"Son, someone hit your phone while driving, what do you do?" Back at home, before he was seated, his father asked with concern.
My heart sank, and then I rejoiced. I thought, "That's not easy! Use Bluetooth! ”
I have not spoken, my father took the "Huawei" mobile phone, pointing to the "Baidu" on the screen: "You see: Bluetooth, not only fully functional, advanced equipment, but also when driving can directly wear headphones to connect, you can not take the mobile phone, so that driving is safer, not easy to have a car accident." ”
Looking at my father's solemn appearance, I couldn't help but smile: "Dad, you can rest assured." I've been using it for a long time. ”
"Well, your mother told me to remind you." My father was fiddling with the "Huawei" mobile phone, very skilled, not at all like a seventy-eight-year-old man. Watching his light and familiar operation, looking at the "weather forecast", "news", "QQ", "WeChat" and other columns on his mobile phone screen, I was secretly happy for my father who was in good spirits and kept pace with the times, and even more happy for the rapid development of society.
In 1982, I was 10 years old.
My father worked at the government of Qiaogang Township, Jiangpu County, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, 15 miles from home, and he rode a semi-old heavy bicycle and squeaked for more than half an hour to get to the unit.
One day, my uncle suddenly developed appendicitis and needed to inform my father. My mother was impatient and took me to the Headquarters of the South Second Brigade to make a phone call. I was meeting someone in front of me answering the phone, and the long-distance call was answered for half an hour. My mother waited anxiously, living like a year, going back and forth. There is no way, the entire South Second Brigade has a population of nearly three thousand, only one telephone, and there are many people who usually call and answer the phone. In general, it is not your turn to wait for an hour.
When it was our turn, my mother hurriedly put the microphone away, shook the handle of the phone clockwise, and heard a voice on the phone: "Hey." The mother hurriedly said, "Xiao Wei, hello, I want the switchboard." ”
Aunt Xiao Wei connected to the switchboard, and her mother said to the phone: "Trouble find Yuan Moumou of the township government, there is an emergency in the family." The other party agreed and did not hear it. Waiting for a long time, it can be described as three autumns. I only heard the people inside running breathlessly and saying that my father had just ridden a bicycle to the subordinate unit Steep Hill Forest Farm, and it was estimated that he would not be able to come back for a while and a half.
The mother was overwhelmed. The people waiting in line behind to call urged. My mother was in a hurry and quickly asked the other party to tell him as soon as she saw my father. She smiled apologetically at the people queuing up behind her, hung up the phone, and then repeated the previous actions: shaking the phone, asking for the switchboard, and turning to the steep forest farm. This time it went well. It's just that the people at the forest farm said my father hadn't arrived. When I see him, he will tell you.
For as long as I can remember, whenever I make a phone call, the program has been like this: shake the handle, and then go through the switchboard to the person you want to dial. This is not only time-consuming but also has no slightest secrecy, and it is often broken when fighting, and it is more troublesome to play long distances.
My mother took me back, over a hill, over another, and the two-mile journey back was so long. Back at home, my uncle had been taken on a stretcher to Qiaolin Hospital, five miles away. My mother took me non-stop again. Just about to lock the door, I saw Xu Bobo, the telephone operator of the brigade headquarters, running breathlessly, saying that it was my father who called back, and that there were important cadres in the county to the forest farm today, and he had to accompany him throughout the whole process and could not get out. Wait until it's over.
Uncle Xu was a good friend of my father's and a telephone operator of the South Second Brigade. Almost every day in the South Second Brigade production team running back and forth, black and thin, very hard.
Before the reform and opening up, it was so difficult to make a phone call. Today's children can't understand it.
In 2002, I was 30 years old.
From the 1990s onwards, pagers, also known as "BP machines", became popular, from digital machines to Chinese machines, becoming more and more advanced. Soon after the BP machine became popular, a machine called "Big Brother" appeared. The so-called "big brother" is actually the current mobile phone "prototype", but at that time its appearance was bulky, the volume was large, generally black, the antenna was long and thick, commonly known as "big brick". Nevertheless, in the early 1990s, the price of a "big brother" exceeded 10,000 yuan. The price is staggering. To have a "big brother" is equivalent to having a distinguished status.
In 2000, my family finally had the telephone of their dreams.
"Hey, old Xu, I'm Old Yuan." Holding the telephone, father said excitedly. The whole family gathered around, pondering the contents of the first call to the most important person. I clearly remember that my father's monthly salary was only more than 400 yuan at that time. At that time, the telephone installation fee was very high, three thousand yuan, which was the accumulation of the family's wealth for two years.
With a phone, it's quick and easy. Even if they are far apart, they can "hope that people will be long and call each other for thousands of miles.". The mother is a telephone king, and when there is nothing to do, she will hold the microphone: "Son, it is often said that spring covers autumn frost, and you must keep warm from the cold." "Daughter-in-law, I have to boil eggs for my grandson every day." "O grandson, obedient. Study hard. My father rarely took the initiative to call, and each time he simply said those same words after my mother's call: "Good job." "Pay attention to the body." "Me and your mom are in good health, don't worry."
In September 2001, I had my first mobile phone. At that time, mobile phones were just beginning to become popular, and batteries were still in the alternating period of nickel-metal hydride and lithium batteries. But what a proud thing to have a mobile phone at that time!
This year is 2022 and I am 50 years old. At the snap of a finger, the phones and mobile phones that have been demystified have long been popularized in the homes of ordinary people. Almost every family has a mobile phone, even children and the elderly have a hand, it has become an indispensable thing in people's lives.
No, the retired father also used high-end smartphones such as "Huawei". In the beginning he learned to turn on traffic to see the weather forecast and look at the news. Gradually, my father learned to rub the net, take pictures with his mobile phone, listen to music, write and talk, and play QQ.
Once, I registered my father with a WeChat ID and taught him how to send us messages and video chats. Father's mouth couldn't close with a smile. After that, we always receive articles or videos from public WeChat messages from our fathers. Click to see, full of love.
Today, his father, who is already rare but still in good spirits, has played the function of WeChat to the fullest. Go to the supermarket to buy something, he will use WeChat pay. Once my mother complained, saying that my father took the things in the store and did not give people money, we laughed after listening to it; on the weekend, the family wrapped dumplings, he would send me a picture through WeChat, so that I wanted to eat and go home; from time to time he would also have a video chat, so that my mother could also say a few words. In fact, he didn't have anything to say, he wanted to see his grandson, ask me about study, and instruct me to go to work well and pay attention to rest.
My father and I exchanged thoughts and thoughts through WeChat, and conveyed each other's thoughts and strong family affection. My father felt a real sense of happiness through the use of WeChat, and also gained an endless sense of satisfaction in learning.
Mainland communications range from "Zhou Youwang Beacon Drama Princes" to "Bamboo Letters", from "Drifting Bottles" to the first telegram, from hand-cranked telephones to program-controlled telephones, from "Big Brother" to "Huawei". Over the millennia, it has changed with each passing day. In particular, since the beginning of reform and opening up, the country has become rich and the people have developed rapidly. The road to the development of communication technology is unique to the scenery.
Not only mobile phones, computers, the Internet has spread throughout urban and rural areas. When people sit at home, they can chat face-to-face with relatives and friends thousands of miles away, and fully enjoy the infinite comfort of the Internet age.
The glorious course of more than 40 years has forged the dream of a nation for nearly a hundred years and painted a gratifying and congratulatory historical picture. The change of the telephone is only a microcosm of the progress of society.
Today's lives are richer, warmer and happier. When everyone feels that happiness is around, this country and this nation must be full of hope and full of vigorous and upward strength. I silently wish in my heart that China's tomorrow will be better.
(The author is a member of Jiangsu Writers Association, Jiangsu Prose Literature Association, Jiangsu Poetry Association, and vice chairman of Nanjing Pukou District Writers Association)
