Can you be called a rich man if you don’t indulge yourself?

Chapter 96 Sending You a Fireworks Feast

"Be careful on the road, drive slowly!"

After Gu Heng and Lin Ran got in the car, Xu Hong stood by the car and whispered
"I know."

Seeing the worried look on my mother's face, Gu Heng was filled with jealousy.
She never warned me so gently when I went on a long trip before. Usually she would scold me and tell me not to starve to death.
Now I am taking Lin Ran to town, a 10-minute drive at most, and yet she is so worried.
Knew it.
Her son was just an accident, her daughter-in-law was her true love.
Thinking of this, Gu Heng stepped on the accelerator and drove straight into the distance. The acceleration of 3.8-km/h in seconds was no joke, raising a cloud of dust.
"This bastard must have done it on purpose!"

Xu Hong, who was frightened by the speed of the car, stood in the yard and stamped her feet.

"Drive slower."

When the car drove out of the village and onto the main road, Lin Ran sat beside them and whispered.

"What's wrong? Are you scared?

Don't worry, the roads in rural areas are well built now, there will be no problem."

"No, I want to take a good look at the scenery outside. And by the way, take a look at what the place where you grew up is like."

Lin Ran turned his face toward the window and responded calmly.
Hearing her answer, Gu Heng was stunned and couldn't help but complain: "What's so interesting? I almost don't recognize myself. I have changed so much over the years.
Are you addicted to pretending to be my girlfriend and want to make it real?"

Although he said this, the car slowed down and the scenery outside the window gradually became clear.

Roll down the car windows.
The cold wind at night blew, and Lin Ran couldn't help shivering. He subconsciously tightened his collar, but did not close the car window. Instead, he leaned out and looked curiously at the small buildings of various shapes on the roadside.
“These beautiful buildings were built in recent years, and I don’t remember much about them.

But I remember those small dilapidated buildings like my home very clearly. There was a small temple in front of it. When I was young, I didn’t want to go home after school, so I would hide in the temple and play.”

“Why are you hiding in the temple?”

When Lin Ran heard this, he turned around and looked at Gu Heng in confusion.

The wind from the car window blew her hair into a mess, covering most of her delicate face, but the half that was exposed was still breathtakingly beautiful.
“When I was a kid, I was naughty and rarely got spanked by my dad. It was actually my mom who spanked me the most.

But my mother is a Buddhist. She thought that if she beat me in front of the Bodhisattva, she would see me playing with the Bodhisattva in the temple and that it would be disrespectful to him.

When we got home, she didn’t want to hit me anymore.”

"So you are so afraid of your mother now because she beat you too much when you were a child?"

"What else do you think? I had a traumatic childhood. I was beaten every three days and every five days. If I hadn't been able to take the beatings, I don't know how I would have survived to this age!"

Thinking of the photo of Gu Heng as a child, and thinking about how Xu Hong beat him, Lin Ran couldn't help but smile.
suddenly
With a "bang", an explosion sounded from a distance.
Immediately afterwards, a gorgeous firework bloomed in the distant sky.

Gu Heng turned his head and looked towards Lin Ran
Lin Ran's smile and the fireworks appeared in Gu Heng's eyes at the same time, as if the picture was frozen at that moment.
After staring at each other for a few seconds, they turned their heads at the same time in perfect tacit understanding.
Although the carriage fell into silence, the sound of fireworks and firecrackers outside became more and more frequent.
Countless fireworks turned the night sky, which was already past eight o'clock in the evening, into daytime.
When Lin Ran saw this scene, he quickly patted Gu Heng's arm and said, "Pull over quickly. I want to record this scene. Quick, quick, quick."

As he said this, he took out a camera from his bag.

Gu Heng was also very considerate and pulled the car over to the side of the road.

After getting off the car, Lin Ran held up the camera and turned around to record the gorgeous fireworks in the night sky.

"Do you set off fireworks like this every New Year's Eve?"

"Every day? You are dreaming. What do you think those things are in the sky? They are all money. Let's not talk about other places. Just in my town, if we set them off like this, it would cost hundreds of thousands, right?
What kind of family can do this every day?"

"So what's the special day today?"

"It's the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, aren't you celebrating the Little New Year?"

After Gu Heng finished speaking, Lin Ran couldn't help but retort, "Isn't the Little New Year on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month? We in Tianjin celebrate on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month."

"That should be the difference between the north and the south. I heard that coastal areas also celebrate the Little New Year on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month. Anyway, they have similar meanings and are meant to be festive."

But after he finished speaking, Gu Heng finally reacted and said in disbelief: "Are you from Tianjin?

Why have I never heard you have a Tianjin accent? "

Upon hearing this, Lin Ran couldn't help but blush: "Is Mandarin not good?"

It's not that she doesn't want to speak her hometown dialect, but the Tianjin dialect is so recognizable that it sounds like a crosstalk. She cares a lot about her image, and except for speaking in front of her family, she has never spoken her Tianjin dialect in front of outsiders.
But when she thought about how much Gu Heng had revealed in front of her, she didn't want to be polite anymore and said with a smile, "Do you want to hear it?"

When Gu Heng heard this, his eyes lit up and he said, "Then tell me the name of the dish~ steamed bear paws and steamed deer tails."

Lin Ran: “???”

"Do you think all people in Tianjin can tell crosstalk?"

"Isn't it? When I was delivering takeout, I had a colleague who was a big brother from Tianjin. He could tell all those crosstalk jokes so easily that people who didn't know him would think he graduated from Deyun Club."

Lin Ran: “.”

Not wanting to deal with him anymore, Lin Ran glanced at the camera and sighed regretfully, "What a pity, the fireworks are too far away, otherwise it would be a good Vlog material."

"Why, this won't work?"

"It's not that it's not possible, it's just that it's too far away. It looks beautiful in real life, but the effect is average in the photo."

"That's easy. Get in the car."

"what?"

Before he finished speaking, Gu Heng pulled Lin Ran into the car, and without answering, he sped up and drove towards the town.

The journey, which originally took six or seven minutes, was shortened by half thanks to Gu Heng's amateur racing driver skills, and they finally arrived in the town.

In fact, although it is called a town, it is not much more prosperous than Gu Heng's home. It is a bit like the urban-rural fringe of a city many years ago. But no matter what, it is still quite lively here.

Especially because of the Little New Year, many children are setting off firecrackers on the roadside.
From time to time, there were crisp laughter.
Gu Heng didn't pay attention to these scenes, but stopped in front of a fireworks wholesale store.
“Get off the bus.”

"What on earth do you want to do?"

Lin Ran was a smart woman. When she saw Gu Heng bringing her to the fireworks shop, she had roughly guessed what Gu Heng was going to do, but she still couldn't help asking.

"Don't worry about what you are doing, just get out of the car."

After saying that, Gu Hengxian got out of the car and walked directly into the fireworks store.

"boss!"

As soon as he entered the door, Gu Heng started shouting in dialect.

"Hey! What do you want to buy?"

"Are there any fireworks left for sale?"

The boss listened to Gu Heng's words and stood up from the counter with a smile: "What are you saying? It's Chinese New Year, how can there be no fireworks? Which kind do you want to buy?"

"What kinds?"

As the boss spoke, he took Gu Hengshi to where the fireworks were placed and said, "They are all here.

There are 20 yuan worth of them, but you can only hear the explosion, but you can't make any money from them.

There are also small flowers for 60 yuan and large flowers for 120 yuan. "

Looking at the fireworks, Gu Heng frowned in dissatisfaction and asked, "That's all? Are there any bigger ones?" "Yes, yes, yes! There's also a 400-yuan, 36-shot one, and that one is huge! It explodes so high in the sky that people in the neighboring county can see it!"

Ignoring the boss's exaggerated sales pitch, Gu Heng asked, "400 yuan is the highest?"

"It's the biggest one. If you don't believe me, go to other stores in town and you'll find that there's definitely no store bigger than 400."

Although he was still not satisfied, Gu Heng could only nod and say, "Then help me get this 400 one."

The boss likes to do business with these young people and doesn't bargain. If the older people come to buy, they will bargain for a long time and then ask with a smile on their face: "How many do you want?"

"You have several?"

Hearing Gu Heng's question, the boss was stunned.
It was the first time he heard of buying things in this way, so he said, "I'm a wholesaler, I can sell you as many as you want."

"Okay then, just give me a hundred of these 400 ones."

As soon as Gu Heng said this casually, the boss immediately exclaimed "Ah".
"What's wrong?"

"One hundred may not be enough. This kind of thing is not easy to sell. I only bought eighty in total, and I have sold half of them. There are only about forty left."

"Didn't you just say you could sell me as many as I wanted?"

"Then I didn't know you wanted so many. You asked for a hundred right away, and you wanted the largest ones. Even if someone came to wholesale for a wedding or funeral, they wouldn't be able to buy so many."

Gu Heng was too lazy to argue with the boss and continued, "Then you can give me all the rest, and then help me make up for it with the smaller ones, so that you can make up a hundred. Is that enough?"

"Enough, enough, enough! But it's not easy for a young man to buy so much and take it away. We need a small truck to carry it. If you're not in a hurry, I can deliver it to your door. Just give me your address and I'll deliver it to your house tomorrow."

With a big business coming, the boss' tone became more polite than before, and he was even considerate enough to offer to deliver the goods to Gu Heng's door.

But Gu Heng was not impressed by this thoughtfulness and waved his hand, saying, "I won't take it away."

"You're not taking it away? You're not buying it?"

The boss thought Gu Heng was trying to play a trick on him, and his tone of voice became a little higher.
When you open a shop in the countryside, there is no such thing as service attitude. If you buy something, they will be polite to you. If you don’t buy anything, they won’t even bother to pay attention to you.

"When I said I wasn't going to take it away, I meant I was going to leave it here!
Find a few people to put the fireworks outside your store. I just saw a large open space next to it, so we can put them there."

"No, you said you bought so many fireworks just to set them off for fun?"

Gu Heng was too lazy to argue with him and said impatiently: "Just tell me whether you are going to sell it or not? If you are going to sell it, calculate the price quickly."

“You can sell it, but you have to pay first. This is the first time I’ve seen someone buy something like you.

400 fireworks worth 40 yuan are 120 yuan, and the remaining 60 worth yuan are yuan, a total of yuan, you only need to pay yuan."

Hearing the price, Gu Heng scanned the QR code beside him as his boss looked suspicious.

【WeChat payment of 23,000 yuan】

As the sound of the money arriving came from the phone, the boss smiled and said, "Wait a moment, I'll call home and ask my son to come over."

"how long?"

"It didn't take long. My house is not far away. They were here in two minutes."

Lin Ran had been standing at the door, listening to the conversation between Gu Heng and the boss. When he saw Gu Heng coming out, he said with a complicated expression, "Actually, it's not necessary. The Vlog I shot is barely usable."

Gu Heng took out a cigarette and was about to light it when he saw a room full of firecrackers and fireworks. He could only walk a few steps forward and leave the fireworks store before lighting it. He then glanced at her and said, "No way, no way, you didn't buy so many fireworks just for you to watch, did you?"

Lin Ran didn't say anything, just stared straight into Gu Heng's eyes.

This time it was Gu Heng who was defeated first.
But he still said stubbornly: "I had this idea when I was a child.

You know those little firework tubes?"

"What little fireworks?"

"It's the kind you hold in your hand, light it up and then hold it up, and it goes up to the sky with a whoosh and a pop. It's much smaller than fireworks."

"and then?"

“I used to like playing with these when I was a kid, but when buying New Year’s goods, my dad would usually only buy me one board, which only had ten sticks.

These ten have to be kept for the New Year.

At that time, I swore that when I had money in the future, I would buy a hundred big fireworks and set them off at once! So you know what I am doing? Shooting a Vlog for you is just a side job. I just want to fulfill my childhood dream! "

"You had a lot of dreams when you were a kid. Do you plan to realize them all?"

Gu Heng took a deep puff of cigarette, exhaled one smoke ring after another, and said calmly: "How can it be fully realized? If you can think of it, just be satisfied, if you can't think of it, forget it.

And even if it can be realized now, it doesn’t have the same flavor as when I was a child. For children from poor families, it is just a dream to fart openly.

At that time, I dreamed of eating KFC every day. Now, let alone eating it every day, I can even open a store and run my own business, but what’s the point? ”

Lin Ran is silent
While the two were chatting, the boss, his wife, son, grandson, and a family of more than ten people placed a hundred fireworks on the open space.

Panting, the boss walked up to Gu Heng with a smile and said, "Young man, the fireworks are all set up for you."

As he spoke, he couldn't help but glance at Lin Ran a few more times.
No wonder Gu Heng could buy more than 20,000 yuan worth of fireworks for fun.
If he had such a beautiful girlfriend when he was young, he would have been willing to play like this.
"Boss, if you have nothing to do, can you help me light them? How long will it take me to set off these 100 fireworks by myself?"

Having made such a huge fortune from Gu Heng, the boss didn't hesitate and said with a smile, "Okay!"

Then he said to his sons and grandsons, "Don't rush back. Let's help this young man set off the fireworks. He can't do it alone."

The boss's grandchildren were all teenagers. When they heard this, they jumped up with joy and ran into the house to pick up the lighter.
After a few minutes
Gu Heng and his boss's family all stood in front of the fireworks they had allocated.
There are a hundred fireworks and more than ten people. Each person only needs to set off seven or eight fireworks.
He took the half-smoked cigarette out of his mouth and shouted to Lin Ran who was standing not far away: "Are you ready?!"

"Yeah! I'm ready!"

Lin Ran held up the camera and nodded his head like a chicken pecking at rice.

Gu Heng took a deep breath and gave instructions to the boss and his family: "Start!"

After saying this, he tremblingly extended the cigarette butt towards the fuse.
"Zi La~"

The fuse was quickly lit, and Gu Heng ran to the next firework and repeated the action.
"Hey~"

"Bang~"

As the first firework rose into the sky, subsequent fireworks bloomed in the night sky one after another.
Fireworks may not be very interesting if set off individually, but if a hundred fireworks are set off together, the scene is absolutely spectacular. Even the night becomes as bright as day under the rendering of countless fireworks.
Many people watching TV at home ran out after hearing the loud explosion and took out their phones to take pictures.
After setting off the fireworks assigned to him, Gu Heng threw away his cigarette butt and quickly ran to Lin Ran, shouting, "Did you record it?!"

“It’s recorded!”

"That's good."

After saying this, Gu Heng looked up at the fireworks in the sky, raised his lips, and shouted a series of "Woohoo" ghost cries from his mouth.
Lin Ran looked at Gu Heng who was smiling like a child and couldn't help but turn the camera to focus on Gu Heng's profile.
[The host gave the beauty a fireworks feast, and at the same time fulfilled her childhood dream and successfully indulged. Reward: 18 yuan, balance: 8130 million yuan. ]

Lin Ran watched the fireworks show
But those performances that cost tens of millions of dollars are far inferior to tonight's
This time it was all hers.

(End of this chapter)