After a six-hour drive, Su Mu had a sore back when he got off the bus, so he stretched his waist and stood in place for a while with a brand-new white suitcase before he felt more comfortable.

In the name Menlo Park, "Park" means park in English, and the neighborhood is indeed beautiful.

Surrounded by low-rise buildings, it looks like a suburb of Los Angeles, but much more luxurious.

Not far away is a residential area, each with a large garden, thick trees on the side of the road that look old, and there are not many cars on the street, Menlo Park is a small town with a population of just over 20,000, and if it weren't for Stanford University's nearby inclusion in the Silicon Valley area, it would be nothing at all.

To the north is Redwood City, to the south is Palo Alto, and to the south is Santa Clara County and San Jose, and a short walk east to see the bay, Menlo Park is next to San Francicos Bay, which the Chinese like to call "San Francisco Bay".

The famous Stanford University is located southwest of Menlo Park, just a few minutes away, and the Greyhound car passed by Palo Alto, and Su Mu also saw the campus of the world's top university, and the two students who were sitting behind him, Stanford University students who were about to graduate, got off in Palo Alto.

If nothing else, Su Mu will spend the next few years here, and it is possible that even the university will choose Stanford University.

Before this summer, his goal was Harvard Law School, and he was likely to get in, Harvard University, which has the top law program in the United States, but now his mind has been shaken, and before he knows it, the sense of accomplishment that he can get from becoming a lawyer is gradually not satisfying his appetite......

There is a small square nearby, and there are not many pedestrians there.

Menlo Park, as a wealthy area in the Silicon Valley area, has housing prices so high that Sumu feels terrible, and some properties for sale have a sign on the grass in front of the door with a phone number and a price per square foot, mostly around $500.

One square meter is about 10.7 square feet, that is, more than 5,000 US dollars per square meter, even if the surrounding area is cheaper, it will cost about 400,000 US dollars to buy a house of 100 square meters, which belongs to the high-end rich area, and there are obviously fewer people of color, and the vast majority of them are white.

Including Chinese, if possible, they like to move to rich areas to live, and if there are more colored people in an area, whites will flee, this is probably the current situation in American residential areas, mainly dominated by whites, they are generally richer and more educated in this era, although Su Mu does not want to admit it, but he also knows that this is the truth.

With wide roads and large spacing between houses, very few people occupy this small seaside town that shines all year round, and living in a crowded Chinatown for a long time makes him uncomfortable.

I asked an "old gardener" who was mowing the lawn, and the other party kindly helped show the way, and Mr. David Packard, one of the co-founders of Hewlett-Packard and a famous billionaire in Silicon Valley, looked at Su Mu who was carrying a suitcase, smiled and continued to mow his lawn, muttering: "My granddaughter should come back to school too." ”

There is only one Toyota car parked in his garage, Toyota has been selling very well in the United States in recent years, and there is a tendency to kill General Motors, Su Mu thinks that rich people should drive luxury cars, in fact, they can't afford it, they just think it's practical.

The future Facebook headquarters is in this small place called Menlo Park, but with Su Mu coming to Silicon Valley by accident, it is difficult to say whether Zuckerberg can develop smoothly, this guy was born in May 1984, and he is still in diapers and drinking milk.

In the early 80s, Silicon Valley was full of young people with entrepreneurial dreams, and the whole area was full of energy, as you can see from the various company billboards on the roadside, there are not so many high-tech companies in other areas.

At this moment, Su Mu saw several young people tinkering with something in the garage, trying to learn from Steve Jobs, who also started a business in the garage, and became a well-known rich man in the Silicon Valley area.

In this era, co-working-space, which is the equivalent of a business incubator, is not yet popular, and many people choose to start a business in a garage.

But Su Mu can guess that these are the "poor" children of rich families, and the houses with garages in the vicinity are expensive, at least the high-end people in the middle class, so they can afford them, and they will not go to the taxi garage, and it is more likely that their own children occupy the garage.

A Stanford university has profoundly influenced the region, and Silicon Valley is the collective name for many of the small towns surrounding the university.

Nowadays, the number of companies is small, mainly concentrated near Stanford, and further away in Santa Clara County, which is still very barren, the United States is vast and sparsely populated, and the population is concentrated in large cities including Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, etc., and the population of other places is not large, and Menlo Park, with a population of more than 20,000, is already a very large town......

The box was a bit heavy, and there was time to get to know it later, so Su Mu stood in front of Sun-Microsystems, beckoned to a yellow taxi, put the suitcase and said, "Please take me to Menlo Park Middle School, sir." ”

The taxi driver glanced in the rearview mirror and nodded with a strange expression.

As soon as he took out his wallet from his bag, he heard the driver say, "It's here, this is it...... As long as you're three dollars, OK?"

It's more than 300 meters away, and he hasn't finished a block, Su Mu wanted to say something, but when he heard that the driver only had half the price, he didn't mention it anymore, and replied: "That's it, you should tell me that it's only a little far." ”

The driver shrugged his shoulders, and did not answer the sentence.

Next to it, you can see a school with a small footprint, but a very beautiful building.

After paying for the car, he stood at the school gate with a suitcase, and today Menlo Park High School signed up, there were a lot of students at the door, and there were just as many luxury cars, and the students were mainly white.

There was a Chinese student with an unhappy expression, who looked about eighteen or nine years old, wearing a Stanford University uniform, and he didn't know why he was maintaining order at the gate of this school, but he was certainly very reluctant.

is also Chinese, a little close, Su Mu walked over with a box and asked him, "Sorry to interrupt, where can I sign up?"

The other party looked at Su Mu and asked rhetorically in Cantonese, "Chinese?"

"That's right, you too?" said Su Mu, too, in Cantonese.

"Hmm. ”

The young man nodded, his expression was slightly calm, and told Su Mu: "That building, I graduated from here, I don't remember very well, you go and ask." ”

At this time, there was a young man who was hanging his son, parked the car next to the two of them, looked about the same age as Su Mu, and drove a Bentley, which was definitely very rich.

There was a black girl sitting in the co-pilot seat, who should be of mixed race, and she looked quite sexy, and the young man smiled: "Li Zhekai, why did you come back? Stanford University doesn't want you, let you come back and continue studying?"

Su Mu looked at the young man standing beside him, and only then did he notice that he had the red key of the Ferrari sports car hanging on his waist, thinking that the friend of the rich man was indeed a rich man.

In addition, I was also thinking about what kind of school I had entered, and the students actually drove luxury cars to school, and they were really not in the same world as Castellar.

The old man of his own family is right, only by coming out to see can he broaden his horizons, Chinatown is an acre of three points of land, and then it is like that, Su Mu feels that he is so poor......