The Days of Opening a Restaurant on an Abnormal Earth

"Want to stay in the United States to get a green card? Are you dreaming?" Peter Wang mercilessly hit Xu Tianming's naive thoughts: "Do you think that the green card in the United States is the household registration of your village? You can get it if you say it? Do you know that?" Do you know how many foreigners come to the United States every year?"

Xu Tianming shook his head.

"Humph. Let me tell you, there are too many old Mexicans (Mexicans) from South America. They are all in the United States, and some of them stay for more than ten years. They work illegally and live like rats. .If you are caught by the Immigration Bureau, you will be thrown in prison first, and then sent back to your country. Everything you have worked hard in the United States will come to naught.”

"Then...they still come all the way to America?"

"Hehe, the reason they came to America is the same as yours. Why did you come to America?"

"Not to be poor. My family is too poor, no, it should be said that China is too poor. The exchange rate between the dollar and the renminbi (in the 1990s), our per capita income is less than one hundred dollars a month. I went to New York I looked at the mall, and there are a lot of things sold in it, which is great. Every household in the United States has a color TV, and almost every family has a car. What does China have? In my small mountain village, there is only one TV in the whole village. High school I went to school in Shuangqing. Shuangqing is one of the most developed cities in Northwest China, but many of my classmates don’t have a color TV at home, or they don’t have cable TV at home, so they can only watch a few TV channels. Do you know Knowing that when I first came to the United States, I saw hundreds of TV channels on TV, and I felt crazy." Comparing the gap between China and the United States, Xu Tianming couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion.

"China is really poor, too poor. There are still many places where there are no electric circuits and roads. The roads in our village and town can only be climbed (in the 1990s). There is no future in China, and there is no way out. Look, a Santana sells for 230,000 yuan in China. In China, even if you graduate from a university, the salary is at most 1,000 to 2,000 yuan, which is only available to very good graduates. Think To buy a Santana, they have to work for ten or twenty years without eating or drinking. In the United States, it only costs more than ten thousand dollars to buy a GM car. Working here earns two thousand dollars a month. You can afford a car in a year."

"Not to mention shopping for clothes and eating. Look at what Americans wear, and what we wear in China. Hey..."

Xu Tianming shook his head: "I don't want to go back. It will take at least 50 years for the Chinese to reach the current standard of living in the United States. I don't want to live like this in 50 years. So I want to settle down in the United States. , Earn enough money. Become a master, let the domestic classmates and friends envy."

Xu Tianming did not hide his vanity: "The children in the big cities don't know what life is suffering, but I know it. I have also opened my eyes to see the world, and I can't be like them. Many of them may not even have access to the World Wide Web." ...Still immersed in the illusory news of China's power reported by the news network. I see the gap, I can't change all this, and I don't want to change all this. I just want to live well."

King Peter looked at Xu Tianming, and when Xu Tianming started to get a little nervous, he suddenly smiled: "Hahaha! I just like your attitude of directly facing your own desires. It's much more interesting than those fake guys. .What do you want to serve the country after finishing your studies, fart, ridiculous! What has the country done for you? People, you must live for yourself!"

"Yes!" Xu Tianming agreed with King Peter's words very much.

"If you want to stay in the United States, you have to make your own contribution..." King Peter also seemed to appreciate Xu Tianming's attitude. When he was about to have a deep chat with Xu Tianming, a voice suddenly came in, interrupting their conversation.

"King Peter, you bastard is preaching your theory that serving the country is useless again? I said you are an American, what kind of Chinese are you pretending to be? What choice does the Chinese have, don't care about you. Don't think you have a yellow face If you can speak Chinese, you are Chinese. Go home and take a good look in the mirror. Your internal organs and your heart are all white. Don’t mess with this, and look good for others. I It's disgusting to look at, you'd better get out!"

The owner of the voice was an ordinary-looking young man, a classmate of Peter Wang and Xu Tianming, and also a student of this school. Song Tianming, who studies physical engineering.

Song Tianming was considered an outstanding figure in the school. Among the overseas students in the 1990s, many Chinese or many Asians maintained their own tradition of humility, but this tradition does not necessarily make Europeans and Americans feel worthy of praise, but many people think it is a kind of sick. Therefore, even though most Asian international students have good academic performance, they are still marginal figures in European and American schools, and they are not taken with them when they go out to play together.

But Song Tianming is different. He was born in the Northeast and grew up in BJ. He has dealt with all kinds of foreigners since he was a child. At first, the family exchanged potatoes with the former Soviets for planes in the Northeast. When they returned with two big bombers, even high-ranking officials came to their house.

Later, I moved to BJ, where I lived in a community not far from the embassy area. The people who often come and go are foreigners from various countries. It's just like that after seeing too much, and sometimes I even feel that those foreigners are stupid.

So Song Tianming knew how to deal with Europeans and Americans since he was very young. He just needs to express his appeal with a calm mind. The more he forbears in many things, the worse it will be. Song Tianming's personality made him very popular in European and American schools. He has excellent study skills, strong organizational skills, and first-class communication skills. He can also play the guitar well. So this man, who is obviously not good-looking to Chinese people, is very popular, and many European and American girls actually like him very much.

The person Song Tianming disliked most in school was King Peter.

"You banana man, you never thought of yourself as a Chinese. If the narcissus is not blooming, what kind of garlic is it? Don't pretend to be good for others. And you, what is your name Xu Tianming. Let me tell you , don’t look down on China. You guys are short-sighted. China is now worse than the United States. But it will take fifty years for China to catch up to the current level of the United States. I can say that as long as another ten years, China will If it can basically reach the current level of the United States, China will be able to basically match the standard of living of the United States in another 25 years, even if there is a difference, it will not be particularly large. It may even surpass the United States in some aspects.”

Both Xu Tianming and King Peter looked at Song Tianming as if they were fools: "Are you dreaming?"

"Catch up with the United States? Are you kidding me? Impossible."

"Hey, forget about this banana man. You guys are not Chinese? Are you so unambitious about your own country?"

"It's not that I have no ambition, but that I can see reality clearly."

"Can you see the reality clearly? Hehe, 30 years in Hedong, 30 years in Hexi."

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Yes, 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi. Sometimes it doesn't even take thirty years...

If there is anything in this world that hurts the most, it is that being slapped in the face by the flag you set up is definitely the most uncomfortable. Just like Xu Tianming and Peter Wang, when they saw China and the United States now, their faces felt hot and painful.

And it is precisely because of this that they need to do more things to prove that the choice they made at the beginning was not wrong.

Like taking down the hive...

For example, let old classmate Song Tianming make a fool of himself...