19 Credit Cards
Lin Yilong suddenly became idle. On the night of his retirement on Monday, he felt that the game that was a short relaxation after working every day suddenly became unfun, and his occasional shoddy cookies were not tasty, and even having to drink Coke for dinner every day became redundant.
Unlike students who think about holidays day and night, if an office worker has no income to secure, he will be very nervous and uneasy when he suddenly idle, and Lin Yilong is in such a period.
Even if he decided to visit his forest farm, he couldn't do it right away. Now that he has applied for leave without pay, his work visa ends here. If he wants to stay here, he needs to apply for a new residency, in other words, a visa.
Originally, Lin Yilong had accumulated five years of experience during his university studies in Wales, plus a few years of work that barely reached the 10-year long-term naturalization line, but he returned to China to practice for one year during the five-year education period, and the interruption period was not included in the calculation of immigration supervision. His work visa has only been going through four years, with one year left to get permanent residency. In order for him to be counted for an uninterrupted period of residence, he will either have to look for another job or he will have to apply for investment immigration.
"Poor and cheap can't be moved" may not have malicious intent when ridiculing, but the reality is just like the meaning of the surface in the paragraph, which is true. Europeans have always talked about promoting individual choice, but the scale of immigration policy is very small: they will abandon honest immigrants with little capital and expertise, nominally to protect the job market, and promote soft advertisements such as "freedom and fraternity" to refugees who do not work and are simply subsidized, so as to increase the attraction of investment and technology. This kind of inconsistency in scale makes Lin Yilong helpless, and he can only watch as all kinds of taxes that he was pitted by a group of civil servants and politicians are put into the pockets of refugees in the name of "love and friendliness". But in the end, if he doesn't want to return to China for employment and be angry, I'm afraid he will still have to suffer the knife of visa.
Lin Yilong and Yeon sisters made an appointment for the interview on Friday morning, when the sisters did not have classes, and the interview location was not far from Kingston, where Lin Yilong lived.
The two sisters were still staying at a hotel near Barbican arranged by Lin Yilong, and if Lin Yilong had not contacted them, they would not have been willing to go out except to attend lectures and group discussions, and they would have locked themselves in the hotel suite with trepidation.
"Is anyone there?" One Wednesday afternoon, a hotel attendant knocked on the door of the Ieon sisters' suite.
"In. Nadia agreed. When the waitress called the door, she was drinking coffee and eating dessert with her sister Vera in front of the coffee table.
The door opened, and the hotel waiter stood at the door and started a conversation with Nadia.
"Which one is Miss Vera-Yeon. The waiter asked uncertainly when he saw Vera, who looked exactly like Nadia.
"I am. Vera also came to the door of the suite.
"That's right, Miss Eon's early payment for the house is due, and we want to know if you are going to stay here?" the waiter said respectfully the purpose of his visit, "if you continue to live here, how many more days will you have to stay here." ”
Sister Yeon glanced at each other, a worried look on their faces.
"Please wait, I need a call. Nadia said, and then hurriedly grabbed the phone sent by Lin Yilong and called Lin Yilong.
"Hey?" Lin Yilong's weak voice on the other end of the phone aggravated Nadia's worries, "What's the matter?"
"Yuri, a waiter at the door asked us if we were staying and if we didn't pay they were going to kick us away. Nadia's tone revealed her anxiety, "What are we going to do?"
"Didn't I give you a credit card?" Lin Yilong replied, "How can I use a credit card to teach you?"
Nadia was speechless for a moment.
"But ......" Lin Yilong's tone suddenly changed, "Nadia, did I use this suite to open this suite in Vera's name?"
That's what the waiter said. Nadia didn't know how Lin Yilong was going to humiliate his sister, so she paused for a second and confirmed the status of this suite to Lin Yilong.
"I think you've already paid your tuition, right?" Lin Yilong added, "It's the tuition I paid with your credit card, right?"
"Yes, you want to...."Nadia thought of her hesitation in the financial window, and she thought of Lin Yilong's next proposal.
"So, my dear Nadia, what have you in mind?" Lin Yilong's voice became high, "I think you've guessed it, haven't you? Don't let your sister Vera's credit card lose its original use. If your sister still can't figure it out, ask her to call me. Also, I think you should let your sister make up her mind a little bit on her own, and this time you can't swipe the card for her, which is a violation of the card issuer's terms of service. ”
Nadia slowly put her phone on the coffee table, strotted to the desk next to the TV, and picked up Vera's credit card that had been placed there.
"Vera, Yuri said that the room is in your name, and you have to settle it yourself. At the same time, he handed the credit card with Vera's name written on it to his sister.
Vera felt a solemn expression and took the credit card from her sister's hand that seemed to have a mark of humiliation, and the next second, she grabbed the credit card in her hand, picked up the phone that was thrown on the sofa when chatting with her sister just now, and called Lin Yilong.
"What the hell do you mean?" asked Vera, exasperated.
"It's not interesting, but it feels like your life is too wronged and needs to be improved. Lin Yilong replied with a sneer, "What do you say, haven't you already accepted my protection?
"Also, I'm going to see you at Barbican tomorrow night to check your visa application forms and supporting documents. Well, by the way, what do you like to eat for dinner tomorrow? That's it, let's go to Leicester Square tomorrow for lunch. ”
Lin Yilong immediately interrupted the conversation, leaving Vera silent on the other end of the phone.
Vera shuddered and picked up her dark green credit card, summoning the last courage she had to hand it to her sister.
Nadia waved her hand, she couldn't be the master for her sister.
Vera trembled as she handed the credit card to the waiter, and when she made this gesture, she felt that something very important had been abandoned by her.
"Please, extend our room for another week. With the only courage she had left, Vera didn't dare to look directly at the hotel waiter, and said this in shame.