How A Ride-Hailing Driver Comes To Dominate The World? [EN]: Chapter 232

Yang Chen took the uncle to a breakfast shop and ordered a table full of food.

“Oops, I accidentally ordered too much. Uncle, please help me eat some. Otherwise, so much food will be wasted. When I was a kid, I went to my grandma’s house and learned how hard it is for farmers to grow food. We can’t waste food,” Yang Chen said with a smile.

The uncle’s stomach was also growling with hunger, and he really couldn’t resist.

Hearing what Yang Chen said, he quickly nodded with a smile and said, “Then… then I won’t be polite. Thank you, little brother.”

Yang Chen: “I should be thanking you. If you don’t help me eat it, I’ll waste too much food, which would be a sin.”

The uncle smiled good-naturedly and quickly started eating.

Yang Chen wasn’t hungry at all. He just symbolically drank a sip of soup and ate a bun, mainly to ensure the uncle had a full meal.

However, the uncle was really hungry. Yang Chen only ate one of the three steamed buns, and the rest were all eaten by him. He also drank three bowls of *shatang* [a thick, savory soup, often made with mutton or beef].

After eating, the uncle contentedly loosened his belt.

Yang Chen called the waiter to pay the bill and then took the uncle to the car.

The uncle took out his son’s baby photo and a photo of him cutting his *bianzi* [queue hairstyle, a traditional Manchu hairstyle with a shaved front and long braid in the back] at the age of ten and gave them to Yang Chen.

After looking at them, Yang Chen had a bad feeling in his heart, but he was too embarrassed to say it.

A 10-year-old child has independent consciousness. It’s a bit unreasonable to be abducted and sold at this time.

In the early years, some criminals specialized in abducting children from remote rural areas to big cities, and then mutilating the children to beg on the streets.

The uncle’s son has been missing for twenty years, and the timeline aligns with that era.

A ten-year-old child was sold to Hai City and has been missing ever since. This is most likely the case.

Otherwise, now that he is thirty years old, he would definitely follow his twenty years of memory to find his biological parents.

However, this uncle has been searching for twenty years, and Yang Chen doesn’t want to shatter his hope.

Seeing that he is so pitiful, let’s help him.

Yang Chen: “Uncle, I’ll enlarge the photos and make them into posters, and let the platform’s ride-hailing drivers help promote them throughout the city. What do you think?”

Uncle: “Okay, okay. Thank you, little brother.”

Yang Chen: “You’re welcome.”

Yang Chen found an advertising shop and asked them to touch up these two photos, then enlarge them and make them into posters. First, make a thousand copies.

Afterward, Yang Chen sent a message in the driver group.

Chairman Yang Chen @All Members: “Brothers, I’ve encountered an uncle who has been looking for his son for twenty years. He said the traffickers confessed that the child was sold to the North Zha District of Hai City, and he has been searching alone for more than three months without any news. Let’s help him. I’ll send the location. Brothers who can come over, please come over and hang the child’s posters on your cars and try searching for a few days.”

Driver Zhang Hu: “No problem! Send the location, I’ll go over right away.”

Driver Zhang He: “This is too pitiful. No, since becoming a father, I can’t stand this kind of thing the most. Brother Chen, please send the location over quickly, I’ll rush over immediately.”

……

Seeing that everyone was so enthusiastic, Yang Chen was very gratified.

Then he sent the location to the group, and the drivers quickly followed the location to come over.

Every time a car came, the uncle quickly stepped forward and bowed to the driver to express his gratitude.

Soon, all one thousand posters were hung on the cars. After a few hours, the entire Hai City knew about the uncle’s search for his son who was abducted twenty years ago.

Now is the era of short videos. Many enthusiastic citizens and local Hai City influencers also released related videos, hoping to do their part to help the uncle find his son.

Later, the “Little Li Helps You” program team contacted Yang Chen, hoping to do an interview with him and the uncle, and use the program to appear on Hai City TV to better promote the search.

Yang Chen accepted Zhang Xiaoli’s interview invitation and cooperated with the uncle to do an episode.

In the evening, the “Little Li Helps You” program was broadcast as scheduled.

Zhang Xiaoli: “This morning, ride-hailing driver Master Yang encountered a special passerby in the tunnel, and thus uncovered a painful and touching story that has lasted for twenty years. Now let’s interview Master Yang about the situation at that time.”

In fact, Yang Chen was not willing to show his face in this kind of occasion, because it would increase the difficulty for him to get bad reviews.

However, in order to help the uncle find his son as soon as possible, he didn’t think so much.

Yang Chen: “At that time, I was dropping off a passenger back to the city, and I saw in the tunnel…”

As the ace program of Hai City TV, the influence of “Little Li Helps You” is still very large. Once the program was broadcast, some old men and women who didn’t use the Internet also knew about this matter.

As a result, an “Love Spreads to Every Home, Helping to Find a Son” charity event was launched throughout Hai City.

At twelve o’clock in the evening, Yang Chen was already asleep when Qiu Yuhong suddenly called him.

Qiu Yuhong: “Mr. Yang, our brothers rescued a disabled person by the river and also caught two old couples who pushed him down. The brothers said they vaguely felt that the disabled person looked a bit like the child you were looking for. I have already asked them to send the person to the police station. Would you like to take that uncle to see?”

Yang Chen quickly jumped out of bed and said, “I’ll take him there right away!”

Yang Chen quickly put on his clothes, went to the hotel to pick up the uncle, and then went straight to the police station.

“Uncle, you have to be mentally prepared. If it’s really your son, his situation may not be very good,” Yang Chen said sadly.

The uncle was stunned for a while, then laughed a few times with tears in his eyes, and said, “No matter how bad the situation is, at least he is still alive. Isn’t he?”

Yang Chen nodded, this was true.

For a father who has lost his son for twenty years, finding a living son is already a great gift.

At least, he is much better than those parents who can never find their own children.

“Uncle, I’m relieved that you can think like this. The most important thing is the reunion of father and son, and everything else can be taken lightly,” Yang Chen comforted.

The uncle smiled and nodded, and said, “If it’s really my son, from now on my life is yours. Whenever you need it, just say it, and I will definitely not hesitate.”

Yang Chen laughed and said, “Uncle, don’t say that. I said before, helping you find your son is also a good deed for me. I believe God will give me better arrangements, and I don’t need you to thank me extra.”

Not long after, Yang Chen and the others arrived at the police station.

The uncle and the disabled person looked at each other and immediately cried.

Maybe this is the connection between father and son. Even if they haven’t seen each other for 20 years, they can recognize each other with just one glance.

“Xiao Lei, my son! Dad has been looking for you so hard! Twenty years, a full twenty years! Dad has finally found you,” the uncle cried as he hugged his son.

The uncle’s son’s hands and feet were deliberately broken, and his tongue was also cut out. He could only respond by crying, but could not have any other response.

Although Yang Chen had guessed this ending before, he still felt very heartbroken when he saw this scene.

At this time, the police officer who came out of the interrogation told the uncle about the situation.

The two people received money from a person named Liu Nongyu and were responsible for pushing the uncle’s son into the river in an accidental manner.

Yang Chen quickly asked, “What does Liu Nongyu look like? Are there any photos or sketches?”

The police officer nodded and showed the sketch of Liu Nongyu that they had drawn based on the description of the two old people.

Yang Chen took a photo and sent it to Qiu Yuhong, and then called him.

“Director Qiu, mobilize all your forces, even if you turn Hai City upside down, I must find this person,” Yang Chen ordered.

Qiu Yuhong: “Okay! I’ll give the order right away!”

Then, Yang Chen sent the photo to Zhang Lijun and asked him to use his little brothers to find Liu Nongyu as well.

Zhang Lijun’s subordinates are all small-time gangsters who frequent various entertainment venues, which may be more useful than the Shield Security Group.

The police officers wanted to record statements from the uncle and his son as well.

Because Xiao Lei’s hands and feet were completely useless, and he couldn’t speak, he could only answer questions by nodding and shaking his head.

Almost two hours later, the uncle and his son finally came out.

At this time, Zhang Lijun called Yang Chen and said that Liu Nongyu had been caught in a bathhouse.

Yang Chen asked him to send the person to the police station immediately.

Half an hour later, a Jinbei van drove to the police station, and Zhang Lijun personally brought Liu Nongyu over.

The police officer recognized Liu Nongyu by comparing him with the sketch and quickly stepped forward to handcuff him.

The uncle’s son suddenly became excited, wailing and hiding behind the uncle.

Calculating his age, he should be 30 years old, but at this time he was as frightened as a three-year-old child seeing something terrible.

The uncle quickly hugged his son and comforted him: “Xiao Lei, don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, Dad is here, Dad won’t let you get hurt again, Dad will risk everything to protect you from getting hurt again.”

The police officers didn’t finish the interrogation until dawn.

Liu Nongyu initially wanted to resist, but after four rounds of interrogation by the police officers, he finally collapsed and confessed the truth.

In short, Liu Nongyu’s gang specialized in purchasing children from remote areas, then deliberately maiming the children, and then forcing these children to beg on the streets.

A case of this magnitude could not be handled by a single police station, so the director quickly went to the city bureau to report and requested the city bureau to intervene and take over this major case.

Yang Chen and others stayed up all night and quickly went back to rest.

After the city bureau took over the case, it immediately mobilized all its forces to rescue more than a dozen similar disabled people based on Liu Nongyu’s confession, and then, based on his confession with the gang, arrested all the criminals who were in other places and had “retired from the world.”

Subsequently,

The city bureau issued an announcement.

In short, with the help of the Bilibili ride-hailing drivers led by Master Yang, the police accidentally discovered a criminal gang that trafficked people. After careful deployment, the police arrested the criminal suspects.

Although some people had laundered their identities and become local entrepreneurs with some fame, they still could not escape legal sanctions.

Subsequently, the city bureau wanted to issue a banner to Yang Chen and other outstanding ride-hailing drivers as a commendation.

Yang Chen didn’t want it and found another Yang-named driver of about the same age as him to receive the award.

Bilibili platform also received commendation for this reason and became the most outstanding private enterprise in Hai City.

Later, the “Little Li Helps You” program did an exclusive interview with the uncle and his son.

Zhang Xiaoli: “Uncle Liu, what are you planning to do next?”

Uncle: “In the past twenty years, I have been on the road to find my son. My parents are gone, and my wife remarried more than ten years ago. Everything in my family has also been sold. My idea is that I must die on the road to find my son, without leaving myself any way out. However, the little brother who helped me is very nice. He found me a job as a doorman, with free room and board and a monthly salary of 5,000 yuan. I feel very satisfied and will live with my son from now on.”

Zhang Xiaoli: “Is there anything you want to say?”

Uncle: “I would like to formally thank the driver little brother, as well as the other drivers of the Bilibili ride-hailing platform, and the Hai City police, and all the people in the society who helped us. Thank you for your help, my son and I will always remember your kindness. Because I have a job now, and I don’t have to worry about food and accommodation, I don’t need everyone’s donations. Thank you for your kindness. I owe my son too much, and I want to use my own ability to earn money to support him in the future, so that he can feel my pure love for him. Finally, I hope that there will be no more trafficking in the world, and every child can grow up healthy with their biological parents. Thank you everyone.”

Zhang Xiaoli wiped her tears and said, “A sentence of ‘no more trafficking in the world’ completely defeated my psychological defense. We also call here for more sound laws to give more severe punishment to the criminals who traffic children, and to prevent the phenomenon of buying and selling children from happening again. Finally, I wish that there will be no more trafficking in the world, and every child can grow up healthy with their parents.”

Once this episode was broadcast, it quickly sparked heated discussions across the Internet.

“The last sentence of the uncle also made me cry, I can’t stand this kind of thing the most.”

“Alas… why can’t we legislate to sentence traffickers to death?”

“Alas… if we don’t sentence them to death, we can still see such a Liu Xiaolei. Once sentenced to death, we may not even be able to find where he is buried. The law must have considered it more thoroughly than us.”

“I hope that there will be no more trafficking in the world, and every child can grow up healthy with their biological parents.”

……

Late at night, Yang Chen sat in front of the computer in a daze. He wanted to write something, but he didn’t know where to start. He just felt a little stifled in his heart and had nowhere to vent.

After a while, Yang Chen called Uncle Liu.

Yang Chen: “Uncle, I want to discuss something with you. I have an entertainment company under my name, and I have signed some actors and invested in several films. I think your twenty years of unremitting persistence in finding your son is very touching. I want to adapt your story into a movie as a public service film to promote anti-trafficking and call on more people to pay attention to the phenomenon of child trafficking. In this way, it may expose some of your father and son’s privacy. Do you think it’s okay?”

Uncle Liu: “Okay! This is a good thing. My personal ability is limited. If you have a good way to promote it, of course I will support it. I said before, from now on my life is yours. You can do whatever you want, you don’t need to ask my opinion. You can adapt it, and come to me at any time if you need my help.”

Yang Chen: “Okay! Then I will adapt your real story into a movie and try to shoot it as soon as possible and release it during the summer vacation.”

Uncle Liu: “Okay! I support it a hundred times.”

Hanging up the phone, Yang Chen typed two words on the document – Lost, as the name of the movie.

No sooner said than done, Yang Chen wanted to write the script himself.

……

It’s almost the New Year, and Yang Chen is going to buy two sets of new clothes to wear when he visits the elders for the New Year.

As the second largest shareholder of Louis Vuitton, he certainly wants to support his brand.

So, Yang Chen drove the last remaining red BMW Z4 to the North Zha District store.

Before, Yu Shishi asked Yang Chen why he bought so many BMW Z4s at once. Yang Chen said at the time that it was not enough, and now he was right.

Five management personnel each had one, the Northeast old broad Jenny Hathaway had one, Yuan Xiaozhao had one, and now there is still the last red one left. Yang Chen decided to give it to his “big wife” Wang Jiayi.

Just as he arrived at the entrance of the store, Yang Chen saw someone confessing their love to Wang Jiayi.

“Wang Jiayi, I like you, be my girlfriend.”

Wang Jiayi rolled her eyes and replied loudly: “How many times have I told you, I have a boyfriend, why can’t you understand human language? If I didn’t see that you are an old customer, I really want to beat you up. I ask you, do you think it’s romantic to confess in public like this? I spit on that! You are morally pressuring girls, you know? Hurry up and take these things away, don’t hinder our business. The Spring Festival peak season is coming, and I still want to do more business. You come here to make trouble every day, and you can’t be driven away even if you call the police. You are really amazing. I tell you, I haven’t told my boyfriend all the time. But if you continue to pester me like this, I will tell him. He has a bad temper. If he really beats you into the hospital, it’s your own fault.”

Confession man: “As long as you are not married, I have a chance, we can compete fairly.”

Wang Jiayi picked up the broom next to her and scattered the heart made of roses on the ground, and scolded: “Can’t you understand human language? Even if he doesn’t marry me in the end, I won’t like you. Is that clear enough? Get out of here! You have forced such a refined lady like me into a shrew, can you have some face?”

The onlookers couldn’t stand it anymore, and the views of men and women were completely opposite.

Girls’ point of view.

“This person is too shameless, people have already rejected him, and he still has to cling. This is not called romance, nor is it called persistence, it’s called harassment!”

“Some men are just so off-putting, just like dogs, you can’t drive them away no matter how hard you try. If the girl complains about it online, a group of off-putting men will say that a fly doesn’t land on a crackless egg [meaning there must be a reason why she’s being harassed]. I just ask, can you blame the girl for this situation? You can’t drive them away even if you call the police, so what can you do to the girl? Some flies are just disgusting, and they have to say that there is something wrong with the egg?”

“This is too off-putting. He was so rejected in public, and he still doesn’t leave. Does he have any dignity as a man?”

……

Men’s point of view.

“It can be seen that this guy really likes this girl. I don’t think love is shameful, and people shouldn’t say that about him.”

“I relied on my thick skin to pester my wife back then. Some girls are just shy and slow to warm up. You can’t do it without this.”

“If you don’t accept it, then don’t accept it. Do you have to be so disrespectful? So many people are watching, do you have to trample the dignity of others on the ground?”

……

Subsequently, the men and women at the scene began to debate.

Girl 1: “People have already clearly rejected him, and he still has to pester, and he is not allowed to have a little excessive reaction?”

Boy 1: “But some women just pretend, they obviously want it in their hearts, but they stubbornly refuse on their lips. Who knows if she really disagrees, or is she deliberately being coy?”

Girl 2: “Stop it, okay? If a girl really likes you, she will give you hints without you confessing. If you rely on pestering to chase your wife, then congratulations, the green hat on your head is definitely high enough [meaning she’ll cheat on you]. It’s not that your persistence moved her, it’s just that she broke up with another man and found you to be a replacement.”

Boy 2: “I curse, the truth.”

……

At this time, Yang Chen got out of the car and walked over, and said to the confession man: “Brother, what era is it, and you still confess in this way. Look at me, I’ll give you an example of what the confession method of the new era is like.”

After speaking, Yang Chen stepped forward and held Wang Jiayi’s head and kissed her.

The whole place was shocked.

Good guy, is this kind of confession method popular now?

After kissing for more than ten seconds, Yang Chen’s mouth left Wang Jiayi’s mouth, and then he asked: “Beauty, I like you, let’s find a place to eat and get to know each other. How about it?”

Wang Jiayi held back her smile and nodded lightly, and said, “Okay.”

Yang Chen said to the confession man kneeling on the ground: “Brother, did you see that? If you confess in this way, the girl will definitely be embarrassed to accept it. You just go straight up and don’t leave her any way out, and things will be done. You have to know that girls’ hearts are very complicated when facing men. She considers a lot. For example, she will think about whether you are reliable? If you are with her, will you be good to her? And so on. The more she thinks, the less she will agree to you. You might as well just go straight up and don’t give her a chance to think. Look, haven’t I succeeded? Learn from me. Sorry, this girl is mine, find another one.”

This smooth operation stunned all the onlookers at the scene.

“I curse, can you really confess like this?”

“As a girl, I admit that what he said makes some sense. We girls do consider a lot of things when facing boys’ confessions. If we are forcefully kissed, as long as we don’t hate him very much, we will basically accept it.”

“If I had known that I could confess like this, why would I spend so much effort chasing her?”

……

So there were really some bold guys who hugged the girls next to them and kissed them.

“Yaoyao, I like you, let’s find a place…”

“Pa! What are you doing? Are you acting like a hooligan?”

“Hey, no, isn’t that what he did?”

“You wait for me, I’m calling the police now!”

……

That guy looked at Yang Chen with a look of resentment, and said: “Brother, you are tricking people! Why is mine different from yours?”

“Haha…” Everyone laughed.

At this time, the cleaning lady came.

“Oh, it’s really annoying! Look at all the garbage you’ve made on the ground. Which girl can like such an unsanitary man? Let alone her, I don’t even like you,” the cleaning lady complained.

The onlookers laughed again. This is really going to make people laugh to death.

The confession man was about to cry. He thought to himself: “Damn it, even the cleaning lady is bullying me, curse! No, I have already lost so much face, I can’t just give up like this. That guy is just a little bit more handsome than me, and he is not necessarily better than me. I am at least a company manager with an annual salary of 200,000. I am also a superior person in Hai City. I don’t believe I will lose to him.”

The confession man said loudly: “Brother, if you are more excellent than me, I will give up. I am the technical department manager of Caixing Technology, with an annual salary of 200,000. What about you?”

Yang Chen took out the key from his pocket and pressed it. The BMW Z4 on the side of the road not far away rang, and then he handed the key to Wang Jiayi, and said: “Beauty, this car is for you.”

Wang Jiayi quickly asked: “Really for me?”

Yang Chen: “Can it be fake? The car is fully insured. If someone harasses you again in the future, you can just crash into them, and the insurance can afford it.”

Wang Jiayi: “Hee hee… Then I won’t be polite, I’ll really accept it.”

Yang Chen: “Accept it. Hey, brother? Where did you say you worked just now, and how much is your annual salary?”

The confession man glanced at Yang Chen, then glanced at Wang Jiayi, and then turned around and ran.

Wang Jiayi: “Hey, run slower! I won’t crash into you! I’m a law-abiding citizen!”

“Haha…” Everyone laughed.

Then, Yang Chen put his arm around Wang Jiayi and went into the store to choose clothes.

The onlookers sighed.

“Really? A BMW Z4 was given away just like that?”

“Is this the way rich people chase girls? It feels so simple and direct! But I like it!”

“Curse! No wonder girls like rich people. If a rich woman threw a BMW at me so directly, I wouldn’t be able to resist it either!”