1978: Female educated youth, don’t want an illiterate husband

Chapter 272 Before leaving Beijing, I wrote a song for Gong Yu (Please order the whole song)

When they walked to the Overseas Chinese Apartment, the family members' eyes were more or less on Feng's mother.

This is the house that Feng's mother has been dreaming of for more than ten years.

But she didn't expect that it would be realized in the hands of her son-in-law. More than 5,000 foreign exchange rice and gold coupons were said to be good value for money.

Especially the air conditioner in the master bedroom, which really surprised Feng's mother and father.

"Yeah, mom, I was just saying that the air conditioner at my sister's house is so comfortable, right?"

"After my brother-in-law leaves in a few days, mom and I will move here directly."

My sister-in-law Feng Jiamo is not planning to use the air conditioning tonight, but is planning to move in directly after Cheng Xuemin goes to the Northwest.

Hearing this, my second sister-in-law and the eldest sister-in-law were very interested.

However, after being scolded by her mother, Feng Jiamo felt annoyed and muttered that she would move in to sleep with her sister.

Okay, you can accompany me later if you want, but you'd better be sensible tonight and get out of here.

You should at least give your sister and brother-in-law some private space, right?

Fortunately, Feng's mother and sister-in-law were both experienced people. Before leaving after looking at the house, they promised to put the electric fan in Feng's room and would never snatch it from her. So she was coaxed into leaving reluctantly.

It was rare for them to be together that night, so they didn't really fight until dawn. Feng Jiayou had just come out of confinement after giving birth, so it wasn't appropriate for the fight to be too intense.

The next day, he took Feng Jiayou to an overseas Chinese store to buy an electric fan for the home.

The Overseas Chinese Store had just received a batch of electric fans, and Cheng Xuemin had plenty of foreign exchange coupons, so he ordered four fans at once, spending nearly nine hundred foreign exchange coupons.

The refrigerator was a little expensive, one required fifteen hundred foreign exchange coupons, and in the end Feng Jiayou couldn't bear to buy it.

Cheng Xuemin kept saying that he had promised the two little ones to buy a freezer to stock up on popsicles for them.

"Xuemin, just spoil them! These fifteen hundred foreign exchange coupons are enough for them to eat popsicles for more than ten years!"

"Besides, we have so many electrical appliances at home. Can the voltage in our yard support them?"

Feng Jiayou’s rebuttal was indeed correct!

Just because the two little ones at home want to eat popsicles, I can’t just spoil them and buy them a refrigerator!

A refrigerator costs more than 1,500 yuan in foreign exchange coupons, which is equivalent to 3,000 to 4,000 yuan in RMB.

How many popsicles can you buy with three or four thousand?
Popsicles sold outside are only three cents each, and they cost tens of thousands of them for three or four thousand yuan. Wouldn't that mean they would have to eat them for more than ten years?

Row!
Listening to Feng Jiayou's twisted logic, it really is true. Cheng Xuemin was too lazy to refute that buying a refrigerator is not just for eating popsicles.

I also think that the material conditions nowadays are not as good as those in a few decades. We can’t bear to eat fresh food. In fact, there is not so much meat and fish to store in the refrigerator.

Having a refrigerator at home is mostly just for decoration and looks good.

Finally, Feng Jiayou hit the nail on the head. Nowadays, household electricity consumption is indeed not very stable, and power outages and circuit breakers are common every other day.

There are already so many electric fans at home, and it would be impossible to run a large power-consuming refrigerator.

that's it!
Instead of buying a refrigerator, he was planning to buy a TV and a washing machine for the Overseas Chinese Apartment, but Feng Jiayou also put the plan on hold.

Still can’t bear to let go!
You know, it's very difficult to get this money-loving wife of yours to take out the money and spend it on luxury things after it has gone into her coffers.

When Cheng Xuemin and his wife brought the electric fan home, their grandparents and second sister-in-law were all surprised.

Why buy so many electric fans?

"Grandma, now Jiamo and my second brother don't have to fight for it!"

"Xuemin and I have already figured it out. We'll have one in each room. No one needs to fight over it!"

Feng Jiayou laughed so happily that she shouted to her grandmother, Gu's mother, "Don't be too happy."

"Jiayou, you...when your mom comes back from get off work, she will definitely accuse you of wasting money again!"

The grandmother shook her head and smiled bitterly, not knowing whether to say that her granddaughter bought the right thing or the wrong thing. Anyway, her mother would definitely say that she was spending money recklessly.

News soon came from Yanying Studio that the people who sent the train tickets were Ge You and Tang Guoqiang. This couple really surprised Cheng Xuemin.

It is not surprising that Mr. Teng from Yanying Studio asked Mr. Tang to deliver a train ticket. After all, Mr. Tang is now a popular young actor in Yanying Studio and has been running errands for the top management of Yanying Studio. It is normal for Deputy Director Mr. Teng to ask him to run a trip and deliver a train ticket.

But isn’t this Old Ge in the General Political Department Art Troupe?

Why did you come here with Tang Guoqiang?

"Xuemin, this is the case. Director Teng asked me to deliver this train ticket to you, but I don't know your home address. He only said it's near Yanda!"

"I just happened to run into him, Ge You, at the factory. He told me that I shouldn't get too close to you, Xuemin. He knew where you lived, and he also said he wanted to come visit you, so we went together!"

"Here, Xuemin, this is the train ticket the factory has booked for you. It's a hard sleeper. It's for tomorrow afternoon. Old Teng asked me to ask you, is that ok?"

When Teacher Tang saw that Cheng Xuemin was wondering why he and Ge You were together, he quickly explained.

He took out the train ticket again, handed it to Cheng Xuemin with both hands, and asked.

"Sure, sure. Tomorrow afternoon, right?"

"This train? It goes to my hometown, the provincial capital. I take it often, no problem!"

After hearing this, Cheng Xuemin suddenly realized that Ge You had gone to Yanying Studio today!
No wonder!

After all, Ge You's parents are both employees of Yanying Studio. His father is a veteran artist of Yanying Studio, and his mother is a literary editor of Yanying Studio. They live in the Yanying Studio staff housing building, so Ge ​​You's appearance there is considered as returning home.

"That's good, that's good. Director Teng was worried that we were too hasty to catch tomorrow's train!" Teacher Tang wiped the sweat off his face and said angrily. "Old Tang, Old Ge, come in and sit down! It's so hot, and you're bothering to come here in person!"

Cheng Xuemin quickly welcomed them into the house and then poured them a bowl of boiled water.

"Liqin, help your uncle go to the supply and marketing cooperative and buy ten popsicles!"

Then, Cheng Xuemin gave Feng Liqin, who was watching TV nearby, fifty cents and asked her to go to the supply and marketing cooperative and buy ten popsicles.

"Uncle, uncle, ten popsicles cost thirty cents, and you'll give me fifty cents?"

"The remaining two dimes, you keep one dimes for your brother!"

The two little kids knew exactly how much a popsicle cost. They took the fifty cents handed to them by Cheng Xuemin and asked knowingly, saying, "Don't be naughty."

"Okay, okay, thank you, uncle, thank you, uncle!"

"Liwen, go buy some popsicles for your uncle!"

When the two little guys heard that they were going to buy popsicles, they jumped for joy and skipped out the door.

"Remember to go and come back quickly!"

Cheng Xuemin said something at the back, otherwise he might not come back until he finished eating the fifty cents.

"Xuemin, are these all the awards you won?"

"That's incredible!"

Like other guests, Mr. Tang was attracted by the award certificates posted on the wall of the main hall when he visited for the first time.

Especially when he saw the award won by Cheng Xuemin and the mounted piece of paper with the handwritten inscription "Pioneer of Reform and Opening-up", Tang Guoqiang could not help but marvel at his admiration.

"It's all in the past, let's not talk about it anymore!"

Cheng Xuemin waved his hands repeatedly. Even though a long time had passed, he still felt a little embarrassed when the guests who came to his restaurant exclaimed at him every time.

It is indeed posted too conspicuously, as if the author is afraid that people won't see it.

"Old Cheng, what? Are you leaving tomorrow?"

Ge You drank the cold boiled water in his hand in one gulp. After catching his breath from the heat, he asked Cheng Xuemin.

"Ah! I was supposed to go with Director Xie and the others last month, but I had to take the college entrance examination, so I was delayed until now!"

"What's wrong with you, Old Ge?"

Tang Guoqiang just said that Ge You was going to come over to see him, so Cheng Xuemin asked this question.

I thought, could it be that the General Political Department has some news and asked Ge You to run errands to convey it?
"What can I do?" But Ge You shook his head and said, "Gong Yu has something to ask, so she asked me to tell you something and she wants your help!"

"Gong Xi? What happened to her?"

There has been no news from Gong Xu for a long time. Ever since returning from the front line, Cheng Xuemin took a leave of absence and rarely went to Yan University. He never left the house.

I don’t know whether Gong Xi continued to attend the correspondence courses at Yan University.

Anyway, they happened to meet on the day Feng Jiayou gave birth, and later Gong Xi and Squad Leader Han came to visit and express their condolences, but we haven't seen each other since then.

Unexpectedly, Ge You brought news about Gong Xi today.

how?

What difficulties is Gong Xi facing now that requires Cheng Xuemin's help?

"Old Cheng, this is the case. Our troupe is currently directing a play about the frontline. Gong Yu has a solo in his hands, and the troupe suggests that it should be a new song!"

"So, the first person I thought of was you, Xuemin! I hope you can help write a song!"

Ge You helped Gong Xi convey the news about the new song, and then praised, "And Xuemin, you may not know that the song you wrote and sang at the front is really popular now!"

"I heard that it is being sung in all the major war zones now, and I also heard that schools in many places have arranged for students to learn it."

Ge You didn't need to tell him this, in fact Cheng Xuemin also knew it.

Even the Yanda High School organized junior and high school students to learn to sing his song "Style". Even Feng Liqin, who was in elementary school, could sing it.

Moreover, Cheng Xuemin had also read in the newspaper that the General Political Department's consolation delegation was now visiting local areas to give consolation performances, and his song would definitely be sung, the kind that people would sing over and over again because they were not satisfied with just hearing it once.

It is indeed very popular!
Because of this, it was only a matter of time before the General Political Department approached Cheng Xuemin to agree on a song.

I didn't speak for some time, probably because I didn't want Cheng Xuemin's creation to be disturbed.

Cheng Xuemin smiled at Ge You, and then asked Gong Xi if he had any requirements for the singing competition this time.
Ge You said directly that he had no requirements. After all, Cheng Xuemin had just returned from the front line to comfort the people, and there was a precedent of a song becoming popular before, so Cheng Xuemin could write any new song according to his wishes.

to this end!

Cheng Xuemin nodded, indicating that he knew the idea, and also told Ge You that he had recently written a song inspired by it, and asked him to take it back after lunch and try singing it.

When Ge You heard this, he thought it was a good idea to come at the right time rather than early. Otherwise, if he was two days late, Cheng Xuemin would have already fled to the Northwest.

Then, he chatted with Teacher Ge Youtang and the others for a while. His wife Feng Jiayou also came over from the backyard, greeted them, and then went to prepare lunch and asked his second sister-in-law to go out and buy some meat and vegetables.

The two little guys were not bad either. They bought popsicles and shared them with Teacher Tang, Ge You and the others to help them cool down. They covered the extra ones with cotton cloth to prevent them from melting.

The full moon!
Cheng Xuemin just told Ge You that he had already written a new song. In fact, he just said it casually. When he had time to start writing, Cheng Xuemin thought about it and decided that this song, "The Full Moon on the 15th", would be the best one to go with "Style" to tell the cruelty of the battlefield on the front line.

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Asking for a monthly ticket!
(End of this chapter)