"These twenty-eight-hundred ones are electric bicycles. Under the new regulations, their top speed is twenty-five kilometers an hour. You can't add a basket or carry a passenger on the back."
"No passengers? Hard pass." Chu Ge pointed at another one that looked a lot like a motorcycle. "What about this kind?"
"That's an electric moped. You need a license, a helmet, and motorcycle plates."
"I do have a motorcycle license, but aren't motorcycles banned here in Nanjiang?"
"On some roads in the city. Electric mopeds are fine in most places, but not the ones that go over a hundred kilometers an hour."
"Electric scooters can go over a hundred now?" Chu Ge keenly felt his lack of knowledge. "How much do those cost?"
"Not much. A little over ten thousand."
"...What about this moped, then?"
"This model is fifty-eight hundred. But it has a lead-acid battery. You'd be better off with this lithium-battery model. It's only a few hundred more, sixty-three hundred... And if you're getting this model, you might as well get this one with better range and a smart proximity lock. Only sixty-eight hundred..."
Walk into a PC forum with a five-thousand budget, and the upgrades took you all the way to ninety-eight thousand.
Chu Ge had only intended to spend two or three thousand on a little electric scooter, but before he knew it, he had shelled out sixty-eight hundred.
His heart was bleeding. His latest writing payment was pretty substantial, but unfortunately it hadn't arrived yet. He would be living on dirt again for the next few days.
All he could say was that wooing a girl really did cost money...
In the six months he had shared a place with Zhang Qiren, he might not have spent as much altogether as he had in the