Volume 1 Rebirth - The Eve of High School Chapter 11 Self-Driving Tour
This day, Wang Lele rushed to Ziying's house and told her that she had a friend who was organizing a self-driving tour activity, going to a villa on Panshan Mountain to celebrate graduation, and could bring good friends. Of course, the participants of this kind of activity are basically all rich second-generation kids, and people like Ziying can't join this circle in principle. However, it's a graduation celebration, and they said hello and said that they can bring good friends together to have fun, so there's no problem. Ziying knew that Wang Lele's father was an official, but the two of them hadn't specifically talked about this topic in their previous lives, and they wouldn't distance themselves because of their different identities.
Wang Lele said that Panshan, in the previous life, Zi Qing had been there with colleagues on a trip, which was funded by the company, and the boss also booked a villa for everyone to play for a day. The environment over there is still quite good, the villas are built on the middle of the mountain, below is a street, like a small town, with various bars, hotels, and inns emerging one after another, the environment is beautiful, it's a tourist destination.
Ben originally didn't want to participate in this kind of activity, and she wasn't part of that circle either. However, Wang Lele insisted on dragging Ben along, claiming that her father had agreed to let her travel for a few days only because she said she was going with Ai Ziqing.
"It seems like being a top scorer in the college entrance exam is quite useful, huh?" Zi Qing teased.
Lele's face turned red as she hugged Ziying's arm and coquettishly said "Aye, my dad has been nagging me to death these past two days, constantly telling me to study hard with you. You go ahead, I've never participated in this kind of activity before, it's a rare opportunity, go go go!"
"Okay, okay! But they said it's a self-driving tour and we don't have a car, what can we do?"
"It doesn't matter, just sit with them." Wang Lele said. This trip was organized by several influential people from the municipal party committee's compound, a total of five or six people, and it is said that there were also a few rich merchants' sons, each of whom could bring a good friend. Wang Lele's father was the third-in-command of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, Deputy Director Wang, and they had known each other since childhood, so naturally he received notification of this activity.
But Zi Qing was a bit worried, is it safe for these newly graduated junior high school boys and girls to drive?
Under Wang Lele's persistence, Ai Ziqing had no choice but to surrender.
But speaking of cars, Zi Qing suddenly remembered something and almost jumped up, but was still a bit uncertain after all these years. She pulled Wang Lele out the door, saying they were going to stroll around the mall and prepare some travel items.
They arrived at the entrance of Lehuang Supermarket in the city center, a new and large supermarket in Yang City that started business a year ago and was doing very well. Ziqing remembered that during the summer vacation of 1997, there was a shopping lottery activity here for a month, with a minimum purchase of 500 yuan. The first prize was a sports car, which Ziqing didn't know much about, but remembered it was an imported Chevrolet four-seat convertible with smooth and beautiful lines, said to be the only one in Yang City. Even looking back from a later perspective, it was extremely beautiful. However, this sports car remained unclaimed until the end.
Ziying knew that this was a publicity stunt by the supermarket, using an expensive sports car to attract citizens to shop. It was indeed a good tactic, and at that time, the news media also reported it, after verification, it was confirmed that it was possible to win this prize. Now Ziying's task is to go and confirm whether it is really possible to win this prize, and see if there is any way to get this car. Since she has this kind of clairvoyant ability, why not use it?
The entrance of Lehuang Supermarket had a red canopy set up on the left side, and right in the middle was that Chevrolet imported sports car surrounded by ropes. The silver-white body was sleek, with an open top, black leather seats, four seats in total, two doors on each side, even the license plate 'LY86866' was eye-catching. Just looking at this license plate made one wonder how much thought had been put into it. It seemed that the boss must have prepared to drive it himself a long time ago. Ziying squinted her eyes and smiled secretly, thinking that if it weren't for Lele today, she would have missed such a great opportunity!
Pulling Wang Lele to the workbench, Zi Qing asked a female staff member, "Hello, after winning this car, are all the procedures including the license plate handled by your mall?" Zi Qing didn't want to get the car and then have to go through the trouble of re-registering it, although now 16-year-olds can register cars and obtain a driver's license, except for a driver's license which can only be taken at the age of 18.
"Of course, this car has all the formalities complete, as long as you can draw it, anything on the car belongs to you." The staff replied with an arrogant attitude. There were too many small-town citizens like him who dreamed of running cars every day, and the result directly led to a surge in supermarket purchases. The directors' idea was simply too effective.
"Thank you." Zi Qing also ignored her careless expression. Now there were a few people holding shopping tickets waiting for the lottery draw, and the prize box was about the size of two milk crates, slightly taller, if you wanted to reach the bottom, you had to tiptoe. Zi Qing walked straight to the lottery box, one meter away, concentrating on her appearance, but in fact, she stared intently at the prize box and began to see through it. The prize box slowly became transparent, and inside, there were a large number of white small balls. Zi Qing still stared at the box, beginning to see through those white small balls, because the small balls were too full, and the first prize ball was red, it must be pressed among the many white ones, of course, it's also possible that there is no red ball, but how can you know if you don't look carefully?
Zi Qing's eyes lightly scanned the white balls in the box, layer by layer, and saw the fourth prize green and second prize orange. Just when she was about to lose hope, she suddenly spotted a red one at the bottom right corner of the box, and her heart started racing violently!
It's really like that, this position is still can't be touched even if you use your hand to stir in the box, let alone more than half of the white balls are not easy to move, want to touch the bottom must tiptoe, who will tiptoe and rush to that position, jump over countless white balls, touch the red ball with the same texture and size as his hand?
Knowing the red ball was in that position, Zi Qing's heart was at ease, and she immediately smiled with joy. Wang Lele, who had been standing beside her for half a day, looking around bored, asked curiously "What's going on? Are we drawing lots? You need to spend 500 yuan to get one chance, what a rip-off!"
"Hey, lottery, draw a small sports car to go home, kiss!" Zi Qing made a gesture and was about to pounce on her, but Wang Lele suddenly pulled her leg and ran away, almost falling over.
"Haha...” Zi Qing laughed happily, dispelling some of the tension that had just risen to her head. She was indeed very nervous, like a thief, with a mix of excitement, tension and thrill! These flavors made her heart shrink, as if it was about to jump out.
Pulling Wang Lele to the supermarket for a big shopping spree, since we're going out to have fun, let's play with an open heart and mind. Who cares if it's not someone else's lead, as long as I'm happy.
Ziying's crazy purchases scared Wang Lele, from large barbecue racks to small brushes, oil, and seasonings, nothing was missing. There were skewers of lamb, beef, chicken, sausage, ham, chicken wings, bread, and vegetables that could be roasted, all in big bags, which would have been impossible for the two of them to carry if they hadn't had a cart. Wang Lele had no idea what Ziying was going to do with all this stuff, maybe prepare it for a barbecue at home?
Finally went to the store and bought two sets of clothes, one white V-neck with a black leather belt, black hem and shiny white skirt that looked elegant yet clean and crisp. Paired with black tight-fitting trousers and white fashionable sandals, Zi Qing somewhat regained her 21st-century feel, and after dressing up, Wang Le Le was stunned, almost unrecognizable as Zi Qing.
Another set of lower body is black casual long pants, black sleeveless suspenders, outer red silk thin coat, covering to the thigh, making the whole person look slender and beautiful. And then buy a pair of ink-black large-frame sunglasses, cool to death. Especially Ziying's hair, even if the temporary opening of the hair tie, will not be bent, always straight and smooth.
Wang Lele hadn't recovered from the shock of Zi Qing's first outfit when she was shocked again.
Like this, Wang Lele was dragged out by Zi Qing in a daze. After storing their things away, they suddenly saw a music store at the entrance and Zi Qing couldn't help but walk in to take a look around. In her previous life, Zi Qing had become infatuated with playing the guitar during university and had played for nearly ten years. She was deeply fond of this instrument, but she had always used a classical guitar that cost over 1,000 yuan.
Ziying almost immediately spotted a wooden guitar, tried the tone and it was very pure, the boss saw Ziying try out the sound and knew she was an expert, didn't quote a high price, three thousand yuan and Ziying took it away.
Wang Lele was shocked to death today, as if she didn't recognize her at all. She kept questioning Zi Qing when she had learned it, and Zi Qing could only say that she had learned a little from her neighbor, but she didn't have a piano herself and occasionally borrowed someone else's to practice, so it was normal that she didn't know either.
Only then did she believe it and discovered that she didn't know much about Zi Qing after all, because Zi Qing had always been introverted and didn't like to talk, so basically she was the one talking while Zi Qing listened.
Two people holding small tickets arrived at the lottery location, Wang Lele spent a total of over 500 yuan on things, including a set of clothes chosen by Zi Qing for her, so she can draw once, while Zi Qing has already spent nearly 5,000 yuan today, but there is a rule that over 500 yuan can be drawn up to 3 times.
Wang Lele went to draw lots first, and unexpectedly really touched a third prize, an electric rice cooker, which made her excited enough. In fact, this was also thanks to Zi Qing's credit. Wang Lele's hand had been stirring inside for half a day, and when Zi Qing used her clairvoyance to see that she was about to touch the ball with the third prize, she quickly reminded her to hurry up. Wang Lele "oh"ed and directly grabbed the ball out, who knew it really worked!
Just as Wang Lele was jumping up and down, Zi Qing also reached in. The first two times were naturally white balls, pretending to be disappointed again, reaching in for the third time, muttering "heaven bless" in her mouth, a typical act of being a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Lightly tiptoeing, hands stretched inside, seemingly a chaotic stir, but actually prying open those white balls to rush towards the target, 'Got it!'
Ziying tried hard to control her trembling hands, after all, it was the first time she did something like this, and it felt like she was doing something wrong! Her fingers grasped the small red ball and slowly stretched out, and when she saw the red ball, she pretended to be puzzled and asked, "Did I win? What prize is this?"
The staff collectively held their breaths, and last time that woman trembled with her voice saying "I got it! I won the first prize!"
With a "wow", everyone around started buzzing and discussing, Ziying pretended to be surprised and let out a soft scream, then covered her mouth and turned to look at Lele. Lele was even more stunned, seeing Ziying looking at her, she quickly came back to her senses, jumping up and down and screaming "I won! I won! That car is yours! So awesome!"
Ziying's mouth curved, the staff quickly went to invite a manager, the manager found the general manager, and they handled various procedures for an afternoon, helping Ziying transfer the car ownership to her name.
At night, she drove back home. Her parents were still working overtime and hadn't returned yet. Zi Qing parked the car in the parking garage of the neighboring company, just paying a small fee to watch the place.