Chapter 34 Chinese Restaurant
If you have three or four children, you can get thousands of dollars in handouts while lying at home, and you can get a lot of baby shopping vouchers, so why do parents have to work hard to go out to work?
There is a large group of moths in the United States, embezzling hundreds of billions of dollars of various relief funds every year, and Ye Dongqing, Laura and others who really need help are distressed because they have no money to go to school. If he had received a full scholarship that year, even if he had only approved the application for a student loan, Ye Dongqing might not have taken the wrong path.
The United States has never been as good as people think, there are illegal and criminal incidents everywhere, public order is chaotic, and personal quality is uneven, and on the whole it is not high. When it comes to welfare, education, and social environment, many European countries can rank ahead of the United States, which is probably why Europeans like to be superior to the United States.
When Ye Dongqing entered the Chinese restaurant, she happened to see a Latino mother with a child in her arms, one in the cart, and another standing next to her, trying to use baby shopping coupons to offset the bill.
Store owners like to receive this kind of official welfare bills, not only can they exchange them for baby products, buy cigarettes and alcohol, but most of the merchants will also turn a blind eye, and no one is idle to investigate this kind of thing. So the Chinese owner of the restaurant accepted it, stuffed the shopping voucher into his apron pocket, and waved her hand to let her take the child away.
Glancing at the Mercedes-Benz big G at the door, the boss, who looked like he was in his forties, raised his chin and reminded: "Drive such a good car to eat here, aren't you afraid that the new car will be robbed later?" They directly dismantled and sold parts, and no one could find out where it was sold in the end, so it would be safer to take a taxi next time." ”
"Well, thanks for the reminder, it's still early, and if it's after nine o'clock in the evening, I won't dare drive here. What's going on in your shop, breaking so many dishes and chopsticks?"
Neither Ye Dongqing nor Laura felt that there was anything wrong with the reminder of the Chinese restaurant owner, and it was true that the order in New York was better than it was in the early nineties, but it was not good enough to reassure people.
Going out at night, it is a high probability event to be robbed after revealing your wealth, there are too many shootings, so many that the media is too lazy to report, if there is no one day, it is a rare thing. Even if you have to go out at night, it's best to take the main road that is crowded with people, so it's always a good idea to be careful.
"Not to mention, more than half an hour ago, someone snatched the money in my drawer, all of which were small bits and pieces, more than a hundred in total, and the rest were placed elsewhere. The restaurateur picked up a cigarette, lit it, turned on the range hood and smoked, his expression was very calm.
Judging from his words, it seems that he often encounters this kind of thing, and he already has experience and knows how to put money in two places.
Ye Dongqing smiled, picked a place to sit down, and said:
"More than a hundred knives, this number is just right, you won't feel pain, and the other party won't feel too little. I hurriedly finished my meal and left the car in front of your store, always saying to them to come and rob me, maybe I was already targeted. ”
"I'll just say that, don't take it seriously, those thieves have the guts to rob us, because the police don't bother to care. I've reported three times before, but I've never caught a prisoner, and now I'm too lazy to call 911, and those police officers just don't do anything, and they delay my time doing business.
But it's different for you rich people, you may seriously investigate, there are more than 30,000 police officers in New York, if you don't know, you will think that there are only 300 people, and I will be angry when it comes to them. Anyway, there are more than 100 dollars, and today's business is in vain, if it weren't for the many regular customers, I really want to open a store in another place!"
Putting the menu on the table, the restaurant owner took a pen and asked, "If you want to eat that dish, tell me, except for chopped pepper and fish head, I haven't seen you before, why don't you try this chicken stew with mushrooms?" ”
"Then come one, Kung Pao chicken and mapo tofu are also on the dish, my friend has never eaten authentic Chinese food, put less spicy, and have a bowl of haggis soup......"
In this era, the restaurant owner had never seen Ye Dongqing, but Ye Dongqing knew him. I used to come to eat it often, not to mention other dishes, the taste of haggis soup is really a must.
It's hard to do a restaurant business, but the boss's daughter is very angry, and later she was successfully admitted to the Yale Law Department, but unfortunately she is a yellow race and a girl, and even if she is admitted to the lawyer, her future development will be restricted.
It is not appropriate to use the word "reason", but it is more appropriate to change it to "prejudice", which is like this in society, and it is not easy to change.
However, even if you only become a small lawyer, you have a better future than a restaurant business.
In the United States, there are many rich Chinese among the groups of immigrants in recent years, and most of the old Chinese can only open Chinese restaurants, laundries, printing shops and other businesses, otherwise they will set up a fruit stall and sell clothes.
Whoever has a lawyer, the neighborhood will be envious to death, American lawyers belong to the high-income group, when Ye Dongqing was prosecuted, just to hire a lawyer spent more than 2 million US dollars, and successfully shortened the sentence from about four years to just a few months.
Later, there were also some prisons outside, playing golf, watching movies and TV series, playing cards with former governors, celebrities and others when they had nothing to do, and winning a yacht in a few months, except for restricting freedom, they didn't suffer too much, which is a special benefit for the rich.
Just order three dishes and one soup, and two more people can't finish it.
Before the restaurant owner entered the kitchen, he also pointed at Laura's back and made a thumbs-up motion, with a look of admiration written on his face.
In the Chinese-American circle, many girls have been soaked away by white people, but it is not easy for Chinese Americans to soak white girls, especially such beautiful young girls, and it is rare to walk on the street.
Knowing what the other party misunderstood, the corners of Ye Dongqing's mouth curled up, and he didn't specifically explain.
Laura couldn't interject just now, and then asked him curiously: "How to use chopsticks, I used to eat Chinese food with a fork, and those dishes, I have only heard of Kung Pao Chicken, and the others will not be strange dishes, right?"
"Don't worry, it will definitely not poison you. The ones you used to eat were not authentic, but what this restaurant made was real Chinese food, and you may feel that the taste is a little strange, so just get used to it.
When you can accept their taste, you will understand how large and rich the Chinese food cultural system is, more like an art, such as the two kinds on the table, vinegar and soy sauce, must be fermented for a long time with grain, I don't know how long it will take, anyway, it will not be short. ”
"I love oriental culture, and it would be even better if this restaurant was better decorated, full of culture like the one I ate at last night, not only for the taste but also for the eyes. ”
After Laura, she added, "But that would cost a lot of money, so this kind of affordable restaurant is more suitable for me." ”
Ye Dongqing held a pair of chopsticks in his hand, skillfully demonstrated to Laura, and asked casually: "It seems that you injured your wallet yesterday, how much did that barbecue cost?"
“...... More than seven hundred dollars, not to mention this kind of sad thing.
I can only comfort myself that Kobe Wagyu beef is very beautiful, for the first time in my life I have seen beef sold by the gram, and what is even more infuriating is that it is not a gentleman at all, and you eat 90% of it after I roast it!"
"Laura, I won't say anything if you eat as much as you want tonight, even if you order the whole menu. ”
"That's stupid, but you should save money, Leo. ”
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