From Wage Slave to Tycoon novel Chapter 219

Chapter 219: Chapter 147: Setting Off Fireworks on New Year’s Eve

"Wow, I can’t believe how nice the old school is now!"

Staring at the rows of academic buildings, Su Chen remarked with a sigh, "Back in our day, the classrooms were only a step up from being condemned."

Hearing this, an idea sparked in Su Qingya’s mind. A mischievous grin spread across her face. "Heh heh... Big Brother, they started building all this right after your class graduated. The academic buildings, the dorms, the cafeteria—all of it was built after you left!"

Su Chen’s mood instantly soured. ’It seems my high school was pretty much the same,’ he thought. ’Only instead of building new academic buildings, they restructured it into a completely new school right after we graduated. All the facilities were brand new.’

They were probably the last graduating class of that old school.

After indulging in a brief moment of nostalgia, Su Chen remembered the task at hand.

It was New Year’s Eve, and the streets were bustling with people. Quite a few vendors were selling fireworks.

After driving around for a while, he finally found a fireworks shop that looked like a major wholesaler. Only then did Su Chen pull over.

"This is a one-time deal, so grab whatever you like! Let’s make sure we have our fill of fun today!"

The words had barely left Su Chen’s mouth when two figures shot out of the car, muttering, "I want to buy the big fireworks!"

The fireworks stand was housed under a large tent, but the selection wasn’t actually that big. Aside from the usual small items like regular sparklers and ’cold-flame’ fountain sparklers, they only had three types of boxed fireworks.

Sixty-shot, eighty-shot, and one-hundred-shot varieties. The prices weren’t too steep; the hundred-shot box was just over two hundred, and the other two were over a hundred each.

Su Chen asked the owner and found out that all three types combined only amounted to fifty boxes in total.

When Su Chen said he’d take them all, it wasn’t just the owner—even the other customers browsing the stand stared at him, their jaws agape.

Faced with such a major customer, the owner thoughtfully arranged for a truck to make a home delivery.

Meanwhile, Su Yan and Su Qingya hadn’t been idle either. They bought four huge bags filled with smaller items like sparklers.

When they settled the bill, it came out to exactly fifteen thousand—not a penny more, not a penny less.

Just as they were about to leave, Su Chen thought of the large, single-shot mortar shells and turned to ask the owner if he had any.

He was just asking on a whim. After all, who in a small town like this would be willing to spend several thousand on a single firework shell?

But to his surprise, the owner actually had one. It wasn’t one of the multi-thousand-yuan ones, but one that cost a little over two thousand. It was called something like "Yongfeng 12-Waterfall with Speckled Florets," and the owner said he’d been planning to take it home to set off himself.

Su Chen immediately paid three thousand and told the owner to load it onto the truck with the other fifty boxes to be delivered to his house.

How could the owner refuse such a decisive customer? He immediately arranged for his staff to load up the truck.

By the time they got back to the courtyard, the whole family was buzzing. Fifty boxes of fireworks were stacked in the open space—it was a spectacular sight.

"You’re always so reckless with money!" Chen Shufen said, walking over to Su Chen while wearing her apron. But the smile crinkling the corners of her eyes gave her away completely.

"It only happens once a year. We have to celebrate in style!" Su Chen said with a casual shrug.

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The sky gradually darkened, and the sounds of firecrackers and fireworks began to fill the air.

"Su Chen! Get Su Yan and Qingya and come to the main hall to kowtow!"

"Coming!"

Su Chen was no stranger to this ritual; it was a standard procedure before the big New Year’s Eve dinner.

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