Yan Shi is the marketing manager of a food company in Brighton, and although he was born in the United States, he also retains the industriousness of the Chinese nation, so in addition to his official job at the food company, he also runs a small supermarket in the community of Vinda, where he lives, and his wife manages it.

Yanshi's wife is from Binhai, and she met Yanshi when she went to Binhai to negotiate by chance, and then she gave up her job in Binhai and married here.

At this time, private cars are still a novelty in China, a sign of wealth and power, but in the United States it has become a matter of course, generally as long as a slightly richer family can afford a private car, as the company's marketing manager, with the company's fuel subsidy, it is natural to buy a car.

Yanshi drove into the garage, but was told that his garage was in arrears and needed to be renewed before he could continue to use it, which made Yanshi very surprised, he knew that the garage in the Vinda community was rented and billed, except for the villa, all the parking spaces in the garage belonged to the property company, so if you need to use the garage, you must pay a certain amount of rent to the property company.

"But didn't I pay the rent only in January of this year?, and it's a year's rent, how could it be so soon due?, and why didn't I have any warning beforehand?"

The doorman told him that this was because the rent of the garage had been temporarily adjusted, so his garage was in arrears for more than half a year in advance, and because it was a temporary adjustment, there was no prior notice. Yan Shi felt very helpless about this, but he couldn't help it, the garage still had to be used after all, and he would be fined if he parked outside, so he had to go to the property to make up the arrears first, and then come over to park with a new contract.

After parking the car, Master Yan came home and saw his wife in the living room in a daze and did not prepare a meal for him, he wondered and asked, "What are you doing sitting in the living room? Didn't you cook for me today?"

The wife looked up and shook out a few slips and said: "This is the tax bill sent by the tax bureau today and the reminder notice sent by the gas, water and electricity department, please explain to me what is going on? Where do you say the money used to pay taxes and utility bills is used?"

Hearing his wife's words, Yan Shi's eyes suddenly widened: "This is impossible, I only handed it over last week." ”

The wife sneered: "Pretend, you pretend for me, you said you handed it over, so tell me what is going on with these documents?"

As she spoke, the wife slapped the slips on the table, then turned her head and ignored the speaker, who immediately picked up the slips on the table, and after reading them, he was immediately confused, and muttered, "How can this be? I have really already paid these fees, how can I still send them to collect them?"

Looking at the performance of the Yan Master, his wife just sneered and did not speak, and the Yan Shi took out his official briefcase without believing in evil, and took out the bill for his payment from it, but his wife didn't look at it and said: "I don't look at this thing, I don't know how you do it, I just know that now those departments are urging like Hades!"

The teacher was also angry: "Why are you unreasonable at all? I have indeed handed it over, and the documents are all here, what do you want? I don't know what the situation is......

Yan Shi paused at this point, he thought of something and then said: "When I came back today, the garage doorman said that my garage was in arrears, but we only paid in January, and you were also present at the time, even if the temporary price increase will not reach the stage of arrears, how much has he risen, do you say that the garage price increase will also be related to our tax bills and water, electricity and gas bills?"

As if to prove it, the words of the master here fell, and the door of his room was knocked, and the master looked at his wife, because usually women do such things as opening the door, but this time his wife had no intention of going at all, so the master had no choice but to get up and open the door by himself.

The person who came was their neighbor, who was also Chinese, and when they entered the door, they asked the teacher: "Our family has received a lot of tax bills and reminders for water, electricity and gas bills today, but I only paid them a few days ago, what is going on?

"That's right, I met it too, I was talking to my wife about this just now, why is your family too?"

The master nodded desperately, and wanted to turn back to his wife to show his innocence, but his wife immediately stood up and came over.

The wife took the slips and compared them, and then said, "It's true that this has only been handed over for a short time, why do you have to pay it again?"

"Could it be that the city government has issued some new policies and regulations?" But there doesn't seem to be any news!" said a neighbor outside the door.

"If it's a new policy or regulation of the city government, those Americans will definitely not agree to it, and then there will definitely be senators to protest, and then these inhumane policies and regulations will be repealed, and we can all leave him alone." The wife of the teacher said.

However, the development of facts can always exceed people's expectations, here she finished speaking, she heard the voice of someone going upstairs, it was the staff of the community property, he came up to them and said: "I will inform you of a thing, from today onwards, the sanitation fee and property management fee of your community will be raised, please go to the property within three days to make up the cost." ”

After speaking, the staff was about to continue upstairs, but was stopped by the teacher: "Why has the property fee been raised?

The staff member turned around and said, "It's your business what you want to think, but it's not for your family, all the Chinese in the Vida community are the same." ”

"What are you talking about? Is it just that the Chinese have been raised their property fees? and the garage rent is too?" asked the speaker, noticing the point of the staff's words.

"That's right, it's just you Chinese!"

The staff left them this sentence and went upstairs, leaving only the speaker and they looked at each other on the same ground.

"What's the situation? Why just raise the fees for us Chinese? Isn't this bullying?" complained to the wife, and the teacher and the neighbors all nodded their heads, because they all had the same idea, and then someone behind them said.

"Who let us not have our own councillors, who told you to call the police to drive away the councillors who came to the community to publicize, Mom, Auntie, I ask you to think about it, if we have our own Chinese councillors who can speak in the parliament, how can the city government dare to have such a policy? If you don't help them, forget it, and drive them away, now this situation is the sin of your own making, Mom and Auntie!"

The Yanshi turned around, it was their son, and the Yanshi's wife slapped them when they went up, and then scolded angrily: "What are you doing when you don't study hard in the room? What do you know about the things of adults and children? What are those who are running for parliament, I think they are here to cheat money at all, and only a little kid like you who doesn't know anything will believe them, and this time, I think they made it up at all!"

Finally, the wife pointed to the child's nose and warned: "I tell you, if you talk nonsense again, I won't teach you a good lesson!"

The neighbor also chimed in: "That's right, otherwise why was it that we had been fine before, and this time after they came, our fees would have been raised?"

But the kid was unconvinced and said, "I don't think that's the case, it's clear that we don't have our own rights!" I came out to say that the school just called and said that my tuition was going to go up. ”

Echoing the child's words, the teacher's mobile phone rang, and after the teacher connected, his face immediately changed, and he hung up the phone before saying: "It's the bank's phone, he said that my credit has been adjusted, and this month's credit bill must be repaid within a week, otherwise they will take measures, and at the same time, our mortgage interest will also be adjusted, which will increase by eight percentage points." ”

Faced with the news of the child and the teacher, the wife of the teacher immediately wailed: "This is to force us to death! How can there be such a reason for us?"

Yan Shi frowned and said: "This really doesn't work, we don't have a reason to pay so much more than others, so let's go to the other Chinese in the community, and everyone go to the district council to protest together, and ask the council to come forward to revoke the unreasonable policies against us." ”

The neighbor asked, "Is this okay?"

Yan Shi shook his head and replied, "I don't know, but that's all I can do now." ”

The next day, Yanshi contacted other Chinese in the Vinda community to come to the door of the Capitol in Fenway, holding protest signs in their hands, and shouting at the Capitol at the same time: "We completely protest against the racist policy of the city government, we are American citizens, we demand equal treatment, please don't pay us too much tax and living expenses, we can't afford it!"

Due to the excessively large increase in fees, almost 1,000 Chinese came today, and they all occupied the square in front of the parliament building.

Yanshi and his wife were also in the crowd, and the wife looked at so many people around her, and she said happily to Yanshi: "I didn't expect that there are so many Chinese in Brighton, this is the first time I have seen so many Chinese together after our wedding, this time the council must compromise and cancel the increase, right? Maybe under the pressure of so many of us, the city council will help us lower some fees!"

Compared with his wife's optimism, Yan Shi frowned, and said: "I think it's better not to be so optimistic, this is not in your country, and the parliament will not be so easy to compromise." We should still go to the councillor that my son said, maybe there will be something he can do......"

Before he could finish his words, his wife interrupted him: "What kind of bullshit parliamentarians are they, they can have a fart to find them, I think they made this incident, and it's good that I don't trouble them! You see that now that so many of us are here, is it possible that they still dare to make a big noise? That is going to make a big news, and even the provincial governor in China has to compromise!"

"But this is in the United States, and we are only Chinese. The teacher said.

As if to prove the words of the speaker, when he finished speaking, a group of riot police with shields entered the field, and they marched in a neat queue, directly separating the crowd from the parliament.

Seeing this, the master panicked: "It's not good, let's go quickly, we're going to suffer!"

But his wife didn't think so: "What else can they do? Obviously they are racist, and our legitimate petition is justified, can they still use force?"

Before the words of the teacher's wife fell, she heard a few bangs over there, and several tear gas was hit into the crowd, which immediately caused a riot in the crowd, and then the riot police strode towards the crowd, waved the rubber rod in their hands, and smashed it on people's heads.

There was a panic in the crowd, everyone began to instinctively retreat and run away when the tear gas was launched, and when the riot police rushed over, people were even more chaotic, everyone ran around like headless flies, screaming and crying.

In the panic, Yanshi and his wife were separated, and Yanshi desperately shouted his wife's name, but when he finally pushed through the crowd, he happened to find a white policeman holding a rubber rod thicker than his arm, and hit his wife fiercely.

"Don't ......"