Spring Breeze Twenty Years

Chapter 196 Since I Met You

After listening to Manager Chen's words, Xiao Wei and the others nodded in agreement. Indeed, it would be crazy to transfer their Beijing household registration to Liaodong just because of this.

Sister Wu came in with a notebook, took out a folded gray cardboard box from the notebook and handed it to Xiao Wei, saying, "These are three checks. Be careful not to fold them, not even a folded corner. Otherwise, we'll have to come back and reissue them, which is a hassle."

Xiao Wei took the check and looked at it. It was a thin piece of cardboard cut from somewhere, folded in half, with three checks tucked inside: one for 36,000, one for 155,000, and one for 100,000. Xiao Wei glanced at Manager Chen, said nothing, and put the checks back in, saying, "That's settled then, Brother Chen, Sister Wu. We'll head back now. I'll stamp the contract and bring it over. I probably won't be coming to deliver it; just have the truck pick it up. Call or page me if you need anything."

Manager Chen stood up and shook hands with them, saying, "Okay, you can go back now, thank you. You don't need to send the contract; I'll just go get the receipt, you can give it to me together later."

Xiao Wei said, "That's fine. I'll just leave the contract in my office, you can just go get it. Okay, I'm off now."

The four people went out, and Manager Chen and Sister Wu saw them off until they got into the car and drove away before waving goodbye and going back inside.

As soon as the car left the cold storage, Chen Hui couldn't wait to ask with a sly grin, "Xiao Wei, how much did you get?"

Chen Xiao stared wide-eyed at Xiao Wei, who patted the cardboard box in his hand and said, "I've paid the full amount for the goods, and the mold fee too. That's how it is with things." He smiled and drew out the last syllable, "One hundred thousand."

As soon as he said that, the car swerved and almost went onto the curb. Chen Hui slammed on the brakes, turned around, and asked, "How much?"

Xiao Wei said, "100,000, are you satisfied now? You earned more than me, haha, today is our day to pick up money!"

Xia Maosheng excitedly punched Chen Hui and laughed, "Drive! You two, are you trying to kill me? This is too exciting!"

Chen Hui laughed a few times, started the car again and drove forward, saying, "Splitting, splitting, everyone gets a share, damn it, I made money too, hahaha."

Chen Xiao asked Xiao Wei, "Is this money easy to get? Will anything go wrong?"

Xiao Wei said, "It's nothing, just public relations expenses, basically entertainment expenses, no big deal. But Xiao Hui, you can ask us to handle this, we can't do it ourselves, understand?"

Chen Hui said, "I know, I'm not stupid. Getting something for free is fine, but trying to steal it will lead to trouble."

It was only about forty meters, just a few words later. The car stopped in front of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and the four of them got out with checks to cash them. But just as they reached the bank entrance, they heard someone call out from behind, "Wait, Zhang Wei, wait a minute."

The group turned around and saw Sister Wu jogging after them. Luckily, it wasn't far, only about forty meters; otherwise, she would have disappeared by now. When Sister Wu got closer, Xiao Wei asked, "Sister Wu, what's wrong?"

Sister Wu took a few breaths, shook the few pieces of paper in her hand, and said, "I forgot, I forgot, there's too much money. I need this, phew. I'm exhausted." After catching her breath and catching her breath a little, she tidied her disheveled hair and said, "Let's go, I'll go with you, otherwise you won't be able to take it today." The group went into the bank together.

Back then, all checks and bank transactions were done by hand, and the procedures were complicated. It took a lot of time to process a single transaction. Fortunately, Sister Wu was a big depositor and we were familiar with her. She spoke some nice words to the bank manager and promised some benefits, but we didn't know what. After filling out a bunch of forms, Xiao Wei and his three friends finally received a large pile of banknotes.

After taking the money, they waved goodbye to Sister Wu and the four of them got into the car and headed back. Their mindset was different now; the money they'd talked about and the money actually standing before them were completely different concepts. The impact of cash was much greater. To put it bluntly, in those days, opportunities to see tens of thousands of yuan in cash at once were rare, and this was close to three hundred thousand.

Because Sister Wu was watching from behind, Chen Hui acted quite normally. However, once the car crossed the Hunhe Bridge, his true colors were revealed. He parked the car on the side of the road, yelled, and rushed to the back, eagerly grabbing the money from Xiao Wei: "Let me see, let me see, hahaha, this is the first time I've seen so much money, and it's even my own, hahaha, honey, what do you want to buy? This time we won't freeload off them, we'll buy it ourselves, whatever we want, hahahaha."

Chen Xiao was also excited; in fact, all four of them were quite excited, each holding a stack of money as they sat there, feeling quite pleased.

Xia Maosheng held up the money for a while and said, "Ever since I met Zhang Wei, I've felt like I'm living an unrealistic life. This money just keeps falling into my head. My life has completely changed course and is heading towards the unknown."

Chen Hui looked at the money in his hand and nodded, saying, "Me too. Ever since I met Xiaowei, everything has changed. My luck has improved, my dad praised me, I have a wife, and the money just fell from the sky. It really feels unreal."

Chen Xiao, clutching a few stacks of money, glanced at Xia Maosheng and then at Chen Hui, and said, "Should I say a few words too? It seems I've changed since I met Xiaowei and Lao Xia. I'm definitely not the same as before. Especially today, I've been wondering if I'm dreaming."

Xiao Wei took all the money from the three of them and piled it on the car seat, saying, "Are you all done going crazy? Are you going or not? After Jian'an, we still have to go to Dadong. Aren't we going to have lunch? The contract still needs to be stamped, and we're going shopping this afternoon. Is there still time for all of this today?"

Chen Hui stared at Xiao Wei for a while, then suddenly leaned over and kissed Xiao Wei on the cheek: "Okay, bro, I'll do whatever you say."

Xiao Wei was stunned by Chen Hui's kiss and it took him several seconds to react. He angrily kicked Chen Hui and said, "Are you crazy? Are you trying to disgust me?" Xia Maosheng and Chen Xiao burst into laughter.

After a brief commotion, everyone's emotions returned to normal, and the car finally started again, smoothly heading towards Nanhu.

"Go pick up Xiaohong and Xiaohui, and head straight to the Engineering College," Chen Xiao suddenly said to Chen Hui.

The car drove straight into the north gate of the School of Engineering. These days, there are almost no private cars, and the gatekeeper opened the gate without even looking. Chen Hui stepped on the gas and sped into the school.

It's because he has a good memory; he only came here once, on the day of the party, yet he still managed to find his way. After turning left and right for a while, he parked his car downstairs in front of Xiaohong's school building, not far from the school auditorium.

Xiao Wei got out of the car and went into the building. He asked five or six people before he finally found Xiao Hong's classroom. It was 11 a.m. and Xiao Hong was still in class.

(End of this chapter)