Chapter Ninety-Five: Driving a Luxury Car
After arriving on the ground, Jiang Chao sent a message to his parents to report that he was safe. At this time, it was daytime in Los Angeles, and it was the middle of the night in Huaguo, so he couldn't receive a reply for a while.
Jet lag should have been a very annoying thing, but fortunately, Jiang Chao was prepared in advance, and three days before he got on the plane, he began to live at the rest time of Los Angeles, and Jiang Chao was busy writing programs in the middle of the night every day, and slept upside down during the day. After Jiang Chao adapted, when he arrived in the beautiful country, the impact of jet lag was minimized.
Jiang Chao looked at his watch, it was 1 o'clock in the afternoon. The watch was also adjusted by him in advance according to the local time.
Los Angeles is known as the Sunshine City in the world. On the plane just now, Jane told Jiang Chao a funny thing about Los Angeles: "People in Los Angeles don't know how to drive in the heavy rain. ”
It's really no joke. Jordan and Guo Decheng told a similar story, Jordan said that he lived in Los Angeles for so many months, and only encountered one cloudy day, two afternoons of rainy weather, and the morning was still sunny. Either it doesn't rain in Los Angeles, or it rains heavily. On that day, he was driving in the school team's car in a rare heavy rain, and he was involved in a car accident on the highway, which was caused by the lack of experience of driving in the wind and rain.
Speaking of the car, Jiang Chao took out his mobile phone and dialed it.
The calling card is also activated in advance. Jiang Chao asked Jordan and Guo Decheng in detail about the precautions before going out, and he was very well prepared.
"You can go directly to our company's service point at the airport. ”
Jiang Chao nodded and hung up the phone.
This call is to the car rental company. Unlike at home, in beautiful countries, especially cities like Los Angeles, it is difficult to move without a car.
Because Los Angeles is so big, friends visit each other's doors, and cars drive on the highway for more than half an hour, which can be regarded as "very close"! Living in such a huge city, if you don't have a car, you can't get by. Because of this, there are more than 5 million cars in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, and the average person owns one.
Guo Decheng once said that one of his favorite scenery of Los Angeles is the highway at night, it is best to find a bird's-eye view, at a glance, the traffic on the Los Angeles highway is like a tide, the cars going to are bright and red tail lights, and the cars are bright and white lights, like the white and red rivers are rushing and surging, which is extraordinarily spectacular.
Therefore, Jiang Chao has already communicated with the car rental company in China, and he wants to rent a car.
Los Angeles is one of the few places in the beautiful country where you are at least 18 years old and can drive a car with a foreign license. Due to the special national conditions of the beautiful country, each state has different laws from each other. For example, some states do not recognize foreign driver's licenses, while others require the driver to be at least 25 years old.
Jiang Chao came to the car rental company. This company is one of the top three car rental companies in the beautiful country, the main service objects are business people, and the models are mainly in the middle and high-end, and there are many foreign social elites who do multinational affairs like to rent a car in this company, and have a good reputation in the world.
"I'm really sorry Mr. Jiang! Your car reservation has been sold out. The manager said to Jiang Chao with three points of apology.
Jiang Chao frowned, "Is that so?"
The manager smiled and said, "That's right, we can arrange a higher level of car for you for free, and the rent is still the same." Of course, if you are not satisfied, we will also compensate you for the loss in accordance with the agreement. ”
Although the manager said so, the confident smile on his face did not diminish, and no customer would give up the opportunity to "upgrade" for free and choose compensation.
Jiang Chao nodded: "Yes." Can I pick up my car now?"
The manager nodded and asked his salesman to take Jiang Chao to the garage.
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A white Range Rover drove smoothly on the road.
Originally, Jiang Chao rented a high-end SUV, but it had not yet reached the top, but he didn't expect the car rental company to help him "upgrade" for free, and directly replaced it with a Range Rover for him.
This car is comfortable, warm, advanced and full of technology, comfortable to drive, the suspension is cool and crooked, the same as crossing the pit, the steering is also comfortable, unlike some off-road vehicles of the same price The steering wheel is as hard as an iron block, and it is also enough for business, no matter what you do, you have face. All in all, Jiang Chao is earned.
Of course, it is also people like Jiang Chao who don't care about money to play like this. Although it is a free "upgrade", Jiang Chao's rental and various insurances are enough to buy a cheap car in a beautiful country.
The car is air-conditioned, and the temperature is always controlled at the most appropriate number. But the air outside is really hot, and Los Angeles deserves to be called the City of Sunshine, and the air on the distant highway is also distorted, and the road surface forms a "reflection" scene. Jiang Chao put on sunglasses, in order to be cool, Jiang Chao gave himself an inch of haircut before going abroad, and at this time he also changed into a vest that could be worn outside, revealing his arms with beautiful lines, which was quite the taste of the protagonist of a beautiful national action blockbuster.
It was originally part of Mexico, and since it is still not far from Mexico, there are many Mexicans here. It is also because it is not far from Mexico, so there are many smugglers from Mexico to Los Angeles. They are called "Amigo" and live a life at the bottom.
At a red-light intersection, Jiang Chao stopped the car. Immediately, a girl who looked like she was Mexican came up with a brush and a plastic bucket to clean the glass, and when the red light turned green, she had already wiped the glass very clean.
The glass-cleaning girl stood pitifully on the side of the car, she was petite, her eyes were big, she was looking straight at the window, her nose was not as upturned as that of Europeans, and she was very much in line with the aesthetics of Asians. Jiang Chao lowered the window of the car and took out a ten-dollar tip - in fact, it was quite high, and they could earn a knife by cleaning the glass.
The girl bowed gratefully to Jiang Chao, said a word of thanks in Mexican-style English, and went with the bucket - continuing what had just happened in the next traffic light gap, regardless of whether the owner agreed or not, and whether the windows were clean or not.
Jiang Chao sighed with emotion, every Chinese person in a foreign land can appreciate how beautiful life in China is. It is true that the beautiful country is the most developed country in the world, but their people will definitely not live better than the people of China - at least the vast majority of civilians are.
Jiang Chao drove the car and continued to drive forward, driving very slowly. Every time he goes to a strange place, Jiang Chao likes to take a fancy look at the whole city on a vehicle. There is no purpose, no direction, and you can drive wherever you want. He asked Jordan and Guo Decheng to have dinner together, and it was still early, just in time to walk around.
It wasn't until four or five o'clock in the afternoon that Guo Decheng called. The two of them had known each other through Jiang Chao for a long time, and they were rushing to Jiang Chao together at this time.