Siheyuan, a comfortable life under Zhengyang Gate

Everyone started making noises and asked Yang Yukun if he had prepared a birthday gift for Xu Jingping.

If you are not prepared, let him sleep in the yard at night, kneeling on the washboard.

It's his wife's birthday, and Yang Yukun will naturally not forget the birthday gift and has already prepared it.

Taking the opportunity to enter the house, Yang Yukun took out the prepared gifts from the portable planting space.

"Daughter-in-law, this is the birthday gift I prepared for you. I wish my daughter-in-law will always be young and beautiful, and may everything go well."

"Jingping, open it quickly and let us see what birthday gift Xiaokun has prepared for you."

"Sister Jingping, open it quickly and take a look."

"it is good."

Xu Jingping smiled and opened the brocade box, revealing the gifts inside the box in front of everyone.

Han Chunming said: "Jade Ruyi, okay, Xiaokun, this gift has a good meaning."

Bashahou said: "This is a pair of white jade immortals from the Qianlong period to wish you a happy birthday. It is a rare good thing."

Uncle Guan said: "Xiao Kun, where did you get such a good thing?"

"Luckily, I found it at Liulichang before."

Yang Guangcheng said: "I go to Liulichang every day and I have never found such a good item."

Yang Feng said: "I go to the street stalls basically every day. Why can't I find such good items?"

"It means that I have a destiny with this pair of jades, that's why I met them."

This pair of Ruyi jade from the Qianlong period was bought by Yang Yukun from Liulichang.

Xu Jingping celebrated her birthday today, so he gave her this pair of jade Ruyi as a birthday gift.

Xu Jingping liked this pair of jade Ruyi very much. After playing with it for a while, he put it back into the brocade box.

The guys continued chatting all over the place until about ten o'clock in the evening, and then they left one after another.

The mother-in-law helped the second daughter and second son-in-law tidy up the yard and moved tables, chairs and benches into the house, and then left the second daughter and second son-in-law's house and returned to her own home.

"Daughter-in-law, look at the little rice dumplings and the little corns, they sleep so soundly."

Little Zongzi, Heping Ping, and Little Corn were curled up on the red sandalwood cloud-dragon-patterned throne in the living room, already falling asleep.

After carrying the three little guys back to their rooms, Yang Yukun and Xu Jingping also returned to the bedroom.

After making breakfast the next morning, Yang Yukun asked Xiao Zongzi to ask his grandparents to have breakfast when he saw that his father-in-law and mother-in-law had not come yet.

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"I wonder if this girl Jingtian has reached the end of her life?"

While eating breakfast, Xu Huizhen thought of her little daughter.

This girl boarded the plane on the night of the second day of the Lunar New Year, and today is already the seventh day of the Lunar New Year. I don’t know where this girl is now?
"It should be here, it's been so many days." Xu Jingping said, "Mom, don't worry. Jingtian is not a child. She is already so old. Don't always treat her like a child."

"How can you not worry? In the eyes of your parents, no matter how old you are, you are still children."

"You are right, we will always be children who will never grow up. I will go to the telecommunications building later to ask if there is any international long-distance service."

"Can the telecommunications building make international long distance calls to MiLiJian?"

"I don't know. Why don't you find out if you ask?"

"Daughter-in-law, we don't know Jingtian's contact information in MiLijian. Even if we can fight him, we can't fight him," Yang Yukun reminded.

At this time, the communications industry was relatively backward. Cross-border cable laying and signal transmission technology were underdeveloped. Contacting relatives and friends abroad basically relied on letters.

Anyway, that was the case a few years ago.

He just didn't know if Didu had opened an international long-distance phone service at this time, and he hadn't learned about the specific situation before. Even if they could make international long distance calls, they didn't know Xu Jingtian's phone number in Milijian.

All they can do now is wait for Xu Jingtian to write back.

"Let me ask first. If the telecommunications building can really make international long distance calls, we can contact Jingtian by phone in the future. We will make an appointment every week to go to the telecommunications building and wait for her to call us."

Xu Jingping didn't know whether international long distance calls could be made at the Telecom Building, so she decided to go to the Telecom Building to ask about the specific situation.

Of course she hoped that the telecommunications building could make international long-distance calls. After all, writing letters was too slow, not to mention that international letters traveling between Xia Guo and Mi Lijian might not be received in two or three months.

If they can really make international long-distance calls, they can make an appointment with Jingtian and contact her at a fixed time every week, so they can feel more at ease.

"Okay, I'll go to the telecommunications building with you later to ask about the situation."

"it is good."

After breakfast, Yang Yukun and Xu Jingping went to the telecommunications building.

Small rice dumplings, small rice dumplings, and small corns are given to the father-in-law and mother-in-law.

I learned from the staff at the Telecommunications Building that international long distance calls to Milijian are available in the Imperial Capital.

As early as 1937, international long-distance telephone calls between Xia Guo and Mi Lijian were opened in Shanghai.

In July 1949, the wireless telegraph service between the Imperial Capital and the Port of the Five Seas was opened, and in November the wireless telephone circuit between the Imperial Capital and the Port of the Five Seas was opened.

On December 12, 1950, my country's first wired international telephone circuit, the circuit from the Imperial Capital to the Five Seas Ports, was officially opened.

After being transferred through the Bear Country, international calls to various socialist countries in Eastern Europe were gradually opened, becoming the longest wired carrier circuit in Eurasia.

In mid-July 1986, the Imperial International Long Distance Automatic Direct Dial System was put into operation, and the first batch of 20 two-way telephone lines between Japan and Hong Kong were opened.

By the end of that year, direct dial circuits had been opened to fifteen countries and regions.

These were told to Yang Yukun and Xu Jingping by the staff of the telecommunications building. They were not practitioners in the relevant industries and did not really know much about this aspect.

"Comrade, from what you say, can our home phone also be used to make international long distance calls?"

"You can call, but you need to open an international long-distance service. Do you have any relatives in Milijian?"

"Yes, my sister is studying abroad in Milijian. She just went there two days ago. I wonder how to activate the international long-distance service?"

The staff at the telecommunications building told Yang Yukun and Xu Jingping how to enable international long distance service for their home phones. It took them a whole day to enable international long distance service for their home phones.

From now on, you can use your home phone to make direct international long-distance calls to contact Xu Jingtian who is far away in MiLijian.

However, the phone bill is really expensive. It costs 20 yuan per minute. Most people can't afford it.

"Can I make international long-distance calls from the Imperial Capital to Milijian?"

"Can we use our home phone to make a call?"

Cai Quanwu and Xu Huizhen came back with small rice dumplings, Heping Ping and small corns. They were a little surprised when their second daughter and second son-in-law said they could make international long-distance calls to MiLijian.

"Yes, our home phone has opened international long-distance calling service. From now on, you can directly use our home phone to call Jingtian."

"Great, but it's a pity that I don't know this girl's contact information in MiLiJian."

"Let's wait for news about this girl."

"Dad, Mom, let's eat first."

"it is good."

After dinner, the father-in-law and mother-in-law continued to go out for a walk with their little zongzi, Heping Ping, and little corn, and went to the entrance of the alley to chat with the uncle and aunt in the alley.

Yang Yukun and Xu Jingping also went out for a walk and walked around the square. (End of chapter)