Reaching the age of thirty, my income randomly doubled-Chapter 849 - 648: High Configuration

Song Yanxi bought a bunch of cars for the family again.

Little sister Chen Qi was the happiest—she always felt that she didn’t have to buy anything herself. By standing behind her brother and sister-in-law, she’d have everything she needed.

And look, a sleek Aston Martin was delivered right to the door.

Chen Qi hopped in and immediately wanted to take a few laps and feel the roaring engine of this new sports car.

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It wasn’t until late December that normalcy returned to Magic City, and the three little ones went back to school.

But something both big and small happened at home: the eldest sister’s younger daughter, Xiao Le, got her driver’s license.

While driving the Aston Martin her aunt gifted her, she was leisurely tooling around near the school and ended up accidentally hitting a classmate.

It wasn’t a huge deal, really, but that classmate’s parents turned out to be incredibly tough customers.

They refused to discharge their son from the hospital. After a series of tests, it was obvious he only had minor injuries—just a little scratch on his foot.

But his parents were demanding compensation for emotional distress, academic recovery costs, and even psychological trauma.

All kinds of fees, adding up to seven or eight hundred thousand yuan.

It was pocket change, really. Chen Yao was upset, of course, but it was her daughter who caused the trouble.

Plus, Xiao Le planned to take the civil servant exams in the future. She couldn’t afford a bad record.

Chen Yao, being the straightforward person she was, went over immediately to apologize in person.

She even openly admitted that her daughter was responsible and promised to handle everything fully and responsibly.

She told them outright that no matter how much money it took, she would compensate them.

What could’ve been settled with a few thousand yuan escalated because of her words—those people clearly realized they’d caught a big fish.

And the dumbest thing? She actually told them Xiao Le was planning to take the civil servant exams and couldn’t afford to have anything bad on her record.

That was it. Turns out, the classmate’s parents weren’t decent folks to begin with.

The two of them were idlers who barely hung around the mahjong halls, doing nothing productive.

Their entire household finances depended on compensation from demolishing old houses left by the previous generation.

This was how they scraped by. Now, with such a golden opportunity, how could they not milk it?

What should’ve been a few thousand yuan turned into several hundred thousand.

As for Xiao Le, she kept her mouth shut throughout, feeling like she’d made a massive mistake.

Once Chen Yao settled the payment, those two finally relented, and their son sprang out of the hospital as energetic as ever.

You have to admit, that family? Full of masters at this game.

Even Chen Pingsheng, when he came, didn’t really comment—mainly because, truth be told, that sum wasn’t much of a hit.

A lesson learned the hard way.

Xiao Le, in a sense, bought herself a lesson with all that money. She had been feeling a little showy, which is why she drove a top-tier sports car like the Aston Martin around the school, despite being inexperienced.

Things like this aren’t that rare. Recently, someone even wilder emerged.

They bought a sports car worth several hundred thousand yuan and took it drifting on the school lawn.

When everything was tallied up, selling the car wouldn’t have even covered the damages. That person basically turned themselves into a certified fool.

Chen Pingsheng took Xiao Le back to his place. Honestly, with the way her mother handled things, there was no way she’d raise a solid civil servant.

If Xiao Le manages to improve her grades, it’ll already be a blessing earned from a previous life.

Judging from how this whole mess was handled, Xiao Le, along with her mother Chen Yao, were light-years away from mastering social finesse.

If this was their level, even if Xiao Le managed to pass the exams and become a civil servant, she’d end up like Hu Lin—completely unable to fit in.

She’d get chewed up and spat out by people in that circle in no time.

Chen Pingsheng took her out driving in his Bugatti and invited his wife along too.

The three of them found a small café and ordered a few coffees. Then Chen Pingsheng asked:

"Xiao Le, how does driving the Aston Martin feel?"

Xiao Le’s face went pale instantly. "Uncle, I promise I won’t dare mess around like that again."

"How is this messing around?"

Chen Pingsheng shook his head. "Do you think I brought you here to scold you? You’re wrong. At your age, if you didn’t have a bit of a show-off streak, it’d be impossible—unless you were like Er Piya and An’an, raised in gilded cages since birth."

"The best way to overcome the urge to show off isn’t to make it poor and deprived, nor to make it incapable of enjoying life, but to let it accept everything as just another part of life."

"The reason I brought you out today was to tell you that you have four years left to fully experience the best of the material world. Today, let’s go out and enjoy it together."

At this point, there wasn’t much of a choice. If he didn’t step in to train his sister’s kids now...

With his sister’s overly honest nature, it’d never work out.

"Uncle, is this… really necessary?"

Xiao Le was completely taken aback. She hadn’t expected her uncle brought her out for this reason.

"Absolutely necessary."

Chen Pingsheng said: "I know you’ve had a tough childhood. Even though I give you tens of millions every year now, you hardly spend it. Do you think that’s a good habit?"

"If you think that, then you’re wrong. Luxury items aren’t something you can simply dismiss by being frugal; they’re a part of a person’s confidence."

"When you saw a brand new Aston Martin, your first thought was to show it off to friends. That’s completely normal—most people would think the same."

"But what I want to tell you is this: that’s just the mindset of ordinary people, and it should never appear in someone like you."

"If the same thing happened to Er Piya, do you know what she’d think? She’d wonder if it’s possible to hoist the car into a lake, attach a few giant floating tires, and turn it into a floating water-sports car for fishing."