Back home, Jenny fried two steaks to make a tomato salad, and the two of them started making up lunch at four o'clock in the afternoon.

At the dinner table, Zhang Cheng said: "I didn't expect there to be so many Asians in the city. ”

Jenny: "You think I'm studying Chinese in college because when I was in high school, there were more and more Asian tourists, especially Chinese tourists, but the number of translators couldn't keep up." At that time, I thought that if I learned Chinese, I would definitely find a good job after graduation. Isn't it now, with an annual income of 52,000 dollars, the middle class. ”

"University of Nevada graduates are still afraid of finding a good job? It's a prestigious school. ”

"Elite school, yes. Every year, tens of thousands of bachelor's degrees graduate from the University of Nevada alone, do you think you can find a good job? Don't be kidding, a small number of top students naturally enter large companies or study for master's and doctorates, and most of the rest are under great pressure to find jobs, and the employment situation and economy have been bad in recent years. As far as I know, after graduating from mechanical engineering, some went to drive taxis. ”

"It's everywhere. I think it has something to do with population growth, you see that the people who are going to retire today are not so many college graduates thirty or forty years ago, and today although there are more jobs in some places, some traditional industries are decreasing.

I've seen the Detroit bankruptcy case, and there is no way to avoid bankruptcy in that place, you think that in the past, hundreds of people worked on the assembly line in a workshop to build cars, but now a workshop only needs one person to press the button, and the car will come out of the assembly line by itself. ”

"It's East Detroit, which has basically been abandoned. The surroundings are fine. In fact, part of the high unemployment rate is due to the guilds, the wages of workers are getting higher and higher, and the capitalists are moving their enterprises to Latin America and Asia for the sake of cost and enterprise survival, and in Mexico there are American companies everywhere. If China is now the world's factory, Mexico is the American factory. ”

"And that kind of thing. I thought there were only drug dealers in Mexico. ”

After Jenny came back after answering a phone call during the meal, she took a courier package: "After eating, follow me to paste the card." ”

Zhang Cheng asked, "What card?" ”

"For teaching, I teach you English now, but I can speak oral or illiterate, the most annoying part of English is to memorize words, fortunately, Chinese does not have to memorize dictionaries." I'm going to put everything at home on bilingual teaching cards in Chinese and English, so that you can see it at home every day in the future, so that you can learn a lot of words in your life. I can't help it professionally, so let's carry it. ”

“OK。”

After Zhang Cheng took over the work, he found that this card was not simply written in Chinese and English, with a layer of self-adhesive behind it, this is a batch of intelligent teaching cards, like a toy, you can speak by yourself by pressing the micro speaker, and you can speak both Chinese and English again, press twice and say twice.

There are also some cards that are not available at home or cannot be pasted - such as jeeps, cats and dogs, chickens and ducks, which are temporarily put away and played with as teaching toys.

After Zhang Cheng pasted everything that could be pasted well, he said to Jenny: "You still have a lot of money." ”

Jenny took out her laptop: "This is an electronic bill, remember to pay it." I went to swim in the back. ”

Zhang Cheng stumbled to settle the bill with Jenny's English interface laptop, then changed into swimming trunks and went to the back pool to burn calories.

The swimming pool behind the villa is almost built according to the scale of a standard swimming pool, a large swimming pool with a width of 20 meters and a length of 50 meters.

In the following days, Zhang Cheng began to learn dark English every day under Jenny's teaching, and after two days of delivery of a second-hand car worth $800 that he could buy online, he began to learn to drive under Jenny's guidance.

After seven days of studying, Zhang Cheng went to Reno to sign up for a Nevada driver's license, and after a few days of testing, he cleared the customs and got a second green card.

Jenny's teaching has also gradually upgraded, and after Zhang Cheng gradually can barely pass the oral conversation, he began to let Zhang Cheng drive to the movie theater in Reno City to watch movies to exercise his hearing, according to Jenny, because everyone usually knows that Zhang Cheng is Asian, his English level is average, and he speaks very slowly, so that Zhang Cheng can understand. But movies, whether you're Asian, Latina or African, speak very quickly.

Zhang Cheng asked Jenny: "Is it different to watch DVD or TV at home?" ”

"No, movies, like cars, are the main body of American culture, and generally speaking, more people come to the movie theater to pass the time when the economic situation is bad. It's also a recession, and going to the movies helps you understand American society. Don't forget to buy more popcorn. ”

"Understood." Zhang Cheng drove a more dilapidated Buick from the garage than when he bought it (he inevitably crashed several times when he practiced the car) and hit the road.

With a population of more than 400,000 in Washaw County, which is about the same size as a medium-sized county in China, there is no such desolation as in Canada or several states in the Midwest of the United States, where you don't see a single car in half a day.

Zhang Cheng drove unhurriedly to Reno and found a movie theater It has been an hour and a half, where Zhang Cheng has a monthly ticket (Zhang Cheng understands that Americans go to the movies without anything, there is a monthly pass, if you don't watch it, you will lose) and bought two large bags of popcorn - Zhang Cheng still misses popcorn very much, when he was a child, popcorn came, and everyone would go to pop it.

That's right, it's a shot, and popcorn in the United States is popped in a microwave oven or directly heated. In the eyes of Americans, the popcorn machine used by the Chinese is simply a cannon, and when it bursts out after heating and pressurization, it is as earth-shattering as a cannon, and countless shells explode from it and produce a large amount of white smoke.

The first film, Zhang Cheng, was watched halfway through, a family comedy about a betrayed American mafia family of four who were under protection in France. The protector, the mafia killer, the children's school classmates and love life, the plumber repairman, the director of the polluting factory, and the bizarre behavior of a family of four former mafia, the dad who started writing a book to cover up his lies and became very interested in it all make up a farce.

Of course, as with all comedies, although the darkness is very powerful, the last thing is the happy finale - sometimes Zhang Cheng also thinks about what would happen if this comedy ended with a family of four being killed, but such an ending should be called a documentary rather than a comedy. That's probably the difference.

After the movie ended, most of the audience dispersed in twos and threes, and after turning on the lights, Zhang Cheng noticed that most of the parents brought their children to see it - Zhang Cheng thought about himself again, and felt that his life was so bitter, his parents didn't take him to watch a movie once and didn't take him to Disney once (anyway, you don't have this either, take you to the zoo, well, it's enough for children to go to the zoo). The teachers who take you to watch the movie are the teachers, and the people who accompany you to watch the movie are all classmates.

Zhang Cheng didn't eat much corn corn because he had only watched half of the movie, so he decided to continue to sit down, and after a while, the audience began to enter the venue one after another, but this time most of them were couples hugging each other.

The second movie is about a father and son who find true love, the son's girlfriend is more disgusted with the relationship between boyfriend and girlfriend, and the father found a girlfriend in the prime of his life, but it is the son's ex-girlfriend + female classmate.

The film itself is not interesting except for selling meat and feelings, but what is interesting is that Zhang Cheng's side, as soon as the movie began to play, the couple began to gnaw as soon as the lights went dark. After gnawing for a few minutes to more than ten minutes, these couples changed into female superiors and set off, with a long or short roar, high or low roar......

And all this, the nearest distance from Zhang Cheng is only a few feet......

Zhang Chengxin said: This is much more exciting than watching blockbusters, isn't it.