It was evening, still light out. After dinner, Mingming and Haohao played in the courtyard. They no longer needed anyone to stay with them; both children knew the courtyard well, and were now playing at wrestling with the two little white goat kids.
Li Long turned on the television and watched Xinwen Lianbo.
When he had first started watching television, the news had been his least favorite program. He had always wished it would finish quickly so he could watch the dramas.
He could only follow two episodes a day, and there were just two channels altogether. Although they could receive Ma County Television, its broadcasts were intermittent, so it was a matter of luck.
After his rebirth, however, he had come to enjoy the news-not just the national Xinwen Lianbo, but the local news too.
And it was not just television. When he listened to the radio, he no longer changed stations when the news came on. Newspapers had plenty of content these days, but Li Long found listening more comfortable than reading.
It was like how many people in later years preferred listening to novels over reading them: mainly, it did not hold up other things, since they could listen while doing something else.
Gu Xiaoxia sat at the writing desk with a pair of scissors, carefully cutting out the articles about Li Long from the newspapers he had brought home. Then she glued them into a homemade scrapbook and finally noted each newspaper's name, date, and page in her elegant handwriting.
"If only this had made the front page. It's the Farmers' Daily!" Gu Xiaoxia sighed as she cut, sounding a little regretful.
"Getting into it at all is good enough. There are so many farmers across the country. Who am I?" Li Long said casually. "Plenty