Chen Chumo is a very rich person in Xiao Xiao's eyes, so she won't believe Chen Chumo's nonsense that he doesn't have any money. In Xiao Xiao's opinion, Chen Chumo wants to get a job, but it's just a rich boy playing tickets.

"It's nothing, it's just that I've been in San Francisco for a long time and want to go out and have a look." Chen Chumo said.

Woman, is a magical animal that you can never guess, you explain the reason to her, many times the more you say, the more unclear it becomes, Chen Chu silently said a simple reason that makes people feel that there is no need to interrogate anymore.

In this way, the two of them chatted until more than 11 o'clock, and then parted ways because Xiao Xiao wanted to go back to the restaurant to serve dishes. Before Xiao Xiao left, she left Chen Chumo her mobile phone number in the United States, saying that Chen Chumo only had anything unclear about him, and he was welcome to call her at any time. Going out to rely on friends, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, after a few hours of close contact, Xiao Xiao unconsciously regarded Chen Chumo as a little brother who needed to be taken care of.

After separating from Xiao Xiao, Chen Chumo ordered some desserts for lunch at the café. After lunch, instead of going for a walk in the nearby park as usual, he went straight back to the hotel.

On the way back to the hotel, I bought a phone card at a mobile phone store on the street. After opening a new mobile phone number, Chen Chumo sent Xiao Xiao a text message for a day.

"Ding!" With a crisp mobile phone ringtone, Xiao Xiao took out the mobile phone in his pocket and inquired about the information.

"I'm Chen Chumo, this is my new number, and I'm going to Los Angeles later. Good bye! "It was from an unfamiliar number, and it was written in a text message.

Originally, Chen Chumo also wanted to write, 'I'm going to stay in Los Angeles for a month, and when I have time, I'll go to the Hollywood you said to see, and I hope you will come as a tour guide.' But when I think about it, I don't seem to be familiar with Xiao Xiao to the point of being on call, and I am so presumptuous that I am suspected of hooking up with a girl from a good family. In order to avoid being misunderstood by Xiao Xiao and plotting against him, he had to write the information as short as possible.

Los Angeles is south of San Francisco, five or six hundred kilometers apart, and it takes more than an hour to get there by plane.

At around 3 p.m. US time, Chen Chumo landed in Los Angeles and found a taxi to go straight to Pasadena. The Pasadena neighborhood and its vicinity are major Chinese congregations, and Mr. Chen's newspaper job is located in this area.

Soon Chen Chumo found the Chinese supermarket in the newspaper that was going to recruit employees, inquired about the general manager's office with the front desk, and went straight to it, for fear that the supermarket would stop recruiting when it was full.

In the corner of the second floor, Chen Chumo easily found the general manager of this supermarket. The general manager's name is Zhou Shengcai, a little fat man with a smooth big back, wearing a black suit and a pair of black-rimmed glasses, but he does not have a trace of literati temperament. is a bit obscene, very similar to the appearance of Hong Kong's great director Wang Jin.

Zhou Shengcai's ancestral home is Fujian Province, China, and he is a second-generation Chinese. The Zhou family mainly operates a supermarket chain in the United States, with total assets of tens of millions of US dollars, which can be regarded as being among the rich. Even with this success, they, like other Asian Americans, remain second-class citizens in the United States, and are not accepted by the upper class of white society.

In the face of this dilemma, in order to step into the mainstream white social circle as soon as possible, many Chinese Americans always copy English at other times in addition to speaking Chinese with their families. to show that they have broken away from the shadow of the Chinese on their bodies and are a real part of the United States.

"Chen Chumo? Just came from Huaxia? Your passport is fake, don't you look like a 16-year-old? General Manager Zhou Shengcai asked.

"Mr. Zhou, I..."Chen Chumo dealt with carefully.

"Please call me b0ss, or Daniel Chow, ok?!" Zhou Shengcai interrupted Chen Chumo.

"Daniel, that's right, I saw a newspaper in San Francisco that your Dahua supermarket was looking for workers. As for age and passport, I made a mistake when I got my household registration in my hometown, and my actual age is 23. I can endure hardships very well, you can rest assured, I will definitely be able to do any job in Dahua Supermarket, and I will never be lazy and slippery. Chen Chumo replied in authentic American English, which surprised Zhou Shengcai.

I thought it was a Chinese smuggler, but I didn't expect his English eloquence to be so good. A person who can have such a talent in language is either a person with extraordinary talents, or after a noble family, Zhou Shengcai can't help but restrain a little stubbornness.

"Well, with such an old person, you can see that you are by no means underage. Seeing that you seem to be looking forward to this job, then I will make an exception to keep you. However, our police here only look at passports and don't listen to your explanations. If the police come to routinely check the smugglers, I hope you can follow the foreman's arrangement and do a good job of avoiding them," Zhou Shengcai said.

The supermarket is the time to employ people, and finally someone came to apply for the job, and Zhou Shengcai naturally did not refuse to come. If the supermarket will not hire Chen Chumo because of the passport problem, then the next newspaper recruitment will be sent to San Francisco to solve the problem, I am afraid it will have to wait until the East Coast of New York.

In the United States, the work of supermarkets is thankless, there are not many people who are willing to work in supermarkets, and nine out of ten problems come to apply, either smuggling, or visas are overstayed or there is no work permit.

"Definitely, definitely! I will obey all the arrangements of the supermarket and will not cause trouble to everyone. Chen Chumo returned.

"The salary is clear, right? I know I have to say it again, so as not to have a dispute about the payroll. You're a junior employee, like 50% of the employees here. The salary is 6 dollars an hour, including food and lodging, and the work is 8 hours a day. When the holidays are busy and the workload is large, I will work overtime for 2-3 hours. I work at 7 a.m., have a meal break in the middle, and leave work at 6 p.m. Work 6 days a week with one day off in turn. That's pretty much it, is that acceptable? Zhou Shengcai said.

"Acceptable! When will I be paid? Chen Chumo asked.

Originally, there was not much money, and there was not much left after a drop at noon. At present, money is the issue that Chen Chumo is very concerned about.

"Do it well, Dahua Supermarket will not treat every employee badly. We pay wages here on the 5th of every month, and if you have difficulties, the company is also very humane and can give you an advance part of your salary in advance. We will never be like your Chinese enterprises, which specialize in eating people and drinking blood. Zhou Shengcai looked like a villain, but the quality in his bones was still quite high, he really deserved to be a rich man born and raised in the land of rice, and the education he received was still quite good.

After the work treatment was negotiated, Zhou Shengcai asked Aunt Zhou, the supermarket foreman, to lead Chen Chumo to familiarize himself with the supermarket and arrange the staff dormitory. Aunt Zhou is a relative of Zhou Shengcai in Fujian Province, and Zhou Shengcai's father, Zhou Wang, did not forget his hometown after making a fortune, and invited Mi to help take care of their industry.

"Chu Mo, you're a student, right? Seeing that you are polite, you must be very good at learning if you want to come. Aunt Zhou, who was familiar with Chen Chumo, asked.

"Sort of, but the admission letter hasn't come down now, so I don't know if I can pass the test." Chen Chumo replied.

"You look like a smart person, and you can definitely get in. Graduate school, do you want to apply to the University of California or the University of Los Angeles? Aunt Zhou continued to gossip. thinks that since Chen Chumo has come to Los Angeles, it is natural that the university he applied for is here in Los Angeles.

"I've signed up, and it's up to me to see which one will admit me." Chen Chumo faced the enthusiasm of his elders, and it was not easy to open his eyes and talk nonsense, so it was worth answering vaguely.

"Oh, so hopefully you're an alumnus with my daughter! My daughter Li Zijun, younger than you, is 19 years old this year, she was also admitted from Huaxia, and is now a sophomore at the University of California..."Aunt Zhou said happily.

Like thousands of mothers in China, when it comes to their children, they will always talk endlessly. From Aunt Zhou's words, Chen Chumo deeply felt that Aunt Zhou was deeply proud of her daughter Li Zijun. can be admitted to a famous university in the United States from Huaxia, Li Zijun has extraordinary ability, and in the eyes of ordinary Chinese people, he is the godson of heaven, no wonder Aunt Zhou is so precious to her daughter.

After settling down and staying, Chen Chumo did not go to dinner arranged by the supermarket with Aunt Zhou, but hired a car to go to the city center. Chen Chumo didn't actually go downtown, but to the University of California. It's not that Chen Chumo listened to Aunt Zhou's praise for her daughter Li Zijun, but that there was a reason for him to stay in Los Angeles for a month.

In less than an hour, Chen Chumo arrived at his destination, the University of California Basketball Stadium. Before I even stepped into the stadium, I heard bursts of cheering and cheering.

"Classmate, is Coach Williams here?" Chen Chumo walked into the stadium and grabbed a blonde beauty and asked.

"What are you looking for him?" The beauty looked Chen Chumo up and down.

Judging by the size and size, you definitely didn't come to play basketball, so what did you have to do with Coach Williams? Isn't it an excuse to talk to me? The beauty muttered.

"I love basketball very much, and I don't know if I have any hope of joining a professional basketball team in the future, so I wanted to consult him. I'd like to join his basketball training class if I can. Chen Chumo replied.

Forget about playing professional games, this is definitely Chen Chumo's, with his body and height, it is okay to play basketball as a hobby, but it is simply wishful thinking if he wants to take the professional route.

Since then, Chen Chumo's main purpose is to learn basketball! That's right, it's basketball. It's not because Zhang Liang is on the Guangwai basketball team, Chen Chumo wants to learn to play basketball to beat him, but because Chen Chumo has to learn basketball.

It all started two months ago. When Chen Chumo applied to Harvard, he heard that Harvard admits students, in addition to his academic performance, he also attaches great importance to students' abilities and talents in other aspects. For example, students with musical talent, top athletic ability, writing talent, social organization ability, etc., are much more likely to be admitted to Harvard than students with good academic performance under the same circumstances, or even cultural and academic performance.

Forget about music and writing talent, without ten years of skills, fraud is easy to be discovered. You must know that Harvard has always been known for its strict academic management, once fraud is discovered, even if you are admitted to Harvard by chance, I am afraid that you will not be able to get a graduation certificate because of this stain.