Chapter Nineteen: The Sins of My Own Making
Yan Shi is the marketing manager of a food company in Brighton. Although he was born in the United States, he retained the hard work of the Chinese nation. Therefore, in addition to the formal work of the food company, he also runs a small supermarket in the Vida community where he lives, and his wife manages it.
Mr. Yan's wife is from Binhai. She met by chance when Mr. Yan went to Binhai for negotiations. Then she gave up her job in Binhai and married here.
Tian Yanshi drove home from get off work as usual. At this time, private cars were still a novelty in China and a symbol of wealth and powerful people. However, they have become accustomed to them in the United States. Generally, as a slightly richer family, they can afford a private car. As the company's marketing manager, Yanshi naturally has to buy a car with the company's fuel subsidy.
&nb》;Shi Yan drove into the garage, but was told that his garage had already arrears and needed renewal before he could continue to use it. This surprised Shi Yan. He knew that the garage in Vida Community was rented and billed. Except for the villa, all other garage parking spaces belong to property companies. Therefore, if you need to use the garage, you must pay a certain amount of rent to the property company.
"But didn't I pay the rent in January this year? And it was a one-year rent, how could it expire so soon? And why did there be no prompts in advance?" Master Yan felt very uncomprehensible.
The guard told him that this was because the garage rent was temporarily adjusted, so his garage was owed more than half a year in advance. Since it was a temporary adjustment, there was no notice in advance. The Yan Shi felt helpless about this, but he had no choice but to use the garage after all, and if he parked outside, he would be fined. He had to go to the property to make up for the arrears first, and then he came to park with a new contract.
After parking the car, Master Yan went home. Seeing his wife dazed in the living room and did not prepare food for him, he wondered, "What are you doing in the living room? Didn't you cook for me today?"
My wife looked up and shook out a few documents and said: "This is the tax bill sent by the tax bureau today and the gas, water and electricity department sent by the gas, water and electricity department. Please explain to me what's going on? Where did you say the money used to pay taxes and water and electricity bills?"
Hearing his wife's words, Master Yan suddenly widened his eyes: "This is impossible, I only handed it to you last week."
The wife sneered, "Pretty, continue to pretend for me. You said you have handed over it, so what's going on with these documents?"
As his wife said, she slapped the documents on the table, then turned her head and ignored Master Yan. Master Yan immediately picked up the documents on the table. After reading them, he was immediately confused and murmured: "How could this happen? I have really paid these fees, so why would he send them to urge me to pay?"
Looking at Master Yan's performance, his wife just sneered and said nothing. Master Yan took out his briefcase without believing in the evil, and found the documents he paid from it. But his wife didn't look at it and said, "I don't look at this thing. I don't know how you did it. I only know that those departments are now urging their lives like the King of Hell!"
Master Yan also became popular: "Why are you unreasonable at all? I did submit it, and the documents are all here. What else do you want? I don't know what the situation is..."
Master Yan paused at this point, and he thought of something and continued: "When I came back today, the garage guard said that my garage was owed, but we paid the fee in January. You were there at that time. Even if the price increase is temporary, it will not reach the stage of arrears. How much has he increased? Do you think the price increase of the garage is also related to our tax bills and water, electricity, and gas fees?"
It was like a proof that as soon as Master Yan finished speaking, the door of his room was knocked. Master Yan looked at his wife because it was usually done by women, but this time his wife had no intention of going there. Master Yan had no choice but to get up and open the door.
The person who came was their neighbor and Chinese. When he entered the door, he asked the teacher: "Our family received a lot of tax bills and water, electricity, gas bills today, but I paid it a few days ago. What's going on? The garage fee has increased more than twice, but today I was owed. But I obviously renewed my lease with the community in January. Has your family encountered this situation? "
"Yes, I met it too. I was just talking about this with my wife. Why is your family the same?"
Master Yan nodded desperately and wanted to turn around and wink his wife to show that he was innocent. His wife immediately stood up.
My wife took the documents and compared them and said, "Indeed, these are all submitted for a short time, why do you have to submit them again?"
"Is it because the municipal government has issued some new policies and regulations? But there seems to be no news!" said the neighbor outside the door.
"If it were the new policies or regulations of the municipal government, it would be fine, and those Americans would definitely not agree. At that time, the senators would definitely protest, and then these inhuman policies and regulations would be abolished, and we can ignore them." Yan Shi's wife said.
However, the development of the facts will always be beyond people's expectations. As soon as she finished speaking, she heard the sound of someone going upstairs. It was the staff of the community property. He came up to them and said, "I'll inform you about something. Starting today, the health and property management fees in your community will be increased. Please go to the property to make up for the expenses within three days."
After saying that, the staff was about to continue going upstairs, but was stopped by Master Yan and others: "Why has the property fees been raised? Are you messing around?"
The staff member turned around and said, "Whatever you think is your business, but this is not for you, and all Chinese in the Vader community are the same."
"What did you say? Did the Chinese have their property fees raised? So did the garage rent?" asked Master Yan, and he noticed the focus of the staff's words.
"That's right, it's only you Chinese!"
The staff left them this sentence and went upstairs, leaving only the slogan and the others looking at each other in the same place.
"What's the situation? Why just raise the fees for us Chinese? Isn't this bullying?" the wife complained, and Master Yan and his neighbor nodded because they all had the same idea. At this time, someone said behind him.
"Who made us not have our own councillors, who asked you to call the police to drive away the councillors who came to the community for publicity? Mom, aunt, please ask you to think about it carefully. If we have Chinese councillors who can speak in the council, how could the municipal government dare to have such a policy? If you don't help them, just drive them away. In this situation, it's the evil that you have committed by mom and aunt!"
Mr. Yan and the others turned around and were their sons. Mr. Yan's wife slapped her in the face and then scolded: "What are you doing if you don't study hard in the room? Don't interrupt the adults and children, what do you know? Those who are running for parliamentarians. I think they are just here to cheat money, and only little kids like you who don't know anything will believe them. And this time, I think they did it all!"
Finally, Master Yan's wife pointed to the child's nose and warned: "I tell you, if you talk nonsense again, I won't teach you a good lesson!"
The neighbor also echoed: "That's right, otherwise why would it have been fine before? This time, after they came, our expenses would be increased?"
The child said unconvincedly: "I don't think this is the case. It's obvious that we don't have the power to do it! I came out to say that the school just called and said that my tuition fee was about to rise."
In response to the child's words, Master Yan's cell phone rang. After Master Yan answered, his face changed immediately. He hung up the phone and said: "It's the bank's phone number. He said my credit has been adjusted. The credit bill this month must be paid within one week, otherwise they will take measures. At the same time, our mortgage interest will also be adjusted, which will increase by eight percentage points."
Facing the news about the child and Master Yan, Master Yan's wife immediately wailed and said, "This is to force us to death! How can we be so mean to target us?"
Master Yan frowned and said, "This is really not good. We have no reason to pay so much more than others. So let's find other Chinese people in the community, and we all go to the district council to protest and ask the council to step forward to revoke the unreasonable policies against us."
The neighbor asked skeptical: "Is this OK?"
Master Yan shook his head and replied: "I don't know either, but now I can only do this."
The next day, Yan Shi contacted other Chinese from the Vader community to the entrance of the Parliament Building in Fenway District. They held protest signs in their hands and shouted at the Parliament Building: "We are completely protesting the city's racial discrimination policy. We are American citizens. We require equal treatment. Please do not pay too much taxes and living expenses to us, we cannot afford it!"
Due to the excessive increase in the cost, almost thousands of Chinese people came today, all of whom filled the square in front of the Parliament Building.
Mr. Yan and his wife were also in the crowd. When his wife looked at so many people around her, she said to Mr. Yan happily: "I didn't expect that there were so many Chinese in Brighton. This is the first time I saw so many Chinese together after our wedding. The council must compromise and cancel the upward transfer, right? Maybe under the pressure of so many of us, the city council will help us reduce some fees!"
Compared to his wife's optimism, Master Yan frowned and said, "I think it's better not to be so optimistic. This is not in your country, and the parliament will not compromise so easily. We should go to the member of the parliament that my son mentioned. Maybe he will have some solutions..."
Before Master Yan finished speaking, he was interrupted by his wife and said, "What are their bullshit members? You can find a useless job for them. I think this time the matter was done by them. It would be better if I didn't cause trouble for them! You see, there are so many of us here now, can they still dare to move? That's what big news is going to make, and even the governors in China have to compromise!"
"But this is in the United States, we are only Chinese," said Master Yan.
The facts were like proving Master Yan's words. When he finished speaking, a team of riot police officers holding shields entered the field. They walked in a neat queue and directly separated the crowd from the parliament.
Seeing this, Master Yan was panicked: "No, let's go quickly, we're going to suffer!"
But his wife didn't agree: "What else can they do? It's obvious that they are racially discriminating, and it's reasonable that we petition is right. Can they still use force?"
Before Shi Yan's wife finished speaking, she heard a few bangs and tear gases hit the crowd, causing a stir in riots in the crowd. Then the riot police stepped towards the crowd, waved the rubber rod in their hands and smashed them on the heads.
There was a panic in the crowd. When tear gas was fired out, everyone began to instinctively retreat and flee. When the riot police rushed over, people were even more indiscriminate. Everyone ran around like headless flies, screaming and crying.
In a panic, Master Yan and his wife were separated. Master Yan shouted his wife's name desperately, but when he finally pushed the crowd away, he happened to find a white policeman holding a rubber stick thicker than his arm and hitting his wife hard.
"don't want……"
Chapter completed!