The daily life of American drama detective

"Do you speak Chinese?"

Caroline recognized it immediately, and said in surprise, "How do you feel, Chuck, that your speech is more fluent and natural than hers?"

"What's so strange about that!"

MAX laughed and said: "Boss is a real super genius, whatever language you want to learn, you can definitely learn the most authentic one."

Tim's sister looked at Chuck with a softer gaze, and couldn't help saying: "If Tim is still alive, he will be able to chat with you! You speak Chinese as well."

That's right!

Although there are many dialects in Chinese, Chuck speaks the Hokkien dialect she learned from her mother, which is purer and more natural than her brother's.

Besides, they are all geniuses, so they should have many common topics.

"Your brother must have friends from the street?"

Officer Max reminded again.

"No, only friends from school!"

Tim's sister insisted.

"Can we see his room?"

Chuck asked in English.

He really can't understand Tim's bad Chinese.

"it is good."

Tim's sister didn't refuse and took the initiative to take them there.

Compared with ordinary young people, the room is relatively clean and tidy, and the walls are covered with various posters.

Chuck's eyes fell on a dazzling large poster.

"How is he similar to Einstein, Patrick Wien?"

When Detective Max saw Chuck looking at the photo of the face, he complained in confusion.

Chuck didn't answer.

In his eyes, Einstein was no match for a teacher.

At the same time, his desire to avenge Tim grew stronger.

In the world of American TV dramas, he saw such a Chinese-American genius boy who posted the teacher's portrait and Einstein's portrait together in the room, and he instantly recognized Tim.

This time it's real recognition!

"He went to see a plastic surgeon."

Detective Max checked the room again, found an appointment registration record, and said to Tim's sister at the door: "Want to remove the tattoo?"

"That's when he was ignorant when he was young, and he was pulled over to get a tattoo."

Tim's sister explained: "When he was in secondary school, he never went to play with them again, and he never broke the law, he was a good boy!"

"Don't get excited, I'm just asking casually."

Detective Max quickly gestured: "Maybe they don't want him to quit?"

"He has quit for five or six years. If he doesn't let him, how can he wait until now?"

Sister Tim retorted.

"Are you sure they haven't come to him again?"

Chuck looked Tim's sister in the eye.

"I'm sure!"

Sister Tim looked directly at Chuck with big eyes.

"I believe you, then this can basically be ruled out."

Chuck nodded: "Do you think of anyone who threatened Tim and yours? Any threat!"

"No threat..."

Tim's sister shook her head subconsciously, and then seeing Chuck looking at her persistently, she could only think carefully: "Carl's mother called, and his brother..."

Speaking of this, she explained to everyone: "Carl is Tim's classmate and friend."

"I know, he is still a genius second only to Tim, and he also got into Noble High School with a genius scholarship."

MAX continued: "Both of them signed up for the Helms Science Competition, and they lost out to Tim in NASA's awards before."

"What did Carl's mother and brother call and say?"

Chuck asked.

"Carl is a good boy, but his mother is not."

Tim's sister carefully considered the language: "She usually never greets us when she meets us, but after Tim received the NASA award, she called excitedly and said that we are not real Americans, why should we win the award... "

"I want the exact words!"

Chuck looked her in the eye and reminded, "I know you have a culture of being polite, but this involved murder, and murder was the result of intense emotion.

So I need to know what they really said and what the mood was when they called. "

"Did not you say……"

Tim's sister guessed something, she never thought of it, looked at Chuck in disbelief, covered her mouth, and said in a trembling voice, "Do you mean that a Chinese kid doesn't deserve an award?"

No one answered her.

Only her piercing cry: "But Tim is a real Chinese American!!!"

"dont be sad."

MAX tried to comfort him: "I was also called a white trash back then, and there have always been class contradictions, not racial contradictions.

So what if they are Americans?
I'm the same age as Tim, and if I tell my childhood experiences over the years, you might think that death is not the most painful thing. "

"Exact words!"

Chuck ignored Sister Tim's heart-piercing cry and accusation. In his opinion, if he couldn't comprehend such an obvious fact by himself, it would be useless for others to say anything.

"After Tim received the NASA award, in the past six months, Carl's mother called many times, 9 to 10 times."

While crying, Tim's sister said, "She said Carl shouldn't be friends with Tim, Tim is using Carl, using Carl's wisdom for profit! She calls me brother..."

Speaking of this, she paused, tried her best to control her emotions, and said that insulting name.

"A chink! She said 'you chinks aren't real Americans' and Carl's brother called and said we're going to regret it if Tim keeps stealing Carl's ideas."

"OMG!"

Caroline exclaimed: "This is Chiguoguo's racism!"

The insulting term of Chinaman can be called scolding Nico in front of African-Americans, and it is a familiar synonym for racial discrimination.

"You didn't call the police."

Detective Max frowned.

If he had called the police, he would have found it long ago.

"What? So you didn't call the police?"

Caroline yelled in disbelief: "In half a year, 10 phone insults, brother Carl's phone call is even more of a threat from Chiguoguo, and you haven't even reported to the police once?"

"In our culture, there is no culture of calling the police."

Tim's sister cried.

"This is not Chinese culture."

Chuck corrected: "Modity and forbearance may be Chinese culture, but not calling the police is definitely not! This is just a distorted habit formed after your forbearance culture came to the United States and automatically adapted."

Just kidding, on the other side of the ocean, it is recognized as the right way to go to the people's police uncle if you have something to do. After you can't bear it, you can choose to call the police without hesitation.

But after arriving in the United States, after the American police did not have the word "people" in front of them, looking at the law enforcement habits of American police, including NYPD, from a historical perspective, Chinese Americans, including the Tim family, naturally had a culture of not calling the police.

Compared with the uncontrollability and risks after calling the police, it is relatively safer to endure and not call the police.

This is not the best option.

But it is the choice of history and survival!

It is said that when you go to the country, do as the Romans do, including Tim's family, they are all trying to adapt to the free national conditions in the United States, but they have never learned the customs that should be learned and changed.

That is struggle!
Of course, this is also related to the fact that most of the Chinese are smart.

People who can easily make money with their brains, who are willing to go to the extremes of those who can only go to extremes by violence, report to the group to fight for rights.

The smart people who made money left this labeled Chinatown early, leaving behind those who have no ability to change. What can they do except let everyone bully, endure it, endure it, and continue to endure it?
There are too many smart people, but on the overall level, the agency's calculations are too clever and Qingqing's life was lost.

Tim, who hadn't had time to jump out of Chinatown and embark on the road of "do as the Romans do" of those equally intelligent predecessors, and become a real American, was shot dead in the street by jealous people.

But even if he really jumped out, this kind of thing may still happen in the future.

The ending of 'Mismatched Virtue' won't be any different.

In the world of American dramas, virtue does not refer to morality and ability. After all, the United States does not pay attention to this. American virtue refers to the pure and primitive martial arts in Texas!
Neighbors stock up on food and I stock up on guns, the neighbor is my granary!
It is impossible for a smart person not to know that classic saying.

When the arrester chooses to remain silent, and finally arrests himself, no one can help him.

These smart people who choose to jump out of Chinatown and fully integrate into the United States, no matter how they avoid tolerance, they don’t care about discrimination or ceilings, as long as they can make money.

But in the future, when life can't be guaranteed, and fear wants to learn the American custom of distribution according to the number of people, but there is no one around who is willing to help him, no matter how heart-piercing he shouts, people will ignore them indifferently, maybe he will Really feel the consequences of being too clever.

Caroline was still asking, "Why didn't you call the police?"

"You shouldn't ask her that, but you should ask him!"

MAX looked at Detective Max with a vicious tongue.

"..."

Detective Max was speechless for a moment.

As an honest old policeman, how could he not know the reason.

It's just that the reason is absolutely unspeakable.

"You should call the police... so many insults and threats, at least report to the police once, maybe they will restrain themselves... At least they can prove that they threatened you in court."

Detective Max sighed.

"We're used to it."

Tim's sister cried: "Carl is Tim's good friend, we don't want to tear ourselves apart, and we never thought that his family would really hurt us, after all, they are not African-American..."

Chuck watched blankly.

Are you used to it?
There were so many insults and threats. After her brother was actually shot on the street, the police came to her door. She didn't think of these insults and threats. She only remembered to say these things after Chuck repeatedly reminded her.

If it is not too common and habitual, how big is the heart?
At this moment, there was a knock on the window outside the store, and everyone turned their heads to look, and saw the tall and handsome detective Mike Logan standing side by side with a white police detective outside the store, waving to everyone.

Chuck asked MAX and Caroline to stay and comfort Tim's sister while asking for more details, while he and Detective Max walked out of the store.

"Tiger tattoo, that's the logo tattoo of the White Tiger Gang, it's not a fashion tattoo."

The strange police detective was a detective from the Emerald Detective Team, which specializes in crimes against Asians, and said disapprovingly.

"He's not in a gang."

Detective Max glanced at Chuck, shook his head and said, "It's probably not an act of gang revenge."

"It's impossible to say!"

Detective Mike Logan retorted: "Anyway, it's already here, so it's always right to rule it out first!"

"I have an informant in the White Tiger Gang. I have already contacted him. You can talk to him. If the White Tiger Gang did it, he must know."

Said the detective of the Emerald Detective Team.

"Well."

When Detective Max saw that Chuck had no objection, he nodded and agreed.

The detective from the Emerald Detective Team smiled and walked away.

The three of Chuck went to the informant according to the address he gave.

"What do you mean the high probability is not the work of the gang?"

Detective Mike Logan was puzzled: "What did you find?"

Detective Max told the story.

"You must be kidding me, right?"

Detective Mike Logan was dumbfounded and couldn't understand: "After 10 phone calls and threats in half a year, not only did she fail to call the police once, even after her brother died, when we came to investigate and ask if anyone had the motive to kill her brother, she didn't say a single word. Never mentioned it!"

"Ugh."

Detective Max sighed.

He really didn't know what to say about it.

The three silently found the informant, who was also a Chinese youth.

"Tim Chang, I know him."

The informant nodded as soon as he spoke.

"There are rumors that he belongs to your gang?"

asked Detective Mike Logan.

"Yeah, five seconds!"

The informant complained.

"Breakup is ugly?"

Detective Mike Logan pressed.

What he hopes more is that the gang is doing it, not a talented white teenager's family, because they hate the Chinese teenager genius who is better than their own son, they shoot and kill people out of jealousy.

"Listen, we don't shoot people! Well, at least the lawyers told us to say so!"

The informant made a joke, and then saw that the three of Chuck were expressionless, put away their hippie smiles, and said seriously: "We didn't do it! You know it after thinking about it, why did we want that child's life?

Tim often wants to jump out of this muddy pit and realize the so-called American dream, but we don't care at all! "

Speaking of this, he motioned the three of them to look at a young man of Chinese descent standing at the street corner: "Did you see that kid? He sells plus sizes! Tim always wants to go to the MIT graduates who work and earn a year's worth of money." Money, not as much as he earns in a week!"

"No matter how much money you earn, you have no place to spend it!"

Detective Mike Logan said a little annoyed.

After graduating from MIT and working for a year, the money earned is not as much as selling plus size in a week. This must be an exaggeration.

But it must be more than him as a policeman, that's absolutely no problem!
"If you must say so."

The informant shrugged with a smile, then looked at the three of them, and said sarcastically, "We really don't want to kill that child.

It's good to have the American dream, do everything right, and have the ability, but no matter what, the ending is still the same as ours, a dead end!
It seems that people like us who don't dream may live longer, don't they? "

Detectives Mike Logan and Max: "..."

In half a day today, the sacred and inviolable American dream in their hearts has been smeared with innocent blood over and over again.

Now when they hear about the American dream, they feel completely changed.