Back to the 1980s: Transmigrated as the Bigshot's Pampered Wife-Chapter 60: Unattainable
The moment Gu Jiaojiao spoke, it wasn’t just the driver who felt hungry—Mr. Gu and Song Zijie’s stomachs started to rumble too.
So they pulled over to the side of the road. Su Shuochi took some food out of his backpack, including a thermos filled with chicken soup.
He took out some bowls, ladled out the soup for everyone, and handed out still-hot meat buns and warm, braised pig’s trotters.
Song Zijie took a sip of the chicken soup and asked in surprise, "How is this still hot?"
"It’s hot because it stayed in the bag. Hurry up and eat," Su Shuochi urged him.
Song Zijie’s attention was captivated by the delicious chicken soup, especially the braised pig’s trotters, which were unlike any he had ever tasted.
The Song Family was one of the top two most prominent families in Qing City, yet he had never eaten pig’s trotters this good.
His dad had said the Su family’s tea was exceptionally rare—you couldn’t buy it anywhere in Qing City.
Song Zijie had assumed "rare" meant "unrefined," but his dad had corrected him.
He hadn’t interacted much with Su Shuochi, aside from a couple of grain deals. The man was an enigma.
"Jiaojiao, are you tired?"
"Not at all. After we eat, let me drive for a while."
"Jiaojiao, you know how to drive?" Su Shuochi really wanted to ask, ’You’ve never even ridden in a car before, how could you possibly know how to drive one?’
’Immortals probably don’t know how to drive,’ he thought. ’They just fly around on clouds.’
"I know how. My older brother taught me," Gu Jiaojiao stated calmly.
This was a safe excuse, since none of them had known her original self well. Her original self’s older brother had doted on her and even taken her to his military base once.
"Jiaojiao, you can drive too?" Mr. Gu asked in surprise.
He could also drive, but only just enough to get the car moving. He didn’t dare to actually take it on the road.
Mr. Gu had studied abroad, and in its heyday, the Gu Family had enjoyed boundless prestige.
Back then, at the peak of their influence, Mr. Gu had dreamed of buying a car. But then the Movement started, and all of that went up in smoke.
Everything Song Zijie knew about Gu Jiaojiao came from his mother and sister, so when she said she could drive, he was the first to believe her.
After all, the fact that the Sheng Family’s eldest son doted on his younger sister was famous in their residential compound.
"There’s barely any traffic. If you want to drive, Sister-in-law, go for it. Just keep it around twenty an hour."
Gu Jiaojiao, while gnawing on a pig’s trotter, mumbled, "Mmm-hmm... then you guys better eat faster."
’Twenty an hour? Who is he kidding?!’
’Back in my time, if it weren’t for the 120 km/h speed limit, I could have gone even faster. Seriously.’
Setting off again, Gu Jiaojiao sat in the driver’s seat, while Mr. Gu remained in the passenger seat to navigate.
The driver stared uneasily at the young woman in the driver’s seat, afraid that she would carelessly veer off the road.
Gu Jiaojiao was a veteran driver with a decade of experience, but she couldn’t let on that she was too proficient.
She recalled her first time driving and began to act the part. "Ah! The car’s moving! I’m actually making it move!
Haha... this is so amazing! I’m so excited! What a feeling! This is my first time behind the wheel. I might be a little nervous, but I’m just so happy..."
Gu Jiaojiao trailed off as she spoke, because everyone in the car was staring at her like she was some kind of freak.
They all knew how to drive, so they could tell if someone was a skilled driver at a glance.
The moment Gu Jiaojiao sat down, she had deftly adjusted the seat, checked the handbrake, and tested the gearshift.
Then she peeled out, all without asking the driver a single question, her mouth still babbling out her "first-timer" monologue.
"Jiaojiao, I know you’re very capable. Seeing you like this only makes me proud."
Seeing that his daughter had finally realized she was putting on an act, Mr. Gu spoke with deep meaning.
"Hehe~ I was just afraid of scaring you all~ I really am amazing."
"Jiaojiao is the most capable person in the world," Su Shuochi declared proudly. ’And the most capable immortal in the Immortal World,’ he added in his head.
Her glory was his glory, after all. He felt as if his wife’s amazing skills were his own.
’Sister-in-law truly is the most amazing person,’ Song Zijie thought. ’My mom and sister’s information was all wrong.’
Gu Jiaojiao dropped the act, driving the Hongqi sedan with the presence of a Maybach.
The driver watched, dumbfounded. ’If there were a few more young women like her in the world,’ he thought, ’my prestigious job would probably be obsolete.’
"Dad, check the road. Which way do we go?"
"Oh, go straight, then turn left," Mr. Gu said, pointing to his left.
Gu Jiaojiao: ...
"Dad, do you mean turn left up ahead, or turn left now? The way you’re pointing means we should turn left right now."
"Ah, Jiaojiao, wait a moment. I forgot to check the road," Mr. Gu said.
Gu Jiaojiao: ...
"Oh dear, Jiaojiao, let’s just drive straight ahead and see," Mr. Gu said uncertainly.
Helpless, Gu Jiaojiao had no choice but to start the car and drive forward.
But just as she accelerated, he called out, "Jiaojiao, it was a left turn back there! Yes, we were supposed to turn left right there!"
Luckily, Gu Jiaojiao was skilled enough to whip the car around in a drift. This era had its advantages—the roads were wide and practically empty.
Su Shuochi admitted to himself that he couldn’t drive at that level, and he’d been driving for three years.
"Jiaojiao, we’re not in a hurry. You can drive slowly." Su Shuochi felt more nervous with his wife driving than when he drove himself.
His back was already sore, but he didn’t care at all, his eyes fixed on his wife without blinking.
"Don’t worry, my skills are excellent."
Mr. Gu trusted his daughter and was more careful when giving directions afterward. Unfortunately, he had never left the farm in all his years there.
The only time he had was in Uncle Dong’s car, and he had been so dizzy and confused back then that he hadn’t memorized the route at all.
After that, Su Shuochi took over navigating. He listened carefully to what his father-in-law said and relied on his own sharp senses.
He didn’t make a single mistake. A journey that should have taken twelve hours was completed by Gu Jiaojiao in just nine.
When the farm administrator saw Mr. Gu, he was as enthusiastic as if he were seeing his own father, bowing and scraping so much he nearly knelt.
Gu Jiaojiao was very curious. ’With an administrator like this, the Gu Family shouldn’t have had such a hard life on the farm.’
What she didn’t know was that these same people had previously wanted to kill the Gu father and son, but someone had come and taken them away.
After all, they had tormented them so viciously in the early days that they were terrified the Gu Family would seek revenge now that their fortunes had turned.
They had managed to get into management positions through their connections, so they knew that Old Sir Gu’s students were spread far and wide, each of them powerful and influential.
Since they had lost their chance to cause harm, they decided to do their best to make up for their past mistakes, giving Mr. Gu and his group the cleanest rooms on the farm.
The couple, Su Shuochi and his wife, stayed in one room. Song Zijie and Mr. Gu stayed in another, and the driver was assigned to stay with the administrator.
Drivers were highly sought-after in this era. The administrator wanted to curry favor with the driver, but more importantly, he wanted to fish for information.
Mr. Gu, however, didn’t care at all. Before, he had been powerless against the administrator. Now, he was someone so far out of the administrator’s league that he couldn’t even dream of associating with him.
’What was there to fuss about?’
He found his old friend, Geng Ruixian—a friend with whom he had studied abroad.
Mr. Gu looked at his emaciated friend on the bed and asked urgently, "Ruixian, how is your health?"
