Chapter 23: The First Time I Enter the Cinema, The First Time I See the Sound Movie "Red Child"
Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like shuttles. Soon there will be a major festival celebrating the tenth anniversary of the founding of New China.
Panheba Town has already had a new social outlook and a new atmosphere. In a few years, the town has carried out the "Purge of Bandits and Anti-Hegemony" movement; the "Land Reform" movement; the "Three Anti-Five Antis" movement; the "Agricultural Co-operative and Industrial and Commercial Socialist Transformation" campaign; the radical elimination of the tumors of the old society, such as the sighting of the field, brothels, big tobacco houses, usury, block shops, and reactionary Daomen organizations; sheltered and transformed beggars; educated and transformed social disorderly personnel such as slackers, "second-rate children," and hooligans; and carried out a large number of work in adopting disabled people, the old man who was alone in the arc, and street children • Homes for the elderly and orphanages have been established. The social order is good, the folk customs are simple, and the vast majority of school-age children go to primary school.
Then the people's communization movement, the Great Leap Forward, the public canteen and the Great War of Steel movements were carried out, which set off a climax of socialist construction in the hometown.
Haihai obtained the primary school graduation certificate for the first time, and successfully entered the higher primary school, Panheba Complete Primary School, ready to complete the fifth and sixth grades of primary school, and joined the Young Pioneers in just 3 weeks of enrollment.
In order to celebrate the great tenth birthday of the motherland, the school organized teachers and students to go to the county to see a movie, this is not an ordinary movie, it is a film made of children's literature works specially adapted to children called "Red Child", which is also the first sound movie that most of the students have seen, or the first time for students to enter the movie theater, the first time to see the movie in the county cinema. At that time, in the township and even in the primary school on the outskirts of the county, it was a very serious and solemn thing to watch a movie, first of all, the proof of the school opening to go to the movie, the big red seal of the school, the big red seal to the commune, and then to the cinema to make an appointment in advance to buy a children's group ticket. In most cases, you have to book your ticket a month in advance.
At that time, an adult ticket to watch a movie was eight cents or a dime, divided into A and B seats, A seat one dime, B seat eight cents, children's tickets were five or four cents.
The school stipulates that only senior students can enter the county to watch movies, which means that students in grades 3-16 can go to the city to watch movies. Dahai has been in the fifth grade, the sixth sister Jin Tao has just entered the third grade, the fifth sister is in the sixth grade, and there are three people in the Pan Song family who have gone to the movies. It's another lively day, and both families are basically so-called well-off families, so money is no problem. However, a considerable number of students want to go to the movies, and there are still certain financial difficulties. To go to the movie you must cross three rivers, one is the Pan River, the other is the Dadu River outside the city wall and the tributary Xiaotong River, to go to a unilateral side to 5 cents, back to 5 minutes, plus the movie ticket B ticket 4 cents, a total of four cents, some parents are peasant children, and even the parents have a deceased, there is no source of economic income, mainly rely on the family to raise chickens and eggs to provide pocket money, mainly the basic cost of oil, salt, chai rice sauce vinegar tea, although most of the families have used electric lights, But there are still a small number of families using kerosene lamps, children study with kerosene costs a lot, at that time an egg can only sell two cents, a family raises two chickens, generally a chicken can produce 200 a year, 2 chickens produce a total of 400 eggs has been very good, can only sell 8 yuan, mainly for money, kerosene and matches, when people in order to save matches, may see the neighbors make a fire, to borrow tinder. This is the condition of individual families in difficulty. There are 45 classmates in the sea class, and only 38 of them go to the movies.
There are 8 kilometers from Xuezhuan to the county cinema, and it takes 2 hours to walk, plus the ferry time takes a total of 2 and a half hours. At that time, there was already a small suburban road built at the time of the 58th War of Steel, which could be used by motor vehicles, but few cars were on the road, mainly for rickshaws, stretched flatbeds pulled by scalpers, and several bicycles that were difficult to get through a day. The road takes more than a kilometer around.
Most people will walk along the path on the banks of the Dadu River, which saves about 20 minutes of time, and on the morning of the movie, the students will get up at seven o'clock, meet at school at seven thirty o'clock, walk for two and a half hours, arrive at the movie theater before ten o'clock, watch the movie at ten o'clock, and finish before twelve o'clock. In the city at noon, play for an hour, after one o'clock in the afternoon, and then walk home, generally can get home around five o'clock in the afternoon.
It is a huge team of students, from grades 3 to 6, two classes per grade, with a total of eight classes, each class has nearly 40 people, a total of more than 300 people. The general leaders are mr. Zeng Shuming, the principal of the school, Guo Huiyin, the homeroom teacher of the sea, and the teacher of keren, and the teacher of mathematics, Mr. Wu, who is the main person responsible for safety.
Safety is particularly important in this process, and after walking along the Dadu River for about an hour, a sudden danger occurred, and someone shouted loudly:
"Help, someone fell into the water"!
It turned out that there was a classmate in the sea class named Zhao Tiancai who accidentally slid into the river, he slid down the slope of the bank for five or six meters, fortunately there was a big stone by the river, blocking him, he did not fall into the river, just wet most of his pants, fortunately, teacher Wu, who was responsible for safety, found it quickly, rushed down in time, and saved him back.
Finally, led by the teacher, he went to the county cinema, which is a five-storey cinema that was officially built and opened two years ago, and is an important landmark building in the county, which has been directly managed by the Cultural and Educational Bureau of the Special District three years ago. It is located in the heart of the county seat and is the largest street in the main part of the provincial capital leading to the office of the special district office. On the front lanai outside the second floor stands the five large red characters of "People's Cinema", which looks particularly dazzling.
The movie was about to start on time, the students all pressed the movie ticket to the number, entered their seats, the lights were completely turned off, only a few flashlights shook in the aisle, the whole scene was silent, and the students were full of infinite curiosity and immersed in great excitement.
The story of "Red Child" is about the story of 1934, after the Red Army went north to resist Japan, Chairman Li of the Soviets of Li Jiayuan in Jiangxi Su District led the Red Guards to fight a guerrilla war on the mountain, and Chairman Li's son Su Bao and Xiao Mei, Tiger Cub, Jin Gen, Dong Lingzi, etc. set up a red children's regiment to assist their fathers in their struggle against the Kuomintang bandits, and under the leadership of Li Gonggong, they entered the village late at night to rescue Chairman Li who was arrested and crush the enemy.
At the end of the film, Li Gonggong led the children's group to face The Xia and walked forward, which was very infectious!
The theme song of the film, "The Song of the Communist Children's Group", sings,
Ready to get started? Always ready!
The future hosts will be us.
Our future is infinite!
This loud singing voice has become a motto that students will never forget!
After the end of the movie, a small number of students went to lunch with relatives and friends.
The sixth sister Jin Tao and the fifth sister Jin Yu went to the eldest brother-in-law's house to eat. The eldest brother-in-law, Lu Daokui, used to be a grain merchant, but after the socialist transformation of industry and commerce, private people in urban areas could no longer trade in grain. Grain has long since become a government-controlled grain purchaser and marketer; most of the young business operators have become employees of state-owned grain companies; the eldest brother-in-law has become the station chief of the grain station in Chengguan Town, County; and the eldest sister, Jin Xiu, has become a salesman in a department store. Their home lives near the high gates of the North City, on the same street where the cinema is located, and it only takes three minutes to walk.
The sea made an appointment with them, met at the entrance of the movie theater at 1:30 p.m., and invited them to go home together, which was convenient for safety and took care of.
The sea went to the workshop of the county brownware cooperative in the unit of Aunt Liu and Uncle Liu Boling to eat. This section of the road is a little farther than going to the sixth sister's golden peach brother-in-law's house, and it takes five minutes more to walk.
The workshop where the county brown ware cooperative aunt is located is semi-manual labor operation, mainly the raw materials sorted out by the machine are manual operations, her job is to make brown rope for rural baskets, a large platform, stacked with various raw materials and auxiliary tools, next to tidy up as a table for lunch, aunt has already prepared the meal I want to eat, my uncle wants to come from the president's office, also need to walk for ten minutes, I go to eat at the same time. Because I was going to go over, in addition to the meals stipulated by the food group, my aunt and aunt also brought some self-cooked dishes from home, which was considered to be a small guest of mine.
At 1:30 p.m., we were concentrated at the entrance of the cinema on time, and groups of three or five, under the leadership of the teacher, went home separately.
The students walked along the bank of the Dadu River in the direction of the confluence of the three rivers,
Everyone looks at each other from time to time,
Looking at the sailboats traveling far in the center of the river,
Watching the boatmen shouting trumpets,
Back to the hands,
Hi yo, hi yo, hi yo yo
Pull, pull, pull,
Sometimes with both hands grasp the stones on the shore,
Sailboats swim against the current!
The waves of the Pan River,
Seems to be more turbulent,
Flow even more joyfully!
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