"Beep—beep—beep—"
"The number you dialed is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later..."
"Beep beep beep... The number you dialed is temporarily unavailable, please try again later... Beep beep beep..."
Li Si was so frightened that he knelt down.
The murderous aura from all directions converged upon him.
With one foot in the coffin and both knees in hell, Li Si was suffocated, like prey being strangled by an ancient ferocious beast, his blood stopping and freezing.
Without even looking at Xiao Cheng's face, he knew that the evil dragon had been angered and he was doomed!
Oh no!
He's about to be punched and sent flying!
Li Si's hands trembled as he frantically pressed the phone, dialing repeatedly. His survival instincts drove his brain to work at lightning speed: "Brother Cheng... the phone might be broken, malfunctioning. It's not that your sister-in-law is angry and won't answer the phone, please calm down, calm down..."
Xiao Cheng pinched his brow, resisting the urge to kick the figure on the floor in front of the table, and snatched the phone away.
Long fingers moved swiftly, leaving afterimages between the number keys, and another number was dialed.
After ringing three times, the call was answered.
"Hello, this is Pingcheng Electrical Appliance Store..."
Before Zhang San could finish speaking, he was interrupted by a familiar, cold voice: "Take the people from the Communications Department to the new town to inspect the telephone lines."
Um???
"Brother Cheng?"... He called the shop late at night, asking him to bring people to the new town to fix the phone?
Is he so obsessed with selling TVs that he's become numb from answering so many customer after-sales calls that he's starting to have a delusional thought?
"Any other questions?" the big boss asked again in a cold voice.
"No, no, no more!"
Zhang San subconsciously shook his head, then a thought flashed through his mind: "Is there a problem with Brother Cheng's phone line?"
This question has not received a response.
Because when the boss's cold voice rang out again, it was no longer directed at the phone, but at Li Si, who was kneeling on the ground, slumped over.
"explain."
Li Si had known Xiao Cheng for quite some time, and they understood each other with just a glance.
He understood the two words better, and hurriedly got up, took the phone and said: "Zhang San, Cheng Ge and his wife had a small misunderstanding tonight. You take the people from the communications department to Xinzhen to check the lines. You must go to his wife's house to check first."
"We can't get through to your sister-in-law's phone. There must be a problem with the line somewhere. You must explain the misunderstanding to her. Here's what happened..."
Flowers in a mirror, the moon in the water.
On the other side of the vast moonlight.
"Sister-in-law, what are you looking for?"
After experiencing the harsh cold and scorching heat, the changing seasons, and the fact that a whole year's worth of weather could pass in just three minutes in the house, Xiao Wei was finally able to watch TV normally. But before he could even watch a second, the sound of rummaging through drawers and cabinets filled the room.
He turned around and saw that next to the ripped-out vase, the landline phone had been completely turned upside down.
Bai Lu tapped the telephone receiver twice with her hand and put it to her ear, but seemed not to hear the voice she wanted.
Without saying a word, he flipped the landline over and over, checked it several times, checked the handset several times, pressed the buttons several times, and then made a call.
She brought the ear closer again, but still couldn't hear the sound she wanted, so Bailu finally gave up.
He turned around and started rummaging through drawers and cabinets in the room.
That was a rapid, meticulous, earnest, and anxious search, leaving no corner unchecked.
Xiao Wei was dumbfounded.
"Find the battery."
Bai Lu searched the whole house but couldn't find any new batteries, so she set her sights on the remote control in Xiao Wei's hand.
"The phone has no sound and can't make calls. It's probably out of battery. Try changing the battery; that should fix it."
Xiao Wei looked down at the remote control in his hand, then looked up at the landline phone, which was much larger than the remote control.
Finally, meeting Bai Lu's anxious gaze, he silently handed her the remote control: "I don't know if the size is right..."
"I remember there were spare batteries on the high table before, but they might have been pushed behind when the TV was set up. Let me look for them..."
Xiao Wei moved a chair to the TV, but there was a wall behind it and tables on both sides, so the chair couldn't fit.
The only way is to stand on a chair at the front to get a better vantage point and search.
Bai Lu removed the batteries from the remote control and swapped them into the landline phone; luckily, the size was just right.
Unfortunately...
I still can't make the call.
Bai Lu checked the telephone line connector on the back of the landline; it wasn't broken or loose, so why couldn't she make a call?
She doesn't even know who that woman is!
Bai Lu was so anxious that she grabbed her hair.
"Sister-in-law, the new batteries have arrived."
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Li Si, the culprit, was terrified by Xiao Cheng's gloomy and terrifying expression.
But we can't entirely blame him, can we?
He didn't open the door...
"You didn't know to close the door when you went out?" Xiao Cheng's cold, deep gaze was fixed on Li Si's hand.
With each slash, Li Si's hands stiffened and became numb, feeling as if his body and hands had separated.
He finally remembered that after finishing his business meeting that afternoon, he had reported the latest progress of his work to Xiao Cheng in his room.
Regarding the fluctuations in fruit market prices, the purchase and sales prices of major processing plants, and the pricing for various processing uses...
The progress bar was only halfway complete. After giving his report, he left. He remembered that the door was already closed when he left!
"Did I...did I forget to close the door?"
Li Si's confident assertions of his innocence were thwarted when he met the bulging, veiny fist of the big boss beside him.
He instantly remembered the truth and confessed: "I closed the door a little, but it might not have been closed properly. Cheng-ge, I was wrong! I will definitely close it properly next time and check that the door is closed before leaving!"
"I will never let anyone take advantage of me again to bother you in the middle of the night... But this Miss Yun has too much free time, always staying up late to talk to you about work."
"They came in without even knocking..."
After sensing the boss's massacre-like reaction, Li Si was now completely certain and convinced.
It was definitely not Xiao Cheng who opened the door for Yun Ruolin.
Xiao Cheng doesn't go out in the evenings when he has nothing to do. He always orders food at the hotel and never goes downstairs unnecessarily.
The culprit behind this misunderstanding was neither him nor Xiao Cheng, but Yun Ruolin.
Having discovered the truth, Li Si was so angry he couldn't help but grumble, "Isn't Yun Ruolin free during the day? The air conditioning deal was already finalized with her and her father. What important national affairs could she possibly have to discuss so late at night, making my sister-in-law misunderstand..."
"If the phone is broken, that's fine. But if my sister-in-law is really angry, we'll have to wait all night and she won't call back. The most important thing is that if she's angry, she might run away from home!"
The more Li Si talked, the more serious the situation became: "Brother Cheng, you were still on the phone with your sister-in-law at the time, weren't you? Didn't Yun Ruolin know? Didn't you tell her that you needed to finish talking to your sister-in-law before you could talk to her about work...?"
Xiao Cheng had never realized Li Si was so annoying. He stared at the phone, not wanting to talk to him, but he didn't want to be bothered by Li Si doing the same stupid thing again, so he tossed a business card over.
With a "smack," Li Si was slapped in the face by the business card. He took it off and looked at it carefully before he understood what was going on.
"Oh, it's a building materials company... I looked at so many before, but you didn't like any of them... Did Miss Yun recommend this company? How did Miss Yun know that we were looking for high-end, classy building materials?"
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