It turns out that the so-called Chinatown is not all Chinese, at least among the Asian faces around him, Jack has heard at least Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Laotian, Tagalog in the Philippines and other languages in other parts of Asia.

He switched at least three languages and tried to get close to them in his extremely broken Cantonese, but to no avail.

"Maybe you'll need to find a few translators for minor languages," Jack also had a headache.

"The deceased's name is Grant Lee, a second-generation immigrant, an errand boy in a small gang here, and there is no news about the guy who drove away for the time being, but the police in the nearby neighborhood have been informed.

It's a Subaru Impreza WRX with a New York license plate, and now the Ministry of Internal Affairs is going to pestering my brother, if only they could find that guy. ”

Danny's reported model almost made Jack laugh, isn't that Subaru Impreza WRX the blue rally car that Takumi Fujiwara and his father Futomoto drove after giving the AE86 to his son in "Initial D".

He subconsciously glanced at the crowd around him again, but unfortunately he didn't see the decadent uncle who looked like Huang Qiusheng, nor did he see the squinting eyes of the middle-aged man who looked close to a certain comic, but he made a new discovery.

"Danny, does your brother see the two girls who were attacked, or what are the characteristics?"

"Uh" Danny picked up the notebook and read, "Two Asian girls, in their early 20s, shoulder-length black hair"

As he spoke, he also looked around, "Why do I feel like there are at least 30 people around me who look like this?" ”

Jack gestured behind him without a trace, "I remember he said that one of the girls might have a bruise on her forehead, do you think the girl in the back who was sweaty and nervous looked like her?" ”

"Yes, absolutely." Danny raised his eyebrows and walked straight over to the thin girl in the crowd, "Excuse me, miss, may I ask you a few questions?" ”

The Asian girl was frightened by the white detective with a wrinkled face and a "kind" smile on his face.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, just ask you a few questions, will you come with me?"

Seeing that the Asian girl looked like she was about to cry, Danny could only turn her eyes to Jack for help.

"Don't be nervous, where are you from?" Jack asked in standard Mandarin first, and was about to use everything he had learned in his life again, when the girl timidly replied in non-standard Mandarin, "Hualien." ”

Uh, what a "compatriot", Jack showed a standard business smile, 8 white and neat teeth shining in the night light, "It's okay, just ask a few questions, please come with us." ”

——

instructed his brother to go home and rest first, and arranged for the police to send the Asian girl with a bruise on her head back to the police station, and Danny rubbed Jack's Dodge Hellcat back as usual.

"Don't you ask your dear brother why he would go to 'Chinatown', where the security is very poor, at this point?" Jack asked Danny in the passenger seat.

"If I'm not mistaken, as a trainee police officer, he didn't wear a uniform, which means that this is his off-duty time, and it is not part of his jurisdiction, did he go there to buy supper?"

Danny rubbed his forehead, looking like he had a headache, "He told me that he just walked casually, and came out for a walk to relax after his duty, he is an adult, and I have no right to ground him because he lied."

As long as it has nothing to do with the case, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will talk to him in a round, damn it, I have a bad feeling that this case will be very troublesome if it is not done well. ”

Jack rolled his eyes silently, and said in his heart that the Ministry of Internal Affairs is also in charge of his father, and people really dare to be more embarrassed Your brother can't succeed, and he doesn't want to be motivated, right?

Back at the NYPD headquarters, Danny directly became the shopkeeper, leaving the "erudite" Jack alone to ask the girl who was brought back, and ran to check the information of the deceased and the whereabouts of the Subaru Impreza WRX.

"Yijun Liu, right? Don't worry, I'm not from USCIS, and the NYPD doesn't care about your identity and occupation, we just want to know if you know those gang members and why they want to arrest your friends. ”

Jack poured a cup of hot water and put it on the table, and sat down with a pleasant face opposite this "compatriot" from Treasure Island, who was obviously much more fluent in English than Mandarin, and he simply asked directly in English.

Although the girl wore an old coat that was washed white on the outside, she was wearing a cheongsam-style short skirt inside, and her face was painted with the kind of "ABC makeup" that Europeans and Americans love.

The eyebrows are thin and curled, the double eyelids that should have been very good-looking are smeared into single eyelids with strangely colored eyeshadow, and the eyes that are not big are forcibly painted with eyeliner.

"Mintae isn't my friend, and we haven't known each other for long." The girl named Yijun Liu stammered and explained in English.

"What's her last name?" Jack looked her straight in the eyes, his gaze was slightly sharp, and the girl shook her head in a panic, not daring to look at him.

"And what about these people?" Jack threw out another stack of photos, which Danny had just found out about some of the gang members in the small gang where the gangster Grant Lee, who had been hit and killed by a car, had been working with.

The girl just glanced at it hurriedly, and then she didn't dare to look at it again, looking extremely frightened.

Jack sighed, knowing that she was afraid of reprisals, an illegal immigrant who solicited customers on the streets for a living, whether it was a police officer or a gangster, was an existence she did not dare to provoke, especially the latter.

"At least you can tell me where Mintae who doesn't know what his last name is, right?"

“Gong xi fong。” The girl nodded.

"Huh?" Jack said he didn't understand.

"We live in the same 'Gong xi fong', I can take you there, but she moved away later, and we met this time, but she asked me to help bring something." The girl repeated it again.

Jack pondered for a while before he realized that this might be a homonym for "shared room", and then asked, "Why did Mintai move away?" ”

"Because she said she was in trouble." The girl hesitated for a long time before giving an answer, and then glanced at the photo on the table as she spoke, and the meaning was self-evident.

——

"It's like a Thanksgiving party at my Aunt Sally's house, oh no, it's ten times more exaggerated than that." Danny dodged away from a woman with a toothbrush and towel and only a thin pajamas, feeling like she had nowhere to stay.

Led by a girl named Yijun Liu, the two arrived at a rented house in Chinatown, where there were no beds in a room of less than 20 square meters, and there were seven or eight mattresses on the creaking floor, but nearly 20 women were squeezed out.

"The two of them share a mattress and take turns sleeping, my God, it's worse here than the garbage dump on Staten Island."

Jack watched all this silently and did not say a word, because there was an aunt at his feet who might think that these two white skins could not understand Chinese, and were loudly describing their life in New York as a paradise to a relative on the other side of the ocean through the Internet phone.

(End of chapter)