Just as Han Bo was on his way to the South African National Police headquarters, more than 50 kilometers away, Johannesburg's West Lotding Street was as usual with more local pedestrians and tourists. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It is a street with a total length of no more than one kilometer, which is relatively close to the city center.

The front is a commercial area, and the back is a residential area.

On the street are lined with Chinese supermarkets, shops and restaurants, all with signs in Chinese and English, where you can buy all kinds of Chinese goods, and the supermarket shelves are stocked with the same goods as in China. You can taste different flavors of Chinese food, sweet in the south and salty in the north, spicy seafood in Sichuan, Cantonese dishes, and flavor snacks.

There are even karaoke parlors, TCM clinics, and several beauty salons!

After the abolition of apartheid in South Africa, the Chinese and later Chinese immigrants in Joburg gradually gathered here, and naturally formed a "Chinatown".

Unlike Chinatown, which was a Chinese laborer, the current West Rodding Street is dominated by Chinese people and has a different social status, but it is also different from the Chinese settlements in other countries, where residents of other nationalities and colors are also inhabited.

Many shop owners hire local black employees for cost reasons.

Walking on this street, Yu Qingfang seemed to have returned to her hometown in the 90s, and when she was about to go to the supermarket she frequented, she saw a group of black young men surrounding the fruit stall, and they were also greeted by a black man, a local clerk hired by the owner of a Chinese supermarket.

Locals who frequent this street, especially those who live on it, can almost speak a few words of Chinese and even bargain in Chinese. Before the customer could ask the price, the black clerk greeted the boss and peddled it: "Sweet, eat, no money if it's not sweet!"

Actually speaking broken Chinese with his compatriots, Yu Qingfang was amused.

Although the safety situation in Chinatown is better than that in the city center, and it is safer during the day, Yu Qingfang still didn't want to stay here for a long time, so she walked into the small supermarket and picked up a few daily necessities, bought a little vegetables, looked behind her, made sure that no one was paying attention to herself, took out her wallet to pay the bill, and hurried back with her things.

"You're good to go, and welcome to come back next time. ”

The hostess was welcoming and delivered all the way to the door.

Yu Qingfang didn't want to accept this feeling, to be precise, she didn't want to deal with compatriots from the same place. If she had a choice, she didn't even want to stay in this boring hellish place.

But where can you go?

The Chinese shops on this street have successively set up some chambers of commerce, guilds, and even security companies, and the safety can be guaranteed at least during the day. Once you are not far from the main street, the security situation will drop dramatically. In the words of the landlord, walking out of Chinatown will be robbed in less than 20 minutes.

As you walk forward, you look around from time to time.

Two black policemen across the street are extorting and being insatiable, as long as you are Chinese, they will stop your car and check your documents, in fact, they want money.

Not to mention two or three hundred rands, even two or three thousand rand Yu Qingfang didn't care, but she was smuggled over, and she must not be sent back, she didn't dare to take this risk, she didn't dare to cause that trouble, so she hurriedly accelerated her pace and got into the residential area, took out the key, opened the door, and walked into a cramped small room.

"Sister Song, you're back from the street, what did you buy today?"

Just as he was about to close the door, the "old lady" who lived next door didn't treat her self-sufficiency as an outsider, and followed in in pajamas, rubbing her eyes, and grinning.

People are social animals, and not daring to have too much contact with their fellow villagers does not mean that they do not need to have contact with others.

I don't speak English, I don't dare to go to many places, my life circle is pitifully small, and if I continue like this, I will really suffocate people. Besides, after renting here, this peer in his forties in front of me helped a lot, and if she hadn't been enthusiastic about reminding me, I don't know how many times I had been robbed by those.

"Bought something casually, had fruit, and ate one. Yu Qingfang locked the door and beckoned the neighbor to sit down.

Wei Zhen took the fruit, took a bite without washing it, and asked in a mouthful of pure Northeast dialect while eating: "Sister Song, I know that you have money, but it's not okay to sit and eat like this, what do you think, find a job on the street, or go out to inquire and see if you can make a shop?"

Sit and eat the mountain empty!

Yu Qingfang secretly thought that my money would scare you to death if I said it, not to mention living in this shabby place and eating these things, even if I live in a big hotel every day and eat delicacies from the mountains and seas, I won't be able to spend it in a few lifetimes.

Since you have arrived in South Africa, you must understand the truth of "wealth is not exposed", there are many rich Chinese in other countries, but South Africa does not.

It's not that there really isn't, but one is more low-key than the other.

None of them say how much money they have, never go to a restaurant to eat, never say goodbye to friends where they are going next, and are both low-key and cautious.

Yu Qingfang didn't want to talk about this topic, so she asked curiously while picking vegetables: "Sister, you are in your forties, and you have a son in China, why are you still doing this?"

"Sister Song, do you look down on me?"

"How is it possible, I am concerned. ”

Wei Zhen also didn't have many people who could talk, put down the fruit and sighed: "I divorced that Wang-Ba-Dan, and my son wants me to raise it, what else can I do if I don't do a massage?"

It's not easy for anyone!

Half a year ago, Yu Qingfang really looked down on a woman like her, but now it is not half a year ago, although she has money, she still feels that she is the same as the one in front of her.

"The security here is not good, you yourself said that you have been robbed several times, you are afraid of people when you think about it, why don't you do it somewhere else?"

"Somewhere else, domestic?"

Wei Zhen asked rhetorically, and said vigorously: "You don't know, at my age, I'm like this, no one wants to find a job in China, and everyone wants a little girl to be a young lady." I can earn 10,000 or 20,000 yuan a month here, if I don't come here, how can my son have the money to go to college, how can he have the money to marry a daughter-in-law?"

"One or two thousand a month, RMB?"

"Exchanged for one or two hundred thousand yuan. ”

Talking about the "business experience", Wei Zhen's eyebrows danced: "Most of the people who come to me for massage are white, and they earn tens of thousands of rands a month, unlike those bosses in China who are looking for little girls, and they don't care if I am old." Three hundred rand at a time, and a hundred tips were given when they left. don't do business, it's not bad to give as much money as possible, who knows if they have AIDS or not. ”

The white people really didn't pick, Yu Qingfang thought it was very funny, and asked the ghost: "Are there any Chinese?"

"Are you looking for me to knock on the back?"

"Hmm. ”

"Yes! But the Chinese's business is not good, ask how much it is, I said three hundred, you know what they say, you kill people! The massage costs three hundred, and in the country three hundred yuan people press you to death! So I understood a truth: white people's money is easy to earn,' money is easy to earn, and Chinese's money is not easy to earn. No one here is bargaining. In China, you have to bargain for 5 cents to buy a dish, how can you make money?"

Wei Zhen became more and more energetic, and even smiled proudly: "I like the feeling of returning to China - my son got married last year, brought 260,000 yuan, and bought a diamond, and all my relatives went to the airport to pick me up." I went back and helped them buy a house and saved some living expenses. My son is not to mention how filial he is, and my daughter-in-law is also happy......"

Does your son know how much money you make is not easy?

Does your daughter-in-law know that you are massaging and knocking people on the back in South Africa?

Yu Qingfang estimated that she would not tell her family that everyone had privacy, and she would not ask this hurtful question.

"By the way, how did you get here?"

"I have the right of abode, which is similar to a green card in the United States, and I am not afraid of the police to check it. Go back whenever you want, come whenever you want!" This is also something to be proud of, Wei Zhen is full of superiority.

In this hellish place, as long as you have money, you can't do anything.

As she said before, as long as you find the right person and give enough money, it is not difficult to get a work visa, and with a work visa, you can further consider applying for residency. However, a passport is required to apply for a work visa, Yu Qingfang did not dare to take this risk, and was really a little envious of the old lady in front of her.

Wei Zhen took a bite of the fruit and said, "You are asking me how I came here in the first place, smugglers, at least eight out of ten people on this street are smuggled in the same way as me." At that time, the money was not spent, and even the air tickets were forty-five thousand. I went to the public security bureau to apply for a passport, and the smuggler put a piece of paper on my passport, and I don't know what it was.

Just took a plane to Joburg in such a daze, without a visa, of course people won't let you enter. However, the head of the smuggler had already arranged it, and the woman in charge took us to Zimbabwe for a connecting flight, and then took a car from Zimbabwe. When crossing the border, the police looked at my ID and said, "Your name is Wei Zhen, and you are Chinese?" He let me in, and they paid for it in advance. ”

It's the same through a smuggler, and even the way of smuggling into the country is exactly the same, if only it were so easy to go to the United States!

Yu Qingfang sighed secretly, and just as she didn't know what to talk about, Wei Zhen chattered about the news in Chinatown again: "Sister Song, do you know that South Africa also has public security! What kind of police liaison office has been set up in the permanent embassy, and the newspaper calls them 'overseas 110', and also publishes the phone number, saying that if you encounter any more cases, you can call this 110." ”

Public security is coming to South Africa!

Overseas 110!

Yu Qingfang was taken aback, and subconsciously asked, "Sister, you don't read the newspaper, how do you know?"

"Boss Wang said, isn't he a member of the Chamber of Commerce, yesterday afternoon I had a meeting with those bosses who like to pat on the back, and I wanted to charter the Fulin Hotel and invite 110 to dinner. ”

What the police are doing in South Africa, they can't control the South African police.

Chase and escape, definitely chase and escape!

Chinatown is so big, although it hasn't been here for a long time, although it is a simple place, but there are many people who have seen themselves, Yu Qingfang was shocked into a cold sweat, feeling that this place is not suitable for a long time, while absent-mindedly perfunctory, while pondering what to do next.