On the tenth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Lingling came to the door with a gift and said that she would install a phone in Ma Xiaolong's home to facilitate future contact.
Grandma was stunned: "Isn't it... quite expensive to install a phone?"
It's really expensive, more than four thousand.
"I will pay the money, it will be considered as public funds." Zhu Lingling said with a smile: "The clothes designed by Xiaolong sold very well this time. Although it has not reached the share standard for the time being, there will definitely be additional orders in the future, and the share will be no problem. At that time, Xiaolong will be worth 10,000 yuan
Registered."
Grandma's hands shook as she couldn't believe that her eldest grandson had become a householder worth ten thousand yuan at such a young age.
Ma Xiaolong was also a little surprised: "How much did you sell this time?"
"The first round of distribution has 15,000 sets, with an average of 3,000 pieces per set. I guess there will be additional orders later, maybe there will be three or four rounds." Zhu Lingling pinched Ma Xiaolong's face and said with a smile: "
Xiaolong, you are really my lucky star."
"Don't be too optimistic." Ma Xiaolong said: "Domestic piracy is too serious. If the sales are good, there will definitely be pirates. We are taking the mid-to-high-end route. There are even fewer people willing to spend money to buy. If we can sell a hundred thousand sets in total, then
Not bad.”
"One hundred thousand sets? Hahaha..." Zhu Lingling laughed so hard: "If you can sell one hundred thousand sets, I will give you a big red envelope."
"..." It's just one hundred thousand sets, look at your potential.
"Talking about the phone." Ma Xiaolong said: "It is not easy to install a phone now. It is expensive and you have to wait in line. What are you going to do, sister-in-law?"
"Don't worry about it. When your parents come back, anyone can follow me to the telecommunications office to apply for an account. It will be installed within three days." Zhu Lingling said confidently.
"That's okay." Ma Xiaolong nodded and said, "I'm sorry to bother you, sister-in-law."
"You are my little God of Wealth now, I must take good care of you." Zhu Lingling said with a smile.
"hehe."
"By the way." Zhu Lingling took out five hundred yuan from her pocket and said, "This is your salary for this month."
"So early?" Ma Xiaolong asked: "When does the factory pay wages every month?"
"It's between the 10th and 15th of every month, but your salary is directly distributed by me, so it's irregular every month." Zhu Lingling said with a smile.
"In other words, it all depends on my sister-in-law when will you remember it?" Ma Xiaolong asked.
"You are so smart."
"..."
At noon, when Ma Qiangsheng and Liu Ying came back, they were shocked to learn that Zhu Lingling was going to install a phone at home.
Finally, Liu Ying and Zhu Lingling went to the telecommunications bureau, and the telecommunications bureau promised to install it in the home within three days.
Everyone was happy to finally have a telephone installed at home, but Ma Qiangsheng seemed to be shocked and became more taciturn than before.
As his wife, Liu Ying discovered his anomaly. When they were sleeping together that night, Liu Ying whispered: "Xiaolong is really getting more and more successful. We adults combined don't make as much as he does."
"……Um."
"Don't want to say something?"
"More promising than me." Ma Qiangsheng's eyes were complicated: "But we must strengthen ideological education to prevent him from going down the wrong path."
"I have kept all his money, so why did he resort to evil ways?" Liu Ying said with a smile, "You are too worried."
"Don't be careless. He is too young. He will easily get stuck up when he has some grades. We have to supervise him and don't let him grow into a crooked-necked tree."
This was the first time Liu Ying heard Ma Qiangsheng say such profound words, and she didn't know what to do.
"Go to sleep!" Ma Qiangsheng patted Liu Ying on the back: "I'm fine, don't worry."
Liu Ying changed into a comfortable position and said, "You know everything?"
"How can we not know this after being married for so many years?" Ma Qiangsheng's eyes became gentle and he whispered: "It's because I don't have the ability to let you live a good life."
"My life is better than I thought before I got married." Liu Ying said softly: "I have a husband who knows both cold and hot, a smart and capable son, and healthy parents. Nothing could be better than now."
(Ma Xiaofeng: "???")
Ma Qiangsheng hugged her tightly, but did not say the words hidden in his heart.
…
The telephone installation went smoothly. Someone came over the next afternoon to connect the phone line and placed a landline phone in Ma Xiaolong's room.
Lingling Zhu installed the phone number for the convenience of contacting him. She placed it in his room, and her parents would not have any objections.
When testing the signal, Ma Xiaolong called Cinnabar's mobile phone.
"Hello?" It was Zhu Sha's voice.
"Hey, can you hear me clearly?" Ma Xiaolong asked with a smile.
"Xiaolong?" Zhusha was stunned for a moment, as if thinking of something, and asked with a smile: "Has the phone been installed?"
"I just installed it and am testing the signal! Why don't I call you and try it? Can you hear me clearly?"
"It's quite clear."
"That's good. I haven't seen you for half a month and I really miss you. Is it fun for you to celebrate the New Year there?"
"……good."
"It's okay, haha."
Ma Xiaolong didn't know what to say. Fortunately, the uncle who installed the phone next to him glared at him, making him give up the idea of continuing to talk on the phone with Zhu Sha: "Let's not talk about it for now. My phone number is 822***
*, please remember it and call me if you have nothing to do next time."
"Um."
…
The phone was installed and a 16-key phone book containing domestic public numbers was given as a gift, bound in blue leather.
He placed the phone book under the phone. It was red on top and blue on the bottom. It looked quite matching.
Ma Xiaofeng was very excited: "Great, we also have a phone at home."
"Don't make random calls. The phone bill is expensive!" Ma Xiaolong said in words she could understand: "One minute is four popsicles. Try calling."
"Four popsicles per minute!?" Ma Xiaofeng was shocked: "So expensive!?"
"Otherwise!" Ma Xiaolong said: "It costs more than 40,000 popsicles just to install the phone. You can eat one popsicle a day until you die."
Ma Xiaofeng sat down on the ground: "Forty...more than 40,000 popsicles..."
This news was too exciting for her, and her worldview almost collapsed.
How could someone do such a stupid thing by exchanging a lifetime of popsicles for such a broken phone? It just happened that someone did it, and it was done by her family.
"Don't get excited." Ma Xiaolong pulled her up from the ground, patted the dirt on her butt, and said, "Your Sister Zhusha's sister-in-law spent money, but we didn't get any out of it."
"I'm scared to death." Ma Xiaofeng breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't just spend the money at home: "My sister's sister-in-law is too stupid. She actually spent so much money on installing a phone, how nice it would be to replace it with popsicles!"
"Haha..." Ma Xiaolong ignored her and went to his grandma to get a phone book. He had to call Aunt BJ and tell her her home phone number so that he could contact her easily in the future.
His aunt is ten years older than Liu Ying and is thirty-eight years old. She came to the capital to work twenty years ago and then met her current uncle.
My eldest uncle is a native of Beijing. He has a small, slightly rundown courtyard house near the Bell and Drum Towers. He bought a building in Haidian District two years ago. The house is not big, only 40 square meters.
When he and Ma Xiaofeng went to his aunt's house last summer, he lived in a building. It was really small. Entering the door was a straight corridor one and a half meters wide. On the right side was a narrow bathroom by the door, and next to it was the kitchen.
At the end of the corridor are two bedrooms on the left and right.
This building costs 1,000 yuan per square meter, and my uncle spent 30,000 yuan to buy it.
A building next to Peking University costs 30,000 yuan...
All roads lead to Rome, and my uncle was born in Rome.
After my aunt married her uncle, she only gave birth to a daughter. She became pregnant twice and miscarried for various reasons. Later, the doctor recommended sterilization, otherwise it would be bad for her health.
My eldest uncle was considerate of my aunt and agreed to her sterilization. However, because he only had one daughter, he was quite fond of Ma Xiaolong, who came to the capital almost every year.
In his last life, Ma Xiaolong stayed in the capital for twenty years because his uncle often helped him. However, with the little money he earned, he could not buy property in the capital, and his uncle could not introduce him to a girl from the capital to get married. In addition, he had
Reluctant to return to his hometown, he remained single until the day he was reborn.