Chapter 192 — The Dilapidated Shantytown
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"Qing Bo has already gotten my driver's license sorted out for me" — he had handed it to Wei Zhao the day before yesterday, so now Wei Zhao was no longer afraid of being pulled over by the cops on the road.
The two young misses were at home today watching the Blu-ray of Xu Shilan's concert — the complete edition that Wei Zhao had gone to the bookstore to buy — so they would not be going out shopping.
On his way out, Wei Zhao gave Kang Xiaofeng a call. These days the cheapest knockoff phones cost only one or two hundred yuan, and it was perfectly normal for a high schooler to have a mobile; probably only someone like Tang Zhi went without one...
"Xiaobo, where are you?" Wei Zhao asked.
"I'm at home, haven't set out yet, Boss. You're heading over now?" Kang Xiaofeng had been looking forward to this day for a whole week. Dinner at the home of the school beauty was a rare honor, so he had gotten up early and been waiting for Wei Zhao's call.
"Where's your place? I'll come pick you up," Wei Zhao said.
"You'll come pick me up?" Kang Xiaofeng was slightly taken aback, unsure what Wei Zhao meant, but he said anyway: "My home's on Ningshi Road, Boss. Which direction is your place? If it's out of the way, let's just meet up in the shantytown?"
"Ningshi Road... then you just wait for me."
Wei Zhao hung up right after saying that.
Shen Yushu's car was equipped with a GPS navigation system. Wei Zhao entered Ningshi Road and then drove along following the navigation's directions.
The Ningshi Road stop was actually on the route Wei Zhao took to school every day, so it was fairly easy to find. Soon enough, Wei Zhao parked the car near the Ningshi Road bus stop.
Wei Zhao called Kang Xiaofeng and told him he was waiting at the stop. Before long, Wei Zhao spotted Kang Xiaofeng, dressed very sharply, trotting over toward the platform, glancing left and right as he ran — clearly looking for him.
"Xiaobo, over here!" Wei Zhao opened the passenger-side door and waved Kang Xiaofeng over.
"Huh? Boss?" Kang Xiaofeng looked at Wei Zhao and his car in some surprise and hurried over: "This is your car?"
"Heh." Wei Zhao smiled, neither confirming nor denying. With something like this, the more you explained, the harder it was to explain; better not to explain at all.
Sure enough, Kang Xiaofeng took Wei Zhao's silence as an admission and got in: "Boss, I never knew your family was so well off. I figured you'd crawled out of some poor mountain valley..." "Just about average," Wei Zhao said honestly. If those missions really did pay only a few hundred or a few thousand yuan the way his old man claimed, then his family could only be called average; but if you went by market rates, his family would long since have become multimillionaires or billionaires... Of course, Wei Zhao had no interest in settling accounts with the old man that precisely. Let him be a miser if he wanted to be a miser; it wasn't as though Wei Zhao lacked food or clothing, so he might as well treat it as earning a little money to support the old man in his old age.
"But Boss, why'd you buy a car like this? It's a bit like something a girl would drive... and these seat cushions, this interior decor..." Kang Xiaofeng said, looking around inside the car.
"Heh." Wei Zhao smiled. The car was Shen Yushu's to begin with, so of course it was feminine... "Huh?" Suddenly Kang Xiaofeng's gaze fixed on a hanging ornament on the rearview mirror: "The photo on this — is that Shen Yushu? Boss, no way? You've got a crush on Shen Yushu?"
Kang Xiaofeng's eyes went wide as he stared at the ornament, an expression of utter disbelief on his face. It was a small picture frame, and the photo inside was actually Shen Yushu.