Chapter 2 Coming to New York
During the day, Lin Ye walked around the city. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info feels strange and familiar at the same time. In the evening, Lin Ye took a taxi and went straight to the airport.
Anyway, the area of the airport is really big. Lin Ye first turned around for a long time, but he couldn't find a clue. I asked the person next to me and found out the place. When he arrived in the airport hall, Lin Ye followed the person's guidance and first went to the green channel on the side of the hall without declaration, in this channel, if there are more than 5,000 yuan of electronic products to be declared and filled. Lin Ye didn't have it, and passed easily.
Then I got my boarding pass and followed the airport staff out of the door. There was a small car parked outside the door, short and long. I got on the bus and walked for five minutes before I arrived outside the departure hall.
Outside the waiting hall, after border quarantine, exit stamping, and security check, they entered the waiting hall. And in front of the plane passage to New York, it was already full of people. Lin Ye had to be at the back of the line, and there were many foreigners in this row. The team moved slowly, and it took half an hour for Lin Ye to walk out of the passage.
Out of the aisle and on the plane. Lin Ye was a little excited and a little apprehensive in his heart. Thinking that I was about to set foot in a foreign country, I was about to embark on a new journey.
The flight to New York took 20 hours, and when I got off the plane, it was still pitch black. It's two o'clock in the morning in the U.S. now.
Lin Ye followed the passengers who got off the plane together and walked towards the hall. In front of him was a chubby middle-aged man, who followed him to a passage. There was a long queue of people in that passage, and it took half a day for the team to move a little, like a snail. After waiting in line for a long time, the middle-aged man in front of Lin Ye was a little impatient, pulled his tie, and turned around and said, "I've been on the plane more than a dozen times, why are there so many people this time, it's true." Little brother, where are you? ā
Lin Ye said: "Oh, I'm from Chengdu, Sichuan. ā
"Oh, Chengdu. I've been there a few times. The middle-aged man said, his eyes glanced at the green card in Lin Ye's hand, and said with an incredible look: "You have a green card?" "Well, yes." Lin Ye replied. "Then what are you lining up here for? This is the passage through which you can get your passport, and if you have a green card, go to that passage. The middle-aged man pointed to a passage on the left that was deserted.
Lin Ye was stunned for a moment, and said that this was the case. Touching his head, Lin Ye thanked him, and ran to the other side of the passage with his green card.
This passage is miserable compared to the original one, very deserted, and there is no one at all. It only took Lin Ye a few seconds to walk to the glass platform at the end of the passage.
Inside sat a middle-aged white woman, a little fat. She opened her mouth and said a few words, but Lin Ye only knew thank you for knowing English, goodbye, and refusal. Hello, these words, I don't understand anything else. Standing there with a confused look, the white woman said a dozen words and was a little speechless, and directly took Lin Ye's green card. After the inspection, he instructed Lin Ye to take a photo in front of the camera with a gesture, pressed his handprint, and let Lin Ye pass.
After passing through the passage, there is finally border quarantine.
The border quarantine officer, a Chinese from Hong Kong, asked, "You are from Chengdu, do you have any such things as bacon and sausages?" ā
"No, the bacon is too salty and too hard, I can't get used to it."
"Did you bring any Chinese herbs?"
"No, that thing is too bitter."
After asking, the border quarantine officer waved his hand and directly let Lin Ye go.
Lin Ye was stunned, this inspection was much simpler than the domestic machine Yang. He carried his luggage and looked at the dark sky, Lin Ye couldn't help but feel worried. It's only three o'clock in the morning, and people are sleeping. It was a little late for him to find that Jody Jenon now, so Lin Ye found a chair and sat down.
Sitting on the chair, Lin Ye was bored and began to think crankily. This year is 2008, and the original star-studded heavyweights in boxing, such as Tyson, Lewis, and Holyfield, have all retired. The hegemon of the heavyweight division has become the Ukrainian Klitschko Jr., but this guy's style of play is ugly, mainly defensive, and the game is as ugly as it looks, which makes the heavyweight lose its previous influence all of a sudden.
On the contrary, it is the pan-medium lightweight, showing a situation of a hundred flowers blooming, competing for hegemony, and strong people's attention, from the original hottest heavyweight to the pan-medium lightweight, and the latter's influence in the later period also completely surpassed the former. At this time, the middleweight division has superstars like Jones and Karzahe. The welterweight division has undefeated boxing champion "Pretty Boy" Mayweather and "Golden Boy" Hoya. The lightweight division has challenged for insane upgrades, culminating in the creation of an unprecedented boxing champion in boxing history, Pacquiao "God of War" Pacquiao, who spans eight divisions.
I don't know if I'll have a chance to fight these people in the future. Lin Ye thought that at this time, the sky had changed from the original pitch black to a little bright. Lin Ye sat in a daze for a while, and when it was already dawn, he looked up at his watch, and it was already more than six o'clock in the morning.
Lin Ye got up from the chair, moved his slightly numb legs, and pulled his luggage out of the airport.
Outside the airport, more than a dozen taxis are parked. It happened that the driver of one of the taxis was a Chinese, so Lin Ye got into the car.
Sitting in the car, the driver chatted with Lin Ye for a few words and asked where Lin Ye went. Lin Ye took out the envelope and showed it to the driver. The driver said, "Oh, it's 300 Avenue in Queens, I know." Lin Ye was puzzled: "It's 30,000 on it." "Hey, you've just arrived. Here in the United States, a hundred represents a street. Lin Ye suddenly realized: "So that's the case." "I thought that this foreigner's setting was really strange.
The car drove out of the airport, walked slowly for a while, turned onto a street, and the speed became faster. Lin Ye looked at the scenery outside the window, and the scenery of a foreign country made him feel very novel.
Although it was six o'clock in the morning, there were already a lot of cars on the street. Walking and walking, looking at the mottled and detached markers on the road, the potholed ground, and the potholes in some places can almost put a fist. There are also places with dusty "patches". The car drove by, and the people in the car fell together. Lin Ye's ass was turned upside down, and he said: "The road conditions in New York are too bad, isn't this the most prosperous city in the world's most powerful capital country, how can I think it can't even compare to the road conditions of an ordinary small city in China." ā
The driver sighed and said, "It's good to go." The ground you haven't seen before has been cut in several layers, and even the bottom layer is exposed. And then I'll just leave. ā
"Then won't the city government pay for a repair?" Lin Ye asked.
"Don't talk about building roads. You don't know how inefficient the ghost workers are, there is a five-kilometer street in Manhattan, and the government has been working on it since three years ago, and even half of the repair has not been completed. I guess I'll have to wait three years to get it done. ā
Build a road in six years? Lin Ye couldn't help but be speechless, it is estimated that if someone from the country comes to do it, it will be over after three months.
At this time, there are more and more cars, and the traffic jam in front of you also begins. The horn behind suddenly sounded, and when the vehicle slowly dredged forward, due to the large number of cars in front, the Chinese driver drove slowly. Followed by an American muscle car, the taxi was driving slowly, and there was a dissatisfied horn. As soon as a car next to the taxi drove away, the muscle car rushed up and ran past the taxi. In the muscle car sat a white man wearing glasses, wearing a suit, and looking gentle. The white man dropped the window and held out his two hands to the taxi and gestured his middle finger.
The Chinese driver was very calm and said: "Young people, you still have to calm down and keep a normal heart." The white man probably got carried away, stepped on the accelerator, and happened to have a police car parked in front of him, and hit it with a "boom".
Watching the two policemen come down with guns and pull the white man off the muscle car and press him to the ground, Lin Ye felt a sense of the world. The car continued to move forward, and Lin Ye's original feeling of being tall in New York disappeared without a trace. The dilapidated pavement, the narrow road, the frenzied drivers on the surrounding roads, and the cars are rushing around. On both sides of the street, graffiti is often seen on the walls. Graffiti is just that, but the flowers are green, purple, purple, black and black, which is unaesthetic and very ugly.
When the car arrived, Lin Ye got out of the car. In front of him was the Victory Boxing Gym, which looked dilapidated and old, and the words on the sign outside the door were dull and peeling. Inside, the inside is not big, the various facilities seem to be very old, and there is a thick layer of ash on the boxing ring on one side. Lin Ye looked around, this gym was dilapidated, old and dirty, and it was estimated that there was not much to learn. Lin Ye saw that there was no one inside, and said loudly: "Excuse me, is there anyone?" ā
In a short time, a man emerged through a secret door. It was an old white man, fat in stature, with a large bald patch of his head, revealing a piece of his head that was as bright as a mirror. His eyes were foggy, as if he hadn't woken up yet. The white old man glanced up at Lin Ye and asked, "Chinese?" ā
"Yes, sir, you can also speak Chinese." I'm here to find Jody Jenon. Lin Ye said respectfully.
"Oh, what are you looking for Jenon?" The old white man spoke, exhaling a strong smell of wine. Lin Ye took out the letter and handed it to him.
The old white man took the letter, opened the envelope, and looked at it carefully with the thin piece of stationery. Then he raised his head, stared at Lin Ye seriously, and said, "You want to be a boxer?" ā
"Well, yes." Lin Yedao. But in my heart, I said that if it weren't for the evil system, I wouldn't have come here.
"Okay." After the old white man finished speaking, he carefully put the letter away. Lin Ye was very curious about what was written in the letter, but the old man didn't reveal anything. The old man walked up to Lin Ye, began to look at Lin Ye carefully, stretched out his hand to pat Lin Ye's body, and said, "It looks like it has been tempered a lot, and his body is not bad." Come with me to the test. ā