I Got Rich in Period Fiction-Chapter 587 - 581: Why Is It Called a Cellphone?

After the commotion subsided, the sky had already turned dark.

He Xiuyu was the first to get up. There were leftover rice and dishes from lunch in the kitchen, so he made fried rice with eggs and seaweed soup, and also mixed a dish of chopped chili peppers.

After he had finished cooking, he went to the western room to call his wife to get up.

The two of them had tossed and turned for a while before sleeping a bit, and Qiao Qingyu was woken up. She glanced at the darkness outside – could she even fall asleep again at this hour?

Regardless of whether she could sleep or not, she had to eat first.

He Xiuyu’s egg fried rice was exceptionally good. Qiao Qingyu was also hungry. Although it wasn’t what one would call nourishing, it was also not good to eat too much at night, as feeling stuffed was uncomfortable.

He Xiuyu just watched her with a smile.

Qiao Qingyu wanted to say something, but just then, the phone in the study started ringing. He Xiuyu got up to answer it, and after a short while, his voice came from the study, "It’s Chaoxuan on the phone, he’s calling for you."

When Qiao Qingyu put down her rice bowl and entered the room, He Xiuyu was speaking softly and sweetly with his son, mushy with affection, an exchange of ’I miss yous.’ It was unbelievable to see this father and son pairing act like this on the phone, quite different from when they were face to face.

He Xiuyu promised over the phone that he would go to see him with Qiao Qingyu next Sunday.

Thinking about it, He Xiuyu also missed his child. Becoming a father and having a child truly changed life, and it was a substantial change at that.

It was a different feeling from the love for a spouse.

That’s what they call a blood connection.

He handed the phone back to Qiao Qingyu, and on the other end, Chaoxuan, articulate as ever, asked, "Mommy, what did you eat tonight?"

With patience, Qiao Qingyu listed tonight’s dishes for her son as if reciting a menu. Then Chaoxuan, very seriously, said, "Daddy and Mommy, you work so hard, you need to eat nutritious food so you won’t be too tired."

Her son was showing concern for his mother, which touched Qiao Qingyu. She asked her child, "Do you miss Mommy?"

Without any hesitation, Chaoxuan replied, "Of course, I do miss you."

"And then what?" Qiao Qingyu continued, following his line of thought.

"...Then, staying with Grandma and Grandpa at great-grandpa’s hasn’t been too bad."

Then Wu Xiucai’s voice could be heard laughing and scolding over the phone, "You little ingrate, you’ve been having a blast, how can you say it hasn’t been too bad?"

After that, Chaoxuan went on to inquire about his various older friends one by one, such as Li Mingguang, Dashun, Daji, Zhou Pengcheng, and even asked whether Zhou Ruoruo was talking with her sister now?

This little one sure knew a lot.

After talking for almost twenty minutes, Chaoxuan at the other end said he was tired and didn’t want to talk anymore. He handed the phone to Wu Qianyun, "Grandma, I’m tired. I’m going to watch cartoons with great-grandpa now."

Wu Qianyun took the phone with a laugh and asked how everything was at home, whether she needed to come back now, and also mentioned to Qiao Qingyu that the child hadn’t really missed home these last few days. When he started missing home, she would bring him back, especially since it wasn’t far anyway.

Then Wu Qianyun remembered to ask Qiao Qingyu, "Have you two finished eating?"

Upon learning that they hadn’t finished yet, she quickly hung up the phone without any hesitation.

Back at the dining table, they continued their meal, thankfully none of the dishes were cold.

Suddenly, the pace of life slowed down. It felt like the day passed in the blink of an eye but also as if it had been very long, and they had done so many things.

After dinner, the couple didn’t go for a walk but instead went directly into the Space Device.

He Xiuyu was now mainly working on heavy industrial machinery, but the communication tools that Shen Haoze and his team were in charge of were about to go into mass production.

In Nangang City, the term "bricks" had already appeared, referring to the large, cumbersome early mobile phones, and terms like network communication had also started to surface in this land.

He Juanjuan initially planned to buy a "brick" for everyone in her family, but when she learned that the research base had developed a communication tool that outperformed "bricks" in functionality and was smaller in size, and that it was soon to enter the market, she held off on the purchase.

These "bricks" were not cheap and were also difficult to acquire without pulling strings. With her connections, a single "brick" would cost her 20,000 yuan, not to mention the additional fees involved.

At that time, owning a "brick" was a symbol of identity and status, a sign of financial and capability prowess.

Soon, there would also be pagers.

However, history was bound to take a slight turn here.

This communication tool was named a mobile phone by Su Yunyao.

Why was it called a mobile phone?

Those in the know understood perfectly what it meant, yet this mobile phone was destined to bring about earth-shattering changes to this land.

The only regret was that although the communications base’s construction was booming, base stations and signal towers were still sparse and focused around a few major cities, and for the time being, mobile phones couldn’t be aimed at the ordinary populace.

The cost was still very high.

But Su Yunyao had already guaranteed that this issue would be resolved in three years; the focus now was to capture the market.

Therefore, the launch of China’s mobile phone would deal a heavy blow to the "bricks" that had taken the world by storm.

The market was a huge cake, which up to that point belonged entirely to foreign telecommunications companies.

Once China’s mobile phones launched, this enormous cake would be redistributed, and the ensuing problems would not be as optimistic as imagined, but these should be left for specialized agencies to resolve.

Qiao Qingyu knew that the base had recently increased its security forces.

The daughter of Shen Haoze and Su Yunyao was named Shen Suzhao, also affectionately called "Zhaozhao," a particularly cute and beautiful little girl.

The couple was doing quite well.

Especially after having a child.

These matters were difficult to express, so, inevitably, her arrival had changed the fates of many people.

Shen Haoze and He Xiuyu naturally kept in touch, and they often brought their children along as well.

For a while, Zhaozhao was left in Beijing in the care of the Shen and Su Families, but she was later brought back. Shen Haoze’s mother retired early to help her son with the child, and now she lived in the first batch of family buildings at the base.

A few days ago when Qiao Qingyu saw her, she mentioned that she had wanted to bring great-grandpa over too, but now the base was under martial law. It was better not to come. They would talk about it later.

Old Mrs. Shen probably understood what all this meant.

Meanwhile, He Xiuyu’s research on Energy Stones had broken through to another level.

Therefore, he spent more time in the vicinity of the Space Device recently. Generally, when he needed to go in, it was no problem for Qiao Qingyu to wait outside.

But more often than not, as long as Qiao Qingyu was free, she would accompany him.

The secrets of the Space Device had not been completely uncovered, and as its master, if any issues arose, she would be able to resolve them promptly.

Sitting in front of the experiment table, looking at the equipment, various test tubes and vessels, as well as pieces of Energy Stone, Qiao Qingyu turned her head toward the mist-shrouded area ahead and suddenly remembered the basement Zhang Family had built in Lianjiang Village.

The Zhang Family was still active in that area, having built several more houses, and then they really started planting vegetables in the greenhouses, practicing what they called vertical farming,