Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Best of Times
Lin Zitan heard Zhang Jing say that his cousin's family had a house, or a ZF building, so he already knew about the follow-up development, because he had also spent the night in that house, and the location was very good, one or two streets away was the famous Lincoln Center, and there were often various stage performances and fashion shows nearby.
The early group of Chinese Americans, after having an identity, tried their best to apply for the ZF building, and some even did not hesitate to spend thousands or tens of thousands of yuan in private intermediary fees, and the service fee was from people who knew English and rules to apply for this ZF building.
Fortunately, they can also use this extraordinary means to obtain more ZF resources, eat welfare, get white cards, food stamps, and so on. Unfortunately, there were many, many early immigrants who waited for three days and four days to die, and for decades they had nothing. And there are not a few such people!
In addition to the Chinese, those African-Americans, Hispanics and early immigrants of all ethnic groups all did not seek to improve after receiving ZF subsidies. They live in such a house, and they only need to pay one or two hundred or two or three hundred management fees every month, and the gas and heating are free, and sometimes even the electricity bill is free.
Therefore, if you have a ZF building to live, you can apply for free medical insurance, unemployment insurance, eat food stamps, and old-age relief funds, and if you save money, you don't have to do anything and you won't starve to death. However, in such residential areas, which are often high-crime areas, those African-Americans who are lazy and lazy will occasionally rob the surrounding Chinese residents if they want to have a luxury.
It is said that a Cantonese Chinese was directly robbed by a burglary, and the wife of the eldest son, who had saved more than 100,000 US dollars, was robbed. In addition to public security, the sanitation of these slums is also very poor, the neighborhood is surrounded by garbage, and the elevator can often smell an unbearable smell of urine, just like the transfer elevator room of some subways in New York. Take your breath away every time you ride.
But the most surprising thing for Lin Zitan was that after a long time, Michelle's words shocked Lin Zitan in a cold sweat. Michelle said that Lin Shan's mother set fire to the apartment herself, in exchange for the two-bedroom and one-living ZF building they live in now!!
"I'm X, isn't this a bit of a big risk?" Zhang Jing called out at that time, but although Lin Zitan was frightened, he could understand the reason why his sister-in-law did this. If a person is so desperate that he is not even afraid of death, then what is such an adventure!
Fortunately, everything went as desired, after all, the next ten years were the most turbulent wave of immigrants in the United States, and ZF slowly had no spare energy to take care of so many poor people, even if you really jumped off the building and set fire to the house, it was useless, because ZF had no house to share!
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Lin Zitan has been thinking about ways to become stronger recently, not only to exercise, but also how to make money quickly. That time to eat with Zhang Jing and the money paid for helping Lin Shan's family open a hotel, Li Manrui really asked him sideways, he only lied and said that he lent his classmates 1,000, and the rest of the meals.
In order to prevent Lin Zitan from becoming estranged from himself again because of this matter, Li Manrui did not continue to ask. But this incident also made Lin Zitan completely realize that his so-called rich second generation is just a fake trick, and he is really different from Zhang Jing. Because it was his stepfather Mike who had the money, and his cheap son didn't have any sons, and Li Manrui didn't seem to have control over Mike's finances.
At first, Lin Zitan was still a little unwilling, and he began to tidy up things in the room before his legs and feet were good, on the one hand, he wanted to be familiar with the living environment he was in, and on the other hand, he wanted to see how much capital the original owner had left for himself.
As a result, he rummaged through the cabinets for a few days, and finally only found a wad of cash in the pocket of a coat in the closet, I don't know if Lin Zitan earned it through what doorway, or from the pocket money given by Li Manrui on weekdays.
Lin Zi took a nap, closed the doors and windows tightly, sat on the carpet and unfolded the wad of money, counting them one by one several times.
"One hundred, two hundred, three... This is too evil!" Lin Zitan couldn't help but muttered to himself after finally counting it, the amount here was a full 9,300 US dollars, which was about the same amount as the money he had stolen in the first place, but he knew that this was definitely not his own money. His money was saved little by little by the restaurant owner's salary, and there was no denomination of more than 50 at all, and there were even a lot of zero tickets of 1 yuan, but Lin Zitan's pile was all 100!
"I don't know if Li Manrui knows about this money?" Lin Zitan said thoughtfully while holding the money.
"Maybe I don't know, maybe I know!" Lin Zitan couldn't be sure, because Li Manrui didn't give him money often, only gave him a supplementary card of a credit card, saying that he was still underage, so he couldn't get a bank account, and now he just spent that credit card if he wanted to. But it is impossible to only spend this credit card without paying it, and Li Manrui must know exactly how much she spends every day.
"Oh, anyway, I have to find a way to make money quickly, and with such a small amount of money in hand, I can't do anything now!"
Lin Zitan silently planned in his heart, and put the money in his hand in a place that he thought was safe, he was worried that if Li Manrui knew about the existence of this money, he might take it away one day.
Can't blame Lin Zitan for being too careful, the world he is in now, the only thing that can make him feel secure is money, he can't trust anyone, even if this person is Lin Zitan's own mother!
Lin Zitan put down the money, sat back in front of the computer, turned on the computer and opened the browser, the most popular search engine at that time was Yahoo, Lin Zitan browsed the full English version of yahoo news for a while without any obstacles, and registered a yahoo mailbox boringly.
Because he was thinking about how to make money, he stayed in the financial sector for a long time, until his mind crackled as if he had suddenly received an instruction, and some stock knowledge that Grandpa Lin had inadvertently told him when he was in China suddenly poured into his mind.
In the past, Lin Guodong liked to watch the news when he had nothing to do, but he didn't know much about stocks, but at that time, he still knew about the news that Apple's development was in full swing, and if he remembered correctly, now is the best time to buy Apple stocks.
"Yes, buy stocks, buy apples, buy to die, and buy that Amazon!" Lin Zitan couldn't sit still anymore with excitement, he didn't know if this was the best era for others, but this was definitely the best era for him Lin Zitan, since he lived a new life, he must seize this opportunity!
If it weren't for the broken foot, Lin Zitan thought that he would be excited to jump in the room a few times, but unfortunately he was just excited, and he calmed down again, now is not the time to be excited, even if now is the best time to enter the market, but he has no principal!
Thinking of the $9,300 he had just placed, Lin Zitan suddenly let out. It's like no matter how delicious the food is in front of him, but he can't put his mouth down, he has no hands, no chopsticks, knives and forks, he can only watch and worry. He also thought of one of the most important questions: he is not yet of legal age, and even if he is really rich now, he can't do anything!
Although he was in a hurry, thinking that such a delay would definitely miss the best time, but now that the time and place are favorable, he can only be in a hurry!
In the midst of such excitement and entanglement, Lin Zitan's school opened, and the cram school that his mother Li Manrui helped him find was about to officially start. Lin Zi calculated that his birthday was still more than two months away, and there was no chance of life or death in his small treasury, so he really couldn't sleep at night and couldn't eat. Li Manrui saw that his son had recently changed back to his previous taciturn appearance, and once guessed that he was because he didn't like school life.
As soon as dinner was eaten that day, Li Manrui stopped Lin Zitan, who was about to hide in the room.
"Daniel, don't you like this school?"