Chapter 14 Working and Buying a Car

That night, Lin Luoran resists the urge to observe the changes in the space and stays at Baojia’s home. They cook many dishes, tomato salad, boiled cabbage, sautéed spinach, fish filets in hot chili oil, and double fried pork with garlic sprout. All the vegetables are fresh from the space. Baojia is stuffed. “I am overeating! Ran, your cooking skill has been once again improved. You should just open a restaurant and be the chef, instead of selling jewelry.” Strangely, the vegetables today are even delicious than the meat. Is there anything unusual in the vegetables Lin Luoran gives? The next day, they go to the Liu’s Jewelry Company for job interviews. Lin Luoran interviews for the position of shopping guide. Since Baojia has resigned from the Fortune House, she goes there to interview for the position of jewelry designer. The so-called interview is just for the sake of the hiring process since Liu Zheng has told his employees to hire Lin Luoran. But she doesn’t have any working experience in the industry. In that case, she can only get the base salary. Lin Luoran does not complain about that at all. Although she knows how to detect immortal energy, she knows nothing about customers’ psychology and marketing. It is normal to receive training first. As for Baojia, she is already famous in R city and can be called the local talent in the field of jewelry designing. Setting her friendship with Liu Zheng aside, Liu’s welcomes her to their company as well. Both pass the interviews quickly. Today is Friday, so the company tells them to officially join them next Monday. If there is no wind, the weather is quite good in the autumn of the R city. Showering in the warm sunshine, they walk along the street where there are many cheap street foods. R city is famous for its beautiful girls. But the girls are kind of short. Lin Luoran is 168cm, and Baojia is 170cm with high heels, making them stand out among the short girls. The scene of two different types of beautiful girls walking on the street, eating spicy potatoes, and cooling their tongues attracts the attention of numerous passers-by. “Baojia, you really want to change your car?” Lin Luoran fans her burning tongue, asking Baojia. Baojia also drinks a big sip of juice to get rid of spicy and says, “Thanks to you, I get a big amount of windfall. If I don’t spend it, I will not feel at ease. And not I am going to buy a car, but both of us are going to buy cars. Get it?” Lin Luoran is still hesitating. She just got a small windfall. If she buys a car, won’t it be too obtrusive? Baojia can tell that Lin Luoran is actually a little bit tempted, so she continues to encourage her, “Look, If you have a car, you can drive back home to see your parents on weekends without worrying about transferring between buses. You also have enough time to drive back to work. Isn’t it convenient?” Lin Luoran does not say anything. She used to save money so hard to pay tuition fees for Li Anping. Plus, although her hometown is not very far from R city, she needs to take a detour to take the bus and must transfer buses on her way home. Thus, it takes her three or four hours to go back. In the past, she went home in a hurry every time. Later, in order to save money, she goes back home for fewer and fewer times. Now she thinks about the whole thing and finds out that she is a fool for contributing so much for such a man. Not a fool, but a big fool. It was Li Anping who couldn’t afford to go to school. How could his mother cry in front of her and beg her to give him the chance to go to school? Fortunately, everything’s been turned around. Lin Luoran tries to forget what happened in the past. Now she thinks everything that Baojia has said is right for her. Buying a car is not a big deal. After all, there is one stone left. If she runs out of money, she can cut it after the gossip stops. What’s more, she has her space. She can work hard to sell vegetables for a living as well! “Go, let’s go buying a car!” Baojia starts to laugh, and a man with a beer belly almost runs into a telegraph pole for being kind of amazed. They decide that one buys a car and the other changes a car. Baojia said that she wanted to change to a BMW yesterday. They decide to go to the BMW 4S store in R city. There is a new store opened near the glass flyover in the east 3rd ring road, where Baojia has come and seen before. This is the closest store, so they just take a taxi and arrive there for only ten minutes. Although Lin Luoran and Baojia arrive there by taxi, the saleslady does not act like a snob. She starts to introduce different cars after hearing that they want to buy cars. It is easy to satisfy Baojia’s requirement that she wants a roadster. “Miss Qin, according to your need, you can take into consideration the hardtop roadster of BMW 3-series. If you choose an imported one, it will be over 7 hundred thousand yuan with a full set. Its appearance suits young people. Taking into account car insurance and inner decoration, it will still be just over 7 hundred thousand yuan.” Lin Luoran is shocked by the “just over 7 hundred thousand yuan” from the saleslady. Just one day ago, all she has was over one thousand yuan, not to mention over seven hundred thousand. The saleslady takes them to see the cars in stock. Because it is a new store that is in a period of accumulating customers, this 4S store doesn’t have some hidden rules, like “driving your cars off today at a higher price.” And the lady soon says that they could get the car today without extra charge. Baojia could accept the price, and the type is her favorite. She has no reason to hesitate and decides to buy it immediately. The saleslady is dizzy. When she is about to take Baojia to pay for the bills and then, take the car, Baojia stops her and says, “My friend also wants one. Just wait until she makes up her mind, and we can make the payments together later. It is more convenient!” The saleslady can’t help looking at Lin Luoran. Baojia has a strong personality. But Lin Luoran does not look like someone who can afford a BMW car for she wears ordinary clothes, though she is beautiful. The sales lady just takes her as a companion of Baojia. But Lin Luoran is very elegant, which makes people feel comfortable. The saleslady felicitates that her attitude was quite good from the beginning. No wonder people often say that you cannot judge a book by its cover. If she is not careful, she might lose a high commission, even two. “Miss Lin, what type of car do you like?” Hearing that they want to buy one more, the sales lady’s smile looks more sincere. Car type? Lin Luoran knows very little about that. That’s not her fault. She can never imagine owning a house just a short time ago, and how can she expect a car? Normally, she knows little about cars. “Bigger space and stout enough to drive on the rough roads, these are all I require. Can you recommend some for me?” A bigger space is convenient for her parents to sit in. She can’t buy a sports car with only two seats. The chassis is better to be higher. There are still miles of rough roads near her hometown. These are the factors she must consider. Hearing that there is no price limitation, the sales lady feels very exciting. But at the thought that she recommended a car with the price of over 7 hundred thousand yuan to Baojia and they are friends, she recommends the BMW X5 to Lin Luoran, for their prices are similar. The price of this X5 ordinary off-road car reaches 8 hundred thousand yuan. Taking into consideration other necessities, Lin Luoran needs to pay over 8 hundred thousand yuan. Lin Luoran has 6 million in her card. Although she won’t squander the money, she can pay over 8 hundred thousand yuan without much hesitation. After all, she does not plan to change her car in a short period. She can settle a matter at one go. Lin Luoran only thinks about it for a while before she decides to buy this car. Baojia smiles. “Is your license expired?” Now, the C1 license needs to be audited every six years. Lin Luoran got her license two years ago. She just nods at Baojia to tell her there is no problem. “Great! We can drive our new car home soon!” Baojia chooses a blue one, and Lin Luoran chooses a gray one for it is stain resistant. The store finishes their work even quicker as long as the payment arrives quickly. It takes less than an hour from Lin Luoran choosing a car to drive it in the traffic flow. Baojia is snaking through the traffic flow. And she laughs at Lin Luoran and calls her a snail that is driving a BMW. When they are making fun of each other happily, the tall man once met Lin Luoran in the seed company is trying to find a rope to hang himself.