Ch 117: The First Black and White Television in the Entire Village
Being questioned continuously, and still because of Du Qingyang’s matter, Fan Cai became enraged and shouted, “Because I am the principal! I can see that Du Qingyang’s character is too poor.”
Director Ma and Xiang Yang’s expressions turned dark.
Du Qingyang’s character is not good? How come they think it’s excellent? The scene of Du Qingyang anxiously saving people during the accidental crash at the station is still imprinted in their minds.
If a person with benevolence and excellent medical skills has a bad character, then who has a good character?
“Bad character, yet you begged her to go to West Town High School?” The Auntie was really not afraid of this Principal Fan at all, and even rolled her eyes at him.
The matter of Fan Cai inviting Du Qingyang to West Town High School and being rejected had already spread throughout San Nan Village.
Fan Cai’s face turned red. Recalling the tea-serving incident, recalling the scene of being rejected, Fan Cai lost all his face.
“I was just blind at the time, later… later I regretted it.”
“Now, even if Du Qingyang begged me on her knees, I wouldn’t let her step into West Town High School!”
Fan Cai was eager to defend himself. After hurriedly saying a couple of sentences, he flung his sleeves and left.
Director Ma’s face darkened again and again. Is this the quality of the principal of West Town High School?
“Auntie, Principal Fan once begged Classmate Du to go to West Town High School? How did he beg? Tell us about it.” Xiang Yang pretended to be very gossipy.
Director Ma also perked up his ears. They wanted to know, they should know.
The Auntie was also happy to talk, and even embellished the story.
How did Fan Cai beg? He held the tea and bent his waist to beg, almost kneeling down.
“You don’t know, Fan Cai looked like a grandson at the time.” The Auntie had resentment in her heart for being yelled at by Fan Cai just now, so she wanted to smear him even more.
Director Ma and Xiang Yang were stunned.
“However, our village’s Qingyang simply looked down on West Town High School and directly rejected it.” After speaking, the Auntie proudly raised her head. That’s right, Du Qingyang is from their village, the pride of the village.
After listening to the story, a plate of steamed buns was also finished. Director Ma picked up the teacup that had been refilled many times, drinking the tea that tasted like hot water, thinking that this five mao was really worth it, he had gained so much information.
Director Ma suddenly felt that there was no need to investigate whether Du Qingyang had cheated. He should change his perspective and look for evidence that Du Qingyang had not cheated.
Director Ma believed what he saw, believed what the masses said, Du Qingyang really had no reason to cheat.
Evening, night had just fallen.
The villagers of San Nan Village had already surrounded the Du Family Home inside and out.
The Du Family had bought a television and were debugging it, preparing to play it.
Du Dawei and Du Feipeng were debugging the television, Fang Rong and Du Qingyang were sitting in the center of the living room. Their sides were already full of people, each carrying a small stool to sit on. The outside of the living room was also full of people, all standing outside the Du’s house.
Du Qingyang took a deep breath. There were too many people, she felt the air was thin and it was a little difficult to breathe. If her mother hadn’t insisted on taking her to watch television, she would have slipped away long ago.
Fang Rong was also kind-hearted, thinking that her daughter had not seen television yet, the first time the television bought by the family was played, the whole family must watch it together.
That’s right, Du Qingyang really hadn’t seen this kind of television. This kind of black and white television with an external antenna like a box was already considered an antique in Du Qingyang’s era. She had only seen it in museums.
Du Qingyang turned around and looked behind her. Good heavens, the villagers were all very interested, staring at the television without blinking.
Looking at that black and white television again, the Du family father and son had been debugging for a long time, but the television still hadn’t received a signal from a television station. What was seen on the screen were dizzying black and white speckles, and a rustling sound.
Du Qingyang reached out and supported her forehead. She really had no interest in watching television, could she leave? Turning her face to look at her mother, just as she was about to say something, Fang Rong had already spoken first.
“It will be on soon, I heard the sound just now.” While speaking, Fang Rong still couldn’t stop smiling.
Du Qingyang sighed inwardly. Heard what sound? The rustling, no signal sound? San Nan Village was located in a remote area, even telephone lines couldn’t be pulled to this place, could it receive a television station’s signal?
Du Qingyang strongly doubted whether the television could be debugged to show a picture.
Du Qingyang also wanted to help debug, but she didn’t understand. She really didn’t understand this kind of thing as debugging black and white television signals, she had to admit it.
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Half an hour passed like this, but the television still had no picture. Yet, no one left.
This was the first television in San Nan Village, everyone was very excited, of course they had to continue waiting, they couldn’t miss it.
It was said that there would be people-like figures inside the television, the people inside were very beautiful, and they could also talk, how magical.
They really envied the Du Family, a Ten Thousand Yuan Household was really good, they had the money to buy a television.
Except for the elderly who were unable to move, all the villagers of San Nan Village came, none were absent.
Yao Lin and Zhu Xuan were also standing at the very back of the crowd. They had hesitated for a long time before coming slightly forward. Standing in the back position, Du Qingyang shouldn’t be able to see them, right? They had never seen what a television looked like when they were so big, let them take a look.
Du Qingyang really didn’t see Yao Lin and Zhu Xuan. Even if she saw them, she wouldn’t bother to pay attention to them.
“There’s a picture!”
“There’s sound!”
Suddenly, there were screams from the crowd, Du Qingyang felt that in addition to difficulty breathing, her head also hurt.
Du Qingyang glanced at the black and white television. Well, there really was a picture, blurry and unclear, unable to see people’s facial features clearly. Alas, could this kind of pixel be pleasing to the eye?
The picture was not very clear, but the sound could be heard very clearly.
“This is a very sturdy nylon woven bag.”
“Limited quantity, comrades who want to buy should seize the time.”
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Du Qingyang was stunned. Was this an advertisement? After debugging for so long, they only received a signal, but out came an advertising picture. This…
Everyone must be very disappointed, right?
Du Qingyang turned around and looked at everyone, but didn’t see a disappointed expression. Everyone was still intently staring at the blurry picture on the television, their expressions were quite excited.
“There really are people in the television?”
“Did you hear? They are talking.”
“The sound of their voices is so nice.”
“They are also moving, moving! Taking the bags and packing things.”
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Du Qingyang sighed to the sky.
Just as everyone was very excited, the signal suddenly cut off. The picture disappeared, and the sound once again became the rustling, no signal prompt tone.
The Du family father and son debugged again.
Everyone still waited patiently, no one was willing to leave.
After a long time, the advertising picture reappeared, still introducing nylon woven bags.
Just like this, Du Qingyang and everyone else watched three hours of advertisements. Listening to people introduce bags, baskets, stools, tables…
