Michelle held the phone in her hand, and kept comforting Lin Shan, who was crying non-stop, and Zhang Jing had already beckoned a taxi. Lin Zitan asked about the destination, and then directly explained the address to the old Mo driver in Spanish, and the three of them hurriedly got in the car and sped away in the direction of Lin Shan's house.

When the three of them arrived, Lin Shan's mother had been taken away by the ambulance, and Lin Shan's brother Lin Hao followed the ambulance to the hospital, leaving Lin Shan to kneel and sit alone, stunned to see that the window of the unit she originally rented had been smashed by the firefighters, and the water used to extinguish the fire was spilled everywhere, and it was still dripping down the window edge at this time.

There are also a lot of onlookers around the house, most of whom are Chinese compatriots living nearby, and there are also many foreigners who rent nearby.

Michelle got out of the car and rushed towards Lin Shan, who was kneeling on the side of the road, and the fire trucks around her also sped away one by one in the roar, leaving behind the ruins and mess after the fire was extinguished, just waiting for the unlucky landlord to go to the home insurance person to make a follow-up claim.

"Shanshan, are you okay? How is your mother?" asked Michelle nervously as she pulled Lin Shan up from the ground.

"It doesn't seem to be a big deal, my brother followed the ambulance to the hospital, but fortunately there is no one at home!" Lin Shan muttered with palpitations.

"Your dad hasn't gotten off work yet, is he?"

"Lin Ying went to her classmate to play, and my dad hasn't gotten off work yet,。。。 Xue'er, I don't have a home!" After saying that, Lin Shan burst into tears again.

Michelle hugged Lin Shan, tears burst out of her eyes instantly, and Zhang Jing and Lin Zi, who were on the side, were at a loss for a while.

After a long while, Lin Shan's crying finally stopped. Michelle looked up at the broken window of Lin Shan's house upstairs, and thought that it must be uninhabitable if it had been sprayed by the firefighters inside, so she suggested to Lin Shandao:

"Shanshan, since your family is like this, why don't you come to my house first, although my family is not big, but my brother has already returned to school, we can live together in the big living room!"

"Thank you, Cher, but... I want to go up and see ... Let's see if there's anything to pack up. He said that his face was sad and he was about to cry.

"Let's go up with you!" Lin Zi was silent for a long time, and then suddenly spoke.

"No need, it is estimated that it has been made beyond recognition~" Lin Shan seemed to have suddenly discovered that the two boys were also present at this time, so she hurriedly lowered her head embarrassedly and wiped her crying miserable face.

"Let's go, let's see if we have anything we can help clean up, we have nothing to do anyway!" Seeing Lin Shan so sad, Zhang Jing also rarely showed a little compassion, and it was the first time he had the opportunity to enter the home of ordinary Chinese compatriots, and he was not ready to see the so-called slums.

Lin Shan's house is not far from the place where they just eat, on Henry Street, not far from East Broadway, the whole family of five rented a one-bedroom and a living room of 50 square meters, and the living room is separated by a small room, Lin Shan and her sister Lin Ying live in it, her eldest brother Lin Hao sleeps in the living room where the dining table is usually placed, a folding bed is stretched out at night, and put away in the morning, and the family lives like a refugee camp.

Now the house is sprayed by fire water, all wet dripping around, the whole room is like being washed by a flood, those firefighters are worthy of admiration is that the amount of water is just right, in addition to playing the role of extinguishing the fire, it did not flood the whole room, so when a few people walked in, they only need to walk on tiptoe, and they can also keep their shoes will not be flooded.

A few people looked at it, and they didn't know what to clean up, Lin Shan walked into her parents' room, groped in it for a long time, probably looking for something precious, and finally came out with a rusty cookie box in her hand, which should have been checked inside, and ran to the kitchen to find a black plastic bag that was still a little wet, put the box inside, and said to everyone: "Let's go, except for some jewelry that my grandmother gave to my mother, there is nothing valuable to take!"

Lin Zitan silently glanced at this crowded and dilapidated room again, and once secretly complained about the unfair fate of himself, when he saw that his cousin's family lived 10 years ago was not much better than the two years when he first arrived in the United States, he really didn't know what it was like, mixed feelings, mixed tastes, surging? No, these idioms could not express his inner situation at the moment.

I thought to myself that if Lin Guodong hadn't died and hadn't become the current Lin Zitan, would he have finally gotten his green card after ten or twenty years of struggle, had a family and children, and still lived this dark life? Is this the American dream that their generation has been pursuing one after another? Ha, I really don't dare to think about it, let alone look back!

After coming out of Lin Shan's house, Lin Zitan proposed to open two rooms for Lin Shan in a good hotel near his house, one for Lin Shan and her sister to live in, and one for his cousin, Lin Shan's father who came back from work.

In the end, he appeased him again, and left Michelle to accompany Lin Shan in the hotel, and then took a taxi home with Zhang Jing.

The car was on the highway for a while, Lin Zitan and Zhang Jing didn't speak, Lin Zitan was still thinking about his own thoughts, and Zhang Jing was frightened by the miserable situation of Lin Shan's family just now.

"Hey Daniel, you said that Lin Shan's house was burned like that, no, it should have been destroyed by firefighters like that, will the insurance company compensate you?" Zhang Jing said ignorantly while pondering.

"What do you want? Even if it is compensation, it is compensation to the landlord, do you think it will be compensated to Lin Shan and their family?"

When Lin Zitan said this, he couldn't help but sigh lightly. Although he also wants to help Lin Shan and his family now, it's a pity that he is only a high school student now, no matter how rich his stepfather is, his mother can't give him too much pocket money, he spent more than a thousand dollars on such a toss today, and I don't know if he will be counted down by Li Manrui when he goes home!

Lin Zitan is really anxious, in addition to studying hard, the top priority now is to have a way to make money, or the only difference between him and Lin Guodong is that he has an extra green card, but now the green card is useless for him!

"What should Lin Shan's family do!" Zhang Jing, a rich second generation who had never worried about money, was worried about the poor for the first time after witnessing the plight of his compatriots in a foreign country.

"I don't know, aren't they flaunting American welfare? It is estimated that ZF should help arrange a place to live first, otherwise what would such a large family do? It is not so quick to find a house temporarily!" Lin Zitan is also really worried about his cousin's family.

"Hey, by the way, you left their room open for a few days, I forgot to leave some cash for them!" Zhang Jing said later.

"I drove for two days, didn't Lin Shan say that she has a few aunts and her grandmother who live around here?

Lin Zitan was afraid that he would be questioned by Li Manrui when he spent so much money at once, so he only opened it for two days, and he proposed to stay in the hotel at that time, and he couldn't open his mouth to let Zhang Jing pay for it, so in the end, he still swiped the credit card that Li Manrui usually gave him pocket money.

The two teenagers were a little depressed when they first encountered someone they knew and suffered such a catastrophe, and when they arrived on Long Island and asked the taxi to take them home, they separated. Lin Zitan was a little worried about Lin Shan's family, and because of his limited ability, he could only pray that the family was safe.

After about a week, one day Zhang Jing came to Lin Zitan's house very excitedly to ring the doorbell, at that time Li Manrui was not at home because of the restaurant, Zhang Jing excitedly held his mobile phone as soon as he entered the door and said:

"Hey, I'll tell you Lin Zitan, I didn't expect Lao Mei ZF to be really powerful, they really helped Lin Shan's family arrange a temporary residence, and I heard that after a while, they will be directly connected to the ZF building to live, and their family will no longer have to rent a house in the future, which is equivalent to ZF giving them a house for nothing!