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Seeing the third uncle Yan Bugui fiddling with the TV with great interest, Li Weijun suddenly remembered that he was busy purchasing refrigerators, air conditioners, electric fans and other fashionable gadgets in the Youyi store opened by the Gallic Rooster, and completely forgot to collect signal receivers.

Commonly known as the antenna, only with this thing can you receive channel signals, otherwise it is no different from a lump of iron.

Later, when Li Weijun was in his rural hometown, he often encountered some signal receivers similar to round pots. That thing was called a signal pot, which had a much wider coverage area than the ordinary dragonfly-style signal receiver antenna.

As long as you adjust the position and tune the frequency, you can easily receive TV channel signals from all over the country, and even signals from neighboring countries.

For example, Li Weijun clearly remembers that when he was a child in his rural hometown, he often listened to some TV channels with chattering sounds, and occasionally some relatively popular European and American blockbusters would be broadcast.

For example, the Rumble in the Bronx and Rush Hour, and of course at midnight, they would broadcast some horrifying and bizarre stories, most of which were tomb robbers fighting, zombie movies and the like.

At that time, Li Weijun had a love-hate relationship with satellite dishes. He was afraid that if he wasn't paying attention, a zombie horror movie would suddenly pop up while he was happily watching cartoons.

Now that I think about it, it would have been a good thing if I could have watched some zombie movies or action movies like gun battles in the 60s.

The entertainment life in this era is really too scarce and thin. Before going to bed, Li Weijun can only read some leisure books to pass the time, and he has almost no time for other entertainment.

It’s no wonder that the birth rate has skyrocketed in this era and it is really uncontrollable.

However, there is a risk of electric shock when using a signal receiver and a round pot during a thunderstorm.

But now it was getting late, and it was no longer possible to go to the department store to buy a matching signal receiver, so I had to give up in disappointment.

"Weijun, if you ask me, you are the boss in our courtyard house now. You are a buyer and a projectionist at a young age. Now we have TVs, refrigerators, electric fans, and even air conditioners. We have entered a well-off society. It really makes us old people ashamed."

Yan Bugui's eyes sparkled with envy, and he expressed his sincere admiration, while in his heart he was wondering if he could get some benefits from Li Weijun.

In his opinion, he was already old, and he had been working hard to match Li Weijun and Ran Qiuye. Even if he had no credit, he had worked hard. What's more, Li Weijun was rich now, and he could make a lot of money from him just by a little effort.

I guess he doesn't care about these small favors, but for Yan Bugui, even a scallion or a clove of garlic are invaluable.

Not to mention how tight the family's accounts were, there were three men and one woman in the family, all of them were money-eaters, but he was the only one who could earn money.

With the monthly salary paid by Red Star Primary School, it is already hard enough to keep this big family together.

As for the gossips from the neighbors, such as the teasing remarks that the manure trucks have to taste the saltiness when passing by, to Yan Bugui, it is completely irrelevant. Who doesn't talk about others in front of others?

As long as you live your simple and leisurely life, it is better than a thousand words.

Although Yan Bugui usually likes to act pretentiously and is stingy, he can be considered to be upright when it comes to principles.

Unlike the second uncle Liu Haizhong, Xu Damao is a complete villain who puts utilitarianism above all else.

It was precisely because of this situation that Li Weijun was able to hold his temper and chat about random things with his third uncle Yan Bugui.

Li Weijun, who knew Yan Bugui's thoughts, did not hesitate and said straight to the point: "Third uncle, don't worry about this. It's not reasonable to let the horse run without eating grass. Teacher Ran, I will naturally show my gratitude in this regard. There is still some Fuqiang flour in the rice jar, about five or six kilograms, and there is a piece of pickled bacon under the eaves. If you don't mind, you can accept it for now."

"Don't mind, don't mind. We haven't had meat in a long time. These little beasts are drooling all day long. How can they be greedy? You can rest first. I will help myself. Don't bother me."

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Yan Bugui nodded repeatedly with satisfaction, and touched the brand new TV and fan reluctantly, with mixed emotions in his heart.

You have to know that after all these years of hard work, the only asset he has accumulated is probably that rather worn-out Fei Ge brand bicycle and the radio that he usually doesn't want to use.

These things, which he regarded as treasures, were not worth mentioning at all to Li Weijun.

At this moment, Yan Bugui suddenly remembered the chapter in Dream of the Red Chamber where Granny Liu visits the Grand View Garden. He did not understand its meaning when he first read it, but now that he has grasped its connotation, he feels a great pain in his heart.

But we should always think of the positive side of things. At least we got the flour and bacon, which is better than having nothing. With these foods, our family's living conditions can be improved a lot.

Yan Bugui had even made arrangements for how to eat the more than five kilograms of bacon.

Of course, you can't just eat it with your mouth full. Instead, each piece of bacon should be counted as two slices, cut into thin slices with a knife, and spread evenly on the plate.

Before each meal, I would take a breath of the aroma of the meat slices and then swallow it down with the rice. If I really couldn't resist, the greedy worm in my stomach would carefully break the meat slices into shreds and smack my lips with an intoxicated look on my face.

In this way, every piece of meat and every piece of meat can fully play its role and fully demonstrate the nature of thriftiness. At the last moment, you can wash the plate with meat with water and cook corn paste, so that no oily taste will be wasted.

It is said that it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. Yan Bugui thought that his family was poor and he could not be like Yi Zhonghai, where two people could feed the whole family, so he really practiced thrift to the point of being extremely frugal.

However, although he was so stingy, Yan Bugui did not take a bit more than the Fuqiang flour when he took it. Instead, he used the scale seriously to carefully measure the weight.

While weighing it, he said excitedly: "It's not too high, not too low, just right. I don't take too much, and I don't take too little. Don't worry about that."

Seeing his serious look, Li Weijun was already at a loss whether to laugh or cry: "Uncle, don't worry so much. I have enough rice, flour, grain and oil. I can even have fish and meat all day long. So there is no need to be so fussy."