Zhou Yang gave a takeaway for lunch. In addition to encountering this trick from Dawei Law Firm, he also encountered a customer's rejection.

There was no way. The customer lived a little far from the Chinese restaurant, and the food was not fast enough for the kitchen. As a result, when Zhou Yang delivered it, the other party seemed to have gone out. He knocked on the door for a long time but no one responded.

Fortunately, he has little responsibility, and his boss Liu Hongzhi did not say that Zhou Yang, a novice in the top class, would bear the losses.

Everyone in the restaurant was busy until 1:30 pm, and finally saw off the last guest during lunch time. Everyone could take an hour off first. Although everyone was very tired, everyone was still very excited because today was payday.

Domestic companies are popular with monthly salary, but in European and American countries, the weekly or bi-weekly salary system is more common. Good Lucky Restaurant implements a bi-weekly salary, which means that the salary is paid every Friday of the other week.

Because New York is not in good public security, Chinatown is no exception. Carrying a lot of cash at night is a very dangerous thing. So Liu Hongzhi did not set the time to send the money after closing in the evening, but chose to go in the afternoon so that everyone can take advantage of the hour of lunch break to send the money home or deposit it in the bank in time.

As for some people, why do you need to find cash, isn’t it more convenient and quick to transfer money directly? On the one hand, it is because the various handling fees of banks in the United States are high, and on the other hand, it is to avoid taxes.

You should know that the US tax bureau is more terrifying than the FBI. As long as you pass through the bank, records will definitely be left, and there is a risk of being investigated by the tax bureau. Only in person can there be no trace left.

Zhou Yang's first salary totaled US$641. After deducting the $100 living expenses that his boss Liu Hongzhi had already paid him, he actually got US$541.

After getting rich, the first thing he did was naturally move out of the utility room in the basement of the restaurant. Zhou Yang started looking for a house in Chinatown a week ago.

The United States has a vast land and sparse population, and the per capita housing area is not tight at all. But New York is an exception. After all, New York is the city with the highest population density and the most economically developed in the United States.

Every day, many young people who pursue their dreams come to the United States from all over the United States and even the world to work hard. It is these fresh blood that keeps pouring in to support the housing rental market in New York.

As the real downtown of New York, Manhattan can be described as every inch of land. You should know that before Zhou Yang traveled through time, even when the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008 and the US real estate market was almost collapsed, Manhattan's housing prices still only rose but not fell.

Therefore, in New York Chinatown, located in lower Manhattan, the rent price is naturally not cheap. Zhou Yang has not considered living in other places, but most of the properties in New York are actually in the hands of professional rental companies.

Not only will they review the tenant's background, they may also ask you to provide rental insurance. If you don't have insurance, you will have to pay annually. Not only does Zhou Yang have a problem with his identity, he will definitely not have enough money.

The most important point is that he doesn’t have a car now. If he rents a house in other places, he will definitely have to take the subway to and from get off work.

The New York Metro after 9 o'clock in the evening is a very terrifying place even in the 21st century, not to mention that it is now 1980, when the public security is at least ten times more chaotic.

Therefore, for his own life, Zhou Yang could only stay in Chinatown for the time being, and he had to choose a place closer to Good Lucky Chinese Restaurant to reduce the time he would take to walk at night after get off work every day.

In fact, Zhou Yang had already set a goal three days ago, which was less than 500 meters away from Chinese food. The full name of 1B1B is 1 bedroom& 1 bathroom, which is translated into Chinese as one bedroom and one bathroom.

However, houses in the United States basically have a large living room. Just divide half of the living room and can be transformed into a two-bedroom apartment.

This is the case with the house Zhou Yang was looking for. It was originally a one-bedroom and one-living room layout, and the whole rent was $500 per month. This price was not cheap in 1980. You should know that the average monthly salary in New York was less than $1,500.

Perhaps for many Chinese who live in first-tier cities in later generations, spending one-third of their income to rent a house is not too much. But Americans don’t think so. They have to hold parties every month and go out for travel every year, so they can’t spend all their money on rent.

What's more, the average income in Chinatown is lower than the data in New York. So the landlord simply turns one room into two rooms and rents it to two people at the same time.

The original master bedroom costs $300, and the second bedroom partitioned with the living room costs $200. This price is easy to accept at once!

What Zhou Yang wants to rent is the second bedroom renovated in the living room. The biggest disadvantage is that the partition wall is actually just a thin layer of templates, with poor sound insulation, but who made him lose money?

After receiving the salary from his boss Liu Hongzhi, Zhou Yang called the landlord. Fortunately, the other party also lives in Chinatown, so he quickly rushed over to sign the contract.

In theory, the lease contract in the United States is much more rigorous. Because once tenants move in, it is difficult to easily drive them out.

However, this kind of private rental in Chinatown is relatively simple, and it is not much different from renting a house in later generations. You must pay a deposit of one month first and pay one monthly rent.

Zhou Yang handed over 400 US dollars and rented his second bedroom. The salary he had just received was more than 100 US dollars. Then he seized the time to buy bed sheets, quilts, food and other daily necessities. After purchasing it, he successfully reduced his available balance to double digits again.

As the saying goes, survival is not easy. Zhou Yang clearly has a very buggy golden finger in his mind, but having no money means nothing is useless?

When Zhou Yang handled the renting business before going back to the restaurant, it was actually already past his lunch break. Fortunately, he was diligent in the past half month, and his boss Liu Hongzhi didn't care. Instead, he asked about the landlord's situation with concern so that he would not be deceived.

唐人街的水可深着呢!

When a fellow villager sees his fellow villager, he is crying. Such deep friendship is not lacking, but when a fellow villager sees a fellow villager shoots his own people, this kind of situation of cheating on his own people is more common.

Fortunately, Zhou Yang's landlord is an old Chinese who has been in Chinatown for decades. In his early years, the couple opened a laundry room in Chinatown. When they were older in recent years, they handed over the laundry room to their son, and rented several houses himself and became the second landlord who collected rent.

With the reform and opening up of the country, the smuggling army began to pour into Chinatown on a large scale earlier than normal Sino-US personnel exchanges. It is said that since now, hundreds of people have poured into Chinatown in New York every month, and the rents of Chinatown houses have risen slightly.
Chapter completed!