The Lovely Heiress Is Actually A God Beast

Chapter 1298: Chapter 1298: The Driver Is Acting Strange

”Yes, yes, yes!” Wukong was the first to raise his hand high.

As the older brother, Tom was calmer and asked, ”Uncle, how much?”

After yesterday’s hitchhiking experience, Tom knew that free rides on the Little Island usually came at a cost.

But the uncle laughed jovially, ”No charge, come on up.”

Li Dahe and Wukong were already holding hands, ready to get in the car. Helen frowned slightly and was a bit wary, and Tom also wasn’t too agreeable, feeling that they shouldn’t ride for free and that they should pay.

Helen felt it was too coincidental.

Events that are too coincidental often suggest something is fishy.

It was so conveniently coincidental that as soon as they went out, there was a free ride, that it perfectly anticipated their numbers and came with a van, and so coincidentally, there appeared a seemingly kind and friendly uncle. The biggest issue was, he didn’t even want money!

The car was not a fancy one, just a very ordinary little van.

Yesterday, Helen summed up her experience: to hitch a ride, you must stop a good car. Generally, those owners are more generous, they don’t care about the gas money, maybe they have high standards too, anyway, once they stop, they don’t charge exorbitant prices.

On the contrary, some seemingly average car owners have a high opinion of themselves and their old, beaten-up cars, charging sky-high prices, as if carrying one passenger meant one more.

Helen later learned from the long-haired sister that gas prices on this island were quite high, which is why there were no taxis on the island at all.

If any taxi tried to pick up fares on the island, it would definitely suffer losses.

So, free rides are more suitable for the island’s development.

Most of the island’s residents have cars; very few people don’t.

With gas prices so high, why do it for free?

It’s not as if the person appears very wealthy and indifferent to gas prices. Very strange!

Helen was filled with doubts about this uncle. With so many suspicious points, even though he looked like a good person, he didn’t seem like one.

Sharing the same thought were Zhuge Xunming, Hua Jinyan, and Little Taotie!

Little Taotie usually read a lot of detective novels and paid particular attention to clues, being a little Zaizai who was very detail-oriented.

At this moment, she felt that there was something very wrong with this car, extremely wrong.

The driver looked kind and amiable, smiling broadly and appearing simple and unadorned, but he wore a gold ring on his finger, a very exaggerated and outdated large square gold ring, which is rarely worn these days.

Little Taotie looked at his neck and could vaguely see something gold.

It seemed there was a large gold necklace.

This was a local tycoon.

Apart from local tycoons, there was actually another group who would be this flashy.

And that’s the gangsters in TV dramas.

TV dramas draw from life.

When Little Taotie shot movies and TV shows, she liked chatting with screenwriters and heard many of their stories, some of which were about this, saying although TV dramas seem exaggerated, people would immediately bow respectfully to the boss, in reality, they were even more deferential.

Some even kneeled upon meeting, very exaggerated.

Little Taotie clenched her little fists, already concluding that the driver was not a good person.

Tom: ”We can’t not pay. If you don’t charge, we would feel embarrassed to ride with you. Name a price, then we can ride your car at ease.”

Wukong saw Tom insisting, so he nodded along, ”Yeah, uncle, we can’t let you give us a ride for free.”

Li Dahe chimed in, ”Gas is so expensive, and you don’t look like the wealthy type either. Don’t force it; just name a price. We’ll pay, we have money.”