"You're going home tomorrow?" Lin Mushuang walked into Ankang's room, sat on a chair and asked Ankang, who was leaning on the bed and reading a book.

"yes. Did your parents approve of your going? ”

Lin Mushuang shook his head.

"Can't go play for a day or two?"

"My dad said that his factory was in a hurry to start work, so I asked me to hurry up and design."

"Oh."

"You think it's weird, don't you?" Lin Mushuang said.

"What's weird?"

"Every time I say I'm going to your house to play, my dad always has a reason to refuse. Why are you too young and inconvenient, what are you not allowed to go anywhere if you don't finish your winter vacation homework, why do you want to participate in math competitions and review well, what does your mother need to be accompanied by someone at home alone. My mother is such an adult, what else do you want me to accompany? I'm not a child, so it's okay to lie to me once or twice, and come to this hand every time. ”

Ankang thought about it as if it was like this: "Then why didn't you let you go?" You're not a kid now. ”

"How do I know?"

"Then I'll ask my uncle."

"Forget it. It's also vain to ask. He's a tough guy. I did have a lot of things to do this summer, so let's help him get that design right. Designing and drawing is really different. I showed Cheng Gong a few drafts I had drawn, and I could tell that he didn't want to say more. I'm afraid of hitting me if I talk too much. Alas. ”

In the afternoon of the next day, Ankang took a van arranged by his uncle to Shanghai South Railway Station. I used to go to the train station by bus, but this time I took the van because they had to get a heavy and large cardboard box. Inside the cardboard box was a color television.

Carrying a huge color TV up and down on various means of transportation is a very high test of physical strength and temper. Fortunately, Ankang has grown taller, and his strength is not much less than that of his uncle. Even in the dispute caused by putting the box in the aisle on the long-distance bus, Ankang was able to show the glaring other party his striking ability and resistance to blows through his biceps.

Every time Ankang came home, it took a lot of time on the road, but my uncle never lived in Ankang's house. On the first day, I took a bus to Shanghai South Railway Station, then took a night train, then transferred to a long-distance bus, and finally chartered a tractor from a local villager to send Ankang home. Have lunch at Ankang's house, and then take various vehicles back to Shanghai in the reverse order from when you came.

But this time, because he brought a color TV back, Ankang's uncle stayed at his house for two more hours. It was only two more hours.

Ankang's parents were shocked when they saw a huge TV box in the living room, and even more shocked when they watched a large living TV set peel off the box and place it on the table of the Eight Immortals. This is an extreme existence within a radius of ten kilometers and eight townships. Even in the county, there are not many people who have color TVs at home, let alone such a big guy.

Ankang's parents were stunned and then excused themselves for a long time, but in the end they had to laugh. After all, this TV was sent from Shanghai after a lot of hard work, and if you really don't want it, people will have to work hard to get it back.

The reason why Ankang's uncle spent two more hours at Ankang's house was mainly to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the color TV. For the sake of insurance, the color TV that Ankang's uncle bought is the same brand as the one in his home in Shanghai, but it is a little more advanced than the one at home. The so-called advanced means that the operation is a little more complicated. Of course, the complexity of the operation is not a big problem, and having Ankang at home for more than a month should be able to train his parents well. The main problem lies in setting up antennas and adjusting signals. It's a technical job.

Ankang, his uncle, and his father took turns to climb on the roof, and it took a lot of effort to set up the TV antenna to the top of the roof with local methods.

Ankang's father drilled another hole in the wall with a chisel and pulled the antenna wire from this hole to the TV in the living room.

However, in the end, the problem is not the problem of setting up the antenna, but the problem of adjusting the antenna reception signal. I don't know if it's because the signal reception method of this TV is different, or the transmission frequency of the color TV signal is different from the black and white TV signal. The signal received by the black and white TV at home is very good, and the signal received after adjusting the direction of the antenna of the black and white TV is not satisfactory.

In the end, the uncle and Ankang studied the manual, and Ankang's father stood on the roof and continued to listen to the instructions to adjust the antenna, and finally called up the image. Although the effect is not good, as long as you don't stand too close to the TV and watch it, you can still make do.

In any case, the visual enjoyment you get from this color TV is much better than the fake color TV that people put color film on their black and white TVs.

Ankang has seen the kind of color film used on black-and-white televisions. There are generally two forms of that film, one is solid color and is available in a variety of colors. The other is that there are three colors on the same membrane, the top is blue, which is the color of the sky; The middle is green, which is the color of the forest; Below is yellow, that's the color of the land. Of course, if such a film is used to see the scene, it is so-so, and if it is used to see people, the person's face will naturally be three colors.

Although it is a psychological comfort to install a color film on a black-and-white TV, such a change can not but be said to be a visual impact when watching black and white for a long time. In addition, it is possible to manually change the color film of different colors according to the mood.

Although the signal of the color TV is not very good, Ankang has a solution. He placed his family's original black-and-white television next to the color television. When you need to watch programs that require high picture accuracy, the black and white TV set next to it can be used as a supplement. At the very least, it's a pleasure to look at the black and white picture and listen to the stereo sound of the color TV.

Ankang found that whenever his uncle was at his house, his parents always seemed very cramped and uneasy. This kind of cramped uneasiness is different from the cramped insecurity of the villagers facing the city people, or the peasants facing the village cadres. The peasants' cramped and uneasy feeling in the face of the township cadres is the kind of cramped and uneasy that they do not know what to do, while their parents are cramped and uneasy about their uncle.

It's as if my uncle came to their house and took something of interest and was going to take it away. Of course, Ankang's family is an ordinary farmer's home, and there is nothing of value.

The cramped anxiety disappeared after my uncle left.

Ankang told his parents what he had seen and heard in Shanghai for half a year, and stuffed one of the headphones of the single player into his parents so that they could listen to the tapes he had specially brought to them.

Ankang used to bring books home, but this time he brought back a tape because his uncle bought him a portable single-player machine.

Some of these tapes are for learning English, and one of them is shoehorned into by Lin Mushuang, of course, it is an album of Leslie Cheung. Lin Mushuang asked Ankang to return to his hometown, and he insisted on practicing Leslie Cheung's songs. He said that he would check his homework when he returned to Shanghai. The other tapes were all prepared by Ankang for his parents. Two sets of pop songs, two sets of local operas that parents love.

Pop songs are easy to solve, and they can be ripped from any roadside video store. It is difficult to find local opera. After looking for two months and not finding it, Ankang finally learned from the pain and went to Xinhua Bookstore to buy it. Although the money is not much, it also empties half of Ankang's private money.

Summer in the mountains is still very hot.

After dinner, Ankang and his father moved a bed board outside the house, and his mother brought out the four chairs around the table of the Eight Immortals. Put the bed board on top of four chairs, and then put a mosquito net, and this becomes a cool bed for summer.

Knowing that Ankang's family had a color TV, many villagers took their children and drove a few miles to see the strangeness. Ankang and his father moved out the desk that Ankang used to use and put the color TV on the desk. More and more people gathered at Ankang's doorstep. It doesn't matter if the signal is good or not, it doesn't matter what you watch, the important thing is that you can see the colors on the TV and be able to hear the realistic sound coming from the TV that seems to be close to your ears.

Ankang naturally won't join in the fun. He took the monoplayer, a folding fan and a plate of mosquito coils to the bridge in the middle of the river. I didn't expect to find that it was more lively than my own doorstep when I got to the bridge. It turned out that because the river was windy, many people came here to sit on the bridge and enjoy the shade. Mosquito coils have already been ordered on more than a dozen plates, and it is completely useless to bring mosquito coils to Ankang.

As soon as An Kang opened the folding fan and fanned it a few times, he was laughed at by a familiar uncle: "You see that Kangzi has become civilized when he goes to Shanghai to study." Even the fan has been replaced with a folding fan. ”

Ankang blushed and explained that the fans at home were all distributed to the villagers who came to watch TV at home, so he had to bring the folding fans out. Now I was embarrassed to fan it, so I had to find a place to avoid people while staring at the waves in the river while listening to the single player.

The night in the mountain village is very unpeaceful, especially if you live close to the mountain forest.

In the middle of the night, Ankang lay on the bamboo bed, looking at the starry sky for a long time and couldn't sleep.

When he was in Shanghai, he often missed his hometown and his parents. But now that he has only returned to his hometown for a day, he misses Shanghai again.

Ankang thought that his uncle would definitely talk to his father about choosing a school and choosing a major in next year's college entrance examination when he sent him home this time, but his uncle didn't say anything. In the end, Ankang mentioned at lunch that he wanted to be admitted to Fudan University or Shanghai University of Finance and Economics to study economics. My uncle didn't say anything, and Ankang's parents didn't say anything. Then the conversation moved on to something else.

This made Ankang feel very strange. After his uncle left, he told his parents again. The parents said, "Okay." Your uncle's idea is good. After that, I won't say more.

It's as if Ankang is not talking about the college entrance examination, which is one of the most important milestones in his life, but going to the market to buy a few catties of meat. After Ankang relayed his uncle's opinion, his parents said, "Okay. Your uncle's idea is good. If you don't buy beef, just buy a pound of mutton. ”