Start with a Cat and Mouse Game

Chapter 3: How come you become half of your own person?

   "I told you this morning that my adoptive parents who passed away were Chinese, so I knew Chinese and needed money to support myself, so I wanted to go to Chinatown to see if I could find a job teaching Chinese English.

   can walk to Chinatown, then ask around, then walk back to the orphanage, it will take at least four or five hours,

   In case I can't make the dinner in the orphanage, I will have to be hungry all night.

   Dude, although we have only met for a day, I am a friend with a very strict mouth, right? "

   "That's it." It was probably the word friend that touched Frank. After hesitating for a few seconds, he reached into his pocket and found out a few coins and a one-dollar bill.

   Then carefully looked at Li Changheng and asked, "When are you going to pay me back? And remember to give me interest".

  How much interest can one borrow a dollar? Li Changheng didn't care, but he pretended to be upset on his face and muttered, "You want to make money and want to be crazy, right? Every dollar has interest?"

   Bank deposits and loan interest rates were very high this year. According to Li Changheng’s memory, the interest rate on loans at this time could be as high as 15% per annum.

   Frank smiled solemnly, "A dollar bank account has 9 cents a year, so friends belong to friends, but why can't I ask for your interest?"

   "OK, OK, I'll give you 5 cents a month", Li Changheng stretched out his hand and placed it in front of Frank, but in the end this guy only gave him a coin of 50 and 25 cents.

   "It should be 25 cents to go to Chinatown by car, and 50 back and forth. I also left you 25 cents to buy a piece of bread."

   "FK, YOU".

Raising his middle finger, Li Changheng cursed uncomfortably, but after a few steps, he turned his head and said, "I am not the same as you. Although I am poor, my words count. I will pay you 75 cents a month, plus 5 cents. Interest".

   Frank looked at Li Changheng who was leaving quickly, and suddenly felt like he was too much?

   And today, I was worried that Li Changheng would go to give a small report and expose him as a teacher.

   But one day passed and nothing happened to him. Although he was forced to borrow 75 cents, what Li Changheng said just now made it difficult for Frank to think in the direction he was being blackmailed.

   And even if you want to blackmail, no one will see a one-dollar bill. Don't take away just two steel pins, right?

   Feeling that he is about to lose a friend who has just met for a day, Frank hurriedly chased after him and muttered beside Li Changheng like a little brother.

   "I'm kidding, Henry, if you need it, I will lend you all my pocket money."

   Li Changheng was happy. For him, he has no money, but now he has the hope of making money. There is no need for money from a kid like Mon Frank.

   Instead, he should show spine and ambition, so as to leave a deep enough impression in the heart of a young man like Frank who has no friends.

  In the future, the relationship between the two will naturally occupy a dominant position.

"Don't worry, Frank, I'm not angry with you. After all, you can lend me money, which is the greatest help." Li Changheng stopped and said to Frank. "And you are right. 75 cents is enough for me. .

   And I don’t want to blackmail you. I don’t need to borrow more money. When I find a job and get my first salary, please eat Burger King.”

   "You said it," Frank nodded happily, and then secretly cast aside Li Changheng's expression, seeing that there was already a smile on his face.

  , who also wanted to make a little money, he hesitated for a while and asked in a low voice, "Then, can I go to Chinatown with you?"

   Li Changheng was taken aback, "Partner with me to make some pocket money?"

"That's right, that's right," Frank said with a sad face, "As you have guessed, there is indeed some financial problem in my family, and I have just moved to this neighborhood, and you are a friend of mine, going home a little earlier this morning. It doesn't mean anything".

   "Tomorrow", I don’t want to be in front of Frank’s mother. I took her son to Chinatown just one day after I met. Li Changheng looked at the blue second-hand car on the street.

   "You just transferred school and went out with me on the first day. Your parents would definitely think that I was leading you.

   And, if you don’t speak Chinese, I should go to Chinatown to get acquainted and familiar with the situation.”

   It is not easy for the Chinese to live in these years, and it is easy to form a special group, and this kind of black group doesn't care about ordinary people entering Chinatown, but it is likely to stare at a private school, a hollow boss in a famous school uniform, Frank.

   "drop, drop, drop".

   A series of horns came, and Frank looked at his mother who was beckoning to him, and he could only say goodbye to Li Changheng unhappy.

   He has never suffered, suddenly he feels like Lee Chang Hampi, who is still underage, and wants to make money. He is like a child who has not grown up.

   Li Changheng smiled and waved to Frank on the side of the road and in the car. He watched the blue car leave before getting on a bus.

   After 30 minutes of traffic jam, the car came to Duban Street, got off and asked for directions. After walking for a while, I saw a green tile roof archway.

   just wanted to walk into the archway, but was stopped by a few Chinese in black practice clothes.

   asked in unfriendly English, "Who are you looking for?"

  ‘Don’t let in? Li Changheng was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly he thought of taking the bus on the way, UU reading www.uukānshu.com saw the park and several streets of protesting crowds.

   Can’t help but think that it was only August 68, when the U.S. people protested Vietnam and the war at the most intense period. The Chinese, who were treated specially in the U.S., would become nervous and unavoidable.

   And after seeing that none of the people passing by the archway were foreigners, Li Changheng cursed in his heart and said in pure Mandarin, "Don't be nervous, my adoptive parents are of Chinese descent, and I came here to find a job."

   Hearing Li Changheng’s Putonghua, he spoke better than many of them. Several young Chinese relaxed and couldn’t help complaining.

  "Since you are a child raised by a Chinese, you can be considered as half your own, you can go in,

   But this year, none of us have a job. You still want to come to Chinatown to grab a job and beware of being beaten.”

   "I,,", Li Changheng scratched his head depressedly, and asked tentatively, "I intend to be an English teacher for those Chinese who have just immigrated. Isn't this a grab for someone else's job?"

"Don't think about it," the leading young man said with a smile, "You are half yourself, but a rich Chinese will not ask you, a kid who doesn't know the basics, to be a tutor. A poor Chinese doesn't need to spend money. Teachers teach.

   As long as you are willing to learn, there are people around you who are willing to talk in English for free. After a year or two, ordinary conversations are completely fine.

  As for children who are in a hurry to go to school, we have schools and teachers ourselves."

   Damn it, Li Changheng suddenly thought that the situation of the Chinese in the U.S. is worse these days than decades later. Instinctively, they don’t know what to do. Even if they ask for a teacher, they will go to a Chinese teacher to teach.

   But if Li Changheng doesn’t find a job these days, he won’t be hungry for the time being, but let alone the quality of life, he doesn’t have money for a hamburger or a Coke.

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