Everyone at the table raised their glasses and drank all the wine in the generous glass. Lu Xiaobei had not had liquor for a long time. After drinking a glass, he felt refreshed and ventilated, as if he had found his country and his brothers again.
The feeling of eating and drinking together.
Each person only had this glass of wine, and it was gone when they finished. After finishing the wine, everyone continued to eat. The food was delicious and no one was confused about the food.
Wang Tou'er is a talkative person. While holding the bowl and eating heavily, he asked: "Xiao Bei, why did you come to the United States?"
Lu Xiaobei took two bites of the food and said, "To make money."
"Haha, it's all about making money. It's harder to make money here than at home. Look at the high-rise buildings in the United States, but they don't belong to us. We are low-class people living in this high-end society. We can only live day by day.
We are in the repair shop, wearing shabby and dirty work clothes, immersed in work, and earning some salary. We may earn quite a lot compared to what we earn in China, but compared with the amount of money they make in the United States, we are just beggars." Mr. Wang said.
He said helplessly.
"Prince Wang, please eat your food quickly. Don't be so emotional. This little brother has just arrived. You have to say something positive." The person who spoke was Huang Lei, who had long hair and a pale face. Huang Lei said a few words,
Started to cough again.
"Eat quickly. After eating, I have to go to the used car warehouse in the north to check out the sales. Today is my night shift." Wang Tou'er said and continued to devour.
Everyone in the cafeteria was eating. At this time, a woman suddenly appeared outside the cafeteria. She was a beautiful woman. The employees here had not seen such a temperamental, youthful and beautiful Chinese woman for a long time.
"Tou'er Wang, look, how exciting that girl is!" an employee said, poking Tou'er Wang who was still devouring his food.
Wang Tou'er, the others, and even all the employees here had their eyes fixed on the beauty who had just walked in. Some of them were even saying hello or whistling.
The woman paid no attention to anyone, let alone ignored him. She stood at the door and looked around. Among the smoky crowd, she finally found the person she wanted to find, Lu Xiaobei.
This woman is Yao Xia, and Yao Xia naturally came here to find Lu Xiaobei.
"Xiao Bei, why are you eating here? My cousin and the others have prepared their meals." Yao Xia came to ask Lu Xiaobei to eat.
Lu Xiaobei put down the clean lunch box that he had eaten, wiped a handful of oily rice, and said: "I can eat with the employees so that we can communicate with each other. But I'll go and trouble my cousin. You eat."
Well, why don’t we cook it and eat it together?”
"No, I'll go and eat. You have nothing to do tonight, right?"
"no, what happened?"
"In half an hour, after dinner, I will wait for you outside this dormitory building. Let's go out for a walk." Yao Xia said sheepishly.
"Okay." Lu Xiaobei nodded.
After he was about to leave, Wang Tou'er pulled Lu Xiaobei back to his seat. He was very strong, which was a bit unexpected for Lu Xiaobei.
"That girl just now?" Wang Tou'er asked excitedly.
"It's my friend. We came here from China together." Lu Xiaobei said while drinking boiled water from the bowl.
"She's not bad looking. I haven't seen such a beautiful and tangible Chinese beauty in our repair shop for a long time. Please introduce her to me if you have the chance." Wang Tou'er said with a smile.
"Okay, her personality is a bit boring, but I can help you introduce her." Lu Xiaobei said generously, and several employees around him hurriedly came over and said: "Xiaobei, don't forget to introduce her to us too.
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"Go, go, why are you joining in the fun?" Wang Tou'er said.
Lu Xiaobei looked at the group of people laughing and playing, smiled silently, then stood up and said: "Now that I'm full, I'll go back and have a rest. If you have anything to do, come find me during the holidays. I'm on the third floor on the third floor."
Zero six."
"goodbye……"
Lu Xiaobei went upstairs by himself, feeling a little inexplicably happy. Yao Xia asked him to go out for a walk, and he also had to dress up. Lu Xiaobei took another bath, and then looked for a decent outfit in the closet.
After putting the clothes on, I stood in front of the mirror in the bathroom and took a look. I felt that I looked handsome enough. I put on a pair of leather shoes and walked out of the door.
After leaving the staff dormitory, Lu Xiaobei saw Yao Xia at a glance. She had also dressed herself up carefully, wearing a long white dress and a short red leather jacket.
Two people walked out of the maintenance shop side by side. It was San Francisco in October. The weather was slightly cool at night. This was the eastern suburbs of San Francisco. There were wide highways with patches of green grass on both sides of the highway. Going west, the sky in the distance was red.
Yes, it was the lights of San Francisco that reflected the dark clouds in the night sky.
The air was fresh, and the two of them walked two to three hundred meters without saying a word. Lu Xiaobei wanted to smoke, but there was not a cigarette in his pocket.
Yao Xia took out a box of cigarettes, an American brand with English written on it, which Lu Xiaobei didn't recognize. Yao Xia put the whole box of cigarettes into Lu Xiaobei's hand and said, "This is for you, my cousin gave it to you."
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Lu Xiaobei was not polite. He took the cigarette, took it out for a moment, and put it in his mouth. He took a lighter with him and lit it, creating a blurry spark in the night.
"My cousin told us to have a rest and help him look after the warehouse where used cars are stored in the back. Now the factory is short of manpower, so we have to hire employees to work shifts to look after the garage. When we two get on the job, they and other employees won't have to.
It’s so hard to go back and forth. Everything is calculated by the hour here, working ten hours a day, from midnight to ten o’clock the next morning, and the wages are ten dollars per hour.”
Lu Xiaobei smiled and said: "I didn't expect that warehouse workers in the United States earn much more than white-collar workers in China. No wonder so many people want to come to the United States to hunt for gold. It seems that it is understandable that these people sneak into the United States."
"Xiao Bei, do you want your own home, your own friends, your own brothers, or your own lover..." Yao Xia suddenly asked seriously.
"It would be a lie to say that I don't think so. As soon as I look eastward, I start to miss home. I think of my motherland in the far east. I miss my friends and brothers." Lu Xiaobei said honestly.
"What about your lover? Don't you miss her?"
"Love? The biggest taboo in our life is to take care of the family. I don't have a lover, no... Even if there are several women in my life, they will not become my women, and neither will I."
Let them become my women, because following me will not lead to good results." Lu Xiaobei said with a wry smile.
Yao Xia breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Are you going to be single for the rest of your life?"
Lu Xiaobei took another look, exhaled the smoke into the darkness, and said: "Isn't it the same for you? People like us are not qualified to talk about family affairs, and we can't even save our own lives, let alone others.
While the two were talking, a police car drove up in the distance. It was a patrol. In the United States, security has always been very strict. There are police cars passing by on every street 24 hours a day. The police car roared past Lu Xiaobei and the others.
, Lu Xiaobei and the others were worried about it, but they were afraid that the police would stop the car and ask for their green cards.
The two people continued to walk forward. The police car they had just passed drove back. The car swerved five meters in front of them, blocking their path. Lu Xiaobei put a hand into his trouser pocket and was about to pull something out.
After releasing the Swiss Army thorn, Yao Xia also put his hands into his trouser pockets, holding his two pistols. Yao Xia laughed and said to Lu Xiaobei: "Calm down, don't do it if you can, and don't cause trouble here."
Lu Xiaobei nodded, sweat already forming on his palms.
The policeman got out of the car. He looked like an Oriental, with yellow skin, black hair, and brown eyes. He was about 1.8 meters tall and had a typical Chinese appearance. He seemed to be a Chinese policeman.
The Chinese policeman said in fluent English: "You two, please show your valid IDs and please cooperate."
"I didn't bring it." Yao Xia replied in English.
"I'm sorry to have delayed you two for a few minutes. Please follow me to the police station to verify your identities. Your identities can be found in the police station's computer files." As he said that, the Chinese policeman had already got out of the car, with a pistol on his waist.
Walkie-talkie in hand, he will call more police if his orders are not obeyed now.
Yao Xia spoke to Lu Xiaobei in Chinese: "Get in the car with him and go to the police station first."
Lu Xiaobei did not resist, because he knew that resisting would not end well. He nodded and walked into the police car.
The car started, and the Chinese policeman said in broken Chinese while driving: "Are you Chinese?"
"Yes, I have been here for two years." Yao Xia made up a lie.
"Oh, my parents are both Chinese, from Guangzhou. Although I was born in the United States and have never been to China, my parents often teach me that I have Chinese blood in my body. I come here to be a policeman
It’s only one month, and I will be responsible for managing this generation from now on. If you need my help with anything, you can call me at any time. This is my police number and mobile phone number.” With that, the policeman handed over his business card.
Lu Xiaobei was sitting next to him.
Lu Xiaobei took the business card. It was all written with "should". Lu Xiaobei spelled out the pinyin and recognized "chang". Lu Xiaobei had studied English. He knew that in American English, Chinese surnames like Zhou or Zhang are both translated as chang.
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"Officer Zhou, can you not go to the police station?" When Lu Xiaobei asked this question, one hand was already about to pull out the dagger. He glanced at Lu Xiaobei from the corner of his eye and still asked in fluent Chinese: "
why are you not going?"
"We all smuggled ourselves to the United States." Lu Xiaobei told the truth. Yao Xia was shocked. She felt that Lu Xiaobei's brain had been kicked by a donkey.
Officer Zhou's walkie-talkie was placed next to him, and he had a pistol on his waist. But Lu Xiaobei was absolutely sure that when Officer Zhou was about to use the gun or the walkie-talkie, he could kill him before him.