Wan Feng and Zhang Hai went to buy a TV without telling anyone, but they were still discovered when they were unloading the truck at the team headquarters.
Especially the children who had finished school gathered in front of the team headquarters.
Soon they found out what was in the box that Wan Feng took out of the motorcycle.
"The team bought a TV! The team bought a TV."
These kids in open-crotch pants had no idea what a TV was, but they started making loud noises. Almost in a blink of an eye, the whole village knew that the team had bought a TV.
Because of Wan Feng’s previous knowledge popularization, many people now know what a TV is used for, even though they have never seen what it looks like.
"It's a machine that lets you order movies while sitting on the kang."
"Ah! I can watch a movie just sitting at home?"
"What if there's a power outage? Can we still watch it?"
"We can light some candles and see!"
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Soon the team office was surrounded by adults and children, all craning their necks to look at the cardboard box.
Wan Feng calculated that the conference room on the third floor probably couldn't accommodate the entire team, so he didn't move the TV to the third floor. Instead, he placed it on the first floor, intending to show it to the entire team at the team door in the evening.
Connect the TV antenna and install it on the roof of the third floor of the team headquarters. This height should be enough.
Then he went to the tractor factory and asked the welder to weld a two-meter-high TV stand for him.
When all this was done, it was not yet six o'clock.
"When will the performance be?" The children were so anxious that they didn't even go home for dinner.
"There's no show now. It won't be on until 6:30. Go home and eat. There will be something on TV after dinner."
The adults did go home, but none of the children went home for dinner.
Wan Feng still remembers the TV programs at that time. The TV would start to have a signal around 6:20 every evening, a big black and white circle.
At half past six, the first thing to be shown was an animation. If there was nothing wrong, it should be the Japanese animation "Astro Boy", an animation shot in the 1950s.
Wan Feng still clearly remembers the theme song: Across the vast sky, la la la, fly to the distant stars, come on, Astro Boy, the good boy who loves science...
Astro Boy was a very influential character among adults and children at that time. Wan Feng still remembers that an issue of "China Youth Daily" in the late 1980s published the news of the death of Astro Boy's author.
At that time, all the children would wait anxiously in front of the TV after half past six, waiting for the protagonist with 100,000 horsepower and seven supernatural powers to appear.
After the cartoon is over, the news broadcast will begin, followed by some science and education films. A TV series will not be broadcast until around eight o'clock, and sometimes a football game will be broadcast.
It seems that the Asia-Pacific World Cup qualifiers that year were held that winter, which was the closest the national football team ever got to the World Cup.
Under normal circumstances, the TV program ends at around ten o'clock in the preview of tomorrow's program, a total of about three and a half hours.
The most commendable thing about television at that time was that there was not a single second of advertising.
Tomorrow is November 1st. In a week, the Chinese women's volleyball team will compete for their first world championship at the stadium in the east that seems to be called Daidaimu.
Wan Feng did not go home for dinner, but went to Luan Feng's house for a free meal.
Upon hearing that the team had bought a TV, the girls from the garment factory became very excited and ran to the team office early after dinner.
Wan Feng also came to the team headquarters after dinner. He was probably the only one who could handle the debugging of the TV.
When the TV had a signal, he took the TV out of the box and placed it on the welded stand, then connected the antenna power supply and pulled the switch, and a large snowflake appeared on the TV screen.
First fix the channel on U channel and then use fine tuning to find the channel.
After twisting it left and right a few times, a big circle finally appeared on the TV screen.
The children cheered, but when the cheering ended, the circle was still on the TV screen.
"Why is there only a big circle? Why isn't the performance going on yet?" a child asked anxiously.
"Don't wait a moment. There will be a show at half past six."
Wan Feng explained patiently.
In the blink of an eye, it was half past six, and the TV program finally appeared on the TV screen. It was just as Wan Feng had expected, the cartoon "Astro Boy".
Although the TV stand was two meters high, the TV was too small. Even with three layers of objects surrounding it, people behind it still couldn't see it clearly.
But there's nothing we can do about it.
Regardless of whether the people behind could see clearly or not, everyone was watching intently, especially the children, whose eyes were shining.
This cartoon in which the protagonist wears two tricorn hats is completely different from the domestic cartoons shown in movies, giving them a whole new impact.
Cartoons shown in movies are usually one episode long, but this cartoon is continuous, with another episode coming after the end of one episode.
This is very interesting.
After the cartoon, the news broadcast will start, then a documentary, and then a TV series.
In the blink of an eye, it was ten o'clock in the evening. When the word "Goodbye" appeared on the screen, everyone was still reluctant to leave.
After the TV show ended, Luan Feng immediately went to Wan Feng and said firmly, "I want a TV, I want a TV, I want a TV."
Did she say this important thing three times?
Is it necessary to repeat it so many times?
"No problem, if you want it, we'll buy it. I'll go buy it for you tomorrow."
The advent of television actually greatly changed the life trajectory of the people in Wa. Several people who were going to get married in winter, such as Li Erman and Lanzhi, told their partners clearly the next day that they could get married without a bicycle, a sewing machine, a watch, or a tape recorder, but they must have a television.
This shows the position that television occupies in their minds.
In fact, the other three turns and one ring together are almost enough to buy a TV.
However, they had to wait until their wedding to buy a TV, but Luan Feng's TV was taken back by Wan Feng on November 1st.
Wan Feng bought three televisions at one time, one of which was bought by Zhang Xian.
Zhang Xian is estimated to have a net worth of over ten thousand yuan now, so buying a TV is no problem at all.
Since Luan Feng's family has it, it would be embarrassing if grandma's family doesn't have it.
Zhang Xian's family didn't need an antenna because they lived in the mountains, so Wan Feng only erected antennas for Luan Feng's family and grandma's family.
That night, the fluorescent lights of television screens lit up in four places behind the depression.
Those who don’t have a TV are starting to get anxious, and many families are putting buying a TV on their agenda.
Many families are waiting for the team's dividends this year, and will buy a TV as soon as they get the money.
Especially on November 16, when the national women's volleyball team defeated the last opponent and won the World Cup for the first time, this desire to buy reached its climax.
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