Manhattan Chinatown is one of the three largest Chinatowns in the United States, the other two being San Francisco and Chicago.
There are two Chinatowns in New York, one is the one where Zhao Mingyang is located at this time, which is close to the center of New York, and the other is Flushing. The Flushing side is mostly filled with new immigrants, while the Manhattan side is filled with old immigrants.
Manhattan's Chinatown is very large, with 160,000 Chinese living there. There are 45 streets in this community. If you are in any Chinatown in the United States, not knowing English will not affect your life at all. However, many early recruitments in Chinatown require you to speak Cantonese first. English, this shows the global influence of the Greater Bay Area.
Especially those who immigrated in the early stages are basically people from the Cantonese-speaking area. As mentioned before, this group of people have strong family ties, so they can quickly form a group and become a force after they go out.
This force will continue to merge into a larger force as families, spoken languages, and regions are similar. The early Chinese people were very clinging to each other. Otherwise, it would be impossible to have Chinatowns all over the world. Cultural tolerance is On the one hand, you have to be strong yourself in order to forge iron.
The iconic statue of Bruce Lee in Chinatown in Los Angeles, while the iconic statue in Chinatown in Manhattan, New York, is Lin Zexu.
When you come here, if the signboards are not in Chinese and English, if the streets are full of foreigners, you would think that you have not gone abroad at all, and it still retains the market atmosphere, such as street stalls and hawkers. There are basically people everywhere here. It is said that clutter affects the appearance of the city. In fact, as long as it does not affect road safety in designated areas, vendors here in the United States basically have to be in a fixed area and obtain a permit before they can set up their stalls.
This type of small vendors can be found in various areas of the United States. Some are Mexicans, and some are R himself. The areas where they are located are basically divided and belong to the third and fourth categories of blocks, which means they are in a location that does not affect traffic at all.
Hua Wanli has been here for more than 20 years, and he is a university professor, so he is relatively famous in the Chinese neighborhood. There are many highly educated people in the Chinese neighborhood, but they basically cannot reach the level of Hua Wanli. Mainly because there are many people with such academic qualifications. I don’t recognize Bian.
Hua Wanli also survived the exam after he arrived here and was admitted to a university to study for a Ph.D., and so did his wife Xue Jingchun, especially from the Department of Mathematics. The level is very high.
Zhao Mingyang was wearing sunglasses and a black windbreaker. It was already early April. The weather in New York was similar to Qindao in China, except that the weather in China was cold, and it was colder here. The weather in China was hot, and it was hotter here, of course. , there are also differences between the north and the south. For example, some cities are like spring all year round, and some cities are like summer all year round, while New York has four distinct seasons.
This season, wearing a shirt underneath and a jacket outside is the best time to go out for a walk, especially if you are friends sitting together and bragging.
Zhao Mingyang sighed for a moment. There were many old people sitting together on the roadside bragging. Some were playing chess, some were playing cards, and some were talking about history, military affairs, and the global situation.
These memories are still in Zhao Mingyang's childhood. In the past, people in the street liked to get together to brag and chat when nothing happened. They could instantly join the conversation and have a great time. It seemed that there was no distance between them and everyone seemed to have their own opinions. I want to express my opinions and opinions, just like today’s netizens chatting online.
It's just that the experience of chatting across a screen is much worse than offline, such as body description and the inflection of the tone.
Zhao Mingyang came to the shade of a street and found that among a row of old people, an uncle with gray hair, wearing glasses and a navy blue jacket was playing chess with others.
This person is none other than Hua Wanli, who is very famous in this street and is nicknamed the Chess King.
Street chess is indispensable wherever there are Chinese people. It is one of the representative features of the Chinese people.
Zhao Mingyang walked over and saw that Hua Wanli was playing chess with an old man. There was a packet of Huazi in front of each person on the table. Whoever loses will take the packet of Huazi. It is said that Hua Wanli wins at least ten packets of Huazi here every day.
, that’s because he only plays about ten games a day.
And after he wins, he will share it with everyone he meets, and he will directly split it up and give it to everyone to draw. Many people come here specifically to smoke with Huazi.
He is also Tu Yile, mainly because she is not short of money, mainly because she is bored at home.
To put it bluntly, anyone who plays chess with him and wants to beat him must at least be at the same level as him in mathematics.
At that time, some venues in Las Vegas were swept away by a group of top students from the mathematics department of well-known universities. The professor took a group of students to the casino to practice and directly calculate the winning and losing rates. How to play has the best chance of winning, without cheating, but it is not guaranteed to win.
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In the end, the casino had no choice but to block them and not let them in. They also negotiated with them and stopped coming to play. When they were playing, Las Vegas was working for them.
A group of mathematical geniuses not only went to Las Vegas to play, but also calculated the winning rate of the lottery. To put it simply, regardless of whether the lottery has cats or not, they sorted out all the lottery winning numbers over the years and calculated the probability of winning in the next draw.
The number given out was also discussed in the United States at that time.
This may be the free gold house in the book mentioned by our ancestors. With gold, there must be no shortage of beauty.
Finally, many fields have imposed restrictions on this group of people. For example, professional boxers cannot fight counterfeiting in the same way as ordinary people, and people in certain disciplines cannot participate in some projects, especially collective participation.
The simple explanation is that the dealer couldn't afford to play anymore, so he flipped the table and took out biubiu to prevent these math geniuses from playing.
The best place for this group of people to go is in the financial circle. If you go and cut leeks and ignore my business, don't come and cut the banker as a leek. Then won't the banker become your cash machine?
Therefore, most mathematical geniuses either enter the field of scientific research or the field of finance. They are clearly divided, but if they are short of money, it is not difficult to make money. Of course, this refers to the wave of top mathematicians.
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The final talent gap in mathematics is very large, and it is impossible to reach it with hard work. This is a subject for geniuses. Ordinary people can only reach the peak of basic mathematics at most.
Zhao Mingyang observed that Hua Wanli basically figured out which step the other party was going to take, and they all followed Hua Wanli's route, which was the route laid out by Hua Wanli.
He can chat with people while drinking tea, and then play chess.
The old man is still old and has never been severely beaten by young people.
Zhao Mingyang suddenly remembered how a group of young people bullied the elderly in his previous life. He should teach these elderly people to recognize the reality.
Zhao Mingyang was watching from the side. He didn't speak. Watching the chess without saying a word is a basic rule. If you give directions blindly at this time, if you are not really good at it, you will be criticized by the crowd.
When lunch was ordered, the old man got up to buy vegetables and cook. Zhao Mingyang followed him from a distance and found that Hua Wanli went to the market with an old lady. If the old lady was not Xue Jingchun, Zhao Mingyang felt that there would be a big problem.
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The old lady was dressed simply, and the old couple were shopping in the market street. Basically everyone was a regular customer, and some people greeted the couple warmly.
In the afternoon, the old man would play a few games of chess and then go fishing. The old lady's life was basically monotonous. Her only hobby, according to the information provided by her cousin's relatives, was painting. She would go out with the old man every day.
While fishing, she painted beside him.
This may be the life of a couple of gods, but Zhao Mingyang doesn't believe it. They are not in a hurry. They must be anxious about Hua Wei Zhi's marriage, but there is a BUG here that they cannot break!
What’s the bug between the couple? Face!
This thing is very important to them. They are highly respected scholars and professors, and their daughter is a genius. The whole family is a being that others look up to, but this is a BUG point.
Everyone thinks that their daughter Hua Wei Zhi has no worries about getting married and does not want to get married. She has too high standards.
This made the old couple embarrassed. Seeing that Biren's children were all getting married and having children, everyone was trying to match-match each other, but no one was trying to match-match for Hua Weizhi. They always said that Professor Hua's daughter would definitely have nothing to worry about.
Marry someone who is so outstanding, the people we are talking about will definitely look down on her.
You see, the road is directly blocked. The old couple is holding on for the sake of face, and it is difficult to speak. If they do speak, they are afraid of being talked about behind their backs. What should they do? Just wait and endure it.
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The old couple are even afraid of going to a matchmaking center to register their daughter. The key point is that the Chinese community here is too small. If you ask for something, it will spread quickly. They want to go to Los Angeles to find a matchmaker for their daughter, but they can't.
I don’t know anyone there, among my colleagues, many of whom are foreigners. This is not popular among people, and I basically have no contacts in the country, so I am trapped here.
In fact, this kind of thing is not uncommon. Many female doctor’s families are stuck in this way. If the matchmaker decides that they introduce her, the other party will definitely not like it. It’s better not to waste time. This is why there are many highly educated and high-income people.
People will go to a matchmaking agency, there really is no other way.
Zhao Mingyang stayed with the old man for a day, and after returning he made a plan. First, he had to establish social relations with the old man. The old lady rarely communicated with others, and she was always with the old man every time she went out.
At this point, we can't attack the old lady, we can only attack the old man.
Roadside chess is a breakthrough, and there is also the age difference. Zhao Mingyang’s first consideration is the age difference. If you are not in the same age group, it will be difficult for you to get along with people of the same age group.
Secondly, there will be wariness. For example, when children play with adults, adults are not wary, but children will be and will be afraid. Old people are just like children. In fact, the old people are also very wary. The adults here refer to young and middle-aged people.
Zhao Mingyang contacted the people in Hollywood with whom he had previously discussed cooperation, and wanted them to introduce the makeup team in the United States. To apply makeup, it is best to do a reverse mask, which is to make a custom-made headgear with fake skin and hair connected together.
You can think of it as the art of disguise.
This type of makeup needs to be customized according to the shape of the face, and a makeup look can take several hours. The advantage is that it looks the same as the real thing, and you can't tell whether it's real or fake.
This project is basically common in movies. There used to be a variety show that imitated celebrity variety shows and would also use this kind of method. However, they used a relatively inferior one. It was too expensive to do it well. The program team did not pay for the cost.
Probably made according to movie standards.
Zhao Mingyang customized one for $20,000, and added a door-to-door service fee of 5,000 yuan. The other party came overnight to collect data on Zhao Mingyang's head, tail and facial contours, and then went back to produce it for Zhao Mingyang. There is a mature business chain here.
So it can be made in basically seven or eight hours.
Zhao Mingyang added an expedited fee of US$5,000, totaling US$30,000. They will provide Zhao Mingyang one-on-one service as quickly as possible.
Having money means that you can solve 99% of the troubles and improve 99% of the efficiency. It means that if you think of anything that can be solved with money, do it. You can build a rocket if you want. This is the happiness that money brings, and the troubles that money brings are
You will be noticed by others, and they may come to steal your money.
After the inversion is done, the next step is the voice. Zhao Mingyang is not a professional broadcaster. Those people can change their voices at any time. Pretending can be perfectly presented. Zhao Mingyang has also learned a little, but it is all childish.
The only way to change Zhao Mingyang's voice is to waste his voice.
But before that, Zhao Mingyang had to ask where he could get some equipment.
You have to ask Mu Tong about this. Mu Tong's circle of former war correspondents and investigative reporters is global, and he can contact Zhao Mingyang about what he wants to buy.
Zhao Mingyang wants to buy a pinhole camera and a mini earphone.
Mu Tong was also here today. He cooperated with Zhao Mingyang, and Zhao Mingyang felt most at ease. He was left to take care of everything, which made Zhao Mingyang very worry-free.
At this time, Zhao Mingyang had to do another thing. Smoking, drinking and singing were exhausting his voice.
This was a very helpless method, which was to artificially change his voice. Zhao Mingyang found a KTV near the hotel and sang songs for several hours. His voice basically could not be restored for a week.
His voice was hoarse and broken, and it hurt to speak. Zhao Mingyang quickly took anti-inflammatory drugs and throat lozenges.
Smoking, drinking, and singing for an hour in a row can be very harmful to people, especially singing high-pitched songs that strain your voice.
At six o'clock the next morning, Zhao Mingyang drove to a beauty studio half asleep in a car. Many people were waiting for Zhao Mingyang there, applying makeup to Zhao Mingyang.
Zhao Mingyang's makeup is not complicated, it just makes her look older rather than customized to look like a certain person. To customize a certain person's look, every part must be customized.
This type of makeup is time-consuming and labor-intensive, similar to the character makeup in Journey to the West, where it is glued and pasted everywhere. Zhao Mingyang also specifically asked them to do it with their own hands. Old people's hands are different from those of young people.
Zhao Mingyang only needs to make some wrinkles to make him look thinner. There is nothing he can do to make him look thinner, because another characteristic of the old man is that he is skinny and skinny.
It took Zhao Mingyang five or six hours to put on makeup. During this period, Zhao Mingyang rested on the shampooing bed for more than an hour and instantly felt much better.
At noon, Zhao Mingyang stood up, wearing a white shirt, a dark blue jacket, a pair of gray trousers with a pair of leather shoes, and a watch on his hand. He looked like a veteran cadre.
It smelled a bit like Gao Yuliang. Zhao Mingyang also stuck two bean-sized cotton balls in his nostrils so that his voice could not be heard as youthful.
After everything was cleaned up, he started to walk straight like this. In fact, with this kind of makeup, many stars later liked to pretend to be pigs and tigers to show off on the field, pretending to be old men to torture young people. Zhao Mingyang was pretending to be old men to torture old men.
After everything was packed up, Zhao Mingyang and Mu Tong met. Mu Tong tied a button on the collar of Zhao Mingyang's clothes and set it so that he could see the picture and hear the sound.
Zhao Mingyang and Mu Tong had a meal, and around two-thirty in the afternoon, the old man would play chess for half an hour, then go fishing at three o'clock, and return around six o'clock.
At two o'clock, Zhao Mingyang walked to the chess place on the roadside one step ahead and actively participated in the chess game.
He looked like he was about sixty at this time, and he looked very stylish.
"Can I play with this?" Zhao Mingyang stepped forward and asked.
"Yes, why can't we? But we are playing lottery. If we lose a game, we will get a packet of gold. Do you want to play?" An old man wearing a hat sat there and said.
Many of these old men bring a bag of Huazi out every day just to compete with Hua Wanli. Everyone is familiar with Zhao Mingyang's appearance. They all know why he came out with it. He hasn't gotten used to it yet. He still has a certain style.
Many old men were like this when they first came here, and these old men were not short of money.
Not to mention a pack of Huazi, just a bottle of Maotai, and no one feels sorry for it.
Zhao Mingyang took his seat, and the old man wearing a hat opposite him played chess with him.
"Then I'll go first." Zhao Mingyang held the red chess piece and made a move to start the move.
The opponent got on the horse, and then Zhao Mingyang followed the instructions of Mu Tong, who was playing chess on his mobile phone in the distance.
During this period, humans were still better than machines in Go, but in chess, machines were better than humans. The algorithm of Go was very complicated. It was not until 2015 that the first generation of AlphaGo appeared. In 2016, it competed with Lee Sedol. This time the competition was basically over.
It proves how powerful Alpha Dog is.
But chess, as early as the beginning of the millennium, was basically unwinnable between humans and computers.
Mu Tong set up an intermediate rank, so Zhao Mingyang easily defeated the opponent and took a pack of Huazi from the opponent and placed it in front of him.
He took out a pack of Huazi from his clothes and scattered some for the people around him to smoke. He also asked the tea vendor on the roadside to bring batteries and water. He invited all the onlookers to drink tea.
We soon started chatting with everyone and became familiar with each other.
After the old man wearing the hat lost, he changed to the next one. Zhao Mingyang asked the opponent to play first. Mu Tong followed the opponent's move and then told Zhao Mingyang the steps of the robot again. As expected, Zhao Mingyang won again.
"Awesome, it seems that only Teacher Hua can deal with you, we are no match for you anymore." said an old man wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and sportswear.
"Teacher Hua? Is the Teacher Hua you call very powerful?" Zhao Mingyang said. His voice was slightly hoarse, and there was cotton in his nostrils, so his voice was very deep.
"Well, our chess king is here. If you play against him, you might not be able to match him." Someone said.
"Then let's play when you get a chance. I'm coming here for a trip and I'll be going back in a few days. I just saw you guys playing chess when I was walking around and came over to join in the fun." Zhao Mingyang said.
"Wait a minute, I'll call Teacher Hua. He's probably leaving home soon." An old man picked up the phone and said, Zhao Mingyang's goal was achieved.