Chapter 11: Chinatown

Seeing that the relationship between Fiona and Jimmy, according to the established plot, is developing smoothly, Lip puts down a concern.

In the entire nine seasons of "Shameless", Fiona has met many men, but the one who is the most compatible with her and the most accepted by fans is Jimmy.

If it weren't for those bullshit times later, Fiona and Jimmy would eventually become lovers, which is something that all fans of "Shameless" love to see.

Lip is willing to do what he can to make good things happen to them.

When the washing machine was installed, Fiona and Ian went out to work one after another.

Debbie takes care of Liam, and Carl prepares to electrocute the Barbie doll he picked up from the garbage heap again, and Lip is left and right, saying to the two of them, "I'm going to go around Chinatown, which of you wants to come with me!"

"Me!" Debbie and Carl raised their hands together.

"Then hurry up and change your clothes and get ready to go!" Lip said.

Debbie and Carl ran upstairs to change clothes, Lip put Liam in a harness, carried it on his back, and waited for Debbie and Carl to come down, and the three of them went out together.

Lip had never taken Debbie and Carl out to play, and the two little ones were very excited, bouncing all the way to the subway station, and they were not honest when they got on the subway, and they looked like they had nails on their butts, and they were not stable.

This is a common problem for children of this age, and Lip, like them, did not blame them at the beginning, but just looked at them with a smile.

Debbie and Carl are still young, and the shameless genes of the Gallagher family in their bodies have not yet awakened, although Carl has shown some violent tendencies, but if it is corrected in time, it is not without hope of saving.

Of course, Lip doesn't want them to follow the same path as in the series, and from now on, they are already planning to give them a better life.

Taking them to Chinatown this time, in addition to letting them testify and prove their Chinese proficiency, also has the intention of broadening their horizons.

Lipu came to Chinatown this time, not only to use Chinese food and soothe his stomach that has been reborn these days, but also to open up a trade route here.

Apple's latest iPhone 4, the price in the United States, is as low as grandma's house, needless to say, the contract machine, because the contract machine has a lot of restrictions, which is not suitable for second-hand dealers.

It's bare metal, 16G memory, the price in the United States is only $499, and 32G memory is only $599.

In 2010, the exchange rate between the RMB and the US dollar was about 6.6, that is to say, the price of the iPhone 4 bare metal, the 16G version of the United States, was only about 3,300 yuan, and the 32G version was only about 4,000 yuan.

The official price of the iPhone 4, which has been officially launched in China in October, is 4999 yuan for the 16G version and 6999 yuan for the 32G version.

Because, China is not a priority market for Apple, and when the iPhone 4 was first released, the shipments to China were very small!

On the black market, the 16G version of the iPhone 4 has been fried to 6,000 yuan, and the 32G version has been fried to more than 8,000 yuan!

In other words, Lip is now buying a 16G version of the iPhone 4 in the United States through regular means, and finding a way to get it to China can be bought at double the price!

Although there will be a lot of twists and turns in how to get this mobile phone to China, and it can't be done by Lip alone, but this is a way for Lip to think of making quick money in this situation.

Although there are many steps that need to be cleared up to realize this idea, it is still uncertain whether it will work out, but Lip doesn't mind giving it a try, in case it does!

If it really doesn't work, he won't be reluctant, and he will just think of other ways to make money.

Lip took Debbie, Carl, and Liam to take the Chicago Metro Pink Line, then transfer to the Red Line, get off at Chinatown Station, and see the archway with the four big characters of "The World is for the Public" written on Chicago's Chinatown from a distance, as well as the Nine Dragon Wall with Chinese characteristics.

Out of the subway station, to the entrance of Yonghuo Street, under the Chinatown archway, Lip looked up at the big characters on the archway, Lip felt very cordial.

Although he has fully accepted the fact of rebirth and his current identity as a native American, the memories of living in China for more than 20 years are still buried deep in his heart and flood back from time to time.

The resulting understanding of China and the mastery of Chinese are also one of the means that Lip relies on to make a living in the rest of his life.

It can even be said to be a means of guaranteeing!

If you really can't mix in the United States, buy a plane ticket and fly back to China, with a pure Northeast accent of English, Lip can also mix well across the ocean.

At the end of October, Chicago is almost winter, and now is the off-season for Chicago tourism.

Today's weather is not bad, but there are not many people on Yonghuo Street, and there are not many Chinese tourists.

Although he didn't hear the local accent as he had hoped, he still felt very familiar with the familiar Chinese characters on both sides of the street.

Debbie and Carl were visiting Chinatown for the first time, and they were very curious about everything here, Carl kept looking left and right, and Debbie kept babbling on her lips, pulling Lip to ask this and that.

After dozens or hundreds of years of development, Chinese food in the United States is no longer synonymous with cheapness, the price is not cheap, and poor families like the Gallagher family basically can't afford the price of food here, so the Gallagher family has never been to Chinatown.

Lip came this time to soothe his five internal organs, and casually took Debbie and Carl to broaden his horizons, and brought all the small vaults he had accumulated these days to have a big meal here.

I picked and chose and entered a Cantonese restaurant called Ming Xuan.

Among the hundreds of restaurants in Chicago's Chinatown, Cantonese restaurants and Sichuan restaurants account for the largest proportion, and compared with Sichuan cuisine, which is known for its spiciness, Lip prefers light, but diverse Cantonese cuisine.

In order to eat more flavors, Lip ordered Cantonese morning tea, and ordered a large table of various soup dumplings and dim sum, which made Debbie and Carl stunned.

The people of the Gallagher family, I don't know what politeness is, and I don't wait for Liprang, Debbie and Carl have already started, and they are not used to using chopsticks, so they get started directly, eating in large pieces, and they don't even have time to comment on the taste.

Although Lip was also very greedy, he did not behave like a starving ghost reincarnated, ordered a bowl of eight-treasure porridge to feed Liam, and slowly and skillfully used chopsticks to pick up the snacks he wanted to eat.

Debbie and Carl ate fast, but not much, after all, they were still young, they didn't have a big appetite, and Lip ordered so much that they didn't even taste what Lip ordered, so they couldn't hold it anymore, and hummed comfortably with their stomachs.