"Hey, Daniel, where's that?"

As soon as the phone was connected, Zhang Jing's pleasant voice came along the phone.

"On the way home, what, what's the matter?"

has been a friend for so many years, Lin Zitan can hear his mood just from Zhang Jing's voice.

"Alice's indie brand is about to be released, and I'm inviting you and Emma to check it out!"

Zhang Jing said with a smile.

"That's it? Emma told me yesterday, at Lincoln Center?"

After two years of hard work, Alice's clothing brand has finally made some achievements, plus the promotion of Emma and Manny, Ivani and several people in the fashion industry, it is finally about to come into people's sight.

"Also, Alice completely terminated the contract with the foreigner designer, it should be said that the contract has expired!hahaha~"

Zhang Jing's happiness really comes from the heart.

It was useless for Lin Zitan to persuade him before, but now Zhang Jing can finally put his heart back in his stomach!

"Congratulations~"

Lin Zitan said with a smile.

"Hee-hee, hee-hee, by the way, do you want to go with me to Steve's for a drink at night, I haven't been out for a long time, go out and relax." ”

Zhang Jingxing suggested impulsively.

"Steve came back from a trip? Didn't they say they were going to the mainland for the New Year?"

Lin Zi was surprised.

"I came back early, he still thought that the people in the country were not allowed to enter the customs, his father's old yellow calendar, who checked them, now so many greedy and corrupt officials can't finish the investigation!"

Zhang Jing remembered what Lin Zitan had told him about Steve's father before.

"It's not much of a problem for him to go back, it's his dad, but we can't help much, it's all the price they have to bear for the wrong direction in their own lives. ”

"Hey, yes, we can't help, anyway, Steve is back, let's get together in the evening. ”

After hanging up Zhang Jing's phone, Lin Zitan felt that he really needed to have a drink, so he put the bag of small gold bars in the safe after going home, made a phone call to Emma, and went out with a change of clothes.

Emma's grandfather has been feeling a little unwell lately, so Emma will take the child back to the apartment late every night.

If Lin Zi gets off work early, he will have dinner at Old Johnson's house, and if it is too late, he will cook and eat by himself, and then go to pick up his wife and children.

Since they went to drink at night, Lin Zitan and Zhang Jing made an appointment to go to dinner first, and then go to Steve's club after dinner.

The two made an appointment at a Shanghai restaurant, and Zhang Jing was already sitting there drinking tea when Lin Zi arrived.

"Hurry up and order food, I've been waiting for you for a long time!"

As soon as Zhang Jing saw him enter the door, he immediately beckoned to the waiter.

As soon as Lin Zitan sat down, the waiter came over, Zhang Jing crackled and ordered a few dishes, and when he asked Lin Zitan's opinion, Lin Zitan waved his hand and said that it was okay.

"Why don't you order something to eat first when you're hungry!"

Lin Zitan said with a smile.

"When I said we were going to eat together, I either couldn't wait for this little time, or I was bored, I ran around every day when I was in China, and I had nowhere to go out in New York. ”

"It's still a comfortable life in China, right? No wonder Alice is clamoring to come back, and you have no boundaries in your feelings in China, right?"

Lin Zi raised the corners of his mouth and said with a smile.

"Alas, don't say it, after coming back to New York this time, the relationship between the two of us is really better, how to say it, because I often fly back and forth, and I even have a feeling of being newlywed, hahaha~"

Zhang Jing couldn't help but laugh arbitrarily as he spoke.

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After eating, the two went to Steve's clubhouse in Flushing, which used to be arguably the favorite pastime of Chinese people.

Similar to the domestic gold cave, Steve's background is there, of course, it is legal to buy and sell on the surface, but there are all illegal things behind the scenes.

Whether it's cigarettes, alcohol or women, as long as it's what you want, you have everything, which is why Steve has quietly become rich over the years, although he has not been big.

"Daniel, Zhang Jing, long time no see~"

As soon as Lin Zitan and Zhang Jing walked into the front desk of the nightclub, they saw Jason skillfully bartending and playing handsome at the bar, and when they saw them come in, they immediately greeted them warmly.

"Where's Steve? Picking up customers again?"

Zhang Jing walked to the bar and said with a smile.

"It's two or three old acquaintances coming over, but it should come out right away~"

Lin Zitan looked around the entire hall of the nightclub, it was almost 8 o'clock now, and the number of people in the center of the dance floor had gradually increased.

The waiters are methodically receiving guests who want to enter the private room karaoke.

In the bright lights, it seems that I have returned to some nightclubs in China, but when I look closely, there are many foreigners mixed in the middle.

"Hey~You're here~"

Suddenly, a thick but slightly happy voice sounded from inside, and Lin Zitan turned his head to see Steve walking out of it in black clothes and black pants.

"You've just been busy when you come back!

Zhang Jing shook his fist with Steve, who came over, and teased with a smile.

"I used to fight for myself, but now I fight for my children, let's go, go inside and say. ”

Steve also bumped his fist with Lin Zitan as he spoke, and then turned back to Jason and said:

"Let's have some good whiskey and ask Alex to bring it in. ”

Then he took the lead and walked to the office in the deepest part of the KTV passage.

"What's the situation with you? What kind of child? Are you two looking for a surrogate?"

A few people sat down on the reception sofa in Steve's office, and Lin Zitan couldn't help but speak.

"Didn't Jason and I travel the world some time ago?"

"yes, what, picked it up on the road?"

Zhang Jing said with a smile.

A relative of a new brother, a native of Province G, followed his parents to the United States a few years ago, and his parents had a two-bedroom and two-hall ZF building in the Upper West Side.

A few years ago, he lived with his parents and two older brothers, and the family was crammed into this ZF building, and later the second brother got married and moved out.

Because his eldest brother was poor and didn't know why, he couldn't marry a wife in his 40s, so he married one from the mainland.

I don't know how the matchmaker introduced, the daughter-in-law from the mainland thought that she would be blessed to come to the rice country, but who knew that she would know that their family was poor when she got married.

When they were 18 years old, they had just had a pair of twins, and as a result, the mainland daughter-in-law quarreled with her mother-in-law and had to move out.

His eldest brother scraped together a down payment for a cooperative apartment and took his wife and children to live outside, but his wife never went to work with two children.

Only his eldest brother can go to work to earn money, more than 3,000 a month, barely enough to repay the loan and daily expenses.

Isn't this the epidemic coming, the eldest brother is also unemployed, so poor that he can't open the pot, after applying for ZF's relief, the wife ran away with the money directly after receiving the money.

Leaving two children with no one to raise, the eldest brother begged his brother for help with a handful of snot and tears, but this brother was also difficult, the daughter-in-law didn't let him take care of it, and the old lady was almost 90 years old and couldn't take care of it.

As soon as I heard about it, I took the child over! Although there is no blood relationship, it is better than sending it to ZF to raise!"

"I'll go, you're a living LF in the new era! The problem is that people's dad is still there, aren't you raising it for nothing?

Zhang Jing couldn't help but speak.

"What's the use of giving money, when the money is spent? The problem still can't be solved! Anyway, we have time, so we can spend more time with our children, and it won't cost a lot of money to raise them!"

Steve doesn't care about authenticity.

"Is the child's mother back?"

Lin Zi listened for a long time, and finally asked.

"I'm going to come back early, people have been gone for more than two years, and I've returned to the mainland, saying that I have given up my green card and won't come back~"

"This is really damn ruthless!"

Zhang Jing complained.

"That's because you've never been really poor!"

Steve raised his lips and smiled.