Although the enthusiasm of the class was not high at the beginning when the counselor asked everyone to prepare the program, everyone tried their best after getting involved.

It was a pity that there were too many classes participating in poetry recitation and chorus performances at this welcome party, and unsurprisingly, their class's recitation program was eliminated.

But the drama "White-Haired Girl" passed the selection.

In fact, there were two classes that had the same idea as them this time, and one of the two programs they put on was a drama. However, the plays those two classes chose were relatively unpopular and very long, so they could only simplify the plots or select the best clips to perform.

They chose the latter.

It was only after they read the story that they realized it was a highlight. After watching the clips they performed, the audience who had not seen the original play felt that their performance was incoherent and confusing.

Moreover, since the drum play itself took up a lot of time, the rehearsal time was tight. During the selection, several students who participated in the performance forgot their lines or stuttered when reading them, which affected the overall effect.

Although some of the judges had read the story and understood the clips, they were ultimately eliminated after comprehensive consideration.

In contrast, although the plot of "The White-Haired Girl" is compressed, on the one hand, the story is familiar to everyone, and on the other hand, the main plot is retained, so the judges and the audience will not feel that it is incoherent.

In addition, everyone knew their lines by heart, and everyone performed very well on stage, and ultimately passed the selection with a unanimous vote.

Therefore, even though many female classmates in the class forgot about the welcome party when they saw He Yan, Ma Yan still remembered their mission and started to drive people out of the classroom at the appointed time.

He Yan also remembered why he came here, returned to his mother and sister, and followed the group to the auditorium.

When they arrived at the auditorium, the person in charge of discipline from the college student union came over when they saw them and asked what happened. Ma Yan looked back at her classmates and said helplessly, "There was an accident. I hope it won't delay us."

"Don't delay. Your class's show is in the middle."

Those who have programs will not be delayed, let alone those who don’t have programs.

After all, it was the first large-scale event held in the school after the sports movement, so it was quite impressive. In addition, the welcome party was open to all departments and colleges, so many students from other departments came, so there was no shortage of spectators.

Just as the party started, the auditorium was already full. The student in charge of discipline glanced at the group of students in front of him and said, "There are not many empty seats. You can only find a seat by yourself after you enter."

"It's okay." Ma Yan thanked them and led the students into the auditorium.

After entering, Ma Yan roughly scanned the seats and said in a low voice: "Boys sit here, girls sit in the middle. Everyone find your own seats and don't make loud noises."

"clear."

"knew."

The students answered one after another, but before they had taken a few steps, a girl asked, "Class monitor, Sanhuo is sitting with us, right?"

Some boys were dissatisfied: "Sanhuo is also a boy, so of course he should sit with us?"

People on both sides were arguing back and forth, and were about to start a quarrel. Ma Yan had to raise her voice slightly: "Enough! If you want to quarrel, go outside! He Yan, stay close to your mother and don't get lost." The implication was that the girls should sit together.

The girl who quickly realized this smiled triumphantly at the boys and said, "I told you so!"

After the seats were assigned, everyone went forward.

But when the girls reached the empty seats, there was another war of words. The seat to He Yan's left was undoubtedly Su Ting's, but everyone argued over who would sit to his right.

In order to calm the situation as quickly as possible, Ma Yan asked Manman to sit on He Yan's right, and she sat on Manman's right.

Everyone was stunned by this operation, and then said: "We can also sit on the right side."

Ma Yan ignored them and asked Man Man, "Man Man, do you want to sit with Aunt Yan Yan or with other aunts?"

She slowly raised her head to look at the people who were looking at her expectantly, then looked at Ma Yan and said, "I want to sit with Aunt Yan Yan."

"Look." Ma Yan spread her hands and urged, "Okay, everyone, stop dawdling and sit down to watch the show."

Seeing that the situation was hopeless, everyone turned around and watched the show.

Su Ting has watched the art troupe's performances twice, once on Pingchuan Island and once at the Shanghai base. The performers were also □□ people.

Among those who came to Shanghai to perform is Feng Jing. Compared with a few years ago, she has changed a lot. She is more confident and beautiful, and she looks radiant even without makeup.

Her singing is more moving than a few years ago. What has changed is not her voice, but the skills and emotions contained in the songs. Her dancing is also more graceful. It can be seen that she has made great progress in recent years.

Compared with the professional actors in the art troupe, the students who performed at this welcome party had many deficiencies in terms of skills, but they had a positive spirit, so the effect they presented was very good.

There was very little entertainment at that time, and performances like this were even less common. Su Ting saw quite a lot of them. In addition to the performances by the art troupe, the military district primary school also held a party every year.

But others may not be so lucky, so the people on the stage performed with all their heart, and the audience below also watched very attentively.

There were also some who were not so focused, such as the girls in Su Ting's class. They actually took advantage of the fact that no one was searching and brought a lot of snacks to the auditorium!

It would have been fine if they brought snacks, but no one told her that if she had known she could bring snacks, she would have missed the opportunity. As a result, she could only listen to them crunching their food.

Well, she didn't just listen to them rubbing their fingers, she also rubbed a lot.

Of course, it wasn't them who were being harassed, but He Yan and Man Man, brother and sister.

As for where the brother and sister got their snacks from, well, they were fed by the female classmates sitting in front, behind, and on both sides of them, so rounding it off, Su Ting could be considered to have gotten some of the snacks they brought.

Hence, for a while, the "crackling" sound continued, and Ma Yan's forehead veins throbbed.

She was also forgotten by her female classmates.

But unlike Su Ting, who basically did not stay in school except for classes and meals and therefore did not participate in the discussion, Ma Yan was deliberately kept in the dark.

After all, she is the class monitor. If she knew in advance that everyone was going to bring snacks in, she would definitely stop them.

Ma Yan indeed thought so. She made up her mind that if the school wanted to hold a party in the future, she must first check whether everyone had brought snacks. It would be ridiculous to keep "clicking" while watching a performance!

He Yan and Man Man were unaware of Ma Yan's troubles. They both straightened their backs, tilted their heads back, and stared at the stage intently.

The play being performed was "The White-Haired Girl", a story that was very familiar to adults, but very new to them, especially to Manman. It was her first time watching it, so she enjoyed it very much.

But no matter how focused they are, it doesn't stop them from accepting the food. They just "crunch" their mouths and eat all the peanuts and melon seeds!

So after the party, the brother and sister were not only satisfied spiritually, but also satisfied in their stomachs. When they went home, their stomachs were bulging!

…

After the welcome party, it was National Day. Su Ting and He Yan’s school both had three days off, but the nursery had less than one day off.

But the nursery curriculum is simple, and the teacher's main job is to play with the children, so it doesn't matter if she takes a few days off. So Su Ting took some time off and returned home with her two children.

He Dongchuan did not take a holiday on National Day. The army was holding an activity and no one could be absent.

Activities were also organized in the compound to organize all the military wives and children to listen to the radio together.

Yes, listen to the radio, not watch TV.

To ordinary people at that time, televisions were legendary items, even rarer than the three major appliances.

In larger state-owned factories, several tickets for three major items are issued throughout the year. Even if there are no special tickets, if there are many regular workers in the family, you can save up a year's worth of industrial coupons and buy one of the three major items with a little effort.

As for TV tickets, big companies with tens of thousands of people might get one occasionally, but ordinary people rarely get them.

Even if you get the ticket, most people are reluctant to spend the money. An average two-worker family saves for a year and their savings are only enough to buy one of the three major items. And the money for a TV can buy two sets of the three major items.

There were hundreds of households living in the Navy compound, but only the political commissar's family had a TV. Moreover, the political commissar and his wife argued for half a month over buying this TV.

Because the political commissar's wife wanted to buy it, but the political commissar thought it was too expensive.

Of course, this is the apparent reason. Some people also speculate that the political commissar does not want people to think that he is extravagant and wasteful. After all, his external image has always been very simple.

The political commissar was unable to convince his wife, and their family finally bought the TV.

But because the political commissar's wife particularly treasures this TV, she may not be happy even if her own children want to turn on the TV, let alone other people's children going to her house to watch TV.

Director Zhao and Director Wang also thought about it and wanted to persuade the political commissar's wife to move the TV to the yard, and they organized the wives of soldiers and children to watch TV.

But considering the character of the political commissar's wife, they finally gave up this option and decided to listen to the radio.

Maybe because it was National Day, the radio could receive more stations than usual, and every station was very festive and had prepared many celebration activities.

Although we couldn't see the picture, we were all very happy listening to the sounds coming from the radio.

The activity started at 2 pm and was originally planned to end at 4 pm so as not to delay the wives of the soldiers from going home to make lunch. But after it ended, everyone was still reluctant to listen and begged to listen for another half an hour. After the radio was turned off, everyone gathered together to chat for a while until after 5 pm.

Therefore, the dinner time in the compound was all pushed back by half an hour to an hour that day.

The dinner time at Su Ting's house was not postponed. After all, she only prepared the dishes, and the chef was He Dongchuan, who came back at six o'clock. Usually, dinner would be served between six-thirty and seven o'clock.

After finishing their meal and washing the dishes, He Dongchuan took He Yan downstairs to practice martial arts, while Su Ting followed to watch.

Because it was a festival, the area downstairs of Building 10 was more lively than usual, with people practicing martial arts, watching, chatting, and even a few children setting off firecrackers, one after another.

We played until almost nine o'clock before everyone went home. By the time everyone at home took turns taking a shower and brushing their teeth, it was already past eleven o'clock when they went to bed.

Su Ting was a little sleepy, but He Dongchuan was in good spirits. He held her on his waist and kissed her lips again and again, making her confused and ecstatic, and then he ate her up.

During the three-day holiday, He Dongchuan ate his fill. When anyone saw him in the military camp, an idiom would pop up in their mind - triumphant and elated.

Someone laughed and joked that He Dongchuan accepted it all. It was a rare opportunity for him to spend three days with his wife, so what was wrong with being a little proud?

…

After the holidays, Su Ting finally finished drawing the furniture designs.

The reason why it took more than half a month to finish the painting was not because Su Ting was procrastinating, but because she was too busy. The workload in the new semester was heavier than that in the previous semester. In addition to completing her homework in the last semester, she still managed to spare a lot of time to draw comics. This semester, it was good enough that she could spare three evening self-study hours a week to draw.

Moreover, drawing furniture seemed simple, as she didn't need to think about the proportions and details, she just needed to draw the shape. However, these furniture were to be placed at home, so she had to think about the color matching and whether the style was suitable in advance, otherwise she would regret it after the furniture was built.

For a professional interior designer, this task may not be difficult, but Su Ting is not a professional, and drawing these would make her bald.

Moreover, after finishing the painting, Su Ting was still not sure whether the craftsmen could make it. Even if they could, it was still a question whether they could produce the effect she imagined, so she was very nervous.

Compared to Su Ting's nervousness, He Dongchuan was very calm. He thought that as long as the furniture could be used, it was fine. This was a typical straight male way of thinking.

The two children were very satisfied with the picture drawn by Su Ting and were full of expectations for their future rooms.

On the first Sunday after the holiday, the family set out to the carpentry cooperative amid the mother's anxiety, the father's calmness, and the two children's anticipation.

He Dongchuan had already prepared the necessary wood and had hauled it to No. 67 by car. What they had to do now was to take the furniture drawings to the cooperative to find a master and ask if he could produce the effect in the drawings.

The staff of the cooperative was a little confused. In all his years in the business, he had only seen people choose furniture styles based on the patterns they provided, and had never seen someone come with a drawing and ask if it could be done.

Because he had been in the industry for many years, although he had always been doing the simplest reception work, he was very sharp. He saw the business opportunity as soon as he flipped through the drawings and hurried into the house to find the director of the cooperative.

Before leaving the office, the director was a little disapproving. They were the largest woodworking cooperative in the vicinity and had cooperation with the largest furniture factory in Shanghai.

The furniture made by the Shanghai furniture factory is the most popular nowadays, and he can basically make the styles that the furniture factory can make here. He really doesn't think that an outsider can draw such innovative and beautiful furniture styles.

Although he thought so in his heart, the director of the cooperative did not show any disrespect when facing Su Ting and the others. He greeted them politely, turned the topic to furniture, and brought up the issue of looking at pictures.

When he opened the sketches, he still had a faint smile on his face, but after looking at two pictures, his expression gradually became serious. When he finished reading the whole sketch, his expression became serious: "I would like to ask, who drew these pictures?"

"I drew it." said Su Ting.

"Comrade, are you in this line of work?"

Su Ting shook her head: "No, but I taught myself to paint."

The director asked again: "Did you come up with these designs?"

In fact, many of these furniture are common styles in later generations, but Su Ting cannot tell the truth because she originally came from the countryside, and most rural families do not have a few decent pieces of furniture.

Not long after the original body followed the army to Pingchuan Island, Su Ting came here. In the past few years, she and He Dongchuan were inseparable, and they were indeed inseparable. It is impossible that he has not seen the furniture she has seen.

After pondering for a moment, Su Ting said vaguely: "Some of them are drawn by me based on the two children's descriptions of the furniture they wanted. Is there anything wrong with these pictures?"

"There's nothing wrong with the pictures," the director said quickly, "I just think these styles are very nice and I haven't seen them on the market before."

Su Ting said, "I don't know much about this. Can the furniture we want be made according to the drawings?"

"Technically there is no problem, but I need to discuss the details with the masters in the society."

"How long will you discuss this?"

"I'm going to have a meeting with someone now." The director asked the receptionist to go and call someone for the meeting, but he did not leave. Instead, he discussed with Su Ting, "Also, I want to ask, after the furniture is finished, can we make a copy of these drawings and keep them for later use?"

Su Ting understood what the other party meant, but she did not directly ask, "What do you mean?"

The director explained the content in simpler and clearer words, and then rubbed his hands and said: "If you like, we will not charge for the labor of this batch of furniture. You just need to pay for the materials."

This is a pleasant surprise.

Su Ting considered copyright issues when drawing the pictures, but decades later people's copyright awareness is very weak. For furniture and clothing, if one company launches a new style, many others will follow suit or even copy it, not to mention now.

If she wanted to make furniture, she would definitely leave the drawings at the cooperative. If they wanted to use them themselves, they could just copy a drawing during the time when the furniture was being made. No, it was not a copy. She only gave the outline drawing. The craftsman at the cooperative would definitely need to redraw it before making it. The reason was reasonable and logical.

In the future, when the cooperative presents the redrawn pictures to customers for selection, she may not even know about it. Even if she knows, there is nothing she can do.

The fact that the director of the cooperative took the initiative to tell her all this showed that he was an honest person. Although he only waived the labor fee, Su Ting knew that in such a small cooperative, even the director would have limited power.

Although Su Ting added her own ideas when painting these furniture, the overall style of furniture was still popular in later generations. She did not regard these as her own things, nor did she expect to make a lot of money from them, so she readily agreed to the proposal of the director of the cooperative.

After talking with Su Ting, the director of the cooperative went to the meeting. Although he invited Su Ting and He Dongchuan, they both knew that the discussion would involve a lot of technical content and that as outsiders, they were not suitable to participate, so they declined the invitation.

The meeting lasted nearly an hour. After it ended, the director of the cooperative came out and told them that the technical requirements for this batch of furniture were not high and their cooperative could do it, but the color might not be exactly the same as the drawing.

Su Ting understood this point. She used pigments for coloring, which was definitely different from paint, and said that this could be discussed further. So the director of the cooperative called the painter to discuss the color matching of the furniture with her in detail.

By the time everything was settled, it was almost noon and the two children were starving, but they still had to go to No. 67 to haul wood.

After discussing it, the couple decided to split up. He Dongchuan took the people from the cooperative to No. 67, while Su Ting took the two children to the state-owned hotel to order food.

By the time the first dish was served, He Dongchuan had finished his work and came over.

After he sat down, Su Ting poured him a glass of water and asked, "Are those woods enough?" Although they bought some wood, the quantity was estimated by themselves and they were not sure whether it was enough.

He Dongchuan said: "It may be almost done. I asked them to make the bedroom and kitchen furniture first. I will ask someone to see if I can buy more wood when I go back."

He Yan, who was eating hard, raised his head and asked, "Will the furniture in our room be ready soon?"

"I told them to start with the furniture in your room, but it won't be fast. It will probably take more than a month."

Although there are many carpenters in the cooperative, the end of the year is the peak season for weddings and many people want to make furniture, so orders are placed half a month later.

Although the director of the cooperative said that he would arrange for people to make their custom-made furniture in the next few days, there was only one carpenter who could be mobilized, and there were two apprentices, but they could only help, so the speed would not be very fast.

Man Man also interrupted and asked, "When can we move into our new home?"

He Dongchuan said: "It will probably be after the Chinese New Year." The cooperative will definitely be able to finish making this batch of furniture before the Chinese New Year, but because the furniture needs to be painted, it will take some time to air after it is finished.

"All right."

The brother and sister sighed in unison; they thought they would be able to move into their new home soon.

…

The carpentry cooperative progressed a little faster than they expected. Just as November began, the furniture in the brother and sister's room was completed and the paint was almost dry.

He Dongchuan took advantage of his Sunday break to go to the carpenters' cooperative and drag the finished furniture back to No. 67.

The truck for hauling furniture was arranged by the woodworking cooperative. They need the truck for both importing wood and delivering furniture, and they have a good relationship with the transportation company.

The people who carried the furniture were found by He Dongchuan. The number of educated youth returning to the city increased significantly this year. Some of them returned by confessing and passing exams, but some returned secretly.

The former were arranged with jobs after returning, while the latter became vagrants. Some of them just lived a life of idleness and became street vagrants, but some did not want to rely on their parents and secretly started small businesses.

Moving furniture is a job that only requires physical effort, and many people are vying to do it.

He Dongchuan found two young men to carry the furniture up and down the stairs skillfully, so he didn't have to do anything at all.

While waiting for the furniture, Su Ting and He Dongchuan were not idle. They hired someone to repaint the walls and cleaned the house twice themselves.

Now, although No. 67 is not drastically different from before, it can be said to be brand new, especially after the furniture was moved in, it looks really presentable.

He Yan is older now, and he is more reserved in expressing his emotions than when he was a child. Even if he likes someone, he doesn't show it too obviously. He just stands in the room, looking at the walls and furniture, as if he can't look enough.

Man Man didn't care so much. He walked into the room and shouted in surprise. He climbed onto the bed and sat down and asked, "Mom and Dad, can I sleep here tonight?"

"Are you sleeping here alone?" Su Ting asked.

My mind started to work quickly: "There's also my brother!"

Su Ting refused, "No, there are no quilts here, and the furniture is painted, so we need to ventilate the paint to get rid of the smell."

"Okay." He slowly spread his arms, collapsed on the bed, closed his eyes and asked, "When can we move in?"

"After the New Year?"

"When is the New Year?"

"This year, the Chinese New Year is at the end of January, so there are still three months left."

Slowly turned sideways: "It will take a long time~"

"This is for your health."

She continued to sigh slowly, and when she left, she said goodbye to the bed, closet, dressing table and other furniture one by one. If someone didn't know and only heard the sound, they might think she was going on a long journey and would never come back, and she was saying goodbye to her friends.

Su Ting could only sigh at this, she didn't understand the world of little kids!

…

A lot of things happened between the end of 1978 and the beginning of 1979.

The first thing is that the fourth story of the Sanhuo series has officially ended. Because of the exposure, after this story was finished, Su Ting was not only urged by the editor to submit manuscripts, but also people in the class and even in the school who knew her would ask her three questions when they saw her: Have you drawn the new story? What is it about? When will it start serialization?

Su Ting's answer was also three-in-one: I'm thinking about it, I'm considering it, I don't know.

The second thing is that the school wants to publish a school magazine, but the teachers and professors in the school are not convenient to get involved, so the task falls on the students. Of course, the students are also happy to participate in it. After all, if the school magazine can be run, it will be an extra item on their resumes when they graduate.

The most enthusiastic response came from the Chinese Department students, who were well suited to the subject. With her own abilities, Ma Yan quickly assumed an important position in the newly established school magazine editorial department.

Su Ting was not originally planning to participate. Her answer to the urgent manuscript submission was not a perfunctory response. She was indeed thinking about a new story, so she did not have much time to devote to extracurricular activities.

But everyone in the school magazine thought that Su Ting was famous, and with her around, it would be easier to promote the school magazine. Finally, after a meeting and discussion, they decided to let Ma Yan be the lobbyist.

Ma Yan had been a class monitor since she was young. She joined the student union in college and was doing very well. She had a lot of reasons to talk about, and Su Ting couldn't convince her, so she agreed to take up a position on the school magazine.

But the two also agreed that Su Ting would only be a title, and would go around on important occasions to tell the seniors and juniors who had just joined the school magazine that it was enough for the school magazine to have someone like her.

In other words, it's a mascot.

The third thing is that in December of this year, at the latest meeting, a major decision was made to implement reform and opening up.

Although people's lives did not change much in the short term, all the shops on the streets were still state-owned, and those who dared to do business secretly still hid, fearing that they would be caught.

But Su Ting knew that these were all temporary. After this meeting, a new era was slowly opening.

The changes in the next ten years will be earth-shaking.

The last thing was that after the Chinese New Year, they gave up the house they had rented for a year. Because they had bought new furniture, they no longer needed the furniture they had bought from the flea market. They sold the desk and sofa to Duan Xiaolan and his wife, and the rest were sold to Professor Zhou at a discount.

The only luggage they needed to pack was clothing, which greatly reduced the difficulty of their move. The process was very smooth and everything was done in less than two hours.

Before moving into his new home, He Dongchuan got a gas tank, had someone check the shower system, and replaced the water pipes and shower heads.

So after moving to No. 67, after many years, Su Ting finally took a shower in her own home and felt very satisfied.

He Dongchuan was also satisfied. He finally fulfilled his wish and took his wife to the bathroom for sex.

He was very satisfied with the process, but it was a bit water-consuming. Maybe he can do it again when the weather gets warmer?