Chapter 23: The Older Newsboy......
Back home, Bud turned on the TV and the punctual sports news began. After a while, the news about the NBA began to be broadcast. I feel that the Mavericks, Lakers, 76ers, and Bulls are still more optimistic this season.
Although I feel a little relaxed now...... But I still want to fight against the NBA one day!
It was reported on television for a while that he had not been heard from since he became a middle school basketball coach. All kinds of hot sports news are reported on TV every day! Yao Ming came to the NBA as the champion show!
From time to time, I will also put in the shot of him tripping himself on the field. The big man got up right after he fell to the ground! The bench next to him was smiling!
But when the game gradually progressed, people found that this oriental center forward was still very hard! When it was debated whether he, a newcomer to the league, would become another parallel trader, no one voted in favor.
Yao Ming looks very thin now, but his state is impressive. When I first joined, there were all kinds of sounds around me. There have also been fierce mocking voices! But Yao Ming didn't care about that!
In the game with the Lakers a few days ago, Yao Ming got 20 points and 6 rebounds in a single game! The 76ers' voice is still quite high right now. But Bud feels like they don't have much chance of making the playoffs unless they can fix their offensive problems when Iverson goes off.
The current season after the Bulls and Rockets is the most popular Los Angeles Lakers! They have already won two titles in a row! The team's player setup is also very good! The Lakers got O'Neal and it was the right decision they made! Bryant and Iverson entered the NBA in the same year, but now it looks like the former is luckier.
If you want to get back to the NBA, you have to take this team! Let the outside world know his coaching ability!
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Since the first time this semester that the Warren Brothers' school has won a game, it has made it feel like it's been an early New Year...... The team's confidence has also been boosted! However, after that, although Bud began to lay out tactics in training, the following friendly matches were lost one after another.
In this case, the media began to report on it. The basic content is that although the team led by Bud played friendly matches, they lost 5 of 6 games. He knows that winning or losing the game is not so important now.
Reading, a small city in southern Pennsylvania, is starting to get colder.
On the street wall, Yang saw that there was a job of delivering newspapers, and he felt that he could do it. "There is no age limit, the salary is negotiable, and the health is fine", to say that Zhou Yang now feels that he is the only one who can do it.
The work of washing dishes and dishes seems to be long-term, and you have to go to work during the day. Delivering newspapers is a bit easier.
Looking at the address above, at the weekend, Zhou Yang came to the recruitment location.
"Applying?" A fatter woman glanced at Zhou Yang, who was thin and tall, and spit out a few words expressionlessly.
"Older newsboys, learn about it~" Thinking that he was going to make money, Zhou Yang felt very happy today. And the people around him all of a sudden turned their attention to this place.
"Older? You still look like a student~" The lady with big wavy hair was a little interested at this time, he looked at this young man, and his height was still okay. She's been here for almost 7 years, and that's the highest candidate she's ever seen.
"yes, I'm still in school. But I'm going to college right away. Not too old? Zhou Yang was a little strange why this woman would ask this. Aren't all the people who deliver newspapers in their teens? In the past, the people I saw on TV delivering newspapers were young people who were not very old.
"Well, I'll just say it briefly. We're short of people right now. This week went 4 newspaper deliverers. Newspapers must be delivered to designated users by 6 a.m. on a single day. We don't have a lot of work here. Yours area of about 1,200 copies. It's $900 a month. There is no regulation on how to pay wages, daily, weekly or monthly can be paid."
"Then I...... Let's end the week. And a single day? Can I do both? ”
"Of course, but I advise you to make only one. After all, this job has to get up early. Don't worry about the time, even if it's delivered later. But don't be too late. Is it acceptable to work for two people at $1,500 a month? ”
"Yes" Zhou Yang felt that he was about to run out of money! So he had to get a job as soon as possible! In addition to the other miscellaneous expenses for a month, 1,500 dollars can only be left with a few hundred dollars, enough for him and Linda to pay for food!
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"Linda?" On the way back, Zhou Yang kept thinking about this question.
"Zhou Yang, you have time to go out and buy some meat and come back~" The little girl ran over to him with confidence at this time and said.
"Do you want to cook?"
"I saw on TV today making a pie called something, meatloaf! It looks delicious! I've written down all the steps, and you'll need to carry me to the bench when the time comes......" Linda was already thinking about what she should do to prepare.
"Linda, when the people from the Child Protection Association come, you can leave with them......" Zhou Yang finished speaking, and immediately looked at a fork on the table.
"Why...... Do you hate me? If that's the case, I'll be able to go now!! ”
"Linda! It's not like that, I don't hate you. It's our ...... My mother's savings were almost gone. I got a job, a job delivering newspapers. But I feel like the next few days are going to be tighter. There are a lot of places to save. Rather than live like this with me, it would be better to ......"
"I thought you didn't want me anymore...... I thought you were the same parents who adopted me and sent me to an orphanage. I liked it at first, but then they didn't want me to be with them."
"It's not like that. And maybe this house will be sold this time next year. Because I can't afford to pay the annual fee anymore," Zhou Yang seemed to be talking to himself at this time. He lowered his head and stared at the table, not daring to look at Linda's big eyes at this time.
"Now that you've got a job...... Then you still say this kind of thing to me! The little girl had already walked over at this time and pinched Zhou Yang's ear with one hand......
"Oops! Pain! Pain...... Let go! Hurry up...... "This is going to pull his ears off......
"Zhou Yang, unless you can't survive anymore, or you want to abandon me. Otherwise I'm not going anywhere. Raise your head and look at me," the little girl with long straight hair looked at Zhou Yang very seriously at this time and said.
"You ...... first Let go of his hand ......" In an instant, Zhou Yang felt that his ears had finally escaped from Linda's little hand.
"Sell this house then. Then let's buy a smaller one. We can't live in such a big house. You have a job and we can continue to survive. It's okay, it's a big deal not to make that meatloaf~"
"Thank you then, I can still have a sister," Zhou Yang said while rubbing his ears while looking at Linda happily.
"Who's your sister!" Suddenly forgot that Linda didn't want him to call his sister. She had only called her mother Mommy. When I was with Zhou Yang, I always called him by his name.