Chapter 70: Changes Brought by Pinduoduo
"Fuck! It's blocked!"
After finishing his final exams at Shanxi Normal University, Jiang Hao drove back to his hometown, Laiyang, a small county in Jiaodong. However, once he got off the highway, Jiang Hao was completely stuck in traffic.
"Although the Chinese New Year is approaching, there's no need to stay stuck in traffic like this. This is a highway exit quite far from the city!" Jiang Hao, who was stuck in traffic, complained.
This Bentley is really fun to drive on the highway, but when it comes to traffic jams, it's just like everyone else.
Looking at the huge trucks filling the road, Jiang Hao felt depressed. He really hated traffic jams. He had never seen so many trucks in the city in his previous life!
"Hey man, the car is so cool!"
In the crowded traffic, a BMW 530 squeezed next to Jiang Hao's car rolled down its window, and a young "little yellow-haired" leaned out of the car and praised Jiang Hao's Bentley.
"Oh! Zhang Chao!" The small city is really small. Jiang Hao took a look and he recognized the "little yellow-haired" man driving a BMW 530.
This is Jiang Hao's high school classmate. Although they are not in the same class, Zhang Chao is very famous in the school as a "thug" who doesn't study well. At least he is much more famous than Jiang Hao, who is an average student.
"Not bad!" Seeing Zhang Chao driving the BMW, Jiang Hao praised him with a smile.
Jiang Hao remembered that after graduating from high school, this classmate started driving an excavator and earned a very good salary.
And because he didn't go to college, his family used the money set aside for his education to pay the down payment for a house in the city. That was in 2013!
The money he earned from the appreciation of the house he bought was enough for a college student to earn in half his lifetime.
He was a lucky guy in his previous life, but Jiang Hao remembered that he didn’t drive a BMW either!
"Oh my God, Jiang Hao!" When Zhang Chao saw that it was Jiang Hao sitting in the Bentley, he was instantly excited. This feeling made him more excited than seeing a peerless beauty!
At first, Zhang Chao didn't remember Jiang Hao, the mediocre middle school student in high school. But ever since Jiang Hao became famous, he immediately remembered Jiang Hao, a classmate from Class 20, and started to brag to everyone that he and Jiang Hao were classmates.
So, when Zhang Chao really saw this old classmate in person, he was so excited: "Fuck! Jiang Hao, it's really you!"
Seeing Jiang Hao staring at his BMW, Zhang Chao hurriedly smiled and said, "I made some money following your Pinduoduo."
"Not bad!" Jiang Hao nodded with a smile.
Zhang Chao really wanted to invite Jiang Hao to have dinner together, but he knew he was not worthy.
However, Zhang Chao was very observant. When the car in front of him kept preventing Jiang Hao's car from cutting in line, Zhang Chao simply turned the steering wheel to stop the car in front and quickly created space for Jiang Hao to cut in line.
"Thank you!" Seeing that there was a place, Jiang Hao hurriedly stepped on the accelerator and drove in, rolled down the window, waved to Zhang Chao to express his gratitude.
The Volkswagen that Zhang Chao stopped had its window lowered. Seeing Zhang Chao's attentiveness to the Bentley, it said helplessly, "Dude, is it necessary to do this to please the Bentley?"
Zhang Chao looked at Jiang Hao's departing Bentley, handed a cigarette to the Volkswagen owner, and said, "Do you know whose car that is?"
"Who is it?" The Volkswagen owner took the cigarette handed to him by Zhang Chao and thought that this guy was not bad. Although he refused his car, he knew to hand over a cigarette.
In the crowded traffic, Zhang Chao lit a cigarette and asked, "Does Pinduoduo know?"
Speaking of this, the owner of the Volkswagen car said with pride: "Of course I know, the founder behind it, Jiang Hao, is our fellow countryman! And I heard that he is very powerful in Yanjing! He even wrote a paper!"
The Volkswagen owner lit up a cigarette and continued happily: "I don't know if he is awesome in Yanjing, and I don't understand what papers he wrote, but our factory makes chicken products, and our products are directly exported to foreign countries with Pinduoduo!" "Fuck, our boss made a lot of money! Our salary has also increased, and you see, I also changed my car."
Zhang Chao exhaled a puff of smoke, looked at the Bentley that was blocking the road not far ahead, and said with awe in his eyes: "The one in the Bentley is him! My high school classmate Jiang Hao!"
"Shit!" The Volkswagen owner was shocked and quickly regretted: "It was really him, oh damn, why didn't I give him way!"
Then the Volkswagen owner hurriedly took out his phone and said, "Wait a minute, my brother-in-law is at the traffic police brigade, I'll call him! We can't let him get stuck in traffic with us!"
As he spoke, the Volkswagen owner made a phone call:
"Yes, yes, that's the Jiang Hao you mentioned!"
"Yes, it's him, a Bentley coupe with a Yanjing license plate!"
"Oh my, I swear it's really him! Hurry up and report to your leader, he's been blocked here!"
The Volkswagen owner hung up the phone and said to Zhang Chao with a smile: "Go back to the car and wait. The traffic jam will be cleared soon!"
"Hahaha!" Zhang Chao threw away the cigarette in his hand and laughed, and at this time the sound of sirens could be faintly heard.
For the officials of this small city, they don’t really care about a rich man driving a Bentley. They can even easily control a rich but powerless Bentley owner.
But when the person driving the Bentley turned out to be a member of the deepening reform team, everything was different. The leader of their leader was a member of Jiang Hao's data analysis team.
So because of Jiang Hao, today's urban transportation is better than ever before.
It is said that "the closer you get to home, the more you miss the city", but Jiang Hao is different. The closer he gets to home, the more annoyed he becomes: "Why is the traffic so damn congested? It wasn't so congested in the city just now!"
In Jiang Hao's memory, this rural national highway leading to their small village has never had any traffic jams!
But now, this place is completely different from what Jiang Hao remembered from his previous life: this two-way two-lane road is crowded with all kinds of cars and large trucks carrying goods;
And although it is close to the Spring Festival, there is intensive expansion construction going on on both sides of the road. It seems that they are going to expand this road into a six-lane bidirectional road!
This made Jiang Hao, who was sitting here, very confused: Could it be that we have taken the wrong path?
In the previous life, as the village gradually declined, there was no possibility of expanding this rural road!
"Why are there so many big cars?"
When a large truck squeezed in, Jiang Hao, who was stuck in the road, complained unhappily.
And when Jiang Hao finally drove up the last small hill leading to the village and looked at the small village where he was born from the hillside, Jiang Hao was even more confused: Did I go the wrong way?
A road sign that read "Jiaodong Food Town Welcomes You" was placed in the middle of the road. Jiang Hao was very surprised. What "Jiaodong Food Town"?
When Jiang Hao looked towards the village, the vegetable field at the entrance of the village in his memory had now become a factory.
Judging from the signs on the factory buildings, there are a series of food factories including a dried apple processing factory, an apple cider processing factory, an apple vinegar processing factory, a sweet potato vermicelli factory, a miscellaneous grain processing factory, a canned fruit factory, as well as a series of trading companies and logistics companies.
The whole village is like a large construction site, with densely packed tower cranes. It is approaching the Spring Festival, and there are still construction vehicles and freight trucks weaving around in the village.
Looking further away, it seems that several neighboring villages have merged together.
(End of this chapter)
