Jin Xiumei immediately asked Liu Ji to serve another bowl of rice. Li Wei didn't stand on ceremony, took the bowl and started eating, slurping down two bowls of rice in no time.
Zhou Xuan asked curiously, "Li Wei, haven't you eaten at home?"
"I've already eaten," Li Wei said honestly. "But your family's food is delicious!"
Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "Li Wei, I just don't understand, how can you eat so much?"
Jin Xiumei immediately retorted, "Zhou Xuan, how can you talk about people like that?"
Li Wei wouldn't be angry; Zhou Xuan was just joking. He said that because he knew Li Wei's personality. It was precisely because he considered Li Wei a close friend that he spoke so freely with him.
"I know you call me a glutton, but I'm still growing, so it's normal for me to eat a lot!" Li Wei explained shamelessly.
Zhou Xuan almost spat out his food, barely managing to hold it in, but everyone at the table burst into laughter.
Li Wei is already twenty-six or twenty-seven years old. Is he still growing?
After finishing their meal, Zhou Xuan said to Fu Ying, "Yingying, the weather is sunny today, let's go for a walk in the street."
Fu Ying nodded, but after thinking for a moment, she added, "However, that car is inconvenient. It's cold and the roads are slippery, and the Bugatti Veyron has a low chassis, so it's not suitable."
Zhou Xuan tilted his head and thought for a moment, then said, "We won't drive that car, since we have nothing else to do. Let's go to the car market and take a look. If we see any cars we like, we'll buy a few. I've always wanted to buy a car, and today we finally have the time!"
Fu Ying clapped her hands and said excitedly, "Yes, I forgot to send a car to my sister-in-law and father. I just remembered today. Since you're free, let's go together."
"You want to buy a car? Great! I know this place like the back of my hand!" Li Wei laughed and said, "I'll show you the way. I know the car market well too. What kind of car do you want?"
"Let's see. I'm thinking of buying a car for my younger brother, sister-in-law, and father. I also want to have some fun. It's always more convenient to have a car. As for which brand to buy, I'll have to go to a car dealership and compare prices!" Fu Ying said with a smile. Although she didn't say it aloud, she had already made up her mind. She couldn't afford to buy a cheap car worth two or three hundred thousand yuan for her younger brother and sister-in-law.
Li Wei smiled and said, "It's good to take a look first. But it's best not to buy Japanese or Korean cars; their sheet metal is thin and they're not safe in a crash!"
Volume 1, Chapter 244: Buying a Car
Just as Xian was leaving, Zhou Ying unexpectedly returned and caused a disturbance.
“Brother, I’m coming back to the antique shop. Brother Zhao is looking after the stone-cutting factory. Recently, Boss Xu has hired a lot of employees, and several of Master Chen’s old friends have arrived. There are now more than twenty stone-cutting and carving masters. Boss Xu has divided the factory into two parts, one for stone cutting and the other for carving. There are eight security guards. I hardly have anything to do there. I just watch TV when I’m there. I might as well come back and sit for a while and go shopping with Mom!”
As Zhou Ying spoke, she walked towards the house, but Fu Ying grabbed her arm and said with a smile, "Little sister, don't come inside. I'll take you shopping to buy a car!"
Zhou Ying didn't know that Fu Ying was going to buy her a car, assuming that she wanted to buy it herself, so she followed her out and said, "Sister-in-law, shall I change my clothes?"
Fu Ying pulled her outside, saying, "Little sister, don't change it, your sister-in-law will buy you one later."
Today, Li Wei didn't drive his old military jeep; he drove an Audi with a regular license plate, not a military one.
Li Wei was driving, Zhou Xuan was sitting next to him, and Fu Ying and Zhou Ying were sitting in the back. Li Wei was driving normally today, not in his usual style.
None of them knew Beijing as well as Li Wei. As he drove, Li Wei asked, "Beautiful sister-in-law, what brand of car do you want to buy?"
Fu Ying had a good impression of Li Kai and said with a smile, "Li Wei, well, let's check out a few imported car dealerships first. For a girl, BMW and Porsche are pretty good brands. Let's order a car for my sister first!"
Zhou Ying was taken aback. Then she said, "Sister-in-law, are you going to buy me a car?" "No need, I don't want one, and I don't know how to drive!"
Fu Ying smiled and said, "Little sister, don't worry about that. I'll teach you how to drive, and then you just need to get your license!"
Zhou Ying looked at Zhou Xuan pleadingly and called out, "Brother."
Zhou Xuan chuckled and said, "Little sister, you can take whatever your sister-in-law buys for you. You can't take other people's things, but you must take what your sister-in-law and brother buy for you. Besides, you are one of the owners of an antique shop, and you have tens of millions in assets. What's wrong with driving a car?"
Li Wei laughed and said, "Yeah, if you don't want what your brother and sister-in-law bought, whose will you take? My brother and sister-in-law won't even buy me anything!" He paused and then added, "Don't worry about the licenses, I'll take care of them for you. It's easy to handle, you just need to learn how to drive!"
Zhou Ying looked left and right. Usually, she would cling to her brother, but today Zhou Xuan ignored her and seemed to be completely devoted to Fu Ying. So she had nothing to say. It seemed that her brother and sister-in-law really wanted to buy her a car. So she decided to buy it!
Li Wei didn't know what price range of car Fu Ying wanted to buy, nor did he know how much private money Fu Ying had. Although he had followed Zhou Xuan for so long, he didn't know how much wealth he had. He knew about buying cars, though. You could buy a car for tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, or even tens of millions or hundreds of millions. It was common for a car to cost two or three million. Nowadays, the rich play with money, not like before when ordinary people only knew about BMWs and Mercedes-Benzes.
There are many car dealerships in the western suburbs. When the new urban area was first planned, Zhengyang intended to build a car dealership center in this area to replace the old city's dealerships.
“Beautiful sister-in-law, just across that street, the first shop is the imported Porsche dealership. Would you like to take a look?” Li Weixian asked again, making sure to mention Porsche. Fu Ying seemed to know a bit about cars and should understand what he meant. These cars cost millions or even tens of millions of yuan. If Fu Ying only wanted to buy a car worth a few hundred thousand yuan, she could skip it and drive over to look at other ones.
Li Wei was unaware of Fu Ying's identity in the United States, nor did he know that she was from the wealthy Fu family of Chinese Americans. If he had known, he wouldn't have thought so much! "Let's take a look!" Fu Ying didn't seem worried about the price and answered casually. Li Wei even wondered if she simply didn't know what Porsche meant. If she had never bought or used this car, she wouldn't know its price.
After parking the car outside the shop, Li Wei, without any hesitation, swaggered ahead and led the way inside.
Several shop assistants immediately came forward, but seeing that they were all quite young and their clothes weren't particularly luxurious, their enthusiasm waned considerably. Their cars easily cost over a million, and while many people came to look at them, very few actually made a purchase.
Unlike those ordinary joint venture cars that cost tens or hundreds of thousands of yuan, this place doesn't offer cars you can just buy and place an order on the spot.
However, the salaries are also vastly different. They can earn tens of thousands of yuan in commission for selling a car here, while those joint venture cars costing over 100,000 yuan only earn a few hundred yuan in commission per car sold. The difference is like night and day.
But the shop assistants were also stunned by Fu Ying's stunning beauty. A girl as beautiful as her must have a very rich boyfriend, right?
However, judging from the appearances of Zhou Xuan and Li Wei, they don't seem to be particularly wealthy.
The car dealership showroom is at least 600 square meters, with eight cars parked in Lianchuan. Zhou Fu immediately spotted a red one because it was for Zhou Ying. The red one was the only one in the showroom that was suitable for a girl; it was petite and had a nice appearance.
Fu Ying also took a liking to this car, and walked over together with Zhou Xuan by the wrist. Zhou Ying seemed a little uncomfortable, and felt even more flustered when she saw the shop assistants staring at her with scrutinizing eyes.
Zhou Ying was easily spotted; her clothes were all very ordinary, no brand names, and cost no more than five hundred yuan. The car sales clerks were very sharp-eyed; four women and two men practiced analyzing customers' wealth and psychology every day.
Although Li Wei comes from a special family, he doesn't have the habit of spending money like water, nor does he have that much money to squander. Although he often fools around with his friends, he could never possibly have millions of dollars to spare.
Li Wei could tell that the sales clerks had a sharp eye for cars, so he immediately grabbed Zhou Ying's hand and said loudly, "Xiao Ying, take a good look at these cars, and buy whichever one you like!"
On the other side, Fu Ying pulled Zhou Xuan around the red car, and one of the female sales clerks came over to introduce it: "Sir, Madam, are you interested in this car? This is a Porsche 4."
Fu Ying waved to her, then said to Zhou Xuan, "This is a 2010 Porsche 3. It weighs 1,515 kilograms, is 4,469 centimeters long, 1,852 centimeters wide, and 1,285 centimeters high. It has four seats and a twin-turbocharged opposed engine, with a top speed of 329 kilometers per hour!"
The saleswoman was stunned. Fu Ying seemed to know more about the car and was more familiar with it than she did!