How can I justify myself as a Magnate if I don't indulge myself?

Lin Ran: "..."

Not willing to deal with him any longer, Lin Ran glanced at the camera’s display and let out a sigh of regret, "It’s a pity. The fireworks are set off too far away. Otherwise, it would have made great Vlog material."

"What’s wrong, this won’t do?"

"It’s not that it won’t do, it’s just too distant. It looks beautiful to us here, but the recorded effect is mediocre."

"That’s easy to fix. Get in the car."

"What for?"

Before she finished speaking, Gu Heng had already pulled Lin Ran into the car, didn’t answer, and just sped off towards town.

The journey that should have taken six or seven minutes was cut in half by Gu Heng’s amateur racer driving skills, and they arrived in town.

Although it was called a town, it wasn’t much more bustling than Gu Heng’s place—reminiscent of the suburbs in the city years ago. But regardless, the place was bustling.

Especially because of the Little New Year, many children were setting off firecrackers on the roadside...

From time to time, crisp laughter could be heard...

Gu Heng paid no attention to these scenes but stopped at the entrance of a fireworks wholesaler...

"Get out, get out..."

"What on earth are you doing?"

Lin Ran was a smart woman. Seeing that Gu Heng had brought her to a firework store, she had roughly guessed what Gu Heng was about to do, but she couldn’t help asking.

"Never mind what I’m doing. Hurry up and get out."

After that, Gu Heng got out of the car first and went straight into the fireworks store.

"Boss!"

As soon as he entered, Gu Heng called out loudly in dialect.

"Hey! What do you want to buy?"

"Do you still have fireworks for sale?"

The store owner stood up from the counter with a smile upon hearing Gu Heng’s words, "What kind of question is that? How could we not have fireworks during the New Year? Which ones are you interested in?"

"What kinds do you have?"

As the store owner spoke, he led Gu Heng to the place where the fireworks were displayed, "Here they all are.

There are some that only make a bang for 20 yuan each, with no fireworks to show for it.

There are small fireworks for 60 yuan, and the big ones for 120 yuan." n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Looking at the fireworks, Gu Heng frowned slightly with dissatisfaction, "Is this all? Don’t you have the bigger type?"

"Yes, yes, yes! There’s a kind that costs 400 yuan and makes 36 bangs. The fireworks from that one are so big that people in the neighboring county can see it!"

Ignoring the store owner’s exaggerated sales pitch, Gu Heng asked, "Is 400 yuan the biggest you’ve got?"

"That’s the biggest. You won’t find any larger than that in the other shops around town, I guarantee."

Although still unsatisfied, Gu Heng nodded and said, "Then get me one of those 400 yuan ones."

The store owner loved doing business with young people who don’t haggle over prices. If it had been older folks, they would have bargained endlessly. He quickly put on a broad smile and asked, "How many do you want?"

"How many do you have?"

The store owner was taken aback by Gu Heng’s question...

This was the first time he’d encountered someone shopping like this. Then he said, "I’m a wholesaler. I can sell as many as you want."

"Alright then. For the 400 yuan ones, I’ll take a hundred."

As soon as Gu Heng’s casual words were uttered, the store owner gasped in shock...

"What’s the matter?"

"A hundred might not be enough. That kind isn’t an easy sell. I only ordered eighty to begin with, and have sold half. There are only about forty left..."

"Didn’t you just say you could sell me as many as I want?"

"Well, I didn’t know you’d want so many... You ask for a hundred right off the bat, and the biggest size, too. Even people who come in to stock up for weddings or funerals don’t buy that many..."

Gu Heng didn’t want to squabble with the store owner, so he continued, "Then give me all the ones you have left, and top up the rest with the slightly smaller ones until you have a hundred. That will be enough, right?"

"Enough, enough, enough! But, young man, purchasing so many might be hard to transport. You would need a small truck to haul them. If you’re not in a hurry, I can deliver them to your doorstep. Just give me an address, and I’ll bring them to your place tomorrow."

The owner’s tone was even more polite than before, as he was about to close a substantial deal and even offered to deliver the goods to Gu Heng’s doorstep.

But Gu Heng wasn’t the least bit moved by this offer, waving his hand and saying, "Don’t take them away."

"Not taking them? So you’re not buying?"

The store owner thought Gu Heng was messing with him, and his tone rose sharply...

Customer service in the countryside is straightforward: they’re nice to you if you’re buying. If you aren’t, they couldn’t care less about you.

"When I say don’t take them away, I mean set them off here!

Find some people to move the fireworks outside your store. I saw a big open space next door, just set them up there."

"No way, you’re saying you’re buying all these fireworks just to set off here for fun?"

Gu Heng was tired of the back-and-forth, impatiently saying, "Just tell me if you’re selling or not. If you are, hurry up and give me the total."

"I’ll sell, but you have to pay first. This is the first time I’ve encountered someone purchasing like you.

40 units of the 400 yuan fireworks come to sixteen thousand, plus 60 of the 120 yuan ones make seven thousand two hundred. That’s a total of twenty-three thousand two hundred. Just give me twenty-three thousand."

Hearing the price, Gu Heng scanned a QR code that the owner, with a suspicious look, pointed towards.

[WeChat payment received: Twenty-three thousand yuan]

Following the chime of the received payment from the phone, the store owner finally smiled and said, "Hold on, I’ll call my son to come over."

"How long will it take?"

"Not long, my place is just around the corner, they’ll be here in two minutes."

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....

Lin Ran had been standing at the entrance all along, listening to Gu Heng’s conversation with the store owner. Watching Gu Heng walk out with a complicated expression, she said, "Actually, it wasn’t necessary. The Vlog I shot was barely passable."