Chapter 207 Difficulty Traveling
There were still a few days before New Year's Eve, and Fang Bai and Qin Shuyu rushed back to Wencheng by car.
There were six people returning to Wencheng this time, Fang Bai and Qin Shuyu, two female bodyguards, Wang Dakai and Li Xiaolong. They prepared two cars, a Land Cruiser SUV in the front and a Mercedes-Benz in the back. .
When traveling long distances, these two cars show the superior performance of luxury cars. They are not so bumpy and not as tiring as riding in a Santana.
As the Chinese New Year approaches, there are many buses on the road, and each bus is packed with passengers. This is also a specialty of this era.
Train tickets are difficult to buy, but bus business is better. Of course, there are usually many tourists.
If in twenty or thirty years there are more families with cars, trains and high-speed trains are more frequent and faster, and transportation is developed, the business of buses will only be slightly better during the Chinese New Year, but there will not be many customers on weekdays, so one trip may result in losses. , but had to run.
But in this era, let alone a bus, you can have a van or even a tricycle to carry passengers. Business is very good, and you can make money faster than going to work.
Of course, the risk is also higher. If there is a car accident and the whole family goes bankrupt, most bosses will borrow money to buy a car.
Fang Bai's two cars drove quickly to Wencheng. Passengers on the bus were envious when they saw the two cars, thinking how great it would be if they could sit in them.
Even the driver rarely saw a big rush, and the two luxury cars were one behind the other, and they had Shencheng license plates at the same time. It seemed that the rich and powerful people went back to their hometown to celebrate the New Year.
Fang Bai and Qin Shuyu were sitting in the Mercedes-Benz. When they got tired, they changed to another car and lay down to rest.
The four bodyguards work part-time as drivers and take turns driving.
Fortunately, it didn't snow these past few days, the road conditions were good, and the journey went smoothly.
The weather was too cold, and there were many cars on the road. The bandits who usually blocked the road didn't want to come out. Otherwise, Fang Bai really wanted to try the feeling of hitting people with a steel pipe. His strength became stronger and his flexibility became better. I learned martial arts boxing and grappling from Li Xiaolong, and I became more confident in my own safety.
Depart in the afternoon and arrive in Wencheng the next morning.
"Come home!"
Qin Shuyu got out of the car and looked at the familiar environment around her, with a smile on her face and feeling more energetic.
After breakfast, Fang Bai sent her home. Two female bodyguards would find a hotel to stay near her home. Fang Bai left the SUV behind, which Da Ben would use in the next few days.
After sending Qin Shuyu home, Fang Bai went home.
"Brother, you're back!"
My sister Fang Tingting saw the sound of the car outside the door, walked out and saw that it was her brother. She ran up and hugged his arm, "Brother, I miss you so much. I thought you wouldn't come back until New Year's Eve."
The day before yesterday, my mother called my brother. He said he would be back in the next two days and kept her waiting. She had not seen him for a year and she still missed him.
"You're such an adult, and you still act like a spoiled brat."
"I'm still young, hehe, you can't forget your sister when you have a wife."
Fang Bai curled his lips and rubbed the hair from his head, and then his sister moved away and stopped holding his arm.
After the car was parked, Wang Dakai and Li Xiaolong helped Fang Bai carry his luggage to the second floor. After they finished their work, they connected the faucet to wash the car. After washing the car, they drove the car into the house.
Fang Bai asked the two of them to go home and come back during the New Year. The company had cars they could borrow.
The houses near his house have been forcibly acquired and converted into employee dormitories. The houses on both sides of his house are occupied by bodyguards and part-time security guards. There are more than ten people in total who usually protect the safety of Fang Bai's parents and sister.
The row of his house was surrounded by a circle as a community, and all the previous shops were gone.
In a short time, this row of shops will be demolished and built into a shopping mall, which will be connected with Xinghai Square.
"Boss, I can just ride your motorcycle. You're not very good at driving anyway."
Wang Dakai took a look at the motorcycles in the house. There were two motorcycles in total. One of them had a lot of dust on it. It had probably not been used for a long time. It was still a bit uncomfortable to use the company's car and he was not used to it.
"It's up to you. The company has a lot of spare cars. Spend more time with your family." Fang Bai said casually.
Li Xiaolong's home was quite far away, so he had to go back by car. He said hello to Fang Bai and left. It was a rare trip home this year.
Seeing that nothing happened to Fang Bai's family, Wang Dakai rode Fang Bai's motorcycle to buy some New Year's goods before returning home.
Fang Bai felt much more relaxed when he returned home. Even though he had his own house and company in Shanghai, the feeling was still different.
Some people say that only if you have a house in the city can you feel a sense of belonging.
There is some sense of belonging, but in fact, it is still different from the feeling in my hometown where I was born and raised.
My hometown has familiar local accents, environment, food, etc., but I can't experience it even if I have money in other places.
Fang Bai's two-story house is no different from its neighbors on the outside and doesn't have much decoration, but it's completely different on the inside.
With a net worth of several billion, he should indeed move to another place. It’s just that his wealth has increased so fast that he has no time to build a new house.
In the evening, the family reunited for dinner, and Fang Bai's mother cooked the food herself.
There are several local dishes such as three-threaded fish, steamed grouper, fried rice cakes, and duck noodles.
Sansi Knocked Fish is a well-known traditional dish in Wencheng. Because it is simple to make, almost every household can make it. Sansi is actually sea fish meat with shredded chicken, ham, shredded mushrooms and cabbage. Each family makes it differently, focusing on white color, clear soup, and fresh and tender fish.
The local seafood is abundant, but it is particularly difficult to find specialties from other places such as Nanyang yellow beef.
"Mom, did you make the rice cakes yourself?"
While eating, Fang Bai picked up a piece of rice cake and put it in his mouth. It was sticky and a little chewy, so this dish became the staple food.
"Bought on the street, what? Doesn't it taste good?"
"It's quite delicious, but it lacks the taste of mom, hehe." Fang Bai said with a smile. In the past, her mother used to make rice paste by herself and was reluctant to spend money to buy it.
It's not expensive, usually about twice the price of rice.
Liu Fengqing smiled and said: "Well, I like hearing this. Then I will get rice milk and make it myself tomorrow."
"Mom, it's too cold. Don't bother, just buy it. I'm tired of eating this stuff."
When Liu Fengqing heard what her son said, she didn't bother to touch the cold water: "Well, I'll buy you whatever you want to eat these days."
Fang Bai said cheerfully: "You can eat whatever you have. This is how our family used to live. It's not like now, where we can eat whatever we have. Alas, I can't go back."
"Mom, I like to make money by eating ducks, buy more." My sister was still chewing one in her mouth. Usually she can eat it as a retail meal when she is hungry.
Wencheng duck tongue is a famous local snack in Wencheng. The locals call it "duck profit". It is quite expensive. Cooked and braised, it costs five or six yuan per pound.
Some people like to eat it, but Fang Bai doesn't like it because it has no taste.
In the past, this dish could only be eaten during banquets and not on ordinary days.
Now that the family is not short of money, when her son comes home, Liu Fengqing wants to make more hard dishes for him to try, but sees that his son doesn't like this dish very much, and only her daughter and husband like it.
"The boss smiled when he saw me buying half a catty." Liu Fengqing thought of the scene when buying vegetables. If you have money, you can eat whatever you want.
This year I won’t have the New Year’s Eve dinner at home. Cooking in winter is too much work, so my parents have already ordered the New Year’s Eve dinner at a restaurant.
After the meal, the family was sitting on the sofa chatting, and Fang Bai talked about the new house: "It's not upscale enough for our family to live here, and it's still a bit unsafe. I plan to develop a villa community by the river. Our family will occupy a few square meters." Ten acres, you should be a big landowner.”
When they heard that a villa was going to be built, the whole family was interested.
The current home is located close to Xinghai Square. According to the plan, this place will be demolished and turned into a commercial business, which cannot affect the overall plan.
The nearby houses have long been expropriated and used as dormitories for Xinghai Company employees, mainly because the expropriation fees paid by Xinghai Company are high.
Of course, it is higher now, many times more than it was two years ago, and it is all the result of the Xinghai Group.
The original residents have to move out even if they don't want to move. The current handling methods are not as gentle as those in later generations. It is really a forced demolition.
Sometimes, nail-biting households do affect the overall planning and development. If everyone is willing to move, they must have given enough money and built a new base. But if you are unwilling to move, the entire project will be stuck there and affected. Cityscape.
If you don’t want to move, the local department responsible for the demolition project will have many ways to torment you.
Fang Bai sometimes thinks that without the means of forced demolition, urban planning is just empty talk, and there is no way to build even if you have money.
Now, he has to consider the issue of residential privacy. The current residence he lives in directly faces the street.
People who know his family come over from time to time to see how Wencheng's rich people live. If they weren't guarded by bodyguards, they would probably be harassed even more.
When renovating the house, Fang Bai was also afraid that someone would fire a gun from a distance. In addition to installing protective iron windows on the second floor, all the glass was replaced with tempered glass.
No matter how kind-hearted Fang Bai's family is, the forest is big and birds can fly. There will always be people who hate the rich in this society. They must make arrangements to live in a safer place. This is not just about enjoyment. (End of chapter)