the longest dream

Chapter 42
"Oh, the phone is really on!"

Although the whole family of the Sun family vowed that they would not dare to go up to the third floor, but after hearing Sun Yuehe say that Zhang Qing was on the phone, they couldn't help but come up together to see what was new.

Upstairs and downstairs lights and telephones, this is the socialism that Big Brother said.

And even after another twenty years, most people in Xijiang still cannot live such a life.

"How much is a minute to make a call? Zhang Cai's phone call is very expensive, [-] cents a minute for a local call, and more than one yuan for a long distance call."

Sun Fusheng asked eagerly.

Zhang Qing said with a smile: "The policy just announced at the beginning of this year has been lowered. Local calls cost [-] cents, long-distance [-] cents, and landline charges [-] cents."

Sun Yuantang didn't understand and asked, "What is the landline fee?"

Sun Fusheng said: "Even if you don't make calls every month, you still have to pay! My dear, the landline fee is so high, you have to pay a small five hundred a year just for the landline fee."

Zhang Qingdao: "It will drop in the future, and I need a phone at home. Is there a phone number to make? Long-distance calls are also available."

Sun Qingshi said: "Why don't you call if you have nothing to do? Don't you just throw the money into the water? There will be a splash in the water. If you say a few words, it will disappear. If you are not in a hurry, don't touch the phone. This number is Qingzihe. Lanlan called his parents while he was at school outside."

Sun Fusheng and others, who were eager to try it, immediately turned off the fire and nodded, thinking it made sense.

"Qingzi, let me tell you something, don't be angry."

After cleaning up the restless children and grandchildren, Sun Qingshi suddenly spoke.

Zhang Qing was startled when he heard the words, and said with a smile: "Grandpa, what are you talking about, how can I be angry with you?"

After Sun Qingshi smiled, he said with some embarrassment: "Your grandma and I want to go back to live."

Zhang Qing asked in confusion: "What's wrong? What's wrong with this house?"

Sun Qingshi smiled wryly and said: "What else could be wrong with this house? The emperor's house is almost like this, right? But in this kind of house, your grandma and I can't sleep well, we can't sleep well. We have to stay up until I don't know how late. You can only close your eyes if you live in it. The house is so good that our blessings cannot be overwhelmed.”

Li Yun said from the side: "Father, it's either that you can't bear the pressure, or you can't get used to sleeping. You have slept on the heated kang all your life, and now you sleep on the bed, how can you sleep? Let alone you, we all are."

After finishing speaking, he said to Zhang Qing: "Qingzi, don't be angry. It's not that we don't know what's good and what's wrong. We really want to live, but we have to take our time. It's too sudden. Your family will send it out immediately. You will destroy the building in two days after you come back. We’ve bought them all, and we’ve had enough of them now, but we can’t let them go at home, and we haven’t made any arrangements. Brother Fusheng and the others have been running back and forth with their tractors every day for the past two days, and we don’t feel at ease just because they go home and mess around. Take it easy, you'll be fine in a year or two, and you'll get used to it. I've been thinking about going home for the past two days, just in case you'll get annoyed and say that our relatives don't know what to do.”

Zhang Qing said with a smile: "How can it be, my dear concubine, in fact, my parents have been looking at me badly for the past few days, and it looks a bit like in Jiangjing City. This is where the whole family is." After a pause, he wanted to remedy Said: "You can go shopping in the street."

The second concubine, Liu Xiu'e, laughed and said, "Didn't you go shopping every day a few days ago? The people on the street thought there were crowds of blind people, why did Jiantian stroll on the street in the winter. Besides, it's such a big place, and the shopping is exhausted." I don’t dare to go shopping casually, and spend money whenever I go shopping. How can there be so much money to spend..."

Before Zhang Qing could open his mouth, Li Ying stopped her and said, "Qingzi, don't open your mouth again, you can't live with your family and eat your food, and use your money to go shopping, right? Wouldn't that be a leech sucking blood? Let's go back first, and come back when we want to live in a few days. Guaranteed to come, we must still miss this place when we go home. I estimate that it will take three days at most, and we will have to stay for two more days."

Everyone laughed, Zhang Qing also laughed, and said: "You can live as happily as you want, you are all elders, you have crossed more bridges than I have walked in your life, you can do what you want, don't worry about me."

The elders became more and more happy and liked Zhang Qing more and more. Grandma Zhao Juxiang said: "Then hurry back, you can go back and sleep well!"

Sun Haiyan smiled and said, "If we go back like this, others will laugh at us."

Li Ying said, "What do you know, they will be happy when they go back like this."

Sun Mantang stopped them from arguing about human nature, and said: "Since you want to leave, let's pack up and let Fusheng drive us back. There is still a week to celebrate the Chinese New Year. You have all your New Year's goods in these two days, let Fusheng take us back. Yes. The new clothes and shoes are all packed, if you lose them, you can’t buy them again.”

Hearing that the new year is coming, everyone is more and more happy, looking forward to a lively New Year this year!

But Zhao Juxiang urged everyone to go home quickly, and then they all went downstairs to pack their things.

"Mom and Dad, are you going too?"

Zhang Qing didn't expect that even Zhang Guozhong and Sun Yuehe would leave.

Zhang Guozhong said: "My waist is more comfortable sleeping on the hot kang."

Sun Yuehe scolded: "Fart, I think you want to go back to play cards." Then she smiled at Zhang Qing: "I'll go back and help your sister-in-law and the others pack their New Year's things, fry some glutinous rice, hemp leaves, stewed meat, and wash things I didn’t feel relieved to leave at first, because no one will cook your meals. But there are several restaurants below us, with all kinds of food, I think you are quite willing to eat, and the food you cook is also clean, so I don’t worry.” He said He lowered his voice and said, "You have to write and study every night, and you are busy until late. Your uncle said that there must be too many people coming to delay you."

Zhang Qing said: "Nothing, I just like to write at night and be quiet at night."

Zhang Guozhong said with a smile: "Isn't it because of too much noise during the day? Let me tell you, they are not used to living here because you didn't go to school here, and now the whole family almost treats you like a fairy."

Zhang Qing looked at his younger sister Zhang Lan who had been laughing silly all the time, and said, "How about you, too?"

Zhang Lan said with a smile: "I want to go back and play with Haixia and the others. How interesting is the house, horse-drawn sledges, turning buttons (tops), skating on ice skates, making snowmen..."

"Go crazy and you will!"

After Sun Yuehe scolded, she told Zhang Qing: "Call Zhang Cai's house if you have anything to do, and within three days at most, I will ask Fusheng to pick you up for the New Year."

After speaking, the family of three also left.

I didn't realize that if I didn't leave, the world seemed to be much quieter after I left.

In the evening, Zhang Qing ate a large bowl of beef ramen for $[-] at the beef noodle restaurant outside the community downstairs, and ordered ten skewers of barbecue.

I only figured it out when I was eating, no wonder the little girl from the XJ ethnicity smiled a little weirdly, and forgot the portion of the barbecue.

What a big bunch, one dollar, really fragrant.

Zhang Qing bit the bullet and swayed a little after eating, which made the little girl tremble with laughter.

"Fuziya, don't disturb the guests!"

The boss criticized very seriously.

Zhang Qing smiled and waved his hands, indicating that nothing happened.

In Western Xinjiang, most of the time the Han people get along very well with each other.

After returning home, I felt helpless watching people go to the empty house.

Zhang Qing took off his thick coat, walked in the living room for a while, stood in front of the phone, and dialed a number...

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(End of this chapter)