"Sir, if you make a long-distance call, it will cost you 5 cents a minute."

The beautiful waitress at the bar of the guest house said with a smile.

Jiang Xiaobai said: "Okay, you help me call Jianyang County, Qingzhou City, the number is 2022!" ”

"Sir, wait a minute, I'll transfer you!"

Jiang Xiaobai nodded and waited patiently.

In this era, long-distance calls were not like direct dialing in later generations, but needed to be transferred through 113 stations in various places, and it generally took 5 to 10 minutes to get through.

And now the phone number is also short, usually only four digits, and only in big cities like Jiangcheng is five digits.

After waiting for about seven or eight minutes, the waiter handed the microphone to Jiang Xiaobai: "Sir, your phone is connected." ”

Jiang Xiaobai thanked the waiter, took the phone, and Lin Dawei's voice came from there.

"You've arrived in Jiangcheng, have you stayed?"

"It's here in the afternoon, staying at the Red Hill Guest House."

The two chatted briefly for a few words before getting to the point, Lin Dawei said: "You give me your room number, and then tomorrow morning at about half past nine, you will wait in the room, and someone will take you to the formalities." ”

"Okay!" Jiang Xiaobai agreed and said his room number.

After Lin Dawei wrote it down, he said, "Do you want to talk to Jiayin?" ”

Jiang Xiaobai was about to agree, but he heard his daughter's voice on the other side of the phone: "I want to talk to Baba!" I'm going to talk to Baba! ”

He couldn't help but laugh.

"Baba, is it baba?"

"Sanshan, I'm Dad, what are you doing?"

"I'm talking to Baba on the phone! Where are you, Baba? I miss you so much! ”

"Dad is in Jiangcheng, Dad misses you too!"

"Baba, is Jiangcheng fun?"

"Dad just arrived today, and I haven't had time to find a fun place yet, so I'll take you to play next time when I find it tomorrow."

"Wow, wow, I want to play with Baba the most."

“……”

The father and daughter made the phone porridge and talked for more than ten minutes, and the beautiful waitress at the bar looked at Jiang Xiaobai in a daze, there were many people who came here to call, but basically they hung up in a hurry after saying a few words, and she had never seen a guest call for so long.

I won't talk about it for a long time, the key is that all she heard was Jiang Xiaobai chatting with her daughter, and there was nothing serious about it at all.

Don't you need money for phone bills?

And it's a long-distance call, and it costs 5 cents a minute.

She couldn't help but want to be reminded.

It can be seen that Jiang Xiaobai chatted so happily, and she couldn't bear to disturb, so she had to bow her head silently and look through the guest registration book boringly.

"Baba, Gaga, I made twist flowers to eat today, it's delicious!"

"Baba, have you eaten?"

Listening to his daughter's concerned voice, Jiang Xiaobai smiled and said, "Dad hasn't eaten yet, I'll eat it in a while!" ”

"Then Baba go eat and come back early!"

"Okay, Baba will go to dinner after the call, you give the phone to your mother, and I will talk to your mother."

"Baba, go and eat, if you have anything to say, tell me, I'll convey it to Ma Ma."

Forehead......

Jiang Xiaobai held his forehead, this little padded jacket is too intimate and in the way!

How can I convey what I said to your mother?

"Baba, didn't you want me to convey it?"

"Then go to dinner, I'll hang up the phone!"

"Goodbye!"

"Doodoo ......"

The little guy actually hung up.

"Again...... See ......"

Jiang Xiaobai almost burst into tears, and spit out two words with difficulty at the phone that had been hung up.

If it is in the afterlife, the phone will hang up.

It's a big deal to call again.

But at this time, the long-distance call has to be manually transferred, and if you call again, you have to wait for a long time, Jiang Xiaobai has to forget it.

"Beauty, please see how much the phone bill is?"

The waiter checked the time, counting the time of waiting and calling before, a total of 31 minutes and 45 seconds, which is 32 minutes.

"Sir, your call to Jianyang County, Qingzhou City, a total of 32 minutes in the province, 5 cents per minute, plus a call fee of 2 yuan, together is 18 yuan!"

"Okay, thank you!"

Jiang Xiaobai took out two sheets of unity and handed them to the waiter, and said politely.

After the waiter gave change, Jiang Xiaobai said goodbye with a smile, turned around and walked outside the guest house.

Leaving the door of the guest house, he could no longer hold back his depression.

If you want to talk to your wife, is it so difficult?

Thank you so much for my wonderful daughter!

Jiangcheng is a famous stove, and there is no trace of wind, even at night, there is a dull heat when walking on the street, which makes people very uncomfortable.

Jiang Xiaobai walked and found a roadside stall to eat a bowl of rice noodles.

For a person like him, who is used to eating his own food, the taste of cheong fun is not very good, and he is satisfied when he fills his stomach.

It was uncomfortable to be hot outside, and he didn't want to feel the nightlife of Jiangcheng, so he went back to the guest house early.

Turn on the air conditioner and get a good night's sleep.

The next day, after Jiang Xiaobai got up, he went out for a morning jog first.

Now that it's started, you have to stick to it.

Next to the Hongshan Guest House is the Hongshan Square, there are many people exercising in the square early in the morning, Jiang Xiaobai is not abrupt when he runs in the square in the morning, he runs around the square for an hour, sweats before returning to the guest house to wash.

There was breakfast served in the guest house, Jiang Xiaobai ate a little casually, and when he saw that the time was just after eight o'clock, he could only go back to the room and wait patiently.

Before half past nine, I heard a knock on the door.

Jiang Xiaobai opened the door and saw a tall man about thirty years old standing at the door, and asked with a smile, "Are you Jiang Xiaobai?" ”

"Hello, I am!" Jiang Xiaobai nodded and said.

The man stretched out his hand and said, "My name is Tang Xiaozhou, and I will be asked to pick you up and go to the Provincial Economic and Trade Commission to go through the procedures for picking up the car." ”

The two shook hands, Jiang Xiaobai thanked him, and invited Tang Xiaozhou into the house.

Tang Xiaozhou refused with a smile, saying that if Jiang Xiaobai had nothing else to do, he could set off now.

Jiang Xiaobai followed Tang Xiaozhou downstairs as he said.

In front of the guest house, a black Volga import car was parked.

Tang Xiaozhou opened the back door of the car, politely asked Jiang Xiaobai to get in the car first, closed the door, went around to the other side, and got into the car himself.

The driver slowly started the car and drove out of the guest house.

At this time, Tang Xiaozhou only said one name and did not introduce his identity, Jiang Xiaobai had a slight guess in his heart, and tried to ask: "Tang ...... Comrade, what do I call you appropriate? ”

Tang Xiaozhou smiled and said, "I'm older than you, you can call me Lao Tang, or call me Secretary Tang." ”

Jiang Xiaobai said: "Secretary Tang, what should I do if I pick up the car and pay?" Do I need to go to the bank to withdraw my money first? ”

Tang Xiaozhou said: "Don't be so troublesome! ”

As he spoke, he took out a note from his bag with a string of numbers written on it. "I'll go to the bank with you first, you can remit the money directly to this account, and then take the remittance voucher and go to the Economic and Trade Commission with me to sign it."

It's that simple?

Jiang Xiaobai was shocked.

Fifty cars 140, that's 2.8 million yuan!

If it weren't for the fact that the account name was the Economic and Trade Commission, and Tang Xiaozhou would say his name as soon as he came, he would have thought that he had met a liar.