Located in the richest city in the world, yet living the poorest life.

This is Lin Kun's description of the Harlem district.

According to him, only about 40 percent of the residents here have serious jobs, and more than 40 percent have no public income, so a considerable number of black and Hispanic boys and girls can only wander the streets.

For this reason, the Harlem district is known as one of the birthplaces of street culture.

In this day and age, this is not a good review.

As soon as they entered the Harlem district, Wu Xiaozheng and Ma Li felt the difference here.

On the street, which was not too wide, bursts of deafening music came from all directions.

This is the most popular rap music in the Harlem district.

But the problem is that every three or five meters there is a sound source, which is very noisy.

On both sides of the street, black guys and Latinos gathered together, chatting lazily.

Wu Xiaozheng's Lincoln car they were sitting in seemed to be a bit eye-catching, and from time to time someone turned their heads to look at them and stared at them with indifferent eyes.

"Here, 50 percent Puerto Ricans, 40 percent blacks, 10 percent Asians and things like that, and there's basically very few white people here. Remember, after getting out of the car for a while, no matter what these people on the street do to you, don't talk to them, and don't look back. ”

Lin Kun emphasized the precautions again.

In fact, when the car was slowly passing by, because the window was open, Ma Li sitting in the back seat had already aroused the curiosity of some black guys, and whistles and screams were heard from time to time.

It's not a friendly act.

In his previous life, Wu Xiaozheng had heard that from the 70s, the Harlem district had been the most chaotic place in the whole of New York, and it was not until the late 90s that the U.S. government took strong improvement measures to improve the law and order here.

IT IS SAID THAT IT IS A PLACE WHERE ROBBERY, DUPIN, AND HOMICIDE ARE HIGH.

Now he's starting to feel the vibe.

He couldn't help but wonder, how could Ma Li's classmate, as a girl, dare to live in such an environment?

He couldn't help but ask Ma Li: "If you come here to study, do you dare to live in such a place?"

Mary turned her head to look at the unfriendly eyes on both sides of the street, and shook her head resolutely.

Ma Li was a little scared now.

Not to mention in this kind of place, even on the streets of Changshi, when she faced the street gangsters like the rice and millet brothers, she had a strong fear.

How dare she come to live in such a place?

Fortunately, Wu Xiaozheng was with her, otherwise she wouldn't have dared to come to this kind of place.

"I began to admire Zhang Wenli a little, I don't know how she dares to live in such a place. ”

Zhang Wenli is Ma Li's classmate, and it is said that they were good friends when they were in college.

"Uncle Shi, wait a minute, I'll ask someone for directions. ”

It seems that even Lin Kun, who is more familiar with the Harlem district, is a little unfamiliar with the address provided by Ma Li.

He pulled over to the side of the street and beckoned to a black guy standing outside a bar: "Hey, man, come here." ”

"Fuck, yellow-skinned kid, you've got a good car, what's the matter?"

The black guy walked over and asked Lin Kun.

From his tone, Wu Xiaozheng couldn't hear the friendliness, nor could he hear the obvious malice.

However, the most common vulgar words in the movie advanced his ears the most.

Perhaps people who live in this area are very popular in this kind of vulgar way of dealing with people.

Lin Kun ignored the black guy's rudeness, but directly handed the note to him: "Do you know this place?"

The black guy glanced at the note.

"There's no place in the whole Harlem district that I Caesar doesn't know, but if you want me to help you, you'll have to give me ten dollars, or you'll disappear from my eyes!"

I have long heard that black people in this era are not friendly to Asians, but Wu Xiaozheng still didn't expect that this black guy named Caesar would be so rude and vulgar.

This is very different from his impression of black people.

And what made him even more uncomfortable was that when Caesar was talking to Lin Kun, his eyes swept unscrupulously to Ma Li who was sitting in the back seat.

"Promise him to lead the way in front. Wu Xiaozheng held back the unhappiness in his heart.

"Deal. ”

Lin Kun obeyed Wu Xiaozheng's instructions and agreed to Caesar's conditions.

Caesar grinned and tried to take a detour to the other side to get into the passenger seat.

"No, you lead the way. Lin Kun said coldly.

“Shit！”

A swear word came out of Caesar's mouth again, and then he turned around in front of him very unhappily.

It was not far from where Mary was going, and after turning two corners, Caesar stopped in front of a small alley.

"Hey, the car won't drive in, if you want to find this place, you'll have to follow me. ”

It's an alley that can only accommodate two or three people walking side by side.

"Uncle Shi, Miss Ma, it seems that we have to get out of the car and walk for a while. ”

Lin Kun parked his car in front of a store.

Because it was still daytime, he wasn't too worried about the car being smashed.

Wu Xiaozheng took Ma Li out of the car and began to follow Caesar inside.

It's a somewhat dark and deserted alley, with buildings on the side of the alley almost close together.

Wu Xiaozheng has only seen such an environment in the handshake buildings of some urban villages in Guangdong Province.

To put it mildly, the environment of this kind of place is worse than the urban village where Wu Xiaozheng lived in his previous life.

"It seems that your classmates are not having a good time in New York!"

Wu Xiaozheng couldn't help but tease.

Ma Li didn't reply, but hugged Wu Xiaozheng's arm a little nervously.

This is because Caesar, who led the way in front, would glance back at her from time to time.

After a round and turn, Caesar stopped.

"The place you're looking for is here, give the money!"

After Wu Xiaozheng checked that the address was correct, he took out ten dollars from his pocket and gave it to the rude guy.

After seeing him leave, he began to take Ma Li up to the third floor.

After knocking on the door of the address that Mary had brought, a fat Latino woman appeared at the door.

"Who are you looking for?" said the fat woman in a very accented English.

"Does Zhang Wenli live here?"

"Zhang, not there!"

The fat woman looked impatient.

Ma Li put the note on the note: "But the address she left me is here." ”

"She and my son have broken up and moved out a long time ago. ”

The fat woman slammed the door shut.

Ma Li was immediately stunned.

Zhang Wenli and the son of this fat Latina woman? and then broke up again?

She actually found a dark-skinned foreigner?

In just a few sentences of dialogue, the amount of information implied is really a bit large, and it is also a bit beyond Ma Li's imagination.

She couldn't help but glance at Wu Xiaozheng, for fear that this matter would arouse his disgust.

Wu Xiaozheng smiled.

He was not surprised by such a thing.

In fact, many of the women who came out in this era are married to foreigners, and the difference is that some are white-skinned and some are dark-skinned.

"It seems that it is a bit difficult to find your classmates. Unless you know where she goes to school. ”

"Forget it, I don't want to look for it. ”

Ma Li was a little lost.

For quite a while, Zhang Wenli was her guiding light and the object of her envy, and she always hoped to come out like Zhang Wenli.

But now with this result, she suddenly lost the interest in continuing to search.

Even if we find her, it may be embarrassing to meet.