Early the next morning, Chen Hai and Sun Jinzhong visited several electrical appliance stores in Liuyuan County one by one.
Television, in this day and age, can barely be classified as a luxury product.
A 12-inch Venus TV sold for nearly 700, and Sun Jinzhong bought one.
Chen Hai himself, on the other hand, was a little more luxurious. He bought a 14-inch TV set that was also a Venus TV.
He took out ten old people's heads and gave him two dollars back.
Spending this money will hurt my body and mind, but Chen Hai is quite happy.
In Chenjiaping Village, there are currently no more than ten households with TVs at home.
When Chen Zhonghua and Jiang Meixian occasionally have free time, they will walk a mile or two to watch TV at the homes of acquaintances.
When they talk about the TVs in other people's homes, they are envious of them.
Chen Hai could already imagine how excited his parents were after seeing this TV.
After buying the TV, Sun Jinzhong happily returned to his home in Yanbei Village.
Chen Hai has already returned the room opened by the Garden Hotel.
After all, the matter of helping Li Dajiang find the tomb has been successfully completed, and he cannot keep occupying the room and living in the hotel.
He bought a backpack specially, and after putting some towels on it, Chen Hai put the bottles and cans he picked up from the cave into the bag.
Although Li Dajiang said that the most valuable among these bottles and jars were the two intact snuff bottles made in the Qianlong period, Li Dajiang did not know much about antiques.
Those two pen holders, as well as the other two snuff bottles that were somewhat incomplete, may be equally valuable, but not necessarily!
Now that he has determined that the items in his hands are all genuine antiques of certain years, Chen Hai will be careful to preserve them regardless of their value!
These days, there is no delivery service when buying electrical appliances.
Chen Hai had to drag the new TV he bought back to Wuyang Town himself.
Fortunately, the 14-inch TV was only as big as a cardboard box, so he didn't need to call a special truck. He could just move it directly into the shuttle bus.
Carrying a backpack and holding the TV box in his hand, it was already past one o'clock in the afternoon when Chen Hai arrived at Wuyang Town.
The weather in June is already very hot.
The old dog on the roadside was lying listlessly under the shade of a tree, its tongue hanging out too long, and it was panting heavily.
Wuyang Town is about ten or twenty kilometers away from Liuyuan County. There is no special station here, and most of the people passing through here are passing cars.
After getting off the bus at the bridge at the entrance of the town, Chen Hai raised his eyes and looked around.
Here at Qiaotou, passengers and passengers from the passing cars are all dropped off here. Because of the large flow of people, people who pull pallets and work as laborers nearby like to stay here.
In Chenjiaping Village, every household has a field, and what is grown in the fields must be rice.
The same is naturally true for Chen Hai's family. Apart from being so busy when there is a double robbery, there is not much farm work in the fields at ordinary times.
Chen Hai's father, Chen Zhonghua, would also pull a cart out to sell labor when there was not much farm work in the fields.
Because it was very inconvenient to contact him, Chen Hai didn't know whether his father came out with a cart today.
He was lucky. He just looked around and saw the figure of his father, Chen Zhonghua, twenty or thirty meters away, under the shadow of an old building.
He was wearing a vest, which was not covered by the clothes. The exposed areas were already tanned and oily by the hot sun.
Squatting next to his cart, Chen Zhonghua squinted his eyes. He took out a square piece of white paper, picked out some tobacco from the cigarette bag he carried with him, rolled it out and lit it.
However, in his early forties, he looked bleak, like a little old man!
There was not much life visible on his tanned face, only countless bitterness and vicissitudes of life.
"Dad..." Holding the TV and walking near Chen Zhonghua, Chen Hai weakly said hello.
Even in front of Li Dajiang, a Taiwanese boss, he could talk and laugh, but in front of his father Chen Zhonghua, he always felt a little timid.
"You brat, as soon as the exam was over, you disappeared. It's been nearly ten days since I left. Why, do you remember to come back?"
The first time he saw Chen Hai clearly, Chen Zhonghua's face had already darkened.
"Dad, didn't I ask someone to tell you that I went to my cousin's house in the county town?"
Putting the TV in his hand on Chen Zhonghua's trolley, Chen Hai wiped the sweat from his head and explained quickly.
"Can you stay at your cousin's house for ten days?"
"Xiaohai, you don't have to lie to yourself. In my opinion, you must have failed in the college entrance examination. You don't dare to go back to see me and your mother, right?"
"Actually, you don't have to do this at all. With your grades, your mother and I never expected that you would really be able to get into college."
"Going to work in eastern Guangdong? Or, learning some crafts while you're young?"
"As long as you can make your mother and I worry less, we'll be satisfied!"
With a bitter look on his face, Chen Zhonghua sighed, and he told Chen Hai sincerely.
When he mentioned this, Chen Hai suddenly fell silent.
Although he estimated his own scores, he felt that he should be able to score around 580 in this college entrance examination, and there would definitely be no problem in going to college.
But before the results really come out, if he says this, his father will not only not believe it, but will think that he is bragging.
Not only will they not feel happy, but they will be extremely disappointed in themselves!
Considering this, Chen Hai now seems to be silent whenever his parents talk about the college entrance examination.
"In another four or five days, the college entrance examination results should be out!"
"At that time, I will go to the school to ask. After knowing my exact results, my parents will naturally understand that their son has indeed achieved success and did not disappoint them."
"Since the college entrance examination was resumed, there was only one college student in our Chenjiaping village who passed the exam before me!"
"When I become the second person in the village to go to college, I will be the hope of the village. When my parents talk about me again, it will definitely be their capital to show off, and they will not sigh as much as before."
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Although Chen Hai remained silent on the surface, he began to think silently in his heart.
These days, the Internet has not yet appeared, but what about telephones? Although they already exist, they are still very rare.
Just like the situation in Chen Hai's family, after the college entrance examination, if you want to check your college entrance examination results, you have no other way but to go to the school and ask.
I heard people say that in the college entrance examination a few years ago, even the process of scoring answers did not exist at all.
Whether a candidate does well in the exam depends on whether the admission notice will come out after filling in the application form!