Wang Tianxiao got what he wanted, and Mijia Village finally got the utility poles it needed, and construction officially began.
As for Wangjia Village, which was previously their village, door-to-door visits have already begun.
During the home delivery phase, the power supply station's engineers come to each household to deliver electricity and install electricity meters.
It is used to measure how many kilowatt-hours of electricity each household uses.
In fact, electricity prices have changed very little over the decades.
Electricity costs 35 cents per kilowatt-hour now, but in forty years from now, it will cost only 50 or 60 cents.
Because some households haven't paid, Wang Tianxiao has temporarily covered the line transmission costs, so they are not eligible to use electricity for the time being. They will have to pay Wang Tianxiao when they want to use it before electricity can be connected to their homes.
People are always full of curiosity about new and interesting things.
Although many people may not seem very attentive or enthusiastic when the power is being cut off, they are often stunned and dumbfounded when the power station engineers connect the electricity and install light bulbs.
They never expected the light to be so bright.
It illuminated the night as brightly as day, not just slightly brighter than a kerosene lamp as one might imagine.
Although the lamps used in this era were still the most traditional tungsten filament bulbs, and they were all low-wattage, only 25 watts.
If the room is too big, it's not actually very bright.
Compared to the kerosene lamps of the past, it was like heaven and earth.
With these people setting an example, many people who hadn't pulled the power cord started to get restless and joined the ranks of those pulling the power cord.
In less than half a month, seventy or eighty of the hundred households that had not previously had electricity were willing to get electricity and paid Wang Tianxiao, without even waiting for the previously agreed three months.
This situation was naturally within Wang Tianxiao's plan.
The most prominent characteristic of people in our country, especially in rural areas, is their tendency to compare themselves with others.
There's the competition of who gets to eat more, who gets to sell more, who gets to earn more money, who gets more grain from the fields, and so on.
Basically, they compare everything they can think of with other people's homes, hoping to outdo them, so that they can feel more noble and happier.
Right now, seeing other people's homes brightly lit at night while yours is pitch black, who can stand that?
Especially for many people, neighbors and brothers who are not on good terms, if one family has electricity while the other does not, it is worse than killing them. They cannot bear it for even a minute and will immediately try every means, even if it means borrowing money, to get electricity.
Under these circumstances, the village got its first television.
It was a Yellow River brand black and white television that Wang Tianxiao had bought.
Fourteen inches.
When Wang Tianxiao erected a tall TV antenna pole next to the pit courtyard, with several aluminum rods on it and a long antenna hanging from it all the way down to the pit courtyard, the villagers were extremely curious.
Everyone was speculating about what it was.
They all came to see the Wang family's pit courtyard.
As a result, they saw that there were people moving and talking inside a small box. Their worldview was completely shattered. They could hardly understand how such a thing worked, and it was no different from imagining gods.
Although television can only receive CCTV-1 now, and the only shows available are simple dramas and some news programs, people still enjoy watching them.
The children didn't want to go back to do their homework, the women didn't want to go back to cook, and the men were too embarrassed to keep watching, but they were itching to do it themselves.
Everyone was very envious, feeling that the television placed in Zhang Yufeng's room had turned her room into a sacred place.
Many people have naturally thought about buying one themselves, but the price is really not something that ordinary people can afford, so they are both envious and regretful.
Many people then set a goal: to make money. Once they've made enough, they'll buy a big TV to watch at home. How awesome would that be? Look at all those people above, they're all so good-looking and have such pleasant voices.
Unlike the villagers, who are all rustic and talk in a loud, boisterous way, as if they could shake the sky.
As for Zhang Yufeng, this old lady was very happy because her son put the first television in the village in her house, which not only gave her the opportunity to watch TV, but also made the other old ladies in the village envious. They all praised her for having such a successful son.
He's always smiling from ear to ear.
She used to have a serious face, but now she smiles more often.
Especially in the evenings, after a day's work is done, what about the children and grandchildren?
They sat around each other, watching TV, chatting and laughing, creating a lively atmosphere.
This brought her a lot of joy.
Previously, kerosene lamps would be lit not long after dark, but the dim light couldn't last long before people dispersed.
All she could see was her own lonely back.
That's good now.
A large family needs a lot of people to look like a proper family.
At this moment, she felt very grateful to Wang Tianxiao, and also felt that she had mistreated her son too much before.
Just because he was more sensible and hardworking than other children, I didn't pay much attention to him, and most of the time he just let himself go.
Whether you get married or move out to live, you have to rely on yourself.
Because he didn't want to cause chaos at home, even though he knew that the third son's family was like that and often tried to bully the second son's wife, he only talked to them briefly and didn't really put in the effort to deal with it.
Looking back now, I realize how heartbroken my son must have been when he came home to find his wife lying on the kang (a heated brick bed) with a high fever last year. I don't know how he could blame himself anymore.
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