Chapter 43: The Seal Authority Departs

To be honest, Chen Yaozu didn't even know right now whether he should go up and say hello.

If it were only that reporter young woman, he could still pretend he hadn't seen her; after all, back when they headed north together there had been no real connection between them.

But Ceng Hongbing was right there now; if he didn't go over and say hello it would feel a bit distant, even though they hadn't seen each other for a while.

Actually, it was still that little bit of perverse curiosity in Chen Yaozu's heart at work; what he mainly wanted to know was what kind of mental journey that woman — so proud and so yearning for freedom in Ecuador — was on now. But this bit of perverse curiosity he would absolutely never admit.

Fine!

In the end he still couldn't bring himself to do it; he even saw Ceng Hongbing look in his direction with a somewhat evasive gaze.

Thinking about it, forget it; judging by Ceng Hongbing's look, if he went over like this, it somehow felt a bit awkward!

As for Old Ceng — if he wanted to have some kind of story with that young woman, or look after business or whatever — that had nothing to do with him anymore.

Just as he had guessed.

Actually, Ceng Hongbing had spotted Chen Yaozu in the car long ago; right now his own situation was a bit awkward, and for a moment he didn't know whether he should greet Chen Yaozu.

Right while he was hesitating, Chen Yaozu — who had looked like he was about to get out of the car — surprisingly shrank back and drove off.

This made him breathe a sigh of relief, yet also left him a little disappointed.

"Brother Hongbing, you're saying you'll lend me money to buy a car so I can go do delivery?"

That young woman asked delightedly.

Ceng Hongbing nodded: "I just got back from a New York construction site with a fellow townsman and earned some money.

I can lend it to you to buy a second-hand car; once you earn money you can pay me back. Listen to a word of advice from your brother — don't do this line of work.

People who do this line of work all have no good outcome, especially since this is America, where there are especially many people with AIDS! Even though Orange County here is 90% Chinese, this is still America in the end; the larger environment determines a lot of things."

That's right!

Ceng Hongbing had found that fellow townsman of his.

It also counted as good luck; originally Ceng Hongbing's fellow townsman couldn't be reached, and it wasn't intentional on the other party's part — it was just that the place where the other party worked had bad signal.

This is very common in America; unless you use a satellite phone, there are plenty of places here with no signal.

Once there was signal, the other party figured he was about to arrive, so he called back home to ask, and only then did they get in touch with him.

Not to mention Ceng Hongbing values loyalty; after this fellow townsman found him, he was going to bring him to the New York construction site.

Hearing this good news, Ceng Hongbing immediately spoke up asking if he could bring one more person — he still remembered Chen Yaozu!

After all, if it weren't for Chen Yaozu, he still wouldn't know how many months later he would have gotten out of the immigration prison.

So since there was a benefit, of course he had to think of that brother.

But labor is expensive on the American side's construction sites, so of course it's impossible to just casually place someone in; this is a high-income trade.

That fellow townsman managed to bring him in only because he patted his chest and told the foreman this fellow townsman's skills were excellent and he had mastered many job skills, was a jack-of-all-trades; only then did the foreman agree.

As for Chen Yaozu — a student just out of society in Ceng Hongbing's words — even if he said this young man was miraculous, there was still no way to bring him in.

However, before going to New York, Ceng Hongbing had explained to Chen Yaozu, saying if there was a chance he would definitely bring him over.

With a Northeasterner's mindset and principles, when you're out in the world, and moreover have come to the far shore of a vast ocean, if you don't stick together and unite, you won't even know how you die.

So he valued this companion, this compatriot, who had walked all the way from Ecuador together.

There — after working a phase on the New York side, his craftsmanship in the whole construction team reached a truly explosive level; he could use an excavator to open a soda bottle cap, would you believe it?

So, after conquering the whole construction crew with his skill, he secured the chance to take on a fellow townsman as an apprentice, and took advantage of a leave period to fly over from New York. As for the question of how Chen Yaozu from Guangdong Province and he from the Northeast could be fellow townsmen — can that even be a question? They're all Eastern people, how could they not be fellow townsmen?

Just back in Los Angeles, preparing to rest for a night before asking Chen Yaozu out, he didn't expect to see that reporter young woman walking timidly to the street side and standing there.

As a man, he naturally knew what those young ladies standing on the street side were doing.

This woman who was originally so arrogant, and who had walked all the way from Ecuador together with them, staying companions for over a month.

He naturally couldn't fail to recognize her!

Moreover, that woman's timid, shrinking appearance made him unconsciously feel a bit of heartache.

So he walked over and said hello, making the originally somewhat timid reporter young woman blush bright red with shame!

"Let's go!"

"I'll lend you money to buy a car, you go do delivery……"

Immediately after came that conversation just now.

Sometimes a single sincere, warm-hearted sentence can make a person collapse in tears.

If she had any choice at all, she wouldn't want to do this either; but who would have thought that in this free country, because it's too free.

Just out of the immigration detention prison after sitting several months, not long after getting off in Los Angeles with her daughter.

Her passport, bank card, and wallet — who knows who stole them; if she didn't come out to earn money, what would the two of them eat? A Chinese hotel owner saw the mother and daughter crying bitterly on the street side, temporarily took them in, and even did his best to point this reporter young woman toward a clear path.

Standing on the street side doing zero-capital business.

But it also counted as good luck; just as she made up her mind to stand on the street side she ran into an old acquaintance, that Northeastern man Ceng Hongbing……

Chen Yaozu suddenly felt a whim and drove around the whole Orange County, suddenly discovering that as far as the eye could see they were all Eastern people; these people spoke either Cantonese or Mandarin the moment they opened their mouths.

One could say a person who doesn't know English can come here and still live very conveniently, because this is Los Angeles's Chinese district; there's actually not much difference from back home.

But there are no jade shops here; in the whole of Los Angeles, jade shops and carving shops with Eastern characteristics exist only in Chinatown.

So after driving around a circle, Chen Yaozu drove straight for Chinatown; that place is now no longer a place where Eastern people gather, but has been developed into a tourist attraction.

The jade shops are naturally the same.

"Xingyu Zhai"

Also known as Xingyu Zhai.

An old shop specializing in hand-carved jade, wood, and root carving.

Right now in the shop, a young guy was loudly explaining to his phone's lens what kind of jade is best, immediately followed by boasting about his own sharp knife technique and how seals should be carved and such.

This is a livestream!

Young people's thing.

But what the young fellow didn't know was that across from his own shop, a man and a woman, two White Men, were propping up a livestream phone, aimed right at his shop entrance.

The woman was speaking impassionedly before the phone Lens right now: "This is an Eastern People's shop, the hottest Stone shop in Chinatown! Partners, right now we're just waiting for this Stone shop's customer, waiting for him to enter the shop and then Come Out, then we'll assault him, intimidate him!

That way they'll know, America isn't theirs.

Drive the Eastern People out of America, let them know, going back to their own Guo Jia is the only correct choice!"

(Chapter End)