Chapter 101: Carrying your bag, you are still that young man
When Cheng Xuyuan woke up from his sleep, he felt dry mouth and splitting headache.
What's going on?
I seem to be drunk!
I opened my eyes and looked around, and saw that it was dark all around and it was getting dark.
On an eight-immortal table with one leg broken, there was a large bowl and a hollow kettle.
Cheng Xuyuan couldn't help it, so he got out of bed, picked up the thermos and poured a glass of water. After trying it and finding it wasn't too hot, he drank it down in one gulp.
The sweet taste hit Cheng Xuyuan's taste buds, making him feel a lot more comfortable instantly.
Now, drinking doesn't seem to be my strong point! Just as Cheng Xuyuan was touching his head, wondering if he had said something he shouldn't have said before getting drunk, the door was pushed open from the outside.
Cheng Ruomiao ran in with a layer of grease on the corners of her mouth. When she saw Cheng Xuyuan drinking water, she was immediately startled.
It looked like a kitten that was caught stealing food.
"Brother, are you awake?" Cheng Ruomiao said in a low voice.
Cheng Xuyuan smiled and said, "Xiao Miao, what are you doing here?"
Cheng Ruomiao hesitated for a moment, but finally said with courage: "Brother, I'm thirsty. Let me come to your place to drink some water."
Cheng Xuyuan looked at the big bowl in his hand, then at the hollow kettle, and immediately understood.
My sister is here to secretly drink the sugar water.
He smiled and said, "If you are thirsty, I will pour you a bowl."
While drinking the sugar water poured by her brother, Cheng Ruomiao said excitedly: "Brother, the curtains for the movie have been set up. They said they will start the movie after dark."
"The projectionist is eating!"
"Dad asked someone to prepare a bowl of braised pork for each of them."
Speaking of braised pork, Cheng Ruomiao couldn't help but lick her lips.
Although a pig was slaughtered, most of the meat was used for the banquet.
As the host family, the Cheng family only kept a piece of fat meat weighing three or four pounds to prepare for making dumplings during the New Year.
Cheng Xuyuan knew that in this era when there were no televisions, movie projectionists were considered distinguished guests as soon as they arrived in the village and were very popular.
Especially for those who are specially invited to show movies, not only do you have to pay money, but you also have to treat them with good cigarettes and good wine.
"Brother, they originally said they would only show two movies, but after hearing that you were admitted to Yanjing University, they decided to show three!"
Cheng Ruomiao's voice was filled with excitement as she said, "I heard from Brother Xuye that today, in addition to playing The Visitor on the Iceberg and Tunnel Warfare, they are also playing... The Secret Post of Guangzhou!"
Hearing the names of these three movies, Cheng Xuyuan couldn't help but smile.
Although he had watched many movies in his previous life, these three movies are still unforgettable memories of his childhood.
I didn't expect that after I was admitted to university, I would also play these three movies.
"Brother, go eat something. Mom left you half a bowl of braised pork!" Cheng Ruomiao said, "Let's go to the movies after we finish eating."
Cheng Xuyuan glanced outside the slightly dark room and was really reluctant to go out.
After all, the cold wind on a winter night is extremely cold.
But after all, this movie was specially performed for me. If I didn't go, I would be letting down Cheng Jiaxing's good intentions as a father.
"Do you want to eat something with me?" Cheng Xuyuan asked Cheng Ruomiao.
"Okay!" Cheng Ruomiao just agreed, and then seemed to think of something and said, "Brother, I've already eaten, so I won't eat anymore."
"Let's go. I think you can still eat something." Cheng Xuyuan took Cheng Ruomiao's hand and walked towards the kitchen of their home.
The kitchen was not big, mainly made of adobe bricks. Although there was nothing fancy, Wang Guilan had made it look neat and presentable. When Cheng Xuyuan walked into the kitchen, the fire in the stove had gone out, but there were still a lot of red sparks.
When he lifted the lid of the big pot, he saw half a bowl of braised pork and three big white steamed buns warming on the sieve. No need to ask, these were specially reserved for him.
Taking out the braised pork and steamed buns, Cheng Xuyuan handed a steamed bun to Cheng Ruomiao and said, "Come, take this steamed bun and break it open. I'll teach you a new way to eat it."
In fact, for Cheng Ruomiao, whether it is a new way of eating or not, she doesn't care. As long as she can eat it, it's fine.
Now, it is the eldest brother who holds the power, so she obeys his orders.
She ate up most of the bowl of braised pork and swallowed half a large white steamed bun. She could have eaten another steamed bun, but her brother stopped her.
He was afraid that his sister would not be full and would eat too much too fast, causing her stomach to feel uncomfortable. Normally, the youngest child in the family should be spoiled. But this child had grown up without any special treatment. How could her appetite, which could digest sorghum flour steamed buns on weekdays, withstand the pampering of half a bowl of braised pork?
"Miaomiao, are the steamed buns delicious?"
"tasty!"
“Is the braised pork delicious?”
"tasty!"
"Do you want to eat it later?"
"I still want to."
Looking at Cheng Ruomiao who was still not satisfied, Cheng Xuyuan smiled and said, "If you want to eat more meat in the future, there is only one way: study hard."
"If you can get into college like me, you'll have plenty of opportunities to eat meat in the future!"
"Of course, if you can't study as hard as I did, then if you want to eat meat in the future, you'll have to wait until the Chinese New Year!"
When he heard the word "study", Cheng Ruomiao, who was drooling, suddenly looked embarrassed.
But looking at the half-eaten braised pork in front of Cheng Xuyuan, she finally gritted her teeth and said, "Brother, I will study hard in the future."
"I want to eat more meat like you."
Looking at Cheng Ruomiao who was gritting her teeth and seemed to be in great pain, Cheng Xuyuan couldn't help but want to laugh.
After eating steamed buns and a few pieces of braised pork, Cheng Xuyuan felt his stomach felt much better.
Cheng Ruomiao wiped the last bit of oil and water in the bowl with a steamed bun, drank half a bowl of sugar water, and then, contentedly, pulled Cheng Xuyuan to the village entrance.
From the moment the news of filming was learned, the entire Chengjiazhuang has been in an indescribable state of excitement.
People's desire to make movies is like the hope for a deep rain in a dry spring.
In this era of material scarcity and monotonous entertainment, open-air movies brought endless fun to those who worked hard on this yellow land.
What Cheng Xuyuan didn't know was that in the late afternoon, the slowly setting sun was still shining brightly on the earth, and some impatient children couldn't wait to carry bamboo and wooden stools of different sizes, trotting to the village entrance and grabbing the space! When he and his sister arrived at the screening site, the movie had already started, and it was "The Secret Post of Guangzhou".
The movie had just begun, but the area below the screen was already crowded with people.
Some people sat on small stools, some sat on half a brick, and some even came to the threshing ground and climbed onto a pile of particularly solid wheat straw...
Looking at the scene in front of him, Cheng Xuyuan felt that there were not so many people in Chengjiazhuang.
Among them, there are many people from other villages in the surrounding area.
However, right below the movie screen, Cheng Jiaxing, wearing a black woolen coat, was sitting in the middle, watching the movie and talking to someone.
Cheng Xuyuan and Cheng Ruomiao walked over, and heard someone in the crowd ask, "Have the college students from your village arrived?"
"I heard that he drank too much at noon."
"Hey, what's wrong with his brain? He was able to get into Yanjing University. My family can't even add and subtract ten numbers..."
"Okay, stop nagging and watch the movie."
Cheng Xuyuan followed Cheng Ruomiao to Cheng Jiaxing and said hello, and someone handed him a stool. He sat on the stool, watching the unfolding plot, and his mind started to work quickly.
This "Yangcheng Secret Post" has been around for many years and is still so popular.
I have written more than 100,000 words of my book "Desire" and have almost reached the end.
After I finish writing this, I might as well write a spy novel.
If I were to write this kind of novel myself, it would definitely be very brain-burning.
But if you use it for copying, it will be much more comfortable.
After all, for a spy novel with a fixed timeline, he basically doesn't need to make any adjustments.
Copying things is pure copying.
Instead of being like now, he has to delete and reduce a lot of the time, and spends most of his time on this aspect.
What to write?
Otherwise, I should just write "The Hidden" first! The TV version of The Hidden, with some changes, can at least be turned into a novella...
Just as all kinds of thoughts were flashing through Cheng Xuyuan's mind, a middle-aged man wearing a locomotive hat suddenly stood up and said, "It's time to change the film. Prepare to change people."
As these words were spoken, two young men, already exhausted and out of breath, staggered down from the pedal generator seat next to the projector. The other two young men, who had been prepared, quickly sat on it and pedaled the generator hard.
For the Chengjiazhuang Brigade, which often suffers from power outages, the only way to show movies is by using this foot-operated generator.
At this time, the middle-aged man wearing a locomotive hat said loudly: "Everyone knows why we are showing this movie today."
"But I still want to say one more thing."
"Congratulations to Cheng Xuyuan from our village for being admitted to Yenching University!"
"Wait a minute, we are going to play 'The Visitor on the Iceberg'. I want to say that Cheng Xuyuan is the golden phoenix that flew out of our Liguotun Commune."
Golden Phoenix, upon hearing this compliment, Cheng Xuyuan felt his face turn a little red.
This description is really...
As the middle-aged projectionist finished his words, the people watching the movie burst into applause.
Some people even cheered loudly at the top of their lungs.
This heated scene lasted for two or three minutes before it slowly subsided as the movie started playing again.
In the cold wind, people moved their numb hands and feet from time to time, but were reluctant to leave.
In a few years, I'm afraid that the scene of people getting together just to watch a movie will no longer exist.
Although he was watching a movie, Cheng Xuyuan's thoughts were drifting farther and farther away.
…
During the Chinese New Year, we eat dumplings and visit relatives!
The New Year celebrations in the countryside are extremely lively. Farmers who have worked hard for a year all want to take this opportunity to relax.
In many places, there is a saying that it is still the New Year as long as it does not reach the first month of the lunar year.
However, for Cheng Xuyuan, after more than a month's vacation, he took his admission letter and various materials and boarded the train heading north.
This time I went to Yanjing, and I still took a sleeper train.
Cheng Jiadong had someone buy the tickets. He said that the reason buying the tickets went so smoothly was because the person in charge of the ticket office gave him face for Cheng Xuyuan, a freshman at Yenching University.
When people heard that Cheng Xuyuan was going to Yanjing, they directly gave him a sleeper ticket.
Lying on the bunk, listening to the clanking sound of the train, Cheng Xuyuan's mind reappeared the scene when he set out.
Although his family was very happy about his going to Yanjing University, when he was leaving, even his father Cheng Jiaxing's eyes were filled with reluctance.
However, compared with his family's reluctance, what Cheng Xuyuan was most concerned about at this moment was an assignment that Cheng Jiaxing had given him.
Something he hadn't thought about in his mind.
Cheng Jiaxing asked him to go to Shen Yunliang to wish him a happy new year after he arrived in Yanjing! Although he couldn't become Shen Yunliang's son-in-law, he was able to transfer him to Yanjing to work, so he still had a friendship.
Even for the sake of this friendship, the etiquette of celebrating the New Year cannot be omitted.
For this purpose, Cheng Jiaxing specially asked him to bring two kilograms of the very famous fried fruit from his hometown.
Cheng Xuyuan, who was used to doing things quickly and efficiently, didn't want to get too entangled with the Shen family.
But what Cheng Jiaxing said was not without reason. Shen Yunliang arranged a job for him at the Yenching Cultural Center and also allocated him a house.
Even if we are destined to divorce, from the perspective of the New Year, it seems that we should still go and pay New Year's greetings.
How about taking the opportunity to talk about the divorce while visiting for the New Year?
After all, we will be enrolled in March. It is better to get a divorce before enrollment than to get a divorce after enrollment! It is almost twelve o'clock, and a new day is about to begin. I wish all the students taking the college entrance examination success! (End of this chapter)
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