Chapter 86 86 [Update 1]
Jiang Ning arrived at Wucheng Bus Station and gently carried the desktop computer's Founder monitor, mainframe, keyboard, mouse and other accessories one by one off the bus, then carried the items into the ticket hall. She asked the security guard to help her watch, then ran out and called a tricycle. At the cost of one dollar per person to No. 1 Middle School, she asked the owner to help carry the items onto the car. Seeing the owner's rough and wild movements, she quickly shouted, "Master, be gentle, this is a computer, it costs several thousand dollars!"
She didn't say eight thousand directly, for fear of scaring the master.
The master was in his forties. Although he had never heard of a computer, he knew it was related to electrical appliances. The shape of the box and the pattern on it looked a bit like a TV, so he thought she was buying a TV and said with a smile, "What kind of TV costs thousands of dollars? The 19-inch color TV I bought this year didn't cost thousands of dollars!"
The master emphasized that it was on his "19-inch color TV" with a look of boasting on his face.
But not every household has such a large color TV. Note, it is a large color TV!
At that time, many families still had 14-inch black and white TVs. For example, the one in Jiang Ning's hand was obviously a 14-inch black and white TV in the eyes of the tricycle driver. How could he not have a sense of superiority that he wanted to show off in front of Jiang Ning?
Jiang Ning also smiled and held it up, saying, "Wow, Master, you are really amazing. You bought a 19-inch color TV for our family."
The master's chest puffed out higher with pride.
Last year, an anti-dumping duty of 25.6% was imposed on large-screen color TVs, completely blocking China's color TV exports to Europe.
At the beginning of this year, my country launched its first price war on color TV sets. Starting from the first month of the year, Changhong led the entire Chinese color TV industry in launching a charge and confronted the Japanese brands headed by Dongzhi and Matsushima, causing the price of color TV sets to fall all the way. In particular, Changhong's new 25-inch color TV launched this year has a current market price of only 2,800 yuan, which has completely broken the high-end TV market of the Japanese brands. Note ①
Due to the lower price of large-screen color TVs, a car owner who had been driving around in Wucheng to pick up passengers last year, who had been reluctant to buy a TV, finally bought a 19-inch color TV during the Spring Festival this year. In his opinion, his 19-inch color TV cost less than a few thousand yuan, and the little girl's suitcase looked like it could only hold a 14 or 15-inch TV at most, so how expensive could it be?
He even boasted that it was several thousand dollars.
But after knowing that there were electrical appliances inside, he still moved her to the back seat of the car gently and reminded her: "Hold on tight, I'll try to drive steadily for you!"
At this time, the TV is considered a big item no matter where it is. After all, it is the first of the three major items at this time. He actually broke someone else's TV, which would be troublesome.
The driver was quite enthusiastic. He got out of the car and helped Jiang Ning move the computer into the store.
There are only a few winter clothes left in Grandpa Jiang’s shop, and now he’s starting to hang spring, autumn and summer clothes.
These were the inventory and defective items from Uncle Wang Yong's factory last year. They were packed into two large bags and mailed to her together. Because they were inventory that had been held for a long time, they did not differentiate between the spring and autumn items and the summer items when packing them. They were mixed together, and it was quite troublesome for Grandpa Jiang to pack them up.
But he doesn't have much else, just a lot of time.
Now the first and second year high school students have not come to school yet, and the third year high school students have all entered the school and are locked up. The families nearby who need to buy new clothes have basically done so, except for the first two days after arriving in Wucheng. Some people wanted to buy new clothes before the New Year but had no money, and after returning home finally had living expenses and New Year's money, they came to buy new clothes to wear. After all, boys and girls of this age, even if they usually wear shabby clothes, have self-esteem and vanity. When school starts, they see other classmates have new clothes to wear, but they don't even have new clothes, so even if they have to sell food coupons to pay off the debt, they still let them collect enough money to buy a new piece of clothing each.
This may be the first new piece of clothing in their lives that they bought with their own money. It is of good quality and warm, so they cherish it very much. Wearing it makes them feel like their chests are straightening up.
But a few days after the senior high school students returned to school, even though Grandpa Ren Jiang was playing the loudspeaker every day, it was difficult for a customer to come into the store.
Grandpa Jiang was so anxious. What should he do if he couldn't sell the clothes and couldn't pay the rent?
Grandpa Jiang was so anxious that he couldn't even enjoy his meal.
When Jiang Ning carried the computer into the store, he saw Grandpa Jiang's worried look. Unlike usual when he was lying leisurely in the rocking chair, he was sitting on a small stool at the door of the store, looking at the empty street, hoping that someone would hear his shouting through the loudspeaker and come to his store to take a look.
Seeing Jiang Ning carrying something in, Grandpa Jiang quickly stood up to help: "What did you buy? It's so big and heavy?"
When he saw the picture of a computer monitor on the cardboard box, he thought she had bought him a TV: "Is this a TV? Why did you buy me this thing? I have a radio!"
The radio that Jiang's father bought for Jiang's grandfather is very expensive. He bought it when Jiang's father's chicken farm business was at its best. It cost a full 180 yuan. It was his treasure, and it accompanied him through many lonely days and nights in the mountains.
When he had nothing to do every day, he liked to turn on the radio. He would lie on the rocking chair, rocking back and forth while listening to storytelling on the radio.
Televisions are expensive and tiring for the eyes, they are not as good as his radio.
There is no computer desk in Grandpa Jiang's shop, only a small folding table. Jiang Ning has to go to the second-hand market to find a desk and chair. In fact, the school desks and chairs are very suitable, but I don’t know if the school has any discarded desks and chairs for sale.
Regardless of whether there was one or not, she still went to the school to ask.
She first asked the security guard, who tilted his head and said, "Abandoned tables and chairs? Of course there are some. What do you want to do with them?"
"A desk." Jiang Ning said with a smile. You know I rented a shop next door. I've been staying in the shop these days when I have nothing to do. Each desk and chair is not convenient for reading or doing papers.
"You should ask Teacher Li from the Logistics Department. She is the administrator of your library. She is in charge of these matters. You can ask her in the library. She will definitely be there."
There is a reading room and a library in No. 1 Middle School. The reading room is open to students. They can go in and read books when they have nothing to do during the day, but they cannot take the books away.
The library is only as big as a classroom, and it contains various tutorial books, world classics, and martial arts novels.
But generally, few people go to borrow books, and what they borrow are all world classics. Teacher Li does not lend martial arts novels to outsiders. At most, teachers borrow them to read themselves.
Is it okay for students to read martial arts books? If the director of the political and educational department saw her, he would tear her to pieces alive, right?
Jiang Ning found Teacher Li in the library. Teacher Li was nearly sixty years old, with gray hair, wearing glasses, and not very tall. When she heard that she came to buy discarded tables and chairs, she asked her what she was going to do with them, and Jiang Ning gave the same answer.
Teacher Li asked her which class she was from, and she said she was in Class 3, Grade 1.
"You're from Class 3." Teacher Li lowered his eyes to a position slightly below her nose and looked up at her: "What's your name?"
"Jiang Ning." Jiang Ning said with a smile in a very obedient manner.
"Oh." Teacher Li was surprised: "You are the Jiang Ning who beat Wu Zhong and got the first place in the exam?" She looked Jiang Ning up and down, "You are a good girl. Keep working hard. I hope I can see you get the first place in the county next time."
She was in a good mood and locked the library door, then took Jiang Ning to a row of old bungalows behind the teaching building.
The classrooms in the bungalows were not big and were filled with abandoned tables and chairs.
She unlocked the door of a classroom during the semester and said, "Some of the desks and chairs in this classroom are still usable. Pick one out for yourself. When you've chosen one, come to the library and let me know so I can register it."
Jiang Ning took a look inside and found that the tables and chairs were placed normally at the bottom, and the tops were placed upside down on the tables and chairs below. They filled up half of the classroom, and they were all double tables and chairs.
Now No. 1 Middle School has replaced the tables with single ones. Each person sits at one table and can put their things in the table drawer. The double tables that have been replaced are not wasted. After the new dormitory building is built, each dormitory will have such a double table for students to read, study and put their things.
There was also a double table in each dormitory of the old boys' dormitory in case of need of faculty and staff. This included the single apartment for faculty and staff that was built later, which also had a discarded double table like this.
The cafeteria lobby is also filled with such tables for students to eat.
The locked tables and chairs in the classroom next door are all missing parts and cannot be used. The double tables and chairs in this classroom are still usable, but the paint has fallen off, making them look mottled and old.
After Jiang Ning picked out a table and chairs, he first moved the table to the library in front, and then moved the chairs over.
Teacher Li was sitting by the window of the library, holding a notebook in her hand: "Have you chosen? One dollar, take it."
Although these tables and chairs have been discarded, they are school property after all, so Teacher Li cannot give them directly to students.
Jiang Ning simply took out a dollar and gave it to Teacher Li. Seeing that it was time to end the get out of class, she ran to Class 8, Grade 3, found Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang, and asked the two to help her move the tables and chairs.
Jiang Bai has always been a man of few words, always working hard. When he heard his sister calling him, he ran downstairs quickly without saying a word. Tong Jingang put away the book, lifted up the chair and followed him: "Wait for me!"
After hearing Jiang Ning say that they bought the table and chairs from Teacher Li, Tong Jingang felt a little nostalgic: "We had a table like this when we were in the first year of high school. Your second brother and I sat at the same table. Later, we changed to a single table." He also sat him and Jiang Bai separately.
Jiang Bai was not this tall when he was in the first year of high school. He sat in the front and he sat in the back. Who knew that the boy in the back would grow faster and faster, and his height almost caught up with him. He is still growing, and if he continues to grow, he will surpass him.
Tong Jingang simply lifted the table up and held it above his head, then ran towards the door. Jiang Bai also easily picked up the chairs, delivered the tables and chairs to Grandpa Jiang's shop, and returned to school to continue his classes.
The security guard knew them all, and when he saw them sending the tables and chairs out, he said nothing but, "Go and come back soon."
Both guys have long legs and they run very fast.
After Jiang Ning placed the table and chairs at the end of the bed against the wall, he took out the computer and placed it on the table, plugged in the power cord, and plugged in all the keyboards and mice before turning on the computer.
The computer's operating system is Windows 95, which is not yet popular in Wucheng. It is the first of its kind in Wucheng.
She used the computer and found that the important typing software, Wubi, Yahoo Mail, MSN, as well as the popular Minesweeper and poker games at the time were all installed in the science and technology bookstore in Shanghai.
Seeing that there was still time, I took a taxi to the post office.
Today, the postal and telecommunications departments have not yet been separated, and neither have China Mobile and China Unicom. The Internet cable must be plugged into a modem through a telephone line before it can be used to access the Internet. The Internet access fee is also directly deducted from the telephone bill. In other words, if she wants to access the Internet, she must first pull a telephone line.
Nowadays, more and more families are installing telephones. Unlike previous years, you had to make an appointment a long time in advance to install a telephone line, and not everyone could do it. Not only is the price much cheaper now, but the Wucheng Post and Telecommunications Bureau is even promoting it, with a telephone line costing only 2,500 yuan.
In addition, Jiang Ning also had to buy a 56K dual-port modem to plug into the telephone line.
Wucheng is a small city after all, and not many families have installed telephones, otherwise there would be no need for the Post and Telecommunications Bureau to organize promotional activities. She paid the money relatively quickly, but it is said that she will have to wait for a while before the service is activated.
After Jiang Ning finished all this, he returned to the store and started typing. As there was no internet connection, he could not send the words by email, so he saved them on his computer and would send them together after the phone line was connected.
Anyway, there are still enough manuscripts in stock to last for a long time. And with a phone, it will be much more convenient for Wang Yong, the publishing house, and the TV station to contact her if anything happens, without having to go through Teacher Wang.
Grandpa Jiang spent the whole afternoon watching his granddaughter tinkering with this computer. He didn't know yet that Jiang Ning had spent more than 10,000 yuan to buy the computer and install the network cable in order to type. Seeing that the display screen was only a little over 14 inches, he thought it was the same price as the small TVs on the market.
He is an old man who has a strong thirst for knowledge and a desire to explore all new things. When he saw his granddaughter fiddling with the computer, he did not preach. Instead, he watched with great interest as he saw his granddaughter's fingers flying, typing on the keyboard for two hours at a time.
After his granddaughter finished her work, he came over and asked her curiously, "This thing can't watch TV or search for channels, what is it used for?"
Just like when Grandpa Jiang taught her to speak over and over again when she was a child, and how he pointed out the various plants, flowers and birds on the mountain, Jiang Ning told Grandpa Jiang what a computer is, how to use it, the role it can play in technology, and what changes its appearance will bring to our lives in the future.
The future that Jiang Ning talked about sounded like a fairy tale to Grandpa Jiang, but the fairy tale also appeared so real before his eyes. For example, in the past, information could only be transmitted through letters, but now people have learned to use telephones to transmit sound over thousands of miles. In the past, people could only watch shadow puppet shows, but now there are radios, and people can listen to the voices of storytellers from afar, and watch TV to see the images performed by people.
He himself is a person who has entered the new era from the old era and has personally experienced all of this rapid development. He has no doubt at all about what his granddaughter said about the impact that computers will have on people's lives and technology in the future. He is just amazed and happy that he is also living in this era and has the opportunity to see the arrival of such an era.
"That's great!" Grandpa Jiang's hand was shaking as he touched the computer monitor, as if he was afraid of breaking the computer that his granddaughter had praised so much. He also felt a little regretful that he was already very old when he saw these.
But he looked at his granddaughter and smiled again.
Although he was not born in such a good era, he finally caught up and could see his grandchildren born in such a good era.
Good, very good!
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