For Chen Mo’s family’s New Year’s Eve dinner, guests came to the house early in the morning, and as time went by there were more and more guests.
Zhou Ziyu and his father also came. You could find out from his uncle, which made Chen Xiao look embarrassed.
Chen Chen and Zhang Xia were helping in the kitchen, and several aunts were also busy in the kitchen. Chen Mo and Chen Xiao also had several cousins and a cousin. They had not seen each other for a long time, and more than a dozen people sat together and fried gold flowers.
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"10 yuan, brother, I want to see your cards." Chen Xiao, a stable person, finally caught a good deck of cards. After walking around, he started to look at Chen Mo's cards...
"Do you know how to play? Do you know how to play..." Chen Mo was holding a pair of bad cards and wanted to steal the chicken. Chen Xiao wanted to see his cards and threw them away: "Your phone number."
There was a thick pile of change on Chen Xiao's cell phone. They didn't play much. The bottom was 5 yuan and the top was 20 yuan. Chen Xiao pinched a pair of golden flowers, threw another 10 yuan and went in to answer the phone: "Happy new
"Year you too." He spoke a lot of standard American English, and everyone on the card table looked at Chen Xiao.
10 yuan, 10 yuan...20 yuan...we kept talking until someone tried to cheat on us.
Jinhua is a very big card. Chen Xiao gathered a pile of change on the table and said, "Okay, we'll be back tomorrow. Thank you."
There were more than a dozen people, and 10 yuan per person was more than 100 yuan. Chen Xiao received four to five hundred yuan, with a depressed face.
"What's wrong? Didn't you just go there on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year?" Chen Mo knocked Chen Xiao on the head.
"The flight was changed for us and we will be there tomorrow. The company is in urgent need of people." There were so many people here that it was not convenient to go into details about some of the company's affairs, so Chen Xiao shrugged helplessly.
"Sister Chen Xiao, why can't I understand so much of the English you just spoke?" asked my cousin Xiong Xiaoling. She is a college student and seems to be majoring in English.
Chen Xiao was helpless, how to explain this.
"What I just spoke was American English, with a Californian San Francisco accent." English listening, or English learned from textbooks, may not necessarily be used in the United States.
Just like i have sweet teeth., translated into Chinese, the literal translation is: I have sweet teeth
In the United States, this sentence means, I like to eat sweets.
There are many such sentences, as well as many slang words...
"By the way, I never asked you, have you and Chen Chen also gone to the United States now?" said the eldest cousin Xiong Jiehong.
Chen Xiao looked at Chen Mo and nodded lightly: "Working in San Francisco."
"San Francisco, I heard the wages there are very high. How much salary can you get in a month?" Xiong Jiehong asked.
"Seven to eight thousand, maybe." Chen Xiao shrank. It was more than seven thousand a month, and sometimes there was a bonus of more than eight thousand. Her salary was the same as that of the director of the planning department, but it was still for Chen Mo's sake.
Like Zhang Xia, she is in the human resources department, sorting out information every day, and her monthly salary is four to five thousand US dollars. But Zhang Xia's colleagues at the same level have an average salary of about a thousand US dollars less per person.
"Dollars." Xiong Jiehong took a breath.
"U.S. dollars." Do we use RMB in the United States... Chen Xiao grinned.
Zhou Ziyu next to him was a little shocked. He really liked Chen Xiao, otherwise he wouldn't have gone to all the trouble to have a blind date...
Zhou Ziyu knew that Chen Xiao's previous family was not very good, and Chen Mo was basically the supporter of the family. But today when he came over, he saw a duplex elevator apartment, and the car he saw Chen Mo driving before... A man's pride, confidence, and so on
Coming from his family, his own ability, to put it bluntly, means money. Zhou Ziyu does not rely entirely on his family. He works in a large company as a white-collar worker with a monthly salary of tens of thousands. But compared with Chen Xiao, there seems to be a big gap.
"Seven to eight thousand, isn't that tens of thousands of RMB per month? Five or six hundred thousand a year?" Xiong Jiehong's eyes widened.
Perhaps the most attractive thing about the United States is the U.S. dollar, the world's currency. One U.S. dollar can be exchanged for nearly 7 yuan in RMB...
"What kind of social class does seven or eight thousand people count in San Francisco?" asked the second cousin since there was no new district.
"The level is above average, the salary is high, and the consumption there is also high. Cousin, it's your turn to deal the cards." Chen Xiao reminded.
"Come on, come on, keep going..."
Xiong Xiaoling, an English major, will graduate half a semester after the Chinese New Year. She looked worried: "Cousin, is your company recruiting people? I also want to go to the United States after graduation..."
Chen Xiao...has a toothache.
Don't know how to answer...
After Chen Mo suddenly became rich, he kept a low profile in China. Relatives all knew that his family suddenly became rich, but they didn't know exactly how rich they were.
Many people want to go to the United States. If you have acquaintances there and can find stable jobs, most of them are better than staying in China...
We are all relatives, and we usually have relatively good relations with each other. If I were asked to come, it would be hard to refuse.
"Let's wait until you graduate. As for work, I am just a working class." Chen Xiao said helplessly. She and Zhang Xia were both related households in Tangxia Yipin: "It's very difficult to find a good job in San Francisco..."
As for introducing more people?
Chen Mo couldn't even wipe his face off.
Chen Xiao looked at him, but Chen Mo pretended not to see him and took out a round of cigarettes...
"Boss, are you in the same company as Chen Xiao, Chen Chen?" Xiong Jiehong took the cigarette and looked at Chen Mo: "What do you do?"
The boss... Chen Mo is the oldest among his cousins and relatives.
"No. Chen Xiao and Zhang Xia are in San Francisco, and Chen Chen and I are at the ranch in the countryside." Chen Mo smiled.
"Is it easy to go to the United States?"
"It's easy, just apply for a tourist visa and go."
"I'm looking for a job. You don't need to ask for much, just two to three thousand dollars a month." Xiong Jiehong smiled and handed Chen Mo a cigarette and said.
If there is a way to work in the United States and earn US dollars, it is indeed quite cost-effective. The per capita wage in the United States is really high...
But for the vast majority of people, they go to the United States on a tourist visa and never leave after landing. The job they do, the place they live... it is difficult to save money.
“It is difficult and almost impossible to get a formal work visa... Many people go to the United States with a tourist visa. If they can find a job and earn an income, they can basically stay. Working illegally... there are very few jobs to choose from.
, the salary is not much and we can barely make ends meet." Chen Mo took a puff of cigarette and shook his head.
"It's an illegal job." Xiong Jiehong shook his head: "Can't you get a regular long-term visa?"
Chen Mo was helpless...
It was okay when I was in Montana, where the population is small and the policies are loose. In California, it costs tens of thousands of dollars at least to get a long-term visa through formal channels, and it can take three to five months as fast as it can take as long as several years ago. It was very troublesome.
.If you are a very rich person, then it is simple...
It is very common to work illegally in the United States. As long as you don't advertise that you are an illegal worker, no one will think you are an illegal worker. So you are almost like ordinary people. You can go shopping, travel... and earn enough money.
You can still buy a house in the United States, as long as you pay the full amount. As for buying a car, you only need to pay the full amount. As for the driver's license, it's a bit troublesome... You have to sell the driver's license at a high price.
In New Mexico, black households can also apply for a driver's license.
As long as you have a driver's license and stay in the United States, it doesn't make much difference whether you have a green card or not.
It's too troublesome to explain the issue of illegal work. Chen Mo himself doesn't know much about this aspect. I just heard Brett say...