Chapter 17: [Buying a Car in the County]
The words of Zhou Yi and Lin Qianqian made Zhou Ziyan finally make up his mind. He stomped on the cigarette butt in his hand fiercely, stood up and said, "Okay, that's it, we'll borrow the money, and when we earn the money, we will definitely pay it back to your family as soon as possible." β
"Uncle, don't say that. Lin Qianqian once again regained her original breeze.
"Dad, tomorrow, let's go to the county seat with us, and get the money to buy a car and go through all the formalities at once. β
"yes, okay. Sit down, I'll go see if your mother's meal is ready. β
Seeing Zhou Ziyan go out, Lin Qianqian turned her head and said to Zhou Yi angrily: "You, you are so smooth to lie at such a young age. I can tell you, I can't come up with so much money to buy a car, see how you will pay for your lie tomorrow?"
"Hehe, I've also been training for a long time. Zhou Yi smiled shamelessly and continued: "Don't worry, lies can be rounded." Sister, this is the card, the password is 121212, tomorrow you will go to the county seat to get 250,000 ...... Zero five thousand. Also, sister, can you ask the eldest sister to help with the operation procedures?"
"Okay. Just pick up my sister at the county seat tomorrow. But how do you have so much money? Where does it come from? You ......."
"Sister, don't worry! My money is a reward for my cousin Siyuan, because I came up with a good idea for him and got his company out of the current predicament. Therefore, he 'rewarded' his younger brother with 500,000 pocket money. Zhou Yi still didn't tell the truth.
"That's good, that's good. β
Zhou Yi talked to Lin Qianqian about buying a car tomorrow, and then heard her mother calling them for dinner. The meal was hearty: shredded potatoes with green peppers, scrambled eggs with leeks, fried tempeh with fatty meat, fried small salted fish, cabbage and tofu soup. Although this kind of meal is really not on the table for people in the city, it is very rich for the current situation of Zhou Yi's family.
"Boudoir...... Sissi, our family is poor, and we can only make so many dishes, you see ......" Zhou Xiaohua laid out the food, wiped his hands on his apron and said embarrassedly.
"Auntie. Don't say that, I've suffered too. β
"Ah...... That's good. Sit, sit, sit. Zhou Xiaohua hurriedly greeted.
"Sister, eat vegetables, don't 'fake'. ('Cheating' is a dialect in our hometown that persuades guests to eat and eat, which actually means you're welcome.) οΌ
Lin Qianqian really suffered as she said, and she ate these peasant dishes with relish, and praised from time to time: "Auntie, your fried dishes are really delicious." β
After dinner, Zhou Xiaohua arranged for Lin Qianqian to sleep with her at night, and after letting Zhou Yi sleep in the same room with his father, he watched TV with his neighbors in the yard.
The next morning, Zhou Yi still got up early, but he saw his father sitting at the head of the bed with a sleepy face and yawning. "Dad, what's wrong with you?
"Little rabbit, you are embarrassed to say that I am not honest at all when I sleep at night, and my arms and legs are kicked and shaken, so that I have not slept well all night. β
"Huh?" Zhou Yi touched his head embarrassedly and smiled awkwardly.
After a brief breakfast, Lin Qianqian drove the car out of the yard. Zhou Xiaohua and Zhou Ziyan cleaned up a little and got into Lin Qianqian's car.
"I didn't watch TV well last night, and many people chased me and asked me who was Sissi and why did she drive to my house?...... "Zhou Xiaohua, who was sitting in the car, touched left and right, and kept nagging about the villagers' questions about him last night.
"When the bus at home drove back, I guess there were more people asking. Zhou Yi said with a smile. "By the way, Dad, what level is your driver's license?, do you need to re-apply for it?" Zhou Ziyan's driver's license was obtained before he became the militia battalion commander, and he originally planned to buy a tractor to pull stones, but he didn't expect to be selected as a militia battalion commander, so the matter of driving a tractor was in vain. Zhou Yi has almost no understanding of the classification of driver's licenses.
"This one doesn't need to. I learned the skills of driving from your father, and the year before last I went to take the driver's license, they asked me what type of test I took, and I said that I could drive a big truck after the test, so I took a B1 test directly. When it comes to driving, Zhou Ziyan is a little confident.
"That's right, my dad is a car soldier, and his technology is first-class. Besides, my dad used to be a big tractor driver in the town for a few years! By the way, Dad, you said you could get a B1 driver's license directly, why don't you want to drive a car?"
"What about the car, what about the money?" Thinking of this, Zhou Ziyan said very depressedly.
"Your father, if it weren't for taking care of our mother, he would have gone out to drive for others. Zhou Xiaohua took over and said.
"Dad is great. Zhou Yi patted his father Zhou Ziyan's ass.
Time passed quickly, and in half an hour, Zhou Yi and his party arrived at the county seat. Zhou Yi accompanied his parents to walk around the street first, and Lin Qianqian drove to pick up Lin Rongrong and took the money by the way. Zhou Yi asked him to take more, directly take 300,000. On Monday, I plan to buy a better minibus for my parents, at least in the future, there will be no frequent breakdowns in the process of operation. The price of the current 19-seater minibus is not clear on Monday, and in his opinion, it should be around 200,000. The remaining 100,000 will be taken out to deal with the formalities, and the rest will be used to buy lines.
Zhou Yi took his parents to wander on the county street to Zhongcheng Street, and Lin Qianqian also drove Lin Rongrong to Zhongcheng Street.
"Sister Rong Rong!" Zhou Yi stepped forward to greet him warmly, and then introduced his parents: "Sister Rong Rong, these two are my parents. β
"Hello Auntie, hello uncle!" Zhou Yi couldn't help laughing when he heard twenty-five or sixteen-year-old Lin Rongrong also call her parents uncle and aunt. However, according to the fact that Zhou Yi recognized Lin Rongrong's mother as a godmother, it is reasonable for Lin Rongrong to call Zhou Yi's parents aunt and uncle. Moreover, in places where seniority is important, age is not an issue. Just like Zhou Yiyi, several partners in Zhuangzi who went to school with him, he had to call the second master, the eldest or the third master.
"Hello Miss Rongrong!" Zhou Xiaohua replied with a smile, while Zhou Ziyan only smiled and nodded.
"Hmm. Uncle, let's go, I'll take you Xiao Xia there first. After the two sides greeted each other, Lin Rongrong warmly beckoned everyone to get into the car.
"Where is Xiao Xia, Sister Rongrong?" asked Zhou Yi, who was in the car, to Lin Rongrong.
"Xiao Xia is my husband's cousin Xia Zhiqiang, who is now selling cars in the city. Since the state issued a new car purchase policy last year, Xiao Xia has opened a branch in the city. This kid loves cars. β
"Well, then it will be troublesome for Sister Rongrong. By the way, Sister Sissi, where's the money?" Zhou Yi only remembered the matter of money after listening to Lin Rongrong's introduction.
"Are they all here?" Lin Qianqian patted the small leather bag beside her, and didn't forget to dig out Zhou Yi's extra move with her eyes.
The car stopped in front of a large faΓ§ade house on the side of the national highway in the county, and when I looked inside from the outside of the house, there were several Santana cars that I could recognize on Monday and Fukang-style cars that were very backward in Zhou Yi's opinion.
"Sister-in-law, why do you have time to come to me today? You are a distinguished guest!" everyone pushed the door and walked in, and a very young man stepped forward and said to Lin Rongrong.
"Well, what kind of guest am I. Come, let me introduce you, this is Xiao'an, my mother's godson who just recognized, and my mother likes him very much. Oh, these two are Xiao An, my godbrother's parents. This ......"
"I don't need to introduce this one, I've seen it. Iceberg beauty Lin Qianqian!" Xia Zhiqiang said with a smile, and then he also reached out and shook Zhou Yi and his parents, especially when holding Zhou Yi's hand, it was very hard. "Let's go, let's talk to the reception room!"
After everyone sat down in the reception room, Xia Zhiqiang spoke: "Everyone is here today, it seems that there must be a place that needs to be served. Is it to buy a car? Is it Uncle Zhou who buys it? What kind of car to buy?"
Xia Zhiqiang is the distant cousin of Lin Rongrong's husband Xia Changbo, although he has a good relationship with Xia Changbo, but after all, he belongs to the peripheral personnel of the Xia family. Zhou Yi didn't know what Xia Zhiqiang was thinking, because he didn't know how powerful the Lin family and the Xia family were, but Xia Zhiqiang knew. The old man of the Lin family is the founding father, although he has retired now, his influence is still extremely strong. Besides, Old Man Lin's four sons are all the masters of the cattle fork. The eldest Lin Tai is now the second vice premier of the State Council, the second Lin Taiqiang is the political commissar of the Southern Jiangsu Military Region, and the third Lin Taimin is a mysterious figure, and there is almost no information about him in the country, but no one dares to ignore this mysterious third one, and the fourth one is Lin Tai'an, that is, the current secretary of the Changhuai Provincial Party Committee. The boss of the Lin family should be the last, and Lin Tai'an, who has the strongest political ability, is the new generation leader of the Lin family.
Although the Xia family is slightly weaker than the Lin family, the Xia family is still a strong force in the domestic political arena. The old man of the Xia family used to be a powerful figure in the country, but unfortunately the Xia family is a bit thin, so now it is gradually declining. The current head of the Xia family is the secretary of the municipal party committee of Yucheng, and his two brothers are the secretary of the municipal party committee of Guangxuan City, Changhuai Province, and the other is only a deputy department-level cadre of the National Development and Reform Commission. The third generation of the Xia family can be described as even more pitiful, only Xia Changbo is alone, the twenty-nine-year-old secretary of the county party committee.
"Brother Zhiqiang, my dad wants to buy a minibus to run passenger transport, you know about cars, recommend one." However, Brother Qiang, I see that your store is full of cars?" I don't know why, this time, Zhou Ziyan and Zhou Xiaohua seemed to have forgotten that Zhou Yi was still a child, and when they encountered something, they naturally asked Zhou Yi to come forward. What Zhou Yi didn't know was that in the hearts of Zhou Ziyan and Zhou Xiaohua, his son seemed to have grown up all of a sudden, became very sensible, and was very powerful.
"Hehe, what you see is just a few cars on display, we have a special warehouse. However, my shop mainly deals in cars, and I have never sold medium buses. However, we do have a spare minibus in our warehouse. If Uncle needs it, I'll take you over right away. β
"Well, that's fine. Brother Qiang, then you can take my dad to see the car. Sister Rong Rong and I are going to go through the business procedures, do you think it's okay? By the way, Dad, bring your ID card and driver's license. Zhou Yi said in an adult tone.
"Okay, okay. Xia Zhiqiang agreed very simply.
"Sister Rongrong, you have to worry a lot about the operation procedures. Zhou Yi turned to Lin Rongrong and said.
"Okay, don't be polite with my sister. Let's go, I'll take you to do it. Sissi, you drive us to go through the formalities. Xiao Xia, you just drove your uncle to see the car. After looking at the car, we will talk about money at lunchtime. "Lin Rongrong is sophisticated and skillful in arrangement.
"Okay, listen to my sister-in-law. β
So, everyone divided into two ways, Xia Zhiqiang took Zhou Yi's parents to see the car, and Lin Rongrong's sisters took Zhou Yi to take Zhou Ziyan's ID card to go through the operation procedures. Although, the car has not yet been bought, and the handling of business procedures cannot be completed at once. But with Lin Rongrong's identity, there is absolutely no problem with these so-called messy procedures.