Siheyuan: Struggle in the Red Era

After Zhou Kangzhan finished eating, Lin Baoyan asked him, "Brother, why did you buy this radio? The one in the annex?"

Zhou Kangzhan laughed: "I just had a ticket in my hand and was afraid it would expire and be wasted. Plus, this transistor radio had just come out, so I just bought it. I had no other purpose."

Lin Baoyan lay on the table in disappointment. She thought there was some special purpose, but this is the result?

"How about moving this radio into your room? When you have free time, you can listen to the news and get to know the outside world. When I am free in the future, I will bring you some newspapers. I have read your composition, it is really too dry. No wonder your Chinese grades have not improved. It is useless if you cannot write a good composition." Zhou Kangzhan suggested, remembering the final exam paper he had seen.

Lin Baoyan curled her lips. She could never write a good composition in her lifetime. "Forget it. If they really move into my room, I won't be able to do anything else for the whole day. Uncle San will definitely bring Jie Di to my room all day and won't leave. He is a teacher in our school, so I can't chase him away. And Liu Guangqi and the others will definitely take the opportunity to come to my house. Then I will have to burn a lot more coal."

"You don't have time to prepare, right?" Zhou Kangzhan understood. "Will you be able to keep up with the course when you enter the sixth grade next semester? There's no need to be so anxious. Look at He Yushui. She's in the second grade this year, right? How many years older is she than you?"

Lin Baoyan randomly scratched her fingers on the table: "He is three years older than me. I just feel that I have grown up and don't want to hang out with my classmates. You don't know how childish they are when they play hopscotch with sandbags every day."

Zhou Kangzhan laughed and thought, you don’t seem to be that old, and yet you think your classmates are childish.

He agreed: "If you don't want to, forget it. Anyway, you have the key to my room. If you want to listen, come and listen. If others want to listen, don't refuse. Wait until I come back."

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However, Lin Baoyan did not go to Zhou's house to listen to the radio for three or four days.

Dandan has seen everything. An antique like the radio does not arouse her interest. She has not read the books she borrowed yet, and has not finished previewing the textbooks for the sixth grade.

He Yushui couldn't hold back and urged her, "Baoyan, let's go to your brother's room and listen to the radio. I heard that the city radio station is playing storytelling recently. It's performed live by a master. It's really good."

Lin Baoyan didn't want to go: "You saw how many people were in my brother's room that day. If we go, there will be too many people and we may not be able to hear what we want to hear."

"Everyone is still at work today. Let's go early. It will be closed when it's almost time to get off work, so we won't be disturbed."

Everyone was indeed working today, but the students were on holiday. As soon as the Zhou family's door opened and the radio was plugged in, all the boys from the front and back yards came in.

"You guys are so quick. Baoyan just opened the door and you came." He Yushui glared at Yan Jiecheng and his brothers.

"My second brother asked me to watch the door of Lin Baoyan's house. When you come out, call him." Liu Guangfu said while sniffing.

Lin Baoyan said, "Be quiet, I'm going to turn on the radio."

All the children, big and small, fell silent. They all watched Lin Baoyan turn on the switch and slowly turn it to find the radio station.

"Listen to the storytelling. This one is good."

"This channel plays opera, it sounds better."

"This is good."

"No, that one is better."

Everyone had different preferences, and soon they started arguing about which station to listen to. He Yushui simply put her hands on her hips to calm them down: "We all listen to Baoyan. We'll listen to whatever Baoyan plays!"

Yan Jiecheng and Liu Guangqi had no objections. After all, it belonged to Zhou Kangzhan's family, so it was normal for Lin Baoyan to make the decision.

A group of children, and later joined by Jia Zhang and Aunt Qin Huairu, crowded into Zhou's house and listened to the radio for the entire afternoon. If He Yushui hadn't seen that it was almost time and asked them to leave, these people would not have wanted to leave.

After driving everyone away, Lin Baoyan and He Yushui began to clean up the house. With so many people crowded in the room, the house was a mess and they couldn't face people until they cleaned it up.

After they finished packing, they went out and just as they locked the door, they saw Yan Bugui running in, yelling, "Don't turn off the radio, why don't you wait for me?"

Lin Baoyan smiled and said, "Third Uncle, you're late. We've been listening for the whole afternoon. If you want to listen next time, come earlier. I'm going home to cook. Goodbye, Third Uncle."

After saying this, he and He Yushui ran away separately.

Yan Bugui stomped his feet in regret: "Why did I go fishing in the afternoon?"

Liu Haizhong, who followed behind, asked curiously: "Old Yan, you went fishing this afternoon. How many kilograms of fish did you catch?"

Yan Bugui sighed, "I just didn't catch anything. As a result, Lin Baoyan came to Zhou's house to listen to the radio, but I didn't hear the radio either. It was really a big loss."

Liu Haizhong's eyes lit up: "Then did she say whether it can be opened at night?"

Yan Bugui rolled his eyes and said, "After you have eaten, why don't you go to her house and ask her to open the door? She listens to you anyway."

Liu Haizhong nodded enthusiastically and said, "Yes, I am her second uncle. After dinner, I will let her turn on the radio."

Jia Dongxu, who was following behind the two men, whispered to Yi Zhonghai, "Master, shall we go and listen to it tonight?"

Yi Zhonghai shook his head: "Old Liu may not be able to make Lin Baoyan listen to him and turn on the radio. Let's wait until they are all gone, then we can go."

Everyone listened to the radio today. Everyone started cooking late. Lin Baoyan had just finished cooking when Zhou Kangzhan lifted the door curtain and came in.

"Just in time, the meal is ready." Lin Baoyan looked up and saw him, and said happily, "You're up pretty early today."

Zhou Kangzhan washed his hands and served the dishes, saying, "I don't have anything to do today, so I came back early."

At the end of the year, all kinds of monsters and demons came out. Zhou Kangzhan came back very late every day. In the past, Lin Baoyan would put the vegetables aside and heat them up when he came back, but she didn't do that today.

The two of them finished their meal, but before they had cleaned up, Liu Haizhong called out from the door: "Baoyan, Baoyan, are you done eating? If you're done, go to your brother's house and turn on the radio."

Zhou Kangzhan added, "Uncle, I won't turn on the radio tonight. I've been turning it on all afternoon. If I turn it on again, I'm afraid the parts inside will burn out. Let's wait until tomorrow night."

In the afternoon, Lin Baoyan was listening to the radio at Zhou's house. She had just told Zhou Kangzhan that all the children and adults in the yard were crowding into his house.

Liu Haizhong didn't expect that Zhou Kangzhan was there too. Now that he heard the rejection, he didn't know what to say and had to go back with regret.

At the Moon Gate, Yan Bugui and Jia Dongxu looked at each other and sighed. If it was Lin Baoyan alone, with so many people, they could still find a way to get her to Zhou's house to turn on the radio, but Zhou Kangzhan was also there, so it was useless to say anything. The two of them had no choice but to pat their butts and go back.

He Yushui watched the two figures separate, feeling a little regretful that she had urged Lin Baoyan to go to Zhou's house to listen to the radio in the afternoon. Today was the day that Brother Zhou came back. If he hadn't come back, she really didn't know whether these shameless people would force Baoyan.

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Lin Baoyan sighed and said, "Second Uncle didn't have the brains to come to me. Someone must have whispered something in his ear. It must have been Third Uncle. He wasn't home this afternoon."

Zhou Kangzhan felt that it was about the same. This little old man was the only one in the yard who had so many little thoughts.