Media Tycoon since 1999

chapter 33

In this era, computers can dial-up to the Internet through a telephone line connected to a Modem, which is a poor 56K access speed.

There is also 2M ISDN broadband, and 8M ADSL that has already started commercial use.

The laptop is integrated with a modem. If Gao Yang has a telephone line, he can also dial up to surf the Internet. Of course, the phone bill will be very expensive.

It's just that, in this era, to install a landline phone, the initial installation fee is more than 2000.

In the current Renshui Township, even for a family like Gao Yue who lives on the street, installing a telephone at home is extremely extravagant, unimaginable.

In the days when there is no internet and no smart phone to play with, Gao Yang is actually quite boring.

On the first day of the first lunar month, Gao Yingxue and Li Xiuzhen followed the neighbors in the yard and went to the streets to watch the excitement.

Gao Yang is not interested in going to the streets, and stays at home alone, bored, so he simply turns on his laptop and prepares the outlines for the interviews of the [Channel Academy] after work.

At noon, the parents came home, after lunch, Gao Yang remembered that he forgot to text the New Year greetings.

Yesterday, I received a lot of New Year text messages on my mobile phone.

Afterwards, he made up another text message and sent it out in groups according to the address book.

Some leaders of the newspaper office, some colleagues with good relations, as well as those from the public relations company and the IT company, Gao Yang all sent text messages to celebrate the new year alone.

Unexpectedly, I suddenly received a call from Gu Yawen from Aomei Company: "Gao Yang, you are too dishonest to send a text message to celebrate the New Year."

Gao Yang said with a smile: "I'm afraid I'll disturb your Chinese New Year. I'll treat you to dinner after work."

Gu Yawen chuckled: "Where are you celebrating the New Year?"

Gao Yang said: "My hometown in the countryside, what about you?"

Gu Yawen said: "I'm in Yuzhou, I wish you a happy New Year and a prosperous Year of the Dragon."

Gao Yang said with a smile: "I also wish you a happy new year and all the best."

Gu Yawen said again: "Did you stay in Jinyang during the Spring Festival?"

Gao Yang said: "That's right, Chinese New Year is about visiting relatives and friends."

Gu Yawen smiled and said, "If I had a three-week long vacation, I would have gone on a trip earlier."

Gao Yang said: "I'm poor, travel is too advanced, I can't afford it."

Gu Yawen laughed aloud: "You are too funny, it won't cost you much money to travel for a few days."

Gao Yang said with a smile: "Bai Fumei like you can't understand our poor people's way of life."

Gu Yawen said: "What is Bai Fumei?"

Gao Yang laughed again: "You savor, you savor carefully."

Gu Yawen said: "Stop talking, I'm leaving relatives too..."

In a villa in Yuzhou, Gu Yawen hung up the phone and walked into the living room: "Dad, Mom, let's go."

A pretty woman in a mink coat asked, "Yawen, who called just now?"

"A friend," Gu Yawen couldn't help complaining, "Mom, you have to ask about everything."

Gu Ma said: "Mom cares about you, don't you still care about making mistakes, just now this person is a man or a woman?"

"Girl, colleagues in the company, you are satisfied now, it's time to go out."

Gu Yawen raised her legs and went out, got into a Land Cruiser in front of the door, waited for her parents to get in the car, hit the gas pedal with her feet, and the off-road vehicle rushed away.

In the back seat, Dad Gu shouted, "Yawen, slow down."

Gu Yawen grinned: "Dad, it's still comfortable to drive an off-road vehicle. How about selling my Corolla and changing to an off-road vehicle, okay?"

Papa Gu said: "You think beautifully, and if you want to change the car, you can buy it yourself."

Gu Yawen acted like a baby: "Dad, you are not as nice to me as before."

Father Gu just snorted twice, but didn't answer.

Gu Ma said: "Yawen, you insist on staying in the capital to work. You have spent more than 100 million yuan on buying a house and a car, and you still want to make trouble. If you are willing to go back to Yuzhou to work, mom will let you change to an off-road vehicle. Buy the best."

Gu Yawen said: "I won't be fooled..."

In Shimen Village, Renshui Township, Gao Yang looked at the mobile phone with only two signals, and was a little confused.

Unexpectedly, during the Chinese New Year, Gu Yawen would make a phone call out of nowhere.

In the courtyard, Gao Yang set up another table, turned on the computer, and continued to write the interview outline for [Channel Academy].

Gao Yingxue came over and took a look: "Gao Yang, what is this?"

Gao Yang said: "Dad, this is a computer. When we go to work and write manuscripts, we use the computer to type."

Gao Yingxue asked again: "Computers are expensive, right?"

Gao Yang smiled and said, "Thousands of dollars are allocated by the unit."

Gao Yingxue smiled: "Well, your current unit is really good."

Gao Yang lied casually, not wanting to reveal that this laptop is worth [-] yuan, and it was selected in a lottery.

Afraid to frighten the old man.

Two years ago, someone in the yard scratched a lottery ticket and won a big color TV. They even served wine to treat guests. The village was full of gossip, and it was rumored for several months.

Gao Yingxue happily entered the main room, turned on the TV, and put a disc in the DVD.

"Sing folk songs

Sing here, sing over there, join over there
Folk songs are like spring river water
Don't be afraid of dangerous beaches, there are many bays

......"

Gao Yingxue held the tea mug in his hand, and his body shook slightly with the rhythm of the music.

Seeing her, Li Xiuzhen curled her lips, made a cup of tea, and served it to Gao Yang.

"You don't go to the streets to see the excitement, you don't go out, and you stay at home during the Chinese New Year."

Gao Yang said: "On the street is just a monk playing a joke, nothing to see."

Li Xiuzhen said again: "It's more lively on the street. Tomorrow your sister's house will invite a spring table, and your brother-in-law will ask you to go to the street to play."

Gao Yang said: "Mom, I'll go to the streets with you tomorrow. I'm not just idle. I just went to work in the capital, and I have to learn a lot of things."

After dinner, the two neighbors came to watch the fun. Gao Yingxue chose an old movie "Xiyingmen", and soon everyone in the house was enjoying themselves.

Gao Yang stayed until after ten o'clock in the evening, wrote the outline of the interview for the fifth issue of [Channel Academy], stretched his waist, soaked his feet in hot water, and got into bed to sleep.

Gao Yang had a dream, dreaming that he had half a head of white hair, sitting in a single rented room, typing and writing web articles.

The phone rang, and a voice said:

"Old classmate, come on!"

Another voice said:
"Gao Yang, don't worry, we can't really watch your family go hungry."

"If it doesn't work, just give up, find a job, and take out food."

"Brother, we have confidence in you, you have to cheer up, think about the child, the child is still so young..."

Waking up in the middle of the night, Gao Yang turned on the light, put on his coat, leaned against the bed and lit a cigarette.

Since rebirth, I have had this dream several times, and every time I wake up.

In fact, this is not a dream, it is a scene that I have actually experienced in my previous life when I was finally down and in debt, my wife and children were separated, I fantasized about a last stand, and lived by writing web articles.

The voices in the dream were high school classmate Xiao Jin, Yang Yong, Chen Sen, Jin Yang and others.

Before rebirth, in the last few months, Gao Yang really couldn't bear it anymore and suffered from depression.

Old classmates Xiao Jin and Yang Yong took turns sending 2.5 yuan to Gao Yang every month, lending him money to repay the loan and living, and supporting him to make a way out.

Now, Gao Yang is always ashamed when he thinks of these things in his previous life.

In the previous life, Gao Yang never imagined that he would be so poor when he reached middle age.

The generous support of Xiao Jin, Yang Yong and others is not only the friendship of old classmates for many years, but also the gift of carbon in the snow.

In the previous life, when he was middle-aged and wrote web articles, Gao Yang spent several years on the street, and even when he was dying, he couldn't rely on this to solve his own food and clothing.

The kindness of the past life, the repayment of the present life.

Gao Yang has not seen Xiao Jin and Yang Yong since his rebirth.

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, I will go to Yang Yong's house for a party...

(End of this chapter)