Chapter 159 The First Camera in the Village (3000 words)

Zhou Chenglei was buckling his belt when he noticed Jiang Xia looking at him. He looked up at her and asked, "What's wrong?"

Jiang Xia turned around and motioned for him to look at his pants.

Zhou Chenglei: “…”

"Your period is coming?"

Jiang Xia looked at him and nodded: "Well, she's not pregnant."

"Then wait a few years before having one." Zhou Chenglei didn't care much. Although he was looking forward to their child, he also knew that whether or not to have a child depended on fate.

He went to the drawer and got her a sanitary napkin. Fearing that she would be disappointed, he hugged her and kissed her forehead: "Don't worry, we are still young, we can have it in a few years."

Jiang Xia: "I am young, but you..."

Zhou Chenglei grabbed her waist and held her in his arms: "I'm young too!"

Jiang Xia looked up in his arms, without saying a word, just smiled at him.

How can a man who is almost 30 still say that he is young? Zhou Chenglei picked her up and kissed her until she couldn't breathe, proving with his strength that he was not only young and strong, but also full of youthful vigor! So they were late for going out to sea for an hour and a half that day. During the extra half hour, Zhou Chenglei cooked brown sugar water for Jiang Xia and washed her dirty clothes.

Jiang Xia, whose legs and hands were weak and sore, swore that he would never say he was old again.

Absolutely young, strong and energetic!

In the next two days, Jiang Xia worked as a translator at home, familiarized himself with the information of the shipyard, the fabrics of the textile factory, the products of the plastic factory, and tasted the food of the food factory.

And now, I make dried fish with He Yuhuan and my grandmother.

After making this batch of dried fish, Jiang Xia plans to sell it directly to the Marquis.

However, the dried fish had to be fried in oil, and the oil they bought was quickly used up, and both families had no more oil coupons.

You still need tickets to buy things now. Although some things don’t require tickets anymore, you still need tickets to buy things like grain, oil, meat, electronic products, etc.

Zhou Chenglei had saved a lot of tickets, but all the oil tickets had been squandered by Jiang Xia.

They usually go out to sea to fish and sell the fish to purchasing offices. Although the price is cheap, they will give you some tickets every month based on the amount you sell.

However, Jiang Xia saw that they sold so many fish last month, and the tickets Zhou's mother brought back only had two oil tickets worth 4 taels each. Of course, Zhou's mother also exchanged other tickets.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, and you need tickets to buy meat, mooncakes or give them as gifts.

He Xinghuan said, "I'll go find someone to buy some oil coupons and see if I can get some."

Great grandmother: "This year, when the peanuts in the field are ripe, we will use them to press oil."

Jiang Xia: "Well, let's do this for now. Once the dried fish business has a stable business, I'll think of a solution."

Now that restaurants are allowed to open, it will be more convenient to buy oil and grain by applying for a small food workshop business license.

In the evening, Jiang Xia went to the dock as usual to wait for her ship to return. The people in the production team told her that there were two packages sent from Beijing.

Jiang Xia went to get the package first.

Zhou Li looked at the two large packages and asked curiously, "Jiang Xia, why do you receive packages from Beijing every day? Who sent them to you? Do you have relatives in Beijing?"

Jiang Xia: "It's my brother. I asked him to buy something for me."

Zhou Li looked at the two packages and wanted to open them to see what was inside: "Your brother is studying at Peking University? That's amazing!"

The address on the package was Kyoto University, she saw it.

Jiang Xia just smiled, said thank you, and then made an excuse to go to the dock to see if the family’s boat had returned, and left with the two boxes.

Zhou Li really wanted to talk more with Jiang Xia and improve their relationship.

Jiang Xia's family is capable. If I want to transfer to another position in the future, or if my son wants to work in the system after graduation, it will be convenient to ask her for help.

Although her son is still in junior high school, she wants to establish a good relationship with him first so that it will be easier to ask for help later.

Jiang Xia left the production team and returned home with two packages.

She opened the big one first and found two cashmere sweaters, a lot of imported snacks, even Coke!

One of the cashmere sweaters should belong to Jiang’s mother.

Jiang Xia opened another package, which turned out to be a Seagull brand camera with dual lenses, top and bottom. It looked like a rectangular box with the lid open.

It looked a bit complicated, so she studied it for a while and then went to read Jiang Dong's letter. There was indeed a cashmere sweater that belonged to Jiang's mother, and the letter also said that he had someone load film into the camera.

He bought two rolls of film in total. When he ran out of film in the camera and didn't know how to change it, he took it to the photo studio and asked someone to help him take out the film. Don't take it out by yourself, otherwise the film will be exposed and all the photos taken before will be wasted.

After reading the letter, Jiang Xia studied the instruction manual again and roughly understood how to take pictures. He found the button and took a photo of Zhou Zhou who was doing homework in the yard and Zhou's mother who was weaving a fishing net.

They both looked over.

Zhou's mother smiled and said, "Is this a camera? Did Xiaodong send it?"

There was also curiosity in Zhou Zhou's eyes.

Jiang Xia nodded and replied with a smile: "Yes, I asked my brother to help me buy it. It was sent on time. When the big ship comes back, I can take a picture of the moment when the new ship is launched."

Zhou's mother's eyes lit up when she heard this: "Yes! Let's take pictures when the house is under construction! Your father will definitely be very happy."

Jiang Xia smiled and asked Zhou's mother and Zhou Zhou to stand together while she took a picture of them.

Zhou's mother waved her hands and said, "No, no, don't waste the film. Let's take pictures together as a family when the boat comes back."

Zhou's mother knew that it was very expensive to take a photo at a photo studio. It cost two yuan, and color photos were even more expensive. Enlarging the photos would cost extra.

The photo studio owner said it was expensive because the film was very expensive, costing twenty or thirty yuan a roll.

So she thinks that the more people there are in a photo, the more cost-effective it is! And why take photos when you have nothing to do? It is cost-effective to save them for big events, when the family reunites.

Jiang Xia: "It's okay. I have two rolls of film. I'll take a picture of both you and Zhou Zhou."

Zhou's mother said she would not take any photos, and Zhou Zhou didn't dare to take any photos either. Jiang Xia had no choice but to take her camera to the dock and take photos of her old man driving the boat!

Jiang Xia came to the dock with her camera. She took a picture of the lively scene at the dock, a picture of the fishing boats returning at sunset, and another picture of the women chatting and laughing under the big banyan tree while waiting for the fishing boats to return.

I also took a photo of the people queuing up at the purchasing office to be weighed.

Jiang Xia stopped taking pictures after taking a few. She was reluctant to take too many pictures, mainly because she didn't know how to change the film, and she had to keep some to take pictures of her old man and the launching ceremony of the big ship.

At this time, Tian Caihua and Zhou Chengxin came to Jiang Xia.

Tian Caihua asked curiously: "Xiao Xia, are you holding a camera?"

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Zhou Chengxin also looked at it curiously: "I heard that this Seagull brand camera is hard to buy. How long did you wait in line to buy it?"

Jiang Xia was surprised for a moment and shook his head: "I don't know, I asked my brother to help buy it. Come, brother, sister-in-law, I'll take a picture for you."

"What? Take a picture? But, I don't look good today!! Is my dress too old?" Tian Caihua suddenly didn't know what to do with her hands and feet. She wanted to take a picture, but was afraid that she didn't look good in her clothes and would look ugly in the photo.

"It's okay, wear something nicer and take a photo another day." Jiang Xia found a place and motioned for them to stand.

Then I took a photo of them with the sunset sky, the vast sea and the busy dock as the background.

After the filming, Jiang Xia found that his fishing boat had docked.

She quickly ran over to take a picture of her old man, otherwise his handsome face would be wasted! Zhou Chenglei was holding a rope and preparing to get off the boat when he saw Jiang Xia running over with a camera. He frowned and said, "Slow down, don't run!"

Jiang Xia snapped at him! Zhou Chenglei wrapped the rope and came to her side: "Don't run away again!"

Jiang Xia didn't bother to pay attention to him, ran onto the boat, and said to Zhou's father: "Dad, I'll take a picture of you."

Father Zhou's eyes lit up when he saw the camera. The boat had already stopped and he was about to leave. He turned around and cooperated by holding the rudder, posing as if he was driving the boat: "Is this okay?"

"Okay! So cool!" Jiang Xia picked the right angle and took a snap. "It's done!"

Father Zhou quickly walked over to Jiang Xia, not caring about the fish in the boat, and said, "How do you take a picture of this? Give it to me and take a picture of it too."

Jiang Xia took the camera off his neck and taught him.

Zhou's father was very smart. He learned it quickly. He hung the camera around his neck and looked for Zhou Bingqiang.

Father Zhou immediately locked onto the figure that he had been thinking about day and night.

Father Zhou shouted to Zhou Bingqiang: "Bingqiang! Bingqiang! Come, come, come! My family bought a camera! Let's take a picture together, brothers!"

Didn’t Zhou Bingqiang keep shouting that he wanted to buy a Seagull brand camera a while ago?

He said that this Seagull brand camera was very hard to buy, and he waited in line for a long time but still couldn’t buy one!

He also said that he would ask his connections to buy it, but I don’t know when I can buy it.

I was already shouting about it before I even bought it, and everyone in the universe knew about it, but there was no sign of the camera! Haha, I didn't expect my daughter-in-law to buy it without telling anyone!

Now, he must take a good picture of Zhou Bingqiang's forced smile! Zhou Bingqiang heard the shouting and looked over. He saw the camera in Zhou's father's hand and his face turned black.

He wanted to buy it but couldn't bear to buy it in the end. It cost more than four hundred yuan, almost five hundred yuan!

Zhou's father not only called Zhou Bingqiang, but also called other people in the village.

"Guocai, Guangcai, come, take a photo! Let's take a photo together!"

What a joke, taking a photo is so expensive, of course you can’t just take the photo for Zhou Bingqiang!

The first camera in the village!

Such a glorious event must be known to the whole village, and we can also take a group photo!

When he tells others about it, he can still say that the first photo of you in your life was taken by me, how awesome is that? "Chaohua, Chaoming... come, I'll take a photo of you! Let's take a group photo!" Originally everyone was busy moving fish and selling fish, but now they were all attracted by Zhou's father!

Everyone was quite curious about taking pictures, and they all knew that it was really expensive to go to a photo studio to take a picture! So everyone stopped selling fish and ran to Zhou's father: "Yongfu, take a picture of me driving the boat."

"Take a picture for me, too. I caught a boat full of fish today. Here's a souvenir."

"Take a picture of me too. I want to take a picture of myself driving the boat."

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Father Zhou: "How can we have so much film for one photo per person? Let's take a group photo! Let's go to Bingqiang's new boat to take the photos!"

Haha… he couldn’t be mad enough! Everyone was happy to take a group photo, so everyone boarded Zhou Bingqiang’s new boat.

Father Zhou: "Xiao Xia, please help us take the photo."

So Jiang Xia took a group photo of everyone on Zhou Bingqiang's new boat.

The villagers were sitting or standing on both sides of the boat, which was filled with baskets of fish. Father Zhou stood in the middle with his arm around Zhou Bingqiang's shoulders, smiling with satisfaction! Jiang Xia also suggested that everyone take a photo at the entrance of the production team. Soon the production team would be reformed and turned into a village committee, and the production team would become the most meaningful memory of their generation.