The new year has begun, and peace has returned to Liu Lang's home. He stays with Tai Nai every day. Tai Nai is another year older, and is in good spirits. She sits on the kang every day and watches Liu Lang laughing.
He was reading, and Liu Lang could only solve this boring life by reading. Fortunately, his father
The chickens my father bought last year have grown up. There are five of them in total. They are kept in a chicken coop in the outer room by his father. Sometimes Liu Lang will feed them himself, taking some hay and rice bran, stirring them and putting them in the chicken coop.
I put my hand in front of the beaks of several chickens, and they kept pecking at them with their beaks.
Four of these five chickens are hens, and they can lay one egg a day on average. In one month, the output is three to four kilograms, and three or four kilograms more eggs are produced out of thin air. This kind of life is already very good for the Liu family.
In the blink of an eye, Liu Lang celebrated his first birthday. His mother cooked a bowl of egg noodles for her son. Another good news is that Liu Lang's family was honored with the honorable title of "Five Good Families" and a certificate of honour.
On the wall, it reads: Respect the old and love the young, equality between men and women, harmony between husband and wife, thrift in running the household, and unity among neighbors. The signature below is the Fucheng Women's Federation.
This is the first honor Liu Lang's family has received, and his parents and grandparents are very happy.
"By the way, I heard news from the guild in the factory that a bodybuilding doll competition will be held in the city in the next few days. All children under the age of three and over one year old can participate. I have already taken part in it for our son.
Signed up."
"Body doll!"
Hearing these four words, Liu Lang thought of a photo.
This photo is the first color photo of Liu Lang in his life. It was taken in 1981, which is the current year. In the photo, he is holding a rattle with an elated expression, but he looks a bit silly. The lower right corner of the photo
It has the words "Fucheng City Bodybuilding Doll Memorial" written on it.
Of course, Liu Lang didn't know the process of this competition. I'm afraid it was just counting and recognizing a few words.
"Bodybuilding Doll Contest? This is great!"
This news immediately aroused the interest of the whole family.
"Competition? How can those children compare with my eldest grandson? Look, now my eldest grandson has started to study advanced mathematics. I think he can go to college now. You are a bunch of brats and won't go!"
Liu Lang's grandfather obviously had no interest in this kind of "low-level" competition.
"Dad, this kind of competition is just for fun. Liu Lang is one year old now. It's so boring to stay at home every day! It's good to let him play with other children."
Liu Lang's mother said from the side.
"Well, Dad, Wenxiu is right. My son will definitely become famous when he goes there. By then, the whole city will know about our Liu Lang, and by then our faces will be bright!"
The father also agrees with his wife's point of view.
"The child is yours, as long as you agree, but I don't think it's interesting... you decide for yourself!"
Grandpa no longer insisted.
This bodybuilding doll competition is scheduled for Children's Day, which is more than a month away. Liu Lang's mother went to the department store to buy three feet of floral cloth, and then started to make Liu Lang every day when she came home from get off work. For clothes, there is a Butterfly sewing machine at home. My grandma bought it five or six years ago. It cost more than 300 yuan, which was more than my grandfather’s salary for a year at that time. But later, my grandma got sick, and the sewing machine belonged to Liu Lang’s mother. .
Liu Lang watched his mother sitting in front of the sewing machine, stepping on the pedal with both feet, dragging the flower cloth on the chopping board with the ups and downs of the needle tip, and with the sound of "ta da da", in a short while, a
The garment embryo is then sewn.
Liu Lang sighed endlessly. The changes of the times are slowly changing bit by bit. In ten years, this kind of old-fashioned sewing machine will be eliminated. In twenty years, how can young people still use it?
Can you wear clothes that you sew yourself?
Times are indeed changing. The weather outside had just warmed up when Liu Lang heard a cry from outside, "pop the popcorn!"
"Popping popcorn!"
Liu Lang immediately jumped off the kang, frightening Tai Nai who was sitting on the kang. Before she could react, Liu Lang ran out of the house, pushed open the iron door outside and came to the large courtyard at the door.
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I saw a messy man coming into the alley. His face was dark and he looked like a beggar. But he was carrying a pole on his shoulder and a strange machine in a basket on one side.
Two or three children had already run out of the alley and were running around him. They were obviously interested in this machine, but they didn't seem to know what it was.
"Popping popcorn? I haven't seen it in more than ten years. How much does it cost per pot?"
Grandma Zhou walked out of the house and asked.
“Bringing your own food costs five cents a pot, but if you don’t have food, it costs 15 cents a pot!”
The other party replied.
This man spoke very bluntly in Mandarin, and it sounded like he was not from the north, but from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas. He looked to be in his mid-twenties, about the same age as Liu Lang's second uncle.
"Wait a minute, I'll get the corn rice and make a pot of it."
Grandma Zhou just hurriedly returned to the house. After a while, she used a ceramic pole to load a jar full of corn kernels.
"Okay, okay, five cents!"
The other party took the five cents, put the pole on the ground, took out the machine that looked like a cannon barrel, took out a small bench from another basket, and sat on the ground.
He first put some wood and coal in a small stove, then ignited it. After two minutes, the flames rose. Then he opened the lid of the "big cannon barrel", wiped the lid twice, and then poured out a jar of corn.
Pour it in, seal the lid, place the "cannon barrel" across the stove and start spinning it around.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
The sound of corn grains came from the "cannon barrel", but after two minutes, the sound disappeared. The southerner kept looking at something like an alarm clock. This was a pressure gauge, and the pointer inside kept rising.
After another three minutes, the southerner stood up, lifted the "cannon barrel" off the stove, and then stuffed the mouth of the barrel into a black mesh bag.
"Go away, go away. It's going to ring in a moment. You kids, please pay attention!"
He drove away a group of children who were watching, and Grandma Zhou shouted loudly: "Cover your ears!"
"Cover it up?"
The children didn't know what was going to happen, and looked at them like fools. Liu Lang had already run into his yard and covered his ears tightly with his hands.
"The pot is on!"
Following the man's shout, there was an earth-shaking sound.
"Bang!"
The three-meter-long deflated mesh bag was instantly filled with something.
"Oh my god!"
The sound was so loud, it was louder than the thunder in the sky, and it was right next to my ears. Several children were so frightened that they jumped so high that they almost sat down on the ground.
"You fools, I told you to cover your ears. How obedient is Xiao Liu Lang?"
Grandma Zhou was laughing so hard.
“The delicious popcorn is ready!”
The man lifted up his net bag, and yellow-orange popcorn appeared in front of everyone.