The twins said in unison: "Radio!!"
No one in the Fengshou Brigade had a radio, and the children had never heard of it, so confusion was written on their faces.
"What is this?"
"What do you do?"
“I haven’t heard of it.”
Yubao sat on the big rock at the door of his new house, and the other children sat in a circle around him.
"My uncle said that the radio can be used to listen to stories, revolutionary songs, operas, and weather forecasts..."
Yubao is a generous child, and he immediately invited his friends, "We haven't used it yet, wait for Hengbao and I to listen, and you can also join us."
"Well, let's listen together." Hengbao also said.
These were his good friends, and he was willing to let them listen.
When the children heard Yubao say that they could listen to stories on the radio, their eyes lit up.
"Yubao, are the stories on the radio the same as in the comic books?" Yuanbao leaned against Yubao and asked curiously.
The twins have a lot of comic books. I lent them some. They are so good.
"It's the same." Yu Bao wasn't sure, but he thought the radio must be better than comic books.
"Then I want to listen." Yuanbao said excitedly, "Yubao, when will you listen?"
He was afraid of missing it, so he asked his friends clearly when to listen.
Yubao: "Don't worry, I don't know how to do it yet. When my parents come back, I'll ask them to teach me. I'll learn how to call you."
Tie Niu was anxious, "Yubao, there's me too! There's me too! I want to hear a story too!!"
"I will call you too. You all will." Yu Bao said.
Not far away, Song Yuncheng saw that the twins were so popular among the children and was amazed.
He is worthy of being Comrade Lin Zhao’s son. Look at his social skills, they are exactly the same as hers.
He raised his voice: "Yubao, Hengbao, I'm going to put something away, are you coming back?"
Yu Bao came back to his senses and said, "Yes."
He stood up, patted his butt, waved to his friends, took his younger brother and Little Hammer's hands, and went to Gu's house.
After arriving home, the twins instructed Song Yuncheng to put the things back into the house.
Song Yuncheng didn't stay long and said goodbye and left.
As soon as he left, Gu's mother called the twins over and asked directly, "Yubao, Hengbao, did you two know that your mother bought a job?"
The two brothers looked at each other and saw confusion in each other's eyes.
"I don't know." They both shook their heads.
Mother Gu was a little disappointed, but she didn't show it on her face. She still smiled at her grandson, "Are you happy going to the city today? Are you hungry? Qianbao and Yaobao are in the back with your parents?"
Ask several questions.
Yubao told his grandmother again what he had said to his friends.
When Mother Gu heard that they had a good meal, she felt relieved. It seemed that the uncle of the third daughter-in-law had a good impression of Cheng Huai.
That's good!
More than half an hour later, Lin Zhao and Gu Chenghuai finally returned home.
After putting Yaobao down, Lin Jiazhaozhao sat down on the stool and shook his arms violently.
No matter how strong you are, your arms will get sore if you hold for too long.
"Don't swing it so hard, be careful not to hurt your tendons. Let me massage it for you." Gu Chenghuai pulled his wife's arm and massaged her with moderate force.
"Mom, what's wrong with you?" Yubao ran over, his little face full of worry.
"My arms are sore from carrying Yaobao all the way," Lin Zhao said casually.
She finally discovered that Yaobao was very clingy to her, super clingy.
I hope that when I grow up I meet the kid in the original book and he/she will listen to her.
Yubao glanced at his sister, his eyes full of disapproval, and decided to explain the situation to Yaobao later.
That’s too bad. How can I let my mother carry me all the way!
He took a half step forward and raised his little fist to pat his mother's back.
"Mom, let me give you a massage."
What a sweetie this is.
"Thank you, baby." Lin Zhao's eyes were gentle.
Yu Bao blushed, but didn't shy away from her gaze. "You're welcome. I'm your son, and it's my duty to give you a back massage."
The limelight couldn't all be given to his brother, so Hengbao also stepped forward and started pressing hard.
Qianbao didn't squeeze in. He pouted, went to get his dictionary, dragged over a small mat and spread it out, then pulled his sister to sit next to his mother, focusing on keeping her company.
Gu Chenghuai: Very clever.
While Hengbao was massaging Lin Zhao's back, he asked, "Mom, do you know how to use the radio?"
Lin Zhao suddenly understood.
No wonder you didn’t go out to play with your friends. You’re just waiting here.
"I know. I'll teach you after I take a break."
Hengbao was delighted.
After a while, Lin Zhao recovered and said, "Okay, I'll go wash my face and listen to the radio after I wash my face."
"Mom, I'll get you some water!" Yubao's cheerful little voice rang out. He diligently went back to the house to get a basin, then ran out again, scooping water with a gourd ladle.
"Thank you, Yubao." Seeing that his son's mouth was a little dry, Lin Zhao asked, "Are you thirsty? If you are, ask your father to get you some mung bean soup from the well, and you and your brother can share a small bowl."
Drinking too much can cause diarrhea.
"Hey!" Yu Bao looked at Gu Chenghuai, "Dad, Mom asked you to make mung bean soup for us."
"Got it." Gu Chenghuai went to work and gave one bowl to the twins and one bowl to his wife.
Lin Zhao washed her face, drank two sips of mung bean soup to quench her thirst, took out the cloth bag containing the radio, unzipped it, and saw a cat-shaped radio, half the size of her arm, sprayed with black and white paint, and there was no strange smell.
A very thoughtful gift.
"It's the cat!!" Hengbao shouted.
He touched the radio gently, his eyes shining brightly.
Yu Bao also touched it, and his eyes curved into crescents.
"Yes, it's a cat." Lin Zhao saw a piece of paper at the bottom of the cloth bag. There were pictures and words on it. It was the instruction manual handwritten by Uncle Song.
"Your uncle even wrote an instruction manual. How thoughtful of him."
She referred to the instruction manual and turned the switch. A noisy sound was heard, accompanied by a hissing noise. She pulled up the wire, fiddled with it a few times, and then a song began to sound.
"There's a sound!" Yu Bao said excitedly.
"Someone is singing!" Heng Bao's eyes lit up. "Mom, just listen to the song. I'll sing it for you when I learn it."
Lin Zhao guessed that the child would like to hear this, so she didn't touch it again, "Okay."
He pointed at the switch again and said, "This is off. If you don't want to listen, turn it to the left."
"Yeah," the twins responded, staring at the cat radio and liking it more and more.
My uncle is so nice.
Xingran and other children of the Gu family no longer went out to play. Instead, they sat down around the radio on stools and listened to the music.
Anyone who speaks will be stared at by several pairs of eyes.
Lin Zhao stepped forward and turned up the volume, "Here is the volume, it can be loud or soft."
Yubao went forward and tried it, and the red song on the radio became louder and softer.
The child opened his eyes wide, looking surprised.
"How interesting." He looked at Lin Zhao, his eyes bright, "Mom, my great uncle can make a radio?!"
Hengbao also looked at his mother, his eyes brighter than his brother's.
He even cared about the skills of the master photographer in the photo studio and the techniques of his great uncle... of course he wanted to learn them too.
The twins were born to Lin Zhao, so of course she knew what they were thinking.
"No, your uncle knows someone who can do it."
Lin Zhao reached out and pinched Hengbao's little mouth as he tried to speak, smiling, "You should work hard to get into university. Universities teach everything, and they are all very good. You can learn any skill."
Let’s not talk about the twins for now. The children of the Gu family have complete trust in their third aunt Lin Zhao.
She said the college entrance examination would be resumed sooner or later, and they all believed it.
Since the classes were suspended, the lax and averse atmosphere to studying has not yet spread to the Gu family.
"We will!"
"Go to college and learn skills!"
After shouting the slogan, continue to listen to the song wholeheartedly.
Lin Zhao sat back and continued to drink the mung bean soup. Gu's mother called her. She was stunned for a moment and was about to stand up when Gu Chenghuai held her shoulders and said, "You sit down, I'll go."
He knew what his mother was going to ask and was worried that the relationship between the two would be damaged, so it would be better for him to step forward.
Lin Zhao seemed to be thinking about something.
Gu Chenghuai came to the main house and asked, "Mom, you want to ask about work, right?"
"You know?" Gu's mother blurted out.
"I know." Gu Chenghuai nodded, "Originally Zhao Zhao wanted to give the job to her elder sister, but I said it was inappropriate and asked her to give it to her elder brother-in-law."
Gu's mother was stunned for a moment, then she raised her hand and patted her son's arm, removing most of the force as she let go.
The third child is a soldier. He goes out in wind and rain and gets injured from time to time. As a mother, he feels very distressed about it.
"You..." Mother Gu was so angry that she didn't know what to say.
Gu Chenghuai said, "Mom, that's a job my wife found herself. Giving it to my eldest sister will cause trouble, and it's not suitable for our family..."
He is not the kind of person who would take his wife's things into his own hands.
Gu's mother also knew that there would be trouble for Ah Chan. The eldest and second daughters-in-law were going to make trouble, but...
There was nothing she couldn't say in front of her own son, "Qingzhou doesn't have a job either."
Gu Chenghuai was surprised, "Hasn't Qingzhou graduated yet?"
"It's true that we haven't graduated yet, but it's almost time..."
"He doesn't plan to go to high school?" Gu Chenghuai frowned and interrupted his mother.
Mother Gu looked a little unhappy and said, "Xing'er said some unpleasant things. Qingzhou said he would not study anymore and would look for a temporary job after graduating from junior high school. If he couldn't find one, he would come back to earn work points."
"Qingzhou has a stubborn temper. No matter how your father and I persuade him, it's useless."
Gu Chenghuai frowned even more tightly, with a cold and sharp light in his eyes, "What did Gu Xing'er say? What qualifications does she have to talk about Qingzhou!"
Mother Gu didn't want to mention it. "It's not nice to hear anyway. You know your brother's personality. He's very sensitive. He doesn't want to read it anymore."
"I'll go to my uncle's house to pick him up tomorrow and try to persuade him on the way." Gu Chenghuai wanted Qingzhou to go to high school. In the army, people with higher education always have better development than those without education.
"Yeah!" Gu's mother responded happily, "Qingzhou listens to you. He will definitely listen to you."
Gu's father, who had been silent the whole time, also said, "High school is only two years long and doesn't cost much. Let him finish high school anyway. When he graduates from high school, your mother and I won't stop him from doing anything he wants to do."
It’s not easy to go to junior high school.
Qingzhou is not like Xing'er, who fails every exam, but Qingzhou always gets first place. It's a pity for him not to go to high school.
Gu Chenghuai agreed, looked at his parents, and said, "Dad, Mom, whether he gets on the boat or not, I will not ignore him."
The year he went to the army, Qingzhou smashed his piggy bank, gave him all the money he had saved with great difficulty, and cried, asking him to take care of himself.
That money...
——Nine dollars and eighty-five cents.
Gu Chenghuai remembered this number clearly.
I am educated, smart and down-to-earth. He certainly won't watch him rot in day-to-day labor.
He had already decided to find a job for Qingzhou when he was about to graduate from high school.
After hearing what the most capable third brother said, the old couple felt relieved.
Seeing Cheng Huai was hesitating and not leaving immediately, how could Mother Gu not know what he was thinking about? She smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will persuade your sister-in-law and won't let them talk nonsense in front of your wife... Make your wife unhappy, go and do your own thing."
His mind is full of his wife. This kid is hopeless!
Gu Chenghuai's brows relaxed, "Thank you, mother."
He turned and left the house.
Lin Zhao saw his father coming out and asked curiously, "What's going on?"
"Nothing, I'll go to my uncle's house to pick up Qingzhou tomorrow." Gu Chenghuai said.
Gu's mother's hometown was very far away, and the road was bumpy and there was no end in sight. Lin Zhao only went there once and never wanted to go there again.
"What time do you leave?"
"I'll go right after I drop you off."
"There's some candy in the cupboard, take some," Lin Zhao said cheerfully. "You only go there once in a long time, so bring some more. There's a bottle of oil in the corner of the cupboard, take it."
Gu Chenghuai's stern brows suddenly melted, and he said in a low voice with a smile, "You are willing to even spend the oil."
What is there to be reluctant about?
What's a barrel of oil?
In the original book, when Sanzai was kidnapped, many people from Gu's mother's family also went to crowded places such as train stations and bus stops to help look for him. They held up wooden signs and asked everyone they met, and their feet were sore from walking.
They searched for as long as the Gu family had been looking for them.
"Give me some more White Rabbit candies. Don't be stingy. I'll buy more if they're gone."
Gu Chenghuai said gently: "Okay."
"There seems to be a sausage in the room, take that too."
"good."
…
The twins understood the radio and wanted to let their friends listen to it together, so Yubao asked, "Mom, can we take the radio to the door?"
"Okay, don't break it." Lin Zhao said, "This is a gift your uncle prepared for you. It took a lot of effort. You must cherish it, okay?"
"Got it!!" Hengbao said loudly.
Yubao thought of the photos and asked, "Mom, where are the photos of Yuanbao and the others? Can I give them some?"
"If you hadn't told me, I would have forgotten. I'll go get it."
Lin Zhao walked into the house while talking.
She took out the paper bag containing photos from her bag, picked out the photos of the children in the village as she walked out of the house, and asked the twins to deliver them to them.
The twins also saw their own photos and both of them smiled.
"This is a photo of me and Tiechui!!" Hengbao smiled brightly.
Little Hammer corrected him, "Hengbao, I'm not Hammer anymore, I'm Libao now."
Heng Bao said sternly, "No, you were still a hammer when the photo was taken, but now you are a treasure."
"The people in the photo are Tiechui and Erzai, right?" Tiechui smiled naively.
"That's right!" Heng Bao replied, imitating Lin Zhao and praising his good brother, "The hammer is really great."
The child grinned.
The other members of the Gu family were very happy when they saw each other's photos, and they washed their hands twice before touching them for fear of getting their hands dirty.
"This is me." said Huang Xiulan.
Zhao Liuniang saw that her collar was turned up in the photo and was very upset. "Oh, my collar is turned up. I looked in the mirror several times at that time."
"My hair is in my eyes!" Tiedan wailed.
Lai Mei put her hands on her hips and said proudly, "I stood really straight, looking like a little soldier! I am very satisfied, very satisfied!!"
Gu Lan had her first photo in her life. She stared at the photo in her palm and felt her palms sweating. She quickly put them on the table and wiped her body with both hands three times.
That's great.
Mr. and Mother Gu were also looking at the photos, their hearts filled with mixed feelings.
Having lived to this age and still left behind a few photos, who is as awesome as them?
"Third son's wife, you take great photos." Mother Gu praised.
Lin Zhao raised her lips and said, "Let's shoot again during the Chinese New Year."
She felt that this little money was worth it.
After the twins finished reading the photos, they gave them to Lin Zhao and asked her to keep them. Then they took the radio and the photos and left Gu's house.
As soon as I reached the door, I saw Yuanbao and others jumping out.
"Yubao!"
"Hengbao!"
"You guys finally came out!"
(End of this chapter)
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