novelraw Chapter 90 : A Gift for You
Chapter 90 : A Gift for You
Chapter 90: A Gift for You
In the year 2000, there were not a few mobile phone brands.
Foreign brands like Nokia, Bodao, Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung... domestic brands like Gionee, ZTE, K-Touch, TCL... one brand after another, one display case after another, it looked dazzlingly full.
As for the future dominant mobile phone brands like Apple, Huawei, Xiaomi and the Blue and Green factories, they had not yet appeared at this time.
Chen Fan was standing in front of the display cases, browsing casually.
Luo Wenjie smiled and asked, "How about it? Shall I recommend one for you?"
Chen Fan shook his head.
"Never mind. I'll have a look myself."
Luo Wenjie then waved at the salesgirls not far away.
"Hey, can someone come and introduce them?"
The two salesgirls were chatting at that moment, they glanced over, pretending not to hear, and made no move.
Actually, when the three of them had just arrived, the two salesgirls had noticed them.
But after glancing at their attire, they had judged that the three were probably students.
Just by their clothes, they could tell that the three didn't have much spending power.
So the two salesgirls were not very willing to serve them, not wanting to waste their breath.
Seeing their attitude, Luo Wenjie was a little annoyed.
He was about to go over and argue with them when Chen Fan pulled him back.
"Forget it. There's no need, we'll just go to another counter."
"They're not professional, why should we give them our money?"
Luo Wenjie thought about it and agreed, then followed Chen Fan to the next counter.
This time, a salesgirl finally took the initiative to greet them.
"Could you let me take a look at that phone over there?"
Chen Fan pointed through the glass.
The salesgirl looked a little troubled.
"Sir, you can look, but we have a rule here that you can't press any buttons. Otherwise, I'll be fined."
Chen Fan smiled and nodded to show he understood.
Only then did the salesgirl bend down and take out the phone Chen Fan had pointed at from the display case.
As someone reborn from two or three decades into the future, Chen Fan wasn't particularly impressed by these phones.
To be honest, although there were many models now, none of them really interested Chen Fan.
In this era, mobile phones were basically just communication tools.
Chen Fan knew that a few years later, major phone manufacturers would start launching various classic models - flip phones, sliders, candybars, swivel screens...
However, the true revolutionary event for mobile phones wouldn't happen until 2007, seven years later, when Steve Jobs released the first iPhone.
From then on, no matter what kind of flip phone or slider, they would all be crushed in the face of the iPhone.
Since then, mobile phones had entered the truly smart era.
At this point, it was basically impossible to buy a smartphone.
So Chen Fan didn't scrutinize too carefully, but chose two phones based on design and color.
He picked a Nokia 3210 for himself, priced at over a thousand yuan.
"I'll take this one."
The salesgirl was stunned.
"Sir, are you sure you want to buy this phone?"
Chen Fan nodded, "Get me a new one."
"Oh, okay, okay."
The salesgirl seemed excited.
Based on the three's attire, she had thought they were just poor students with no spending power.
She had greeted them out of professional courtesy.
Little did she expect that after looking at the phone for less than two minutes, this young man had decided to buy it.
This was a phone costing over a thousand yuan.
More than her own monthly salary.
The guy didn't even hesitate.
The salesgirl quickly brought over a shopping bag.
"Sir, will you be paying cash or card?"
"Card."
Seeing Chen Fan take out a bank card, the salesgirl relaxed a bit.
It seemed he was really going to buy it, not just messing with her.
"Please come with me."
But she had only taken a couple of steps when she heard the young man behind her suddenly mutter,
"Wait. I need to buy another one."
"Ah?"
The salesgirl was stunned for a moment, and when she turned around, she found that Chen Fan had actually walked back to the counter and was carefully examining the phones again.
Soon after, Chen Fan pointed at the glass case.
"Could you please take this phone out for me to look at?"
The salesgirl glanced over, it was a Motorola A6188, priced at nearly six thousand yuan.
"Sir, the price of this phone..."
Chen Fan nodded, "I know, just take it out for me to look first."
The salesgirl had meant to remind Chen Fan to pay attention to the price, but realized he didn't seem to care about the price at all, and his expression showed no hint of embarrassment.
The salesgirl couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.
Had she misjudged this person?
Could this young man really be a hidden rich second-generation heir?
Chen Fan took the phone and turned to ask his two buddies beside him.
"What do you guys think?"
"Very nice." Ma Xiaoshuai smiled and joked, "Even if it's not good, with that price tag, it's absolutely good."
"What a sarcastic remark," Luo Wenjie first mocked Ma Xiaoshuai, then looked at Chen Fan.
"I'm telling you, brother Chen, no one does it like you."
"Giving a gift to your girlfriend, and you go all out with five or six thousand right off the bat. You've raised the bar for wooing girls, what are us guys with no looks and no money, who can only sweet-talk our way, supposed to do?"
"Get lost!"
Chen Fan laughed and cursed, "What does how you guys chase girls have to do with me?"
After saying that, he looked up at the salesgirl.
"I'll take this one. Could you please get me the silver-white color? I'll pay for both with my card."
Only then did the salesgirl react.
"Oh...oh, okay, please wait a moment."
Before turning around, she couldn't help but look at Chen Fan again.
So this young man was buying the second phone as a gift for his girlfriend.
The phone he bought for himself was only over a thousand yuan, but the one he was giving his girlfriend cost over five thousand.
At this moment, the salesgirl couldn't help but envy that unknown girl a little.
At the payment counter, Chen Fan paid by card and received the shopping bag that the salesgirl handed over.
Chen Fan turned and smiled at the two guys beside him.
"Let's go, let's head back."
"Man, we're leaving just like that?" Ma Xiaoshuai complained, "You called us out early this morning to be your free chauffeurs and tag along while you went mobile shopping."
"You should at least treat us to a big meal!"
Luo Wenjie chimed in as well.
"That's reasonable, I'm not asking for much, a four-star restaurant would do."
But Chen Fan urged, "What meal? Let's hurry back."
"I've got serious stuff to do. If you guys are hungry, I'll give you ten yuan to buy some roasted sweet potatoes at the school gate. That should be enough for you to lick your way back to school."
"Did you hear that? Did you hear what he just said? Is that even human speech?"
Ma Xiaoshuai was speechless, but Chen Fan dragged them both downstairs.
After they got in the car to return to campus, Chen Fan promptly ditched those two buddies and headed straight for the girls' dormitory with the shopping bag.
Downstairs, he used the dorm aunty's desk phone to call Su Ruochu's dorm room.
Su Ruochu happened to be in the dorm and sounded excited when she heard Chen Fan's voice.
"I'll come down right away."
After hanging up, Chen Fan thanked the dorm aunty.
He stood at the entrance and waited alone.
Soon after, Su Ruochu came running out from the dormitory building.
"Why are you here?"
Su Ruochu smiled as she ran up to Chen Fan.
"Didn't you say you were going shopping with the other guys in your dorm today?"
Chen Fan shook the shopping bag in his hand.
"I've bought the stuff."
He handed the bag over to her.
"Your gift."
Su Ruochu looked down curiously and asked,
"What is this?"
"Open it and you'll know."
Curious, Su Ruochu took the shopping bag and gently opened it, then froze in surprise.
"This...this is a phone?"
She looked up at Chen Fan in astonishment.
"This...did you buy this?"