Chapter 405 - Ye Qiu's Birthday
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Li Qianqian had been waiting for Ye Qiu to get his driverâs license so they could go look at and buy a car together.
She didnât expect that Ye Qiu had already made the purchase.
Li Qianqian felt that Ye Qiu didnât really like her, which was why he didnât really listen to her.
Entering the place, Li Qianqian said somewhat angrily, âIdiot, you said you were going to buy the car with me.â
âDidnât I already buy it?â
âBut you donât have a driverâs license.
Buying a car now, wouldnât that mean driving without a license?â
Li Qianqian didnât know whether Ye Qiu could drive or not.
But if Ye Qiu couldnât drive, how could he possibly have driven the car here?
âIâll tell you, I can get it in two or three days,â
Ye Qiu whispered in Li Qianqianâs ear.
Li Qianqian was still somewhat disbelieving.
However, she also knew that Ye Qiu definitely wouldnât lie to her.
This also meant that the network of relationships Ye Qiu had was not as simple as she had imagined.
âWho?
You mean you donât even have to attend driving school?â
Li Qianqian thought that Ye Qiu had bought his way through, which would be Ye Qiuâs network of relationships.
âYouâll find out later.â
This made Li Qianqian even more curious.
After the female waiter brought over the dishes Li Qianqian had just ordered one after another, Ye Qiu called the two women to have lunch.
After finishing lunch and resting there for half an hour, when Ye Qiu called Ye Weidong again, Ye Weidong and Chen Fang had arrived at the Day Selection Office in A-Wuâs BMW, and there were a lot of people there, the two of them still queuing for a number.
âUncle, Auntie, are you still in line?â
Ye Qiu asked.
âThereâre too many people selecting auspicious days at the Day Selection Office, and the two of us are still in line.â
âIf I had known, I would have helped you.â
Even if Li Qianqian didnât use her fatherâs connections, if she had someone line up early in the morning, she would have quickly settled the day selection.
âSo, are we going to the Day Selection Office now?â
âLetâs go take a look.â
After Ye Qiu paid the bill and came out, Li Qianqian wanted to get into Ye Qiuâs Mercedes, but since she had come in her Beetle, she definitely had to follow him there.
She knew that Ye Qiuâs Mercedes would definitely be much more comfortable to sit in than her Beetle.
As Ye Qiu drove near the Day Selection Office following the navigation, he discovered that the area was filled with parked cars.
This Day Selection Office served both official and civil purposes, and with the date selections being quite accurate, most of Jinlingâs ordinary citizens came here to select their dates.
Whether it was for the death of a family member, moving into a new home, the babyâs full month celebration, choosing a wedding date, or other important occasions, everyone would bring their family membersâ birth dates to select auspicious days here.
After Ye Qiu found a parking spot for his car and Li Qianqian found one as well, Ye Qiu and Ye Xue got out of the car and waited for her.
As the three of them entered the Day Selection Office, Li Qianqian was surprised to see so many people inside, similar to a bank counter, where everyone was queueing.
Ye Qiu looked around for a while before he found Ye Weidong in the queue.
When Ye Qiu approached, Ye Weidong said, âItâs too crowded.
Mom and I are taking turns in line.
Just now, A-Wu queued for half an hour too.â
Ye Qiu hadnât expected that selecting a date here would attract so many people, and now Ye Weidong was still in line more than ten meters away.
However, what surprised Ye Qiu was that the staff at the counters werenât the elderly as he had imagined, but rather men in their twenties and thirties, all wearing western-style uniforms.
In front of them, there was a computer, presumably, to enter peopleâs birth details into the system and then calculate the date.
Therefore, this so-called date selection was actually calculated through âThe Book of Changes.â
Outside, fortune-tellers and Feng Shui masters calculated it, but here it was computed through a programmed system.
âDad, how about I queue up?â
Ye Xue said.
âItâs all right, standing for a while wonât hurt.â
After Li Qianqian and Ye Weidong greeted Chen Fang, Ye Qiu somehow found two stools, handing one directly to Chen Fang and another to Ye Weidong.
Once Ye Weidong sat down, understandably, he was not tired from standing up anymore.
âWhere did these stools come from?â
âThey were selling them outside.â
Ye Qiu had thought she obtained them from somewhere, not expecting she had purchased them.
âMom and Dad, have you eaten yet?â
âNot yet.â
Since that was the case, Ye Qiu asked Ye Weidong and his wife and AâWu to go out for a meal first, while he stayed to queue up.
After making sure Ye Xue took his parents away, Ye Qiu and Li Qianqian waited there together.
After sitting for about fifteen minutes, the queue was still four to five meters long.
Normally, according to these computer systemsâ calculations, that should be very quick.
Unexpectedly, due to the large crowd and some ordinary citizens getting their appointment days without understanding them, they could only ask the staff members inside for help.
With more people asking questions, the waiting time got even longer.
Finally, when it was Ye Qiuâs turn, he handed the paper to the staff member inside, which listed the birth dates and times in the format of âEight Characters of Birth Timeâ for Ye Qiu, Ye Xue, Ye Weidong, and Chen Fang.
Ye Qiu certainly knew his own âEight Characters of Birth Timeâ from the Heavenly Court Imperial Medical Bureau, but as for this current Ye Qiuâs birth time, he originally did not know it was the day before August Fifteenth, which was August Fourteenth.
âWhen is your birthday?â
âThe day before August Fifteenth.â
âSo, my birthday is coming up, what are your plans to celebrate with me?â
Li Qianqian hugged Ye Qiuâs arm and asked.
âWeâll talk about it when it comes.â
The staff member inside took the paper and, according to each family memberâs relationship, entered their âEight Characters of Birth Timeâ accurately down to the minute they were born into the system, after which several alternative dates would appear.
Among the generated dates, there was one that was the best and three others as alternatives.
After explaining everything to Ye Qiu and asking for a fee of fifty yuan, he took out some change from his pocket, and holding the red paper, he stepped out of the Date Bureau to find the air outside much fresher.
Inside the Date Bureauâs hall, there were too many people.
Even with the air conditioning on, you could still detect the foul smell of sweat in the heat of the day.
When Ye Qiu and Li Qianqian got into his car, Ye Qiu turned on the air conditioning.
Li Qianqian looked around, inspecting the vehicle.
âHavenât you seen it before?â
âNo, my parents only ride in Audis for their official cars.â
As stipulated by the government, Li Zhiguo and his wifeâs official cars were always Audis, or a secretary would drive Li Zhiguo around.
After waiting in the car for half an hour, Ye Weidong and his wife came back from their meal, heading towards Ye Qiuâs new car.
Although they knew Ye Qiu was going to buy a car, they did not expect that he really had bought one, and at first glance, they could tell that the car was very expensive.
âHow much was it?â
Ye Weidong asked.
âOver two million.â