Chapter 31: Settling In
Tang Wei's father abandoned Tang Wei's mother to work hard in the United States a few years ago, but he actually earned a family business, and later married a local Chinese wife.
It's just that this Chinese wife had a difficult birth after she became pregnant, and she died in the end.
At this time, Tang Wei's father thought of Tang Wei and brought her to the United States.
It was only after this that Tang Wei's father gradually became an alcoholic and a gambler, and gradually lost most of his family property in recent years, relying on his half-dead job as a chef in a casino hotel.
Tang Wei also had to rely on herself, and worked odd jobs early to earn living expenses, and even most of the tuition fees in high school were earned by her as a tutor and odd jobs.
Not long ago, Tang Wei's father had to remortgage the house because he couldn't repay the money he borrowed from others.
At this time, he found that Tang Wei actually had a famous brand, and began to ask Tang Wei about his origin.
Tang Wei was very tight-mouthed and didn't say anything, but he didn't expect that when he called Locke at home, his father heard something about it, and let his father know that she had fallen in love with a rich man.
Tang Wei's father was already riddled with debts, and after learning the news, he immediately became much bolder, quietly took many luxury goods that Locke bought for Tang Wei and sold them, and stole the five thousand dollars that Tang Wei had accumulated for a long time.
This behavior caused the long-accumulated father-daughter conflict to break out, Tang Wei had a big quarrel with his father, and then borrowed some money from his classmates to scrape together enough for a ticket to New York.
It's just that Tang Wei didn't say anything about these things when he met Locke at the airport.
Tang Wei said before that it would take a while to come to New York, but now that he was suddenly ahead of schedule, he still looked poor, and Locke didn't ask much.
After all, the two of them are now just simple funders and fundees, and strictly speaking, they spend no more than a week together face-to-face.
He didn't treat Tang Wei as a girlfriend, Tang Wei's definition was nothing more than a close female friend.
From the moment he got the system, Locke had already decided that he didn't need a girlfriend at all, and that these women who were close to female friends would do their girlfriend's job without Locke taking on too many obligations.
In general, Locke has been ready to be a scumbag since he knew that he was reborn, but he is a scumbag.
"We'll go to the hotel in a minute." Putting Tang Wei's luggage into the rented car, Locke sat back in the driver's seat: "Then I'll find you an apartment near the school." ”
"Apartment? The school has allocated dormitories. Tang Wei said.
"There are a lot of people in the dormitory, and the apartment is more convenient, so I can't stay in a hotel every time I look for you." Locke glanced at Tang Wei: "You don't have to worry about the rent. ”
Since Locke said so, Tang Wei did not refuse, and acquiesced to Locke's arrangement.
came to the hotel to put down the luggage, and before Tang Wei could turn around, he was pulled into Locke's arms by a force, and then even the words were blocked in his mouth.
Locke could only ask the waiter to deliver the food to the room, and stayed in the hotel room with Tang Wei for a day, and the next day he took Tang Weiwei, who was barely recovering, to visit Columbia University for a morning, and then went to see the house.
It's easy to rent a house in the United States, and Locke's selection range is within two kilometers of Columbia University, and Manhattan is one of the most prosperous districts, where Columbia University is located, which shows that although Columbia University is a public university, it is also not short of money at all.
After taking Tang Wei to see several locations recommended by real estate agents, Locke finally chose an apartment in a building, with an overall area of more than 30 square meters, a typical one-bedroom, one-living room and one-bathroom layout.
This neighborhood is full of multi-storey buildings, full of multiculturalism, and is a favorite of young people, and most of the people living around it are recent college graduates or white-collar workers in companies, and the living environment and security are very good.
After settling on the location, he and Tang Wei went to buy some furniture, contacted the housekeeping company to clean and tidy up, and two days later, Locke withdrew from the hotel room and moved in with Tang Wei.
"Whew...... It's finally cleaned up. ”
Putting the last clothes into the closet, Tang Wei looked at the apartment very happily, not surprisingly, this is where he will live in the next four years.
When I walked out of the bedroom, I saw Locke sitting leisurely on the sofa watching TV.
"Packed up, baby." Seeing Tang Wei come out of the bedroom, Locke smiled.
"It's over." Tang Wei let out a sigh of relief, thanks to Locke, who asked the housekeeping company to clean it as a whole yesterday, otherwise he would have been busy until midnight just for cleaning: "I still have to take a shower, I have been busy for a long time, and I am sweating." ”
"Yes, I ordered takeout, and you can eat it after you take a shower." Although Locke can cook some simple meals, as soon as he moved in, the refrigerator was still empty, so he simply ordered takeout.
The girl usually takes a long bath, and the takeaway has been delivered, and Locke hasn't seen Tang Wei come out of the bathroom yet, so after urging him, he opened the pizza box and took a piece.
The pizza bread in the rice country is equivalent to the rice and pasta in the eastern country, and if you don't eat it every time, you will feel that something is missing.
Locke's meal was relatively large, in addition to the super large portion of pizza, there were five or six dishes, which filled the table in the living room, and when he was almost finished, he saw Tang Wei in a bathrobe walking out of the bathroom.
"Come and eat quickly, it will be cold if you delay any longer." Locke greeted and handed Tang Wei a piece of pizza.
Tang Wei sat down next to Locke, took the pizza and took a bite: "It tastes good, it's the pineapple flavor I like." ”
Picking the girl into his arms, Locke said, "There is still some time before school starts, what are your plans?" ”
"Let's go to the bookstore tomorrow, there are still a lot of books on the list from the school that I haven't bought." Tang Wei said the plan he had come up with:
"When I come back, I can buy some food at the convenience store downstairs, I can cook some simple meals, but it's a pity that the apartment in the United States is not convenient for Chinese food."
Tang Wei has learned to cook since he was a child in Dongguo, but cooking Chinese food usually produces a lot of oil smoke, which is easy to misunderstand the surrounding residents, attract the fire brigade, and then pour water, which will damage the things at home.
And soon after, the fire brigade will send the bill over, and the fire brigade here in the United States will come out for one or two thousand dollars at a time, and now Locke will not care about this money, but he is not willing to cause trouble.