Chapter 674 Phone
Seeing that Grandma was so excited, Jiang Xia asked curiously, "Who is looking for us?"
Several women were sorting dried fish outside my great-grandmother's house.
After these dried fish are divided, they are sold to Jiang Xia's family.
A woman said impatiently, "It seems to be people from the post office. There are more than a dozen people here, saying they are here to install a telephone at your house. Xiaoxia, have you registered for a telephone?"
Jiang Xia: "Yes, it has been registered. Did they say when they will come again?"
Grandma: "They said they would arrange to install your house today. If you miss it, you have to wait for your superiors to reschedule the installation time. I told you that you can come back at 2 or 3 in the afternoon and open the door for them to come in and install it. Then they started pulling the wires first, saying that it would take most of the day."
When Jiang Xia came back, he did see some staff pulling telephone lines on the roadside, and he wondered if the telephone in his home could be installed there.
At this time, two postal and telecommunications workers came again.
"Has Comrade Zhou Chenglei returned?"
Mother Zhou hurriedly said, "I'm back. I'm Zhou Chenglei's mother."
"We are postal and telecommunications workers. You applied for a telephone last month and we are here to install it."
The attitude is pretty good.
After all, in this day and age, families who can install a telephone at home are not ordinary families.
Jiang Xia learned about the popularity of home telephones in the 1990s, when you had to make an appointment and queue up to install a telephone.
The registration fee is also very expensive, but it is not cheap now.
Father Zhou said with a smile: "It can finally be installed! Please come in."
Two staff members walked into the room.
All the women in the village followed him in.
None of them had ever seen how a telephone was installed.
As soon as they entered the house, the two staff members were amazed when they saw a complete set of leather furniture in the house! They had installed so many telephones before, but this was the first time they had seen such a grand house and furniture in the village.
It is extremely rare in the city and town, and even the homes of big leaders are not as grand as his.
What is the family's background? The staff member looked around the living room and asked, "Is the phone going to be installed in the living room or in the bedroom?"
Jiang Xia: "Living room."
"Which corner should it be installed in? Next to the TV cabinet or next to the sofa?"
Jiang Xia: “Put it next to the sofa.”
If the phone is installed next to the sofa, it is convenient to answer the phone while sitting. If it is installed next to the TV cabinet, you have to stand when talking on the phone, and it is not convenient when the TV is on.
Jiang Xia thought it would be convenient to install an extension in Zhou Chengsen's house, so he asked, "Comrade, how much does it cost to install an extension?"
The staff heard this and said, "Are you going to install it on the second floor? It will cost about 100 yuan more but less than 200 yuan."
Jiang Xia: "Then please help me install an extension on the second floor, in the study."
"OK."
When the villagers heard that it cost 200 yuan to install an extension phone to the second floor, they asked Zhou's mother: "It's expensive to install a phone, right? How much did you pay for the installation?"
Mother Zhou: "It's too expensive! In addition to the registration fee, you have to buy a phone separately, and then the phone line is charged separately, and the number selection also costs money! If you need to bury the electric poles to pull the wires, the poles will also cost money. Asen said that it takes at least a thousand meters of wire to pull from the production team to my home. Fortunately, our village has electricity, so we can use the poles for the wires. Otherwise, it would cost more money!"
Zhou's mother didn't know the exact amount, but she was installing it at home and at the new food factory in Jiangxia as well. She saw her youngest son give the second son several thousand yuan to pay for the registration fee.
I don’t know whether the several thousand dollars have been spent.
Zhou's mother knew that telephones had been installed in the factory and Beijing two days ago, and the prices were different.
Zhou's mother had no idea how these registration fees were priced and why they were so unreasonable.
Why should we treat them differently?
The electricity bill in the village is also higher than that in the city! Why is that? People in the city don’t earn more than people in the village? Grandma was surprised and asked, “Besides the registration fee, you have to charge other fees?”
"Yes, I thought I only needed to pay the registration fee, but I didn't expect that I would have to pay for the materials! Fortunately, our village is close to the production team, and the production team has already installed a telephone. We can pull the wire from the production team's box, so the material cost is cheap. If the production team didn't have a telephone, we would have to pull the wire from the town, which would be even more expensive!"
After listening to their conversation, the staff did not say that the registration fee was so high because the construction cost of the computer room, the construction cost of the lines, the investment cost of mechanical equipment, etc. were all very high.
Their bureau also introduced a programmable switching system last year. In order to quickly recover the equipment costs, the installation fee is much more expensive than before, even more expensive than other cities.
But compared with the construction fee and equipment fee, the application fee is not expensive at all! A villager asked: "Since you have installed it, will it be cheaper for me to install it in the future? My house is so close to yours, only a few hundred meters away, so there is no need for a pole, right? Just nail the wire to the wall and pull it over."
Mother Zhou shook her head: "I don't know, it should be cheaper, right?"
"Do you think you can install it just because you want to? Xiao Xia had to open a food workshop to install it."
"That's right. Not only did Xiao Xia open a food factory, but Asen is also a big leader in the town, so he is qualified to pretend."
The man couldn't help but ask Zhou's mother: "I heard that Asen got promoted a while ago?"
After the production team was reformed, the town's leadership team also changed. Zhou Chengsen was indeed promoted by the leaders a while ago because of his outstanding work ability and high academic qualifications.
When Zhou's mother mentioned this, she was happy. She laughed and said, "What's the use of getting promoted? Only a salary increase is useful! With a promotion, you get more work, but your salary doesn't increase much."
"A promotion brings a raise, and of course the salary will also increase! You are really amazing, and all your sons are capable."
"It's not any special skill. I'm just lucky." Zhou's mother talked to the villagers while watching the workers install the equipment.
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Nearly ten staff members were busy pulling wires and installing them, and they didn't finish until almost 5:30.
The staff asked Jiang Xia and others to try making a phone call.
Jiang Xia called Jiang's father immediately.
When the staff saw Jiang Xia turning the number on the phone, they couldn't help but look at her again.
After the call was connected, Jiang Xia said happily: "Dad, are you off work? We have a telephone installed at home."
Then Jiang Xia gave Jiang's father a four-digit phone number.
The four-digit phone number was easy to remember, and it happened to be the last four digits of Jiang Xia’s birthday, so Jiang’s father remembered it the moment he heard it.
Then he said to his daughter, "Dad doesn't have any work to do tomorrow afternoon, so I'll take some time off to take you to the airport."
Jiang Xia: "No need, my second brother will take us there."
Because it was a test run, Jiang Xia spoke a few words to Jiang's father and then hung up.
There was no problem with the call, so the staff member called it a day and left.
Zhou Chenglei gave each of them a pack of cigarettes, and Jiang Xia gave them a few bags of dried fish with various flavors.
After the staff left, a villager asked, "Xiao Xia, what's your home phone number? Can you write it down for me? The next time my son calls, I'll tell him your home phone number and let him call you, so I don't have to run so far to the production team to answer the phone."
After hearing this, other villagers also asked Jiang Xia for his phone number.
Everyone has times when they need to use the phone in an emergency, and since they were all nearby neighbors, they often helped each other out, so Jiang Xia wrote down a few phone numbers for them.
When Tian Caihua saw this, she immediately thought of a way to make money.
Sorry, only one chapter tonight. The other chapter will be up tomorrow.
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