Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 339 The first phone call

There was no one in the courtyard in an instant, and they were all at Xu Qing's house. When there were too many people, they were crowded.

For a while, I was so congested that I couldn't move my feet.

The third mother took her granddaughter and hurriedly squeezed her daughter-in-law Yu Li to make room for the post office staff.

Qin Huairu, the first aunt, and the second aunt also leaned to one side, for fear of delaying the post office person from answering the phone.

Yan Jiefang and Yan Jiekuang took Yan Jiedi and followed Yan Bugui into the house. When the three of them saw that they could not squeeze in front of the phone, they took off their shoes and got on the Kang of Xu Qing's house. They stood on the Kang and walked forward from a high place. While watching.

Silly Zhu stood beside Xu Fengming, holding the screwdriver he took out just now, watching the person at the post office connect the black wire end to the telephone with a serious face.

Yan Bugui, Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong stood beside Xu Qing, looking curiously with their heads raised.

No one had ever seen a post office install a telephone, and Xu Qing was the first one in the yard to install a telephone. They all thought it was interesting and fresh, so they scrambled to see it for real.

Outside the door, the two brothers Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu also craned their necks to look into the room, but did not go in.

One is that they don't dare. The two brothers had made trouble with Ai Guo and Feng Ming before.

Now Aiguo and Feng Ming are both cadres, but the two of them are ordinary workers, and they are timid.

Secondly, there were too many people in Xu Qing's house, and there was no place for them to stay.

As for the people coming from other courtyards in the alley, naturally they could only stand beside the Liu Guangtian brothers and follow them to look into Xu Qing's house.

Five or six minutes later, the phone was answered, and people from the post office conducted an interview in front of Xu Qing. Everyone held their breath, listening to the voice coming from the phone, and everyone was excited.

"The phone is now installed and ready to use?"

Yan Bugui stretched out his hand to hold his glasses. He couldn't believe it happened so quickly. It only took a few minutes.

The person at the post office turned his head and glanced at Yan Bugui, "Old comrade, the telephone is not so fast. If your hospital had never installed it before and needed wiring, we would have finished the job long ago."

Yan Bugui, the old teacher, said oh and said nothing.

After all, he was a layman in this regard and didn't know anything. When the person at the post office said it, he immediately pretended to be calm and nodded to show that he understood.

But in fact, Yan Bugui didn't understand it at all. Even though he kept staring at it, the doorway in it could not be mastered just by looking at it a few times.

I just saw something new.

Silly Zhu frowned, poked the phone with a screwdriver, and asked: "The sound won't suddenly go silent, right?"

The people at the post office were busy for several hours with almost no breaks. Finally, they were done. One person wound the remaining wires into a circle and slung them on his arm. The other person packed up the tools and put them in the tool box on his back while talking to Silly. Zhu said: "How could it be silent after it was just installed?"

Xu Qing took out the peony cigarettes on his body and handed them to the three post office men who came to install the phones. The man with the toolbox on his back took the cigarettes, wiped off the sweat from his forehead, and said to Xu Qing:
"Comrade Xu Qing, if there is any problem with your phone in the future, you can come to our unit to find us."

Xu Qing smiled and said hello, then turned around and asked his wife Jinghong to make a tea jar of Gao Sui Er for each of the three of them.

Mrs. Jia Zhang looked at the newly installed telephone in Xu Qing's house, rolled her eyes, smiled on her face, and said to Xu Qing:

"Xiaoqing, can you use your family's phone to call my grandson? My grandson Bangge went to the countryside to join the queue. I haven't contacted my family for a long time."

Before Xu Qing could speak, Feng Ming said directly, "Auntie, Banggan is going to the countryside to jump in line. Does he have a phone number? What is the phone number and how to transfer it? Do you know?"

Mrs. Jia Zhang was stunned and froze. Banggen never mentioned it. Most of them wrote letters before, and the zip code was there, but what was the phone number and area code? .

Qin Huairu glanced at her mother-in-law, so ashamed that she wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl in.

In front of so many people, my mother-in-law had to borrow Xu Qing's phone to use it. They had just installed it, and I hadn't used it yet, so how could I give someone else the first call.

I really think about it all at once, without looking at the occasion. It’s not like I can’t talk about it again in the future, so why do I have to say it now?

After Qin Huairu glanced at Mrs. Jia Zhang, she turned her head and stopped looking at her mother-in-law.

Mrs. Jia Zhang also realized that she had been too impatient just now, and her face was a little uneasy. She made an excuse and hurriedly squeezed through the crowd, left Xu Qing's house, and headed back to her courtyard.

The rest of them stayed at Xu Qing's house until Xu Qing sent the post office people away, and then they left together.

However, just as the person Xu Qing was sending to the post office passed through the middle courtyard, Mrs. Jia Zhang, who came back in front of her, ran out again holding the scissors:
"Comrades from the post office, I see there is still a lot of wires you brought. Can you ream it a few meters for me so I can use it to dry my clothes?"

The people at the post office glanced at Mrs. Jia and Zhang, then turned their heads to look at Xu Qing and Yi Zhonghai, the three masters in charge, with blank expressions on their faces.

Xu Qing had no choice but to quickly explain to Jia Zhang:

"Aunt Zhang, these wires are all new. The post office can't just twist them for you."

"Hey, it's just a few meters of wire, and it's not worth much. What's wrong with hanging it in the yard as a clothesline?"

After Jia Zhang looked at Xu Qing, she rolled her eyes and muttered: "I don't want it for you!"

Xu Qing glanced at Jia Zhang coldly and was too lazy to respond.

Since she wants to feel uncomfortable, let her do whatever she wants.

The person at the post office smoked Xu Qing's cigarette, looked at Jia Zhang, pointed at the wires on his body and said:

"Old comrade, if you want it, come to our post office to buy it yourself. Remember to bring the industrial coupons. We will give you as much as you want."

Jia Zhang's eyes widened, "How much money do you need for just a few meters of wire?"

"You old comrade is so easy to talk to, why don't you want it? Our wires didn't come from nothing. If you want them, pay for them!"

Jia Zhang lost her temper immediately, pinched the scissors in her hand, and stared at the wires on the man in the post office with a displeased look on her face.

Seeing this, Yi Zhonghai smoothed things over and said:
"Sister-in-law, don't embarrass the people at the post office. It's not like we don't have a clothesline in our courtyard. Even if you want to pull a new one, you'll have to find an old wire."

Seeing that the wire was not coming, Mrs. Jia Zhang showed dissatisfaction on her face, and reluctantly turned around and went back to the house.

After Xu Qing sent the people from the post office out of the compound, he returned to his home in the backyard.

I grabbed the phone and called my old classmate Li Guohua.

Xiao Hongzhi stood in front of him, less than the height of the table where the phone was placed, blinking and looking at his father curiously.

But when Xu Qing made the first call, the person who answered the phone was not Li Guohua, but a woman. She said that Li Guohua was transferred from the county to Sijiu City yesterday and asked him to call there.

Xu Qing was a little confused. Li Guohua had just been transferred. He didn't know what unit he was going to, and the woman didn't tell him just now.

Xu Qing then called Erniu again. Erniu worked in the Second Commercial Bureau of Xuanwu District, Sijiu City. It is also the same unit.

The call was quickly forwarded by the post office to the Second Commercial Bureau, but it was not Er Niu who answered the phone, but a young comrade on duty.

Who made this weekend, Xu Qing's two phone calls were a bit embarrassing, but the other party said wait a minute, Er Niu came to the unit just now, so he will call him over now.

Xu Qing waited, and within half a minute, Erniu's voice came from the phone: "Hey, who is looking for me?"

(End of this chapter)