pjbooks Chapter 214 The Phone at Home
Chapter 214 The Phone at Home
"Sister Yuan, I want to ask you, are you...are you married?"
Upon hearing this, Li Yuanyuan was taken aback.
She looked at Ma Junjie and then laughed.
"Hehe, am I married or not?"
"Ah Jie, what do you think?"
Ma Junjie was surprised to be asked a question in return.
He looked embarrassed and made a gesture of looking him up and down.
he thought,
Look at Li Yuanyuan's mature temperament and her curvaceous figure.
She is clearly the image of a young married woman.
Ma Junjie smiled.
Said,
"Yuan... Sister Yuan, I think you're probably married..."
"But I've never seen your husband, so I'm very confused..."
"Hahaha!" Li Yuanyuan burst into laughter upon hearing Ma Junjie's words.
"Ah Jie, your eyesight is still amazing."
"I am indeed married, but my husband is dead."
"Huh?" Ma Junjie was taken aback, his eyes almost popping out of their sockets.
"Sister Yuan, then... I'm really sorry."
"I really didn't know, no offense intended..."
Li Yuanyuan raised her hand and shook it.
"No, no, Ah-Jie, it's okay."
"I didn't take this to heart."
"After all, everyone dies eventually, right?"
As she spoke, Li Yuanyuan actually smiled.
This made Ma Junjie very uneasy.
Logically speaking, losing one's husband at a young age and living as a widow should be a very sad and painful thing.
Ma Junjie is increasingly confused.
"Alright, alright, let's not talk about this anymore," Li Yuanyuan said.
"Ah Jie, I have to go to the hotel to continue working right away."
"Thank you so much for helping me today."
Ma Junjie smiled faintly.
"Sister Yuan, it's nothing, don't mention it!"
He then thought of Li Yuanyuan, who was now widowed and all alone.
He immediately said,
"Sister Yuan, if you need any physical work in the future, just call me."
"As the saying goes, a close neighbor is worse than a distant relative. We're neighbors now, so it's only natural for us to lend a hand to each other."
Li Yuanyuan laughed.
"Okay, okay!"
"Ah Jie, then Sister Yuan won't be so polite from now on."
"As a woman all alone, there are indeed many ways you can help me..."
As Li Yuanyuan said this, her eyes blinked as she looked at Ma Junjie.
Ma Junjie looked at the expression on Li Yuanyuan's face.
In a daze, I seemed to recall the expression on Liu Bingbing's face when she looked at me not long ago.
Ma Junjie's heart skipped a beat.
He quickly said,
"Sister Yuan, if you have something to do, then... I'll head back now."
See you next time.
Ma Junjie turned around and quickly walked towards the door.
Li Yuanyuan watched Ma Junjie leave with a smile on her face.
Ma Junjie went out and climbed all the way to the sixth floor in one go.
He quickly took out his keys from his pocket and went into the room.
Once in the room, Ma Junjie picked up a bottle of mineral water from the table, tilted his head back, and gulped it down in one go.
After finishing his water, Ma Junjie sat on the sofa, feeling a bit tired, so he simply lay down again.
I lay there for a while and then fell asleep.
I don't know how long I slept.
"Ring ring," a rapid telephone ringing sounded.
Ma Junjie was suddenly awakened.
He sat up abruptly.
He took out his phone, looking somewhat resentful, and glanced at the screen.
Upon looking,
Only then did I realize it was a landline phone.
He knew this landline very well.
It's the small shop at the entrance of my hometown village.
Upon seeing the phone number, Ma Junjie was overwhelmed with emotions.
He gradually calmed down and recalled what had happened not long ago.
Last time, Carina Lau gave him 10,000 yuan, which Ma Junjie deposited in the bank that same day.
Ma Junjie tossed and turned all night.
Thinking about how to use this huge sum of ten thousand yuan,
After much deliberation, I finally made a decision.
The next day, Ma Junjie went to the bank and transferred 3000 yuan to his brother Ma Dazhu.
Ma Junjie only has his older brother as a relative.
His older brother had been good to him, and now that he had money, Ma Junjie's first thought was to repay his kindness.
After transferring the money, Ma Junjie called Ma Dazhu.
Ma Dazhu doesn't have a mobile phone, so Ma Junjie made the call from this landline.
This landline belongs to the village store. Once you call, the owner will call someone to answer the call.
When Ma Dazhu heard that Ma Junjie had transferred money to him, he was extremely surprised.
Because Ma Junjie had only been away for a month, he didn't expect Ma Junjie to make money so quickly.
Ma Dazhu said he didn't want anything.
But Ma Junjie said the money had already been transferred.
Ma Dazhu had no choice but to urge Ma Junjie repeatedly.
Tell him to take good care of himself while he's away and not to send money back anymore.
Ma Junjie agreed verbally, but he was happier than if he had spent the money himself.
What happened last time is over.
I wonder what Ma Dazhu called about this time?
Thinking of this, Ma Junjie slowly answered the phone.
As soon as the call connected, Ma Dazhu's voice came through the other end.
"Ah Jie, have you eaten yet?"
Ma Junjie nodded.
"Brother, I've eaten."
Ma Junjie continued to only report good news and not bad.
"Hehe, Ah Jie, looks like you have a pretty easy job, eating so early," Ma Dazhu said.
Ma Junjie frowned, finding it difficult to say anything.
After a while, Ma Junjie asked,
"Brother, what's up with your call?"
Ma Dazhu laughed out loud.
"No...it's nothing."
Ma Junjie knows his brother too well.
If there was really nothing wrong, he wouldn't have called me.
He couldn't speak properly and stammered, even stuttering a bit.
"Brother, just say what's wrong. I have to go to work later."
As soon as these words were spoken,
Ma Junjie clearly heard a woman's voice next to him.
The woman said in a low, anxious voice,
"Dazhu, how can you be such a spineless coward?"
"Hurry up and tell him, or we'll waste our phone bills!"
Upon hearing the voice, Ma Junjie immediately recognized that the woman speaking was his sister-in-law, Liu Dongmei.
Ma Junjie will never forget Liu Dongmei's voice.
Ma Junjie said coldly
"Brother, just like your wife said, if you have something to say, just say it directly, don't waste everyone's time."
Ma Dazhu was taken aback, clearly somewhat surprised.
"Ah Jie, this...this..."
"Ouch!" Ma Dazhu suddenly screamed in pain.
Ma Junjie guessed that Liu Dongmei must have pinched Ma Dazhu hard.
"Brother, I'm hanging up if you don't tell me," Ma Junjie said.
As soon as these words were spoken,
Liu Dongmei's voice immediately came from the other end.
"Ah Jie, don't...don't hang up!"
"If we hang up before we've even finished talking, the phone bill will be wasted."
"Long-distance calls, those are very expensive..."
Ma Junjie interrupted Liu Dongmei.
"What is it? Tell me quickly!"
For some reason, Liu Dongmei's tone was extremely gentle.
This was something Ma Junjie had never heard before when he was at home.
Liu Dongmei said with a smile,
"Ah Jie, your brother said last time that you transferred four thousand yuan to him. Ah Jie, you've really made something of yourself! You've only been in the city for less than a month, and you've already earned what we make in a year!"
"4000?" Ma Junjie wondered, because it was clearly not 3000 that was transferred.
And there is,
My brother, Ma Dazhu, is really something else.
I had repeatedly told him not to tell Liu Dongmei about this.
Sigh, it hasn't been long, and Liu Dongmei already knows everything.
Ma Dazhu is really unreliable.
"Alright, what is it? Tell me quickly," Ma Junjie said seriously.
Liu Dongmei was still smiling.
She paused, then slowly began to speak…