"Okay, okay, in-law, give me your phone number, I'll write it down." Xue Honggen waved his hand, and the guard quickly took out paper and pen to write it down.
Grandma Yan looked at the telephone, which had ten circles from one to zero on it. She pointed to the circles and said, "There are ten numbers: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and zero."
Nan Nan taught me these numbers, and thankfully I learned them, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to answer my in-laws' questions.
The guard was dumbfounded. Xue Honggen had originally placed the microphone between himself and the guard, but he was also confused when he heard the number. Wasn't the phone number supposed to be five digits?
Yan Xiaoqiang glanced at the telephone installer, who immediately understood and quickly took out a piece of paper with five numbers on it.
“Mom, our house number is 33518,” Yan Daqiang said, pointing to the number on the paper.
Grandma Yan couldn't understand why there was another number on the telephone when there was already a number on it.
Yan Daqiang's voice was clearly heard by the guard on the other end of the phone, who quickly wrote it down. Xue Honggen felt a little sad, as it had been the same when he first used a phone.
“My dear in-law, if you hang up, I’ll call you back. You’ll be the first person to answer,” Xue Honggen said.
Yan Daqiang quickly told Grandma Yan to hang up the phone. Less than a minute later, the phone rang again, startling Grandma Yan, Fu Bao, and the other children.
"Mom, pick it up and listen to it," Yan Daqiang encouraged.
Grandma Yan nodded, picked up the phone, and said "hello, hello" to her ear.
"Mom, you've got it upside down, upside down, the wire is on the bottom." Yan Daqiang quickly turned the receiver around.
Grandma Yan said "Oh," and then called out as soon as the receiver was turned around: "Hello, hello, hello, can you hear me? Speak up if you can hear me."
Xue Honggen quickly replied, "I heard you, I heard you. I've written down your number. You write down mine too. We can contact each other if anything comes up."
"Okay, okay, goodbye." Click, Grandma Yan hung up the phone.
Yan Ge touched his head; the breasts were just too much!
The staff member, trying not to laugh, handed some documents to Yan Daqiang: "Please sign here."
Yan Daqiang signed Yan Xiaonan's name and then had the staff tidy up the electrical wires and other things. The house was decorated very well, and he didn't want a few telephone lines to ruin it.
The staff quickly checked the wire. Fortunately, it was long enough. They carefully secured the wire along the baseboard, sometimes moving it downwards and sometimes upwards, with the sole purpose of concealing it.
When the family returned home and learned that the telephone had been installed, they were all very excited, especially Yan Xiaoqiang. Looking at the black machine, he held the receiver to his ear and listened to the dial tone, feeling extremely excited.
“Mom, Cuihua, I never thought we’d have a telephone at home. When I used to call my older brother from the post office, the people there would lock it up.”
Yan Xiaonan also remembered the phone call she made to her uncle for help, and wondered how Xiaohua was doing now.
Cuihua couldn't help but think of her brother, and felt a little uncomfortable. Grandma Yan quickly said, "Cuihua, I'm so happy today. I made a phone call and answered it."
Cuihua asked curiously, "Mother, what happened? Who did you call?"
"I called Xue Ying's father, my in-law. He's the one who called and told me to answer the phone first." Grandma Yan was happy just thinking about it.
Cuihua nodded: "Mom, I've never heard anyone talk on the phone before. How did they get inside to talk? How did you do that, Mom?"
Grandma Yan was also confused. "I didn't crawl inside the phone."
Yan Xiaonan couldn't hold back any longer: "Grandma, Mom, that's the effect of sound waves, people don't need to go inside."
The two still couldn't understand it; they'd never heard of sound waves before.
Yan Xiaonan was at a loss. Could someone please explain this to her?
The next day, when Yan Ge saw with his own eyes that all the clothes he had sent had been sold out, he was overwhelmed with emotion, and a feeling that he had followed the right person was deeply imprinted in his mind.
Then I saw Yan Xiaonan quickly calculating profits in a notebook, much faster than Grandma Wang could do with her abacus.
In addition to their wages, each of the two waiters received a bonus of fifty yuan, as well as five jin of cotton and ten jin of rice, which startled them so much that they dared not reach out to accept them.
Grandma Wang scolded them for being spineless, saying how could they be so clueless following Boss Yan? Only then did the two sheepishly accept the money and supplies, thinking, "We're rich now!"
Yan Xiaonan gave Grandma Wang another hundred yuan, twenty catties of rice, and ten catties of cotton: "Grandma Wang, these are your benefits. I thank you for helping the clothing store so much. What I want to say is that we can't do without you."
Grandma Wang tried to decline, but Cuihua smiled and said, "Aunt Wang, what were you saying about those two little girls just now?"
Grandma Wang laughed heartily: "Then I won't be polite. All the clothes are sold out. I guess I can rest for half a month now."
Yan Xiaonan nodded. Clothes sell well before the New Year because everyone wants to wear new clothes for the holiday. After the New Year, it will be the off-season. People will have bought what they needed and spent most of their money, so they can rest for at least half a month.
"Grandma Wang, we'll go back to work after the Lantern Festival. Even if we don't sell any clothes, I'll still pay you your salary. We'll come to see you for the New Year," Yan Xiaonan assured her, patting her chest.
Yan Ge cleverly took the things from Grandma Wang's hands: "Grandma Wang, let me take you home."
Grandma Wang couldn't have been happier; she had a hundred yuan reward on her, and she was really afraid someone would steal it.
The same thing happened in the grocery store and the furniture factory; everyone was all smiles, thinking they could have a prosperous new year.
Xu Da and Shen Shaohua were the last to leave, as they had to ensure the safety of the factory. Xu Da also asked Yan Xiaonan for permission to have the security department on duty at the factory during the holiday.
Yan Xiaonan repeatedly agreed and asked Xu Da to make arrangements as soon as possible. Everyone who came to work the shift would receive overtime pay, as well as meal allowances and transportation subsidies, which made the security personnel scramble to take the shifts.
You can't earn money by sleeping at home, but you can get overtime pay by working overtime here. The best part is that there are also meal and transportation allowances. This boss is so great. I must work hard and try to become a permanent employee instead of a temporary one.
Cuihua and Xuemei, along with Fu Qingping and Ye Huixian, along with Dongnan, Beinan, and Tiege, spent their days shopping outside. This year's Spring Festival can be considered a grand reunion, and even Ye Huiguo is almost in the capital.
Grandma Yan and Yan Xiaonan were playing games with several children in the courtyard. Little Deer happily circled around the courtyard, and its silly appearance made the children laugh out loud.
Six-pound and five-and-a-half-pound couldn't resist the temptation and ran after the deer. But the snow on the ground hadn't been completely cleared yet, and the two of them fell hard on their bottoms.
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