Chapter 114: Spending Money to Buy Time (Part II)
As the saying goes, an inch of time is an inch of gold, and it is difficult to buy an inch of time. Qi Jingtao is now a person with a few small sums of money, but he really doesn't have so much time to learn a car driver's license, since it is worth it to buy time with money.
In these years, it is not easy to sign up for a car driver's license seriously, not to mention the time, the temper of those coaches is not very friendly.
Sign up to go to a car driving school to study completely, needless to say, the waiting time in line can kill people in a hurry. Even if you officially start learning, it normally takes more than three months to complete the first training and have the opportunity to get a car driver's license.
However, where do people who work in the workplace have so much complete time to learn how to drive a car? Most of the trainees take advantage of their break time or sneak out to practice during working hours. As a result, the learning cycle is longer.
In order to make it convenient for those difficult car instructors to come out and teach when they have time, the students have to find other ways to give those coaches various benefits, so the money spent is not a small amount.
There is nothing technical about driving a car, and anyone with sound limbs can learn it. Just like Du He said, keep the traffic laws in mind, be bold and careful, and just give way to the car. The basic operation of car driving, Qi Jingtao has practiced a few times and is already proficient, and he also plays decently, and it is good to run on the road more with a driver's license in hand.
Doesn't he just have to have this document? It doesn't matter how he got it, it's legal. In these years, there are many people who drive without a license, as long as they are not unlucky and have a big accident, the traffic police uncle will only be fined.
Su Min was also tossed miserably this time, and she couldn't wait for Qi Jingtao to drive away immediately, and when she went to work the next day, she called Shen Yong to contact relevant matters. On the third day, Shen Yong informed Qi Jingtao to sign up for the written test for a car driver's license, and the time was just right, so he was now registering for the test.
Qi Jingtao has taken the motorcycle driver's license, and the written test is a play for Qi Jingtao, not to mention that he just went through the motions, and naturally cleared the customs smoothly.
There seems to be a special case for Chinese people to do things, and the written test ends at noon. Qi Jingtao and Shen Yong met at an economic snack in the afternoon. Qi Jingtao gave Shen Yong a copy of his motorcycle driver's license and ID card, and spent 45 yuan for a small meal. Leave a thick envelope behind, and go home what to do.
At the end of August, Qi Jingtao's application system has been mastered by users, and there are dozens of business points that need to be entered into basic data, and other user terminals are management users who mainly query and use system data. After almost two months of use, the operator got started quite smoothly.
The system began to get on the right track, and there were naturally fewer things, and Qi Jingtao could finally take a breath and take a few days to take leave to accompany his family to the capital.
Now, the car driver's license is also eyebrow-up, and Qi Jingtao is interested in collecting car information. At present, the number of private cars in central Yunnan is still small. Most of the cars running on the streets are buses of government agencies, enterprises, and institutions. The brands of private cars are mainly Alto, and a limited number of brands such as Skylark, Xiali, Beverly, Jetta, and Santana are limited.
Qi Jingtao conducted a survey on the automobile market in central Yunnan and found that there are really few models to choose from in the automobile market, and the car price is very expensive, with a price of less than 100,000 yuan, only two or three models of poor Baba, Alto, Xiali, and Lada. The cheapest Alto SC7080 is priced at 71,000 yuan. If you pay according to the salary, a small Alto will also cost him seven or eight years' salary.
Qi Jingtao also went to see the Santana 2,000 he told Su Min, with a price tag of 195,000 yuan. This Santana 2000 is already a mid-range official car in central Yunnan City, and private cars are rare.
During this period, some employees in the group company also drove private cars to and from work, such as Alto, Xiali, Jetta, Santana, and Fukang, but the number was very limited. The popularity of motorcycles is very high, almost everyone has one.
After understanding the current automobile market and the private car ownership of the employees of the group company, Qi Jingtao hesitated again. If you buy a car now, and buy a Santana 2000, isn't it too ostentatious and too dazzling?
In fact, he is a rural college student who has just worked for two years, let alone buying a car or buying a high-end motorcycle, which can attract attention, and will cause others to discuss. After all, everyone's salary income is not high, and cars are still absolutely high-end consumer goods.
During this time, there was a lot of negative news from the upper echelons of the group company, true or false, and the middle and upper echelons were nervous. Qi Jingtao is a staff member of the information center, and his sources and channels are extensive, and he has vaguely heard a lot of information. He didn't want to be in the limelight and attract attention needlessly in this special period.
Wait a minute! Cars are dispensable, not a necessity in his current life. Besides, now my wife has also been found, although she is still driving without a license, there is no traffic police uncle to interfere with this, and it is very safe. It's also good to ride an 80 scooter to and from work, and Su Min is not particularly opposed to riding behind a small 80 to accompany him through the city. This time, the reaction was so intense, and he actively encouraged him to buy a driver's license and a car, I guess he was also excited for a while, and he felt that the loss of face was stimulated, and it would be good to forget it in a few days.
At present, Qi Jingtao still has to hurry up to prepare for going to the capital, after Qi Zhengming and his wife negotiated with several uncles and aunts, the grandmother, who is nearly eighty years old, also agreed to go to the capital to see the holy place in her heart. In this way, the number of people who are ready to enter the capital this time has reached seven, and the grandmother, grandmother, parents, Qi Jingtao and Su Min, two young people, naturally have to accompany them, plus Qi Lin, the protagonist who went to the capital.
The time to go to the capital is scheduled from August 27th to September 1st, a six-day round trip, and it is planned to stay in the capital for five days. The time is not long or short, and it is suitable for the elderly to travel. With such an arrangement, it is just in time for Qi Lin's new students to register, and Qi Jingtao and Su Min, the two people who go to work, do not need to report and ask for a long vacation.
The plan is good, it is reasonable, it is perfect. But how to get there, how to get there?
It's pitiful to say, except for Qi Zhengming, who took the train out of the province twice when he was young, none of the others had a record of leaving the province. Qi Jingtao and Su Min, two young people who have already worked, are both in college in the provincial capital of Chuncheng, and they have no chance to go out of the province for a business trip, study, or travel after work, and they are completely two natives of central Yunnan.
Qi Jingtao wanted to take his grandmother, grandmother, parents and a group of old people to travel with Qi Lin, and he went directly to the capital to visit and travel, he was also confused, and he couldn't figure out the doorway at all.
Seeing that it was already August 23rd, and the specific arrangements for the trip were not yet known, Qi Jingtao was worried. He was embarrassed to tell his colleagues who had gone abroad about this, asking them to help him with his ideas and suggestions, for fear of being made fun of.
I stayed in the office and pondered the map for a long time without figuring out a clue, and returned to the Chunxi community after work, looking at Su Min and Xu Manli, who were cooperating tacitly and preparing dinner in the kitchen with a smile, Qi Jingtao came to the kitchen door and asked depressedly: "What to do?