Chapter 114: First Arrival in New York
In the name of it, it is called to inspect the market and take a trip that is just on the go.
It was already evening, and if it was too late to go to New York now, Su Mu and Li Ping'an hit it off and decisively began to pack their things, carrying backpacks and bringing some change of clothes.
Yesterday just finished sending a truckload of goods, there are not a few computers in the warehouse, not far away is a small town, there will be fishing boats on the dock at night, thieves should not come to this kind of place to steal things.
Open the safe, there are more than 6,000 US dollars in cash, many employees like to get cash commissions, so that they can evade taxes and save some money, so they bought a second-hand safe, standing a few thousand dollars, in case of emergency.
In this era, ATMs have just appeared, and they have not yet become widely popular, and the working hours of banks are short, so it is very troublesome not to keep some money.
Su Mu knew that by paying bonuses at the end of the year, he would be able to retain the company's employees, and the books described in detail how to run a company well, and he had been reading such books a lot recently.
However, the penguin company has just started a business, he and Li Ping'an are young, and they can't hold back in the face of a group of adults, and smashing them with money is a good way to stimulate salesmen to work hard.
This trick does have an effect, the company was founded until now, there has been no contradiction, mainly because the employees travel everywhere most of the time, and there is no chance to make contradictions, the first batch of recruited Matthew, Mackay, Phelps and other "old employees" have been impressed by Su Mu.
After packing up, he set off directly, the nearest airport was in San Jose City in the south, Su Mu was worried that there were few flights at the small airport there, so he proposed to go directly to San Francisco.
It was too troublesome to take a bus or train, so I found a taxi, negotiated the price with the driver, and learned that it was only forty dollars, so I got on the bus decisively.
It's the first time to take a plane, after going to ask the service staff how to buy a ticket, there is a flight at 8:20 that night, the security check is quite relaxed, and the plane will be boarded soon after checking the ticket, and after more than five hours of flight in a nervous mood, it landed at New York JFK International Airport.
It had only been seven and a half hours since they decided to come to New York......
"Wow! New York!"
Since he was a child, he rarely traveled, and when Li Ping'an got into a taxi to Manhattan Island, he shouted excitedly.
I have just experienced the prosperity of New York from the air, and now any city in the world is not as many as Manhattan, New York, with Central Park in the middle, and the high-rise buildings built around it, the New York complex in the early eighties has been very spectacular.
Su Mu felt very magical, he had never had this kind of travel experience, he was still on the West Coast of the United States in the evening, and suddenly came to the East Coast, it was already two o'clock at night, but he was not sleepy at all.
To be precise, it should be more than two o'clock at night on the West Coast, it is already early in the morning here in New York, and the time difference in San Francisco is three hours slower than here, and it is already Thanksgiving.
Even many Americans can't figure out the time, and if they're in a hurry, they usually ask the staff what time it is after getting off the plane and adjust their watches.
There are several boroughs in New York, but people generally only know Manhattan, where the Empire State Building and Wall Street are located, and they now let their drivers take them there.
I didn't plan where I was going, so I told the driver to go to the Empire State Building and find a nearby hotel to rest for a while.
Both of them are young, energetic, and staying up late is nothing, but it is a white driver who drives, yawns several times along the way, and lives in New York are stressful, and if they are not really short of money, who will stay up late to open a taxi.
Arrived at the gate of the Empire State Building, stopped on the side of the road and paid the money, Su Mu casually picked a direction, led Li Ping'an to find a hotel to stay in, and came to New York, where he was unfamiliar with his life, he always had to buy a map first to understand the situation.
The time was already in the early six o'clock, there were not many vehicles on the street, and there were plenty of funds in their pockets, giving them a lot of room for choice, this time they didn't treat themselves badly, Su Mu gritted his teeth and stayed in a hotel for more than one hundred and twenty dollars a night, and when he went upstairs, he found that the room was spacious and clean, which gave him some comfort, at least the money was not spent in vain.
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When I woke up, it was past twelve o'clock in the afternoon.
Half-open eyes, I found that my friend Li Ping'an was watching TV, sat up and scratched his head, and asked, "When did you get up?"
"Get up?" Li Ping'an was happy, "I didn't sleep at all! I don't know who is crazy, flying around in a helicopter, just about to fall asleep, I heard a sound, it's noisy!"
“……”
slept too soundly, Su Mu didn't hear it at all, and replied to him: "Sure enough, it's a big city, it's hard for you to see a helicopter in Chinatown, I heard that rich people here drive helicopters to work." ”
"Huh, where do you stop?"
"Silly, of course, it's parked on the roof of your company, there is a traffic jam in Los Angeles, and there must be more traffic jams here in New York......"
Stretching out and getting up, Su Mu found a set of clean clothes and went to take a shower, and the heating was turned on in the room.
At the end of November, the temperature in New York dropped below zero, and the two of them have been living in California, and they have never experienced such cold weather, not because they don't want to bring thick clothes, but at all.
Go out to buy clothes first, there is a department store not far away, Su Mu directly picked out a down jacket, such a bloated clothes made him uncomfortable, but compared with continuing to be frozen, it was uncomfortable to wear.
Lunch was settled at KFC, and at this moment, Li Ping'an sighed: "We may be stupid, why do we want to come to New York in winter and go directly to Hawaii!"
"I didn't expect that I couldn't buy a ticket and go back, maybe I could see the snow. ”
Both of them looked up at the sky at the same time, the clouds were thick and gloomy, and the cold wind blew through the street, and the passers-by were hunched their necks.
Su Mu continued: "It may really snow, I haven't seen snow when I'm so big." ”
"Me didn't either, where are I going next?" Li Ping'an muttered as he bit his hamburger.
"Empire State Building, Fifth Avenue, Times Square?"
"Fifth Avenue, go to the Empire State Building at night to see the night view, stand on such a tall building at night...... You'll be frozen into a fool. ”
Coming from the warm area in the south, what makes them feel the most is the temperature, a cold destroys everything, and they don't even have the mood to travel and go shopping.
The old man at the next table was listening to the radio, and a voice came from inside saying that a baby was born in Antarctica yesterday, and when he heard the word "Antarctica", Su Mu couldn't help but tremble.
I just went out from KFC, standing on the side of the road and preparing to take a taxi, I noticed something on my clothes, and I was about to dust it off, only to find that it was snowflakes.
Su Mu looked up at the sky, and sure enough, it began to snow, and in the distance, the Empire State Building, many snowflakes were falling one after another......