Technology was not advanced enough in that era, and people had far fewer ways to entertain themselves than in later generations. Watching movies was one of the few entertainment activities people had. But this entertainment is also a luxury. Not everyone can afford a movie ticket at 1.5 cents.
Even though Lin Wei's family income is not low, no one would go to the movies every now and then. In fact, this was the first movie that everyone except Lin Wei watched this year.
But even for Lin Wei, her last movie was screened through the work unit, and she didn’t spend any money.
Therefore, the six people were very excited when they entered the screening room, and there were many viewers who were as excited as them, and the screening room was buzzing.
But when the movie started, the discussions stopped and everyone focused on the big screen.
As the movie unfolded, low sobs were heard in the screening room. The film on the screen was an anti-Japanese war film. Although the ending was good, the process was very tragic.
Lin Wei and the others were no exception, their eyes were red.
Although their lives are stable now, most of them are no strangers to war.
Liu Dan is the oldest, 31 this year. When he was old enough to understand things, the war was not completely over yet. Yang Yi, Deng Xiangyun and Zhao Li are about the same age and have all experienced the Korean War. Especially Zhao Li, whose hometown was close to the battlefield, people around her were living in fear every day. On the day of victory in the war, many people around her cried with excitement.
Lin Wei is the youngest and has actually never experienced a war. She was still ignorant during the Korean War. Later, the war in the south was far away and their country was in an advantageous position, so everyone was not so panicked.
But Lin Wei married a soldier, and although the naval battle at the beginning of the year was not large in scale and lasted for a short time, she was still very worried for a few days.
Only after experiencing war can you know the value of peace. When you look back at that period of history, you will be even more moved and cry your eyes out.
So, when we went back, everyone's eyes were swollen.
So after returning to the family quarters, everyone they met on the road thought they were bullied. If Zhao Li hadn't explained quickly, they would have almost picked up weapons to seek justice for them.
After the explanation, everyone understood why they cried like that and felt that if it were them, their eyes wouldn't be much better. But this didn't stop everyone from making fun of them in a friendly way and spreading the story.
So that night, everyone in the residential area knew that the six of them had cried their eyes out while watching a movie.
Because they were asked so many questions along the way, Liu Dan and her friends did not rush back after entering the family quarters. Instead, they went to Deng Xiangyun's home under the pretext of counting money and dividing wire. They planned to wash their faces at her home and wait until their eyes got better before going back, so as not to worry their family members.
Because everyone was going to Deng Xiangyun's house, there was no need to calculate extra money, and Lin Wei, who needed wire, also went to her house.
Well, she was also afraid that her family would see it and worry.
Regarding the behavior of her bad friends, Deng Xiangyun said: "..." Don’t my family members worry?
It turns out that her family members really aren’t worried, because they’re not at home!
Because the door was open, when Deng Xiangyun didn't see anyone when she entered the house, she thought they were in the backyard or upstairs. As a result, she searched the front and back yards, upstairs and downstairs but couldn't find anyone. When she went downstairs, her face didn't look very good.
Yang Yi thought she was worried, so she consoled her by saying, "She must have gone to someone else's house, right?"
Zhao Li also said: "Yes, Instructor Zhou is an adult, he will not lose his old shígG独伽." What's more, this is the military family area of the base, and everyone here is familiar.
Deng Xiangyun said angrily, "I'm not worried about him. I'm angry that he didn't lock the door when he went out. It's fine if he didn't lock the door, but is it difficult to close the door? I promised him everything was fine when I went out, but when I came back... It's really worrying!"
Because when everyone came in, they had a preconceived notion that someone was at Deng Xiangyun's home, so even though they later discovered that Zhou Jianhai was not at home, no one thought there was anything wrong with leaving the door open.
It was not until Deng Xiangyun brought it up that everyone reacted.
"It's your old Zhou who did the wrong thing. When he comes back, you have to have a good talk with him." Liu Dan said, "By the way, is there anything missing from your house?"
Although the security in the family quarters is very good, and bad guys don't dare to come here, and there are no thieves among the residents, but after all, the door is open and no one is there, so I still have to check.
"Nothing is missing." Deng Xiangyun shook her head and said that she had just checked.
Deng Xiangyun was just a little angry when she found out that Zhou Jianhai went out without closing the door. She said a few words and then it was over. Then she remembered the important business and asked Lin Wei for the wire.
Because they had to eat and watch a movie, it was inconvenient to carry things in their hands. Among the six people, only Lin Wei brought a big bag, so Deng Xiangyun asked her for help.
After finding the iron wire, Deng Xiangyun cut it with scissors and gave Liu Dan, Zhao Li, Yang Yi and Chen Bamei each a piece. It was not long, but there would definitely be enough for making hats.
After dividing the things, they counted the money again. It wasn't much, but no one was greedy for a penny. Even though Deng Xiangyun said forget it, they still gave the money stubbornly.
After settling the bill, seeing that it was getting late, a few people borrowed a mirror from Deng Xiangyun's house to look at their eyes, and when they saw that their eyes were not much swollen, they went back home.
Lin Wei also returned to her home, but encountered the same situation as Zhou's family: the door was open, but no one was there.
Did these two people make an appointment?
Just as he was thinking about it, Deng Xiangyun came over and asked if Zhou Jianhai and Xiao Shitou were at her house.
"They're not here, but my door is open, so they should have gone out together. I just don't know where they went." Lin Wei said, putting her bag on the sofa, pouring a cup of tea and greeting Deng Xiangyun who was standing at the door, "Don't worry about them. Since the door is open, they must not have gone far. They may be back soon."
But Deng Xiangyun didn't say anything. She just covered her eyes with her hands and looked out. After a moment, she pointed in a direction and asked, "Is that your Zong Shao?"
"where?"
Lin Wei came out of the house and looked in the direction she pointed, and saw Zong Shao standing in the sea with his arms folded, looking at the three black shadows struggling in front of him... no, children.
"It's him. Ruirui and your little Shitou are here too."
Lin Wei quickly crossed the beach and stood on the shore, shouting, "Zong Shao."
Zong Shao turned his head when he heard the voice, but did not walk to the shore. Instead, he lowered his head and said something. The next second, Mingming jumped out of the water, patted the water off his face with his hands, and said to Lin Wei happily: "Mom, I can swim now!"
As he spoke, he swam twice, and when he reached a place where the water was too shallow to swim, he changed from swimming to running, until he fell into Lin Wei's arms.
"My clothes!" Lin Wei wailed, but she still hugged her son and looked up at Zong Shao and asked, "Why did you suddenly think of teaching them to swim?"
Zong Shao held Ruirui in one hand and held Xiao Shitou in the other hand as he walked to Lin Wei and said, "It's hot, let's go to the sea to cool down. If they want to come with us, I'll teach them. When will you come back?"
"I just came back. I was wondering why you left the door open when you went out." Lin Wei said as she wiped the water off Rui Rui's face and asked, "How are you doing?"
Rarity replied, "I can swim now."
"I can swim, too. And I can swim while lying down, like this." Mingming said as he raised his hands and swung them backwards like the backstroke.
Lin Wei was surprised: "How long have you been swimming? How did you learn so quickly?"
"Obviously, he's very talented. He can basically learn it once he's taught." Zong Shao put Rui Rui down and said, "But Rui Rui is also a good learner. He's one of the fastest learners."
"Wow, you are all so awesome!" Lin Wei was very supportive and gave the two children a thumbs up.
When Ruirui received her mother's praise, she just smiled and pursed her lips, accepting it with dignity. Mingming said modestly: "I'm not that great, just average!"
Lin Wei: “…” If I hadn’t seen your proud tail sticking up, I would have really believed what you said.
Seeing Deng Xiangyun wiping the seawater off Xiao Shitou's face, Lin Wei remembered and asked, "By the way, isn't Instructor Zhou with you?"
Deng Xiangyun looked over when she heard that.
"Together." Zong Shao said, turning around and looking towards the sea. After looking for about half a minute, he pointed in a direction and said, "Over there."
Lin Wei looked in the direction he pointed, but saw nothing: "No one."
"That black shadow is it." Zong Shao said.
"Where is the shadow?" Lin Wei narrowed her eyes and tried to look for half a minute before she saw the shadow that was about the size of an ant. "Is that Instructor Zhou? So small?"
"It looks small from a distance." Zong Shao saw Deng Xiangyun staring at the black shadow without blinking as he spoke. He paused and consoled her, "Old Zhou is a good swimmer. He will be back soon."
Deng Xiangyun pursed her lips and smiled: "Yeah."
Perhaps he saw the figure on the shore, and not long after Zong Shao finished speaking, Zhou Jianhai began to swim towards the shore. He swam very fast, and in just two or three minutes, he changed from an ant-sized black shadow to the size of a bowl, and then his figure and facial features gradually became visible.
Seeing him coming back, Deng Xiangyun finally breathed a sigh of relief, and Little Stone also shouted loudly: "Dad!"
Hearing the sound, Zhou Jianhai in the sea swam harder. After a while, he stood up from the sea, wiped the water off his face and walked towards the shore.
It's clearly still talking about his experience of learning to swim, but the content can be summed up in eight words - he's naturally talented and can learn quickly.
Very cocky!
Zong Shao, the father, didn't have the patience to listen any more. He leaned over to his wife's ear and asked in a low voice, "Do you want to learn how to swim?"
Lin Wei wasn't listening very attentively and immediately replied, "Me? Forget it." Sports have never been her strong point and she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to learn it.
Of course, what’s more important is that her son can learn it immediately. If she fails to learn it after struggling for a long time, wouldn’t that be embarrassing?
It’s better not to learn it, so that she can maintain her dignity as a mother.
But just as Lin Wei finished her words, Zong Shao picked her up sideways.
Lin Wei's body suddenly lost weight, and she couldn't help but scream, and hugged Zong Shao's neck tightly to maintain her balance. Just looking at the sea getting closer and closer, she had a bad feeling in her heart and asked quickly: "What are you doing?"
"Teach you how to swim."
Lin Wei immediately said: "I don't--"
But before she could finish her words, Zong Shao said, "Don't worry, I can help you cheat. Even if you don't learn it, you don't have to worry about being embarrassed in front of the kids."
Lin Wei was so angry when her little trick was exposed: "Who said I can't learn it? It's just swimming, right? I can learn it easily!"
"so."
Zong Shao groaned and said, "Then I let go?"
Hearing the sound, Lin Wei lowered her head and saw that she had already sunk into the sea water from the neck down. As Zong Shao loosened her hand, she began to fall.
Lin Wei widened her eyes, raised her head and hugged Zong Shao's neck even tighter.
Zong Shao: “…Let go.”
"I won't let go!"
Zong Shao glanced towards the shore and said, "There are a lot of people on the shore, watching us." He added, "But if you don't care, I don't mind being held like this by you."
I care!
People's lifestyles these days are very strictly controlled. Even if a couple is caught hugging each other outside, they will be criticized and educated, not to mention that they were hugging each other closely.
Lin Wei was shy and didn’t dare to look back, so she loosened her hands and fell into the water, struggling.
However, Zong Shao did not leave her to struggle, and quickly grabbed her arm and helped her up.
Hey, it seems like I can step on the seabed.
After standing up straight, Lin Wei realized that this place was not as deep as she had imagined. She had previously thought that it would go above her neck, but because she was held by Zong Shao, she looked much shorter visually.
Now standing up, she realized that the water only reached her chest.
Realizing this, Lin Wei glared at Zong Shao: "Did you do this on purpose?"
Zong Shao shirked the blame seriously: "You are too nervous."
Lin Wei immediately said, "You were the one who insisted on carrying me down. I didn't plan to learn how to swim."
"It's my fault," Zong Shao admitted swiftly, then changed the subject, "But now that you're down here, don't you really want to give it a try? In fact, swimming isn't that difficult. If you master the techniques, you can learn it very easily. Just like Ruirui and Mingming, they only took more than an hour to learn."
Listening to Zong Shao's words and thinking about the progress of her three children, Lin Wei felt that swimming was not that difficult.
Although her athletic talent was average, she didn't intend to become a fat person overnight. If she couldn't learn it in one hour, she could learn it in two or three hours.
Besides, it’s not a bad thing to master one more skill.
Although the current social atmosphere is quite conservative, even if she learns it, she probably won't have many opportunities to go into the water. But after the reform and opening up, the social atmosphere has become much more open. In the 1980s, many people wore swimsuits to go on vacation at the beach.
Maybe she can catch up with the trend by then.
Thinking of this, Lin Wei gritted her teeth and said, "Okay, I'll learn it!"
But when it comes to sports, it’s never the case that being older means you can learn faster; it all depends on talent. If I have to say, children have soft bodies and their limbs are often more flexible than adults, so they have more advantages than adults in learning in this regard.
When it comes to learning to swim, Lin Wei is really not as good as the three children.
After splashing around in the water for over an hour, they all learned how to swim, and even learned the backstroke. Lin Wei splashed in the water until dark, and all she learned was to splash. She got nervous as soon as Song Shao let go of her hand, and when she got nervous she couldn't do it.
But it is really comfortable and cool to stay in the sea in this season.
Lin Wei was still a little reluctant when she came out of the water, but it was already dark, and she was hungry and tired, so she decided not to bother anymore.
After returning home, Lin Wei was alone. She found clothes to take a shower, while Zong Shao went to Zhou Jianhai's house in the back and called the two brothers back.
It was clearly Zong Shao who brought him back. Among the three children, he had spent the longest time splashing around in the sea and was very sleepy after a crazy day. When Zong Shao approached him, he had already begun to doze off, was too lazy to walk, and was acting coquettishly to ask for a hug.
Zong Shaoyi felt soft-hearted, so he picked Mingming up and took Ruirui's hand back.
On the way, Ruirui asked about his mother's swimming lessons. They watched on the shore for a while and were brought back by Xiao Shitou's parents, so he didn't know how Lin Wei was doing.
Zong Shao recalled what Lin Wei had told him when he came back, and said, "Very good."
Although Ruirui was not sure at first whether he had learned it or not, he thought about it and realized that he and his brother had learned it and his father had not said anything to them.
In fact, Ruirui didn’t quite understand whether he had learned it or not, but then he thought, his brother could swim while lying down, and his father didn’t say that he was good at it, so his mother should have learned it better than his brother, right?
So when Lin Wei came out of the shower, she was greeted by her youngest son's sincere praise.
Lin Wei was so flattered by the compliments that she only remembered to ask Zong Shao before going to bed: "What did you say to Rui Rui? Why did he suddenly say I'm awesome?"
Zong Shao said casually: "Nothing, it's just that when he asked me how I was doing in school, I replied that I was doing well."
"that's all?"
"Yes." Zong Shao nodded and asked, "Shall we continue practicing next Sunday?"
"this……"
Lin Wei looked hesitant. Although it was comfortable to stay in the sea, learning to swim was really tiring and choking on water was really uncomfortable. Lin Wei didn’t think much about it when she was studying, but after going ashore, taking a shower and lying on the bed, Lin Wei felt a little lazy and wanted to back out.
But it was a bit embarrassing to just give up, so Lin Wei made up an excuse and said, "Didn't we agree to go to the movies next Sunday?"
She thought it over and decided to postpone it for a week. Maybe by then, Zong Shao would forget about it.
However, Zong Shao's answer cruelly shattered her fantasy. He said, "It's okay. A movie lasts an hour and a half. We can go in the morning and come back in the afternoon and still have time to study."
Lin Wei's mind was racing: "Although our plan is to watch a movie, we can't just go back for a visit, right? We still have to have a meal? The chef at the county's state-owned restaurant is very skilled, and it seems that they serve local specialties. The children have not eaten here for so long, so we have to take them to try it..."
"It won't take much time to have dinner or watch a movie. Didn't you come back at four o'clock today?" Zong Shao said, changing the subject, "And Ruirui knows that you have learned to swim and now they admire you very much. But if they want to swim with you next time and find out that you can't swim at all..."
Lin Wei quickly interrupted Zong Shao: "Alright, alright, can't I just continue studying?"
Lin Wei now realized that from the moment she was fooled by Zong Shao and nodded to agree to learn swimming, she was on a pirate ship and could not get off even if she wanted to regret.
Isn’t it just learning to swim? For the dignity of her mother, she fought hard!
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