Volume 5: Competition for Beauty Chapter 06 New York (Part 1)
The girl who came was a Chinese girl, about 23 or 24 years old, with a pair of square black-framed glasses on her pretty nose, a face as white as jade, slanted eyebrows, and a black waist-hugging suit. She was slightly taller than a gun and wore a pair of black high heels. The waiter standing by introduced her with a smile, "This is Miss Lin from Taiwan."
"Hello! Just call me Mili. What's your name, sir?" Lin Mili spoke Chinese. Judging from her movements and speaking speed, she was a smart and capable woman. The gun captain smiled and said, "My last name is Chen. All eight of us here have the last name Chen. You don't have to call me sir. My name is Chen Chongsheng." Xiao Wu kept scanning Lin Mili's face. Unexpectedly, this girl was not shy at all. She nodded slightly to Xiao Wu. Xiao Wu was a little embarrassed and laughed.
The gunner turned his head and glanced sideways, then continued to say to Lin Mili: "Mili, we need a total of eight translators, preferably those who are familiar with New York."
Lin Mili nodded and asked, "How long do you plan to stay in New York?"
"It's hard to say right now. We came here to open a martial arts school. Let them take a week off, look around, and experience American life."
Lin Mili said, "No problem. I'll contact you right away. The charge is two hundred dollars per person per day, from 8 am to 8 pm. You are responsible for both meals. Any problem?"
The gun master cursed inwardly: We are all Chinese, so there is no need to make things so difficult, right? "No problem! Can you take us out tonight to have a look?"
Lin Mili shook her head and said, "Not tonight. Apart from shopping, it's best not to go anywhere else. New York is a place with a big gap between the rich and the poor. At night, there are robbers, drug addicts, and all kinds of people. If you want to shop, you can ask the hotel to arrange a shopping guide for you. This is a service they provide."
The gun master smiled bitterly. Damn it, we just woke up and we can't go back to sleep, right? The other three also looked miserable. The gun master asked, "Apart from shopping, is there anywhere else to kill time? We just slept for the whole afternoon, we can't go back to sleep now, right?"
Lin Mili thought about it and found it funny, so she said, "If you don't mind, you can go to Chinatown with me, but it's better to rent a hotel car. It will be more convenient to come back this way."
The gun captain nodded and said, "Okay, let's go and see where the Chinese live and have dinner there!" He turned to the waiter and said, "Please arrange a business car for me... What should I call you?" The waiter smiled and said, "Call me Dick, my name is Joe Dick. I'll arrange it for you right away." After that, he turned and left.
Lin Mili looked at the people and asked tentatively, "Are we leaving now?" The gun captain asked, "Dick has gone to arrange a car. Let's wait until he is ready before leaving." Lin Mili smiled strangely and said, "He said he would arrange it right away, which means we can leave at any time." The gun captain said, "Oh," and felt a little comfortable. Why do I look like a country bumpkin? But I am a country bumpkin. However, I was embarrassed by Lin Mili's aggressive tone and began to hate this woman's demeanor: Damn! Are you arrogant? Are you rich? You look like you are worth 2.58 million. I will kill you!
He cursed in his heart but said to them, "Go wake up Awu and the others, we're going downstairs." He no longer had to look at Lin Mili straight in the eye. She's just a woman, just a translator. I can speak English too. Is that a big deal?
Lin Mili felt a little embarrassed. The atmosphere was not right. She could only smile bitterly. These compatriots are all the same. They just do their jobs. I am not very familiar with you. It is just an employment relationship. Ignoring the coldness of the gun chief, she left the room and waited in the corridor.
The gunner pointed his middle finger at Lin Mili's back and said, "I despise you! Just because you have some foreign knowledge, you become a foreigner? Do Americans want this? Fuck you!"
After a while, the three people who went out knocked on the door and shouted outside: "Brother, we're leaving!" The gun captain changed into a casual suit, put in his credit card, and saw tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars. He smiled bitterly and said, "Don't say it, I'm really a bit unsophisticated. I should exchange some US dollars."
When Lin Mili heard a few people calling the gun chief "brother", she was worried: Could this group of people be some kind of gangster? Is that cartoon doll their big brother? Thinking of the gun chief's appearance, she couldn't help but curl her lips. She felt that this guy looked too much like a child. That look, except in cartoons, had never been seen in real life. The more she looked at him, the more interesting she found the gun chief. The gun chief stood in the elevator, sulking, his eyes staring at the top of the elevator, without saying a word.
He didn't speak, and the others didn't dare to speak either. The whole elevator was so quiet that even the sound of breathing could be heard. It was over 40 floors. In just a few minutes, Lin Mili was so depressed that she almost screamed. What kind of people were these? Why did she feel weird? Xiao Wu was free to look at the beauty, from head to corner, constantly estimating Lin Mili's measurements in his mind, and then fantasizing about it, and then his face showed that kind of lewd smile, which made Lin Mili's scalp numb.
After getting out of the elevator, Lin Mili secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She really wanted to refuse this temporary job, but when she thought about the two hundred dollars a day, it was a rare fortune. She called all the guys in the same room with her, and then called a few other close friends. Including herself, eight people were more than enough.
Dick had been waiting in the lobby for a long time. When he saw the gun captain and others coming out of the elevator, he smiled and said, "Sir, the car has been prepared for you. It's just outside the door. Are you going out now?" The gun captain nodded. He wanted to give a tip again. This kind of service attitude was really great! He touched his pocket and said to Dick with a wry smile, "Thank you."
After walking out of the hall, Lin Mili turned to the gun captain and said, "Mr. Chen..." But she saw the eight people turned around and looked at her. Lin Mili hurriedly said, "Oh, sorry, Reborn... Can you ride in the same car with me?" She felt so awkward in her heart. Reborn, why is it a bit like the heroine in an art film calling her lover?
The gun captain wanted to refuse, but after thinking about it, he thought, "Am I afraid of you?" He walked straight to the driver's window of the business car and said to the driver inside: "Follow Miss Lin's car, we are going to Chinatown." The driver smiled and said, "Yes, sir." The gun captain was about to leave, but turned back and smiled apologetically: "They don't speak English, so..." The driver laughed and said, "I understand, don't worry, sir, they will be very happy."
Following behind Lin Mili, he walked a few steps forward and waited for her to drive out. Seeing that it was an ordinary car, he felt contemptuous again. He opened the door and got in. There was a faint fragrance of a woman in the car. The gun chief sat up straight without looking at her. Lin Mili said, "Excuse me, please fasten your seat belt." The gun chief stretched out his hand to fasten the seat belt again, without saying a word, just like he didn't bother to pay attention to her.
Lin Mili said nothing and drove forward. The gun chief turned his head and saw that the business car had caught up. Lin Mili asked, "Is this Mr. Chen's first time in the United States?" The gun chief nodded and cursed in his heart, "My name is Chen Chongsheng, why do I need Mr.? Mr. should suffer first, how good it is to be reborn! Damn, I don't understand music."
“Reborn…” After saying this, Lin Mili felt like slapping herself. The gun leader said helplessly, “This is my first time in the United States. I’m sorry to embarrass you!”
Lin Mili said, "I'm sorry! I didn't mean that. You are my employer, so I will do my best to do my job. I don't mean to disrespect you. Maybe... I have been abroad for a long time, so our understanding is a little different."
The gun captain felt that he couldn't let this woman look down on him and think that he was a petty man with a narrow mind, so he smiled and said, "It can be seen that Miss Lin is very capable. Those who can survive in the United States have their own abilities."
Lin Mili said: "Thank you for your compliment, but I am still a student, studying in the United States. Are you all from the mainland?"
The gun chief was very sensitive to the word "mainland". He felt that it was like people in the county saying that farmers were from the countryside, which was contemptuous. The gun chief's face immediately turned cold: "That is called China. Taiwan also belongs to China. You are Chinese, and I am also Chinese."
Lin Mili's heart trembled. This cute cartoon boy's changing face was really scary. She quickly smiled and said, "Sorry! I'm used to it." Seeing that she was a little nervous, the gun captain thought it was better to maintain some demeanor: "We are from Hong Kong. After you bring the translator tomorrow, you can accompany me to go out alone. Well, I mainly want to learn how to apply for a green card and buy housing. They can go sightseeing first."
When Lin Mili heard this, she asked doubtfully, "Didn't you contact this place beforehand? For example, hire an agent or find someone you know?"
The spear leader shook his head and said, "We are from the same family. The parents decided to open a martial arts school in the United States, so we came here." Lin Mili also shook her head and said, "You are too rash to do this. First of all, you should consider the prospects of opening a school and understand the living habits of Americans. Anyway, there are many things to prepare, but it is really too rash to just come here like this."
The spear master thought these words were reasonable, and he was not as angry as before: "It doesn't matter, our family still has some assets. As for the market prospects you mentioned, haha, we are not worried about this. We are not here to make money. If teaching martial arts is to make money, then it is not real martial arts."
Lin Mili asked curiously, "What kind of martial arts do you teach?"
The spear master said with some pride: "Tai Chi! Sanda fighting is also included, but Tai Chi is mainly for strengthening the body."
Lin Mili said: "Tai Chi...surname Chen? Could it be that you are the descendants of Chen Tai Chi?" The spear captain took a long look at her. Lin Mili was not as serious as before. She thought: This is more like a woman.
"Haha, there are many branches of Chen-style Tai Chi, so let's take that as an example." My last name is Chen, so of course the boxing style I practice is Chen-style. Could it be Lin-style?
Lin Mili asked happily, "Is Tai Chi difficult to learn? When I was a kid, I loved watching Kung Fu movies. If it wasn't difficult, I would learn from you."
The spearman smiled and said, "It's not difficult to learn. Tai Chi is like dancing, but the movements are very slow and the postures are extremely graceful. It is mainly for self-cultivation and strengthening the body."
Lin Mili's eyes were almost full of stars, and she said excitedly: "When you open the museum, I will be the first to sign up! There must be a discount, haha, I will sign up now."
The gun captain nodded and said, "Okay, you sign up now..." Before she finished speaking, Lin Mili slammed the brakes. If the gun captain hadn't been wearing a seat belt, he would have been thrown out. The commercial vehicle behind him also slowly stopped. The gun captain shook his head. It was not easy just now. He was not mentally prepared at all. He saw a few drunk Americans in front holding bottles and shouting loudly. One of them rushed up with his hair in a cockscomb style, leaned in front of the car window and yelled at the two people: "Chinese pigs, come out!" Lin Mili was a little stupid. She had encountered this before. She was about to take out the phone to call the police, but the front was smashed by a bottle. Lin Mili screamed, and the gun captain was furious. The commercial vehicle behind honked the horn, and the driver stuck his head out and yelled: "Get out! You bastards, if you don't get out, the police will come!"
When a few drunks saw several figures jumping out of the business car, they thought they were really policemen. They shouted and scattered. Lin Mili patted her chest and said, "I was scared to death!" Then the gun chief smiled helplessly and said, "This is New York! That's why I told you not to go out at night. These drunks are not bad, but if you meet drug addicts, it will be bad!" The gun chief laughed and said, "It seems that the American police are useless."
Lin Mili shook her head and said, "It's not a police problem, it's a social problem. Freedom is not that beautiful." She started the car again and drove forward slowly.
The gun captain shook his head and laughed, "Chinese people don't seem to be very popular." He was a little upset when he heard the phrase "Chinese pigs"! Lin Mili said, "It's just a small number of racists and some anti-Chinese forces who are promoting it. The situation is better now. When I first came here, I often saw overseas Chinese fighting with local gangs, and people were often beaten to death in the streets."
The gunner stared at the front closely, his eyes twitching slightly. He felt a surge of blood rushing to a certain place in his heart, a little out of control. The Korean War movie played in his mind. Americans! He began to sneer in his heart!
Just as Lin Mili was about to turn the steering wheel, the gun captain hurriedly shouted, "Brake!" The streets here were relatively deserted. When Lin Mili heard the gun captain's shout, she hurriedly braked, and a burning bottle flew past the front of the car...
