Chapter 64 Whose Military ID Card?
Then, Nicole waved at the employees standing at Volkswagen Group’s entrance. “Hey! Your customers are right here, so what are you waiting for? Hurry up and receive them! If you manage to sell a Santana, you could probably make some commission worth a few hundred.”
As soon as Nicole made her words heard, her colleagues laughed in the face of Volkswagen Group’s employees, who were seen with darkened expressions. While they had always taken the moral high ground and tolerated their taunting and ridicule, they were disheartened to be humiliated by Nicole and her colleagues in front of Kingsley and Cecilia.
At the same time, Leo Whitaker, who was the Volkswagen Group’s manager, glimpsed Cecilia with an emotionless face as he walked up to Kingsley and politely said, “Sir, do you have any preference in mind? We could arrange a test drive for you.”
“I’d like to get a Phaeton.”
As soon as Nicole heard Kingsley mention Phaeton, she intentionally overreacted and thundered, “Oh my god! What did I just hear? You want to buy a Volkswagen Phaeton?”
After all, while Land Rover and Mercedes-Benz were widely approved of by people across the country, Volkswagen Group didn’t seem to share the endorsement, particularly its Phaeton series. Despite the similar appearances between its other cars and Passat, their price could go up to more than 1.5 million.
In fact, limousine editions of the series could even be worth over 2.4 million. Therefore, when Nicole heard that Kingsley wanted to buy a Phaeton, she immediately thought that he was paying lip service.
On the other hand, Leo, who appeared to be glad, said, “I’ll arrange the test drive right away.”
“Haha!” Harry Pumice, Nicole’s superior, laughed and ridiculed Leo. “Come on, Leo. You’ve been in this line of work for so many years, so can’t you see through these people? You’re only wasting your fuel giving someone like him a test drive, or are you simply so desperate to make a sale that you no longer care anymore?”
Nicole echoed her superior’s words and said, “Take a look at him. Does he look like he can afford to pay 2 million? It seems to me that he just wants to take a few selfies of himself during the test drive and share it on his social media account to make himself look cool.”
Meanwhile, Leo was seen with a gloomy look on his face because he also doubted Kingsley could afford a sweet ride, but nonetheless, he decided to adhere to his professionalism and treat every single customer right. Thus, he ignored Harry and his subordinates’ taunting and turned his attention to Kingsley. “Sir, please come with me if you’re interested in a test drive. We’ll be entering from the back entrance.”
However, Kingsley waved his hand and replied, “No need for a test drive. Please have a look at my Volkswagen Santana and see if it could be traded in and used to offset the price of a new car.”
When Kingsley’s words were heard, everyone else sniggered with contempt, thinking Kingsley’s Volkswagen Santana was worth around 800 at most. Furthermore, neither of them had heard of the tradition of trading in old cars to offset the price of the new ones.
“Haha!” Nicole laughed out loud in amusement. “Cecilia, what’s wrong with your boyfriend here? I thought he said he wanted to buy a luxury sedan, but here he is, trying to save a few hundred. Is he a clown who’s trying to make us laugh? Hahaha…”
At the same time, Harry was also laughing haughtily with Nicole. “I’ve been selling cars for more than a decade, but this is the first time I’ve ever heard of someone who is trying to trade in his Volkswagen Santana for a new Phaeton. What a genius!” He then wiped off his tears of glee and said, “If you can’t work things out, you might as well just sell him a new Santana with some discount. Oh my god! This is so funny! Haha.”
Despite the bitter look on his face, Leo continued to treat Kingsley with a polite attitude. “Sir, we don’t do trade-ins here, but if you really want to sell off your car, I could keep an eye out for you to see if there’s anyone who’s interested in buying your car for collection.”
“Sure.” Kingsley nodded. “Please assess my car’s value and give me a quote.”
“Well—” Leo was seen with a bitter look on his face because he didn’t think it was even necessary for him to assess the car’s value. Well, it’s probably not more than a thousand.
However, before Leo could finish his sentence, Harry interrupted him with a laugh. “Come on, your customer is asking you to quote his little Volkswagen Santana. You can’t say no, can you? If you’re too embarrassed to do it, then maybe our people should do it for you.” He then waved his hand and gave his employees an instruction. “Examine his car.”
Upon hearing their orders, a few of Harry’s subordinates approached Kingsley’s car with a smile. Although they looked like they were about to examine the car, they actually wanted to seize the opportunity to make fun of Kingsley’s car. Soon, one of the salespeople, who looked young and skinny, went through the backseat of the car as he suddenly found something strange.
He then pulled out what seemed like a card from the gap between the cushions and asked himself what it was in bewilderment. “What’s this?” The next second, his eyes were left wide open in horror when he saw the three big words written on the card—military ID card. “W-Wait a second! T-This is…” He immediately ran back to Harry, shivering in fear. “Mr. Pumice, take a look at this. We found this in the man’s car.”
“What’s this?” Harry held the card in his hands, seemingly unconcerned about it. “What more could it be than an ID card?” Nevertheless, he instantly sensed something wrong as soon as he finished his words. He then took a closer look at the card with his eyes wide open. “M-Military ID card?!”
At that moment, the rest of the bystanders got closer out of curiosity and commented about what they found. “What military ID card? Is this some kind of prop that was bought from Amazon?”
“No, it looks authentic on the other hand. There is even the logo of Qustian Bureau of Political-Military Affairs here.”
In the meantime, Nicole took a peek at the card and brushed it off like it was no big deal. “So what? That guy could just be a decommissioned officer who’s now jobless and broke.”
“Hurry up and flip it open. Let’s take a look at the title and see what it says.” Upon hearing someone say that, Harry slowly skimmed through the details further to find out the answer.
