Chapter 302: Justifiable Defense
"What if I don't have money?" Zhong Yuemin asked again leisurely.
"You can apply for a loan from a securities company and use the purchased futures as collateral. Cui Yang is really familiar, "But this leverage is very large, we usually don't recommend customers to do this, after all, not everyone is so lucky." ”
"I see. ”
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The city of Amunk is a small village designated by the government to be located in the North City of Westchester County, New York, United States, with a population of just over 1,000 people.
Zhong Yuemin and Cui Yang traveled east, through Harrisburg, through the vast state of Pennsylvania, and through Fox City into New York State.
Unlike the emptiness and loneliness of Pennsylvania, after entering New York State, there are more cars on the road all of a sudden, giving people the illusion that cars from all over the United States are gathered here.
"Yuemin, let's refuel at the gas station in front of us and rest for a while. ”
"Okay, you're really good, you drive all the way without downshifting and slowing down!" Zhong Yuemin joked, "I've let you cheat!"
"How can there be!" Cui Yang was a little embarrassed, "It's that there are too few cars on the road ahead, so I drive fast unconsciously." ”
"You have a tiger in your heart, don't you see that I am holding the handle all the way?" Zhong Yuemin patted his small chest and said with palpitations.
"Is it so exaggerated?" Cui Yang rolled his eyes and said: "There is flat ground on both sides of the road, and it's nothing to drive out, what are you afraid of!"
"You are ruthless!" Zhong Yuemin gave her a thumbs up.
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The gas station is similar to the service area of later generations, with refueling, restaurants, convenience stores, toilets, and motels.
"Let's get something to eat first. Cui Yang pointed to the signboard of Colonel Sandoz with a friendly smile not far away and said, "How is KFC?"
"Well, we don't have a choice anyway. Zhong Yuemin shrugged, "But this KFC fast food restaurant is really open enough!"
"They are franchised, as long as they are willing to learn and pay some deposit, they can open a KFC restaurant. Cui Yang said: "This model is really powerful, using other people's funds and manpower to expand rapidly and occupy market share! If it is introduced to Hong Kong, it will definitely be feasible!"
"Hong Kong is too small, with 50 or 60 stores, you can occupy a large market, and if you increase the number of stores, it will affect the transaction volume of a single store. Zhong Yuemin was idle and bored, "The better market for this model is in the mainland, with a vast territory and a huge population, and it is difficult to achieve market saturation no matter what industry." ”
"But now that the mainland is still very closed, it shouldn't allow these foreign companies to enter, right?" Cui Yang had a different opinion.
"That can be said, now that the mainland government is already attracting investment, these big companies are entering China, and they are looking for it!" Zhong Yuemin said with a smile: "Moreover, the profit-seeking nature of capital will never change, and maybe these capitalist giants are also staring at China with greed!"
"But now that everyone is not rich, it should be difficult to afford these foreign fast food, right? How should KFC be priced? Can you make money by going in?" Cui Yang may have committed an occupational disease again, and began to estimate the cost and profit in his heart.
Zhong Yuemin said: "You can't afford to eat every day like the Yankees, but don't forget that there are one billion people in China, and one person can eat once a year, and the boss of KFC can go crazy!"
"Then according to your meaning, KFC should immediately enter the mainland market?" Cui Yang asked rhetorically.
"Of course, there is no time to delay!" Zhong Yuemin said: "I bet you, if McDonald's and KFC enter the mainland faster, they will be able to dominate the world in the next twenty years!"
Cui Yang will be skeptical, maybe she still thinks that Zhong Yuemin is open-mouthed, she is an accountant, and she has always used data to speak, unless it is really the result of her own analysis, otherwise she never listens to or believes this kind of prediction.
"You can do it slowly, let's give the bet contract first, what do you say we bet?"
Cui Yang was a little entangled, anything risky was not in her comfort zone, including betting.
Zhong Yuemin was a little convinced, "Okay, let's bet on a meal, bet for about five years, if KFC McDonald's enters the mainland within five years, you invite me to eat at the best restaurant in New York, if not, I will invite you to eat." How?"
"Isn't it just a meal, as for you to work so hard?" Cui Yang said with a smile: "When you arrive in New York, I'll treat you to a meal first." ”
"Oops!" Zhong Yuemin rubbed his hair painfully, "This is not a meal, this is called fun, do you know the fun?"
"Know... You know..."
Zhong Yuemin saw that Cui Yang was entangled again, and immediately admitted defeat, "Let's go, let's go and try Colonel Sanders's fried **." ”
"Oh. ”
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At this time, KFC had been acquired by a group company, and its operation was also formalized, and the store's logo, decoration, menu, and waiter clothing were all unified.
After Zhong Yuemin came in, he felt retro, with the same elements as the KFC store in later generations, but with a different design language and style, which made him feel particularly fresh.
"Yuemin, what are you eating?"
"You look at it, you pay anyway, I'm not a picky eater. Zhong Yuemin said with a smile.
Cui Yang was amused by his sloppy appearance, "Why are you the same as when you were a child?
"This shows that I have a childlike heart!" Zhong Yuemin said with a smile, "Remember to order me a glass of Coke!"
"Got it!"
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At noon, there were more orders, Zhong Yuemin sat in the restaurant, looked at all the places he was interested in, felt a little bored, and simply took out the paper and pen.
He never finished the story of WALL-E, the robot, and the story was easy to tell, but when it really fell on paper, he found that the task was daunting.
The movie shows an unusually large number of details and settings, and it may only take a few seconds of footage for Zhong Yuemin to spend several chapters to describe, which is really a tiring job.
"Let it go, what do you want to do?!"
An exclamation pulled Zhong Yuemin out of his immersion, and when he looked back, he saw that Cui Yang was stopped in front of the cash register by a red neck, while the surrounding campers and customers stood by and watched, smiling and watching the excitement.
"Beauty, do you like me very much, do you want to be my girlfriend?" The red neck looked at Cui Yang with a squint, and wanted to pull it up, "Let's go, beauty, come home with me!"
"What are you doing?" Cui Yang looked at the other party's outstretched hand in horror, "Help!
"Let's go!" Red Neck grabbed Cui Yang's arm and shouted to the people around him: "This is my girlfriend! We're going home······!"
The onlookers all laughed understandingly, and they were extremely obscene.
"It seems that the U.S. government's previous sterilization campaign for Redneck has leaked you. Zhong Yuemin stood beside the red neck and said with a smile: "Actually, I don't mind helping the U.S. government sterilize you for free, and even I move faster than those doctors!"
"Grass!!Who the are you?" Redneck was annoyed, "When will it be your turn to laugh at me, yellow-skinned monkey?!"
"At least we weren't dragged to the operating table, cut off our children and grandchildren!" Zhong Yuemin said, kicking the red neck over and pushing the table in the dining room to one piece.
Zhong Yuemin's action was extremely fast, and many people didn't react, and they all looked at him dumbfounded, even Cui Yang, holding the dinner plate, looking at him in dismay.
"Well, go sit over there, eat slowly, and I'll be back in a moment." Zhong Yuemin patted Cui Yang and brought her back to her senses.
Then Zhong Yuemin walked back to the middle of the messy restaurant, and the red-necked man was shaking his head and getting up from the ground.
That's when the restaurant manager stepped in, "Hey, Asian boy, what are you going to do? Get out of here if you want to fight!"
"Who gave you the courage to speak to me like this?" Zhong Yuemin looked at him coldly, "Do you think I won't beat you?"
The restaurant manager startled him, but immediately felt a little embarrassed, and pretended: "This is my place, please get out!"
"I think it's enough time for you to get together before the police come. Zhong Yuemin said and walked towards the restaurant manager, taking a plate from the table halfway.
"What are you going to do?!" The restaurant manager was scared, Zhong Yuemin kicked the red-necked man over with one kick just now, and he probably couldn't withstand such a weak body.
Zhong Yuemin approached step by step, and suddenly a dinner plate slapped on the face of the red neck who had just stood up, the dinner plate shattered, and blood flowed sideways, and then fell back.
"Hiss~" Everyone in the restaurant thought that Zhong Yuemin was going to the restaurant manager, but they didn't expect the plate to be for the red-necked man, and when they saw the tragic situation of the red-necked, they gasped.
Zhong Yuemin looked at the red neck who fainted on the ground, "Who allowed you to get up?"
Well, this sentence is purely for pretending, after all, the red neck has fainted and can't hear anything.
"Do you want to be kicked by me, or do you want to be slapped in the face by this plate?" Zhong Yuemin took another plate in his hand and said coldly to the restaurant manager.
The restaurant manager looked at the plate in Zhong Yuemin's hand, and then at the red neck that fell to the ground, the Adam's apple rolled up and down rapidly, and kept swallowing saliva, probably hating himself for having too many mouths and tongues to cause trouble.
"I choose the plate ······" The restaurant manager carefully took the plate in Zhong Yuemin's hand, hesitated, and finally gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, closed his eyes and smashed his head, but found that his head was okay and the plate was intact.
Zhong Yuemin sneered: "Do you need me to help you?"
"No, no, I'll do it myself!" The restaurant manager hurriedly took the plate and threw it on his head, but he was reluctant to put in the effort.
Zhong Yuemin heard the siren in the distance, decisively took another plate, directly knocked the restaurant manager unconscious, turned around and pulled Cui Yang, except for the restaurant, leaving the restaurant full of stunned customers.
"Hurry up and get in the car, fasten your seat belt!" Zhong Yuemin stuffed the panicked Cui Yang into the car, sat in the driver's seat by himself, lighted, geared, fueled, and put the handbrake, and the car slammed out, so frightened that Cui Yang tightly held the handle.
Zhong Yuemin kept refueling, upshifting, refueling, upshifting, and the car quickly accelerated to more than 120 miles, leaving Colonel Sandoz in the rearview mirror far behind.
"Yuemin, you drive slowly!" Cui Yang watched in horror as the cars on the road whizzed past him, and Zhong Yuemin kept shuttling on the road to overtake, passing by the oncoming cars again and again.
Zhong Yuemin skillfully operated the car, not to mention that this car was a little bit of a steel cannon, "Don't worry, I drive every day in China, and nothing will happen!"
"But we don't need to drive so fast!" The wind outside the car window blew Cui Yang's words to pieces.
Zhong Yuemin hurriedly shook the glass on his side, which lowered the wind noise, and looked in the rearview mirror again, "The police haven't caught up yet, you don't have to worry too much!"
"Am I worried about the police?" Cui Yang was a little broken and yelled, "I'm worried about being killed with you!"
Zhong Yuemin was a little dumbfounded, quietly released the throttle, and slowed down the speed.
"We have already crossed the county border just now, and the police generally don't chase after us, and besides, they didn't see our license plate clearly, you don't have to be afraid!" Cui Yang comforted Zhong Yuemin in turn, and there was a reason!
"How do you know so much about the American police?" Zhong Yuemin wondered.
Cui Yang's face suddenly turned red, "I sometimes, occasionally go to the road to drag racing, and I am often chased by the police, after a long time, I will be clear!"
"Oh, it's still a habitual offender!" Zhong Yuemin said with a smile.
"Hmph, then I don't have you as a thief!" Cui Yang said disdainfully: "You obviously know how to drive, why did you let me, a weak woman, drive all the way?"
"I don't have a driver's license, but now I'm driving because of the situation!" Zhong Yuemin said with a smile, "I'll give you the steering wheel when I get to the front in a while." ”
"Do you have a driver's license in China?"
"No, I've been too lazy to do it, and no one is stopping me from driving anyway, so I can drive on such a wide road!"
"Hmph, you're too stinky too!" Cui Yang glanced at Zhong Yuemin, "But you were too impulsive just now, why are you so ruthless?"
"Have you forgotten who shouted for help just now?" Zhong Yuemin was speechless, "Why do you still sympathize with those two two goods?"
"I'm not sympathetic, I'm saying you acted too early!" Cui Yang said: "I just shouted for help for a purpose. ”
"What is the purpose, waiting for Superman to come and save you?"
"Hehe, aren't you Superman!" Cui Yang laughed, and then explained: "If you don't make a move just now, when the red neck is a little too much, I can shoot him with one shot!"
Zhong Yuemin squinted at the guy in Cui Yang's hand, and shuddered, "My God, are you safe yet?"
"Haha, why are you afraid of being like this?"
"I'm afraid you'll go off!" Zhong Yuemin hurriedly stabilized the steering wheel, and his eyes kept looking at Cui Yang cautiously.
"Don't worry, I have a gun license, and after thousands of rounds of ammunition training, I won't go off!"
Zhong Yuemin breathed a sigh of relief, "Then you are ruthless enough, I just kicked the red neck and feet, you directly want his life?"
"He's a human captive, my life is in danger, and my killing of him is justified defense!"