In April 1983, the Ministry of Light Industry held the first national clothing, shoes and hats exhibition in five provinces and cities at the Beijing Agricultural Exhibition Hall. It was unprecedented and very popular among the people.
Leaders from the Central Committee and the State Council also visited the exhibition and offered guidance. During the trade fair, the Shanghai Municipal Handicraft Administration Bureau organized the country's first clothing model performance team to perform at the fair, showcasing their new clothing styles and products, thereby expanding sales.
Unfortunately, Fengfeng Garment Factory is a self-employed business and is not eligible to participate in such an event, otherwise it could use this platform to expand its influence.
The garment factory now has two shifts of more than 200 workers. These workers cannot work all day long. Appropriate activities should be organized for them to relax.
Wan Feng was also thinking about whether he should set up a model team or something. Although their products were in short supply and there seemed to be no need for a model team, he wanted to give these girls a chance to show their youth and beauty.
Then there is the girls’ amateur cultural life.
The women working in the garment factory are as young as 17 or 18 years old, and as old as 22 or 23 years old. Ninety percent of them are unmarried. They have plenty of energy that needs to be released.
Although the garment factory has done a good job in preventing chaos, Wan Feng knows that blocking is not as good as loosening. Blocking without loosening is not a good solution. They should be given some correct ways to promote power.
The brigade's yard is wide and long enough, and Wan Feng believes it should be fully utilized.
After dinner, Wan Feng returned to the village and hired a tricycle to go to the county town to do some shopping.
The things he bought were not available in the market, mainly sports equipment and some musical instruments.
Sporting goods include volleyball, table tennis and badminton.
The musical instruments are some traditional instruments, of course there are also guitars, timpani, electronic keyboards and so on.
The Casio electronic keyboard in Astro Boy is very expensive.
These things cost Wan Feng several thousand dollars, mainly because this electronic keyboard was valuable.
The large room in the cafeteria's row of side rooms where the televisions were placed became the place where these musical instruments were placed. Wan Feng planned to select some girls with musical and dancing talents to form a music and dance team, and hire some people with musical expertise to teach them how to sing, dance and play.
Wan Feng believed that if he wanted to, it would not be difficult to cultivate a singer among these people.
If you train well, you can record a tape and sell it in the future and have enough money left to hire a singer.
The girls on the night shift couldn't let go of the music that Wan Feng bought. They touched this and looked at that as if they hadn't seen the day before.
A girl took her guitar out of its case and got startled when she pulled the strings.
"Director Wan, can you make these things you bought?" a female worker asked.
Wan Feng shook his head: "Not all of them, I can't even handle many of them."
"Do you know how to do this?" asked the female worker who had just made the guitar noisy, holding the guitar in both hands.
In 1983, the guitar was definitely a new thing.
The girls were familiar with the musical instruments Wan Feng bought, such as the flute and erhu, but they had rarely seen electronic keyboards and guitars, and they rarely even appeared on TV.
However, Wan Feng does know how to play the guitar.
When I was in high school in my previous life, if I remember correctly, it was the summer of 1984. I don’t know where this bad trend came from, but playing guitar started on campus.
Many students were pretending to be serious by hanging guitars on their shoulders.
Wan Feng was already a tenth grade student at that time. A student named Lu and another named Wu in the dormitory each bought a guitar, which cost about 37 yuan.
At that time, the school had a monthly scholarship of eight dollars. These two guys saved for four months and then scrimped and saved to earn five dollars to buy these two things.
There were not many people in the dormitory who knew the music score, so we just played along with the tune.
At first, it was treated like a treasure and people would blush and get angry when they touched it, but once the novelty wore off, it became public property and people would play it for them at will.
It was at this time that Wan Feng learned to play the guitar, and of course he played it by figuring out the tune of the song.
He is quite talented in music, learns quickly and has a good voice.
He is one of those who learn the fastest. Some people play the piano every day but still can't learn it.
Later, he bought the guitar of the classmate named Lu for fifteen yuan.
Don’t even mention that being able to play guitar in school is a very cool thing.
Their middle school is right on the edge of the Longjiang River, a hundred meters away from the river.
Sitting on the beach by the river in the summer evening, playing the guitar and singing a popular song at the time, such as "Grandma's Penghu Bay", "Country Road", "Late", etc., the female classmates would look at you with wet and sparkling eyes.
Wan Feng’s first love in his previous life happened under such circumstances.
But my first love at that time was just the two of us secretly taking a walk by the river and talking for a few words for a long time. I think we even held hands, and we had no contact after graduation.
Wan Feng even couldn't remember her name now.
“This one will do.”
"Then play it for us." The girls immediately became excited when they heard that Wan Feng could play this.
"No, no, I can't play this. What if I play it and you all fall in love with me?"
Wan Feng's words were met with a round of scornful boos.
"I can fall in love with you just by playing the guitar? Director Wan, are you a sentimental person?"
"Bah! No wonder Master Erman and the others always say that our Xiaowan factory is too outspoken. It's true."
Hahaha, Li Erman and the others had been fooled by me many times before, so of course they knew this well.
"Huh? Don't you guys on the night shift sleep?"
"The day shift is almost done. We'll be back to work after dinner, and you're still letting us sleep?"
After hearing this, Wan Feng remembered that it was already past four in the afternoon and those working the day shift were about to get off work.
"Since you'll be on the night shift in two hours, I'll grant your small request and sing two songs for you to broaden your horizons. What songs would you like to hear?"
"Grandma's Penghu Bay!" a female worker suggested.
Tape recorders were not uncommon in Wanfeng, so there were several in the garment factory. They were the old wooden boxes, and the sound quality was much better than those with plastic shells today. The female workers listened to them every day, so they knew many popular songs from Hong Kong and Taiwan at that time.
"Grandma's Penghu Bay" was a song released in 1979 and is still very popular in mainland China.
Wan Feng picked up the guitar and started to test the sound. He bought this Red Cotton guitar for fifty yuan, and the pitch was pretty good.
After adjusting the sound, Wan Feng tried to fiddle with it for a while to find the feeling of that year.
In his previous life, he hadn't touched this thing since he was twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, and his hands were so unfamiliar with it.
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