The villagers later learned that Adrian Hawthorne had been the one to procure the sewing machine ticket. Shane Thorne had bought it for eighty yuan, whereas in the city they were going for a hundred, and even then, they were hard to come by.
Lately, whenever Shane Thorne had some free time, he would stroll around the village with his new radio, humming along to the opera programs. Sometimes, he would even leave the radio at the village entrance for a group of old men and women to listen with him.
The radio had now become a crucial piece of cultural equipment for Millstone Peak Village. After dinner, many people would head to the village entrance to listen to the opera or catch up on the news, getting a glimpse of the outside world. They would shoot the breeze and chat, and the evening would just fly by. Their cultural lives were much richer than before.
