Chapter 029 Out of Plan
On June 15, 1980, under the bridge on the side of the Verazano Strait Bridge near Staten Island, Zhou Yang looked at the blue sea as if three months ago.
I don’t know how long it took, but he finally sighed softly. There was no longer any hesitation about the future, only a trace of nostalgia for the past.
He can no longer go back in 2020, and he is leaving New York. It is time to say goodbye to himself before. Thinking of this, Zhou Yang took firm steps and left the bottom of the bridge without looking back.
As early as three days ago, Zhou Yang had already received an email from Mexico. The contents were the Mexican passport with his photo. So he was not ready to delay and would set off for Mexico in the afternoon.
"I told Connie to look for opportunities in Hong Kong, so don't let me know in front of her. If you encounter anything that cannot be solved in the future, you can ask her for help.
Xiao Cai and Xiao Wei have been with me for more than half a month and are basically able to negotiate business independently. You must remember that they must sign the new contract they have negotiated by themselves.
So you must continue to practice your English quickly, otherwise if your boss can't control his subordinates, they will sooner or later take away the customers and start a new job."
As the saying goes, the whole world is full of banquets. Before leaving New York, Zhou Yang decided to clarify his relationship with his roommate. He had a verbal agreement with Liu Xiaojie to sell new companies, and each of them occupied half of the shares.
Taking advantage of this opportunity to use money, Zhou Yang decided to take away all the 25,000 US dollars in the company's account, and half of his shares belonged to Liu Xiaojie.
The two newly opened companies have a yearly profit of far more than US$50,000, and Zhou Yang obviously suffered a big loss. But since he decided to leave the United States for the time being, it would be better to put the money in peace. After all, who can tell the future clearly?
Liu Xiaojie also understood that he had taken a big advantage, but Zhou Yang had decided to leave more casually, so he had to give Zhou Yang the other 5,000 US dollars he had saved.
Therefore, Zhou Yang's three months in New York have achieved great results. The total of about 33,000 US dollars he accumulated and the 30,000 US dollars he received from Liu Xiaojie.
But while Zhou Yang makes money quickly, he spends money like flowing water. The Mexican passport alone is worth $20,000, so the real remaining available funds is actually only $13,000.
Even if the 13,000 US dollars cannot be exchanged for cash and brought with you, otherwise it will be easy to be paid attention to when passing security checks.
Zhou Yang, a black account, has no bank account, so he asked Liu Xiaojie to exchange it in advance for him. He only brought $3,000 in cash on his 20 Yuntong traveler checks with a face value of $500.
After giving his final advice to his roommate, Zhou Yang hugged him again, then went downstairs with his small suitcase that had been packed up long ago, and took a taxi to New York Kennedy Airport.
Zhou Yang's original plan was to make a Greyhound bus to San Diego on the US-Mexico border. But he later discovered that in 1980, airport security checks in the United States were too relaxed. Cross-border flights might be stricter, but domestic flights in the United States were like taking subways.
As long as you take the air ticket and report the name you reserved when buying the ticket, it is easy to change to the boarding pass. The airline's check-in station will not ask you for identification documents at all.
In this case, Zhou Yang definitely chose to take a plane instead of taking a long-distance bus that is up to 4,000 kilometers.
San Diego is the southernmost city in California. It is 20 kilometers south of the country, and it is the Mexican border city Tijuana. The flight Zhou Yang took was already lights when he landed in San Diego, the third largest city in California.
So he stayed here for a night and left for Tijuana the next morning. He entered Mexico from the United States, and there were no pass procedures at all.
Zhou Yang just rolled down the car window at the checkpoint and waved the copying of his driver's license in his hand. The prosecutors on the Mexican border directly signaled that he could leave. The whole process was less than thirty seconds.
This is in sharp contrast to the scene on the other side of the lane. There are long queues of cars waiting to pass the security check on the road from Mexico to the United States.
Through the security check port, it is the city of Tijuana, a border city in Mexico. It is known as one of the most dangerous cities in Mexico, and the government's control over it is not even as high as the major gangsters.
But its danger is usually only for locals, with a large number of Californians driving south to relax every day. Especially during spring break every year, it is crowded with poor students from various universities in California.
As long as tourists do not cross the line, they will generally not be involved in danger. After all, tourism is one of the pillar industries of Tijuana, and no one is willing to spend their jobs.
Zhou Yang came to Mexico this time, but he was not in the mood to linger with the beaches and beauty of Tijuana. He didn't stop for a moment and went directly to Tijuana International Airport.
This airport is located on the US-Mexico border, with the runway being only 300 meters away from the US territory. Before Zhou Yang crossed, there was an air corridor across the border and connecting a terminal on the US.
American passengers can complete check-in procedures in the US terminal and then go directly to board the plane through the air corridor. So most of the passengers at Tijuana Airport actually go to the United States, not to Mexico.
Of course, although Tijuana Airport in 1980 was not as convenient as later generations, passengers traveling to and from the United States still accounted for a large proportion.
After all, not every airline can have a route to the United States, and there is almost no difference between flying to Tijuana International Airport and San Diego International Airport.
The distance between the two is not even as far as the two airports Pudong and Hongqiao. Mexico also directly implements visa-free visas for passengers with US visas.
The company that Zhou Yang rented a car at San Diego Airport before also set up a store at Tijuana Airport, so he completed the change of the car very conveniently.
Until here, Zhou Yang's Mexican passport finally began to come in handy. Now, he has a new name called Andres Kwana.
This is a 28-year-old band drummer who lives in Hermosio, the capital of Sonora state, who should have disappeared two months ago.
Zhou Yang's original plan was to buy a plane ticket with his passport and go to Hong Kong after arriving in Tijuana. But as the saying goes, a wise man will make a mistake. He did not expect that Mexico in 1980 had not signed a mutual visa exemption agreement with Hong Kong.
But he was already on the verge of the arrow and had to fire it, so he had to come to Tijuana first, then fly to the British embassy and consulate in Mexico City to apply for a visa to Hong Kong.
Fortunately, the lawyer Connie introduced was very reliable and got him a very clean passport. The Andres Kwana, whom he replaced, had no criminal record, which undoubtedly greatly increased his chances of signing.
Now, the biggest problem Zhou Yang faces is to explain to the visa officer why he has an oriental face but a Spanish name.
What can he do? Keep making up stories!
Chapter completed!