Chapter 52 Buying a Car (Please collect and recommend)
Author: Han Ming
Chapter 52 Buying a Car (Please collect and recommend)
Li Hongbin came as soon as he said he would. Just half an hour after hanging up the phone, this man arrived at Zhang An's house.
When Zhang An returned home and told his mother about this, Wang Fang gave the bankbook to Zhang An.
"Why did you come so fast? You arrived not long after I hung up the phone. There's no need to be in such a hurry."
"Didn't I say I would go out right away? Otherwise, when would it be?"
We Chinese can only understand the pronouns of time by ourselves. Even foreigners who have learned Chinese will not know what they mean.
He said he would wait for me for a while, but how long this time is can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words.
After Li Hongbin asked Zhang An to get in the car, the two went to the county seat.
"We have to go there quickly. It will take us about four hours to get there and back. It will be dark if we come back later."
The Mazda car sped away on the winding county road.
In two hours, the two of them had arrived in the county town.
After entering the city, Li Hongbin drove towards the north of the city. There was no sign of congestion on the wide city roads.
Finally, we came to a small courtyard in the north of the city, which was about the same size as Zhang An's courtyard.
But the building here is very exquisite, and there are many beautiful and exquisite flowers and plants inside.
Coupled with a two-story small foreign-style building, it is not difficult to see the owner's heritage.
Li Hongbin entered the courtyard and shouted inside.
"Chen Ze, come out to pick up the guests."
A man's voice responded from inside.
Then a young man in his twenties walked out. His enthusiastic look gave Zhang An the feeling that the person in front of him was very hospitable.
After coming out, he walked towards Li Hongbin and Zhang An enthusiastically and shook hands with Zhang An.
"This is the Zhang An that Hongbin mentioned, please take care of yourself."
Then he welcomed the two of them into the living room.
"By the way, let me introduce you, Zhang An, this is Chen Ze, the one I told you about the business that failed to be completed and is about to return home to inherit the family business. Chen Ze, this is Zhang An. What did you say yesterday?
The fish we ate were all brought from him."
After entering the room and sitting down, Li Hongbin introduced the two of them.
Zhang An was thinking that he was just here to buy a second-hand car, so it shouldn't make people want to know him. There were things he didn't know about.
Zhang An looked at Li Hongbin in confusion, wondering what was going on, otherwise he would not be able to find a way to chat with him.
"It's like this. After I came out from your place yesterday, I went to the county to find him, because all his subsequent engineering projects were transferred to me. Then I had dinner at his place in the evening, so I left your place.
Then we cooked the chicken and fish we brought."
"This guy has something in his mouth. He doesn't look down on most things. Then he kept asking me where I bought the fish. I'll take you to get to know him later."
Li Hongbin explained the matter once, and Zhang An knew what was going on.
"I have to say, Zhang An, that fish of yours is really delicious. I ate this kind of fish when I was a kid and I can't forget it, but it's not as good as the one Hong Bin brought here yesterday, and it's not even a little bit worse."
"So that's it. If I had known that Mr. Chen liked it so much, we should have brought some more when we came here."
Chen Ze poured the freshly brewed tea for the two of them. This tea looked like it was no ordinary tea.
Then the three of them started chatting.
It turned out that Chen Ze’s father had been on the firing line in the Northeast when he was young. After staying there for decades, he fell in love with it. Even after he came back later, he couldn’t let it go.
Even in the Dawumeng Mountain area, it is available, but due to various geographical reasons, the taste and meat quality are not that good.
Of course, in order to show their filial piety, Mr. Chen's children and grandchildren would try their best to get some from there every year to feed Mr. Chen.
However, it is difficult to transport live fish nowadays, and the cost of getting here alive on the road is not small.
Mr. Chen also has many descendants, but no one can often eat with him.
You still have to eat with the old man depending on how happy he is. Chen Ze had eaten with Mr. Chen when he was a child.
Although this thing has a lot of thorns, it is really delicious. Of course, having too many thorns is not a problem in a family like this.
Even though it has been so many years, Chen Ze still remembers the taste of the fish with chopsticks that his grandfather gave him.
After all, this is something that other brothers and sisters in the family may not be able to get.
So last night, after eating the fish brought by Li Hongbin, he felt that bringing this fish to his old man would definitely make him happy.
And this fish is much better than the fish I have shipped from the Northeast.
After questioning, I found out that the fish was brought from Zhang An, although Li Hongbin said it was wild in the mountains.
But Chen Ze didn't really believe it, because his family had eaten all the fish from the area for the old man to eat, but he just didn't like it.
So he was sure that Zhang An had his own breeding skills, and the ones grown in the wild would definitely not taste like this.
Moreover, in this era, there is no concept of wild being king. As long as it is good enough, it is a good thing.
Needless to say, his intuition is really good. Zhang An was able to raise such a fish only because he had the space.
"By the way, Zhang An, do you raise a lot of fish?"
Chen Ze asked curiously.
"Not many, I just keep them in the fish pond in the yard, just a small pond at home, and it's not easy to raise more fish."
The latter part is purely because I don’t want him to be too lazy, otherwise he would be fine if he had the space to raise another reservoir, but he doesn’t want it to be too high-profile.
"Can you provide me with a long-term supply? Of course, I don't need it every day. I just need to supply some every month. A few strips at a time is enough."
"That seems okay. Anyway, I still have a lot of them there. If I really can't supply them in the future, I'll tell you in advance."
Zhang An thought to himself, that's right, no matter how much you like to eat, you can't eat it every day without getting tired of it.
"By the way, you are here to look at the car this time. Let's go look at the car."
Chen Ze took the two of them to the yard. There were several cars in the yard. He was worthy of being a rich man.
After reading it once, Zhang An walked towards the pickup truck on the edge.
This car looks quite new, but there is some mud on the wheels that proves it has been driven.
At this time, Chen Ze handed Zhang An a bunch of keys.
"Here, get in the car and see if you're satisfied with it. I've only driven this car a few times since I bought it. It's too bumpy."
Zhang An started the car and took a look. The dial showed that the mileage had not been very high, and the mailbox was still full.
After confirming that there was no problem, Zhang An got off the car.
"This is it. This car drives just right in our mountains,"
A four-seat pickup truck can seat people and carry cargo, which is perfect for Zhang An.
Finally, Zhang An withdrew the money from the bank and gave it to Chen Ze. Chen Ze accompanied Zhang An and Li Hongbin to the county vehicle administration office to go through the car transfer procedures. From now on, the car would belong to Zhang An.
Today's DMV is not like that of later generations, where you have to make an appointment and queue up. Now you can go and get it immediately, and you won't see many people.
In his previous life, Zhang An didn't get his own car until he was in his thirties, but in this life, he realized his dream first.
Although Chen Ze wanted to see the current situation, he went to Zhang An's house to catch the fish, and then sent it directly to his grandfather.
But now it takes more than four hours to get to Hongyan Town and back, so it's definitely too late.
So he agreed with Zhang An that he would go to Zhang An's house tomorrow morning.
Zhang An and Li Hongbin drove back and started on their way back.
When they arrived at the intersection, Zhang An was originally going to call Li Hongbin to come home for dinner.
But Zhou Lan and her son were at home, and he was in a hurry to go home, so they separated at the intersection.
It was still dark when we returned to the village, and we met many people returning from the fields on the road.
Zhang An parked the car in the yard. Zhang Jianguo and Wang Fang were very happy to see that the car was so new.
Zhang Jianguo went directly to the canteen and bought two strings of firecrackers and ordered them at the door.
Wang Fang went to her home, tore two pieces of red cloth and hung them on the car's reflector.
This is something everyone does when they add a big item to their home. In the past, when families bought bicycles, they would also display them in red.
Just for good luck and to pray for safety on the road.