With Margot driving the car, the car quickly returned to downtown Chicago.
Along the way, due to Josie's deliberate compliments and her experience as a time traveler, Margot had a pleasant chat with him.
As a result, Qiao Xi gained a certain degree of trust from this beautiful young woman and found out the general family situation of this beautiful young woman through conversation.
As Margot said before, she is indeed not a star, but just a housewife.
It's just that this housewife is not ordinary as Josie thought.
Her husband is a tennis star who is active in tournaments across the United States all year round.
But that's not the point.
The focus is still on Margot herself.
Her father is a famous jeweler and real estate developer in Chicago, and she is an only daughter.
After her father passed away two years ago, all the property naturally fell on her.
So whether it's luxury cars, diamond rings and other luxuries, she actually spends her own money.
In contrast, although her husband is a tennis star, the income of sports stars in this era is completely incomparable with that of later generations. He cannot support the family's luxurious consumption. Instead, in order to maintain a decent life, he still needs Margot's funding.
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Therefore, Margot is indeed a wealthy woman.
Regarding this, Qiao Xi had to lament her bad luck. She could meet such a top-notch woman just by hitchhiking.
Just from the conversation along the way, Josie could also feel that this lady had a relatively simple mind and was not satisfied with her current life, especially complaining about her husband who was away from home all the time.
Although Josie would not have any special thoughts about Margot because of this, there was no doubt that it was not a bad thing to meet such a woman from Chicago's upper class.
Especially the other party's deceased father was also a jewelry merchant, which means that if Josie can have a good relationship with Margot, then he may have a way to safely sell gold in the future - for the jewelry industry,
Hundreds and thousands of kilograms of gold are nothing.
And this is also a mutually beneficial thing.
Because for jewelers, having more sources of supply is also a good thing. The Roosevelt administration's control over private gold made it not easy for the jewelry industry to obtain enough gold.
Of course, while obtaining Margot's personal information, Josie also quietly revealed some information about herself.
Such as the death of parents, and being alone and looking for a new place to live.
This also aroused Margot's sympathy to a certain extent, and she took the initiative to provide help to Josie.
"Speaking of houses, my father once developed a community in Evanston. Although it was not a very good community, it was still a very safe community. Most of them have been sold, but I still have some
There are several buildings you can check out." Margot recommended.
"Oh? I wonder what the price is? If it's too expensive, I might not be able to afford it." Hearing Margot's words, Josie asked with some emotion.
Evanston is a satellite city of Chicago.
But this does not mean that Evanston is bad, on the contrary, it is not good.
Because that's on the north side of Chicago.
Where is the North Side of Chicago? It's a serious wealthy area.
Although Evanston is only a satellite city, its environment is not much different from that of the North District, where the famous Northwestern University is located.
The place where Qiao Xi lived before was in the Near North District. Although it was also referred to as "North", it had the additional word "near", which made it completely different from the real northern urban environment.
Of course, it is much better than the black communities in the south, Little Italy, Chinatown in the southwest, and the Irish communities in the west.
What? Why isn’t there an East End, you ask?
Of course it's impossible, because to the east is Lake Michigan...
So there is no East District in the strict sense, only Lakeside District.
"Buy? No need to buy. You can just go and live there. It's empty anyway." Margot shook her head. "You are just a child. When you become an adult and work, it will be too late to do this."
This was considered as her sincere consideration for Josie. Now Josie was alone and under 16 years old, so it was basically difficult to find a good job.
"How can that be possible? Madam, don't worry. My parents also left some assets before they passed away. Although it's not a lot, it's basically enough to buy an ordinary house and support me until I grow up." However, for Margot's kindness,
, Josie refused without even thinking about it.
Although he did intend to take advantage of Margot, he would not take advantage of it.
Although the housing prices in Evanston are certainly not low, they are not sky-high either.
"Okay, but don't be too hasty about the price. Let's go and take a look first. Do you have anything else? If not, why don't I take you to take a look now," Margot said.
"Well, that's not the case, but I haven't eaten lunch yet. Madam, you came back from outside the city and you probably haven't had time to eat yet, right?" Josie also didn't expect that this noble lady was so concerned about her own affairs. Naturally,
He couldn't bear to refuse, but before that, he still wanted to fill his stomach.
After all, Qiao Xi is now at an age when her body is growing rapidly, and she will feel hungry if she doesn't eat.
And Margot went to ride horses at a horse farm on the west side of Chicago in the morning - well, that was also Margot's private property - and judging by the time she came back, she probably didn't have lunch either.
"When we were at the racecourse, I had some refreshments, but as you said, I really felt a little hungry." Margot nodded.
"Then may I have the honor to invite the beautiful lady to have lunch? It can be considered as my thanks." Josie invited immediately.
"Of course! I happen to know that there is a very good restaurant nearby." Margot readily agreed, then turned the steering wheel and drove towards the lakeside.
About ten minutes later, we arrived at a very upscale-looking restaurant on the lakeside.
But what was somewhat beyond Josie's expectation was that this restaurant that Margot said was very good was not the French food he had guessed, but a Turkish restaurant.
Okay, after all, it is one of the three major cuisines in the world.
To be honest, whether in the previous life or in this life, Josie has never eaten much Turkish food.
Of course, there is no such thing as the three major cuisines in this era, especially Chinese food, which will dominate the list of the world's three major cuisines in the future, is not popular in this era.
There is no way, due to the limitations of the times.
After all, catering is also a kind of culture, so its popularity has a lot to do with the prosperity of the country.
Chinese food didn’t really become popular in the world until the scene of Nixon’s visit was broadcast in the United States in 1972.
Turkish food is different. Turkey's geographical location is at the junction of Europe, Asia and Africa. It has more contact with Europe and is greatly influenced by Mediterranean culture. The cooking methods, serving procedures and dining etiquette are also closer to Western food, so it is naturally more famous in Europe.
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Therefore, in this era, for European and American countries, Turkish food is much more famous than Chinese food.