The Red Flag Square, where countless people gather, has simply become a sea of people, and it is a bit exaggerated to describe it as rubbing shoulders one after another, but it is not an exaggeration to look at it and see that there are people everywhere and everywhere you look. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The old man's physical strength is fast, and when he came here, he walked a long way, and the old man was already very tired at this time.

The sons and daughters of the two families immediately helped the old man and the old lady find a place where they could sit down and rest, and laid out the sponge mat they had been carrying for the old man to sit. Because the rain had stopped for a short time, the sitting place was a little damp and a little cold, so the cushion was specially thickened by two layers.

Zhang Han also helped to work for a while, and after he was done, he sat down next to his grandparents, looking at the crowd in the square, greedily recalling the quite familiar scene in his memory.

As the minutes ticked by, the big screen of the CTT Building was turned on, and the TV began to show the content of the return of Hong Kong Island. The real ritual will take some time, and now it's all documentary footage. There were also interviews with ordinary people on both sides of the strait in advance, and everyone was full of expectations for the return of Hong Kong Island.

Everyone watched the big TV, and the adults bought drinks, which were freshly squeezed sugarcane juice, faintly sweet, pure natural without any additives, and the sugarcane itself was still chilled, so the sugarcane juice was also very cool, and it was very comfortable to drink.

The children were constantly running through the crowd and having fun. The social environment in Tongcheng has been quite stable in these years, and there have not been too many child abductions, so adults are also relieved that children are running around. You don't have to worry about running around, as long as you can get it back, so for those children who are easy to get lost or have a poor sense of direction, they can only play obediently with their parents.

In a flash, the time has reached the hotel in the evening. There was a sudden roar in the direction of the Post and Telecommunications Building, and many people began to gather rapidly in that direction.

"Hurry up, let's go too!"

Zhang Jianjun said to Zhang Han's second uncle, and the two brothers rushed towards the main entrance of the post and telecommunications building together, and the momentum was like carrying a gun to fight. Many adult men around were also like Zhang Han's father and second uncle, and they all rushed to the post and telecommunications building in a hurry.

Zhang Han looked a little stunned, and felt that this scene was very familiar, he racked his brains to rummage through his memory, and finally found the cause and effect of this scene in a very deep corner.

At its core, there are only four simple words - landline!

That's right, it's a landline, a very tall communication tool for Tongcheng people in this era. Ordinary people can't afford it at all, and even if they can, they can't install it, unless cadres above the department head, or county magistrates and ******** have such power, and it is not easy for the director at the same level to use it.

Fixed telephones are so scarce in this era, and the families that can afford to install them are undoubtedly the so-called "upper-class people".

Zhang Han doesn't have a phone at home, they are a big family, and the old man is even the deputy director of the Light Industry Bureau, so he also has no chance to install a landline phone at home. And even if you can find someone and spend money to install a phone, all the costs will be about 3,000 to 5,000 yuan, which is not a price that ordinary people can afford.

However, this situation has changed today, because today is July 1, 1997, which is the day of the handover of Hong Kong Island.

Therefore, the Tongcheng Post and Telecommunications Bureau specially got a batch of landline telephones from somewhere, and I don't know whether it is a national event or a local activity in Tongcheng, in short, tonight, the Tongcheng Post and Telecommunications Bureau will sell 1997 landline telephones at once. And the price of each part is only 1997 yuan, the absolute price of conscience, which detonated most of Tongcheng at once.

Half of the people who appeared in Hongqi Square tonight were basically for this hard-to-find landline telephone, so at this time, the door of the post and telecommunications building was simply crowded, all of them were sturdy adult men, all of them were frantically crowded into the post and telecommunications building, the scene was simply chaotic, from Zhang Han's point of view, he could only see a large group of people in the distance, and he couldn't see where his father and second uncle were.

However, he is not worried, in the previous life, their home was the first landline phone they had today. Then, half a year later, their family of three also had their own telephone, and in the next one to two years, the telephone quickly became widespread, the cost was greatly reduced, and it really entered thousands of households.

So if you want Zhang Han to choose, maybe he will wait and wait for the phone to start when it becomes popular, and then it will be convenient and cheap. But now people don't know the future after all, everyone thinks that the phone will always be so expensive, and finally dropped to 1997 yuan today, when will you not buy it at this time?

That's why there was such a crowded scene, Zhang Han sat next to his grandparents, watching the crowd in the distance keep sighing with emotion.

About half an hour later, Zhang Han was bored and was about to find out if there were any of his classmates around him, when his father and second uncle came back. And the two of them actually held a phone together, which is completely different from Zhang Han's memory. In his memory, he remembered very clearly, only his grandfather's house was the one who installed the phone on this day, and there was only one phone he bought back at that time, why did it become two now?

"Of course, we also have to install one in our house."

Zhang Jianjun wiped his sweat and explained with a smile.

“……”

Zhang Han really wants to say, your old man's money is too worthless. But when I saw the happy smiles of my father and mother, I swallowed the words back unconsciously.

Forget it, just pretend, anyway, the family is not short of this money, only two thousand yuan, with the current situation of his family, he can earn it back casually, but he doesn't have to care too much.

I looked at the crumpled and somewhat distorted cardboard box, and when I opened it, there were two brand-new telephones inside. Black fuselage, white buttons, there is no display screen or anything on it, it is the most elementary kind of telephone, there is no caller ID, I don't know who made the call, it is very inconvenient to use, especially some calls that I don't want to answer, because I can't know the identity of the caller in advance, I often have to pick it up.

But even so, such a landline phone is many times more advanced than other means of communication.

When others can only use the BB machine to send texts, his family has been able to directly speak, and the appearance of the phone has indeed made life more convenient I don't know how many times.

Grandma Wang's family also gathered around, looking at the telephones placed together in amazement.

The boss of the Wang family is a fast-talker, that is, Wang Xinning's uncle, in Zhang Han's memory, this person is a person who speaks completely without brains.

"How about two phones? Uncle Zhang's house...... Jianjun, you also installed one at home, is it the money that Uncle Zhang paid? It's really different to have a grandson, Uncle Zhang treats it differently! ”

He may not have meant anything to say this, but he just thought of something and said it, but it was just a brain.

But that's not the case when others hear it.

Zhang Han could see that his second uncle and aunt's faces couldn't help but change a little, and their eyes couldn't help but look at the old man.

"Hehe, big brother, what are you talking about, although my family only has one grandson, Hanhan, but my dad will not be partial, he pays attention to equality between men and women, this phone was actually bought by ourselves, and my dad didn't give money."

Zhang Jianjun is not stupid, he knows that he has to say this clearly, and if he can't say it clearly, there will be big problems in the future.

"Who are you fooling, I don't believe it, your family of two can earn a few dollars a month, so a phone can add up to half a year's salary for the two of you, can you give it up?"

Wang Xinning's uncle is really not a fuel-efficient lamp, and he says everything, which makes people grit their teeth and be very helpless at the same time, after all, you can't deal with a brainless person.

Zhang Jianjun still kept smiling, but he was not half impatient.

"Big brother, you're joking, if you really buy it with your salary, our year's salary won't be enough to eat and drink. Xiao Luan: Hasn't their factory been out of business lately? She happened to be idle, so she set up a breakfast stall in front of my house, and her business was not bad every day, and she could earn more than 100 yuan a day. Anyway, this phone has to be installed, and while we still have money in hand, we gritted our teeth, and then decided to buy a phone, which is not as complicated as you think. ”

Although I have always wanted to hide this news and wait until everything is on track. But now that he is forced by Boss Wang, Zhang Jianjun has to tell the truth.

Sure enough, as soon as his words landed, except for Zhang Han's grandparents and mother, everyone else looked at Zhang Jianjun with wide eyes and a look of disbelief.