Tang Yue hurriedly drove down the street with her mask on. Looking at the huge parade and the burned and looted shops on both sides of the road, she couldn't help but wrap her hat tightly again, for fear of being recognized by the people around her.
come out.
She really regretted marrying here in the first place.
She was originally a top student at a well-known domestic university. She had to have good looks and academic qualifications, so she could have lived a good life.
But in her time, everyone yearned for the free air abroad and felt that the moon abroad was rounder than at home. Everyone desperately wanted to go abroad and immigrate.
Under such a trend of thought, she also became a member of the huge trend of going abroad. However, with an average family background and average conditions, she was not able to get a green card as she wished.
In the end, in desperation, in order to stay here, I chose to marry a middle-aged man who was more than 20 years older than me, and then I stayed here.
Life after marriage was also a mess. I was often subjected to domestic violence, insults and abuses in various words, and finally got divorced soon after.
She wanted to go back, but she had no shame in going back because the news that she was marrying an old man had already spread, and her parents had cut off their relationship with her because of it.
Her parents really couldn't figure it out. What was the purpose of marrying an old man as old as her father for a so-called green card?
Will he die when he returns to his country?
After the divorce, she secretly swore that she would make a good appearance here and then go back to let everyone see that her choice was right and that everything here was free and sweet.
However, time flies and more than 20 years have passed.
She is still the same as before, alone, with no family or children. The contact with her parents has long been severed, and she has very few classmates and friends left.
The loss of youth here also made her see everything here clearly.
She fantasized countless times that if she had chosen to return to China, she might have lived a different life now, with her own family and children. She might still be worried about her children's college entrance examination. If her parents liked it, she could also take care of her from time to time.
Take the children back together and let the parents enjoy family happiness.
I will have a good job, perhaps as a small leader of a certain unit or as a manager of a certain company, and my life will be stable and prosperous.
Because among my classmates, as long as they are in China, they are basically leading such a life.
Look at myself again. Previously, I was relying on setting up a Chinese learning and training institution to make a living.
The things that originally made her want to get rid of and leave later became the things that she relied on to survive. When she was young, she thought countless times that it would be great if she was born beautiful, so that she would not
It would be such a miserable life.
When she was young, she once hated everything related to the East. She dyed her hair yellow and vowed never to speak a Chinese character or a word of Chinese again, and not to make any Oriental friends.
In the end, I had to rely on teaching Chinese to make a living.
However, since the collapse of the Green Coin, this place has been plunged into endless turmoil. Everyone blames all this on the Easterners. She is attacked every time she goes out. She cannot recruit students for the Chinese class she started, and her life suddenly plummets.
.
She didn't know how she heard about this period of time. Even now that she is relatively more stable and safer, she still doesn't dare to say that she is an Oriental, or to ask for permission to show herself, especially on the street.
When going up.
She is looking for a job now. She must find a job to support herself. The money she had worked hard to save for more than 20 years was quickly spent.
The green currency has depreciated significantly and prices have skyrocketed. The money saved is almost like waste paper and cannot support my love at all.
There are very few oriental faces around us, and those who can go back have already gone back.
She had thought about going back, but she had been away for more than twenty years, and she had even forgotten what her parents looked like.
What's more, if I'm in such a miserable state now, how can I still have the nerve to go back?
Wouldn't it make people laugh to death if they go back?
A dignified graduate from a prestigious university turned out to be such a charlatan, and his parents became the butt of jokes among the neighbors.
She didn't dare to go back, she didn't have the shame to go back, and she had to die here.
It's just that if I can't find a job anymore, I'm probably going to starve to death here.
She came to the familiar Chinese restaurant. The restaurant was in a mess and was very clean. It looked like no one had been there for a long time.
I originally thought about whether I could find a handyman job here, but now it seems there is no hope.
In the past, there were more than 4 million Chinese people in California, and various Chinese restaurants, Chinatowns, Chinese supermarkets, etc. could be found everywhere.
However, now, those who can leave have basically left, and those who can go back have gone back. The remaining people who cannot or dare not go back are just like Tang Yue, gasping for breath in every corner.
It's really hard to find a job.
After all, more than one-third of the people here are now unemployed, coupled with their hatred of Easterners, they believe that all this is caused by Easterners, and asking them to work for you would be worse than going to heaven.
Disaster.
"Are we really going to starve to death here?"
Tang Yue searched for places where Chinese people used to gather. Everywhere was empty of buildings, with countless bullet holes and devastation. It used to be very lively, but now it is extremely desolate, unpopular, full of homeless people and homeless people.
Those who return will take this place as their own.
Tang Yue walked in a hurry, feeling frightened and desperate all the way.
Now it is impossible to go back because she has no money to go back and has already lost her contact information at home.
She looked at the sky in front of her, and it was indeed very blue and white, but when she looked at the former lawn, there were homeless people camping everywhere, and it was extremely dirty and messy.
"Haha~"
"It's a ridiculous life, it's sad, it's deplorable!"
Tang Yue smiled bitterly, thinking about her life's mission, what did she get in the end?
"Buzz~"
At this time Tang Yue's cell phone rang.
"Hello, hello~"
"Is this Teacher Tang Yue?"
"It's me, what's the matter?"
"I work for Guge Company here. We want to train and learn Chinese for the company's employees. I found that you have offered relevant courses here. Is it convenient for you to come here to take classes?"
"Of course, of course~"
Hearing the voice on the phone, Tang Yue couldn't help but get excited. It was actually someone from Brother Gu who took the initiative to ask her to teach Chinese courses to their employees.
I was finally able to find a job, a job that could support myself.
"Great, we are now looking for Chinese teachers. If you know a Chinese teacher here or someone who understands Chinese, you can introduce them to me. The more the better."
When the other party heard this, he also became excited.
There is no way. It is really difficult to find people who understand Chinese and Chinese teachers. California, which originally had millions of Chinese Americans, now estimates that only less than one-tenth of the Chinese are left.
Most of the people left behind do not even understand Chinese, let alone teach others. It is not easy to find a qualified Chinese teacher.
"Okay, let me contact you."
Tang Yue said quickly.
"Thank you. If possible, we hope you can come to class as soon as possible, because we are really in a hurry."
"No problem, I'll come over as soon as possible."
Tang Yue said quickly and hung up the phone in a hurry.
Just when I was thinking that I should prepare a relevant reference room, the phone came to mind again.
"Hello, are you Ms. Tang Yue?"
"I'm from Wei Ruan here. We've learned that madam, you are offering Chinese courses again. We hope you can come over and teach our employees Chinese. Isn't it convenient?"
"Ah~"
When Tang Yue heard this, she was immediately stunned. What on earth was going on? Two large companies approached her to train their employees in Chinese. Could it be that the whole world suddenly became fluent in Chinese?
She was a little confused. Of course, this was also because she rarely paid attention to current news and news. The pressure of life made her have no intention to care about these and only thought about how to survive.
"How many people are here with you?"
Tang Yue thought for a while and asked.
"All our employees here need to learn Chinese, so we hope to have many Chinese teachers to teach, but currently we have only found a dozen non-professional Chinese teachers."
The other party quickly replied.
"Okay, let me think about it first and give you an answer tomorrow afternoon at the latest, okay?"
After thinking about it, Tang Yue felt that she had to figure out the situation. It seemed that this Chinese teacher had become very popular all of a sudden.
"Okay~ Please give us the news as soon as possible."
The other person seemed to be in a hurry and wanted to find a Chinese teacher.
After hanging up the phone, Tang Yue was about to look up the latest relevant news when the call came in again. This time it was from Facebook. Not surprisingly, they also hoped that Tang Yue could go over and work as a Chinese teacher for their employees.
Their employees take classes.
The same thing can be heard on the phone. The other party seems to be in a hurry and needs Chinese teachers. I hope Tang Yue can come over as soon as possible to provide them with training and lessons.
"What happened?"
"Why are these big companies giving Chinese lessons and training to their employees?"
Tang Yue was thinking while reading the latest news.
"Virtual machine? Virtual world?"
"Has everything developed so rapidly over there?"
"Have you even developed such a science fiction product?"
“Does the virtual world need Chinese programming?”
Soon, Tang Yue found the core and crux of the problem. It turned out that because the virtual world can only be programmed in Chinese, everyone is in urgent need of Chinese teachers to teach.
"It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous. I spend my whole life trying to draw a clear line, but in the end I still can't escape!"
Tang Yue smiled bitterly, laughing at her own life.
PS: This is not made up. There are real people. Some women directly married local old men in order to stay in Guowai. Many of them never came back in Guowai, not because the air outside Guowai is sweet, but
Because I can’t do well, I don’t have the face to come back. Times are changing, we are developing better and better, and we will be even better in the future. (To be continued)