Chapter 1023: Return to My Mother’s Home 2
Wang Zhengguo cradled Fubao in one arm and waved with the other, "Most of you are older than me; how can I take the seat of honor? Today is Xibao’s birthday, so let’s sit according to age, with the eldest taking the seat of honor."
He wasn’t ignorant or uncouth, how could he be rude?
Apart from two schoolteachers, the others were all luminaries of the academic world, faces that, in the past, he wouldn’t have even been able to see.
Now that they had fallen on hard times, treating them well would be a way for him to build good karma for the Wanglou Brigade and his family. After all, fortunes change: "Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west." Besides, the folks of the Wanglou Brigade all listened to him, and it wasn’t as if he had anything to lose.
Wen Ruyu was the eldest and also Feng Qingxue’s teacher, so everyone unanimously urged him to take the seat of honor.
"Since there are no strangers here, I will accept the seat without protest," said Wen Ruyu as he took his seat. He waved Xibao over, "Xibao, as the birthday boy, how about you sit with grandpa? Don’t ask your Grandpa Jin those tricky and weird questions—he won’t be able to answer them. Just grow up, study hard, and reach for the stars, and you’ll understand why radios and telephones make sounds."
"Radio?" Wang Zhengguo only then noticed the radio on the long narrow table, broadcasting the sweet voice of the announcer, talking about recent news and the latest directives from the old leader, and so forth.
Such news was hard to come by in the countryside; with no radios around, and newspapers nowhere to be bought.
Thus, whatever directives came from above were passed down layer by layer, and the countryside often heard them last, the information significantly outdated.