The prosperous era of courtyard houses

Chapter 108, Radio

At around eight o'clock in the evening, after dinner, Li Weiguo took out the new radio he bought today and started tinkering with it, accompanied by his brother and sister Silly Zhu.

Silly Zhu also went out to buy New Year's goods today. He was similar to the old man. He didn't buy many things. There was a general shortage of supplies. The non-staple food he bought was only a few taels of this and a few taels of that. There were also many things that were missing. Not buying it.

When he came back, he heard Yu Yu told him that Li Weiguo had bought a lot of non-staple food and a radio, and he became excited on the spot.

No, we came over as soon as we finished dinner, ready to listen to the noise and beat up the local tyrants.

The radio these days is a precious thing. It beeps every three times, and one of the beeps is it. It is one of the four major wedding items along with bicycles, watches, and sewing machines. It has a similar status to houses, cars, and bills in later generations.

Of course, the "four big items" for weddings are a term that only came out in the 1970s. The industrial papers have not yet come out. These big items are luxury goods. Ordinary people don't have to think about it for the time being, and they don't dare to ask for such high prices when they get married. If you ask for a bag of grain as a betrothal gift during the three years of famine, it is a high-quality betrothal gift.

When the radio is bought, it is usually placed in the living room of the home and used as a home sign. When guests come, play a radio broadcast to others, which is both fashionable and respectable.

In this era, listening to the radio was a very fashionable thing, and it was still popular even into the 1970s and 1980s.

The "Kaige" brand radio that Li Weiguo bought was an old-fashioned tube radio produced by Shanghai Infinite Electric Wire Factory. It was not small, like a square lump, and weighed more than twenty kilograms.

Brother and sister Li Weiguo and Shazhu removed the outer packaging of the radio and moved it to the dining table in the main room.

The whole solid wood shell has two large metal knobs on the black glass panel. In the middle, there are text and data logos such as medium wave, short wave, kilocycle, megacycle and 16M-500M. It looks quite contemporary. .

None of the three of them had played this before, and after looking at it for a long time, they didn't understand the meaning of these words and data labels. They were gathered around the table, looking at the instruction manual and wondering how to use it.

After studying for a long time, he felt that he had almost figured it out, so Li Weiguo tried to plug in the power.

Then there was a "click" sound, turning on the switch.

The radio immediately made a sound of "Zizzi."

According to the instructions in the manual, slowly twist the metal knob of the frequency modulation, and the messy current sound gradually disappears, and a slightly distorted human voice comes out.

Then Li Weiguo continued to twist and adjust. Soon, the messy electric sound slowly disappeared, and the human voice gradually became clearer.

"Kids, "Small Speaker" has started broadcasting! Click-tick, click-tick, click-tick." A clear and tender child's voice came from the radio.

"Wow, it has sound. This is "Little Trumpet". It's great. I like to listen to this the most." Hearing the sound clearly, Yu Yu said excitedly.

"Little Trumpet" is a famous children's program of the Central People's Broadcasting Station. It was launched on September 1956, 9 and has been broadcast to later generations. It has accompanied the growth of nearly three generations. For a period of time, it was even the only children's program in mainland China. The radio program was once the children's program with the widest coverage and greatest influence in mainland China.

Later, with the rise of new media such as television and the Internet and the overall decline of wireless broadcasting, the influence of small speakers among children is declining. However, for many Chinese born before the mid-1980s, small speakers are still an important part of An important part of childhood memories.

In 1959, many children heard it on the school radio, so Rainwater was instantly recognizable.

"Hey, I've been thinking about a children's program for a long time. Are there any other programs? Hurry up and change it."

Silly Zhu was such a big man, so he was naturally not interested in children's programs, so he urged Li Weiguo to change the channel quickly.

"No, let's listen for a while." Yuyu refused, holding Li Weiguo's arm and said coquettishly.

"You are about to go to high school, and you still listen to children's radio. It's childish," Silly Zhu said with disdain.

"Well, I want you to take care of it."

"Hey, the wings are hard, right?"

"Okay, there's no need to argue. Let's see how many channels we can collect first. Once you're familiar with how to use them, you can listen to whatever you want." Li Weiguo quickly interrupted them and continued to adjust other channels.

As he spoke, he continued to twist the knob to adjust the channel. Soon, there was new movement.

"Thank you for listening to the stand-up comedy "The God of War" narrated by Liu Baorui."

"Hey, yes, yes! It's a stand-up comedy."

Now Shazhu is in the mood. Military-themed stand-up comedy is quite attractive. After all, it’s only the tenth anniversary of liberation, and the common people still admire soldiers.

After the broadcast of "The Divine Soldiers Are Falling from Heaven", at 8:30, the "Nationwide People's Broadcasting Stations Broadcast" began.

"Lianbo" is a big program. It has been broadcast from 58:5 to 5:20 every night since May 30, 21. It is broadcast simultaneously by various local stations every day. It is one of the few programs that ordinary people can listen to outside news. one.

Then, a burst of passionate singing came from the radio.

"The five-star red flag is fluttering in the wind, and the victory song is so loud."

"Sing our dear motherland and move towards prosperity and strength from now on."

As the opening song of "Singing the Motherland" ended, the sonorous and powerful voice of the news host came from the radio.

"Good evening to all listeners of Central People's Broadcasting Station and National News Network. Today is January 15th, Sunday, the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month. Welcome to listen to News Network. The main content of today's program is as follows."

It was a rare time to listen to the news broadcast, and the three of them found it quite interesting. Li Weiguo also specially brought out peanuts and melon seeds, and the three of them listened with gusto.

After all, it is not particularly convenient for ordinary people to communicate in this era. If they want to understand the outside world, besides newspapers, they have to rely on radio. As for television, most families look down on it. This thing is more rare than three turns and one beep.

Half an hour later, the Xinwen Network finished broadcasting and continued to broadcast other programs. None of Li Weiguo and the other three were interested, so they switched to several channels and continued to listen to storytelling and cross talk.

It was around two o'clock in the morning at night.

Residents in the courtyard got up from their beds one after another, turned on the lights and got dressed, and then knocked on each other's doors to wake up their neighbors.

Starting tonight, everyone has to be ready to queue up in advance to buy chicken, duck, goose and pork.

Although chicken, duck, goose, and pork were only sold at seven o'clock the next morning, there were so many people in the whole area that I didn't know where to wait in line if I got there late, and I had to worry about whether I could buy it before people got off work.

Therefore, according to past experience, everyone should go early to get a front seat so that they can be selected first when the sales begin.

After Li Weiguo and Shazhu brother and sister listened to the broadcast, they knew they had to queue up in the middle of the night, so they went straight into the space and had a good sleep, so they were not sleepy now and woke up early.

"Brother Wei Guo, are you up? We have to get ready to go." There was a "dong-dong" knock on the door.

"Wake up and come right away." Li Weiguo replied while getting dressed.