Chapter Eighty-Nine: American Neighborhood Committees
After tasting coffee and red wine, Carey left the student center with books and Zhang Cheng, and just opened the car door and sat down, a girl in a hurry also took the opportunity to get into Cadillac.
The girl was holding a clear plastic bag containing dried leaves of some kind of green herb. The girl held up the plastic bag and said, "Hey, there are high-quality goods here, do you want to ...... together"
Zhang Cheng, who had already figured out what was in the bag, interrupted her and shouted, "Go out." ”
The girl was a little unhappy: "What is this, Nevada is already legal, okay." President goes to school in Hawaii ......"
Zhang Cheng: "Look at my mouth shape, it's out of the way." Leaving and not knowing English? ”
After the girl with the bag left, Kerry was still a little disappointed: "I wanted to try it, but it seems that I have to wait for 21 years old." ”
Zhang Cheng: "If you don't want to become sluggish, I advise you not to try." ”
Carey: "She's right, the president ......"
Zhang Cheng: "We can't affirm the poisons because of the success of an addict, nor can we affirm the career of a drug lord because of his success." ”
Carey asked: "Is it because the Opium War is that the Chinese are reluctant to touch it?" ”
Zhang Cheng: "Yes, the two opium wars have awakened some of us, but opium has brought our nation to ruin for a hundred years. ”
"Okay." Carey said, "I choose to respect your choice in this matter. Now it seems that I have a good appetite. What should I eat? Let me think, how about sushi? I've heard it's delicious. ”
As a person who came over, Zhang Cheng said: "Sushi, I can only say 'unique flavor', if you insist, I will take you to taste it, it just so happens that I know a good restaurant." ”
When they arrived at the Japanese restaurant they had been to once, after Zhang Cheng and Kerry took a bite of the sushi into their mouths at the same time, Kerry, who couldn't stop the tears from flowing down, understood what it meant to have a "unique flavor".
Zhang Chengxin said that the Japanese food here is not bad, but Yanmar Carrey's first contact with wasabi inevitably has to have an adaptation process.
After watching Zhang Cheng eat sushi one by one, Kerry, who wiped away his tears, couldn't help but ask, "Oh my God, how did you do it." A piece of sushi knocked out my tongue, nose and eyes. ”
Zhang Cheng: "Overall, the first piece is the spicest, but don't be afraid, use him as an appetizer." Then the second piece is much better, and the third piece barely feels spicy. The human body's adaptability is very strong than drug resistance, so try another piece? ”
After listening to Zhang Cheng's words, Kerry gritted his teeth and ate another piece of tuna sushi: "Uh-huh, it's really much better." ”
After checking out, Kerry's view of sushi has changed to eating it once in a while, and if you use this as a staple food instead of bread, vegetables, and meat, you will definitely have indigestion.
When he went to the rented house in the evening, Ye Zi showed Zhang Cheng the results of the voting of the community council of the new house he bought, and the result was that all Ye Zi's family was in favor of moving into the new community.
That's right, buying a house doesn't necessarily mean you can live in, the United States, especially the wealthy communities, have community councils - or see the American neighborhood committees, each household has one vote, they have a lot of rights, the voting results represent whether you can move in, if the community council votes that you can't move in, then your new house can only be rented or resold.
Zhang Cheng also understands that in this predominantly white area, many people don't like people of color to move in, but race cannot be used as a reason to object, otherwise some people will say that you are racist, and you can have racism in the United States, but you must not be accused of racism by someone with evidence, let alone say it yourself, otherwise it will be a crime.
The pain of the white community is that it is okay to oppose the occupancy of a white family without reason, but it is not possible to oppose the occupancy of a family of color without reason, otherwise it is racism.
However, this group of people looked at Ye Zi and Auntie's records, and they were extremely envious, people who have never driven a car are good, they haven't even had a ticket, according to the lawyer, they are as clean as a blank sheet of paper, and there is no reason to object. Considering that the Chinese crime rate is very low and the violent crime rate is even lower, the community council accepted the Ye family's application for occupancy with a small number of abstentions.
Ye Zi finished the good news and continued to go online: "Brother, do you know the way, I saw a lot of liars in the Chinese community." If the foot spa shop cheats the recruiter, you will be fired after a few days of probation, so that as long as there are enough new people to be deceived, they will not have to pay their salary. There are also fraudulent store transfers, which are actually fake contracts. ”
Zhang Cheng: "It's okay, the crime of fraud here can serve a maximum of three to five years in prison, and it must also be a first-degree fraud crime." The United States is still very tolerant of nonviolent crimes. ”
Yezi: "I mean, how can they be like this, their own people lie to their own people." ”
Zhang Cheng: "Think about those who exchange their waists for apples, they don't even care about themselves, what do they care about?" ”
Ye Zi: "That's right. There's another piece of news here, but it's a shame. The free food distributed by the church in San Francisco to the poor was collected by Chinese grandparents and sold for money. Worthless cans are thrown in the trash by them. ”
"It's shameful enough, and canned food is not inedible." Zhang Cheng went to the courtyard and took out the phone to call the California bishop: "Hey, well, it's me." In the future, all churches in California will distribute relief food, and only cheap canned food will be distributed. Well, it was my decision, so increase the variety of canned food. ”
The United States and the developed countries of the West have always had the poor eating canned food and the rich eating fresh meat. The United States, as a big animal husbandry country, has even lowered the cost of canned luncheon meat to the point of being cheap to death - American GIs who eat canned luncheon meat have also scolded canned meat every day, month after month, and year after year since World War II.
The only thing that is positive is that there was enough supply of canned meat in times of war. After the end of the war, everyone went back to their homes to find their mothers, and the sales of this canned meat naturally decreased greatly, but the Second World War was not without results, and they succeeded in public relations, and after the war, a large amount of canned meat was used for social relief and welfare. Thus began the era of the poor eating canned food.
Because the poor can receive free canned food, there is only one kind of person who spends money to buy canned food in the United States, and that is survivalists who believe that the world will be destroyed by nuclear weapons one day, and in preparation for the war of the world and the destruction of mankind, a large amount of canned food and water and medical supplies are stored in advance.
These survivalists are proficient in survival in the wild, and their usual lives must have basements that can protect them from nuclear radiation and biochemical pollution, and they have plenty of weapons and food and drinking water.
Of course, in addition to not affecting other people's normal work and life, you can play as much as you want at home.