Becoming a Russian Oligarch After Rebirth
Chapter 426: Old Classmates_1

Chapter 426: Chapter 426: Old Classmates_1

As for how Director Li went about his work, and how he reported up to his superiors, Wang Ye couldn’t be bothered to care.

In the end, all he needed to do was to foot the bill and "pay", get the factory in his hands and let his father manage it, to keep him a bit occupied.

After returning home in these two days, Wang Ye is slowly finding that old feeling...

He drove around the small streets and alleys of the county town.

Actually, it only took him a day, because the county town is really too small, so small that one could circle around the county town in less than an hour by car.

And that’s even considering bad road conditions, and the fact that there are a lot of pedestrians and bicycles. If the road conditions were good, it wouldn’t even take half an hour!

East Lake, West Lake, South Lake, North...

Oh, there is no North Lake.

In fact, the three lakes in the county town are just one big lake, which everyone called "City Lake" as kids, until it got renamed to "Dragon Lake" later on!

The old city area of the county town was built on top of the lake.

After that, the county town began to develop tourism, and Dragon Lake was cleaned up and renovated quite beautifully, along with Tomb of Emperor Fuxi, which is said to be the origin of mankind.

How the tourism industry develops is still uncertain, but the house prices here have been speculated to be even higher than those in the city...

In Wang Ye’s mind, the county town of around 2000 and the county town of twenty years later, are merged together.

Even though in his "previous life", Wang Ye’s family would have moved to the city a few years later and settled down there after buying a house.

But the county town is, after all, his hometown where he has lived for nearly twenty years, and it is not far from the city.

A straight road leads up to the city area that is only about twenty kilometers away.

Even if it’s not an expressway, sitting in those old minibus, if there’s no hold-up on the road, it would only take about half an hour to get from the county town to the city.

And then more than ten years later, the county town was directly integrated into the city, becoming a district of the city!

......

In a blink of an eye, it is February 2nd, the third day since Wang Ye has returned home.

It is also the twenty-ninth day of the lunar year, just before the New Year.

In the morning when he got up, he told his parents at breakfast that he was going to attend a classmate reunion at noon and wouldn’t be coming home for lunch.

His parents naturally had no objection to this.

But his mother said with a little regret, "Ah, I was planning to have you give me a drive to visit some relatives today, it seems I will have to go with your father. But his lousy Xiali is so dirty, it could easily soil my new clothes."

She turned to Wang Ye’s father and said, "Couldn’t you just get your old car washed? You can’t even tell what color the car is!"

Wang Ye’s father ducked his head to drink porridge, muttering in his mouth, "I have never seen you complain about the car being old before. Now that you’ve ridden in our son’s luxury car, you look down on small Xiali, don’t you?"

Actually, his mother’s words were not wrong. The mink coat she was wearing was far more expensive than his father’s beaten-up Xiali...

Wang Ye couldn’t hold back his smile as he attempted to mediate, "Why don’t we swap cars? I’ll drive father’s Xiali. The car is small, so it should be easy to drive."

But his father shook his head, "You probably can’t drive that car."

"Ah? Why can’t I?" Wang Ye asked puzzled.

"The car is a manual shift, can you still drive a manual car?" His father asked back with a laugh.

Wang Ye was speechless.

Even though when he learned to drive and took his driver’s license, he got the C1 driver’s license and learned to drive a manual car.

But the problem is, after getting his driver’s license, he has never driven a manual car again, so now he really can’t...

His mother didn’t approve either, she said, "You just drive that new car instead, your father and I don’t need to put on airs. It doesn’t matter if we drive an old car, if young people can drive a nice car, of course, they should drive a good car!"

This issue about image...

Wang Ye really hadn’t thought about it.

He really didn’t need to put up any front in front of his old classmates!

......

Under his mother’s "pressure", his father eventually took the small Xiali to get washed, cleaning it inside and out.

Seeing that it was about time, the two of them packed the presents and set off to visit the relatives.

Since they were not very close relatives, just a distant cousin from his mother’s side, it didn’t matter if Wang Ye came or not.

Wang Ye was home alone for a while, and it was rather boring.

Around eleven o’clock, his phone "ding donged" once, receiving a text.

It was from Zhang Xiaoxi, the head of their class. The text read, "Wang Ye, come to the restaurant. Teacher Liu and I will be there soon."

Wang Ye quickly replied, "Ok, I will be there soon."

The weather these days was rather poor, with bouts of freezing rain, cold and wet.

Moreover, there was no heating in the local area, and Wang Ye was really freezing...

It was alright at night when he was sleeping, there was an electric blanket that he could turn on to warm up the bed before sleeping.

But staying at home during the day, even packed in a thick cotton jacket, he was still somewhat shivering...

This time when he came back, he did remember to prepare a lot of things, he prepared gifts for his parents and even gifts for visiting the relatives.

But he forgot to bring himself some warm clothes...

There were no large shopping malls in the small county town, and since he was not going to stay home for long, Wang Ye just casually picked an old down jacket of his father’s to wear.

As for the design or quality, it doesn’t matter. All what matters is that it’s warm.

If his friends from Moscow saw Wang Ye now, probably none of them would have linked him to that "Mikhail".

Because now, Wang Ye, wearing an old and bulging down jacket, with his hair slightly messy, looked just like an ordinary, and a bit rustic, boy from a small county town...

Back in his hometown, Wang Ye didn’t care about maintaining any "image".

As long as it’s warm and neat it will do, who in his hometown could recognize him anyways...

......

Taking his phone, car key, and wallet, Wang Ye was ready to leave.

These days there was no such thing as online payment, everything comes down to cash, and he had a lot of CNY in his big wallet.

It was in the capital, prepared for him by Liu Mei.

It wasn’t a lot, she prepared exactly one hundred thousand, and he spent some on the journey, now he still has over ninety thousand left.

Obviously, Wang Ye’s wallet wouldn’t fit that much, it held only ten thousand.

Locking the courtyard door, he arrived at the hutong entrance, got into his Mercedes, and went straight to West Lake Restaurant...

Having just visited two days before, Wang Ye was already familiar with this restaurant.

Half an hour later, he successfully arrived at the restaurant entrance.

Wang Ye didn’t park his car directly at the front entrance, and intentionally or unintentionally found a more secluded place to park his car.

Then he turned off the ignition and got out of the car, and promptly walked into the hotel.

As soon as he entered the main entrance, even before he could ask the waiter, he heard several people calling his name at the same time.

Turning his head, he saw a large number of students sitting in the hotel lobby, some of them standing up waving at him.

It was obvious, these were his former high school classmates...