The 144th New Year's Eve Movie
There is still a strange odor permeating the road. It is obvious that there is no rain here. The sewage is mixed and flowing on the street. Pigs and dogs are wandering on the street, looking for food, and flies are flying everywhere. [Full text reading] Seeing this appearance, the members of the Chuan Dynasty, who were originally keen on capturing the county seat, became cold-blooded when they saw this appearance.
"I would rather live in a tent than in this shabby place." You Laohu has always been a hardliner and often questioned the executive committee's policy of not occupying the county seat. Now that he came in and took a look, he thought that whoever wants to occupy this place will occupy it. Anyway, he is absolutely Don't come to be the occupying army of Lingao County.
The craze for visiting the 17th century ancient city subsided by evening. In the evening, there was a dinner party in the cafeteria. Although there was no good food, the dishes on New Year's Eve were oily and watery enough, and the people who were afraid of eating fish and shrimp could finally eat enough meat. They even used flour from the inventory to make dumplings. Now the flour has become It was an extremely rare commodity. Wheat was not grown locally, so naturally there was nowhere to buy flour. The people in the south ridiculed the "dumpling plot" of the people in the north: "I have never eaten good food, so I take a dumpling as a treasure." The people in the north said to me: "If you don't like to eat it, don't eat it. Let us country bumpkins eat it up." "But although the people in the south are not interested in making dumplings, the dumplings are still filled with meat, and they will not give up this power.
On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, all departments stopped working except for security personnel and key departments who could not take a break. Xiao Zishan still stayed in the office to prepare materials for the conference after the new year. After a long time, he realized that it was getting dark and the lights outside came on. He felt a little tired, so he walked out of the office and walked around the courtyard of the Executive Committee, rubbing his cheeks and saying hello to the people passing by outside from time to time. The wired loudspeakers in the city are playing records of New Year songs. One is "The God of Wealth is Knocking on Your Door", and the other is "Congratulations, Congratulations, Congratulations." It's a bit tacky, but also has a lively New Year flavor.
From time to time, this music is interrupted by a sweet and artificial female voice:
"Li Haiping wishes all his comrades and relatives and friends that in the new year, all their hopes will come true, all their dreams will come true, all their waiting will come true, and all their efforts will be rewarded. I sincerely wish you, May you be blessed with lots of blessings, everything will go well, and your smile will be sweet.”
"Wu Nanhai wishes all the staff of the Ministry of Agriculture..."
"The Machinery Department of the Ministry of Industry wishes all the staff of the Metallurgical Department..."
In addition to the congratulatory messages between various departments, there are also many personal ones. When Xiao Zishan smiled, his PHS phone rang twice, and he saw that it was an advertising text message: To celebrate the New Year, Lingao Telecom has launched a Spring Festival greeting service and ring tones download function. When will we have Lingao Telecom here? People in the communications department are very selfish.
Xiao Zishan was very tired, but he was always excited. He felt that the entire Bairen City had never been so bright, just like his mood. It turns out that all the lights that are rarely turned on in order to save electricity were turned on today, so even though there were no "lights and festoons", I was still happy. It felt vaguely like celebrating the New Year in the 21st century, except that most of the people were still wearing single clothes, lacking the winter atmosphere.
While enjoying the atmosphere, Xi Yazhou walked in. He was holding a piece of paper in his hand and saw that he was still there. I was simply overjoyed. Say hello quickly:
"Zishan! I'm just looking for you! I'm afraid you've already got off work."
"Why don't we get off work?" Xiao Zishan said that he probably came to show a movie.
"The movie projector has been found!" he said excitedly.
Several members of the executive committee have discussed this a few days ago. It is necessary to enrich the cultural life of the masses. Especially showing a few movies. Cultural life has been lacking recently. Xiao Zishan absolutely agrees with the argument of "bread, wine and circuses". The most stupid thing a leader can do is to deliberately make the masses have nothing to entertain them, and the harder they are, the more educated they must be.
In fact, various departments have been showing some videos internally for several months. At first, it was work needs: for example, the construction engineering team screened "Rural Small Hydropower Construction". The military group plays military educational films. The agricultural department releases "Golden Land" and the like. But according to the general rules of social development. A high-sounding start is often followed by something else. Gradually, in addition to "business movies", "welfare movies" began to be released: from TV series, imported blockbusters to porn movies. This phenomenon has aroused the opinion of many ordinary people who do not work in professional groups: electricity must be rationed every day. When most people don’t use their notebooks at all. In some departments, using a projector to show movies is simply an act of naked privilege.
Such dissatisfaction has become very loud recently, and various complaints are constantly being sent to the courtyard of the Executive Committee. But the executive committee members really can't take a hard stance on this issue, and they themselves often watch movies in various departments.
Furthermore, these departments that screen movies privately are some of the most important departments in the Time Travel Group. Even this can be forcibly banned, which hurts the enthusiasm of business personnel. The final result of the discussion was that instead of everyone arguing, it would be better to show movies publicly on a regular basis.
It is not about scarcity but about inequality.
The most common projection equipment that time travelers bring is a projector, which can be connected to a computer to display various movies they bring. In recent months, various departments have been using this to show movies internally. However, the projector's bulb has a short life and is easily damaged. One bulb was broken in the previous stage. At this rate, it won't be long before all the bulbs in stock are hung up.
After some searching, Xi Yazhou finally found the forgotten 16-centimeter small movie projector and supporting speakers, screen, power supply equipment, and several boxes of old movie copies in the Planning Commission's piled material warehouse. In addition to these, there are two 16-meter film cameras and portable processing equipment. He and a few buddies stole this from his father's factory before traveling through time.
"In the future, we don't need to use the precious projector to show movies. That thing is precious." He excitedly waved a piece of yellow paper in his hand, "This is the catalog in the box. You can see what to put in it."
"Great!" Xiao Zishan was very happy. The 16-meter movie projector is basically a purely mechanical and electric structure. It is relatively easy to repair. Some spare parts can be produced soon with their future industrial capabilities, and the maintenance life can be longer. In their future cultural exhibition plans, showing movies will be an important means of cultural promotion, and the long-term plan also includes the mass production of these devices.
""War in the South and North", "Happiness", "Our Cows Are 100 Years Old", "Walter Defends Sarajevo", "The New Look of the Motherland, Issue 3 of 1979", "Agricultural Knowledge, Issue 5 of 811"" Xiao Zishan After watching for a long time, they were all domestic films and old foreign films from the 1950s to 1980s. Many of the films were familiar to people of their age, enough to hold a nostalgic film exhibition.
"That's all?" Xiao Zishan put down the catalog in disappointment, "Who wants to see these things?"
"Don't be dissatisfied. What new movie sources can you get from this? Do you still expect to watch blockbusters with this?"
"I can make do with it for a while, but what about the future? Are you looking over and over again? I won't spit on you to death!"
"Then what did you say?" Xi Yazhou was angry. He also knew that these things were a bit too old.
"Get on the projector first. I'll figure it out later." Xiao Zishan thought for a while, "I remember it's not difficult to make celluloid. After I can produce film, I'll figure out how to transcribe the program onto the film."
"That's all."
So we discussed the movies to be screened on New Year's Eve. Xiao Zishan called up the resource catalog and selected three different movies after fully considering everyone's preferences and the festive atmosphere of New Year's Eve.
Luo Duo was walking in the square. Today was New Year's Eve and he did not participate in the "Lingao One-Day Tour". In the past few days, he has successfully infiltrated the intelligence data group by virtue of his powerful human data extractor function. His role in the Intelligence and Information Group is almost that of a librarian, responsible for registering and searching for various types of information. At the beginning of this job, he felt like he was in an important position. Many team leaders and executive committee members asked him to check information and even asked him for various suggestions. But after a long time, this kind of desk work became boring, so I applied to join the militia. When I was not at work, I carried a gun on patrol, which was a kind of adjustment. In fact, his real purpose is to be transferred to the intelligence department that will be established during the organizational restructuring after the year. He has been obsessed with this since watching "Seventeen Moments of Spring". In addition to searching and studying relevant information day and night, he believes that his current qualifications in militia service will add some weight in future work adjustments.
"Attention, attention," a man's voice came from the loudspeaker, "The New Year's Eve special movie will be shown at Bairen Cinema at 7pm. Tickets are not required to enter. There are top movies, not suitable for children, just handed in Not suitable for your girlfriend, but suitable for your girlfriend and wife who want to push you.”
Suddenly there was a roar from the loudspeaker: "What are you talking about!" followed by a burst of chaotic sounds, and then everything was interrupted by the song "Congratulations, Congratulations, Congratulations".
This episode startled him. Someone was probably playing a prank. But he heard about the movie.
As for whether porn movies would be shown, he wasn't interested. The computers in the Intelligence and Information Team had no quota restrictions on their power consumption, so they could watch as many movies as they wanted. But watching porn movies all the time is too empty: no matter how many actresses there are, no matter how lewd they scream, no matter how angelic the face is and the devil’s figure is, it is still an illusory image. How can it compare to a living woman? Luo Duo couldn't help but recall his girlfriends from the past.
He was thinking about how to get a "life secretary" by himself after the year. Insider news came out: after being bought from Guangzhou, the women who were assigned to study in "hygiene schools", except for a few who will become full-time nurses, most will graduate, and then they will be assigned to work as "life secretaries". Of course this won't happen to everyone. And Luo Duo has already taken a fancy to a girl named "Guo Fu" inside.
