Reborn as a New Farmer of the 1980s

Reborn during the early days of China’s reform and opening, the narrator finds himself in the 1980s countryside. In this setting, the past is still a cold reference, yet it is also a fresh start....

Chapter 36: Little Flower

It was obvious that my uncle was watching a movie with the blacksmith's sister, so what was he doing stuck in between?

Liutun belongs to Wohutun of Cuitun Brigade and Jiangwei Brigade, which is separated by a river and is about three or four miles away from Wahou Brigade.

When Wan Feng arrived at Luan Feng's grandmother's house, several friends from the same village were already waiting there. Luan Feng had been waiting so long that she was scratching her head. When she saw Wan Feng coming, she hurriedly set off.

There are two roads to get from Wahoudui to Liutun.

One route is from Wahou through Waqiandui to Shutun, then to Wohutun and finally to Liutun.

The advantage is that the road is easier to walk on, but the disadvantage is that the distance is longer.

Another way is to go from Wahou through Waqian Team along a large field road directly to Liutun.

The advantage is that it is close, the disadvantage is that it is not easy to walk.

Of course, if you want to walk on two legs, you will choose the shorter one. This is almost the unanimous choice of adults and children.

So, a group of adults and a group of children passed through the fields and ran towards Liutun via Waqian Team.

When Wan Feng and his group walked to the headquarters of the Waqian team's production team, a group of children from the Waqian team rushed out, led by Yang Hai.

This was the first time Wan Feng had seen Yang Hai since their conflict on the ice of the Inna River in the second year of junior high school.

The two are not in the same team, each has formed his own circle of friends and rarely interacts with each other.

This guy doesn't like going to school and dropped out last year, so naturally you won't see him in school.

Yang Hai looked at Wan Feng, and Wan Feng also looked at him.

The two stared at each other for a few seconds before Yang Hai and his group of children rushed away.

After crossing the fields where seeds had just been sown, Wan Feng and his companions arrived at Liutun at dusk.

It is very simple to show movies in the countryside. Just choose a spacious place, set up two wooden poles, hang a curtain in the middle, put a table in front of the screen and put a projector on it, and a simple screening room is ready.

Tonight's movie screen is hung in the middle yard of Liutun, and the largest number of people present now are children.

The most excited group when watching a movie is the children. Those seven or eight-year-old children circle around the pole where the movie screen is hung, laughing and taking it as a funny scene.

The young projectionist was taking advantage of the break before the movie started to rewind the film using a hand-cranked rewinder.

At that time, movie films and audio tapes were similar in that the film had to be rewound when the next movie was shown after one was finished.

The projectionist was rewinding the film while entertaining the children beside him. The film was spinning like a windmill under his hand, making a rustling sound.

A child asked what movie was showing, and the projectionist smiled and teased him that he would know when the movie started.

The color gradually turned dark. As time went by, people continued to pour into Liutun from all directions. More and more people gathered in the yard, and it became more and more lively, with the chattering sound as noisy as a market.

Almost all the married men and women brought their stools and sat under the screen.

The unmarried young women gathered together, hugging each other, and occasionally flirting with the young men.

The unmarried men gathered together, bragging and smoking.

Wan Feng discovered that no matter whether they lived in wealth or poverty, men's habit of bragging never changed.

Wan Feng unexpectedly saw his deskmate Yuan Yimin, who looked sneaky and like a spy.

He clenched his right hand into a hollow fist, looked around 360 degrees, and then brought his fist to his mouth. Then a faint smoke appeared.

After glancing around to make sure no one was paying attention to him, he quietly exhaled two puffs of smoke from his nostrils.

It turns out this guy was smoking secretly.

The essence of guerrilla warfare is to move to another location after each shot. Wan Feng discovered that Yuan Yimin would move to another location after taking a puff of smoke. After he exhaled a puff of smoke, he turned around and squeezed into the crowd.

When did this guy learn to smoke? His father was a worker in a factory in the county, and it seemed he was a boss. A family with workers in the family was usually well off in the countryside.

Wan Feng guessed that this guy stole his father's cigarettes and came here to have some fun. Isn't he afraid that his father will find out and beat him up?

But it’s none of his business. Whether other people smoke or not has nothing to do with him.

Wan Feng withdrew his gaze from Yuan Yimin's back as he squeezed into the crowd, but unexpectedly saw someone looking at him.

About ten meters to his left, there was a group of young men next to a pile of rocks. The tallest one among them was looking over here.

The man looked to be about 1.75 meters tall and looked like an adult.

Liu Shengan!

Liu Shengan is a well-known figure in the school. To use the jargon from the movie Young and Dangerous, he is the leader of Jiangwei School.

Then Wan Feng discovered that Liu Shengan was not looking at him. By analyzing the direction of Liu Shengan's eyes, Wan Feng determined that Liu Shengan was looking at Luan Feng on his right.

Wan Feng nudged Luan Feng beside him.

"Liu Shengan is looking at you."

Luan Feng glanced over and then shrank behind Wan Feng.

The fact that Liu Shengan could scare Luan Feng, a crazy woman who was always up and down, showed that he really had something special about him.

Wan Feng interpreted his extraordinary ability as shit in his head.

A fifteen-year-old student dared to pass notes to ask for a date with someone in 1980. There is no other word to describe this behavior except that he is stupid.

At that time, relationships between men and women were classified as issues of conduct and were considered very serious problems.

Wan Feng remembered that when he was seven or eight years old, there were people paraded through the streets for this kind of problem. The man had a white sign around his neck with big black words written on it: hooligan xxx.

The woman had two worn-out shoes hanging around her neck and was walking around in various places on the Jiefang truck.

Whenever there is a parade, the children will cheer and spit as if it is New Year's Day and follow the truck for several villages.

Later, such incidents gradually became less frequent, and by 1980, such parades had been basically cancelled, but the issue of work style was still taken seriously.

For a long time in his previous life, Wan Feng didn't understand the essential difference between work style issues and hooliganism. Even now that he has been reborn, he still can't clearly distinguish this issue.

If you can't tell the difference, then don't tell. Anyway, I won't make that kind of problem. After all, I am still young now. When he reaches the age where he will make style problems, style problems will no longer be a problem.

As night fell, the movie finally began.

The first to be released is still the documentary "News Brief", the content of which is nothing more than a leader of a certain country paying a friendly visit to our country; a hydropower station was built in a certain place in a certain province, solving the problem of power shortage in several areas; spring farming work in a certain place is in full swing, etc.

After the ten-minute news briefing, the main film finally started. The film shown tonight was "Flowers", which was considered a new film in the countryside at that time.