Chapter 47: Summer Plans
If you want to invade the American music scene, you can't just copy a few songs.
Although the American music industry, which advocates originality, does not have high requirements for the professionalism of singers, many people who break their voices can also become big singers with countless fans with their outstanding creative ability!
Lip has tested his singing, although it is not fatal, but it has nothing to do with nature, and is just an ordinary member of the crowd.
Elipu's current voice conditions, even if he has the blessing of good songs, to participate in "American Idol", or on April 26, 2011, the first season of "The Voice of America" has just started, there is no drama.
Musically, good wine is afraid of deep alleys, and Lipp's alley is deep enough.
If you want to achieve the desired results in music, Lip can only win by surprise!
In this regard, Lip already has a plan, and at this stage, it is preparing for the plan.
One-third of the basement of "No. 2" was used to house Bitcoin mining machines, and the other two-thirds were converted into practice rooms by Lip, which is the main reason why he used noise-reducing and soundproofing materials in the process of remodeling the basement.
In the practice room, in addition to Lip's own guitar, Lip also bought a drum kit, a bass, and a keyboard, ready for the instrument of the future.
Lip is also now learning the skills of computer arrangement and tuning in preparation for the future production of songs.
In addition, Lip also bought back a scrapped car that was badly damaged in a car accident from the old car disposal plant, repaired it himself, and prepared to repair it himself as his own car.
Lip High School has taken mechanical repair, and although it is not specialized in auto maintenance, it has similarities.
In addition, he and Kevin have been in charge of the maintenance of the "ice cream sales car" that he and Kevin have co-opened in the past few summers, and he can be regarded as having some experience.
Repairing an end-of-life car to the point where it can be put back on the road is a difficult but not impossible task for Lip today.
This scrapped car cost Lip only five hundred dollars, another five hundred dollars, a second-hand engine, and other miscellaneous parts and accessories, which cost another five hundred dollars.
For this car, the cost alone, Lip spent 1,500 dollars, which is not a low price, and you can buy a used car directly.
However, after the restoration of Lip's car, in terms of performance, it is much better than a used car for one or two thousand dollars.
Whether it's worth it or not, only Lip himself knows.
In June, middle school students in the United States began to take vacation, and Kevin and Lip's "mobile ice cream van" began to open again.
Kevin and Lipu are selling dog meat with sheep's heads, ostensibly selling cigarettes, drinks, and snacks, but in fact, the real income is the bulk of Kevin's secret planting.
Kevin now works as a bartender at the Elebo Bar, the owner of the Eleber Bar, Stan, who is in his eighties and is not in good health, living in an apartment upstairs from the bar, basically doing nothing, and the bar is run by Kevin.
Kevin took advantage of the convenience of working at the bar and secretly planted large mana in the basement below, a small part of it for his own use, and most of it for sale.
This business has been doing this for two years and has not had an accident.
The city of Chicago is located in Illinois, although it has not yet achieved full legalization, it has allowed the legalization of medical drugs containing THC.
THC refers to the part of the body that stimulates the nervous response contained in the large man, which does not contain this ingredient, and only has a medical effect, but it makes the user not feel "flying" and will not be addicted.
The big stuff that contains THC is the big stuff in the real sense.
The state of Illinois allows the legalization of medical products containing THC, and you only need a doctor's prescription to freely buy them in Dama stores, which is actually only the last step away from full legalization.
In Chicago today, although it is still illegal to carry a large amount of money at any time, the police have long turned a blind eye and are too lazy to care.
As long as the holder does not seek death by himself, it is good to take the initiative to provoke the police.
However, the act of selling large horses privately without formal business qualifications is still within the scope of the police's crackdown.
Moreover, Kevin and Lip sell homemade big things to minors, so they have to be careful.
Lip also asked Victor to customize a police car alarm, as long as the police car is close to the range of 200 meters, the alarm will automatically alarm, giving them time to react in advance, move the venue, or dispose of the prohibited items in their hands.
Kevin is responsible for planting, he just sprinkles a handful of seeds in the flower pot in the basement every year, and when the seedlings emerge, see that those plants are growing better, he will stay, and all the others will be eradicated.
In the first two years, Kevin cultivated only four or five plants a year, and only four plants were sold for his own use—the reason for this is that according to Illinois law, the maximum number of plants that can be planted by an individual is just that.
If you are caught by the police, you will not be imprisoned.
This year was the same, Kevin only planted six plants, one for himself, one for Lip, and the remaining four for sale.
After the roasting of these four Da Ma plants, the obtained Da Ma leaves were less than one kilogram, and the total value was only one or two hundred thousand US dollars, which was not worth anything.
It stands to reason that Elipu's current nature of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages should not be involved in this business anymore, but after careful preparations, Lip believes that using the "mobile ice cream vending truck" as a cover to outflow on a small scale is basically not dangerous.
Even if he is arrested by the police, with the large dose in their car, it is not enough to be sentenced to prison and affect his future.
That being the case, Lip certainly doesn't mind experiencing more of American ghetto life.
This is also a rare experience for him who has been reborn.
The taste of walking on the edge of the law, but not falling into the river, is exciting to think about.
What's more, even if he stops, there will be other big vendors in the nearby neighborhood to take over, and the American teenagers who should be poisoned will inevitably go through this experience.
This money should be earned by others rather than by others, of course, by him!
Moreover, Lip is involved in this, mainly for Kevin.
During the three-month summer vacation, Kevin and Lip used the "mobile ice cream vending truck" as a cover to secretly sell large sums of money, and they could earn more than $10,000 in total, and they added five to divide the income equally, and one person could have seven or eight thousand dollars, an average of more than $2,000 a month, which was quite generous for them in the slums.
Kevin now works as a bartender at the Eleper Bar, with a base salary plus commissions and tips, and only earns three or four thousand dollars a month.