"Well, well, well, look at how the other half lives. He's built a house, bought two motorcycles in a row, and got a 29-inch color TV. Now he's even had a telephone line hooked up. Is this what they call entering a moderately prosperous society ahead of schedule?"
"Prosperity? It's practically full-on wealth. Look at that—do you see that pager? A Motorola Chinese-character pager, four thousand yuan a piece. I hear the installation fee isn't much cheaper than getting a landline, costs over two grand on top of that. Just one of Shen Lang's pagers is worth two or three years of us working without eating or drinking."
"I've always said the naughtiest kids amount to the most. Look at Lin Xiaoyu—she's as obedient as they come, but look at how her family lives. Even mice would run out of their house in tears."
Chapter 96