Chapter 288 I Want to Buy a Big Color TV
"Xie Yi, look at what you've done! Your hands are always busy.
You broke this good TV again.
Old Xie, Old Xie! Come quickly and see your great son."
Gao Xiulan put her hands on her hips, grabbed the ear of the person opposite her, and her saliva almost splashed on his face.
The curly hair that had just been permed a few days ago was shaking wildly, and the hair seemed to have static electricity and exploded directly.
As soon as Xie Da Jiao lay down, she was called up.
Every time this happens, the son is his own.
The TV in Old Xie's family was bought in the 1970s. At that time, Xie Da Jiao got a TV ticket by chance.
At that time, all the envious eyes in the factory were glued to him, and the ticket was not even in his pocket.
As soon as he got off work, he rushed to the department store and carried back an 820-type 43 cm 17-inch black-and-white tube TV, which cost him several hundred yuan.
Televisions were a big item then, and they still are now.
There is a bulge behind the TV, which makes it look particularly heavy, as if it has a big butt.
You can only watch a few fixed channels, and the rotary button will break if you are not careful.
There is also a strange antenna tied to the roof. When the signal is not good, you have to climb onto the roof and turn around to adjust the direction.
Only after the people in the room agreed did he dare to let go.
"I didn't expect this to happen. I just took a picture and it started snowing on TV."
Xie Yi felt very wronged. He had hit the TV a lot when he was a child.
Previously, a family in the alley had a broken TV, so they specially hired someone to come and repair it.
After arriving at the door, he reached out and slammed the TV twice.
Hey, isn’t it amazing? It gets better in an instant.
No one has ever gone to the TV repair shop since then.
Why spend this money? It's so easy to take a picture. Who doesn't have the ability to do it?
"This TV is quite old. You must have lost control of your grip."
In order to avoid being scolded by the old woman, Xie Da Jiao had to scold her son first.
Cheng Zi, who was standing next to him, still felt that he couldn't bear to see his father being scolded, so he raised his head, chest out, and put his feet together and said to Gao Xiulan:
"Grandma, Dad didn't break the TV. As soon as I turned on the TV, it started snowing and there was no picture.
Of course, after Dad clapped his hands twice, the snowflakes fell even harder."
She spoke the truth, and Xie Yi felt his old father's heart warmed up again.
My daughter is really thoughtful. Look, everything she said is the truth.
"Our Orange is really amazing. He can even speak such long sentences."
Xie Yi next to him kindly reminded: "Mom, did you get the point wrong?"
He immediately received a glare from Gao Xiulan.
"It's not like I didn't hear it, this is the TV ticket your father received as a reward from the factory.
Can it be repaired now that it’s broken?”
Xie Da Jiao also felt it was a pity, so he decided to find someone to repair it before continuing to use it.
"I'll carry it up and ask someday."
"Why don't we just buy a new one? It's hard to see things with such a small screen."
Gao Xiulan retorted, "You paid for it? You're not that old, but you're so arrogant!"
It’s not easy for children to save money, and buying a big item like a TV is really not cheap nowadays.
Xie Yi choked on the words that were about to come out of his mouth. He really had no money in his pocket!
"Mom, what's wrong?"
Lin Xiaotong came back from get out of class and as soon as she stepped into the yard, she heard Xie Yi begging for mercy.
Like a little carrot, Orange was the first to step forward, took the bag from his mother's hand, and put it on the stool.
He patted the non-existent dust on the chair in front of the door and politely pulled the person to sit down.
"It's nothing serious, our TV is just broken."
Gao Xiulan also felt that her attitude towards her son just now was too harsh, so she decided to make his favorite dish of stir-fried pickled mustard greens with minced pork in the evening.
Xie Yi held back and didn't dare to speak, thinking to himself: That's not what I said when I scolded him just now.
"How about buying a new one? Xie Yi has a classmate who works at the Municipal Transportation and Electricity Company. He has connections that can get a ticket."
After saying this, Lin Xiaotong gave Xie Yi a comforting look.
The sale of home appliances has not yet been fully liberalized, and power companies are the main channels for the home appliance supply market.
Now the slogans on the radio are about pursuing modernization. After seven or eight years, living conditions will be better than before.
Ordinary people are also pursuing home modernization, and they are obsessed with getting the four new items:
Color TV, refrigerator, washing machine, tape recorder.
"Wouldn't this be too much trouble for them? You should ask your dad to get it repaired.
The quality of the TV in our house is very good. We have been using it for more than ten years.
It's just a little snow, nothing serious."
Gao Xiulan didn't think it was a big deal. Her family was one of the first ones in the compound to buy a TV.
After hearing what Gao Xiulan said, Xie Yi wanted to slap himself in the face and go out to bring back a new one.
“The subdistrict office also has a TV, and you can watch it there.
There were also quite a few people in this area who brought their small stools and went to watch it together, shouting.
It just costs five cents per person each time you go to see it.
Xie Da Jiao’s favorite TV series was “Eighteen Years in the Enemy Camp” which was released during last year’s Spring Festival. This TV series was very exciting.
Xie Yi felt uncomfortable looking at black and white, and calculated the salary he could get this year.
"I'll ask my classmate tomorrow if he has any way to get a big color TV for our family."
Gao Xiulan was surprised because no one in this area of Big Color TV Hutong had one.
Now only the Friendship Store sells color TVs, and they are imported brands from foreign countries, costing several thousand yuan.
"Oh, son, you're so proud now, you're even thinking about buying a big color TV!"
Gao Xiulan never dared to imagine that she would be able to watch a color TV.
"Last year I heard that the color TV production line jointly built by the Jingshi Electric Motor Factory and 'A Family Living Well' was completed and put into production.
I guess we'll be able to buy a large domestically produced color TV after the Chinese New Year, right?"
Lin Xiaotong remembered seeing this news in the newspaper.
"That's probably not cheap either, probably several hundred."
Gao Xiulan thought that Xie Da Jiao's annual salary was only a little over a thousand yuan, and she would have to go without food and drink to bring back a color TV.
She was reluctant to do so, as she could buy many pounds of meat with so much money.
Orange suddenly understood how expensive the big TV at home that always snowed in was.
"Forget it, let's fix the TV first."
After dinner, the family didn't watch TV, but sat together listening to Gao Xiulan gossip.
"Oh right, did you hear?
There's a family in the next alley getting a divorce!
The man insisted on getting a divorce, and when asked, he said he had no feelings for her anymore. The couple had three children.
The street office has been there several times, the Women's Federation has also come to the house, and the mediator has been talking until his mouth is dry.
The man bit her to death and insisted on leaving her!"
Lin Xiaotong knew the reason.
In 1980, the newly revised Marriage Law clearly stated the conditions for divorce:
“If both parties agree to divorce, the divorce shall be granted;
If one party requests a divorce, and the relationship has broken down and mediation is ineffective, the divorce will be granted.
This regulation was like a tornado, causing a wave of divorces across the country.
This "freedom of marriage" actually refers to the arranged marriages, parental decisions, arranged marriages, and child marriages that were prevalent just after liberation.
Many people take the latter provision as a "sword of justice" and exaggerate it to a great extent. Many unscrupulous people directly abandon their wives (husbands).
Marriage is not a joke. Whenever there are family conflicts in Xie Dajiao's factory, the unit leaders will step in to mediate, and it is rare for a couple to go to court.
However, the concept of relationship breakdown is still difficult to define clearly, and there is no clear standard.
The husband has his own reasons and the wife has her own reasons, and in the end everyone is right.
Lin Xiaotong sighed when she thought of a case she had recently learned about.
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