Chapter 4 Playing Hanon along the Kang
"While playing, I'll do it in a while and ask your mother to wait a little longer." Liu Jianjun said without looking back.
"It's useless to just fiddling with the antenna, just use fine-tuning to adjust it." Liu Yufan couldn't help but say that under the influence of his father for a long time, he also had some understanding of electrical appliances.
"This TV is different from ours, and there is no fine adjustment." Liu Yufan's father was also a little puzzled when he said this. He has always been good at fiddling with his Kaige TV. He can even adjust the best signal Hebei TV can even adjust the snowflakes. Why can't this TV even find a fine adjustment? Just fiddling with the direction of the antenna, the effect is not very good.
"Why is there no fine adjustment? Isn't this here?" Liu Yufan reached out and pressed hard at the bottom of the TV screen that marked the small inverted triangle. Then he heard a "click" sound, and a small plastic piece about fifteen centimeters long bounced down, revealing rows of buttons.
"Hey, kid, don't move around, it's broken! Well? Wait!" Liu Jianjun saw his son so bold, and he actually pressed him randomly. He was about to stop him, but who knew that the kid didn't know where he pressed and created a panel that was so secretly hidden. He searched for a long time but didn't find it. He saw the inverted triangle sign and tried to press it, but he was more careful and did not dare to use so much effort, so naturally he didn't find this mechanism.
Liu Yufan just saw what his father's problem was. He probably had never seen this hidden panel design before, so he didn't find this switch. At that time, the black and white TVs received analog signals, and the received antenna signals were sometimes slightly different from the frequency set by the preset console switch, so there would be snowflakes on the screen. Then use fine adjustment to change the frequency to effectively improve the reception effect.
Liu Yufan twisted a few times on a fine-tuning switch, and the snowflakes on the screen immediately disappeared, the screen of the news broadcast came out, and the noise as loud as before was gone.
Liu Jianjun glanced at Liu Yufan in surprise and thought to himself, how did this kid find out? He had been searching for a long time but couldn't find it.
The neighbors watching the fun were now lively and started to coax.
"Haha, Old Liu, you are not with your son yet." Liu Yufan's fourth uncle Liu Jiancheng laughed.
"This kid is a little brainy, so smart!" said the second uncle in praise.
"What, I'm covered!" Liu Yufan said "humblely".
Liu Jianjun looked at his son with some confusion, not knowing how he was confused.
"Let's go, dad, mom is waiting for us to have dinner." Liu Yufan did not forget his "task" and reminded him diligently.
"Oh, okay, go home." After the TV was adjusted, Liu Jianjun's mission was completed. He pulled his son up and prepared to leave. The fourth uncle and his family naturally detained their father and son for dinner. They didn't keep it, and finally brought Liu Yufan a big bowl of fried meatballs. There was nothing good to do in the countryside, but this simple emotion was something that Liu Yufan hadn't felt for a long time.
As soon as he got home, Liu Yufan saw that the food had been set on the table. The rice was two rice porridge (rice and millet) and corn pancakes, the vegetables were sauerkraut powder and fried vegetables, and there were a few slices of meat floating in the sauerkraut, but it was more fat and less thin. It was probably the leftover ingredients my mother had when she cut the meat, and several dishes of side dishes, which all showed that the family was not rich. Most households in Dazhai Village would only put the delicious food on the table on New Year's Eve, and the whole family would have a good meal.
The news broadcast is being broadcast on TV. Liu Yufan watched seriously. It was almost the Spring Festival. The news broadcast was broadcasting good news from all over the world, such as "the total industrial and agricultural output value of xx this year reached xx, which increased x times compared to last year", "X County vigorously developed x industry and embarked on a new path of development", and of course, it is more common people from all over the world to celebrate the Spring Festival in various popular forms. The leader of the Party and the state xxx went down to a factory or a border post to express New Year greetings to xx, basically nothing Liu Yufan wanted to pay attention to, but he still watched it very seriously. Especially for the activities of those leaders of the Party and the country. Although Liu Yufan loves music, he is also concerned about politics like many adult men.
"Xiaofan, stop reading, have a meal quickly, there is nothing good about the news." My mother Chu Qing shouted strangely when she saw her son watching the news with relish.
"It's a good thing to read more news, it's better than watching those martial arts TV series." Liu Jianjun had no objection to his son's favorite news, but when he saw a table of food, he said, "Eat first, and watch it while eating."
"Dad, eating and watching are not conducive to digestion." Liu Yufan saw that the news had finished broadcasting, and returned to the dining table with a smile, picked up the served porridge and took a sip, then took a piece of corn cake and took a bite, and started chewing it with relish.
"Well, it's delicious." The cornmeal these days is also pure natural green food. In addition to applying some farm fertilizer, they have basically never used fertilizers or pesticides. The taste is not ordinary. At least Liu Yufan feels that it is much better than the tortillas made in restaurants with half of the white flour and sugar. After taking a few bites, Liu Yufan praised it.
"Brother, what is digestion?" Liu Xiaoran asked curiously, and at the same time, he stretched out his chopsticks and held a large piece of fat meat and threw it into his mouth and chewed it with relish.
"It means that the food is melted by gastric acid in your stomach, and then it is broken down into the water and nutrients needed by the body through gastrointestinal motility, and then absorbed by the body. Just like the fat meat you eat, it contains too much fat, so it is difficult to digest. Be careful to become a fat girl!" Liu Yufan teased her.
"Really?" After hearing my brother's words, the little girl who was just in the second grade of elementary school became a little worried. She swallowed her saliva at the meat in the vegetable bowl, looking like she wanted to eat but didn't dare to eat it. Liu Yufan laughed.
"Just talk nonsense, don't listen to your brother. The meat is the most nutritious. Eat more to gain weight." Chu Qing glared at his son dissatisfiedly, then took a piece of meat and put it in his daughter's bowl.
Although my mother said something casually, Liu Yufan felt sad. He watched his sister chew the fat slice with only a small strip of lean meat so fragrant. If it weren't for the fact that he didn't have a chance to eat meat, how could this happen? Thinking of this, Liu Yufan felt so sad, and suddenly felt that in life, there were many things that were important in addition to music, such as responsibility.
"You kid knows a lot." Liu Yufan's father nodded and said when he heard his son's argument just now.
"Hehe, it's all seen in the book." Liu Yufan put aside what he thought and said while eating.
"Well, it's a good thing to read extracurricular books, but you still have to focus on your main subjects. Your final exam scores this time are not as good as those in the midterm exam. You have dropped to the top 30 in the whole grade and will be promoted to junior high school in another half a year. Such scores are not good! If you can't get into Shuangshanzi Middle School, see how I deal with you! By the way, how are you doing your winter vacation homework?" Liu Yufan's father asked.
"It's almost done." Liu Yufan didn't know where he wrote it, so he just wrote it casually.
"Write carefully, I will check before school starts!" Liu Yufan's father said seriously.
"Oh, I know." Liu Yufan responded, continued to bite the corn cakes, and had a lot of fun eating it with the pickled cabbage.
"Okay, okay, don't tell your children about this when eating." Chu Qing interrupted Liu Jianjun, looked at Liu Yufan's eating scene, smiled on his face, and took a piece of meat and put it in his bowl.
"Mom, I don't like to eat fatty meat." Looking at the white fat meat, Liu Yufan frowned.
"You're the one who is just talking! By the way, I almost forgot." My mother Chu Qing said, and got up and walked out of the house. After a while, she brought a plate of bone-decomposed flesh. Although it was not much, it was torn off the big bones and it tasted delicious in soy sauce.
"Eat it! They are all thin." Chu Qing poured some soy sauce on it and sprinkled some minced garlic. When Liu Yufan's father saw the hard dish, he immediately said, "Oh, this delicious dish needs some wine." As he said that, he picked up the plastic bucket in the corner of the wall, took the small glass cup on the cabinet, and poured half a cup.
"What are you doing? Keep that little wine for thirty." Although Chu Qing said that, he did not really stop her husband. It was almost the Chinese New Year, just drink some.
"Hehe, just drink a little." Liu Jianjun said with a smile, then took a small sip, picked up a piece of bone-demolition meat and started chewing it.
Liu Yufan also took a few pieces. Although he was OK to eat, he felt that it was not as delicious as the corn flour pancake he just ate. Although Liu Yufan didn't do well in his previous life, he had long since stopped catching a cold with those big fish and meat. After drinking the porridge in the bowl, Liu Yufan shook his mouth and said, "It's over."
"Just eat this little, eat something more." My mother Chu Qing looked at her son holding a few chopsticks of meat, thinking to herself, what's wrong with this kid today, she usually has to turn the dishes over a few times before she can stop, but she only ate so few pieces today. It's really strange!
"If you don't eat, don't eat anymore. Eating too much at night is not good, which will affect your sleep." Liu Yufan laughed.
"Why are there so many things to pay attention to? Nonsense!" said my mother Chu Qing.
After eating, Liu Yufan sat on the kang and pulled his schoolbag, took out a Chinese book and read it. After turning a few pages, he threw it aside. His fingers began to tap the edge of the kang rhythmically. Without a piano, Liu Yufan used this smooth edge of the kang to play Hanong.
There is no way, there is no piano at hand, and it is also good to exercise your fingers.
The whole family didn't notice Liu Yufan's strange behavior. Maybe they thought it was the child who was active.
Hannon practices fingering, a book that no one can skip from piano beginners to masters. The author of the book wrote at the beginning of the volume: "If you insist on playing this book for an hour every day, you will eventually find that all the technical difficulties of pianos will magically disappear."
Liu Yufan just popped into the third line, and the door sounded "bang!" interrupted his practice. Wang Xiaoyong, the guy, ran in from outside the door first, followed by five or six people, and as soon as he entered the door, he brought in a cool air.
"Xiaofan, will you go to the family?" Wang Xiaoyong held a four-section flashlight in his hand and shouted excitedly at Liu Yufan.
"Oh, my mom, you guys can really do it (zuo, read it), don't break our pigpen." Looking at these troublemakers, my mom Chu Qing said loudly with dissatisfaction.
"Zhaojia Queer" is also one of the favorite game events for boys in Dazhai Village in winter. Dazhai Village is a typical northern rural area and is particularly cold in winter. The family bird is a sparrow, and it is a lingering bird. At night, you usually like to stay in the corn piles and straw piles in the countryside. Use a flashlight to find them in the cracks of the firewood, and then catch them with your hands. When you catch them, tie them to the wool and carry them to play.
"Okay", Liu Yufan hasn't played this kind of game for a long time, so he can feel it again now, so he naturally agreed immediately.
"Be careful, don't climb too high and hear it." My mother reminded me worriedly.
"I know." Liu Yufan said while picking up the flashlight from the cabinet. These boys could no longer wait and ran out with Liu Yufan in a bunch of people.
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Chapter completed!