The Fiery Era of Siheyuan

Chapter 108, Radio
At around [-] o'clock in the evening, after dinner, Li Weiguo took out the radio he bought today and started tinkering with it, and there were brothers and sisters Shazhu by his side.

Silly Zhu also went out to buy New Year’s goods today, similar to the old man, he didn’t buy many things, the general lack of supplies, the non-staple foods he bought were all taels like this, a few taels like that, and there were still many items that were out of order Didn't buy it.

As soon as he came back and heard Yushui tell him that Li Weiguo had bought a lot of non-staple food and a radio, he became excited on the spot.

No, I came over as soon as I finished dinner, ready to listen to the sound and hit the local tyrants by the way.

The radio these days is a precious thing, it rings every three turns, and one of the rings is exactly what it is. It ranks with bicycles, watches, and sewing machines as one of the four major items of marriage, and is similar to houses, cars, and tickets in later generations.

Of course, the "four big pieces" of marriage is a saying that only existed in the 70s. Now the industrial volume has not yet come out. These big pieces are luxury items. Ordinary people don't have to think about it for the time being, and they dare not ask for such high requirements for marriage. In the three-year famine, a sack of grain can be used as a dowry gift, which is a top-notch dowry gift.

When the radio is bought, it is usually placed in the living room of the home as a family card. When guests come, they will play a radio for them, which is both fashionable and dignified.

In this era, listening to the radio is a very fashionable thing, even if it lasted until the 80s and [-]s, it is still popular.

The "Kaige" brand radio that Li Weiguo bought was an old-fashioned electronic tube radio produced by Shanghai Unlimited Electric Wire Factory.

After Li Weiguo and Shazhu brothers and sisters removed the outer packaging of the radio, they moved it to the dining table in the main room.

The shell is all solid wood, and on the black glass panel, there are two large metal knobs, and there are signs of text and data such as medium wave, short wave, kilocycle, megacycle, and 16M-500M in the middle, which looks quite modern. .

The three of them had never played this game before, and after reading it for a long time, they didn't understand the meaning of these characters and data marks. They were sitting around the table together, thinking about how to use it in front of the instruction manual.

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 with a "click", turn on the switch.

The radio immediately heard the sound of "Zizi."

According to the instructions in the manual, slowly twist the metal knob of the FM, the messy current sound gradually disappeared, and a slightly distorted human voice came out instead.

Then Li Weiguo continued to twist and adjust, and soon, the messy electric sound gradually disappeared, and the human voice gradually became clear.

"Children, "Little Trumpet" is on the air! Tick, tick, tick, tick," a clear and immature childish voice came from the radio.

"Wow, there is sound. This is "Little Trumpet". It's great. I like to listen to this one the most." Hearing the voice clearly, Yushui said excitedly.

"Little Trumpet" is a famous children's program of the Central People's Broadcasting Station. It was broadcast on September 1956, 9 and has been broadcast to later generations. It has grown up with nearly three generations. Therefore, it was once the children's program with the widest coverage and the 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 on children and adolescents has been declining, but for many Chinese born before the mid-1980s, small speakers are still the right choice. An important part of memories of childhood life.

At this moment in 1959, many children have heard it on the school radio, so the rain can be heard as soon as they hear it.

"Hey, after thinking about it for a long time, there is a children's program. Is there any other program? Hurry up and change."

Shazhu is such an adult, he is naturally not interested in children's programs, so he urged Li Weiguo to change the channel quickly.

"No, let's listen for a while." Yu Shui Buyi said coquettishly while hugging Li Weiguo's arm.

"A person who will be in high school soon, and still listens to children's radio, childish," Sha Zhu said with a look of contempt.

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

"Hey, the wings are hard, aren't they?"

"Okay, don't make any noise. Let's see how many channels we can receive. After you get familiar with how to use it, you can listen to it as you like." Li Weiguo quickly interrupted them and continued to adjust other channels.

As he said that, he continued to twist the knob to adjust the channel, and soon, there was a new movement.

"Thank you for listening to the stand-up comedy "Shen Bing Tian Jiang" narrated by Liu Baorui."

"Hey, there it is! It's stand-up comedy."

Now Shazhu is in a good mood, and the stand-up comedy with military themes is quite attractive. After all, it has only been the tenth anniversary of the liberation, and the common people still admire soldiers very much.

After the broadcast of "Shen Bing Tian Jiang", at 08:30, the broadcast of "People's Broadcasting Stations All over the Country" began.

"Lianbo" is a big program, starting from May 58, 5, it was broadcast every night from 5:20 to 30:21, and local stations rebroadcasted it at the same time every day. one.

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

"The five-star red flag flutters in the wind, how resounding is the song of victory"

"Singing to our dear motherland, from now on we will be prosperous and strong."

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

"Central People's Broadcasting Station, all listeners of the National News Network, good evening, today is January NO.15, Sunday, December 24 of the lunar calendar, welcome to the News Network, the main content of today's program is."

It was rare to listen to the news broadcast, and the three of them thought it was very interesting. Li Weiguo also specially took out peanuts and melon seeds, and the three of them listened to it with relish.

After all, it is not very convenient for ordinary people to communicate in this era. If you want to know the outside world, you can only get news from the outside world except newspapers. As for TV, most families look down on it.

Half an hour later, the news broadcast ended, and other programs continued. The three of Li Weiguo were not interested, so they switched to a few more channels and continued to listen to storytelling and cross talk.

It was 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, then knocked on each other's doors to wake up their neighbors.

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

Although chickens, ducks, geese, and pork are sold only at [-] o'clock the next morning, there are so many people in the whole area, and they don't know where to line up if they go late, and they can't buy it before people get off work.

So according to past experience, the big guys have to get up earlier to occupy a front seat in advance, so that they can be selected first when the sales start.

After listening to the broadcast, Li Weiguo and Shazhu brothers and sisters knew that they had to queue up in the middle of the night, so they went directly to the space to get a full sleep, so they were not sleepy now, and woke up early.

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

"Wake up, I'll be here right away." Li Weiguo replied while putting on his clothes.

(End of this chapter)