Let’s talk about Zhang Youping’s journey to the United States, it’s also a tortuous story. It started twenty years ago. Zhang Youping’s hometown is a famous overseas Chinese hometown in Hu Jian Province. The locals have had a tradition of going abroad to make a living since ancient times.

Zhang Youping's father was a seaman at the time. When the ocean freighter where he was docked at New York Harbor, he met a fellow villager in Manhattan Chinatown. So with the help of his fellow villager, Zhang Youping's father simply jumped into the ship and stayed in New York to work hard.

After returning to the United States after visiting relatives, Zhang's father immediately asked a lawyer to help with the operation of children's immigration to the United States.

Finally, at the beginning of last year, Zhang's father brought all 14 people from two sons and one daughter, including Zhang Youping, to New York.

But as the saying goes, life is not satisfactory. After Zhang Youping came to the United States happily, he found that his father had already started a family and a career here.

As early as ten years ago, Zhang's father had a good look with a Mexican widow. It was precisely through this marriage that Zhang's father quickly obtained American nationality and was qualified to operate his children to immigrate to the United States.

But Zhang Youping and his sister, psychologically, could not accept this American stepmother. After all, because of her existence, Zhang Youping's biological mother could only stay in China alone, because she had never heard of immigrants who could bring their ex-wife together.

In fact, Zhang's father also opened a small restaurant in New York, but it was not in Manhattan Chinatown, but was located in Brooklyn. However, Zhang Youping did not go to work at his father's restaurant, but chose to make a living in Chinatown.

The chef apprentice in the restaurant is Zhang Youping's nephew, who is only sixteen years old this year and is named Luo Zhangsheng. His main job is to help the two chefs.

Perhaps it is because they all come from the mainland, or perhaps because Zhang Youping is more loyal, Zhou Yang's impression of him is much better than that of another Li Wuguo.

"Our kitchen is just a little harder to work, but as long as you are willing to endure hardships, you can always make money! If you go to a garment factory, it is not necessarily the case. They are all paid according to pieces. If you are not skilled and slow, you will earn less money!

When your sister-in-law first came to the United States, she had never used a sewing machine with her feet. As a result, she went to a garment factory on Kenny Street and had to learn everything from scratch!

Because I didn’t know how to use a tram at the beginning, I accidentally sewed it wrong. Then I could only remove the threads and rework a little bit. After an hour, I couldn’t even make a fortune of $1!"

While Zhou Yang helped, he heard Zhang Youping talk about the sad past when the couple first arrived in New York. The boss Liu Hongzhi suddenly came to the kitchen.

He asked Zhou Yang directly: "Xiao Zhou, do you dare to go out to deliver takeout?"

"What's the point of not daring to do this, but you have to prepare a map for me, otherwise I won't find the way!" Zhou Yang was not afraid of his new job at all, and nodded with a smile.

"That's good! A deliveryman called me in the morning and asked for leave. I was going to take it myself. But I suddenly had some urgent matters just now and I had to go out later.

This is the map manual for Manhattan. The delivery area for our takeaway orders is concentrated in the area of ​​Xiadongcheng. You can put other work first, and quickly compare the map to familiarize yourself with the surrounding streets!" Liu Hongzhi waved the map album on his hand and said.

"Okay, boss!" Zhou Yang said, then put down the kitchen knife in his hand and went to wash his hands.

In addition to being able to eat in the restaurant at noon, the Good Lucky Restaurant also provides takeaway services. For this reason, the boss Liu Zhihong also specially found three part-time takeaway workers, all students from Baodao who came to New York to study abroad, and arranged for two people to deliver takeaways every day.

Now one of them has taken leave. If only one of them is delivering food, they are usually too busy and the delivery speed will be very slow.

"Zhou Yang, 25th floor of Chase Plaza, Manhattan, Davis Polk Law Firm, David Lee's orders must be delivered within half an hour!

The kitchen has been wasted 10 minutes, and you still have 20 minutes now!" Liu Shufen, the restaurant's cashier and telephone operator, and also responsible for taking out food, handed Zhou Yang a large portion of the newly packed takeout food.

New York Chinatown and the famous Wall Street are both located in Lower City in Manhattan, and Wall Street is about one kilometer west of Chinatown.

In addition to many famous banks, securities companies, insurance companies, fund companies and other financial giants, Wall Street also has many top law firms in the United States. For example, the Davis Polk Law Firm in charge of delivering food in Zhou Yang is one of them.

The law firm was founded in 1849 and was once the legal counsel of John Morgan. Pennsylvania Railroad and General Electric, and these prominent giant companies were founded by this law firm.

In 1933, after experiencing an unprecedented Great Depression, the United States passed the Glass-Steagall Act and began to strictly split traditional commercial banking and investment banking. As a result, the Wall Street master Morgan Bank was forced to split into Morgan Stanley and Morgan JP Morgan, and the Davis Polk Law Firm was also responsible for the split.

After the company entered the Far East market in the future, it also gave itself a Chinese name called "David". Before traveling through time, Zhou Yang had an opportunity to deal with this well-known law firm. However, at that time it had already moved out of Wall Street and moved its office to No. 450 Lexington Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.

Wall Street law firms like David are well-known for their high salary and good benefits. They usually have their own special employee restaurants, so it is relatively rare to order cheap takeaways.

Zhou Yang rode a bicycle specially used for delivery in the store, and it took less than ten minutes to arrive at Manhattan Chase Plaza. It was a 60-storey skyscraper that Davie Law Firm rented five of them.

Zhou Yang first took the elevator to the 25th floor where the front desk of the law firm was located, and then called Mr. David Li who placed the order through the front desk and asked him to pick up the food. In the era when there was no mobile phone, communication was quite inconvenient.

"Hi, Man! When I placed an order, I clearly requested that it be delivered within thirty minutes. You are already late!" A white man walked up to Zhou Yang, pointed to the watch he was wearing, and said bluntly.

"Sorry, sir, I was not late when I arrived at the law firm, but your company is too big. It took a few minutes to contact you, but I promise that the takeaway inside is still hot!

Your order, together with consumption tax and takeaway delivery fee, is a total of US$15.50. I wish you a happy meal!" Zhou Yang smiled and handed the takeaway to the other party.

"Given that you defaulted, this is $5, I will only give so much!" The white man held two $5 bills in his hand, but after he said that, he pulled out one of them and stuffed them back into his pocket.

Zhou Yang did not expect that he would temporarily play a deliveryman and encountered such a difficult customer. The other party obviously did not prepare to pay the full amount from the beginning, and only prepared $10. After seeing him, he seemed to have changed his decision temporarily and only paid $5.

This is because he thinks he is easy to bully, so Zhou Yang also curled his smile and asked seriously: "Sir, are you serious?"

"Of course, you take $5, or I will refund the order, and then call your boss to complain, the right to choose is in your hands!" The white man raised his head, and seemed unwilling to look at Zhou Yang more.

Zhou Yang took the money quietly and handed the takeaway to the other party. This kind of faint racial discrimination is common in American society, but it happened to him in a law firm like David.

When the white man in a suit saw Zhou Yang's obedient look, he couldn't help but smile with contempt: "Asian boy, you made the right choice, otherwise I would send your boss a lawyer's letter to claim 10,000 US dollars from him! Do your boss dare to sue us Davis? He will only open you and apologize to me!"
Chapter completed!