Reborn: I'll Never Fail My Childhood Sweetheart Again-Chapter 365 - 147: For Such a Liar, the Punishment Is a Lifetime of Cooking and Washing Dishes After Marriage
Jianglan City, Lu Tong Driving School.
A teenager in jeans and a short T-shirt leisurely walked into the practice field.
He looked about seventeen or eighteen, yet had a bit of a mature air, with a cigarette dangling from his mouth.
Seeing this student, the new learners couldn’t help but turn their heads.
Such a young kid was really rare in the driving school, he was the only one among all the learners.
The older students who had been learning for a while were not surprised; they had seen this kid many times.
During the summer vacation, besides making money, Su Zelin had one more important thing to do—get his driver’s license.
He had already turned eighteen, and it was only a matter of time before he bought a car, maybe as soon as next semester, or at the latest, next year.
So, while he was free during the summer vacation, he decided to get his driver’s license first.
Should he take the small car test or the motorcycle test first?
Su Zelin chose C1.
You can’t take both tests at the same time; once you take one, you have to wait a year, and only if you haven’t had more than twelve points deducted for violations can you apply for the second test.
But there was a way around this problem.
Since this regulation had been in place since 2000, there was a loophole.
As it hadn’t been networked nationwide, you could take the first test in location A, then go to location B for the second test; they wouldn’t be able to check your records, allowing you to exploit the loophole and get both licenses within a year.
However, only those who urgently needed both licenses would go to such trouble. For most people, waiting an extra year wasn’t a big deal.
Su Zelin wanted to get both licenses as soon as possible, and it wasn’t a hassle for him.
He planned to return to Jianglan for C1 during the summer, and then get a D license when back in Lin’an, naturally separating the locations, which would be perfect.
Thinking about this, he arrived at his class’s field.
People were already practicing on the field, while those who hadn’t had their turn were smoking, chatting, or playing cards off the field.
They were all middle-aged students, both men and women.
If you had a keen eye, you’d notice that almost all of these people held significant positions in Jianglan.
They were either unit leaders or wealthy individuals.
You could at any time spot a director, deputy director, or someone among the city’s top hundred asset holders.
In these times, a driving school might be one of the easiest places to network with high-level connections.
Since small cars were still considered luxury goods, not many ordinary people took the small car driving test, so it was mostly wealthy people who could afford cars or leaders whose units had official cars, and occasionally some who intended to drive taxis.
Su Zelin’s class was full of leaders and wealthy individuals.
He didn’t feel constrained, but instead smiled, took out a pack of cigarettes, and skillfully greeted everyone.
"Director Zhao, want a smoke?"
"Director Li, how many times did you practice today?"
"Sister Chen, your new hairstyle looks great!"
"..."
They were all in the same driving school class, practicing together every day for this period, having lunch together as well, so they were somewhat like classmates despite the age difference. Their relationships were quite good, and with his smooth-talking nature, these usually aloof leaders and wealthy individuals didn’t put on airs, each wearing a smile: "Hey little brother, you’re here!"
"Even your old man Su Jianjun hasn’t learned to drive yet, and here you are already outshining him!"
Su Zelin’s dad, as one of the earliest people in the city to voluntarily give up the iron rice bowl at the steel factory and venture into business, was somewhat well-known in the city. There were those in the driving school class who recognized him.
"Haha, well, I’m just idling during the holidays at home anyway, so mastering a new skill isn’t a bad thing."
Su Zelin navigated easily among these experienced folks.
"Xiaosu, if I had your skills, I’d just wait at home for the exam instead of coming here to practice!"
A female leader from the government reception office expressed her envy. Female students generally had weaker psychological qualities, slower reaction abilities, and learning speeds compared to male students. This female leader struggled a lot, so she particularly envied Su Zelin, who quickly picked up the skills and became proficient in just a few days.
In his previous life, this wanderer had over ten years of driving experience, drove various types of cars, was even a VIP member of a racing club, and occasionally went for a few laps of racing, so his skills were already highly refined, and these rookie students here couldn’t compare.
However, when Su Zelin first got in the car to practice, he still put on an act because, in others’ eyes, it wouldn’t make sense for a kid who’d never touched a steering wheel to drive like an F1 racer.
After acting for two or three days, he was already in control, and others just attributed it to young people having smart minds and learning quickly, not suspecting otherwise.
"No, no, Sister Chen, my skills are just so-so!"
Su Zelin humbly downplayed his skills.
He could indeed skip practicing and directly take the test.
However, this wanderer often came to the driving school, not for driving, but for the people.
An opportunity to meet so many leaders and wealthy individuals at once didn’t happen often. Of course, they wouldn’t really treat you as a lifelong friend due to identity differences, but even just being a familiar face was beneficial. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮
The coach car returned to the side of the field. A student who had practiced a lap got out, and it was the turn of the government reception office’s Sister Chen.
At this moment, the coach noticed Su Zelin and stepped down from the passenger seat: "Xiaosu, you take over as a practice partner for them, I’m going to take a break and have a drink!"
Since the coach discovered that after just two days of practice, Su Zelin was already very skilled, he no longer needed him to practice but often asked him to sit in his place as a practice partner.
This was something many coaches did; there had to be someone watching from the passenger seat, but sitting there from morning till afternoon was quite tiring, so some coaches would sometimes ask outstanding students in the class to fill in as practice partners while they took a break or played cards.
