A foreign city, dear you

"Husband, thank you for giving me a stable life." Ye Lian said.

"Honey, thank you for giving me a stable life." Cao Xueqian said.

At first glance, it sounds like it's a bit rushed in arranging lines.

But this is not a dialogue, it is the heartfelt words of a couple who have held hands for fifteen years, worked hard in Yancheng for eleven years, and will soon be forty years old. In their hearts, they are grateful for each other's support.

With bare hands, step by step, they went from living in a small rental house, to a slightly larger rental house, to having a small home of their own, and now, owning a commercial house along the city...

Moreover, their house in Xiyayuan was quickly rented out, and they changed from former tenants to current landlords.

In eleven years, they completed a leap in life step by step...

"Husband, do you think we have taken root in Yancheng?" Ye Lian raised her head and asked.

"Uh, forget it." Cao Xueqian kissed Ye Lian's forehead.

"I guess let's forget it." Ye Lian murmured against Cao Xueqian's chest.

……

What is taking root?

What does it mean to take root in a city?

I guess no one has a clear concept.

According to Ye Lian's simple thinking, if you have a household registration in this city, own a commercial house in this city, and have your children receive education in this city, you have taken root in this city.

Therefore, Ye Lian believed that she and Cao Xueqian had taken root in Yancheng.

It's really unexpected that two people who were once like duckweeds can now take root in Yancheng.

……

Ye Lian took Cao Xueqian's hand and came to the study balcony.

Here, you can see the garden of the community.

Cao Xueqian is right. If you live on the lower floors, you can feel the flowers, plants and trees in the park up close.

This is a beautiful community and their new home.

In the days to come, they will be here, in Jinjinghua Garden, to greet every morning and bid farewell to every sunset.

……

Jinjinghua Garden and Xiya Garden are different.

Xiya Garden is a single-family building, while Jinjing Huayuan is a community with two to three thousand households built in phases one, two and three.

There are many neighbors here.

With many people, there are many stories.

Ye Lian did not expect that many funny or annoying stories would happen to them (especially Cao Xueqian) here.

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When? It seems that they moved to Jinjinghuayuan not long ago, right?

Ye Lian finally knew what WeChat was.

Because there are more and more people chatting on WeChat around, and even more so because Cao Xueqian also started using WeChat.

It turns out that WeChat, like QQ, is also a chat software.

It’s all about chatting, wouldn’t it be enough to use QQ? Why do we still need to use WeChat?

Ye Lian was puzzled and felt that it was really unnecessary.

Ye Lian always refused to use WeChat, but in the end, she discovered that using WeChat seemed to be the general trend and a rolling wave of this era. If you refuse to use it, you are destined to be left far behind by this wave and never be able to keep up. The pace of the times.

When people around you are chatting on WeChat and Moments, you are dumbfounded and don’t understand anything, making you seem so closed-minded and ignorant;

When others ask you to add WeChat, and you say you don’t have WeChat, and others give you strange looks mixed with disdain, you feel that you are out and pedantic, and do not understand how to adapt and keep pace with the times;

Not to mention the payment function that is becoming more and more widely used in WeChat and other increasingly complete functions that are closely related to work and life.

Finally one day, Ye Lian asked Cao Xueqian to register a WeChat ID for herself, and officially became a glorious WeChat user, standing on the wave of the times.

It turns out that WeChat is like this. You can’t add strangers casually. You can only add friends through friend recommendations;

It turns out that the circle of friends in WeChat is like this, which is equivalent to the dynamics in QQ, but the interactive comments in the circle of friends seem to be more active and lively;

It turns out that more and more people are switching from QQ to WeChat.

After Ye Lian registered WeChat ID, she also used WeChat phone for the first time (she had never used QQ phone before), which marked her official and active use of WeChat.

……

I have to say that this world is so wonderful. Before I knew it, it was different from the previous world.

Ye Lian still remembers that not long after she started working, in order to install a landline phone for Lanshan's grandparents, she had to save and save for more than half a year before she almost scraped together enough money for a landline phone.

At that time, fixed telephones were also called landlines, which were still scarce in rural areas.

Before Lanshan's grandparents had a landline installed, every time Ye Lian made a call, she would first call the house of the person in the village who had a telephone installed. She would politely tell the person who answered the phone that I would call back in half an hour. Call me, please ask my dad or mom to answer the phone...

It's okay if things aren't urgent, but if things are urgent, you can only be anxious and very annoyed.

In short, it is very troublesome and inconvenient, and it is also unsafe for the elderly to always answer the phone in a hurry.

So Ye Lian was frugal and determined to install a phone for Lanshan's grandparents.

and after? Landlines are getting cheaper.

Later, installing a landline phone was completely free.

Nowadays, everyone has a mobile phone, and landline telephones have disappeared, becoming only memories of Ye Lian’s generation and the older generation.

Such things that reflect the changes of the times are not only landline telephones, but also televisions (increasingly larger, more abundant, and later increasingly unnecessary), sewing machines, tape recorders, radios, etc.

The way people communicate with each other is also constantly changing.

In the beginning, there were telephone calls, long-distance, short-distance, family, and cluster;

Then there is QQ contact, private chat, group chat, you can do whatever you want without being restricted by time, space and cost;

Now, WeChat has appeared out of thin air, and it has become the mainstream way of contacting people.

Not only the way of contact and social interaction, but also something that has been quietly changing in the past two years.

That's how people shop.

The traditional way of shopping is being impacted by a new and incredible way of shopping.

Yes, it feels incredible.

Ye Lian felt incredible from the beginning.

All the time, if you want to buy something, you have to go to a small store, a shopping mall, a market, or a roadside stall...

But no matter what you are shopping for, you have to go shopping, go out, face to face with the sellers, select, trade, and then take home what you bought...

However, I don’t know when, another magical shopping method has quietly emerged.

You don’t need to go out, you can buy things in bed, at the dining table, in the bathroom...

You don’t have to spend special time. You can buy things when you are busy with other things, at a party, or on the way to travel.

All you need is a mobile phone, and you can buy what you want by swiping on the phone with one finger.

You can't see the seller, and you don't know where the seller is, but you can indeed buy what you want, and what's even more amazing is that you don't have to go pick it up in person, someone will pick it up. Delivered to your hands...

Is it magical?

It's simply amazing.