Chapter 1818: Making a Phone Call

When the couple was processing their network registration, a crowd of people around them watched and whispered, discussing their immense wealth.

If it weren't for the clerk pulling up a warning line to separate the crowd, they would likely have been surrounded by people watching them register.

During the gap while they waited for the registration to be processed, the clerk kindly reminded them.

"Boss, public security isn't very good right now. With so many people watching you buy a 'Big Brother' mobile phone and carrying so much cash, you should be careful about your safety when you go out later."

The couple looked at each other, and Ye Yaodong said, "Thank you, we will be careful."

Lin Xiuqing looked at him and whispered, "Should we call the factory later and have some people come over? Even though motorcycles are fast, I'm afraid of those who don't fear death."

"That works too."

In this day and age, there are quite a few people who get robbed as soon as they step out the door.

"It's a good chance to make a couple more calls to test it out. If there are any problems, we can have them replaced in time."

Ye Yaodong responded and had already taken out the manual to look through it himself. If there was anything he didn't understand, he would ask the young man nearby; since he had the machine in hand, he also let him help demonstrate.

By the time they chose a number, the couple had studied it for a long time before picking a free one that was auspicious, with many 8s and two 8s at the end.

They could have paid extra to choose special numbers, but both felt it wasn't necessary; one should save where they can and spend where they must.

It had already been an hour by the time everything was finished. Adding the time spent consulting earlier, it was already 10 o'clock. Ye Yaodong was still a little excited holding the freshly minted 'Big Brother' phone.

Although it was an old antique, at this time, it was also a symbol of status.

He clumsily pulled out the long antenna and, amidst the envious gazes of the crowd, handed the phone to Lin Xiuqing.

"Here! The first call is for you to make!"

Lin Xiuqing was full of joy. "No need, you make it. Didn't you say you were calling our son? You do it, I'll watch you use it."

"Are you sure you want me to make it? Then I'm dialing directly?"

"Make the call."

Ye Yaodong, bearing the envious gazes of everyone, pressed the number for their home in Shanghai.

The summer vacation was too hot, and the teacher didn't want to teach at noon, so Ye Chenghu's tutoring time was scheduled from 8:00 to 10:00 in the morning.

At this moment, he had just finished his class and was planning to see the teacher out when the phone in the living room rang.

The teacher also told him not to bother seeing him out and to go answer the phone first.

"Hello?"

"Son, can you hear me?"

"I can hear you. When is Mom coming back? When are Yangyang and my sister coming back?"

"They need to stay a few more days and will come home after school starts. Let me ask you, is the sound on the phone clear? Is there any static? Is it cutting in and out?"

"No, isn't this the same as usual? The signal is quite good," Ye Chenghu replied as usual, not understanding. "When are they staying until? What date? Why do they have to stay so late?"

As long as the signal was good, Ye Yaodong continued contentedly, "They might stay until the 30th before going back. Are you not happy being home alone?"

"It's fun enough, just quite boring."

"Did you finish your tutoring today?"

"I just finished class. The teacher was just leaving. I wanted to see him out, but the phone rang, so I answered it first."

"Alright, don't run around everywhere. It's such a hot day, if there's nothing else, I'm hanging up."

"Hey, wait! Call Yangyang and Xiaojiu over to answer the phone. Neither of them has called me in a long time, it's been almost a month. Why are they so busy? They didn't even call me when they came up from home. There are only a few days left until school starts, do they have to work until the very last day?"

Ye Yaodong changed the subject. "They are in the dormitory. I'm outside right now, at the Post and Telecommunications Bureau. Your dad just bought a 'Big Brother' phone, and you were the first one I thought of. I'm calling you to test the signal."

Ye Chenghu was surprised. "Ah! A 'Big Brother' phone? You bought a 'Big Brother' mobile phone? Dad, you finally decided to buy one."

"What do you mean 'finally decided to buy one'? Your dad even bought two cars; a 'Big Brother' phone is nothing. I just didn't think it was very necessary, that's why I hadn't bought one until now."

"Is it necessary now, then?"

"Of course."

"Dad, when are you coming to Shanghai? Let me see the 'Big Brother' phone. I haven't seen what it looks like up close yet."

"We'll talk when I'm free. Hanging up."

"When you're free, who knows when that will be... Beep beep beep..." Ye Chenghu held the phone, speechless. His dad wouldn't even spare a few more words for him.

Ye Yaodong had already hung up; continuing to talk would just be a waste of phone fees.

"Your son said it's the same as a regular phone call, no static, and the signal is quite good."

"Of course it is. We are still at the Post and Telecommunications Bureau; we haven't even walked out yet. The signal might be bad elsewhere, but how could it be bad here?"

"That is true..."

"Call the factory and have a few people come over to accompany us back. Otherwise, it really wouldn't be safe to just walk out like this."

"Alright."

Ye Yaodong listened to her and called to summon people, telling the factory to just send a few people over to the Post and Telecommunications Bureau.

After making the call, the two chatted idly while studying the new phone. Some people shouted for them to show everyone the 'Big Brother' phone, but they acted as if they didn't hear and continued to stand within the warning line.

To avoid harassment from the people around them, they planned to make another call, this time to home.

Ye Yaodong let Lin Xiuqing make the call, letting her play with it too.

Lin Xiuqing carefully pressed the number keys. After it connected, she couldn't help but be happy. "It's through, it's through... It even connected from so far away..."

"Hello, Mom? Are you at home? Are you cooking?"

"Yes. Are you at work? How is Chenghu's tutoring going? If you ask me, there's no need to put too much pressure on the child. He didn't even have time to come back during summer vacation, always in class. How tired the child must be."

"He only has two hours of tutoring a day, the rest of the time he can play as he likes, he won't be tired. I'm not in Shanghai right now, I'm at Adong's place."

"You went to Dongzi's? Didn't Dongzi and the others arrive there two days ago? They didn't even call back to say anything..."

Lin Xiuqing chatted with Ye Mu for a while. Only after the old lady came over to take the call did she hand it to Ye Yaodong to talk for a bit.

They were making a long-distance call, and the signal was still very good. After hanging up, the two couldn't help but wonder if it was because they were at the Post and Telecommunications Bureau.

They pondered making another call after they got home to continue testing it.

The people arranged by the factory were very fast. While they were talking, they kept an eye on the outside. Seeing a tractor arrive, the two pulled each other and walked out.

"They're here..."

"So fast, are they from our factory?"

"We'll know when we look."

When the two walked to the entrance, they were stunned to see people jumping down from the tractor bed like dumplings being dropped into a pot.

"Why did so many come?"

"Boss, Boss's wife..."

Ye Yaodong pointed at the people still jumping down from the tractor bed; it looked like there were twenty or thirty of them.

"I didn't tell you to just send a few people? Why did so many come?"

"We don't know. Manager Qi ran to the freight department and shouted for anyone who was free to get on the tractor and go to the Post and Telecommunications Bureau. It's almost noon break, the goods are mostly moved, and we don't need many people, so we left a few to move things there, and then everyone came."

After the person finished speaking, they looked around, feeling like there was nothing to move.

"Do you need us to do anything, Boss? Do you need us to move something? Where is it?"

Ye Yaodong couldn't help but rub his forehead. "Move what? Move banknotes? Are we robbing a bank?"

"Ah!"

The workers were dumbfounded, and the people crowding the entrance of the Post and Telecommunications Bureau to watch the fun were also stunned. The surroundings were silent for a few seconds.

Ye Yaodong quickly explained, "I'm joking. I didn't need so many of you to come. I just asked Manager Qi to arrange for a few people to come over. I didn't expect so many to come. There's nothing to do, let's go, let's go back."

"Ah? Oh."

Ye Yaodong hurried them onto the vehicle. His own motorcycle was parked on the side, and he took Lin Xiuqing and rode the motorcycle.

"So are we going back to the factory now?"

"Yes, let's go back. I'll ride in front, you follow behind."

"Alright."

Ye Yaodong put on his helmet, watched how they got down and how they jumped back up, and was speechless for a moment.

People were still clinging to the entrance of the Post and Telecommunications Bureau, looking at them curiously.

After everyone was back on the tractor, he rode his bike and took the lead.

Back at the factory, he went to find Manager Qi to complain.

Manager Qi was also quite innocent. On the phone, he asked if there was anyone free at the factory and told them to take a tractor to the Post and Telecommunications Bureau.

So he went to ask who was free. Who knew that it wasn't busy in the morning, and so many people were free? He didn't specify how many, so he thought that since they were free, the more the better, to avoid being short-handed.

He even thought that maybe there was a conflict with someone outside, so he thought having more people would provide more momentum for a fight.

Ye Yaodong was even more speechless after hearing his explanation. "If I wanted to fight, I would definitely have you pull a few truckloads of people over, it definitely wouldn't be a polite request for you to call a few people."

"Hehe..."

"Forget it, it's nothing."

"If it's not a fight, Boss, why did you call everyone to the Post and Telecommunications Bureau? You couldn't have been thinking of robbing a bank?"

"That's not funny at all. I went to buy a 'Big Brother' phone." Ye Yaodong lifted the box he was carrying to show him.

"It just so happens I need to tell you my new number. Write it down. If there's anything in the future, just call this number. You can find me anytime, no need to worry about not finding me when I go out."

Manager Qi's eyes widened, his face full of surprise, and then he said the same thing as Ye Chenghu.

"Boss, you finally bought a 'Big Brother' phone."

"Have you been looking forward to it for a long time?"

"Yes. Sometimes when you go out to socialize or aren't around, there are urgent matters, and I can't find you when I want to ask."

"It will be convenient from now on. Write it down."

Ye Yaodong took the opportunity to open the box, took out the 'Big Brother' phone, and showed it to him to broaden his horizons and show off.

Lin Xiuqing reminded him, "Should we make another call home?"

"Alright."

The old lady hadn't hung up long ago and was still sitting on the sofa when she heard the phone ring again. When she picked it up and it was Ye Yaodong again, she was pleasantly surprised.

"Why are you making two calls in a row? Wasting phone fees. The money spent on this could buy a lot of eggs."

"I'm testing to see if the signal on my newly bought phone is good."

"It's very good, I can hear everything. It's convenient. From now on, if I want to talk to you, I can call you anytime."

"No problem, I can receive your call anytime you call me."

Ye Yaodong said a few simple words. The old lady stared at the time on the phone, and at 58 seconds, she quickly hung up, afraid of wasting his phone fees. They had just talked on the phone earlier, so this second call had to be a bit more economical.

The signal was still very good. After saying goodbye to Manager Qi, he happily went to the cafeteria with Lin Xiuqing for lunch, and then returned to the dormitory.

Without a doubt, the two cubs were still sitting in front of the TV playing games.

Ye Yaodong frowned. "Have you eaten?"

"We ate, we ate before we came up."

"That's good."

Ye Xiaoxi dropped the game console and went to find Lin Xiuqing. "Mom, where did you go this morning? I looked for you to eat earlier, I looked everywhere and couldn't find you."

"I went out with your dad to buy a mobile phone."

At this, even Ye Chengyang turned his head. The two said in unison, "A mobile phone?"

"A 'Big Brother' phone?" Ye Chengyang excitedly put down the game controller. "What does it look like? Dad, let me see."

"Is it the big black 'Big Brother' phone from the Hong Kong TV shows?" Ye Xiaoxi's face was also full of curiosity.

Ye Yaodong showed them the 'Big Brother' phone he was holding and took the opportunity to explain its functions to them.

The two were shouting "Wow" in their mouths.

"Dad, hurry, hurry, hurry, let's call Big Brother." Ye Xiaoxi was extremely excited.

"I already called him earlier at the Post and Telecommunications Bureau."

Ye Chengyang was also a bit moved. "Call him again, we haven't talked to Big Brother on the phone in a long time either."

Ye Xiaoxi urged, "Call him, let us use the 'Big Brother' phone to talk to Big Brother and see?"

"Alright, then I'll let you do it? You call your Big Brother, do you know the home phone number?"

"I remember!" Ye Xiaoxi happily snatched it over and held it in her hands.

Lin Xiuqing watched her movements and was terrified. "You be careful, if you drop it on the ground, watch your skin."

"I'm being careful, I'm putting it on my lap."

She and Ye Chengyang put their heads together, each pressing a number to dial the home phone.

Ye Chenghu was eating instant noodles and saw the home phone ring again, so he had to answer it again.

"Big Brother! Dad bought a 'Big Brother' phone!"

"I know, I knew before you did."

"Wow, it's so cool. Do you know what a 'Big Brother' phone looks like? I'm using the 'Big Brother' phone to call you right now! The 'Big Brother' phone is huge..."

Ye Xiaoxi chattered on about how she was using the 'Big Brother' phone to call him, describing how to use it and what it looked like.

After she finished, she sighed with regret.

"It's such a pity, Big Brother, you missed out on so many fun and good things. You're tutoring too much, it's too pitiful."

Ye Chenghu didn't understand. "What did I miss? Isn't it just a 'Big Brother' phone? What's so great about it? You guys just touched it and made a call, Dad definitely wouldn't let you play with it."

"You missed out on so much more..."

The rest of her words were covered by Ye Chengyang.

Ye Chenghu asked curiously, "What else did I miss?"

Ye Chengyang replied, "Nothing, Big Brother, we'll be back in Shanghai to find you in a few days." ===== CHAPTER 1819 =====