828 Birthday gift from Grandpa Nick
The Kings will play against the New York Knicks on April 15, which is the last game of the regular season between the two teams.
Since there is a distance of more than 4,000 kilometers between Sacramento and New York, it takes more than 5 hours to fly.
So other teammates had already flown to New York on April 14th.
Wang Yi did not travel with his teammates because April 14 was his birthday.
His parents' generation didn't pay much attention to birthdays, and Wang Yi was influenced by them and didn't pay much attention either.
He has hardly celebrated his birthday since he was a child.
The most profound memory he had was when he was about 10 years old. One morning, his mother specially boiled two eggs for him.
I usually have an egg in the morning.
He asked his mother why there was one more child today, and her mother said that today is your birthday.
This was the only birthday he remembered.
He never celebrated his birthday again after that.
Even when he was in junior high school and high school, he focused on basketball and never told his classmates about his birthday, so no classmates celebrated his birthday.
He had no plans to do so today.
But Nicole asked him to stay, saying she wanted to celebrate his birthday and give him a surprise.
Only then did he realize that today was his birthday.
After training in the morning, Nicole went to say something and went out.
Wang Yi only did the simplest strength exercises this morning.
Then they left their newly purchased manor and went to the car dealer.
I plan to buy myself a car to celebrate my birthday.
In fact, Wang Yi doesn't have much feelings about buying a car. He thinks it can be used as a substitute for transportation.
He had seen Transformers and thought the Bumblebee in it was pretty cool, so he planned to buy a Bumblebee today.
The most common place to sell cars in the country is the Four Sons store.
You can both sell and repair cars.
But in the United States, selling cars and repairing cars are separate. The place where cars are sold is called a car dealer.
Wang Yi had been to such a place before when he accompanied his brother Anthony to buy a car, so today he drove directly to the place where Chevrolet was sold.
The Hornet model is a Chevrolet Camaro.
Wang Yi had also heard when he was in China before that the price of the latest domestic model in 2022 is 400,000 yuan.
When Wang Yi came to the car dealer, he saw the 2023 Chevrolet Camaro with a price tag of only US$34,000.
Converted into RMB, it’s just over 210,000 yuan.
Damn, it’s nearly twice as expensive in China as it is here in the United States.
However, this is not something Wang Yi can change, so I can only let him.
When the sales manager selling the car saw that the person buying the car was Wang Yi, he excitedly stepped forward and said that he was a fan of Wang Yi and wanted to take a photo with Wang Yi.
He even asked Wang Yi to sign it for him.
Then he asked Wang Yi what car he wanted?
Wang Yi pointed to the yellow Hornet: "That's it."
After hearing this, the sales manager looked at Wang Yi in disbelief: "Are you sure?"
"certainly."
Wang Yi said.
The sales manager was still very surprised.
Wang Yi asked: "Is there anything wrong?"
The manager shook his head repeatedly: "No, it's just that a star like you, who earns tens of millions of dollars a year, should have at least a sports car worth five to six million dollars, and even a sports car worth millions of dollars. Rose's most expensive Bugatti
The Veyron costs 1.7 million US dollars, and a titanium alloy screw on it costs 100 US dollars. This is in line with their status, but you bought it for 34,000 US dollars, which really surprised me."
Wang Yi shook his head: "I'm not very particular about cars. It doesn't matter whether they are fancy or not, as long as I feel comfortable driving them."
The sales manager expressed understanding.
In the end, he took the initiative to give Wang Yi a discount of US$4,000.
Wang Yi finished the test drive of the car and inspected the body and interior of the car.
He was otherwise satisfied with the car, except that it didn't have racing stripes.
After he pointed this out, the sales manager quickly contacted the car upholstery workers and got the racing stripes done.
Two hours later, Wang Yi drove this brand-new Hornet back to No. 90 Binhe Avenue.
There is a private parking lot behind the villa with 12 parking spaces.
Currently, only Wang Yi’s BYD Tang is parked.
At this time, Wang Yi parked the Bumblebee and took a look. The parking space still seemed very empty.
But two cars are enough for him to drive.
Even after his parents came here, it was enough. He drove a car and his parents drove another. As for Nicole, she had her own car.
As far as Wang Yi knows, Nicole owns 5 cars.
His favorites are the Porsche 911 and Ferrari 488.
At this time, Wang Yi heard the roar of a car engine in front of the house.
He turned to the front of the house and saw Nicole driving a purple Porsche 911 and had stopped.
At the same time, behind his car was a large truck.
As soon as Nicole got out of the car, Wang Yi asked: "What are you pulling?"
Nicole smiled mysteriously and led Wang Yi to the back door of the truck.
At this moment, the back door of the large truck was opened, and a sports car slowly drove out from the back door.
Wang Yi was not very clear about the model of the car. He only saw that the logo was a red Ferrari.
Nick said before that he wanted to give himself a surprise, and it would be this sports car.
When the whole car slowly drove down, Wang Yi saw clearly that it was a Ferrari with a pointed nose.
This model adopts a scissor door design. The master who delivered the car opened the scissor door and came down. Nicole asked Wang Yi to go up and experience it.
Wang Yi just turned around and asked Nico: "How much does this car cost?"
Nicole said with that charming smile: "It's not much money either."
Wang Yi asked: "Then tell me what model this is? I'll check it out."
Nicole couldn't be fooled anymore, so she could only smile: "Then let me tell you, don't scold me for extravagance and waste."
Wang Yi nodded: "Yes."
Nicole seemed a little afraid to look at Wang Yi, lowered her head and said: "1.375 million."
When Wang Yi first heard about it, the price seemed not expensive.
But then I thought about it, something was wrong, Nicole was talking about US dollars.
I did a simple calculation in my mind, and suddenly said in Mandarin: "Fuck!"
Converted into RMB, it is equivalent to 8.75 million.
He asked Nicole again: "What kind of car is this?"
When Nicole heard Wang Yi's words "fuck", she quietly stuck out her tongue.
Like a little girl who did something wrong.
"Ferrari, Rafa."
Wang Yi seems to have heard someone mention this type of car.
I heard it is limited to 499 units worldwide.
He took out his cell phone and searched.
If you don’t search, you won’t know. If you search, you will be shocked.
The domestic price of this car actually reached an exaggerated 22.5 million.
For people who like to play with cars and have money, this may not be a big deal.
But for people like Wang Yi who only use cars as a means of transportation, 22.5 million to buy a means of transportation is really an exaggeration.
When Nicole saw Wang Yi searching for domestic prices, she did not dare to raise her head.
"King, are you unhappy?"
Wang Yi deliberately did not speak.
In fact, how could he be unhappy? Although he doesn't like extravagance and waste, and he feels that spending so much money on a car is a waste, he likes it as long as it is given by Nicole.
Chapter completed!