The Pentium Era - South to North

Liu Ligan came out of the kitchen. Zhang Chen and Jin Lili were sitting on the sofa and looking at him. Zhang Chen asked, "Hey, hey?"

Liu Ligan shook his head: "I won't sing anymore. My throat feels uncomfortable today."

"Hey, do you still have throat discomfort? Then you have to ask Li Shizhen." Jin Lili shouted.

Liu Ligan rolled his eyes at her and cursed: "You are still worried about whether your aunt can come on time next month. Damn it, I can hear your coquettishness even from such a distance. I used to be in the theater troupe, and it seems that I didn't I like singing in the middle of the night so much.”

Jin Lili jumped up from the sofa, and Liu Li fled into Jin Lili and Lao Bao's office. One of them escaped, the other chased, going forward and backward, and circled the two desks several times, Zhang Chen was laughing on the sofa.

"Stop!" Jin Lili pointed at Liu Ligan opposite.

"If you don't chase me, just stop." Liu Ligan said.

"Then let me hit you."

"Just for a moment?"

"one time."

"Okay then." Liu Ligan came over.

Jin Lili stretched out her hand and twisted Liu Ligan's arm violently. Liu Ligan screamed in pain, and Jin Lili walked away proudly.

While Liu Ligan touched his sore spot, he walked over to Zhang Chen and said, "Zhang Chen, it's better to replace this woman, she's so cruel."

"Replace the hard-working and kind-hearted people of Hainan?" Zhang Chen laughed, and Jin Lili stared at them.

Zhang Chen looked at the top of the pile of machines and saw a video recorder, and asked Jin Lili, can this be used?

Jin Lili said of course.

"Let's borrow the video tape and watch it," Zhang Chen said.

Liu Ligan and Jin Lili agreed immediately, and Liu Ligan shouted: "I want to borrow some third-level movies."

The three of them went downstairs and walked along Guomao Road for a while. In a simple house on the roadside, they found a video rental place. The three of them each got what they needed. Zhang Chen rented "Treasure Hunt". "Earth" and three "Star Wars" films, Liu Li-gan rented three "The Godfather" films, "Apocalypse Now" and "Platoon", and Jin Lili rented "Pretty Woman" and "The Last Days".

The boss kept recommending Hong Kong's third-level films to them. Jin Lili and Liu Ligan said, "You want it, don't you?"

Liu Ligan scolded, "It's enough for me to listen to you!"

The three of them returned home. Liu Ligan expected that there would be another battle for the video recorder and proposed drawing lots. Unexpectedly, Zhang Chen and Jin Lili both said, "Let's look at yours first. Anyway, if you rent it, you will have to watch it all." Otherwise it would be a pity.

After watching two episodes of "The Godfather", Zhang Chen and Jin Lili couldn't hold it any longer and wanted to go to bed. Liu Ligan was alone in the living room and continued to watch.

Zhang Chen got up at around three o'clock to go to the bathroom. He saw that the lights in the living room were dark, but the TV was still flashing, and a nice song was playing. He thought it was Liu Ligan who had left it on, so he walked over and walked to the corridor. At the connection with the living room, he stopped.

He saw Liu Ligan still slumped on the sofa, staring at the TV, motionless. What was playing on the TV should be "The Love Between Ghosts and Humans". Zhang Chen saw from a distance that Liu Ligan's eyes seemed to be filled with tears. When tears flashed, he did not go over again, but quietly retreated to the room.

Zhang Chen and Jin Lili didn't wake up until noon. Zhang Chen opened his eyes and saw Jin Lili with her eyes open and staring at the ceiling above her head in a daze. Zhang Chen asked, "What are you doing?"

"I'm listening to see if there's any movement outside. Do you think the pole will go to the airport today?" Jin Lili asked.

"Probably not, today is thirty years old." Zhang Chen said.

"I think so." Jin Lili said.

"He didn't sleep last night. He kept watching videos. He must be sleeping like a pig now." Zhang Chen said.

"Idiot, that's even better. It means he can't sleep at all." Jin Lili scolded.

The two got up and went out hand in hand. When they arrived in the living room, Liu Ligan was no longer there. Zhang Chen sighed.

…

It was already dark outside, and firecrackers far and near had been going off one after another. Looking outside through the glass, there were fireworks rising into the sky from time to time, exploding in the dark night, brilliant and dazzling.

On the dining room table, there was a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner prepared by Zhang Chen and Jin Lili. The two of them sat on the sofa in the living room, staring at the TV, neither of them speaking.

When the Spring Festival Gala started, Zhao Zhongxiang, Ni Ping, Zhang Hongmin, and Li Ruiying were already on the stage. Suddenly there was a knock on the door. Zhang Chen and Jin Lili seemed startled and jumped up from the sofa. Jin Lili hurriedly ran to open the door.

Liu Ligan stood outside the door, smiling sheepishly: "Today, there were so many people setting off fireworks outside that I forgot to go home."

Jin Lili pulled him in and cursed: "Hurry up, I'm starving to death!"

Liu Ligan came over, glanced at the TV, and shouted, "Oh, it's so late. The Spring Festival Gala has already started?"

Zhang Chen suggested that he bring the dining table into the living room so that he could watch the Spring Festival Gala and have New Year's Eve dinner at the same time.

Jin Lili shouted, "Okay, go, go, go."

Zhang Chen and Liu Ligan carried the dining table and the dishes on it to the living room. After sitting down, Jin Lili opened a bottle of Remy Martin XO, poured it for the three of them, and started their New Year's Eve dinner. On TV, Wei Jie and Zhuang Li were already performing the Yue opera "Dream of Red Mansions".

Liu Ligan took a sip of wine and said to Zhang Chen: "I went to the aquatic products terminal and searched all over, but I couldn't find gunshaoshao. Zhang Chen, do you miss the taste of gunshaoshao?"

Zhang Chen scolded: "Nostalgia is nothing. You mix some alcohol with some water, and it smells like gunfire. If you want to miss it, just go buy alcohol and bring it back. I'll mix it for you. Are you missing the people you drank with?"

Jin Lili kicked Zhang Chen under the table. Zhang Chen also knew that he had made a mistake. He quickly raised his glass and toasted to Liu Ligan.

By the time Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao came out to perform "Cops and Thieves", the three of them were full. Jin Lili laughed and said, "I won't accept it now. I will continue to eat late at night when I get hungry later."

Zhang Chen and Jin Lili sat on the sofa and continued to watch TV. Liu Ligan stood here for a while, then there for a while, and finally stood at the connection between Jin Lili's office and the living room. Jin Lili watched him standing east and west. Yes, I didn’t understand what he wanted to do at first, but later I found out. Jin Lili shouted:

"Gangzhi, do you want to call Tan Shuzhen? Just call."

Liu Ligan quickly got into Jin Lili's office, sat down in her seat, calmed down, and then started to dial Tan Shuzhen's home phone, his heart pounding.

After dialing the number, there was a busy signal. Liu Ligan thought he had dialed the wrong number. When he dialed again, there was still a busy signal. He dialed several times but got a busy signal. He shouted: "Lily, is your phone broken? Why can't you dial? ?”

Jin Lili ran over with the remote control in hand. She said, how is it possible? I just called our house downstairs in the afternoon and talked to my mother. Zhang Chen also called me. How could it be broken?

"Then take a look." Liu Ligan pressed the speakerphone first, then dialed Tan Shuzhen's home phone, but the signal was still busy.

Jin Lili said: "She must be talking on the phone over there."

"How could it take so long?" Liu Ligan said.

Zhang Chen also came over and said, Lily, please try dialing the number downstairs at your home.

Jin Lili dialed and got a busy signal. She wanted to dial Zhang Chen's neighbor's number again, but when she thought of troublesome asking them to ask Zhang Chen's parents to answer the phone in the afternoon, she could tell that they were very reluctant, so Jin Lili did not call again.

In the afternoon, Jin Lili was even angry about this. She said, damn, next time I go back, I must find some connections to install a phone for your house. She was so angry that the house across the street only had a broken phone. What's so cool about it?

Zhang Chen smiled and said: "Forget it, even if you have to pretend, my parents won't let you go."

Jin Lili dialed the number downstairs to her home again, but the signal was still busy. When she dialed Tan Shuzhen's house again, the signal was still busy.

Jin Lili muttered: "Is this broken phone really broken?"

Zhang Chen remembered the troupe's phone number and asked, "Is it due to arrears?"

"Get out." Jin Lili scolded, "Do you think it's from your group? Our phone number is automatically collected by the bank every month, and we owe a huge fee."

Jin Lili thought for a long time and suddenly shouted: "I know, there must be too many outsiders on this ghost island, and they are all busy calling the mainland now."

Zhang Chen and Liu Ligan thought about it and realized that this might be the reason. At that time, the phone number in Hangcheng was already eight digits, but in Haicheng, it was still five digits.

Liu Ligan made a call to the newspaper office. There was a steady beeping sound on the phone. Jin Lili muted the TV and dialed the number of Mr. Xia's office. A clear call came from Mr. Xia's office. ring.

The local calls are open and the long-distance calls are full. Jin Lili and Liu Ligan said, just sit here and grab it.

Jin Lili and Zhang Chen returned to the living room. Liu Ligan sat there, turned on the speakerphone, and kept pressing the redial button on the phone with his fingers. The beeping sound lingered continuously. He dialed for more than an hour. , a beep sound finally came from the phone.

Haha, I squeezed in! Liu Ligan was ecstatic.

"Hello, where are you?" Tan Shuzhen's mother's voice came from the phone.

Liu Ligan quickly said: "Auntie, happy New Year, I am a pole..."

On the other end of the phone, there was a "click" and the call was hung up. Liu Ligan tried to dial again, but there was always a busy signal.

He was squeezed out.

On the TV, Kuang Meiyun was singing "The Words I Can't Keep".