Reborn in 1977

An Quan calmly and leisurely took out a cigarette, lit it, exhaled a puff of smoke, and glanced at him sideways. "No money? Then I won't help you buy it. You don't need to ask Old Wang to help you buy cement either."

This kid sold a batch of pottery at the market last time, saying he has no money. Who would believe that?

Chen Fan's face turned serious, and he said very sincerely, "Although I don't have money now, as long as this batch of squatting toilets can be sold, I will have money. So, the cement, steel bars, and the stone for making the glaze, oh, right, and the glass and wood for making furniture, I'll have to trouble Brother An with these things. When the house is built, I'll treat you to a meal."

An Quan was speechless, raised his hand and pointed at him, then pointed again, unable to say a word.

Chen Fan chuckled and put his arm around his shoulder, "It's settled then. By the way, Brother An, I've already learned the harmonica you taught me. When will you teach me how to play the accordion?"

"Learned it?"

An Quan was stunned for a moment, forgetting to complain about him, and said in surprise, "It's only been a few days, and you say you've learned it?"

He had only taught him to play the harmonica for a little over ten days. He learned it so quickly?

Chen Fan patted his chest and said, "I never lie. If you don't believe me, you can test me on the spot."

An Quan clicked his tongue, his face full of suspicion, and said, "When you say 'learned,' you don't just mean you can play one song, right?"

"Of course not."

Chen Fan said confidently, "If you don't believe me, you can test me."

An Quan's eyes darted slightly, "Do you have your harmonica with you?"

Chen Fan, "No, I'm working today, so I left it in the room."

An Quan turned and walked towards the front yard, "I have new sheet music here. Go get your harmonica and play it."

Two minutes later.

Chen Fan sat under the eaves, with a bamboo chair in front of him. On the bamboo chair was the palm-sized sheet music book that An Quan had given him. The opened page was the simplest sheet music without lyrics.

He first looked at the sheet music, then picked up the harmonica and slowly played the rhythm.

An Quan's eyes widened as he watched from the side. The first time he played it was so smooth?

After Chen Fan finished playing a song, he said with a smile, "I've heard this too many times, it's a bit simple."

"Twinkling Red Star," a song that he could hum with his eyes closed, was indeed not difficult to play.

Hearing him say this, An Quan felt unhappy and immediately turned to the last page of the sheet music, "Play this one."

Chen Fan took a look, first trying to hum the tune in his mind, and then he was shocked. Hey, he had never heard this one before?

But thinking about it, it was normal. There were actually many songs created in this era, but only the best of them could be passed down to later generations. Anything that wasn't so classic was buried in the dust of history.

Seeing that he took much longer to look at it than before, An Quan immediately smiled triumphantly, "Have you seen the movie 'The Pioneers'? This song is the opening song of 'The Pioneers.' The movie starts with this song, called 'Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman.'

Hehehe, this movie was released in 1975, even later than 'Twinkling Red Star,' only a little over a year ago. The copies are still circulating in the regional cinemas, at most in the county cinemas. It'll probably take a while to reach the commune level. I only saw this movie when I went to the prefectural committee.

What do you think? Didn't you say you could play the harmonica? If you haven't heard the original song, you can't play it, right?"

Chen Fan didn't know anything about "The Pioneers" or had heard of "Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman," but when he said he could, he really could.

As early as the day An Quan taught him how to read sheet music and learn to play the harmonica, he had activated the music skill. He would play the harmonica every day when he had nothing to do. Although he didn't play in rhythm at the beginning, he steadily gained a lot of experience, and then he naturally and smoothly advanced. Now he is already LV2, which is equivalent to a senior apprentice. It may be difficult for him to create, but playing while looking at the sheet music can only be said that as long as he has a mouth, he can do it.

He didn't even look at the triumphant An Quan. After memorizing it in his mind, he picked up the harmonica and started playing.

When the sound rang out, An Quan was immediately stunned. Hey, he really could?

At this time, Jiang Lili and the other three walked briskly to the entrance of the courtyard. Seeing Chen Fan playing the harmonica, they all slowed down unconsciously.

Liu Dan took Huang Ying's arm, her eyes full of infatuation, and murmured, "Teacher Chen is so amazing. A few days ago, it was still intermittent, but today he can play so well."

Huang Ying turned her head and glared at her, "Shut up."

After listening for a while, she turned to look at Jiang Lili and asked in a low voice, "Lili, do you know what song this is?"

Jiang Lili's eyes were blank, and she shook her head, "I don't know, I haven't heard it."

As she said this, she sighed secretly in her heart. She hadn't seen a movie or heard a song in three years.

The last time she heard a song was before the New Year when the team installed a loudspeaker. She could only hear songs when the loudspeaker was turned on every day.

As for Chen Fan's radio, he occasionally took it out to play before the New Year, but after Huang Ying and the others moved in, he never took it out again. Every night, he only taught her high school courses, and there was still no entertainment time.

Just as Jiang Lili was letting her thoughts run wild, Chen Fan had already finished playing the song.

He evaluated it in his heart. Personally, he felt that it was not as good as "Twinkling Red Star" or "Little Bamboo Raft Aboard," but it still had a very passionate feeling.

An Quan looked at him from the side, biting his teeth, not knowing what to say.

In just over ten days, he learned to read sheet music and play songs fluently. Where did this monster come from?

Then he heard a burst of noisy shouts from behind,

"Hurry, hurry, don't let it run away."

"Hurry up, Huang Laosi, block it in front."

"Yang Zihong, you chase from that side, don't let it run into Teacher Chen's house."

"Hit, hit, hit."

Listening to the increasingly clear sound, everyone in the front yard was a little dazed. What happened behind?

This encirclement and suppression, could it be that they found a thief?

Nanhu Commune can catch a few thieves every year. Some are "backward households" from a certain production team, who are actually gluttonous and lazy, unwilling to work, and steal when they have no money. Otherwise, with the natural conditions in this area, as long as they work diligently, they can't be said to become rich, but solving the problem of food and clothing is definitely not a problem. When the year is good, they can save dozens of yuan.

In addition, there are several "old fritters" in the town who are used to muddling through life and don't have a proper job. Over time, they have developed the habit of petty theft.

All production teams have the same attitude towards this kind of person.

If they are caught, they will not be sent to the police station. They will be beaten up directly, hung for 24 hours, and then released.

The police officers in charge of the area in the police station also default to this method of handling. As long as no one reports the case, they don't care.

Listening to the movement behind, it does sound a bit like catching a thief.

But whether it is or not, we have to see it with our own eyes to know.

An Quan didn't have time to chat with Chen Fan about musical instruments at this time. He was afraid that something big would happen, so he hurried to the back.

Chen Fan's eyes darted slightly. He made two "chirp chirp" sounds to the falcon that was lying in its nest with its head out. The falcon flapped its wings and flew out of the eaves, drawing an arc in the air and flying to the back.

In just a few seconds, it flew back, "Chirp chirp chirp."

Chen Fan's eyes widened when he heard it.

What the heck? A big snake?

It's not even March 3rd yet. How did the snake come out?

With a turn of his mind, he realized that there was no doubt that those heroes accidentally dug into the snake's nest when they were digging the soil, and that's why they woke it up.

Knowing what had happened, he felt relieved. It was just a snake. Even if there were so many people, even if there weren't, the falcon could easily handle it.

But he didn't let it go. He waved to Jiang Lili and the others and said with a smile, "It's okay, there are so many people, nothing will happen."

Then he went into the room, came out with a fish basket in his hand, and in the other hand, he had the "dog-beating stick" that he had used for more than two months. Then he strode towards the back.

As soon as he walked to the backyard, the shouts became clearer and clearer. He could even hear An Quan shouting, "Get away, get away…"

But his voice seemed a little panicked?

Just then, he suddenly heard An Quan scream, "It's in the yard!"

Before he finished speaking, Chen Fan saw a large rat snake swimming into the yard through the newly opened back door. Its body was estimated to be two or three meters long. It meandered along the reclaimed vegetable field and crawled towards Chen Fan.

Chen Fan frowned slightly, feeling unhappy.

It wasn't fear, but disgust.

He didn't like snakes and insects, especially since this rat snake was so ugly, it was simply unbearable to look at.

Seeing that the rat snake was about to crawl in front of him, Chen Fan tightened his grip on the stick, wanting to kill it with one blow.

But just a second before he raised the stick, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Instead, he put the fish basket upside down on the ground, the mouth of the basket facing the rat snake, and made a "hiss hiss" sound, "Come in if you don't want to die."

Although the rat snake was dizzy from being chased, it was still stunned when it heard this sentence. Just as it was about to think about what had happened, the sound of footsteps came from behind. It didn't have time to think too much and plunged into the bamboo basket.