Chapter 143 The 87 Edition of 'Dream of Red Mansions' Was Poorly Reviewed
Qiao Jinling has been sitting in the guard room, anxiously waiting for her father to come back. She knows that Zhen Qingyuan will definitely embarrass her father.
When the sun had already risen high, she saw Qiao riding his motorcycle back.
"Dad, are you back?"
Qiao Jinling rushed over and carefully observed her father's expression.
"I said to Director Qiao, your daughter is really pregnant. You didn't know this morning. You stretched your head like a goose and watched you come back. The relationship between you and your daughter is really good. It's really frustrating.
I'm envious. It's a pity that I'm just a kid and don't have a caring girl."
Jin Sanlu said enviously.
"Yes, my daughter is very considerate. Come on, get in the car, Lingling, daddy will take you in."
Qiao moved forward and carried Qiao Jinling onto the motorcycle.
"Dad, what did that man ask you to do? Is he trying to embarrass you?"
Qiao Jinling is worried about her father. She knows that Zhen Qingyuan is definitely not a good person. She didn't succeed last time, and she doesn't know what she is holding back this time.
"Hey, he wants me to get a loan."
"Loan? Is the leather shoe factory short of money?"
"No shortage."
"Then why do we need a loan? We won't take a loan."
"You are still young and don't understand the ways of the world. The people do not fight with the officials. The interest rate is higher, and you can turn over the money after the money is returned. It's okay. Dad can still handle it. You don't have to worry, just study hard."
Qiao moved forward and rubbed his daughter's hair. He was a little embarrassed to have his daughter worry about him every day.
"Well, okay, dad, you must tell me if you have something, I understand."
Qiao Jinling didn't dare to speak too clearly. After all, if an 8-year-old girl knew everything, her father would probably be suspicious.
"Haha, what do you know, little girl, you act like a grown-up every day, sometimes you can talk more patiently than an adult, and you don't know where you learned it from?"
"Of course I learned it from TV, TV has everything."
Qiao Jinling casually made up a reason.
"By the way, you said TV, and I remembered one more thing. I ordered a TV to put in the canteen and will deliver it later. These female workers like to watch "Dream of Red Mansions" recently, and they want to watch it even if they are absent from work. Why don't we just do it directly?
Get them one, and it’s in color.”
Qiao Xiangqian didn't understand what was so interesting about "A Dream of Red Mansions". It was just a bunch of little girls eating together and reciting poems. Is it so popular?
"Dad, you are awesome. Now they are more energetic in their work."
Qiao Jinling felt that Qiao Xiangqian was so attentive, no wonder he was rated so well in the factory.
"I'll go to school tomorrow. I'll take you home later."
"No, I still want to stay one night."
"What about going to school tomorrow?"
"Get up early and take me there~ I want to watch "Dream of Red Mansions" with my sisters!"
Qiao Jinling is acting coquettishly and cutely. She doesn't want to go home yet. Staying with Lin Xiaoxu gives her a sense of freshness.
"Okay. I really can't do anything about you. It's uncomfortable to sleep here, so why not go home and sleep."
Qiao Xiangqian was still nagging, but he just said that he could only let his daughter do it.
The cafeteria was busier than ever.
"Oh, this is a big color TV! I heard at home that there are people talking and moving in the black box. Only the rich people in my village can afford it. Is there really a person in this? It's so small, how did someone get in there?
Well?"
A girl with an oval face asked timidly. She didn't even dare to touch it for fear of breaking it.
"Xiaojuan, you are such a bumpkin. You have never even watched TV. People don't get in. This is a signal. Didn't you see an antenna? It comes from there."
Yanzi is well-informed and has seen TV before, but this is the first time she has seen a colored TV.
"How did that person get into the antenna?"
Xiaojuan was even more confused. However, no one continued to explain to her this time, because they all knew only a little about it, and if they continued to ask questions, they would definitely not be able to answer it.
Qiao Jinling originally wanted to explain that TVs use electrical signals to carry images and audio, converting moving images into picture signals for playback. But she thought about it for a moment, but she still didn’t want to explain. Just the two terms "signal" and "audio" stuck with her.
I just don't know what to say.
"Stop talking, there's someone there. When will "Dream of Red Mansions" be broadcast? It's great, I don't have to go out to watch it anymore."
The girls were chattering and very happy.
Sun Yongping cleaned up the chopping board, looking at the group of girls from time to time, and said in confusion: "What's so interesting about this dream? These are the landlord class, they exploit people, and they eat so well, they all take it from the poor.
You little girls have never experienced this, hey, it’s all old history and you don’t even remember it.”
Sun Yongping's sighs were drowned out by the girls' laughter. No one heard her except Qiao Jinling.
Qiao Jinling knew that even the 1987 version of "Dream of Red Mansions", which was praised as the light of Chinese dramas thirty years later, received rave reviews when it was first aired.
Experts either thought the filming was too vulgar and Qin Keqing dared to show her arms, or they thought it was different from Gao E's continuation. Others said Chen Xiaoxu, who played Lin Daiyu, was not pretty enough.
Time will tell what a classic is.
"One is the fairy flower of Langyuan, the other is the flawless jade, the other is the moon in the water, and the other is the flower in the mirror..."
The melody of "Wan Ning Mei" sounded faintly, and Qiao Jinling suddenly returned to the world of "a dream in the end, all realms are empty".
The girls stopped talking or even cracking melon seeds. They quietly watched the people on the screen laughing and cursing. Although they couldn't fully understand it, the atmosphere deeply affected them.
In this era when romance is shy, the fateful and hazy love between Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu makes the ignorant girl's heart tremble.
The screen emitted bright or dark light, which was imprinted on the girls' faces. Qiao Jinling was moved by this moment. They walked out of the house, adding many infinite possibilities to the life that could have been seen at a glance.
Suddenly, she saw a figure flashing past the window, hunched over and looking sneaky. Qiao Jinling walked up to Lin Xiaoxu and quietly pulled off the corner of her clothes.
Lin Xiaoxu turned around and met Qiao Jinling's eyes. In the dimness, her eyes were as bright as a wild cat's.
"What's wrong, Lingling? Do you want your sister to accompany you to the toilet?"
Lin Xiaoxu felt that Qiao Jinling was a little strange.
Qiao Jinling shook his head.
Lin Xiaoxu stopped asking further questions, took Qiao Jinling's hand, and walked out of the cafeteria with a bent waist.
"Sister Lin, I just saw a figure passing by, like the little doorman from before!"
Only then did Qiao Jinling reveal his findings.
"Daniu, why is he in the leather shoe factory? Didn't Uncle Jin see him? Yes, Uncle Jin said that his family had something to do tonight, so he asked for leave and left. He said he had found a brother to visit the factory that night. No...
…”
Lin Xiaoxu hesitated to speak, but Qiao Jinling knew what she was going to say next.