Chapter 2: Get the money
After sitting on a fourteen or fifteen-hour plane, Zhang Chi was not tired at all, and he was thinking about how to make a fortune in his heart.
I used to sit on a plane for more than ten hours, and when I got off the plane, my legs were a little trembling, but today I got off the plane like no one was fine.
Los Angeles is not his final destination, and he has to transfer planes, Zhang Chi could go to his cousin's house who works in Los Angeles to spend the night, but unfortunately now his cousin has a girlfriend, and the two live together, it's not that people are unhappy, Zhang Chi is afraid that he will disturb others.
I found a hotel at random for one night, and the next morning, Zhang Chi flew to his destination.
I didn't get Zhang Chi down for fourteen or fifteen hours, and for the next two hours or so, I couldn't get Zhang Chi down.
It's not because the plane is broken, it's not because the seat is narrow, but there is a big black sitting next to it, I went to it, and the smell on the body was mixed with the smell of perfume, so that Zhang Chi had to find a crooked neck tree to hang himself on immediately.
With the mask and toilet water, Zhang Chi will resist this time.
When he got off the plane, Zhang Chi unbuttoned his mask, held his knees with both hands, and took a few gulps of fresh air, but the smell in his nasal cavity still existed, making Zhang Chi almost retch.
The airport is still a familiar appearance, in domestic terms, it is old and dilapidated, the airport built in the seventies of the last century has been used to this day, no matter how much maintenance can not get rid of the old atmosphere.
Some people may think that these buildings have a taste and a sense of history, but in Zhang Chi's heart, they are old and dilapidated, not to mention compared with domestic city airports, the high-speed rail station in his hometown is not as good.
Americans travel close to cars and far away by airplanes, so there are a lot of airports here, and almost all of the smaller towns have airports.
The airport in a small western town like Folsen is not big, just like the Folsom Airport in front of Zhang Chi, a runway, plus a three-story terminal building, is almost all of the airport.
There are no shuttle buses at such a big airport, and you have to pestle on the ground on your legs when you get off the plane.
Fortunately, the exit was not far from the place where the plane got off, and it was only about 50 meters, and the passengers arrived after a while with their legs flailing.
Zhang Chi walked out in the crowd and walked out of the airport with a backpack on his back.
As soon as I exited the exit, I heard someone calling for me.
"Dachizi! Big Chiko! ”
Zhang Chi turned his head and found that his uncle was standing at the exit, waving at him.
Zhang Chi's uncle is called Zhang Youliang, not a pro-uncle but a cousin, according to the genealogy, he and Zhang Chi have already been counted as five suits.
Zhang Youliang came to the United States very early, came here in the last century, and has been here for more than 30 years, and like most Chinese who have just arrived in the United States, he first worked in a restaurant, and then opened a restaurant by himself.
Zhang Youliang's restaurant has a good business, and the food he cooks is more suitable for the tastes of the people on Folsen's side, so there are many people who come to eat in the restaurant, and he gradually became famous on Folsen's side.
"Uncle!" Zhang Chi walked over with a smile.
Seeing his nephew, Zhang Youliang was very happy, smiled and reached out to take the backpack on his nephew's back, and asked at the same time: "How is it, is the road going well?" ”
"It's good, it's just that there was a big black sitting next to him just now" Zhang Chi hurriedly signaled no, where could he let the uncle in his sixties give him a backpack.
Zhang Youliang smiled when he heard this: "That's hard."
"Half a bottle of toilet water to deal with the past," Zhang Chi said with a smile.
"Why did you bring toilet water?" Zhang Youliang asked casually.
Zhang Chi knew that he had shown a little bit of horse's feet when he heard it, so he smiled and said: "I bought it when I was in transit."
"Wait a minute, I'll go get the suitcase" After Zhang Chi finished speaking, he saw that the place where he picked up the suitcase was already available to take the luggage, so he said to the uncle and trotted over.
After taking the luggage, Zhang Chibo and his nephew went to the parking lot.
Uncle's car is a Dodge Ram, and the displacement of five o'clock is a proper luxury car in China, but pickup trucks can be seen everywhere here, and they are far more popular than cars like sedans, which is the case in agricultural states.
The uncle and nephew got into the car, Zhang Chi sat in the passenger seat, and Zhang Youliang drove, not that Zhang Chi was not particular, but that Zhang Youliang looked at his car very tightly and didn't like others to drive it very much.
It's not that Zhang Youliang is stingy, but he has been here for many years, and he has been contaminated with the temper of the people here unconsciously, and he will not let others drive his car easily, no matter how broken it is.
To tell the truth, the uncle is very good to Zhang Chi, after working in the restaurant for so many years, the uncle and the aunt have saved Zhang Chi 100,000 US dollars, not to mention the uncle, even if it is an uncle, there are a few who can do this.
In this way, if you say that people treat you badly, it will be a bit dissatisfied.
"Did you tell your parents about going out?" Zhang Youliang asked as he drove.
Zhang Youliang was a little cautious, because his parents died early when he was a child, and without Zhang Chi's grandparents to take care of him for a few years, it is unknown whether he can live until the majority.
It is precisely because of this that after coming to the United States to stabilize himself, Zhang Youliang brought Zhang Chi, a nephew, to the United States to get an identity. At that time, it was a good thing, but now different people have different opinions.
Zhang Chi smiled: "I didn't say it, it's not too late to mention it to them when my side settles down."
Originally, Zhang Chi was working in the uncle's restaurant, but now that the uncle's second son Zhang Wu is back, this guy doesn't have a job yet, so he naturally takes over the restaurant.
The small restaurant is not big in the first place, and it is not bad to feed three people, but if there is one more person, it is a bit much, Zhang Chi is not an eyeless person, and when he saw this situation, he told the eldest uncle and aunt to come out alone.
Everyone understood this in their hearts, but they were embarrassed to say anything else, so Zhang Chi took the initiative to bring it up, which made the two of them a little reluctant in their hearts.
"How's the restaurant business?" Zhang Chi didn't want to mention this matter, so he changed the topic.
Zhang Youliang didn't actually want to mention it, so he said: "It's still like that." By the way, what are the plans, during this time, a friend of mine said that his construction company is short of manpower, why don't you go over there and try it? ”
If there is no gourd, Zhang Chi is really willing to try, but now, how can he go to work in a construction company, not that the construction company is not good.
Doing construction here is not the same as in China, domestic construction like Zhang Chi is called a migrant worker, but here it is a worker, tired and tired, but the money earned is really a lot, generally what a small white-collar worker, really no more than a skilled construction worker.
"Uncle, I want to do something else, I don't have a clue yet, I'll talk to you when I'm on my side cleared," Zhang Chi said.
Now Zhang Chi doesn't know what to do for a while, the little life that was originally inactive has suddenly changed because of the gourd.
Of course, there are many ways to make money with gourds, not to mention other luck points of white noodles or something, and the money can flow into your pocket like water.
But Zhang Chi also understands that if you come into contact with this kind of person, you will not be able to get rid of these people for the rest of your life, so although he has a gourd, he still decided to do things in Ansheng and be a down-to-earth person.
"That's good!" Zhang Youliang didn't ask much.
The small city is very small, with a population of more than 20,000 people, more than 20,000 people, not more than 20,000 households, and such a population is on top of the university in the country, so the population in the city is really not much.
The main street is one, and from south to north, it takes less than ten minutes to drive through it.
The road is not wide, the four-lane road, most of the buildings on both sides of the road are not commercial buildings, all of them are households, each of them is a two-story small wooden building, the big one has a swimming pool, the small one has a lawn in the front and back yards, and there are cars parked on both sides of the road.
Now at this time, the climate here is the most comfortable in the year, the temperature during the day is in the twenties, unlike Zhang Chi's hometown, the temperature is in the thirties at this time, and occasionally it can go up to forty degrees or something, and the sun is hot and people are out of breath.
In about ten minutes, the car will be from the airport to the door of Uncle Restaurant.
The restaurant is not big, a single-storey building of about 200 square meters, and there is a parking lot in front of it, which can park more than a dozen cars for diners.
As soon as the car stopped, the aunt went out.
"Dachizi is back?"
Uncle Niang is a middle-aged woman in her fifties, quite tall, about 1.7 meters, very beautiful when she was young, but now she is a little fat, and she is so fat that she can hardly see her neck.
Uncle Niang is very kind-hearted, gets along well with the people around her, and is also a warm-hearted person who will lend a hand if anyone needs anything.
If it is a bitter and mean uncle, let alone saving 100,000 US dollars for Zhang Chi, maybe she won't be able to give her a full meal.
"Well, uncle, my grandfather brought you something," Zhang Chi said with a smile.
The aunt listened and replied: "Oh, every time I trouble my uncle and aunt to think about us, hurry up and enter the house." By the way, Da Chizi, how about a blind date? ”
Zhang Chi smiled: "Other girls don't look down on me, and I can't help it."
Uncle Niang sighed and said: "It's not the same as before, in the past, Uncle Ling used to let my ID card trick me over, it turned out that I wanted to live a good life here, and I thought that I was still tired like a dog......."
Uncle is a little chattering.
When Zhang Youliang heard his daughter-in-law say this, he was not only not embarrassed, but also a little proud.
"We're relying on our skills!"
The aunt glared at her husband, and then pulled Zhang Chi into the restaurant.
It's not the time to take customers, and there are no people in all the restaurants.
After chatting with the eldest uncle and aunt for a while, and giving the two of them some things brought from home, Zhang Chi opened his own three-handed modern place where he parked in front of the restaurant.
Zhang Chi's place of residence is not far from here, and it takes only fifteen minutes to drive, but fifteen minutes here is considered a suburb.
Naturally, the house is not his, but rented, and the type of house is similar to domestic apartments, but the rent of these houses is very low, and the government generally rents them to those who do not have a house.
If this kind of apartment is placed in a big city like Los Angeles or something, Zhang Chi doesn't have the courage to rent it, that guy is called a mess, robbery or something is a trivial matter, and from time to time you can hear one or two 'cannon shots'.
But it's a good place, people who rent this kind of house generally have a job, and the main means of livelihood for the people who live here is to do odd jobs for nearby farms and pastures, or work as waiters in restaurants like Zhang Chi.
I don't make a lot of money, but I'm not a jobless vagrant.
Back to the apartment, took the key from the caretaker, and Zhang Chi went directly back to his house.
On the way, Zhang Chi bought a few steaks and fried them after returning to the house.
If he wants to leave here, what he wants most is steak, because it is an agricultural and animal husbandry state, and everything related to cattle here is cheap, a steak that is bigger than a human face and two knuckles wide is almost half the price of California.
After eating, Zhang Chi fell asleep for a day and reversed the jet lag.
The next thing is to eat and sleep, and when you open your eyes, you think about how to make a fortune.
On this day, Zhang Chi was watching TV while nibbling on a big steak, and suddenly found that a wilderness survival program was being staged on TV.
Seeing this show, Zhang Chi's eyes lit up: Isn't this just giving money to yourself! With a gourd in hand, is it okay to live in the wild for two or three months?
Besides, after thinking about it for so many days, Zhang Chi didn't think of a more reasonable and quick way to make money than this.
Where is this survival show, this is clearly saying to yourself: Come and get the money!
Just do it, Zhang Chi immediately called the show, filled out some forms according to what people said, and then waited quietly for news.