Chapter 374
When Ji Wanmei got home, she saw that the lights in the yard were off, so she guessed that Ji Xingguo's dinner party was probably still going on.
Ji Wanmei went inside, poured herself a glass of water, and waited for her father to come home while turning on the TV.
The recent evening news on TV has been reporting on the restructuring of factories in various places, with a large number of workers being laid off and starting to move to private enterprises in coastal areas, or to start their own small businesses there.
Basically, in Ji Wanmei's memory, a large number of private individual business owners and small vendors began to flourish from the wave of layoffs in 1992.
The government certainly doesn't want to see people lose their jobs and their ability to make a living, so it has established and introduced many emerging industries, pointing out many other ways out for people.
However, ordinary people at the bottom of society often lack the long-term vision and thinking due to the limitations of their living environment and education, and cannot see that far ahead.
All they could see was that they had lost their jobs and livelihoods, their income had disappeared, and their wives and children would have no source of income.
Therefore, in the past two years of layoffs, there have been many more disturbances and disputes among the public.
Since the 1990s, the country has been undergoing economic transformation. There's no way around it; when a country focuses on overall size as its action target, the interests of some small individuals are often ignored.
At times like these, only by keeping pace with the nation's development, moving forward with the tide of history, and bravely striding ahead can one avoid being eliminated by society.
During the 1990s and the millennium, how many once-glorious figures failed to keep up with the pace of national reform because of their stubborn arrogance and closed-minded thinking?
On the contrary, those around them who seemed to be doing poorly at first, but had the courage and daring to take risks and plunge into the great trend of the times, made a name for themselves a decade or two later.
Often, after many years, when these two types of people meet again, seeing each other's current circumstances, they can't help but sigh with emotion.
A person's fate is often completely altered in its trajectory and destiny at such seemingly insignificant turning points.
In fact, in Ji Wanmei's view, this is also a kind of survival of the fittest in the process of modern social development.
Ultimately, one's destiny depends on one's own efforts.
It was almost nine o'clock. Ji Wanmei glanced outside the yard, went out and turned on a small lamp by the gate of the yard wall, so that there would be light when her father came back.
After returning to the living room, Ji Wanmei made a phone call to Lei Tingjun.
She guessed that he should have finished his work by now.
During the day, it's rare to reach him by phone. He's either out negotiating business or running around construction projects and real estate developments, so busy that you can hardly find him.
At Ji Wanmei's insistence, Lei Tingjun also installed a landline in his residence.
Of course, now that Lei Tingjun is the CEO of Oriental Construction, he also has a mobile phone.
However, that mobile phone was very bulky to carry around, and sometimes the signal was not very good, so Lei Tingjun often left it in the car without taking it with him.
On a whim, Ji Wanmei made the call, held the receiver to her ear, and picked up a fruit plate from the coffee table to put in her mouth.
The phone rang only twice before it was answered.
"Meimei, still awake?" Lei Tingjun called out her name as soon as he spoke.
His voice was slightly damp, carrying a relaxed languor.
Ji Wanmei raised an eyebrow: "How did you know it was me before I even said anything?"
Lei Tingjun chuckled softly on the other end: "This landline by my bedside was installed just for you. It's really nine o'clock at night, if it wasn't you calling, who else could it be?"
Ji Wanmei put down the fruit fork: "What if someone from your company wants to talk to you?"
Lei Tingjun was talking on the other end of the line, his voice sometimes close to the receiver and sometimes far away, with some static: "No, they usually call my mobile phone. I don't let them call this landline."
Something flashed across Ji Wanmei's eyes: "Did you just take a shower?"
Lei Tingjun's voice was a little hoarse. He paused for a moment and said, "Yeah, I just came out of the bathroom when I heard you calling."
"So... what are you doing now?" Ji Wanmei bit her lip and asked tentatively.
Lei Tingjun lay on the bed, his hands paused, his eyes lowered, he glanced at the ground beneath him, and then closed his eyes.
His sexy Adam's apple, still glistening with water droplets, swayed helplessly twice, his voice hoarse and low: "Thinking of you."
Ji Wanmei could tell what he was doing from his voice, so she didn't ask.
She was afraid that if she questioned him too much, he would get so angry that he wouldn't be able to sleep.
“Lei Tingjun, I miss you too,” she replied softly.
Lei Tingjun heard Ji Wanmei's gentle voice, transmitted through the telephone line over a hundred kilometers away, reaching his eardrums.
It was as if a feather was brushing against his earlobe, sending a tingling sensation from his eardrum to his spine, and then from his spine straight to his skull.
All the muscles in my body tensed up.
He let out a suppressed groan.
After a while, he let go of her hand, opened his eyes, and breathed heavily and rapidly.
Hearing his restrained breathing, Ji Wanmei's heart also started to beat faster.
It was a certainty that even across thousands of miles, just her voice could bring him satisfaction and joy, making Ji Wanmei's happiness at this moment no less than that of Lei Tingjun.
It's a very strange feeling.
Even though they hadn't made any contact in the past two years, Ji Wanmei's quick wit meant that Lei Tingjun wasn't just waiting in vain.
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