Chapter 70: I'll Find Your Parents for You
Sunday, February 2nd.
Before going to bed last night, when Chen Wen and Su Qianqian's little ambiguity was gradually heating up, Su Qianqian pulled Chen Wen out of the bedroom, Chen Wen remembered that Su Qianqian said that she wanted her younger brother Su Kangkang to go out today.
When they got up in the morning, Chen Wen and Su Qianqian had breakfast together in the living room. Su Qianqian took the initiative to say: "Kang Kang and I are going to the post and telecommunications office this morning, and on the first Sunday of every month, my parents will make a long-distance call. ”
Chen Wen suddenly remembered that he and his parents hadn't spoken on the phone for too long!
The agreed date for the Su family to call is the first Sunday of each month, and they will answer the phone at the post and telecommunications office; Chen Wen and his parents will make an appointment at noon on the last day of each month, and his parents will call Uncle Ji's office on time to make an appointment every month.
After returning from rebirth, Chen Wen hit the ground in early January and just missed the call time on December 31. In his previous life, Chen Wen had a phone call with his parents on the last day of every month from 1990 to 1992.
The agreement on the call ended after Chen Wen was expelled from school, because Chen Wen had no face to see and ran away from home.
If you think about it carefully, Chen Wen has not heard the voice of his parents for more than 20 years! Since he was a child, his father has always taught Chen Wen a lesson on the shelf, and his mother has been full of love for Chen Wen, so that his father always accuses his loving mother of losing her son.
In his previous life, Chen Wen neither liked his father's fierceness nor his mother's drowning, and after his parents died unexpectedly, Chen Wen missed these two kinds of love very much.
On the eve of leaving Hongcheng for Shanghai, Chen Wen once fooled Uncle Ji with nonsense. Chen Wen's excuse was that his senior brother had joined a winter vacation cram school in Shanghai and invited Chen Wen to intern.
Today is February 2nd, and Chen Wen thought to himself that Uncle Tianji should have answered the call from his parents from Africa for him before yesterday.
The next call from his parents will come on February 29, and Chen Wen estimated that he should have left Shanghai and returned to Hongcheng by that time.
School will start in 20 days, Chen Wen's classmates will go to various internship schools, Chen Wen must find Uncle Ji in advance to confess the matter of selling the compilation, I don't know if I can convince Uncle Ji, and I don't know if my parents will be furious when they find out.
Alas, Chen Wen feels that he always seems to face all kinds of troubles and troubles when he returns from rebirth, and the only comfortable and relaxed days seem to be the last few days when he writes "Record" in Su's house and acts as a voice actor for Su Qianqian!
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Su Qianqian said that she was going to answer her parents' phone call with her younger brother in the morning, and after she said this, Chen Wen was silent.
Su Qianqian's heart ached, his brain turned, and he persuaded: "Chen Wen, you go to the post and telecommunications office with us." ”
Chen Wen said: "Your family has a phone reunion, I won't join in the fun!"
Su smiled lightly: "You are such a smart person, why are you suddenly stupid?"
Chen Wen said: "I am actually a stupid person. ”
Su Qianqian continued to laugh and said, "You think, my parents and your parents are both calling from where they work, so they should not be far from each other!"
Chen Wen reacted immediately! Yes, they are all participating in the aid construction in the same country, and they are even likely to be at the same construction site, and it is very likely that they usually use the same telephone! He can ask Su Qianqian's parents about their parents!
Su Qianqian and Chen Wen's speculation is very much in line with the actual situation. Chen Wen's parents and Su Qianqian's parents are currently participating in the construction in a small landlocked country in eastern Africa, and they are at the same construction site.
Due to the large number of technicians, there were only two telephones that could make domestic long-distance calls, which was not enough for all technicians to use the telephones on the same day, so everyone decided to use them in turn after discussion. Chen Wen's parents chose to call on the last day of each month, and Su Qianqian's parents called on the first Sunday of each month.
Thinking of this, Chen Wen immediately jumped up and promised to go to the post and telecommunications office together.
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At half past nine in the morning, the three of them came to the Shanghai Post and Telecommunications Bureau, and Su Qianqian went to go through the formalities.
Compared to the 21st century, the telephone business in this era is very antique. The vast majority of people do not have landlines installed in their homes, public phone booths on the streets are scarce, and international calls cannot be made.
In the lobby of the various branches of the Post and Telecommunications Bureau, there are long rows of telephone booths, and a telephone is placed in each one. If you want to make domestic or international calls, you need to pay the fee first, and the counter will arrange a route for you to direct you to a certain phone booth to make a call.
If you are not the caller, but agree with the other party to answer the phone at a specific time, then you also need to go through the procedures at the counter, and the operator of the post and telecommunications office is responsible for answering the call, and then transferring the call to a free phone booth, and finally directing you to the line to listen to the call.
Su Qianqian and the three of them belong to the last kind of business.
Su Qianqian held the business acceptance slip in his hand, and the three of them waited side by side. At 10:05, there was a shout at the counter: "Su Qianqian, answer the phone, Line 15." ”
Su Qianqian took the lead, Su Kangkang was second, Chen Wen followed, and the three of them ran to the 12th phone booth. Su Qianqian and Su Kangkang squeezed into the small phone booth, but Chen Wen did not follow in.
The family reunited on the phone, and it was inconvenient for Chen Wen to listen. Besides, the phone booth was too small for Chen Wen to squeeze in.
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Su Qianqian talked a few words with the person on the other side of the phone, handed over the telephone to Su Kangkang, and the two took turns to talk to their parents for a while.
The telephone was transmitted back to Su Qianqian's hand. Su Qianqian asked: "Dad, do you have a technician named Chen Hu over there, from the Jiangxi Provincial Branch, your educated youth comrade-in-arms who joined the team?"
Su Xingcheng on the other side of the phone said: "Yes, he is now at the same construction site as me." Why, daughter, do you know him?"
Su Qianqian replied: "I don't know him, but I know his son, his son recently came to Shanghai to run errands, and he lives in our house, and he is now next to the telephone." Uncle Chen Hu is not next to you?"
Su Xingcheng said: "Chen Hu is not next to me now. I don't have time to go to him now. You asked Chen Hu's son to talk to me. ”
"Oh, Kangkang, you go out, let Brother Wen come in. Su Qianqian kicked out the little fat man who occupied most of the space in the phone booth and made room, "Chen Wen, come on, my dad wants to talk to you!"
"Hello Uncle Su, I'm Chen Wen, I'm the son of Chen Hu and Xie Youfang. Chen Wen introduced himself.
Su Xingcheng said: "Okay, good boy. I am Su Qianqian and Su Kangkang's father, and I work on the same construction site as your father. However, he is not near the telephone right now. Listen, remember, I'm going to find your parents now, and I'll ask them to call again in half an hour! Remember, you're waiting where you are for half an hour!"
Subsequently, the phone was hung up by Su Xingcheng.
Chen Wen told Su Qianqian the content of the call between himself and Su Xingcheng, and Su Qianqian didn't say a word, turned around and went to the counter to handle an international call again.