Chapter 12 "Asking for Wages"
On Saturdays, when the kids don't have to go to school, it seems like Bessie, a full-time housewife, can finally relax and rest.
However, the truth is that it is precisely the weekend that Bessie is at her busiest.
Justin, as always, drove out early in the morning without even eating breakfast, I don't know whether to fool around with customers or go straight to fool around, anyway, this family takes care of the children, Betsy doesn't expect him at all.
So early in the morning, Betsy got up, made breakfast, and when it was almost time to get John and Amanda out of bed, and when they had washed up and eaten breakfast, she drove them to cut their hair. After cutting his head, one was sent to learn to dance, and the other was sent to learn to swim. After leaving John and Amanda behind, I went to the dry cleaners to get clothes, refuel my car, buy fertilizer for the garden, and buy food for the next week.
After all this, it was past noon, I rushed to pick up John and Amanda, ate lunch and then sent them to participate in club activities, John was bowling, Amanda was climbing.
In the evening, not long after returning home, Bessie, who had just prepared the ingredients for dinner, had to go out again to fetch the two "monkeys".
As for Sun Wukong, when John and Amanda had just gotten up, he had already finished his morning class of cultivation, had eaten breakfast and was ready to go out.
"Jeremy, don't stay outside for too long, stay safe and come back early." Betsy already knew Sun Wukong's plan today, and told him when he went out.
"Okay, I got it." After Sun Wukong finished speaking, he waved his hand and walked out of the house.
He also has a lot of things to do today, and he needs to go out early.
First of all, about the mobile phone, the mobile phone he used has completely broken, and he needs to replace it or buy one.
Jeremy uses a contract machine from aT&T, and the contract period of the personal package is still one year, and if you consider buying another mobile phone, you need to pay more than 200 liquidated damages, so it is better to change the mobile phone without changing the card. In the case of changing the mobile phone without changing the card, during the contract period, as long as you go to the service provider of the aT&T company to spend dozens of dollars for a handling fee, you can use the broken mobile phone to exchange for a new one, but the new mobile phone may be slightly worse than the bad one in terms of performance.
Sun Wukong had $365 in his pocket at this time, which was saved by Jeremy's previous part-time salary and his usual pocket money. For John or Amanda, this is definitely a "huge amount of money", because the two of them can't save money in their hands. Every week, as soon as the pocket money arrives, it will be spent the next day, and at most it will not be left until the third day.
But in Sun Wukong's opinion, this money is too little. According to the old peach wood I asked about on the forum yesterday, the price is more than 1,000 dollars, which is not enough to buy a small half of the wood.
After leaving the house, he went straight to the cell phone service provider, paid a fee of thirty dollars, and after handing in the broken phone, he got a "new" phone. The appearance is not as beautiful as the original one, but Sun Wukong doesn't care, as long as it can be used.
After switching to a "new" phone, he took the bus for about 15 minutes to the neighborhood where the Chinese restaurant where he worked.
"Monkey King?"
Sun Wukong had just walked to the door of the Chinese restaurant called "Fuzhou Original Restaurant", and before he could push the door in, he heard a familiar greeting, turned around and looked, and sure enough, it was Lin Wenluo, a former "colleague". Here, only Lin Wenluo, who still stammers in English, will call him by his Chinese name, not Jeremy.
"Sure enough, it's you, I'm worried I'm wrong." Lin Wenluo saw Sun Wukong and showed a surprised expression, "Yes, you seem to be in good spirits now, not only is your spirit and complexion much better, but even your physique is stronger." I didn't think that I hadn't seen him for a month, and it was impressive. ”
"Recently, the amount of exercise has been relatively large." Sun Wukong nodded, Lin Wenluo and his predecessor Jeremy had a good relationship, once "Zhou Papi" relied on his boss to bully the young and frail Jeremy, both of them were his heads, although the last two of them inevitably suffered losses, but Sun Wukong still accepted his affection, so he took the initiative to greet, "Did you just come back, how are you doing lately, okay?" ”
"There's that one here, it's not the same as before, I can't hold on, I can't starve to death, I just survive half-dead." Lin Wenluo mouthed Nunu inside, and said helplessly.
"9527, I didn't hire you to stand at the door and be a 'welcome lady'!" The owner of the Chinese restaurant is surnamed Zhou, nicknamed "Zhou Papi", and for convenience, he arranged a job number for all the employees of the restaurant, and usually called the employee's work number, not the name.
Lin Wenluo's work number is 9527, a number that seems to be somewhat familiar to Jeremy's memory.
"I heard it, and I'm urging it again. He treats us all as 'perpetual motion machines' that don't need to stop and rest. Lin Wenluo sighed and said, "Let's go in, do you want to eat something?" ”
Sun Wukong shook his head and said no, eating out, with his appetite, it costs a lot to eat. With his pitiful savings, if he let go of eating, it would be the money for a meal and a half.
"I guess you don't plan to work here anymore, so go to him and get the fruits of your labor, see you later." After Lin Wenluo said this, he carried a large basket full of ingredients and walked in the direction of the kitchen.
When Sun Wukong and Lin Wenluo were talking, Sun Wukong's former boss, "Zhou Papi", had already noticed him. Sun Wukong's changes were naturally seen by him, and he was secretly surprised in his heart: How could a person make such a big change in such a short period of time?
"Zhou Papi" is obviously overnourished, and his already relatively tall body is even taller, fatter and fatter, and his appearance is also a little vicious, to put it mildly, his eyebrows are murderous and his eyes are fierce, and from a distance it looks a bit like the pig demon who wants to do evil in the cloud stack hole.
But Sun Wukong is the kind of person who provokes him, even if it is the Jade Emperor, he has to hit him, even if it is a real pig demon, he doesn't care about it, not to mention just a fat, tall, and vicious mortal.
"Boss Zhou, I'm here to collect my salary." Sun Wukong believes that even if something belongs to him, no matter how insignificant, he must strive for it. Otherwise, others will think that you are a bully, so you will gain an inch. Besides, he needs money now.
"9896, do you know that you have been absent from work for a whole month, do you still have a sense of responsibility?" "Zhou Papi" obviously really wanted to get rid of Jeremy's salary, and as soon as he came up, he said fiercely that he wanted to give Sun Wukong a dismissal, trying to make him retreat because of shame and difficulty.
Sun Wukong ignored what "Zhou Papi" said, but said in a very light tone: "I remember that it was 189 US dollars." ”
In fact, Sun Wukong did not intend to be absent from work, although he has all of Jeremy's memories, but for a while, how can he remember everything. A small thing like a part-time weekend job didn't attract his attention at all.
Of course, even if you know that there is such a part-time job at the beginning, you may not care.
Sun Wukong's such an understatement attitude made "Zhou Papi" very annoyed, Jeremy was not like this before, he was on call, and he didn't dare to say a word to himself out loud. But although "Zhou Papi" was very annoyed, as soon as he raised his head, he immediately felt two glances from Sun Wukong, which were like sharp arrows shot by two Epilos Divine Bows, which were so sharp that they pierced the bottom of his heart, and when his breath was suffocated, his heartbeat almost stopped.
Clutching his chest, "Zhou Papi" gasped and involuntarily trembled: how could a person's gaze be so terrifying, much more terrifying than the gaze of a robber who broke into a restaurant a long time ago and stared at his forehead with a Remington shotgun in hand.
For such a mortal, Sun Wukong should have "raised his noble hand", but after he learned about the bleak situation of Jeremy's part-time job, he decided to use the power of Qi Tian's holy eyes to scare him and breathe a sigh of relief for his predecessors in the flesh.
It has to be said that the effect of this scare is very good.
I saw the very timid "Zhou Peel", trembling his hands, took out $189, and put it in Sun Wukong's hand very respectfully.
got "his own" salary, and Sun Wukong, who looked back at him coldly, Shi Shiran was ready to leave.
"Is it done?" Turning out of the kitchen, carrying a blue delivery basket in each hand, Lin Wenluo, who was also about to go out, saw Sun Wukong come out, blinked, and asked silently.
Seeing this, Sun Wukong made an OK gesture with his right hand. As Jeremy's memories merge, he becomes more and more accustomed to using the "Earth Language".
"Be careful with me when delivering food." Just being frightened, he paid Sun Wukong $189 with a heartache, and "Zhou Papi", who was at the cashier counter with his head down and pretending to calculate the accounts, saw Lin Wenluo go out with a takeaway basket, and plucked up the courage to say it loudly.
"In broad daylight, where did so many thieves and robbers come from?" Lin Wenluo didn't care about the words of "Zhou Papi".
He had heard a lot about cases of Chinese food delivery workers who were attacked while delivering food and had their cash and belongings robbed, and even heard of robbers pretending to call for takeout and asking the delivery person to deliver it to their designated location. Then, these people lay in ambush near the location they set, waiting for an opportunity to rob the food delivery people who fell into the trap.
It's just that the cases of robbery he heard about were all at night, and most of them were in Brooklyn and the Bronx. Even if you were born in Queens, it's on the Jamaican side.
And this is the Flushing community, and the security has always been better. Especially after an extremely bad rape and murder incident occurred in the Flushing community a few years ago, the law and order of the Flushing community has received great attention and has improved significantly, and it has become the best public security area in New York State except Manhattan.
His delivery location this time did not cross the community, and it was daytime, and he thought that the advice of "Zhou Papi" was purely unfounded.
"Anyway, be careful, the food delivery location is not as safe as here." "Zhou Papi" was a little annoyed by Lin Wenluo's attitude, but seeing that Sun Wukong hadn't left yet, he didn't dare to buy the goods, so he had to patiently advise again, "The recent economic situation is not good, and there are many who are already lazy and idle who want to do business." Don't even get your motorcycle snatched up at that time. ”
"Don't worry, it's not the first time, I know how to do it. And, if there's really danger, I'll call Jeremy's phone and ask him to come and save me. Lin Wenluo patted the electric rod that had been prepared on his waist, smiled, and said nonchalantly, "Jeremy, you know that I can't call the police, so you should be able to help, right?" ”
"That's fine." Sun Wukong shook the mobile phone in his hand, "The mobile phone number remains the same, but I believe you won't be able to use it." ”
"Sure, I've been unlucky for so long, and I shouldn't have come here." After Lin Wenluo finished speaking, he waved his hand, rode the motorcycle he had just bought not long ago, and drove away with the takeaway basket.
After "asking for salary", bidding farewell to his former colleagues, Sun Wukong got on the subway to Lower Manhattan.
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