Chapter 10 Poverty and Disease(1/2)
late at night.
He Xiao and Xu Yuan walked towards the dormitory together. This slutty young man was rare today and didn't go out to mess around.
Passing by the entrance of the supermarket that was open 24 hours a day, the two went in and bought some instant noodles and eggs, and planned to go home to cook noodles. The eggs were made into poached eggs and put them in them. The taste was quite good.
"He Xiao, I'll get up early tomorrow and go to Gome and plan to buy that new smartphone."
When he was about to get home, Xu Yuan suddenly covered his chest with pain, as if he had made a difficult decision.
"Is that smartphone called Apple?"
He Xiao looked at him in surprise. He also knew that the phone was the latest, but he didn't know it carefully and it was said to be very expensive.
"Yes, full-screen phones, everyone says that after this phone is released, the phones are now eliminated."
Xu Yuan showed his yearning, but immediately felt extremely uncomfortable, and his face turned red like an angina pectoris.
"This thing is expensive, I will basically lose my monthly salary after buying it!"
Sure enough, it takes a price to show off.
However, Xu Yuan reminded He Xiao that he had long wanted to change to a new phone. He had been using this flip phone for almost three years. Apart from making a phone call, he really couldn't do anything, and the battery was swollen and not decent.
When they returned home, they both squatted into their own room and stopped coming out after eating instant noodles.
Xu Yuan came to the living room and took some toilet paper. He Xiao saw it and knew that this guy would not do good things. He got out of bed and silently closed the door.
Relying on the head of the bed, He Xiao put his laptop on his legs and found news about his smartphone.
It is produced by a company called Apple, with a foreign address. He Xiao didn't know when the company appeared. Anyway, the official website page looks quite high-end.
The phone has a full screen, with only one button underneath, and the price is 6,500 yuan. As expected, it is no wonder that Xu Yuan felt so distressed. After watching He Xiao, he felt like someone had pinched his heart.
I clicked on the large picture and admired it carefully. It was really beautiful. Just like a work of art, many celebrities have already used it.
It is not difficult to see from the comments below that this smartphone is indeed very fresh, with a qualitative leap in pixels and operation feel compared to the previous generation of mobile phones.
Looking at the photos of the main interface of the mobile phone taken by consumers, He Xiao suddenly felt that this so-called smartphone had a strong sense of familiarity.
He took out his black phone and compared it on his computer. The similarity was as high as 99%.
But this black phone with a larger screen and looks better.
He Xiao suddenly realized that the black mobile phone is the smart phone in his own world, but it must be more advanced and comes from another time and space.
From this we can infer that the time and space of the black mobile phone should be several years ahead of the world where it is located, but the gap between the two is not too big.
"Similar time and space, there should be many similarities between the two sides, right? It's really aspiring to be."
He Xiao fiddled with the black phone and was thinking about it freely in his mind.
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The next morning.
He Xiao went out with Xu Yuan and walked into the mall with a smile. When he came out, his expression was ugly.
"It's so fucking expensive!"
The two spoke in unison.
Xu Yuan was pretty good, so he bought one and used it himself.
He Xiao was different. He bought four units directly, and his wallet was half deflated.
One of these four mobile phones is for your own use, while the remaining three are for your parents and sister.
More than 20,000 yuan, He Xiao’s monthly salary was exchanged for four boxes.
Apart from the money he usually saved in his bank card and kept buying a house, He Xiao only had more than 10,000 yuan in his hand.
"Go back to the liberation overnight."
He Xiao felt that his heart was in a mess. In Yanjing, he only had 10,000 yuan in his hand, which really didn’t have any sense of security.
After leaving the mall, He Xiao and Xu Yuan found a small shop to have a cross-bridge rice noodles. Then he went to the express company and sent out all three mobile phones.
“Dududu…”
After squeezed onto the bus home, He Xiao called his mother.
"Hey? Son, what's wrong?" After my mother answered the phone, her tone seemed a little heavy.
"Mom, I've sent you a courier. Remember it at that time. Don't know who it is and don't sign for it."
"What did you buy?"
"Hehe, keep it confidential." He Xiao planned to surprise his parents.
"That's it... OK, mom knows, are you short of money there? Do you need to ask your dad to transfer some for you? You are alone in the big place in Yanjing, don't let yourself be wronged." Erxing Qianli's mother was worried. Her mother treated He Xiao as a treasure since she was a child, and she had almost never beaten and scolded him. She was afraid that He Xiao was busy with work and did not dare to call him. Now she finally contacted her, and immediately opened her conversation, expressing her longing, and she couldn't stop it.
"Mom, don't send me money. I've lived a very comfortable life here. If you are short of money, remember to tell me that I have earned a lot recently. I put ten thousand in my pocket for 10,000 yuan, and some of them are money!"
He Xiao was really afraid that his mother would hang up the phone and then run to the bank to send money to her, so she could do this.
"Okay, then mom will be relieved. The family is not short of money, just work hard."
My mother laughed, her voice full of loving love.
"By the way, is my sister at home?"
"Your sister is at work. If you miss your sister, just call her cell phone."
"That's what."
After hanging up the phone, He Xiao dialed his sister He Jin's number again.
My sister seemed to be busy, and it took a long time to connect to the phone.
"Sister, why are you doing so slowly? Guess what I bought for you?" When facing his sister, He Xiao's tone became much more relaxed.
"Little bastard, why are you buying things for me? How many times have you said, don't spend money randomly? If you earn some money, don't know if you are in the north?"
Unexpectedly, after his sister He Jin answered the phone, she scolded her brother for spending money indiscriminately.
He Xiao was a little guilty here. He knew that his sister was different from other girls. He was a very pragmatic person. He was not interested in vain things such as jewelry, cosmetics, mobile phones, and vanity. He was facing the sky every day.
That evil face was really wasted.
He Jin is three years older than He Xiao. He has been a beauty since he was a child. When he was in school, he was named the school beauty. Many boys are sought after. The most exaggerated thing is when he was in his second year of high school. The love letters He Jin received in one semester were almost as thick as her laptop.
Facing his beautiful sister, He Xiao once suspected that they were not born to the same mother.
In sharp contrast to the appearance of that angel, the devil's temper was the devil's temper. He Jin has been naughty since he was a child. He climbed trees and stole birds and eggs, and went down rivers to fish and shrimps, and he didn't look like a big girl.
And every time He Xiao gets beaten, his sister comes forward to help solve the problem. He can chase the stinky little eggs that bully He Xiao in eight streets.
Others have their younger brothers to protect their sisters, while the old He family is their older sister protecting their younger brothers, and they are all against each other.
Faced with such a guy with a strong force and a strong sister, He Xiao had to honestly accept his "fragile" character and live in the shadow of his sister for more than twenty years.
It was not until he walked away to Yanjing to work hard that he escaped from the devil's claws and breathed a sigh of relief.
But now when my sister scolded her, the thriller of the past came back instantly.
He Xiao immediately stopped saying a word, for fear that his sister would be angry, so he came to Yanjing to beat him up with a big stick.
Suddenly, He Xiao heard a few words of eloquence from his sister, such as "calling during working hours" and "not going to deliver takeout yet".
Then my sister apologized in a soft voice, and her tone was so soft that she didn't look like her at all.
He Xiao on the phone was stunned for a moment. His strong sister was actually wronged outside? And she was delivering takeaway?
Where can girls deliver takeout?
At this moment, He Xiao felt that his heart was suddenly grabbed and hurt!
"Sister, why did you go to deliver takeout? Did you encounter any difficulties? The salesperson's job was not done well before..."
He Xiao couldn't help asking until the voices of others there gradually disappeared.
"It's okay, I've done a lot of money in sales. I'll come out to change jobs, which is higher than my previous salary."
My sister's tone returned to relax, but He Xiao clearly remembered that she was not like this in the last second!
That kind of aggrieved and helpless attitude, nodding and bowing, was the first time in He Xiao’s memory for more than 20 years.
"Sister, tell me the truth, what happened?"
“…”
The person on the other side of the phone was silent for a long time, and finally sighed lightly, "Grandpa suffered from cerebral hemorrhage and was hospitalized."
"What?!" He Xiao's head buzzed.
"The doctor said there is still a treatment. The amount of bleeding is 400,000 or 90,000." My sister's voice became much deeper.
"Why didn't mom tell me anything?" He Xiao was a little angry. When he called, his mom didn't disclose any of these things.
Now he knows why his sister quit her job as a shopping guide in the mall and came out to make this kind of takeaway that is exposed to the wind and sun, just to earn more money to treat her grandfather!
What’s funny is that I just spent more than 20,000 yuan to buy a mobile phone.
"Sister, don't deliver takeout, that's what the man does. What do you girl do?"
To be continued...