wild 1995

Chapter 17 Family
After Xia Fangfei checked the ticket and got on the bus, Di Ye walked out of the waiting room, stood on the side of the busy street, summoned Di Ye, and said, "It's only 3:[-], there should be no one at home, why don't I take you to see how your parents and your sister are working?"

Di Ye agreed, and said, "It's good to go and have a look, I've never cared about their work before."

Since the two had exchanged family information before, Di Ye knew the specific work location of each person, planned the route in his mind, and said, "Go to the post office first, then go to the city hospital, and finally go to the Chenghuang Temple, how about it?"

"Row."

Except for Qingyun Road, the main road that runs through the entire urban area, most of the streets in Yuncheng are named after mountains and rivers. Di Ye's older sister is named Di Yan, who works at the city post and telecommunications office at the intersection of Qingyun Road and Taishan Road.

Di Ye took a taxi, and when he came to the gate of the post office, he saw shops everywhere, and said to Di Ye, "I'll help you buy some gifts for them as souvenirs."

"No, in their eyes, you are me, and I am you."

"They are them, you and I are you and me."

Di Ye no longer insisted, and said with some guilt: "I have never bought them a gift, so I don't know what to buy."

Di Ye is also not good at buying gifts. After thinking about it, he said: "Family love is like gold, it will never fade. Let's go to the department store to buy some gold jewelry."

"Gold is very expensive, don't buy too much, or you won't be able to explain the source of the money to them."

"I know."

In 1995, gold was not expensive, 1 gram was less than 100 yuan. Di Ye went to the department store, bought a gold necklace and two gold rings, and spent all the labor costs of more than 2000 yuan he earned from Shi Yucheng.

On the way back to the office building of the Post Office, Di Ye remembered something and asked, "You said your sister works as a salesperson in the Post Office, what exactly do you sell?"

"Sell everything. When I was eating at home, I heard her talk to my dad about selling stamps, BB machines, and mobile phones."

"Didn't you ask her about her specific job title?"

"No, there is a big age gap between me and my elder sister. She usually doesn't talk to me much except caring about my food, clothing and studies."

Di Ye was a little speechless, and analyzed as he walked: "Your sister is 6 years older than you. She graduated from college in 1990. Back then college students were still very popular, so I bet you that she is definitely not a salesperson now."

Di Yan is indeed not a salesperson, but the deputy chief of the personnel department of Yuncheng City Post and Telecommunications Bureau. She has an independent office. When Di Ye walked in, she was typing on a computer and said without raising her head: "Don't ask any more. It's a rumor that post and telecommunications will be operated separately after the New Year... Hey, why are you here, little brother?"

Di Ye glanced at the light curtain, saw that Di Ye was stunned and didn't say a word, so he could only say to himself: "Today's final exam is over, I'm going home for a meal, and I'll come to you to have a look."

"It's the end of the term so soon? When is your postgraduate entrance examination?"

"tomorrow."

Di Yan has a strong personality, raised her eyebrows when she heard the words, and reprimanded: "Then why don't you stay at school and study hard, what are you doing here?"

Di Ye must have been taught to be afraid since he was a child, so he shrank his neck involuntarily in the light curtain.

Seeing this, Di Ye couldn't help laughing, and said nonsense: "Sister, I've read the book hundreds of times, so I don't need to cram. I've been dizzy from the final exams these two days, so I came out to relax and recharge my batteries, so that my mind will be clear when I take the exam tomorrow."

Although these words were nonsense, they sounded very reasonable. Di Yan's expression eased, and he said, "If you want to relax, go to your brother-in-law. He has a lot of interesting things there. I have work here besides work. It's very boring."

Di Ye sat down on the chair across from the desk, and said, "Sister, call your brother-in-law and tell him to come to have dinner at home in the evening and give me a postgraduate entrance exam."

"The postgraduate entrance examination is not to be a death squad, what's the point of being strong!"

Di Yan glanced at Di Ye, pointed to the landline on the desk, and said angrily: "If you want to call, you can call yourself. I'm busy now and I don't have time."

Seeing this, Di Ye in the light curtain said, "My sister must be angry with my brother-in-law again, please help me persuade them."

Di Ye held the phone in front of him, typed on the light screen with his mind and asked, "Do you know the phone number of your brother-in-law's work unit?"

"do not know."

Di Ye sent an emoji covering his face, and then asked Di Yan, who casually reported a series of numbers and said, "Don't you want to be strong? Tell him to buy a bottle of better red wine to drink at night."

Di Ye's brother-in-law was named Lu Hanming, who worked as an editor at Yuncheng Literature and Art Publishing House. After receiving the call, he said cheerfully, "I'm going to buy wine now. Let's have a good drink tonight."

Di Ye made the phone call on speakerphone. Di Yan raised her eyebrows again when she heard it, and scolded: "Lu Hanming! You are doing private affairs during working hours again, do you want to be fired by the unit?"

"Then what... the Spring Festival is coming soon, there is nothing to do in the unit, and I am idle as well."

"When you're free, go read and write, don't wander around like a bum all day long!"

Seeing that the situation was not good, Di Ye quickly picked up the microphone, turned off the speakerphone, and said to Lu Hanming: "Brother-in-law, we don't have dinner until six or seven o'clock in the evening, so don't rush to buy wine."

"I have to go now to see what your sister can do to me!"

Di Ye glanced sideways at Di Yan, and saw that she was full of anger and gritted her teeth, so she had no choice but to cover up for Lu Hanming by answering the wrong question: "Okay, brother-in-law, you go to work first, and we will talk at night."

After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone, picked up the glass teacup on the table, refilled Di Yan's glass of water, and persuaded him: "Sister, don't be angry, my brother-in-law is really good to me, so I am in a hurry to buy wine."

"What a fart! He is almost 30 years old, and he knows how to play all day long. His dilapidated publishing house is very inefficient. He only earns two or three hundred yuan a month, and he spends it all on food and drink..."

After complaining for a while, Di Yan waved her hands and said, "Go home first, I have a meeting at 4:[-], and I won't be there until after [-]:[-]."

Seeing her chest rising and falling, Di Ye was still angry, so he took out the box containing the gold necklace from his pocket, and said with a smile: "Sister, I'll give you a gift, see if you like it."

Di Yan took the box and opened it to find that it was a gold necklace. She was surprised and asked sharply, "Where did you get it?"

Since Feng Shijie's case is very serious and is still in the stage of investigation and evidence collection, Di Ye, as an important witness in this case, cannot speak nonsense to the outside world, so he brought Liu Shaosong out as a shield, saying: "I helped Professor Liu write a software, and he gave me 2000 yuan as a salary. This is the first time I have made money when I grow up, so I specially bought this for you."

"Spend money indiscriminately, why buy such an expensive gold necklace, just buy a dress."

With a smile on the corner of Di Yan's mouth, she took out the gold necklace from the box while scolding, lifted it up to try it on, and then said with emotion: "I didn't expect that the first time I received a valuable gift, it was actually bought by you, little brother."

This remark was obviously against Lu Hanming in the air. Di Ye didn't want to spoil the scene, so he didn't respond. Seeing that Di Ye didn't speak, he thought of a topic and asked, "Sister, when I came in just now, I heard you said that the postal service and telecommunications should be operated separately. Is it true?"

"Why do you come to ask this kind of question? Didn't I just say that it's a rumor."

"Does the rumor refer to a time, or an event?"

Di Yan laughed when she heard the words, put the gold necklace back into the box, and said, "Little brother, you have grown up, and you can hear the truth in my words. The separation of postal services and telecommunications is the general trend, but the specific policy has not been issued yet, so the implementation time is uncertain."

"But I heard your tone of voice just now, and now internal staff adjustments have begun, right?"

"Of course, the Post Office has millions of employees across the country, so we must sort out the personnel relationship before we split up."

"Which department are you going to go to?"

"I'm planning to go to telecom. Although the post office has a big business and good welfare, the telecom business is developing very fast now, and there should be more prospects in the future."

Hearing this, Di Ye typed on the light curtain: "With your sister's drive and vision, she will definitely be able to make a career in the future."

Di Ye hummed, and said, "I'm not worried about my sister's job, I'm more worried about her life. She and my brother-in-law have different personalities and often quarrel."

"It's not a real couple if they don't quarrel. As long as they have a relationship foundation, personality differences can be reconciled."

"They should have no problem with their relationship. They have known each other since junior high school. Over the years, they have never had any scandalous affair or anything like that."

"That is not bad."

Next, Di Ye inquired about the situation of Internet access, and found that Di Yan was not clear about it, so he left the post office and went to the Municipal People's Hospital to see Di Ye's mother.

Di Ye's mother, Zhang Xiuzhi, is 53 years old and is about to retire. She is in charge of training and guiding new nurses in the hospital. She has a relatively leisurely job. She was very happy to see Di Ye and introduced several young and beautiful nurses to him.

After hanging out with the little nurses in the hospital for more than ten minutes, Di Ye took a taxi to the Temple of the City God and took Di Ye to see his father, Di Yongchang.

"Actually, there is no need to go to Chenghuang Temple. I often go to the shop opened by my father. I know his work very well."

"The sense of ceremony is very important, let's go there."

Town God's Temple is the distribution center of small commodities in Yuncheng. It has a large scale and has thousands of shops. In addition to modern industrial products such as home appliances, clothing, and toys, there are also antique calligraphy and paintings, as well as folk toys such as flowers, birds, insects and fish. It is very lively.

The shop opened by Di Yongchang is located in the northwest corner of Chenghuang Temple. It mainly sells Walkmans and CD players, as well as pirated tapes and CDs.

When Di Ye entered, Di Yongchang was chatting about VCD with a person who didn't know whether it was a customer or a friend, but what he was talking about was not a VCD player, but a pirated VCD disc.

"Boss Di, the cost of a VCD disc is only a dozen yuan, and it costs at least five or sixty yuan to sell it. The profit margin is huge. Let us raise funds and go to Guangdong Province to wholesale some Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow movie discs and sell them. We will definitely make a lot of money."

"Nonsense, now a VCD player costs [-] to [-], and few families can afford it. Who will sell the CD to?"

Di Ye saw that the two were busy chatting and didn't notice him, so he helped out and said, "It can be sold to the video hall."

(End of this chapter)