Chapter 66: Tragedy in the Great Era
Su Mu, the little butterfly, finally set off a little storm and made the world different.
He didn't know Zhang Mazi, the two only passed by at the William Hill bookmaker, and when Boss Han was betting, this guy was also present and chatted with each other for a few words.
It was such an intersection that led Zhang Mazi's life to an end.
Five days ago, he gambled and owed a lot of debt, about 40,000 US dollars, and wanted to run away with his things to get rid of the money, but in the end he was forced to jump from the stairs, and there were cuts on his back.
The world is chaotic, especially in slums like Chinatown.
In the 50s and 60s, there were gangsters everywhere on the street, and the fight scenes were blockbusters, with hundreds of people on both sides fighting, and the police were watching from the sidelines, and who was stabbed a few times in the chaos, and even the murderer was difficult to find, and most of them were not solved afterwards.
These are all real things, Su Dingcai has witnessed it with his own eyes, and it has only gotten better after being governed in recent years, and the rich people understand that it is not safe here, so those who have earned money can't wait to move out, and the poor people who are similar to the Su family are forced to continue to live in the old place.
In the early 80s, there were many fewer large-scale brawls, usury, underground casinos, and organizing prostitution were still common, and there were even many cases of trafficking in illegal drugs and abducting people.
At first, he thought that the people from the immigration bureau were just conducting routine inspections, but two days later he found out that INS had begun to conduct a large-scale census in the Chinatown area, and there were a large number of people who were dispatched, and there was a great deal of repatriation of stranded and smuggled immigrants.
The Su family was also checked, all of them were legal residents, and the INS people left quickly.
Then Su Mu learned that the cause of this rectification incident had to start with a cargo ship.
A few days ago, a cargo ship carrying more than 100 stowaways stayed in the coastal waters of the United States, waiting for him to send a ship to pick up the smugglers ashore, but Zhang Mazi died unexpectedly, and no one cared about them.
There were coast guard personnel patrolling, and the captain of the cargo ship was frightened, and there was not enough food and fuel, so he could not return to China again.
So regardless of whether the smugglers were alive or dead, they forced them into the sea with guns, more than 10 kilometers from the coast, threw more than 20 life jackets and lifebuoys into the sea, and let these people swim to the shore by themselves.
Among this group of Chinese smugglers, the vast majority are young men and women under the age of 40, who have tried to come to the United States in order to make money, and there are also officials and bosses who have made money and run away.
The cargo ship really drove away, leaving behind more than a hundred people floating on the sea, and at first there was a dispute over the tools to save their lives, and those who could not swim sank directly into the sea.
After two days and one night, more than 30 people survived, most of them dying when they were found by a fishing boat, and then more than a dozen bodies were washed up on the beach off the coast of California, the youngest of whom was only four years old!
After the reporters reported the news, it caused an uproar!
A purge was unstoppable, the president came forward to issue an order, not only Chinese, but the entire Asian and Mexican community was unlucky, and in just one day, the prison was filled with illegal immigrants waiting to be repatriated, and the media called it the "901 tragedy......
Su Mu heard the news after his heart was complicated, in recent years, it is said that the policy of Huaxia has changed, and there are indeed a lot more illegal immigrants coming to Chinatown, and the locals are very complaining about this, feeling that they have been robbed of their jobs, and applauding the recent purge.
America has never been a paradise, it may be a paradise for the rich, but not for the poor.
Judging from the news revealed in those broadcasts, Huaxia should develop very well in the future, Su Mu felt that it was a pity, if the dead compatriots had not been smuggled, maybe there would be better development in the future, and he clearly knew that the rise of a country was accompanied by countless opportunities to make money.
To be honest, a Chinese child like Su Mu, who was born in the United States, is actually not familiar with the country on the other side of the Pacific.
I only know the Great Wall, the Forbidden City and the like, the old people often hang on their lips, and occasionally learn a traditional culture, most of them are not proficient, Su Mu is slightly better, like to read ancient poems, miscellaneous books, biographies of historical figures, etc., some do not understand well, and can not find anyone to help solve the doubts, so they make do with the past.
The vast majority of Chinese born in the United States also have emotions such as a sense of homeland identity, but after all, they have not seen with their own eyes the ancestral land where their ancestors lived and multiplied, and the times guarded it, which is not very profound.
Su Mu suddenly wanted to go and see it recently, and he wanted to know what was going on in Huaxia now, which would make many people come to the United States to dig gold at the cost of death.
Not one or two, but tens of thousands of people poured into Los Angeles, causing the rent of houses around Chinatown to rise sharply, and the order was suddenly chaotic.
According to a recent public statement by the head of the INS, it is said that the number of immigrants from China to the United States in recent years has far exceeded the quota of 20,000, and that there are about 25,000 smugglers every year.
In this era, the news is not well-informed, even if you see reports about China in newspapers and on TV, most of them are negative news, and the positions of countries are different, and the angles of reporting news are also different.
He is very interested in the country where his ancestors lived, but unfortunately in recent years, the local people do not seem to have a good time, think about the Chinese people in the United States, life is actually not easy, the street garbage is piled into a hill, a few families are crowded in a small house, belongs to the famous slums, many white people hear about Chinatown, they will associate words such as "dirty" and "chaos", and they have no status in society.
The residents on the other side of the strait may be relying on speculation to describe the "beauty" of the United States with false rumors, the conditions of the Su family are not bad in the Chinatown area, and the money they make is enough to make many smugglers envious, but they can only barely survive, and it has nothing to do with the word "wealth".
Putting aside the wave of immigration caused by the reform and opening up, some of them may be able to make money, but most of them are just doing useless work, some people have sold their houses in the center of Shanghai, and some people have sold the courtyard houses on Chang'an Avenue and come to the United States with money to make a living.
However, unlike the United States, which has been developed for more than 200 years and has a stable social environment, China on the other side of the ocean is developing rapidly, and a large group of people, including Su Mu, have vaguely discovered the possible opportunities......
On the morning of September 3rd.
Su Mu got on the Greyhound long-distance bus, with the remaining more than 20,000 US dollars from the lottery winnings, as well as 800 US dollars in living expenses from his family, and went to Menlo Park High School to study.
After his mother sent him to the car, he couldn't help crying, and Old Man Su smiled happily.
Su Dingcai was doing business at home, and he didn't send his son to school, anyway, it was all in California, and he had time to see him on weekends, so he didn't have to worry too much......