The Spring Festival of 1985 was on February 20th.

There are still more than ten days to go before the Chinese New Year, and many shops in Chinatown have already changed their Spring Festival couplets in advance, and flaming red lanterns are hung under the eaves signs.

Most of the Spring Festival couplets are handwritten, and the old gentlemen who write good calligraphy often only know how to write traditional Chinese characters, and have not experienced the reform from complex to simple.

Although the traditional Chinese style is beautiful, the structure is too cumbersome, which is not conducive to children's learning and large-scale popularization of literacy education.

One pinyin, one simplified character, the two measures on the other side of the strait have indeed made a difference, sweeping away many illiterates.

Many of the older generation went to private school when they were young, and some hundred-year-old people even had fame on them, such as children and talents, and when they were young, they shaved their heads and grew braids, and they really lived from the era when there was an emperor to the era when there was no emperor.

These old Huang Li young people don't like to listen to it, at most they just babble a few words to their juniors when they are in a good mood, laughing and scolding that they have been in California for many years, and their descendants don't know the ancestral characters and can't read the ancestral poems.

In addition to the new immigrants, many of the descendants of old immigrants whose ancestors lived in San Francisco have long since stopped learning Chinese systematically, and only know some commonly used words.

Who wants to study in college here, and the exam will not test Chinese characters, as a Chinese, there are more troubles than benefits, and the convenience is nothing more than applying for Chinese majors, but not many people are willing to learn these years, and there are few universities that offer Chinese courses.

Some of the traditional folk customs belonging to the Chinese have been quietly integrated into the lives of local residents in Chinatown for more than 100 years and retained in their habits.

Although the tradition of celebrating the Chinese New Year remains, it is unfortunately more like a gimmick to attract tourists from outside, and the Chinese New Year is not an official holiday in California, and this alone is enough to elevate the status of Christmas and New Year above the Lunar New Year.

Occasionally, I see a few Spring Festival couplets written in English dragon flying phoenix dance, and there is no need to make too much fuss, Chen Linzhi often feels that this place is familiar and unfamiliar, a bit of a combination of Chinese and Western, the old man is more old than the young man, and the young man always wants to integrate into the mainstream society, make a fortune and live a good life.

This is quite normal, the ancestors have lived in this foreign country for dozens or even hundreds of years, how can there be no change at all, and the fact that they can maintain the current small situation in China has shown how strong the vitality of traditional culture is.

Walk to Yin Yu's house.

Walking on the road, I saw the police nodding to an old man in Tang costume, and a man standing next to him was holding a sack to collect protection money.

Chen Linzhi remembered that during the epidemic in the future, he heard that Brazil used immunotherapy, and it was the gangs in the slums who took the initiative to shoulder the burden and let the big guys isolate at home and not go out, which was efficient and direct, and more useful than the official appearance.

In San Francisco's Chinatown, there is both competition and alliance between gangs, and the common denominator is that they don't want the hands of white people to reach over and smash their jobs, so these years they are mainly managing the local order, and they have been doing so for nearly a hundred years.

Thinking about it this way, the authority in the hands of Yu Luoqi's woman has invisibly risen in Chen Linzhi's heart, and he is wondering whether he should use the freight business to walk around with her more, hugging the woman's thighs, and if he can't do it, he will think of some ideas to help the other party earn some money, and become a dog-headed military advisor with the help of merit.

In this way, no matter what Lotus Hall, or what local cats and dogs, don't they have to walk around when they see themselves.

At present, Chen Linzhi's biggest reliance is that he has countless ideas to make money in his head, which can be used to exchange wealth for power.

Considering that it is impossible for him to earn the money alone, if he can exchange the idea of earning money for some real benefits, Chen Linzhi will naturally be happy.

Yin Yu went out to collect debts last night.

The company is short of manpower, so he is temporarily called to the top, and he can earn 30 US dollars a night by harassing others, and if the money is recovered, there will be a commission.

Chen Linzhi arrived at his house, knocked on the door and found that it was an ordinary-looking woman who opened the door, in her forties, and her sideburns turned white early due to perennial fatigue.

She didn't give Chen Linzhi a good look.

Out of the mood of protecting the calf, I always feel that it is because of these fox friends and dog friends that Yin Yu has dragged his son to have no interest and is not good at studying to get ahead.

But when my son is older, he should save some face.

Fortunately, Chen Linzhi was not swept out of the house, and said lukewarmly that she was sleeping in the room, and then she continued to wash vegetables and rice, and was busy making dinner.

Chen Linzhi has some impressions of Yin Yu's mother.

probably knows why she has this attitude, and there is really no excuse to accuse this aunt of being cold to herself, everyone wants her son to become a dragon, and no one wants their children to be surrounded by fox friends and dogs, which can't help, but drags them back.

didn't sit down, didn't go to Yin Yu's room to look for him, Chen Linzhi stood for a long time and didn't get a glass of water, felt that the atmosphere was a little solidified, and took the lead to speak:

"Yin Yu has been working with me recently...... I just went to Arkansas in the past two days to discuss a large order of more than $700,000.

Auntie, don't worry, the early years have passed, and in the future, we plan to do business in peace and stability, earn some money and live a comfortable life, and you don't have to be so tired anymore. ”

Yin Yu's mother has a very good name, called Jun Huan.

Her father was a small staff officer in the national army, but later she didn't go to Chengdao, and came to the United States across the ocean, when she was only seven years old.

Afterwards, the family fell into the middle of the road, coupled with the death of her husband at an early age, she has been alone to pull her son Yin Yu to grow up.

I set up a stall, went to the restaurant to serve the dishes and washed the dishes, and fell down the problems on the cervical and lumbar spine, and it hurt when it was cold and rainy.

It wasn't until recently that I felt a little more comfortable, and I went to Pacific Heights, a wealthy area of San Francisco, to find a family to do some cleaning, laundry and floor work, and it was not wrong to be tired, but the salary was higher than before.

She didn't like to deal with Chen Linzhi just now, but she heard what Chen Linzhi said, and the business of more than 700,000 US dollars was enough to surprise this woman.

If you want to say that she got so much money for doing evil, Yin Yu's mother will not be surprised at all, anyway, she has never been in, and she almost dragged her son into the water.

She was surprised to hear that she was making money doing business.

I didn't believe it very much, I didn't look back, my tone was a little curious, and I asked Chen Linzhi: "How can you have the money to do business? My son doesn't understand anything, how can he work with you." ”

"When my parents had an accident, they actually got a settling-in fee, but then my uncle took me away and threw me into an orphanage. Some time ago, someone knew about it and helped me recover the money with interest, a total of more than 100,000 US dollars, when the start-up capital was more than enough.

This time it was a list to talk to Wal-Mart, the reputation of that large company is guaranteed, I came today to call Yin Yu to look for it, rent a place for office use, recruit some people in a few days, and be able to notify the supplier that the goods have been delivered, two million pairs of stockings. This is a small order, clothing, daily necessities these markets are larger, maybe in the future to let Yin Yu, accompany me to the other side of the river to inspect the market, that place is now very safe, there are acquaintances to lead the way, there is no need to worry. ”

Chen Linzhi deliberately pretended.

His original intention was to indirectly tell the aunt that he had changed his ways, and was no longer the pony boy who was bent on making a name for himself a few months ago.

It's a pity that the impression is difficult to change for a while.

Yin Yu's mother still didn't look back, she was busy washing vegetables and said: "Since you have a little money, let's stop it, buy a house and marry a daughter-in-law, it's better than anything else, everyone wants to make money in business, how can money be so easy to earn." ”

Don't blame her for not having confidence and pouring cold water.

In reality, there are many tribulations, and her extravagant hopes and edges and corners have long been gone, and in the end, she only came to the sentence: "My family has no money, and my family has no money, you just give him some salary, no matter what, it is safer than collecting debts now." ”

Chen Linzhi heard it, this was because he was afraid that he would be stinged and worried about their family's money.

I can't laugh or cry about it.

The brother settled the accounts, Chen Linzhi nodded and said: "Of course the salary will be given, after the company is set up, give him a thousand dollars a month, I may need to find orders everywhere, and I can't believe it if others are staring at the company." ”

This sentence was far more concerned than Chen Linzhi's big order of more than 700,000 US dollars, so she turned around and wiped her hands, and her tone was suspicious: "One thousand a month, really?"

“...... Really, how can I treat him badly after helping to run before and after running recently. ”

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