.

After getting out of the car, there were a few people hanging out in the dam.

This wide and smooth road will come to take a stroll when the people in the bay are fine.

"Xiaobai is back?"

Jiang Haizhou greeted with a smile, saw Jiang Xiaobai take out a large cardboard box from the car, and asked, "What's it?" Would you like to help? ”

Jiang Xiaobai was about to say no, but Jiang Shan said first: "Fourth grandfather, it's the TV that Baba bought!" ”