Hearing Wei Chunlan's voice coming from the phone, Xu Tongdao frowned slightly and his heart skipped a beat. It had been a few days since he gave Wei Chunlan his business card, and he hadn't received a call from her for several days. He thought she was here.
Her sister Wei Qiuju stopped her from contacting him.
Unexpectedly, I got a call tonight.
What was even more exciting was that when he and Zeng Xueyi were walking on the river embankment, he called.
Tongdao Xu subconsciously glanced at Zeng Xueyi in front of him, "Well, it's me, why did you call me today?"
In front of Zeng Xueyi, he tried to keep his tone as natural as possible.
On the phone, Wei Chunlan: "Uh, this... this... is, I accidentally lost the business card you gave me, really, really!"
Xu Tongdao: "???"
He didn't quite believe this reason, but she took the initiative to confess her love to him that afternoon. It stands to reason that she would have kept the business card he left for her very carefully. Could she have accidentally lost it?
Of course, he still understands the principle of perseverance despite hardship.
He didn't dwell on the issue.
"Oh, that's it! Then why do you have my number again?"
"Uh...I, I went to the Internet cafe that was being renovated this evening and asked your cousin for the number that your cousin gave me..."
On the phone, Wei Chunlan explained in a low voice.
Comrade Xu said oh, rolled his eyes, and found that her logic was very smooth, and her excuse was logical.
In line with the principle of "Don't tear people apart", he smiled and said: "That's it! OK, I understand, by the way, is this your number? I will call this number next time I contact you, right?"
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"Yes! Uh, no! I took the phone card and called you from the phone booth outside. Next time you call this number, you can't find me."
Wei Chunlan subconsciously said "yes" and then quickly denied it.
Since they were on the phone, Tongdao Xu could feel her nervousness.
"You don't have a cell phone yet, do you?"
he asked.
"Well, yes, yes, I don't usually call people. Occasionally, when I call home, I can use the landline in my dormitory, or use a phone card to find a phone booth. So, I haven't bought a mobile phone yet..."
Wei Chunlan seemed very passive on the phone.
After the call was connected, Comrade Xu came up with all the topics.
And she...maybe because she was nervous! She would not take the initiative to find topics, but she tried her best to answer each of Comrade Xu's questions in detail.
It seemed that she wanted to make him feel her willingness to communicate with him through this explanation as detailed as possible.
And Tongdao Xu really felt it.
"Oh, okay! I understand, then...how can I contact you when I want to contact you later? How about giving me your dormitory phone number?"
"Okay, okay! I'll report it to you, 055..."
Wei Chunlan just said this, suddenly paused, and then changed her words: "No! I'm going home tonight. I won't be in the dormitory during the next summer vacation. You can't find me if you call my dormitory phone number. I want it. I want it."
No...I, I will give you my home address, you, can you write me a letter? Okay, okay?"
write a letter?
Comrade Xu was stunned.
He frowned and thought for a moment - how long has it been since he wrote a letter to anyone?
More than ten years? Or more than twenty years?
He couldn't remember clearly.
In his life, including all his past and present lives, he has never written letters to a few people.
After being reborn, I actually never wrote a letter to anyone.
On the contrary, before his rebirth, during the two years after graduating from junior high school, classmates occasionally wrote to him, and he replied to them twice. After that, he never wrote to anyone again.
The main reason is that Internet cafes became everywhere and mobile phones became more and more popular, so there was no need to use a pen to write letters to others.
If you want to contact someone, you can send a QQ message, make a phone call, or send a text message.
but……
Then again, around 2000, writing letters was still relatively popular in China.
Many people have neither access to the Internet nor mobile phones, so writing letters seems to be the easiest and cheapest way to contact them.
"Where will you live during the summer vacation? Or stay at your aunt's place?"
Comrade Xu asked her.
Wei Chunlan: "Ah? No, no! After my sister and I graduated from high school, we stopped living there. We have our own home. Can I give you the address?"
Comrade Xu had no choice but to say, "Okay! Then you can report it to me."
When Wei Chunlan reported her home address to him, Comrade Xu subconsciously looked at Zeng Xueyi in front of him.
Zeng Xueyi looked at him on the phone with a half-smile, stroking her hair from time to time. She was not angry or impatient at all.
The mood is very peaceful.
Her reaction made Xu Tongdao really start to believe that she had never thought about being with him for a long time.
Otherwise, she shouldn't be in this state.
At this time, they were standing so close, about one meter at most. He believed that Zeng Xueyi, who was so close to him, could hear Wei Chunlan's voice on his mobile phone.
Even if he couldn't hear it completely, he could at least hear the voice of a young girl coming from his mobile phone.
A moment later, Wei Chunlan had finished reporting her home address.
Comrade Xu repeated it twice over the phone. After being corrected twice by her, he remembered her home address.
It's not that he has a very good memory.
But their hometowns are all in Shazhou County, and he has basically heard of the names of several towns below the county seat, so he doesn't actually need to remember too much about the address she reported. He only needs to remember which township and village she is in.
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Even the house number...
Haha, these days there are no house numbers in the towns below Shazhou County.
The postman usually rides his bicycle into the village to deliver letters, and asks where the recipient lives on each letter.
It's just so original.
If you encounter a postman who is trying to save trouble, he may send letters from certain villages to the primary schools attended by the children in those villages.
Then, the school teachers will give those letters to children in each class who are in the same village as the recipients, and ask the children to help bring the letters back to the village and deliver them to the recipients.
In short, these days the towns in Shazhou County do not have house numbers.
The home address is generally only specific to a certain administrative village or a certain natural village.
After telling her her home address, Xu Tongdao said a few more words to her and ended the call.
Before ending the call, we made an appointment to exchange letters during the summer vacation.
After ending the call, Comrade Xu said to Zeng Xueyi in front of him: "Shall we continue to move forward?"
Zeng Xueyi smiled and nodded, "Well, okay!"
She didn't ask about the girl who just talked to him on the phone.
Instead, he looked at the dark river water under the night sky and said with a smile: "It's really nice to cool off here at night! Do you come here often recently?"
"Well, come often. If you are free in the future, we can come together."
"Okay, but it's probably just the past few days. When Yueyue comes back, I won't have much time to go out at night."