"What's so good about this thing? Why don't you go to the city to watch movies instead?"
"It depends on where you are. Willow Pond Village is in the outskirts; a trip to and from Black Stone City takes a whole day. The cheapest movie ticket costs three yuan, and with food and drinks, you'll have to spend at least eight or ten yuan a day. Farmers are reluctant to spend this money."
"A foreign film costs only ten cents. Especially the children in the village, they really love it."
Five children were lying on the glass lens, watching intently as the person showing the foreign films played his rattle leisurely and narrated the story.
Today's tale was about Wu Song killing a tiger. Wu Song had just drunk eighteen bowls and hadn't even reached Jingyang Ridge when the person showing the films started hurrying people away. "Alright, that's enough for today. Everyone go home."
The onlookers dispersed, but the five children who were watching the foreign films didn't leave.
