Chapter 4: Hello New York
Zuo Jianshe actually knew in his heart that his son was not a lover of reading, but when Cheng Fengchun said that, he felt a little itchy in his heart. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info But if my son doesn't go, he can't help it.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, he called Cheng Fengchun to pay New Year's greetings, and after the New Year's greetings, he said that only his daughter loves to study, and his son is a person who can't read, so he can only thank him for his kindness.
Cheng Fengchun had seen Zuo Zai, and when Zuo Jianshe sent him a New Year's candle, Zuo Zai was standing on the side.
Cheng Fengchun had a good impression of Zuo Zai, because when he hadn't met Zuo Zai, he heard the great monk say that the idea of the New Year's candle was thought up by the daughter of Zuo Jianjia. When he saw this little girl yesterday, with a pair of clear eyes and a warm smile, his goodwill increased a few points.
Originally, Cheng Fengchun and Zuo Jianshe said that they could guarantee Zuo Yi to go to college, that is, they talked casually.
Hearing that Zuo Jianshe specially called to thank him for this matter, he said a little more seriously that if his daughter loves to study, then he can let his daughter come, and he can help contact the best school in New York.
Where would her daughter be willing to let her daughter go to the United States, that is, to go to BJ because she accidentally gained the upper hand because of her obsession.
However, at the beginning of the new year in 2001, the first thing Zuo Jianjian was busy with - letting his daughter go to BJ No. 4 Middle School to study in junior high school - has not been settled. He tried his best to find someone, but he couldn't find a solution.
The matter of reading the fourth middle school was not completed until the Chinese New Year. I finally found someone, and said that at most, it was only possible to borrow another book for Zuo.
Where is Zuo Jianshe willing to let his daughter not even have an official identity, and she has to borrow to be wronged.
The more reluctant I became, the more I felt that I couldn't even do a book. Zuo Jianjian, who had nowhere to vent in his heart, listened to Cheng Fengchun's words, and suddenly a voice shouted in his heart:
"Hmph, if you don't let me read it in BJ No. 4 Middle School, I'll go to the United States, and I'll read it better than you."
Zuo Jianshe made a decision that made him feel proud, and began to implement it, he didn't even discuss it with his wife Xiang Min, and called Cheng Fengchun on the second day of the Lunar New Year, saying that his daughter was willing to go to junior high school in the United States.
At this time, Cheng Fengchun was taken aback by the speed of Zuo Jianjian's decision, talking about going to the United States to study, not to study in the elementary school next door. There are still many unknowns about whether children can adapt to it or something. He began to regret his previous proposal a little.
But what else can I do when the words are spoken? Cheng Fengchun thought about it, and said to the hot-headed Zuo Jianjian that children also have a language problem when they come to the United States to study, and they still need to adapt to it, and they need to pass the entrance exam.
Zuo Jianshe felt that what people said made sense. went home and told Xiang Min to let her accompany the child to see it during the summer vacation.
Xiang Min was also angry with the hot-headed Zuo Jianjian, this is said that the wind is the rain, and the United States will go if it says it?
Isn't it a joke that my daughter is still so young and goes to study in the United States alone?
Zuo Jianshe and his wife, who rarely quarrel, had a big quarrel this time. In the final analysis, Zuo Jianshe is still afraid of his wife, so he changed his strategy and said that he would let his daughter go to the summer vacation and come back after learning English.
Zuo Zai heard her father say that he wanted her to go to the United States to study in junior high school, but she was also 10,000 unwilling, so Zuo Jianshe made a killer move:
"If Nuan Nuan is willing to go to the United States to study, then BJ's 10,000 yuan a semester will become 10,000 dollars a semester."
"How much is $10,000?" Left then look up and ask left building.
"That's eight and ten thousand." Left Construction replied.
"Okay then." Zuo replied crisply.
Making money is the hurdle that Zuo can no longer overcome.
With Cheng Fengchun's guarantee, the mother and daughter's visas went smoothly.
On July 1, 2001, Zuo Zai and his mother Xiang Min happily set foot on the land of the United States of America. Xiang Min doesn't like troublesome people, so she originally didn't plan to live in Cheng Fengchun's house.
But the problem is now in the United States, the language is not understood, friends and friends don't have it, and there is no way for Xiang Min not to send someone to the fence. Fortunately, Cheng Fengchun's mansion has dozens of rooms, and it usually doesn't have much influence.
Cheng Fengchun has two sons, the eldest son is 29 years old, married to an American daughter-in-law, and has a six-year-old mixed-race son named Newman, whom the Cheng family calls Xiao Nai. The second son is the same age as the first one on the left, and he is also 80 years old.
Left went back to the United States, and he mainly did two things every day, went to the language school and then went home to play with Xiaonai.
As soon as Zuo Zai arrived at the language school, he didn't even know how to greet in English, but he met a large group of new classmates of all colors. Zuo Zai met friends in a very peculiar way -- giving them the American emblem and flag.
It is said that Zuo Zai originally did not have a hobby of giving gifts casually. This has to start with the origin of these national flags and national emblems.
The transport village belongs to Qiaotou Town, Qiaotou Town was quite famous in the eighties and nineties, and was the famous "Button Township" in China.
But in fact, in addition to making famous buttons, Qiaotou also has an important foreign trade industry that is not famous -- printing the national flag and national emblem for the Americans.
In the nineties of the last century, the U.S. government imposed various anti-dumping duties on China's printed matter, and all kinds of small commodity markets had to move to Yiwu, so at the same time as the decline of the transportation village, Qiaotou Town also declined.
The button business is okay, they have all moved to Yiwu, and the business of the national flag and national emblem has directly languished.
Many people in Qiaotou Town have piled up a lot of American flags and national emblems that cannot be sold, this American does not want them, why do Chinese want so many American flags?
Zuo never went to the United States again, and before that, she had no contact with the United States.
If you have to have a relationship, then you can barely count how many relatives she has who make the American flag and national emblem.
No matter how reluctant the relationship is, it can be regarded as a relationship. No, Zuo Zai packed his luggage, took a small suitcase, and went to a relative's house to ask for some national flags and national emblems to take to the United States.
The national flags and national emblems of relatives' houses are piled up on the ground, and they are of no use except for the land they occupy. Hearing Zuo say that he wanted to take the national flag and national emblem, his relatives laughed in their hearts, and they couldn't wait for Zuo to take as much as possible.
It's a pity that there is only a small box on the left.
Zuo Zai is very talented in languages, and after studying English for two months at a language school in New York, it is like learning for two years like others, as long as she doesn't say it herself, no one will know that she is a rookie who has only been here for two months.
To say that this is because the school teaches well is absolutely contrary to the truth.
Zuo Zai's English is basically played by Cheng Fengchun's grandson Xiao Nai. If you have no foundation in learning English, no matter how good a teacher teaches you, you will not make too explosive progress. The most useful way to do this is when you talk to a five or six-year-old child who is a native English speaker.
At this age, children may have hundreds of words, but there is nothing they can't say. Think about Zuo Zai speaking Chinese when he was five years old, isn't that the head of the Tao?
Zuo met Xiao Nai again, I feel that I have become smaller, I do some naughty things every day, she doesn't need any teachers at all, and she communicates with Xiao Nai freely in less than a month.
Zuo Zai's purpose in starting to learn English was that when she bullied Xiao Nai with her mouth, she hoped that Xiao Nai would understand that it was bullying him.
Otherwise, this mixed-race baby who does not understand Chinese, was bullied by her and thought that Zuo Zai was teasing him, and Le's fart followed Zuo Zai upside down, like a dog skin plaster, and he couldn't shake it off.
When Zuo learned English again, Cheng Fengchun's precious spices in China were almost purchased. He began to let his second son, Cheng Yan, who had just graduated from college and joined his spice group, be responsible for contacting cargo charter flights.
The charter plane that the second son of the Cheng family is looking for is FedEx (FedEx) in the United States. FedEx is also an unusual courier company in the United States. Let's say the weather is bad, the airport is closed, and all flights are suspended, but if FedEx has goods to deliver, then the family has the privilege of flying.
FedEx's cargo charter flight was quoted at $100,000.
Cheng Yan told his father Cheng Fengchun about the price, but was disgusted by his father:
"Why are you so indecisive in doing things, and ask me about such a trivial matter?"
Their old man wants to transport rare spices such as spice gold "ambergris", and he doesn't care about these small money, and Cheng Fengchun is a master who can smash a million dollars if he buys the right candle.
Cheng Yan contacted FedEx's cargo charter flight and set the time for September 14. After the time was set, Cheng Yan first had to arrange the location of the precious spices, and then the New Year's candle of Zuo Zai's house.
Precious spices actually don't weigh much, and the heavy ones are New Year's candles. However, as long as you do not exceed the load capacity and volume of the aircraft, the amount of cargo transported is up to the owner.
Zuo Zai is like a fish in water in the United States, Cheng Fengchun and his family like her very much, and Xiao Nai, who was ravaged by her the most, especially likes her.
But Zuo Zai's mother Xiang Min is very uncomfortable, first, she feels that living in someone else's house is under the fence, not as familiar as Zuo Zai, and second, she has no friends.
Cheng Fengchun's wife has passed away, and the only woman in the family (Cheng Fengchun's eldest daughter-in-law) is still a foreigner.
Xiang Min stayed in the United States for a month, and in August, seeing his daughter's thriving appearance, he was very relieved to return to China.
At the end of August, Zuo Jianshe and his wife received the time for the delivery of the New Year's candles from Cheng Yan, and began to prepare the packaging of the New Year's candles. This waterway, highway, and railway transportation New Year's candles, Zuo Jianjian are designed with special packaging, but this air transportation, that is the first time.
Xiang Min heard that people were sending charter planes to transport New Year's candles, so he felt that he was being taken care of by his family in the United States, and if there was still space, he would send a few more pairs over.
Although it is said that there is no great monk to open the light, it can be regarded as a heart. The weight of a candle is 500 catties, and a pair is half a ton.
Cheng Yan asked his father again:
"Zuo Zai's mother said that she would send a few more pairs of New Year's candles to express her heart, do you want to transport them together?"
Zuo Jianshe wanted to send New Year's candles, and he called Cheng Fengchun, and Cheng Fengchun said yes if he didn't refuse people's kindness.
Cheng Fengchun saw that Cheng Yan, who had just come to work in the group, had to call him to ask him about anything, so he was a little annoyed by him:
"Can't you handle such a thing?"
Cheng Yan was also very depressed when his father said this, he had never done this, and he had no experience to ask what was wrong.
The old man of Cheng Yan's family has a temper that is kind to everyone, but he doesn't give his son a good look.
Cheng Yan had no choice but to take full responsibility for the charter flight by himself. Cheng Yan told Zuo Jianshe and his wife that there should be no problem with adding another 3.5 tons to the charter plane now, but the volume of the New Year's candle is large, and if it is transported seven pairs, I don't know if the volume is enough.
Zuo Jianshe is a stubborn character, as soon as he heard this, he asked around where to see the FedEx plane. Wenzhou Airport in 2001 was definitely not, he took a plane to SH to see, got off the plane, did not go to the arrival entrance, just stuffed several Chinese to the ground staff, let the family find FedEx cargo plane, and then went in to measure the space carefully. After measuring it, I went back to the airport, bought a ticket, and went home again.
Zuo Jianshe specially designed three packing boxes for this air freight, one small one and two large ones. The small one contains the New Year's candle that the great monk has opened, and the other two boxes, one for three pairs. Anyway, after the design of the left construction, after the New Year's candle is put in, the space for putting spices is still very abundant. At the beginning of September, Zuo Jianshe packed the New Year's candles to be shipped to the United States and waited for the plane to arrive on September 14.