Chapter 138 - So Many Luxury Cars! (2/2)

“Could it be that he opened an IT firm?”

Nearly all the startup unicorns that could earn over a billion dollar revenue in less than half a year were IT-related firms.

“No, Chen Fan is much smarter than those nerds.” Xu Rongfei covered her mouth and giggled.

She remembered that when her father said that Master Chen had turned ordinary water into a billion dollar industry, she was shocked. She worked so hard at the production sets for an entire year and was only getting paid a million yuan. She had spent all that money on the Channel watch she gave to w.a.n.g Xiaoyun.

Chen Fan could just sit home, kick back and wait for billions of yuan fell onto his lap. That was unheard of and amazing!

Quickly, w.a.n.g Xiaoyun’s doubt turned into shock and surprise.

At the entrance of the Chens Village, on a tall hill…

An old man sat on a rock and was surrounded by many kids.

This old man’s skin was wizened and weather-beaten. He was wearing an old army uniform and was drawing smoke from a tobacco pipe.

The kids around him know him as Old Bone Chen. Rumors had it that he used to work in the city and eventually became the chauffeur for a powerful man. However, due to one reason or the other, Old Bone Chen returned home and worked at The Chens Group as Chen Huaian’s chauffeur.

When the old man retired and came back to his family village, so too did Old Bone Chen.

Old Bone Chen’s children were all working in the city and spent little time with him. Therefore, he mostly hung out with the kids of the village.

Everyone knew that Old Bone Chen had a brilliant party trick. He remembered all the tyc.o.o.ns and their rides by rote. One only needed to tell him the car and the license plate, Old Bone Chen could fill out the rest of the information about the owner: name, age, wealth and status.

Old Bone Chen’s trick worked every time and was fun for the kids. Therefore, during the Chen family’s annual gathering, a group of kids would carry him to the top of the hill and ask him to perform his trick by looking down at the vehicles parked in the parking lot.

“Those days, I drove for the richest man in the city. It was good times. Most businessmen didn’t dare to ignore me when they saw me.”

Old Bone Chen bragged about his past wistfully.

“You are bragging again, Old Bone Chen. The richest man in the city had at least a few billion yuan of wealth. If you drove for him, how could you be so poor?”

A bypa.s.ser jested.

Old Bone Chen stuck his neck out and murmured indignantly: “You don’t know anything! I … I got into trouble, and therefore had to quit.”

Such conversations happened almost every day, and if anyone pressed him about what kind of trouble he was in, Old Bone Chen would usually become quiet all the sudden.

“Looks like the Chen family is doing better every year!”

“Just look at that! Their cars are becoming better and more expensive each year. Two years ago, everyone was driving Audis if not a Volkswagen Pa.s.sat, now there are Mercedes, BMW, Cadillac, and even Lincoln.”

Old Bone Chen exclaimed.

“Old Bone Chen, look there, the logo is two letter R’s and the plate reads J88888. What car is that?”

A kid shouted at the old man.

“That’s Rolls-Royce. It costs five million each. The Rolls-Royce company makes plane engines and so making a car is a walk in the park.”

Old Bone Chen drew some smoke from the pipe and murmured: “Interesting… Why are there so many powerful tyc.o.o.ns from Jiang Bei this year?

“Maybe Lord Chen is going to get promoted and therefore even the businessmen from Jiang Bei would have to come and pay tribute?”

Old Bone Chen mulled over the question.

Suddenly, a kid shouted at him.

“Old Bone Chen, there is an old and beat up looking Audi A6. Must be a less important person, lame.”

“But why is the license plate 00001? There is a parking pa.s.s on the dashboard as well. Old Bone Chen, Who is that?”

Old Bone Chen didn’t reply, so the kid turned around to look at his wizened face.

Old Bone Chen was frozen in place. He moved the pipe away from his lips and murmured: “Audi A6, 00001, parking pa.s.s… That’s Wei Fu’s car!”