That year the flowers bloomed 1981

July 21, 1984, Beijing, sunny.

Li Ye got up in the morning, ate breakfast slowly, and then prayed in his heart, Don't call me, take a day off. Don't call me, take a day off.

But at 8:15, the phone rang on time.

After picking up the phone, as expected, it was Wen Leyu calling.

Let's go, Li Ye. Today we went to Longtan Lake Railway Bridge for a stroll. My brother said there is a flower, bird and fish market there. There are several alleys around Longtan Lake that are quite interesting. It just happened that I could take some pictures with Xiaoruo. meaning photos,

You wear those blue pants and short-sleeved white shirt today. Don’t wear sandals, just wear Huali. If you sweat, I will wash your socks.

Listening to Wen Leyu's arrangements one by one, Li Ye couldn't help but sigh secretly, feeling a little weak.

Xiao Yu, why don't we take a day off! Look at the temperature meter, it's thirty-nine degrees. If you look in the mirror again, you're almost tanned, you know?

Are you tanned? Wait, don't hang up!

Wen Leyu lost her voice on the other end of the phone, and Li Ye guessed that she had gone to look in the mirror.

Sure enough, Wen Leyu returned to Ali half a minute later and said: You are talking nonsense. I took the photo carefully three times and there is no tan at all.

However, you have tanned a little in the past few days, which is much more pleasing to the eye than before. It would be just right if you tanned a little more.

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Through the phone, Li Ye could hear Wen Leyu's expectations for her. She really hoped that she could be a little darker.

Li Ye couldn't help but touch his face, feeling very depressed.

[There are no Obamas these days, but there are also white-faced scholars, right? Why can't my model be as good as the Black Iron Tower?

How about I give you a tan? It must give you a tough guy vibe. 】

However, Wen Leyu didn't have time to wait for Li Ye's mental activity. When he heard that Li Ye had stopped making any movement, he immediately said, Call Xiao Ruo and I'll say a few words to her.

Xiao Ruo.

Li Ye was just about to say that Xiao Ruo hadn't gotten up yet, but he saw that Fu Yiruo had come over lightly.

Li Ye had no choice but to give the phone to Fu Yiruo: Here, Xiaoyu is looking for you.

Fu Yiruo answered the phone with a smile and said to Wen Leyu over there: Sister-in-law, are you looking for me? Where are we going to play today?

Xiaoruo, have you forgotten what I told you? Wen Leyu said: Except at home, don't call me sister-in-law at other times, call me sister Xiaoyu. We have to keep it secret now.

Oh, I keep it a secret, I keep it a secret

Fu Yiruo chatted with Wen Leyu, and even took some paper and pen to write down something.

A few minutes later, Fu Yiruo put down the phone, raised the paper in his hand and said to Li Ye, Brother, if you are tired, take a day off! I can just take the bus there myself.

Li Ye sighed and was about to speak when Fu Yiruo asked, But my sister-in-law told me to pay attention to those who take pictures of my mother-in-law on the road. What do you mean by taking pictures of your mother-in-law?

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She told you that she took pictures of your mother-in-law?

Yeah, I said it.

Li Ye couldn't help but laugh: Did she tell you that? She told me, right?

There are many bastards in the capital, including many young people who took pictures of mothers-in-law in the 1980s. They are all social elites.

For example, at the bus stop, I would take the girl's bag and hang it on my shoulder, and then I would start to get poor.

What are you doing?

What am I not going to do?

Why didn't you do it? Why did you grab my bag?

I didn't steal your bag. I saw you were tired and felt sorry for you. I'll carry it for you for a while.

Girls in the 1980s were not as thoughtful as girls in later generations.

If someone is being looked down upon, they will become familiar with each other, and they will be targeted and pestered from behind. There will always be an honest girl who will be succeeded by the brown candy!

If you don’t believe it, just look at how many good girls around you have fallen into the hands of street gangsters.

Let's go then! Your brother, I'm not tired at all. The more I follow you, the more energetic I will be.

Li Ye had no choice but to go out with Fu Yiruo, and even helped Fu Yiruo lift her small backpack.

Inside the backpack are some personal items and a Leica M3 camera.

Originally, after Li Ye confessed Fu Yiruo's situation to Wen Leyu that day, the Leica M3 unexpectedly played a role in quickly bringing the two closer together.

After Wen Leyu returned to the capital, she owned a Hongqi 20 camera, which was a big toy given to her by her family. In the 1980s, this big toy was definitely not within the reach of ordinary people.

Other people's children feel very happy if they have a football or basketball. Who would expect to have a red flag camera worth a thousand yuan?

Even if you can’t bear to use film casually, how can you do photography?

Wen Leyu was not obsessed with photography at first. She just wanted to leave a memory of each other when she led Li Ye to visit the capital.

But after Li Ye had shot an advertisement for Fenghua Clothing, and that time he was wearing heavy armor and wielding a spear at Gujun Literary Club, Wen Leyu was impressed by Li Ye's ability to pose, and his interest in photography suddenly increased. ,

Her purpose is also very simple and pure, which is to work hard to improve Li Ye's handsomeness in photos.

On the second day after meeting Fu Yiruo, when the three of them went out to play, Wen Leyu took out his Hongqi 20 camera to give the brother and sister a photo, while Fu Yiruo took out his Leica M3.

The Hongqi 20 was a replica of the Leica M3, and the two immediately had a common topic, discussing the pros and cons of the replica and the original, as well as their experience and skills in photography.

This discussion doesn't matter. Fu Yiruo already had his own camera when he was ten years old. He has not stopped studying for seven or eight years.

So don’t say Xiaoruo is a professional photographer! But she is definitely a master among amateur photographers. She can chat with Wen Leyu for a long time just on the topic of aperture.

So for several days in a row, Li Ye was treated as a model by the two of them.

Forget about the physical exertion, but being constantly asked to raise your chin a little more and tilt your shoulders two centimeters to the left really didn't interest him. If it wasn't for the harmonious relationship between his aunt and his sister-in-law, he wouldn't be interested. Li Ye had already turned over the table and quit.

It was the same today. When Li Ye and Fu Yiruo arrived at Longtan Lake, they saw Wen Leyu with a red flag 20 hanging around his neck, standing on a step and waving gently to the two of them.

When the three of them got together, Wen Leyu took out a lens from his bag.

Xiao Ruo, look, this is the high-end optical glass lens I just bought. It is said to be made of lanthanum series rare earth materials. I will compare it with your Leica after I finish shooting today.

A high-end lens! Fu Yiruo said in surprise: The quality of your camera is no worse than mine. If there is a better lens, it will definitely surpass my Leica.

Wen Leyu shook his head and said a little lonely: Xiao Ruo, don't always say nice things, and be honest, my Hongqi 20 is not as good as your Leica.

I have carefully compared the photos taken by the two cameras. Although the difference is very small, it is there. We admit that it is okay to fall behind and just work hard to catch up.

Fu Yiruo was a little surprised. Her experience in Malay had taught her how to communicate with people in a likable way, and now she was very surprised to face Wen Leyu, who was seeking truth from facts.

Fu Yiruo had no choice but to say: Sister Xiaoyu, I have actually compared your Hongqi 20. Among several imitations of the Leica M3, it is only a little weaker than the British one and better than the imitations from several other countries.

Wen Leyu looked at Fu Yiruo in surprise and said, Have you ever compared this?

Fu Yiruo nodded and said: I once had a teacher in Malay. She liked to collect cameras. After the Leica M3 came out, there were at least ten imitations in the world.

Among them, Britain's imitation level is the highest, and Japan's also has its own highlights. Your Hongqi can rank third, which is third in the world!

My teacher once said that those who can imitate the Leica M3 are developed countries, and ordinary countries do not even have the ability to imitate it. At least no one in the entire Southeast Asia can imitate the Leica.

Is that so?

Wen Leyu was a little surprised after hearing Fu Yiruo's words.

In the mainland in the early 1980s, after seeing the outside world, the shadow of backwardness weighed heavily on our heads, making people like Wen Leyu feel depressed.

But Fu Yiruo now says that the mainland is a developed country. Is this not surprising?

What Xiao Ruo said is wrong, but it is not wrong, because ordinary countries do not have the ability to imitate Leica.

Li Ye explained: Cameras are high-tech products among industrial products, and to a certain extent represent the industrial level of a country. The per capita income of the mainland is poor, but the industrial level of the mainland is there, at least.

There was no way Li Ye could preach that flower growers would be the world's factories in the future at this time in 1984. Others thought he was mentally ill.

However, it is a fact that the mainland has the most complete industrial classification in the world and a sufficiently comprehensive industrial foundation.

Of course, it only exists and is far from forming market competitiveness.

Take the Hongqi 20, for example, which was jointly designed and developed by the Institute of Optical and Precision Mechanical Instruments of the Academy of Floriculture Sciences and the Shanghai Second Camera Factory.

This kind of cooperation only produced a few hundred products, and it simply did not have the ability to be launched on a large scale.

But there is, and the potential is much greater than that of so-called developed countries that can't even get together industrial categories.

Especially in the Mainland, there is a group of engineers who refuse to admit defeat.

In order to achieve the performance of Leica, they also manufactured high-end optical glass lenses in small quantities. This is why many people insist that the quality of the Hongqi 20 lens is higher than that of Leica lenses.

Li Ye believes that this spirit of not admitting defeat is the foundation and reason for the mainland's rise.

Although decades later, mainland cameras still have not reached the top level in the world, but who dares to say that the mainland is backward?

No one dares to believe that mainlanders will never be able to come up with a hit product that will make the whole world fall behind.

They just hope not to irritate the mainland as much as possible and not to engage in any technical blockade so that this time can come later, just later.