Lu Ting rubbed his daughter's head and nodded, "Yeah, Mom and Dad are resting, what are you and your sister playing?"
Lu Yirou looked at the yellow rubber band in Lu Yiwei's arms with envy, "Sister Lanlan is helping Jiaojiao make a rubber skipping rope. I was just playing with picking up dog poop with Manman and the brothers."
When Su Yan heard Lu Ting say that his daughter wanted to use rubber bands for skipping rope, she looked at the rubber bands in Lu Yiwei's hand and smiled. There were dozens of packages of this stuff in the warehouse.
This thing is generally used to tie garbage bags and long beans. Nowadays, this small yellow rubber ring wrapped with wool becomes a hair tie, and long beans are tied with straw.
Su Yan squatted down and said to Lu Yiru, "Zhuzhu, when we go back tomorrow, mom will teach you how to do rubber skipping rope together."
Lu Yirou hugged Su Yan and kissed her hard on the face, "Thank you, Mom."
She knew that her mother was the best. As long as she and her brother were obedient, her mother would never treat them badly in terms of food, entertainment and clothing.
In order to ease the relationship between father and daughter, Lu Chen asked his daughter to sleep with them. Although Zhong Lingshan was a little unwilling, she was afraid that her husband would be angry, so she had to agree. As soon as the child fell asleep, she kept complaining.
"Lu Chen, my eldest brother's child has been sleeping alone since he was three years old. Jiaojiao is too old to sleep with us anymore."
"That's a boy. Zhuzhu is still sleeping in the same room with her brother and sister-in-law. When have you ever slept with your daughter?"
Zhong Lingshan retorted, "I was the one who took care of your daughter until she was one year old, and Zhuzhu didn't sleep in the same bed with her elder brother and his wife."
Don't ask her how she knew this. This was all told to her by Chen Yuhe. She was close to her eldest sister-in-law, and she knew everything that went on in her eldest sister-in-law's family.
Lu Chen was a little tired and didn't want to continue arguing with his wife during the New Year. "Okay, stop arguing and go to bed early. We'll stay one more day tomorrow and take Jiaojiao back with us the day after tomorrow."
"Okay, you can bring me along if you like, but you have to help with the housework in the future."
"good."
Zhong Lingshan always felt that Lu Chen had a rebellious mentality and was too nice to his daughter, which made her, as a mother, feel awkward both inside and outside.
It's not that she is mean to her daughter, but other people's children all go through the same thing.
Many people are too busy with work to take care of their children, so they leave their children in the countryside with their parents. When they bring their children back during the winter and summer vacations, the children are extremely happy to see their parents, unlike her daughter who treats her as if she were an enemy.
After the baby is born, she will teach him well and won't let him be as ignorant as his sister. My dear son, you must be good and obedient. Zhong Lingshan gently stroked her pregnant belly and fell asleep with her eyes closed.
Lu Ting stayed in the courtyard with his wife and children for one night. The next morning, he took New Year gifts to visit his father-in-law and mother-in-law. After having lunch at Su's house, Lu Ting took his family to the department store.
As she walked upstairs, Lu Yiru was so tired from looking at the televisions that she could no longer walk.
"Dad, shall we buy a TV?"
Lu Yian and Lu Yining's eyes shone with gold as they said in unison, "Dad, let's buy a TV!"
Lu Yiming also agreed: "Dad, buy a TV, so that we won't be too bored at home."
The weather is too cold, and he doesn't want to go out even at his age. At home, he either sits by the fire or goes back to his room and reads in bed. If there was a TV at home, the winter vacation would definitely not be so boring.
Su Yan looked at Lu Ting with a smile. She knew that Lu Ting had bought a TV set before the Lunar New Year because he was too busy during the holidays to go shopping. Today, they took the children out for a walk, so since they were already there, they might as well buy one.
Su Yan turned around and said to the children, "You can buy a TV, but you have to promise us that you can't watch TV for too long a day and you can't get too close to the TV."
She doesn't want her children to become addicted to TV just because it's new and novel. In this era without computers and mobile phones, it would be a waste of time if they damaged their eyes by watching TV.
"Okay, we will listen to what mom and dad say."
Su Yan asked the salesperson about the price of the TV. A 12-inch black and white TV cost four hundred and thirty yuan. The salesperson felt a little contemptuous when he saw Su Yan frowning.
"Comrade, a nine-inch TV is only 370 yuan. You can buy a smaller one."
Logically speaking, televisions are luxury items in this era, and the salesperson should be very enthusiastic when seeing these big-ticket items being purchased. Why is there a hint of contempt in this female salesperson's eyes?
Su Yan looked at the female comrade with twin ponytails. She looked pretty good and her clothes were nice too, except that her head was held a little high.
It seems that she has a good family background, otherwise she wouldn't work as a salesperson in a department store, especially on the electrical appliance floor, selling televisions that most people can't afford.
Nowadays, those who can buy TVs are generally well-known figures, because the people to whom TV tickets are given are registered.
Su Yan didn't know how Lu Ting got the TV tickets. Maybe he asked his superiors for help.
This salesperson is arrogant and must be jealous that her family is going to buy a TV. She is deliberately being jealous of her because she can't have the grapes.
Su Yan didn't bother to pay attention to her. There were so many TVs here anyway. Since she looked down on them, she might as well not buy one from her.
Su Yan glanced at other counters again and found that there were imported TVs. When she asked the price, she found out that the imported TV from Sakura Country cost 520 yuan each.
This number sounded very pleasing, and imported TVs are indeed better than domestic ones nowadays. In the end, she decided to buy an imported TV.
It was 1974, and some people in the military compound had already bought televisions. Their family was not one of the first to buy a television, so it was not too conspicuous.
Her father-in-law is now a division commander, and her husband is a regimental commander. Given their current financial situation, outsiders should not be able to say anything if they buy a TV at home.
Su Yan pointed at the imported TVs and said to Lu Ting, "Shall we buy a 12-inch imported TV?"
"Okay, I'll listen to you."
When the female salesperson next door heard that Su Yan wanted to buy an imported TV, she looked a little embarrassed, and Su Yan smiled at her.
Did that woman really doubt that they couldn't afford a TV? Did she think they were just taking the kids for a casual stroll to cheer them up?
That was a big mistake. Not only did she want to buy a black and white TV, but in a few years, imported color TVs would be sold in China. She planned to buy another imported color TV after she moved into the courtyard house.
When she moved in, she would no longer rent out the courtyard house. She would renovate the entire house, buy some new appliances and furniture, move them in, take her children to school in the city, and then start opening a shop and making a lot of money.
Let Lu Ting stay in the army. If he wants to come back to the city to see them, he can just drive over. After all, he has the right to use a vehicle at his level.
If it is not convenient for Lu Ting to use the army vehicle alone, she will buy a private car and drive the children back to the military compound on weekends.
It seems that the dream of buying a car will not be realized until the 1980s...
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