When Lin Guoqing returned with the TV, Lin Shuying was packing her things. Liang Shengdi was going to row her back to school.
As a result, a box came into the room and attracted everyone's attention.
"What's this?" Lin Shuchao was about to pounce, but was stopped by his brother.
"The TV! You see those three big words!"
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!" Shumei screamed, standing right beside the table. "TV! We have a TV at home!!!"
Chen Chunhua knocked on everyone one by one, and her ears were almost deafened by the noise.
"Be quiet and let your dad put it down first!"
The box can be placed on the ground, but what about the TV?
"Where should I put it?" Lin Guoqing asked.
There was an octagonal table in the middle of the main room against the wall, two armchairs and several bamboo chairs and benches.
He was just thinking about watching TV while eating, but when he thought about putting the TV in the kitchen... he couldn't bear to do it.
"It's just an octagonal table! You can see it as you enter the door." Liang Shengdi said. Do I have to hide this thing after buying it?
Lin Guoqing readily placed the 14-inch black and white TV on the eight-immortals table. Lin Shuchao wanted to touch it first, but he slapped it open.
"Can you please not be so impatient? I haven't even finished it yet!"
There was no power socket left for the TV when everyone was renovating the house later, so the wires were all pulled freshly. Thanks to Ye Juncai, I mentioned a bunch of things I needed to him during lunch just now, and he brought them all back at once.
The most important thing was to install the antenna. Lin Guoqing found a ladder and carefully climbed onto the roof from the stairwell platform.
I took out an iron rod I had just taken from the bicycle factory and fixed it on the roof first. I also took out a hollow iron pipe with a diameter of less than 10 cm, tied the antenna to the top of the hollow iron pipe, and then put the hollow iron pipe onto the iron rod that was fixed previously, so that the iron pipe can rotate back and forth.
Logically speaking, the higher the antenna is placed, the better the signal. He placed it on the roof of the second floor, so it should be okay, right?
Before Lin Guoqing had time to come down from the roof to adjust the TV, several people had already come to the gate of the yard to peek in.
"National Day! Uncle Jinshui said he saw you coming back with the TV?"
"National Day! Are you... Hey, are you installing that antenna?"
"Chunhua! I heard your family moved a TV back home during the National Day holiday?"
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Well, Lin Guoqing, who originally wanted to quietly sort out everything before going out to show off, now started a meeting to debug the TV in his new home.
The adults were either squatting or sitting, crowded together in the main room, with a group of children gathered in the front.
Lin Shuchao did not allow any other children to go further forward than the four siblings. If anyone dared to come forward and touch them, he would hit them back. In the end, he slapped Lin Shuying back.
Chen Chunhua relied on her memory and Lin Guoqing's guidance to turn on the TV. Suddenly, a whirring sound of black and white snowflakes appeared on the small screen. Even the sight of a screen full of black and white snowflakes caused everyone in the room to exclaim in surprise.
Chen Chunhua turned the rotary button on the right side of the TV, but there was still snow, nothing else.
"Do you have any pictures?!" Lin Guoqing shouted from the rooftop. Lin Shu hurried out and looked up to answer his father.
"No! It's snowflakes!"
Hearing this, Lin Guoqing carefully turned the antenna he had just set up, "What now?"
"No!"
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"How about this?"
"Still no!"
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"so?!"
"Got it! Got it!" As a burst of joyful cheers came from the room, Lin Guoqing was about to laugh proudly, but the next second he heard a sigh of "Ah..."
Chen Chunhua shouted to Lin Shu who was standing at the door, "Tell your dad, it's almost there, it was already there!"
Lin Guoqing dialed it again, being extremely careful, fearing it would go too far. This time, before he could ask, another round of "Wow!" noises rang out from the room.
"Yes! Dad! It's really happening this time!"
Lin Guoqing sighed deeply. It was a cold day, and he was sweating all over.
In order to prevent what Ye Juncai said, that any gust of wind could blow it crooked, causing the TV to turn into snow again.
Lin Guoqing held the bracket firmly with one hand to prevent it from moving, and with the other hand he used the cloth strips to wrap the bracket tightly little by little.
"Second brother! There are pictures on TV, right?" he asked again.
"Yes!" Lin Shugan stood at the door, but he stood on tiptoe and watched the TV in the room, unwilling to take his eyes away. As soon as Lin Guoqing came downstairs, he ran back to the front.
Chen Chunhua turned the buttons. There were actually relatively few TV programs during the day. Only two channels had any pictures, and the rest were just snow. One channel was showing provincial news, and the other was playing Yue Opera.
In fact, for children, neither news nor Yue Opera should be of much interest.
But this is TV! They watch whatever it plays! They stand there like wooden figures, motionless, not wanting to move their eyes.
It was Chen Chunhua who asked them to move back and not get too close to the TV.
"You were almost kissing! Be careful or you'll go blind!"
Liang Shengdi sat among a group of children, watching the opera with great gusto. Although it was in black and white, it wasn't as visually appealing as the New Year opera troupes that came to the village. But being able to see an opera during a non-holiday season was already quite remarkable, wasn't it?
"Mom, you should send your eldest daughter to school."
Chen Chunhua whispered a reminder to Liang Shengdi, but the old lady's butt seemed to be stuck to the ground and she refused to get up.
“It’s still early!”
"It's already three o'clock! It will take you at least two hours to go there and back. It gets dark early now, and you won't be able to see anything later." Especially after moving to a new house, the place where the boat is moored is farther away, and it will take several minutes to walk there.
Liang Shengdi tutted her words and began to grumble, "This school is really terrible. They can't even start school one day later."
Chen Chunhua: ...
Lin Shuying used 99% of her self-control to force herself to look away from the TV.
You can't watch it anymore, you have to go to school! The most important thing for you now is to study hard! Wait until you get into college! You can watch it all you want during the summer vacation!
She was even a little glad that she lived on campus and could only come home once a month. If she went home every day, she probably wouldn't be able to concentrate on reading.
Thinking of this, she suddenly became a little worried about her younger siblings' studies. Especially the youngest, who was probably doomed.
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Regardless, the news that Lin Guoqing's family had bought a TV spread like wildfire throughout the village. Don't you believe it? Look up. Do you see the antenna on the roof? That's the TV antenna!
This is the first TV in Sihe Village!
But this time, no one questioned Lin Guoqing's family like they did when they questioned the tricycle.
If someone has the ability to make money, he has the ability to buy a TV.
You don't agree? Then earn more!
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By the way, is it because school is about to start? Recently, half of the people reading books have decreased o(╥﹏╥)o
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