Financial freedom starts from graduation

Chapter 178 Just Seeing You

Southeast of Mingcheng, Xiaoxi Village toll station.

This is the eastern gate of Mingcheng Expressway and also the toll station with the heaviest traffic volume in the entire Mingcheng.

It was nearly Saturday evening and a long line of cars had formed at the toll station's manual crossing.

What’s more interesting is that although there are three lanes marked “manual/ETC”, the number of vehicles queued in the leftmost lane is significantly more than that in the other two lanes.

As the gate opened and closed again, a white Volkswagen Santana slowly moved forward and stopped in front of the toll window.

"Hello!"

Sitting at the toll window, wearing a blue and white uniform, is a little girl with red lips and white teeth.

Her tied-up bun and sweet smile gave her a simple and clear beauty, which made the guy sitting in the driver's seat of Santana jealous.

The girl handed over the card in her hand, but the boy was slow to take it.

"Hello?"

The girl reminded again.

The young man finally came to his senses. After a slight hesitation, he finally plucked up the courage to pick up a box of chocolates wrapped in a ribbon from the passenger seat and handed it to the girl.

"Um... Yang Qinqin, can I... can I have your WeChat?"

After he finished speaking, the young man's face had turned red, but he still looked at the toll collector with some hope.

Yang Qinqin was stunned for a moment, but the smile on her face didn't change much.

Because this was not the first time she had encountered such a thing.

Ever since a passing driver took a short video of her and posted it online a few months ago, she, who was originally just an ordinary toll collector, unexpectedly became famous and was hailed by many people as "the most beautiful toll collector", "the goddess who got lost at the toll station", etc.

It has only been two months, and Yang Qinqin's personal account on Douyin has amassed 300,000 followers, surpassing countless internet celebrities who have professional teams behind them.

Because her 300,000 fans are almost inflated, and are more active than many big internet celebrities' so-called 3 to 5 million fans.

Of course, the ingredients are relatively simple...

All are LSPs.

An unexpectedly vertical track.

Objectively speaking, Yang Qinqin is not an outstanding beauty in the vast crowd, but the uniform complex hidden in the bones of Chinese men, coupled with her relatively simple temperament, makes this "huge wealth" come to her.

Yang Qinqin is just an ordinary person and has not yet figured out how to deal with this unexpected fame, but her life has begun to change.

Take work as an example. She is approached by all kinds of people almost every day. Some netizens from other places even come to her and don’t go anywhere else just to pass by this toll booth and take a look at her…

Even Yang Qinqin felt that the young man driving the Santana looked familiar, as if he had passed by here not long ago.

"I'm sorry, I'm married."

Yang Qinqin kept smiling and repeated the sentence mechanically.

"what?"

The young man was obviously stunned for a moment, his expression unable to hide his disappointment, "Well... well, but please accept this box of chocolates..."

Faced with the young man's insistence, Yang Qinqin took the gift and casually put it in the corner, where there was already a bouquet of roses, a box of candy and several bottles of water...

"Thank you, and I wish you a safe journey."

The gate was raised and Santana slowly drove away with some hesitation.

Yang Qinqin rubbed her sore face and was about to put on a smile to greet the next car, but she subconsciously turned her head to take a look when she heard a low roar of sound.

Having worked at the toll station for more than a year, this was not the first time she had heard similar noises. With just one ear, she realized that this was what her male colleagues called a supercar.

Coming from the countryside, she was really shocked when she first heard that those fancy-looking cars could cost seven or eight figures.

Why not do something with this money? Buy a car?

She thought that the Audi A4L, which only cost yuan, was pretty good-looking and prestigious. Her dream two months ago was to drive a car like that one day...

Buzz!
The roaring sound waves were very strange, with overlapping highs and lows, and the noise was very loud. Yang Qinqin soon realized that this might not be the sound that a supercar could make.

At the same time, the driver of the Honda car that had already driven to the toll window also stuck his head out of the window and looked back.

Apparently the driver also realized something. The next second, he exclaimed with wide eyes, and hurriedly took down the phone that was still on the bracket, turned on the camera, and started shooting behind him.

He was just one of them. In fact, most of the car owners who were still in line had already poked their heads out in surprise, and many of them excitedly took out their phones.

At the end of the road in the direction of Mingcheng, accompanied by the roar of sound waves, the first thing that caught my eye was a pure white supercar.

The smooth and handsome body, the black glass cover with a sense of science fiction, and the iconic "smiley face" made countless drivers shout "WTF".

“It’s the McLaren P1!”

"Oh my god, this is the first time I've seen the 'Three Great Cars' in real life..."

"Wife, look, look, there's a flying saucer!"

"Are you sick? Why are you making so much noise? It's just a sports car, isn't it?"

"Correction, this is a sports car worth tens of millions."

"what?"

The woman was startled and quickly rolled down the window, looking over curiously.

"Oh my god, there's a Ferrari 812C here too, it's also a multi-million dollar supercar!"

Before the discerning drivers could recover from the visual impact of the McLaren P1, a charming blue Ferrari 812C appeared right behind it, causing the men to shout again.

Compared to the extremely well-known McLaren P1, not as many people know the Ferrari 812C, but the standing horse logo unique to Ferrari is enough.

The key is that this is still not the end.

After the 812C, there was the red Ferrari 488, the black Maserati Gran Cario, the silver Aston Martin DB11, the yellow Lamborghini Calf, the silver-black Rolls-Royce Phantom…

Supercars kept coming one after another, as if it was a mobile large-scale international auto show, which gave the drivers a feast for the eyes.

At least in Mingcheng, this is definitely a rare grand scene, at least enough to become a local hot search.

Zhou Wang, the leader, sat in the driver's seat of the McLaren P1, feeling a little regretful...

If he had known earlier, he should have taken turns driving with Dr. Li who drives a Rolls-Royce.

The seven or eight kilometers of driving from Guangwei Interchange to this toll station had already caused some discomfort in his back and waist.

We can only be thankful that Yi County is not far away, so we should be able to hold on, right?

Zhang Dashao and his people are really loyal. After all, they are friends who can drive a supercar with him on the highway...

While thinking about his worries, Zhou Wang realized that he had entered the wrong lane and almost drove into the ETC.

Fortunately, he changed lanes in time and followed the team in the manual lane.

The sports cars driven by the others also changed lanes, each finding a queue lane to follow—

Normal people would not install ETC on a supercar.

While waiting for the traffic to move, the stationmaster of the toll station and the traffic police on duty came over and briefly questioned Zhou Wang, while trying to maintain order to avoid any accidents caused by drivers' distraction.

However, it was not known whether it was Zhou Wang’s illusion, but after the toll station managers intervened, the traffic seemed to move a lot faster.

A moment later, Zhou Wang drove the McLaren P1 under the toll window.

"Hello!" Looking up from the open window of the McLaren, Zhou Wang saw the girl with a sweet smile waving at him.

"Hello."

Zhou Wang responded with a smile, feeling a little surprised. He didn't expect to see a beauty of this level at the toll station.

Perhaps it was because she saw a little surprise in Zhou Wang's eyes that Yang Qinqin finally found a little joy after a long time——

Similar things happened so many times that it was difficult for her to feel any emotion other than annoyance.

Yang Qinqin, who was operating the computer, secretly glanced at Zhou Wang's handsome profile, then looked at his supercar that the previous driver said was worth tens of millions. After biting her lip slightly, Yang Qinqin's heartbeat couldn't help but quicken.

Soon, after entering the pass card, Yang Qinqin lowered her head and fiddled with it for a while. Then she leaned out of the window and tried to hook it down, wanting to hand the thing to Zhou Wang.

The body of the McLaren was too low, and the uniform bulged out because of her movements, which looked quite oppressive from Zhou Wang's angle.

"This is……"

But when Zhou Wang went to connect the travel card, he was a little surprised.

Because in addition to the pass, Yang Qinqin also handed over a box of chocolates and a bottle of water...

"Here's some drink for you on your journey. Have a pleasant journey."

Yang Qinqin didn't explain much, just smiled and said.

"Uh……"

Zhou Wang guessed that this might be some welfare activity at the toll booth, although he felt that it was unlikely...

But no matter what, Yang Qinqin still maintained the difficult action of reaching down, and Zhou Wang could only quickly reach out and take the thing.

"Thank you!"

"You're welcome~"

Yang Qinqin smiled sweetly and then lifted the gate lever.

Zhou Wang casually threw all his things into the passenger seat and was about to start the car, but at this moment he discovered that there was a piece of paper under the pass card, with a vague phone number on it...

Zhou Wang's eyelids twitched, but he showed nothing. He started the car with a normal expression, and soon the McLaren P1 roared away.

Behind us, one supercar after another passed through the toll booth and quickly caught up, and all kinds of unique engine sounds began to resound on the Shantou-Mingzhou Expressway...

……

Although Yi County is a county under the jurisdiction of Mingcheng, in terms of economic output alone, it is not even as good as Zhou Wang’s hometown, Lu County in Jingcheng.

There are no mineral resources, the industrial base is relatively weak, and it is impossible to attract investment to win Mingcheng, so the positioning is still quite awkward...

Overall, it is just an ordinary inland county town.

(Panoramic view of Yi County)
The most famous things here are the "Three Treasures of Yi County", namely Yi County Roast Duck, Baohong Tea and Ganba Mushrooms, all of which are related to agriculture.

At this moment, in a fork in the road near a main road in Yi County, in an old dormitory area of ​​a state-owned enterprise, on the top floor of a six-story building whose exterior wall has mostly fallen off, in the living room of room 602, Xu Wenxi, pulling a suitcase, was confronting her mother.

She was wearing a professional suit, with a slender figure and graceful demeanor, which seemed out of place in the slightly shabby interior environment. However, her face looked a little haggard, with heavy dark circles under her eyes, and she was obviously thinner than she was a week ago.

"Xixi, why don't you wait for your dad to come back and tell him before you leave..."

Xu Wenxi's mother stood at the door, looking at her stubborn daughter with a hesitant expression.

In her memory, Sissi had never been so upset with them. This time when she came back, her daughter was so strange that she didn't even recognize her...

Thinking of what Cheng Zhe said, even though Xu Wenxi's mother was not like her father who refused to believe her daughter's words, she still couldn't help but feel worried.

"Mom, do you know how long I've been on leave and how much work I've missed?"

Xu Wenqian looked helpless, but her tone was firm, "My boss is a very good person, but that doesn't mean I can do whatever I want by relying on his favoritism... If I don't go back, I will have to resign."

"preference?"

Xu Wenxi said a lot, but Xu's mother obviously only caught this key word. She looked suspicious and asked, "Are you and your boss really..."

Xu Wenxi blushed and shook her head: "Mom, I have told you so many times that our boss and I have a clean working relationship. Are you willing to listen to Cheng Zhe and not even trust your own daughter?"

Although Xu Wenxi had always been submissive to Zhou Wang, and she could not deny that she had long been in love with Zhou Wang, and might even have been unable to extricate herself, but...

She knew very well deep down in her heart that there was no future for her and Zhou Wang, the kind of "future" that could be like that of an ordinary couple.

With her parents' feudal thinking, it was impossible for them to accept that she was Zhou Wang's "lover", and she couldn't open her mouth to admit this relationship.

It was also for this reason that Xu Wenxi did not want Zhou Wang to know her current predicament. She just wanted to escape from it all, return to Zhou Wang as soon as possible, and wait for time to fade the grudge between her and her parents...

Maybe it's a bit selfish, but Xu Wenxi is almost going crazy thinking about Zhou Wang.

She didn’t feel it when she was with him every day, but now that they’ve been apart for so long, Xu Wenxi feels that he is there with her eyes open and with her eyes closed. She wants to hear Zhou Wang’s voice again, and is looking forward to him pretending to be angry and hitting her, or violently tearing everything apart…

Even when she really met Zhou Wang, she could only hide her girlish thoughts, but...

It would be nice if I could just see it.

"Of course Mom believes you, otherwise she wouldn't have quarreled with your dad."

Mother Xu sighed, "But you also know your father's bad temper. He listened to Cheng Zhe's words. Now he always feels that someone is talking behind your back. He insists on forcing you to find a job in Yi County. He also said that if you dare to leave the house, you will never come back... There is nothing I can do!"

"Mom, you've listened to my dad all your life, but if it weren't for me, your job at the textile factory would be gone."

Seeing her mother's embarrassed expression, Xu Wenxi couldn't bear to say anything more. She thought for a while, took out a thick envelope from her bag, and then stepped forward and stuffed it into her mother's hand.

"Mom, there's 10,000 yuan in here. Keep it for yourself and don't give it to my dad. If you want to buy something, just buy it for yourself..."

"Xixi, Mom doesn't want it... You are alone in Mingcheng now and have to rent a house. You should take it yourself..."

Mother Xu quickly refused.

In order to avoid misunderstandings from her parents, Xu Wenxi told them that the new job she had just started paid only 10,000 yuan, and she had just started working, and Cheng Zhe had not yet asked for the money back. Xu's mother naturally thought that her daughter did not have much money, and it was even more impossible for her to think that Xu Wenxi did not need to pay any rent at all...

Xu Wenxi could only explain: "Mom, don't worry, I still have money to use. The company also gave me a bonus this month..."

Although it was only her first month at work and theoretically she had only worked for 9 days last month, Zhou Wang still gave her a full month's salary with a wave of his hand.

With a basic salary of 30,000 yuan and a bonus of 20,000 yuan, Xu Wenxi earned 50,000 yuan directly after working for a week. She didn't have any pressure on food and accommodation, so she was still quite rich now...

Seeing Xu Wenxi's insistence, Xu's mother could only accept the money and said, "Then if you run out of money, you must tell me..."

After receiving the money, Xu's mother thought about it and made up her mind, "Okay, Xixi, you should leave quickly before your father gets off work. I'll go find the car keys for you..."

"You took my car keys?"

Xu Wenxi was stunned for a moment, and then she quickly rummaged through her bag, only to find that her Volvo car key had indeed disappeared at some point...

"Mom, I told you it's a company car, not my own car, how could you do this!"

Xu Wenqian felt very aggrieved.

"Mom doesn't want to either, but your dad is afraid that you'll run away, so he insists... just wait, I'll go get it."

With a guilty look on her face, Mother Xu quickly went into the bedroom and after searching for a while, she took out the Volvo car keys.

Xu Wenxi got the key and was about to pick up her suitcase and leave when there was a sudden noise at the door.

Xu Wenxi and Xu's mother's faces changed, thinking that it was Xu Wenxi's father who came back, but then there was a knock on the door and a shout:
"Aunt Qian, are you guys home? Cheng Zhe's family is making trouble again, and Uncle Xu is also blocking the gate of the community!"

Xu Wenxi's face changed. She quickly walked to the window and looked down. As expected, she could vaguely see a large group of people gathered at the narrow entrance of the community.

Xu Wenxi was furious, but she could only give up the idea of ​​leaving at this moment. She hurried downstairs with the somewhat flustered Xu Ma and rushed to the gate of the community...

(End of this chapter)