Living on campus in these days is very boring. There are no mobile phones, no Internet cafes, and not even a TV. In addition to going to school every day, I play poker in the dormitory.
But ever since a classmate came back and told them that there was a video room near the school, going to the video room and watching videos was their happiest time.
Although there is a cinema on Feng Yu's small farm, some domestic movies are only shown on holidays, and not many people watch them. The biggest role of the cinema may be that it serves as the auditorium of the farm. Any evening parties are usually held here.
Feng Yu also went to the cinema to watch movies a few times, but they were all organized by the school and were not interesting at all. I only remember the classic line: learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well, and you will not be afraid of traveling all over the world!
So those who really want to watch movies go to the video hall. A large 17-inch color TV, three or four rows of seats, and a 10-cent ticket per person. You can watch three hours, which is almost two movies.
Feng Yu and the others have been here several times before. During busy farming time, they don’t go home on Sundays. This time Wen Dongjun made a suggestion, and everyone responded. School has just started, and everyone has pocket money in their pockets.
Seeing everyone's eagerness to try, Feng Yu also became interested. This was the time when Hong Kong's martial arts movies and gangster movies were becoming popular. Of course, the God of Gamblers series was also beginning to shine at this time.
Many classic and old Xiangjiang films are difficult to find on the Internet in later generations, but now they are almost available in any video hall.
In the video hall, almost 80% are films from Hong Kong. The rest are movies from Europe, America, other regions in Southeast Asia, and domestic movies, among which almost no one watches Chinese movies.
In addition to three movie screenings during the day, the video hall also showed two movies at night, but the second screening was not suitable for children.
This is not the most profitable thing about the video hall. The most profitable thing is renting video tapes. Now that living conditions are better, some people have bought video recorders at home, but after watching the video tape once, it is useless, so few people choose to buy it, and they basically rent it.
Entering the video room, the third scene has just begun. The classic police movie, A Better Tomorrow Part 1, is being shown.
After everyone paid, they all squeezed into the first row. The closer you are to the TV, the better you can see. The owner of the video hall was sitting at the door, holding a copy of the "Dragon and Tiger Gate" comic. He had watched these movies at least dozens of times and was not interested at all.
Feng Yu went to buy melon seeds worth 50 cents and distributed them to everyone, eating them while watching. Although he had watched this movie several times in his previous life, he still enjoyed it now.
The door was opened, and a gust of cold wind came in. Feng Yu glanced at it and saw three boys in their late teens walking in.
"Fuck, we are asked to clean up when school starts. I won't do it. Listen to me. Come out and watch the video. Let others do the cleaning."
"Hahaha, I'll go back and get two more bottles of wine later, and I'll take two sips tonight."
"In the evening? We'll go out to eat later and watch the video in the evening. It's better at night. It's much better than this one."
The three of them chatted casually while paying. The owner of the video hall tore off a homemade ticket as big as a penny from the clip, with a time slot on it, and asked them to go in and watch the video. He lowered his head and read the comics again.
"You guys, go to the back!"
Wen Dongjun looked up and ignored it. We came first, why should we go to the back
"Damn it, you little bastards, didn't hear you!"
Wen Dongjun stood up: "We were here first, why should we give in? If you want to see it, go to the back, or go to another place!"
"Eh? You're so brave, you little brat. How dare you talk to me like that? Isn't that a joke?"
The owner of the video hall raised his head and glanced: "Don't make trouble and watch the video carefully, otherwise I will kick you out."
Those who can open video studios these days are all gangsters, otherwise they would not be able to suppress them if they encounter some troublemakers.
"Brother Wang, don't worry, I'll teach this little bastard a lesson!"
"If we go out and beat them up, you can't afford to pay for the things in my store that were damaged." The owner of the video hall obviously knew these three boys and seemed to want to ignore them.
When Feng Yu saw it, he thought he was going to be evil and start a fight. These three people are bigger than them, tall and strong. Although there are seven of them, they will definitely suffer in a fight. But if you give in at this time, you may not be bullied by them.
When he looked at the ages of these three people, he thought about what they had said just now. He must have known that these three people were not working. At this age, the only people with high school cleaning skills at this age were those with higher education in the farm!
Thinking of this, Feng Yu had a way to deal with the three of them.
"My uncle is Director Xu of the Academic Affairs Office of a vocational high school. You three are from a vocational high school, right?" Feng Yu stood up, feeling like "my dad is Li Gang" for future generations.
"Director Xu? Which Director Xu?" A young man was obviously weakened, but he was afraid that the child would scare him.
"Xu Lianglu, Director Xu. How many Director Xus are there in your vocational high school?" Feng Yu choked back.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know you were Director Xu's nephew, and these are all your classmates, right? It was all a misunderstanding, just a joke. Brother Wang, get ten bottles of soda."
The sodas were delivered, and the three big boys stuffed a bottle into each of Feng Yu's hands, then sat in the last row, not daring to say anything anymore.
This Director Xu will be transferred to the Farm Middle School as the principal in two years, so Feng Yu only knew about it. In this day and age, tuition fees for vocational high schools are not cheap, and the director of the Academic Affairs Office has the power to expel students.
If the three of them beat up the nephew of the dean of the Academic Affairs Office, even if they are not expelled, they will still be given a major demerit. After graduation, any unit that wants to join the farm will have no chance.
Others didn't know that Feng Yu had an uncle who was the director of the Academic Affairs Office at a high school, but Wen Dongjun knew that there was absolutely no such thing. But it was really cool to be able to trick those three people once and earn a bottle of soda for each of them!
After watching the two movies, Feng Yu and the others stood up and prepared to go back to school. Everyone in the dormitory should be back, so it's time to go back to play poker and chat about interesting things during the winter vacation.
"Brother, let's go. I'll go to a bar with my brothers in the evening. After drinking, we'll come over to watch the video. It's my treat. The show at night will be even better!" a big boy invited.
"No, I have to go back to school. The teacher will check the dormitory tonight."
Although Feng Yu was interested in the movie at night, he would not watch it at his age, let alone watch it with them. But Wen Dongjun was attracted. At this age, it was the time when he was curious about these things. He wanted to see it, but he couldn't find the opportunity.
"Xiaoyu, stay and watch."
Feng Yu quickly shook his head at him and whispered: "Hurry up and leave. There will definitely be a lot of people in the vocational high school at night. Then we will get involved and we will be beaten to death!"
Wen Dongjun reluctantly went out with Feng Yu, but on the way back to school, he kept discussing with Feng Yu whether to go to other video halls so that he would not be afraid of running into them.
Feng Yu sighed, impulsive youth.
"You guys, stop!"
PS1: At that time, the video hall not only played videos, rented video tapes, but also rented comics. Unfortunately, there were very few Japanese comics in those days, let alone Kisaragi ~ Qunzhen PS2: Do you have any collection recommendations