Reborn in 1977

After everyone left, Chen Fan and Jiang Lili cleaned up the yard together, moving the chairs back into the room.

Carrying two chairs towards the house, Chen Fan said, "You went to the market that day, right?"

Jiang Lili swept the floor with a broom, shaking her head and smiling, "I don't have anything to buy, so I didn't go."

Chen Fan turned to look at her, "Uh, if you didn't go, who would help me?"

Jiang Lili chuckled, "Alright then, I'll go with you."

Chen Fan continued working, laughing, "In Captain Yang's words, it's good to see the excitement whether you have something to do or not, maybe you can buy something suitable then.

Like buying some chicks, and when they grow up in a few months, we can eat eggs every day. If there are piglets for sale, we'll buy two, and we'll butcher a New Year's pig next year."

Watching Chen Fan's happy anticipation, Jiang Lili couldn't help but grin.

When she heard Chen Fan mention the New Year's pig, she seemed to remember something and suddenly exclaimed, "Ah, Chen Fan, you might be assigned a task next year."

Chen Fan had just come out of a room and was stunned when he heard her words, "What task?"

Didn't Captain Yang say that if he wasn't allocated a homestead and didn't participate in the production team's labor, he wouldn't be assigned any tasks?

He wouldn't have to go to things like dike maintenance or water conservancy renovations, and he wouldn't have to pay if he didn't go.

Otherwise, if he didn't get this or that, but still had to bear the obligations, who would be willing?

Jiang Lili said to him, "It's not a task from the production team, it's a task from the food station. They don't look at anything else, just the household registration book of this production team, and assign tasks based on the number of households."

Chen Fan blinked, "Assign what?"

Jiang Lili, "Raising pigs. Every year, you have to forcibly sell a pig to the food station. The standard changes every year, but this year's standard is 120 catties, and it can't be less than that weight."

Hearing this, Chen Fan also remembered what Jiang Lili had told him before, and nodded in realization, "A quota purchase, right?"

Jiang Lili, "Yes, it's a quota purchase. Quota purchase tasks are usually 'keep 5, give 5'. If the task assigned to you is one pig, you can raise two, or you can only raise one, but you won't have any left for yourself after completing the task."

Chen Fan, "What if I raise three?"

As soon as Jiang Lili heard this, she was so frightened that she loosened her grip, and the broom fell to the ground. She waved her hands repeatedly and said, "I can't chop that much pigweed!"

Chen Fan was speechless, "I didn't ask you to chop it."

Look how scared this child is.

Jiang Lili breathed a sigh of relief, squatted down to pick up the broom, and looked at him with a worried expression, "But, you can't chop that much pigweed either."

Chen Fan, "...I was just saying."

Hearing this, Jiang Lili felt relieved.

Only families with seven or eight people dare to raise three pigs, otherwise, they usually raise at most two. There are only Chen Fan and herself here. Raising one is okay, two might be勉强, but raising three?

Spare her!

...

After cleaning up the yard, Chen Fan took out the radio from another cabinet and placed the alarm clock on the corner of the table, setting the time to avoid being late for work in the afternoon.

Next was the repair moment.

Open the cover, inspect.

After Jiang Lili finished her work, she saw Chen Fan lying on the table busy with something, and walked in curiously.

Chen Fan glanced at her, continued to check the parts, and smiled, "When this thing is repaired, we can listen to the radio."

Jiang Lili sat opposite him, propping her chin with her hands, and asked curiously, "Can this be repaired?"

When Zhang Lianchang brought it last time, she heard that this thing was many years old. Electrical appliances are easily damaged if they are not used for a long time, let alone for so many years.

Chen Fan's eyes were fixed on the multimeter, "Not a big problem, the situation is much better than I thought."

Although this radio is an antique, it has been well preserved, unlike those things that have been neglected for many years, even the inside is covered with dust.

At least it's quite clean inside and out.

After a while, the inspection was over, Chen Fan breathed a long sigh of relief, and looked at her with a smile, "Small problem, maybe we don't even need to replace the parts."

Then he removed the lampshade of the kerosene lamp, struck a match to light it, and turned up the flame, the kerosene lamp immediately emitted thick black smoke.

There was an alcohol lamp in the toolbox, but unfortunately there was no alcohol, so he had to use a kerosene lamp instead.

Chen Fan picked up a soldering iron and baked it on the flame. When the iron tip was red, he began to repair the broken solder joints.

Watching Chen Fan work seriously, Jiang Lili's eyes fell on his face, and after a long time, she forgot to look away.

Chen Fan repaired the damaged area, retested it with a multimeter, and looked up with a smile, "Done, there should be no problem."

Jiang Lili suddenly came back to her senses, her pretty face flushed, "Oh, oh."

After a few seconds, she reacted and looked at the dense electronic components in the radio in surprise, "It's repaired already?"

"It's repaired."

Chen Fan chuckled, "It wasn't a big problem to begin with. Anyone who knows a little bit about electronics can fix it."

First extinguish the kerosene lamp and restore the lampshade.

Then put the cover of the radio back on and tighten the screws.

Chen Fan picked up the power cord plug, "La la la la, now it's testing time."

Then his face froze, and he looked at Jiang Lili, "Didn't the people from the power supply station install a socket for us?"

Jiang Lili rolled her eyes and thought for a while, then shook her head gently, "No."

Chen Fan's face immediately collapsed.

A waste of happiness.

Jiang Lili pursed her lips and smiled, comforting him, "You work at the broadcasting station, can't you listen to the radio every day? It's the same. It doesn't matter if there's no electricity."

Chen Fan sighed, looked at her and said, "That's very different. The broadcasting station broadcasts programs from the county broadcasting station, only two hours in the morning and one hour in the afternoon, and there are no other time slots.

If this radio can be used, you can listen to the People's Radio Station. Do you know how much time the People's Radio Station broadcasts in a day?"

Jiang Lili's eyes turned slightly, "It starts broadcasting at 4 am and ends at 1:35 am the next day."

Chen Fan was stunned, "Oh, you know?"

Jiang Lili lowered her head and smiled, "I used to love listening to the radio. I often stayed up very late to sleep."

Chen Fan smiled, "I can't tell, you're still a night owl."

Jiang Lili smiled at him, then unconsciously lowered her head again, a trace of sadness flashing in her eyes.

Staying up late to listen to the radio was a long time ago.

When Chen Fan was in college, he studied vacuum tube radios and found a program schedule for the People's Radio Station.

From the mid-1970s, the People's Radio Station had four sets of programs. Sets 1 and 2 broadcast to the whole country, Set 3 to Taiwan, and Set 4 to border and minority areas, broadcasting a total of more than 70 hours a day.

It starts at 4 am with "The East is Red" as the opening song, followed by a program preview. This is the beginning of the day's broadcast, which lasts until 1:35 am the next day.

It only rests from 2 pm to 4:30 pm every Tuesday, and broadcasts non-stop at other times.

When he was asked to be a broadcaster, he originally thought it was to rebroadcast the People's Radio Station, but he didn't expect it to be a rebroadcast of the county radio station, and it only broadcast for 3 hours a day.

He could listen to the People's Radio Station at other times, but as a newcomer, he couldn't occupy the broadcast room to listen to the radio.

He originally thought that if he repaired this radio, he could have more entertainment time, and he could also learn more about the latest current affairs news.

Unexpectedly, he had a radio but no socket.

It seems that he can only wait until he goes to the market to buy a socket from the commune.