The photo studios of the 1970s are incomparable to those of a few decades later, and the layout is extremely crude.
The young man and woman who took a group photo in front of Jiang Xinyu and Chen Yi had a background wall with several bamboos painted on them. Although the two were sitting close to each other, they looked restrained. The photographer asked the two of them to bring their heads a little closer. The man was more ashamed than the girl.
After the two of them finished filming, it was Jiang Xinyu and Chen Yi's turn.
Jiang Xinyu pointed to the table in the photo studio and saw the plastic flowers hanging on the shelf. She asked the staff: "Can you put the table in front of the background wall and put the flowers on it?"
The staff of state-owned photo studios also have an enviable job. Just like the service staff in supply and marketing cooperatives and state-owned hotels, they all have high aspirations. Compared with the customers of later generations who are God, the service staff of today are the God.
In all eras, people would respect Luo Shang first and then others. I saw that both of them were well-dressed. The man looked talented and the woman was handsome. She looked like she had a formal job, so she politely followed Jiang Xinyu's instructions and put the table and The flowers were placed in front of the background wall.
On the background wall were several bamboos painted with watercolors. The two of them were sitting on a long bench. In front of them was a table with purple plastic flowers on it.
The photographer thought it looked really good, so he directed: "Gay men, put your shoulders back."
Chen Yi misplaced his shoulder, and Jiang Xinyu tilted her head towards him again, her eyes curled up.
"Okay, stay still."
A bright light flashed, and Jiang Xinyu blinked almost uncontrollably.
The photographer asked: "Do you want another group photo? You two don't have bicycles. I'll take one for you outside."
Jiang Xinyu’s eyes lit up, she could have this!
There is a big tree outside the photo studio. The car is parked there. Chen Yi is leaning on one leg on the ground, facing the photographer. Jiang Xinyu is sitting sideways on the back seat, holding his waist with one hand.
Her face was already burning because there were many people watching around her, and she even heard someone whispering that they wanted to take pictures on a bicycle too.
After the group photo was taken, she started taking solo photos. She really couldn't stand being watched by everyone. But if she doesn't keep a few photos now, she won't know what she will be like in a few years.
Jiang Xinyu had a big idea and asked the photographer to take pictures in the flower bed over there. She stood in front of the flower bed and touched her braid, with her head half-bowed and a smile as bright as a flower. The photographer didn't even need to teach her how to pose and clicked the shutter button.
Due to the limited conditions, Jiang Xinyu's dress today was plain and simple, but to the people around her, she looked beautiful and fashionable. When the young girls saw Jiang Xinyu, they didn't even put on makeup or makeup, and even wore stripes on her face. She wasn't even wearing a skirt, but she looked extraordinarily beautiful. The gay men looked at Chen Yi with envy.
There were too many people, and being watched and taken pictures made her face stiff, so Chen Yi simply stopped taking solo photos. When she returned to the photo studio, Jiang Xinyu asked again: "If you don't take solo photos, are you running out of money?"
Chen Yi said "Yeah" casually, "So you can pay for today."
Jiang Xinyu looked up at him in disbelief.
Chen Yi raised the corners of his lips, and there was a smile in his clear eyes, "I lied to you, is one photo enough? Do you want to take a few more?"
She shook her head and said, "There is no place for me to show my talents. I'll shoot it later."
He said "hmm" and then said to the staff: "Reach out four group photos each and two individual photos."
The comrade at work looked at him in surprise. A photo is not cheap. Even a young man who is getting married would not take so many photos at once. "How many inches does it take?"
"One photo of a single person is two inches, one is six inches, and the group photo is all six inches."
"It's nine and a half yuan in total." The staff quickly typed a note, "I'll pick it up again in seven days."
Chen Yi handed over the money and put the note back into his pocket. The two of them left the photo studio. He asked: "Go to the temple to pick apricots? Come back and eat, go to a park, and watch a movie in the afternoon?"
He was seriously seeking her opinion.
Jiang Xinyu didn't have any objections, as long as she was not allowed to work in the fields with a hoe, anything would be fine.
The bicycles left the county town and walked for more than half an hour. They met a salesman on a bicycle halfway. There was a wooden box fixed on the back seat of the bicycle. The yellow box had the word "sorbet" written on it.
It's also covered with a layer of cotton.
These are old-fashioned popsicles, which cost a penny each. Jiang Xinyu wanted to buy two, but Chen Yi refused to eat them, so she bought one and ate it on the back seat of her bicycle.
Different from the various ice creams with milky and fruity flavors in later generations, today's popsicles are cold and sweet, just like sugar water popsicles frozen in the refrigerator.
The apricots on the apricot tree were small, with red heads. Looking up, the sunlight was shining through the gaps in the leaves, and it made her dizzy after a while.
Chen Yi climbed up the tree, picked one that pleased his eyes, wiped it on his hand and threw it away to her.
Jiang Xinyu ate one and squinted her eyes because of the sour taste. It was sweet but not strong, so it probably wasn't ripe yet.
You have to pick it back if it's not ripe, otherwise you won't know if it will be there next time. If you leave it for two more days, it will definitely be sweeter.
The cloth bag was opened, Chen Yi picked it at the top, and Jiang Xinyu picked it at the bottom.
I heard the sound of children in the distance, and there was a village a few kilometers away.
Seeing that he had picked a lot, Chen Yi jumped down from the tree.
The two of them got on their bicycles and ran away like thieves.
Xingzi hung on the front handle, and Jiang Xinyu sat behind and kept scratching her back. She always felt that there was something unknown moving in her clothes, but she couldn't reach it. Thinking of the big limp caterpillar made her feel bad.
She tugged on the clothes around his waist and said, "Please stop, I feel like there are insects in my clothes."
Jiang Xinyu jumped out of the car, pulled her shirt out of her pants and shook it vigorously, but the itchy feeling did not disappear.
Chen Yi watched her shaking and asked her to stop moving. He reached out and pinched a half-sized gray spider on her head.
Jiang Xinyu's whole body was hairy. It would have been better if she didn't see this thing. But when she saw this thing, she felt like spider legs were crawling all over her body, and her scalp was about to explode.
"Please help me see if there is anything on my back."
He asked her to squat down, opened the collar of her shirt at the back of her neck and looked inside. There were red marks on her smooth back that she had rubbed just now. The shirt was wide, and he could not help but see the curvature of the side without looking around.
I looked inside the shirt, and sure enough, there was a gray spider lying on it.
"Is there any?" she asked eagerly.
Chen Yi said "Yeah" pretending to be calm.
Then he reached out from the hem of his shirt and inevitably scratched her back. She shook uncomfortably but did not dodge.
After a while, he caught the spider. In order to prove that he was serious just now and never meant to take advantage of her, he waved the spider in front of her eyes and said, "This one is probably gone."
Jiang Xinyu was fed up with the spiders. She jumped three feet high and wished she could go home and take a shower. In order to eat a few apricots, which were not very sweet, her body was almost covered with spider nests. She folded her arms and started rubbing them, complaining.
Said: "Why don't you have it on your body?" It's really unfair.
Chen Yi coughed lightly, "Will you help me check?"
Jiang Xinyu looked at his serious look, not sure if he was teasing her?
She smiled and said maliciously: "Take off your shirt and I'll help you take a look." Who doesn't know that?
A smile flashed across his jade-like pupils, and he patted the car seat, "Let's go."