The Leisure Life in the 1970s

8

Chapter 8 8. Ten thousand kilograms of rice

In this era, except for official business needs, few people, whether city dwellers or rural residents, would go to a photo studio to take pictures. This was even more unheard of in the Red Flag Brigade. Even the brigade leader, Old Man Qiao, had never taken a picture.

Song Dabao took out the photo, and not only the children found it strange, but also the adults gathered around.

In the photo, the two brothers stood hand in hand at the door of the photo studio, their clothes buttoned neatly, looking really energetic, with bright smiles on their faces, innocent, pure and cute, not looking like rural children at all, but like children in the city.

It must be said that the photo of the two brothers was taken really well, and everyone rushed to pass it around and discussed it heatedly.

Song Xiaobao was so anxious that he jumped up and down: "Give the photo back to me, give it back to me quickly! I told you that you can only look at the photo but not touch it. If you get it dirty, my mother will beat me."

After much effort, under the protection of Song Dabao, Heiwa and Erzhuzi, Song Xiaobao finally got the photo back. After a careful inspection, he found that there was no damage except for a mark on the upper left corner that someone had pinched.

Song Xiaobao put the photo in his pocket and refused to take it out to show everyone.

A young man in the village saw this and said with a smile: "Xiaobao, what are you afraid of? If it gets dirty, just ask your mother to take you to take another photo. Anyway, your father can make money. Others spend money on studying, but your father can make money by studying."

"But you can't just take photos casually. Taking a photo is very expensive. My mother said that you can only take a photo once a year. This is called the ritual sense of life. You don't understand." Song Xiaobao raised his head proudly, looking mature for a young age.

The little doll pretended to be an adult, and his appearance made people around his laugh: "Hey, I don't understand what ritual sense is, but you, a doll whose hair hasn't even grown out yet, may understand?"

"Of course I understand, my mother told me, like the photos I took this time, because my brother and I went to the city for the first time, and we wore new clothes, so we took a photo to keep as a souvenir, this is called ritual sense, also called recording life "

After Song Xiaobao finished speaking, everyone was still laughing. They all felt that Qiao Zhenzhen was pretending to be noble. She was obviously greedy for pleasure and behaved like a bourgeois lady. If it was in the past, she would definitely be dragged out and beaten, but now everyone just laughed and said a few words behind her back. No matter what, they had to give some face to the captain, Old Man Qiao, after all, Qiao Zhenzhen was Old Man Qiao's daughter.

Qiao Zhenzhen is really something. She is lazy and greedy for pleasure, but she also wants to teach her two children badly. Pleasure is pleasure, and the sense of ceremony is clearly an excuse.

No matter what everyone thinks in the end, Song Dabao and Song Xiaobao are in a good mood anyway. The children in the village don't understand the sour words said by the adults. They just envy Song Dabao and Song Xiaobao more and more.

Their mother is so nice. Not only does she buy delicious food for them, but she also makes new clothes for them, and she makes two sets at a time. Now she even takes them to the city to take pictures. It's so nice. I really want to be a son in Song Xiaobao's house. I wonder if Aunt Qiao still wants a son?

Tiedan, the youngest son of the Qiao family, and Dazhi, the son of the third Qiao family, had just returned from the threshing ground. Like the children in the village, they were very jealous of the two cousins ​​from their aunt's family. Sometimes they wondered why they couldn't go to their aunt's house as sons, so that they could eat meat and candy every day.