These days, rich people look down on everyone. Although they were relatively polite to Fu San, it was only because they were after the fish in Fu San's hands.
Fu San had gotten close to them before. When his purchasing station business was just starting out, several bosses treated him like a brother.
At that time, Fu San was also very arrogant. It wasn't until those people took him to massage parlors and foot massage parlors that Fu San realized these people were different from Fu Laoda's brothers.
Who is Boss Fu? He had already warned Fu San when Fu San was hanging out with those bosses.
Some men are particularly proud that their wives are doing well at home while having affairs on the side. In reality, that's just foolish. These people all come from poor backgrounds, and they should be grateful if they can live a stable life.
After being lectured by Boss Fu, Fu San came to his senses and generally limited his interactions with those people to business matters. After they made several requests to him, Fu San declined each time, citing his busy schedule, and gradually stopped contacting him altogether.
They're all smart people; they don't play games together, but they still do business as usual.
But Sun Youjin was different from those people; he was not only polite but also paid his bills promptly.
But Fu San always felt that this kid wanted to bypass him and directly trade with Fu Wan's family.
The pager in Fu Wan's hand now confirms his guess.
If you have a pager, you can contact Sun Youjin directly, right?
Or I could just forgo making that small profit and let them do the transaction; after all, the money ends up in my niece's pocket, so it's not a loss...
But Fu San felt somewhat depressed.
Seeing the hilarious expression on Fu San's face, Fu Wan and Fu Ming burst into laughter.
Boss Fu looked disgusted and said, "Look at you, you coward. If we wanted to sell the fish to him directly, would we have waited until today?"
"Hehe, big brother, I was just overthinking it."
Fu San hurriedly slid to his knees and gently patted his dark face.
Having witnessed the spectacle of Fu San's antics, Fu Ming was still more interested in the pager in Fu Wan's hand.
"Wan, how did you know it was a pager?"
How come he didn't know that Fu Wan lived with them every day?
Before Fu Wan could even come up with an excuse to brush it off, Boss Fu glared at Fu Ming.
"Didn't they show it on TV a few days ago? Don't you even absorb the news?"
"Huh? It's on TV?"
Fu Ming was having some doubts about life. Of course, there was no news about it these past few days, but Boss Fu nodded very firmly.
"have!"
He said it exists, so it exists. How could he not know that Fu Wan knew because she had lived an extra life?
Seeing this, Fu Ming didn't dwell on it, and upon hearing this, he reached out to touch the pager again.
"What can this thing be used for?"
"I know this, it can be used as a phone! If there's a signal at sea, Awan can use it to send messages!"
As Fu San spoke, a sudden inspiration struck him.
Could he also buy a pager? If Fu Wan accepts it, when they are about to return to the dock from sea, she only needs to give him a page and he can immediately arrange for someone to prepare to unload the goods.
This will save a lot of trouble!
Fu Wan fiddled with the pager in her hand. To be honest, this thing was definitely not as convenient as the mobile phone of later generations.
Let alone smartphones, even candybar phones or flip phones are much more convenient than this.
But it was still the late 1980s, more than a decade before Nokia's Little Smart phone was born. Fu Wan held the pager, but in her heart she missed the smartphones of later generations.
It can make calls, send text messages, watch TV, and scroll through short videos. If you calculate the time, she will have to wait almost twenty years before she can use a smartphone.
Ugh, this is really tough. I wonder if she could invest in the domestic mobile phone industry earlier? Putting aside everything else, it would be great if she could get smartphones out of the market sooner!
Seeing that Fu Wan suddenly stared into a daze, Boss Fu couldn't help but clear his throat.
"Ah Wan, what kind of machine is this? Let me take a look."
"Oh, take it!"
Fu Wan handed over what she was holding, and Fu Ming couldn't understand why she seemed so uninterested.
This is a treasure that can send messages! If it weren't too expensive, he would get two of them, one for Qin Anning, so he could send messages to his wife every day!
Thinking of this, Fu Ming hurriedly pulled Fu San aside.
"Third Uncle, what's this pager? Is it expensive?"
As he listened, he realized that Fu San knew quite a bit about this thing.
Fu San nodded, his face showing an exaggerated expression.
"Expensive, that's too expensive! I've heard people say before that one costs at least eight hundred yuan, and if it has more functions, it costs more than a thousand yuan."
In addition, there are network access service fees, which can cost a lot of money per year.
What's wrong? Do you want one?
Fu San looked at his nephew and thought to himself, "This kid is really lucky."
Fu Ming was the first person in the village to survive being poisoned by a stingray's spines and still be able to jump around.
Fu Ming chuckled twice, looking a little embarrassed.
"Well, I don't want to call my wife every day, so this is more convenient."
Fu Wan, who was listening nearby, chimed in.
"Brother, if you want it, you can have this pager."
"Really? For me?!"
Happiness came so suddenly that Fu Ming was a little stunned.
Fu Wan nodded, "You can have it if you want it, but the pagers need to be used to communicate with each other. There's only one here. If you want to send a message to your sister-in-law, you'll have to buy another one later."
"I'll buy it! I'll go check it out tomorrow!"
Fu Ming gritted his teeth. Although his savings account was with Qin Anning, he had saved up quite a bit of money from the odds and ends he made from seafood recently.
The thought of being able to send a message to Qin Anning privately kept Fu Ming smiling.
Since his honeymoon ended, Qin Anning has been very busy, and he rarely sees her when he delivers things to the camp.
There was no other way; the organization's mission came first, and the greater good came before personal matters. Fu Ming understood this principle.
But Fu San got anxious after Fu Ming finished speaking.
"What do you mean, 'we'll see tomorrow'? Aren't you going out to sea tomorrow? Leave this to me. You don't need to buy a new one. I'll ask around and see if there are any secondhand ones available."
"Third Uncle, you have this kind of method?"
Fu Wan was surprised, but then she was tempted. "Why don't you ask around for me and see if anyone can get me a mobile phone?"
"Big Brother, what's that?"
Seeing Fu San's confusion, Fu Wan also wondered to herself. She had forgotten exactly when the mobile phone entered the market, but she remembered that it was around the same time as the pager.
The reason she disliked pagers was that they could only send messages and not make calls. Although the old-fashioned mobile phones were a bit bulky, at least they were still mobile phones.
Although he didn't know what a "big brother" was, Fu San readily agreed since Fu Wan had asked.
"It's alright, I'll ask someone to inquire with me later."
He remembered that Boss Zhang from the county town had a brother who was from Guangzhou. He first heard about pagers from that man, and that man was a middleman.
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