Chapter 59
It was a brand new large color TV, and the outer cardboard box was also shining with gold. The four words "Panda Color TV" and the specifications of the Yamato TV were printed on it, which was really eye-catching.
Su Miao said, "Dad, should we cover the words with paper? That way, even if people passing by can tell it's a TV, they won't know it's a large color TV. It'll be a little more discreet."
Then Su Yuanzheng went downstairs and bought some glue and red paper from the grocery store next door. He pasted some paper around the cardboard box, and the originally elegant and noble box became half-hidden, like a recyclable item picked up from a garbage dump.
At 4:30 in the afternoon, the father and daughter checked out of the hotel, walked a few hundred meters forward, and waited for the last bus to Ning County at the intersection where the bus would pass by.
Nowadays, buses stop as soon as you hail them, and you don’t have to go to the bus station to get on.
The bus still had sleeper berths on the upper and lower decks. After the father and daughter bought their tickets, they chose two adjacent seats.
Su Yuan was watching the TV intently with the TV at his feet. Su Miao fell asleep again shortly after the bus left the city.
When I opened my eyes again, it was already dark. Cars were passing by from the opposite direction from time to time, and the glaring lights made me feel a little dazed.
A few minutes later, we saw a large area of lights ahead. The conductor shouted from the front of the train, "Sleeping passengers, please wake up! We are about to enter the city. If you need to get off at the intersection, please let us know in advance."
After entering the city, passengers got off along the way, and when they returned to the station, only Su Miao and his father were left.
There are few vehicles now and there are no buses at night. The bus they took was the last bus of the day.
So the station was empty, with only a few staff members cleaning and preparing to close.
When I walked out of the station, the hustle and bustle of the day had ended, the passengers and vendors were gone, only Su Yu was sitting on the tricycle waiting.
Seeing them coming out, Su Yu pushed the tricycle over: "Uncle, Miaomiao, get on the car."
Su Yuanzheng and his daughter got in the car, covered the large cardboard box tightly with a quilt, and said, "Let's go, let's go straight home!"
"Hey! Okay!"
Seeing Su Yuanzheng's serious expression, Su Yu also became nervous. A surge of strength surged in his body, and he pedaled the tricycle very fast.
What’s going on? What’s going on? I called him to pick me up, and he still looks so nervous!
What on earth were Uncle Shi and his cousin doing? Could there be some prohibited items in the cardboard box?
Hurry! We have to get home quickly! Help Uncle Shi hide the things!
An auntie who was chatting at the alley entrance saw a dark shadow suddenly rush past under the dim street light. It was so fast that before she could see what it was, the shadow had disappeared into the night.
The tricycle rushed into the Su family yard without stopping. After Su Yu parked the car skillfully, he turned around to close the gate, then hurried back into the house to wait for Su Yuanzheng's instructions.
Su Yuanzheng placed the large cardboard box on the table in the living room, breathed a sigh of relief, and said gently to his daughter, "Miaomiao, are you hungry? Daddy will go make noodles for you right now. Ayu should also have some."
Su Yu said in a daze: "Cooking noodles? Don't you want to hide something first?"
Hearing this, Su Miao couldn't help but laugh out loud. She immediately guessed Su Yu's thoughts and teased him, "Pfft! Brother Yu, you don't think we're doing something illegal like reselling, do you?"
After hearing this, Su Yu blushed slightly and scratched his head embarrassedly. It turned out that he had misunderstood.
Su Yuanzheng carefully opened the cardboard box, then slowly took out the large color TV inside, which shocked Su Yu so much that he gasped.
"Uncle! Did you buy a TV? Such a big TV!"
Su Yuanzheng also showed a happy face: "I bought it, and it's colorful! Now that conditions are better, I might as well enjoy it! However, our family is in the food business, and too many people are watching us, so we have to keep a low profile. That's why your sister and I decided to let you pick it up after dark."
Su Yu happily circled around the large color TV, looking it up and down, left and right, and did not forget to reply to Su Yuanzheng's words: "I understand! Uncle! Don't worry, I'm the most tight-lipped person, and I won't say a word when I go out!"
While his father was cooking noodles, Su Miao took out the instruction manual from the carton, looked at it, and handed it to Su Yu: "Brother Yu, see if you can install it."
Su Yu rubbed his hands excitedly and said, "I'm pretending? I'm afraid my clumsy hands and feet will get damaged."
"It's okay, just follow the instructions and it won't break. Don't you have a lot of homemade things at home? How can you be clumsy?"
Su Yu took the instruction manual and read every line carefully, afraid of missing any details. Then he carefully picked up each component and installed them one by one according to the steps in the instruction manual.
When Su Yuanzheng came in with three steaming bowls of egg noodles, Su Yu had already hung the antenna in the backyard. He cleverly used an old pot cover, tied the antenna tightly to it, and hung it under the eaves of the backyard facing outside.
Su Miao helped him hold the ladder and said to his father who came over, "Brother Yu said that if we hang it here, the signal won't be blocked and other neighbors won't be able to see it."
The antenna was hung up in no time, and the three of them excitedly returned to the living room to turn on the TV.
The next second after the TV was turned on, a color replay of the Spring Festival Gala appeared on the TV screen.
However, Su Miao frowned and said, "This picture seems to be blurrier than what we saw in the department store that day. Is the signal bad?"
After careful observation, Su Yu felt that the picture quality was hundreds of times better than the black and white TVs he had seen in the past. However, since his sister thought the picture was not clear enough, there must be a problem.
So he ran to the backyard porch and slowly adjusted the angle of the antenna.
After several minutes of effort, Su Miao's excited voice came from the living room: "Got it! Brother Yu! It's done."
Hearing Su Miao's cry, Su Yu immediately ran back to the living room to check. As she said, the picture now became clear and stable.
Before that, they missed the CCTV Spring Festival Gala because they didn't have a TV at home.
Now, you can enjoy this wonderful show while eating noodles.
After eating the noodles, it was already getting late, and Su Yuanzheng told him that he wanted to continue hiring him for help.
Su Yu was so happy that he stuttered a little: "Uncle! Miaomiao! Don't worry! I will work hard, and I won't tell anyone about the business."
"Miaomiao and I definitely let you come because we trust you. Since you have to work at home, it will be inconvenient to live outside.
Look at the room next to the dining room. Although it hasn't been lived in for a long time, it's not run-down. It's cleaned every once in a while. If you don't mind, I'll clean it up and let you live in it."
The front house, like the main house, is three rooms wide. Two of the rooms are connected to form a kitchen and dining room, and one room is left idle.
Su Yu kept saying, "I don't mind, how could I mind, uncle! Your yard is much better than mine! Big blue bricks and big blue tiles, there's no such nice house in our village except the brigade."
This is true. After all, these were houses built by wealthy landowners for their children, and the materials and planning used were the best at the time.
It was late today, so Su Yuanzheng asked Su Yu to stay with him first and clean the room the next day.
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