Time goes back to the previous life.

Ye Dongqing clearly remembers the day he first met Zhao Liuli, it snowed heavily in New York.

Snowflakes blanket Central Park, the spires of the Empire State Building have turned white, taxis are struggling to stay afloat, prices are much higher than usual, pine trees are placed in front of shops, and decorations are hung in and out of shop windows in preparation for Christmas.

It was on such an ordinary and special day that Ye Dongqing negotiated a big deal, just drawing up to $25 million in big business, ready to find a restaurant to celebrate alone.

He didn't know how many peers in the United States had made a fortune by laundering money, but in New York alone, there were four or five hundred gangs, and Ye Dongqing's small team was just one of them, and the scale was not bad.

Every year, the scale of global black money is as high as trillions of dollars, of which $300 billion to $500 billion will pass through American banks, such a huge amount is enough to feed the members of the circle, including him, and they are still living well.

At that time, he was already very wealthy, with a total wealth of about 100 million US dollars, and he was not yet thirty years old.

The meal lasted nearly two hours, and when he left the restaurant, there was twenty centimeters of snow on the road, and the girl he had seen was still there, probably because of the same skin color, he walked over and asked: "I saw you a long time ago, it snowed so much, why don't you go home?"

Zhao Liuli raised his head, under the wide hat, a pretty little face was red from the cold, and told him with a smile: "My house is a little far from here, I was going to buy clothes, but suddenly the snow trapped me."

Sir, if you can, can you call a taxi for me? Normally, it's fine, but now there is snow on the ground and I don't dare to go. ”

At that time, Ye Dongqing found that her eyes were not good, her tone was doubtful, and she asked in Chinese: "Blind?"

"That's right, I'll still be able to see it when I'm young.

Later, I had a problem with my eye, and the doctor told me that as long as I had money, the success rate of treatment was very high, so I have been saving money recently. ”

The reflex arc in his head was relatively long, and he reacted after speaking, and said in surprise: "It turns out that sir, you are also Chinese!"

“......”

Ye Dongqing, like most Wall Street people, had a head full of money and a pitiful conscience, even so, he was still amused by Zhao Liuli that day.

I could feel the rare simplicity from this girl, and suddenly I had the urge to help her, so I took off the lambskin gloves and scarf to Zhao Liuli, helped tie them up, and continued to speak:

"Don't tell anyone that you're saving money, that New York is so messy, you're going to be bullied, and people can do anything for money.

Come up with me, I'll help you walk and help you call a taxi on the side of the road, but the snow on the road is so deep that it's not easy to get a taxi. ”

"I've been squatting for so long, only you come to ask me, you must be a good person. ”

Zhao Liuli said this, and then took out the coin from his pocket with difficulty, "There should be a subway, it's snowing above, it's okay down there, where is the subway entrance? I came by bus, and I have long been lost." ”

Leaving her here, how can Ye Dongqing rest assured, she has been treated as a good person, she might as well be a good person to the end, crying and laughing and saying to Zhao Liuli: "I'll send you back, it's nothing to do anyway......"

Ye Dongqing, who hadn't taken the subway for several years, took the subway again and sent her home, a very small house, very dilapidated, very clean, and left after drinking a cup of green tea.

I don't know why, in the next two days, her appearance often appears in my mind, not like love or anything like that, but more like a simple personality plucking the string in his heart.

It snowed several times in two days, and I was worried that the other party had not stored some food, so I went to visit again and bought some things on the way.

After going back and forth, they met like this, and tricked her into being a housekeeper in their own home, helping to treat her eyes, which happened later.

This is one of the few beautiful things in Ye Dongqing's life after he became an adult, running around in this deceitful society all day long, as long as he goes home and sees Zhao Liuli, his emotions can be quiet.

Ran all the way to Queens, stood at the door of the only children's relief association, and Ye Dongqing set out on the return journey.

He has no reason to see Zhao Liuli, the other party doesn't know him at this time, and he thought about letting the little girl have a good life in advance, but he is only eighteen years old and does not meet the conditions for adoption.

No matter what, at least I found someone, and put down a hanging stone in my heart, and the whole person was a lot easier.

The trouble has just begun.

When Ye Dongqing returned to the door of the apartment he rented, he unexpectedly found that the door was unlocked, and he clearly remembered that it was clearly locked before going out.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the corridor was empty, and there was a shrill sound of percussion music at the end, and soon a man ran out of the opposite door, knocking desperately on the door and cursing something, without a clean word in his mouth.

Living in this kind of place, the quality of the tenants is generally not high, Ye Dongqing pushed open the door and found that his things were scattered on the ground, and he couldn't help but sigh deeply, and had to think about the bad side.

After checking it, he found that the money he had saved had disappeared, totaling more than 3,200 US dollars, which he hid in the pocket of a coat.

It's hard for people to imagine what addicts who are addicted but have no money will do in order to buy "things".

I don't know who stole the money, it's not much, but for Ye Dongqing now, it means that the next days will be very difficult, he only has more than a hundred dollars left in his pocket, and he doesn't have any income.

I don't bother to call the police, for such a small amount of theft, even if the police intervene in most of them, there is nothing to do, not to mention that even if the prisoner is found, it is difficult to say whether the money can be recovered.

made a mistake, Ye Dongqing regretted that he didn't hide the money in a more secret place in advance, such as in the trash can, under the flower pot, etc.

It was too late now, the lock was picked, so he used a chair on top of it, lay on the bed and thought about it, he felt that it was necessary to start making money, and he had planned to wait until the end of the month after the exams were over.

It is difficult for a living person to starve to death in this United States, and it has not yet reached the point of desperation, it is impossible to work, he does not think that his life is so cheap, and if he wants to earn enough money by working, it is estimated that the NASDAQ index will have risen to 8,000 points by then.

Finally, Ye Dongqing still cast his eyes on the table, on which the books and papers were scattered.

He found that he was quite unlucky, and he didn't make any money yet, so he lost the food money first, and he regretted it - he shouldn't have tipped the taxi driver two dollars, let alone taken a taxi back, how affordable the subway is......