Chapter 54: Go to the Gangsters to Deposit Money

"Mr. Chen Yaozu, please come over here!"

After class, the students began to disperse; Principal Wood and the bald middle-aged man who had been waiting to the side finally walked out and offered a greeting.

Hearing the old lady's voice, Chen Yaozu looked up; Principal Wood was accompanying a middle-aged man he did not recognize as they walked over.

"This is Mr. Mikhail Sergeyev, the newly appointed Superintendent of the Los Angeles School District, the person in charge of the Education Department for all public primary and secondary schools in the entire Los Angeles School District.

Today he came here specifically to find you!"

Principal Wood was presumably worried Chen Yaozu wouldn't know the other party's identity and might say the wrong thing, so she directly stated the bald middle-aged man's identity, and also said: "Your Teacher Qualification License was specially expedited and approved by Mr. Sergei."

"Oh, is that so!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Yaozu naturally had to show his attitude; he extended his hand very enthusiastically: "Mr. Sergei, thank you very much for your help."

Mikhail Sergeyev grasped his hand and unexpectedly spoke Chinese: "I thought you would teach them the Unlimited Extreme Combat that is most effective for ordinary people in the East, which you often call Mad Dog Fist!

Because I know that in the East, the most effective method of self-defense for ordinary people is this Unlimited Extreme Self-Defense technique called Mad Dog Fist."

"Huh?"

Chen Yaozu was startled by his sudden Chinese: "Mr. Sergei's Chinese is quite fluent; if I closed my eyes, I would have thought he was an Eastern person!"

Mikhailov released his hand: "I thought you could guess where I come from from my name; I am a Russian-American, originally lived in the Far East, so I am very interested in Eastern things."

Chen Yaozu did not dwell on the other party's identity: "America's national conditions are different from the East; teaching them to run at the first sign of trouble, and how to avoid provoking the other party when they can't escape.

This is more useful than Mad Dog Fist.

Because this is America, bandits all have guns.

Mad Dog Fist doesn't work!

Even the method of breaking free from the other party's hand control that I just taught is based on the premise that the other party only wants to drag you away or restrain you, and has no weapon in hand.

Once you break free, run immediately!"

"Ok, that makes perfect sense!

Then let's return to the main topic, which is the reason I came to find you this time: to review your Teacher's License qualification.

However, I am a bit disappointed..."

Mikhailov suddenly turned serious and switched back to English: "Mr. Chen Yaozu, I have been standing here observing since you started class; I watched your entire lesson.

I must say, you taught this lesson very well; it has a very distinct Eastern educational character.

Finding ways to heighten the students' alertness, preventing danger before it occurs — one could say this is basically the approach of Eastern parents.

But it is with regret that I must tell you, the lesson you just taught made several mistakes in total."

"First, just like that female student who stood up to question your gender discrimination — that is the first.

You repeatedly used the terms 'gentlemen' and 'ladies' during your lecture, artificially assuming these students' genders..."

"This makes me have to question your professionalism, so your Teacher Qualification License may be subject to further review!"

What does this mean? Just now he was smiling and acting friendly with me, and now he suddenly tells me the Teacher Qualification License I've barely held for a few days hasn't even warmed up in my hand before it's going to be invalidated? However, he glanced at Principal Wood standing to the side and discovered the other party didn't have an expression of anxiety or worry at all; instead, the corners of her mouth held some amusement? There must be something fishy going on!

This Deduction Probe ability that can only be used twice a day — usually he tries every means to save it as a trump card, only taking it out when absolutely forced to.

But today's last Deduction Probe ability looks like it can't go unused.

For example, right now:

【Mikhail Sergeyev, Russian-American, Los Angeles School District Superintendent, Los Angeles School District American Football Team Director.

This trip specifically to find you is to make a deal with you.

The Los Angeles School District football team's Running Back is on temporary leave due to injury.

Now urgently need a physically strong and capable Running Back player.

He saw you on TV; he believes you have the ability to help the team place in the upcoming National High School District Football Tournament.

If you dare to speak up, you will obtain a short-term contract with a good salary!

Fortune: Great Auspicious, with Peach Blossom Luck.】

First, Chen Yaozu subconsciously skimmed past that last line of Fortune which had never appeared before, carefully pondering the preceding words.

What is this called? Mikhailov's trip here was actually to sign him to the team, but he just won't say it directly.

So this is a "catch by first letting go" tactic? Suppress first, then give an opportunity, making you grateful and devoted.

What kind of Eastern way of handling things is this? No wonder he's a Russian-American who speaks Mandarin fluently; this bit of maneuvering ability isn't something a native-born American could possess.

After all, the teaching position relates to his Green Card; this is an opportunity far more stable than a fake marriage.

So he's got me figured out? If it were someone else, they might be manipulated by him, but now that I've seen through it, what then? If he wants to manipulate you, you can only play along.

A man under the eaves has to bow his head!

However, because he knew the truth in advance, his mindset was different; watching the other party perform was like watching a monkey show.

"Mr. Sergei, I feel there are other possibilities to this matter! So please speak directly: what do you need me to do?"

Seeing the other party so on the ball, Mikhailov nodded in satisfaction: "It's like this, Partner!

I saw your performance knocking that woman down on the street in the news.

Really great, Partner! That day I downloaded the news and had a professional appraise it; he told me your collision technique is more professional than many professional athletes.

So, even if you aren't that burly, relying on your collision technique alone, you can completely break through the team's obstacles on the football field! The Los Angeles High School District Faculty Football Team needs you!

The prize money for this tournament is very high, but that's a minor matter.

The big deal is this district ranking; the faculty football team's performance has a huge impact.

As long as you agree to join the Los Angeles School District Faculty Football Team, your Teacher Qualification License will be considered to have passed the review."

What else could Chen Yaozu say? The conditions were laid out; he could only agree.

He could only nod in agreement: "Ok, I agree to join your team!"

Although his agreement was expected, Mikhailov was still very happy and suddenly added: "After joining our team, your salary will be paid according to team wages; a monthly salary of ten thousand dollars during the training period is a good price, twenty thousand for two months.

Additionally, the PE Teacher position at Port Watert remains unchanged.

"If the team makes the Round of 16, besides your contract salary, you'll also get a hefty bonus!"

"Starting from twenty thousand dollars for the Round of 16!"

"Reach the Quarter-finals, forty thousand dollars; reach the top three, sixty thousand; runner-up eighty thousand; champion one hundred fifty thousand."

"The higher the team ranks, the higher the bonus you get!"

Hiss—

That bonus isn't small! First comes coercion, then comes temptation.

What does he take Chen Yaozu for?

Does he take him for someone who compromises at the sight of money? Fine... have to admit, Mikhailov reads people spot on! (meme)

If American football weren't not football at all but actually olive oil, Chen Yaozu would've felt awkward accepting this gig.

Because he indeed hasn't trained in football, and doesn't know the rules on the football field.

But if it's olive oil, purely relying on physical quality and strength to collide, a fierce confrontation sport of grappling and throwing, who would Chen Yaozu fear?

He swore, this absolutely wasn't for this identity; he purely loves this sports career!

Of course, also because this ball has few rules, easy to master!

Both sides quickly signed the contract; this is a short-term contract lasting two months.

After all, the all-district high school faculty football tournament across the US will run through the entire pre-season prep and match process in a little over a month, roughly two months' time.

After pocketing the contract, Mikhailov left a line about needing to go to team training six hours a day after this weekend, left him the address, and left.

"What? You're actually joining the district faculty football team next week?"

Evening, while accompanying his mother-in-law's family for Body Control Recovery Training, jogging alongside them, he told them about today's events.

Sometimes, a person needs to know how to vent.

But now as soon as Chen Yaozu said it, it made people feel he was showing off, especially when he asked what level the other side's wages were at, mother-in-law Olivia wanted to bite him.

"The all-US high school faculty football tournament held every three years is also a highly watched internal competition.

If you really play at a high level, you actually don't need to do this poor teacher job that doesn't make money; go play professional American football.

You know, in the whole league, after averaging all players' wages, each person's annual income exceeds two million dollars."

Annual income two million dollars — this is still averaged per head; if calculated with some high some low, some people might earn tens of millions a year.

Moreover, if fortunate enough to enter the professional olive oil league, the Green Card issue isn't an issue at all.

Regarding this question, Chen Yaozu shrugged:

"I only signed a short-term contract, just two months; after two months I'll still come back.

Principal Wood said I'm like a carrier pigeon released from Port Watert — in the end it'll still return to its nest.

And she'll keep Port Watert's Big Door open forever!"

Olivia, Audrey, and her younger brother and sister, under Chen Yaozu's accompaniment and guidance, through jogging, sprinting, ladder climbing, and shuttle runs back and forth, finally regained the feeling of controlling their bodies, adapted to this powerful body of theirs now.

While training them, Chen Yaozu admonished them to keep a low profile, especially Audrey and the two younger siblings.

After all, their bodies right now possess explosive power by ordinary people's standards.

Suddenly a phone rang; Chen Yaozu picked up and looked — it was Ceng Hongbing, whom he often contacted by phone but hadn't seen in a long time.

"Yaozu, my family seems to have been targeted lately; money can't stay hidden at home anymore, I need to send it back.

Can you accompany me to the Fuzhou gang tomorrow?"

Ceng Hongbing's somewhat hesitant yet helpless voice came through the phone.

That's right!

Sending money isn't going to the post office or the bank — it's going to find the gang.

Because Ceng Hongbing's work permit seems to have been delayed until now and still hasn't come through; ordinary immigration work cards generally take 2~3 months from application to issuance.

Illegal immigrant, hiring a lawyer to process a work permit — that'll definitely come through, though the time might be longer.

Anyway, right now Ceng Hongbing has no work permit, even less identity; he goes to construction sites with his fellow townsmen, which only counts as black labor; others pay him cash.

Taking cash actually has many inconveniences.

It's that this money can't be carried on you; once cash on you exceeds a certain amount and police find it, they'll count it as confiscation and make you explain how these funds were illegally obtained.

Illegal work, the wages earned are also illegal proceeds.

So generally Chinese, Chinese doing black labor usually take this money and hide it, hide it in their own house.

Especially able to save money! Why able to save?

Can't deposit in bank; depositing in bank deducts very high tax, and you still have to explain where the money came from.

So they can only hide it themselves, hide it in their own house, which leads to local gangs — whether Black or White, or even their own people — all liking to rob Chinese.

After all, Chinese have money in their houses — this is already everyone's consensus.

And now Ceng Hongbing tells him he seems to have been targeted, so he urgently needs to remit this sum out.

This money came from black labor; can't go through legitimate channels to deposit in a bank card then wire it back.

Just a large sum of cash, unable to account for legal source, is enough for the other side to confiscate your money.

And then also implicate the foreman or boss who paid you cash.

Once it implicates the person who paid you, that person gets fined tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Then do you still want to make money under him afterwards?

Now it's all circle society; because you caused this trouble, who would still use you?

Precisely because of this, many Chinese, after saving up to a certain amount, go find familiar gangs to have them use underground banks to help transfer the money back domestic to their families.

Gangs using underground banks to transfer money back domestic charge a certain handling fee, and this fee isn't low — between 10%~20%.

But this amount seems high, yet it's still far better than risking confiscation depositing in a bank.

Ceng Hongbing hasn't sent money before; he's only been here these many days, earned a bit of money, no experience! Mainly it's the gang! Growing up in a peaceful domestic environment, domestic has no gangs, so when facing gangs there's always some Fang Huang and fear.

In Ceng Hongbing's mind, Chen Yaozu was a considerably capable person, the kind of existence who, with him around, wouldn't need to change expression even if Mount Tai collapsed before his eyes.

After all, gangsters are just ordinary people.

But Chen Yaozu is an extraordinary person with miraculous abilities; placed in the Northeast, he could be called a great immortal.

"Good! Tomorrow I'll accompany you there; it just so happens I also want to see what the local gangs are ultimately like!"

Speaking of the local gangs, a sentence flashed through Chen Yaozu's brain: The local gangs are really too impolite!

……

The next day, Ceng Hongbing drove to the school and picked up Chen Yaozu, seeing the younger person with a spring breeze on his face and high spirits bidding farewell to the girl beside him.

He always felt a bit like it was a world apart; he had been working hard at the construction site for several months, but Chen Yaozu was enjoying blessings in school — different fates for different people!

(Chapter End)