Pick up a system to cross

Chapter 174
This is not the legendary Chinatown, Chinatown is just the most famous Chinese settlement in the United States.There are also some Chinese settlements in other cities, but these settlements are not as large and famous as Chinatown.

Si Zhai walked on this old and simple street, feeling a novelty, this kind of novelty is similar to...going out to school, not coming home for a long time, coming home suddenly, and discovering that his hometown has changed a lot , not only nostalgic, but also a little space-time disorder.

Most of the buildings here are made of red tiles and blue bricks, and most of the clerks in each small shop are also dressed in ancient clothes. Among them, the women either wear cheongsams or maid clothes, and many of them have two ball heads tied on their heads. pleasing.

The men are dressed in bunts and juniors, and some of them are dressed as scholars, which are somewhat nondescript. Fortunately, not many Americans understand the differences in Chinese clothing, so they are not too revealing.

The shops on this street are also quite interesting. The ordinary ones include: ramen restaurants and steamed stuffed bun shops, and the more unusual ones include: pawnshops and escort agencies.

Ramen restaurants and steamed stuffed bun shops are not the ones that are common in China, but the ones where tall wooden stakes are placed, a shed is built, and they are made and sold outside.

The owner of the ramen restaurant is a couple in their 40s. The boss is kneading noodles, pulling noodles, and serving noodles in front of the panel.

Smelling the authentic beef ramen flavor that is in the long memory, even if Si Zhai has now become a parasitic beast, he can't help but feel a little salivary. This is similar to an instinct, not a physical desire to eat, but a psychological one. nostalgia.

Si Zhai found a seat and sat down, and ordered a big bowl of ramen.

The table and seats here are also very ancient. It is the kind of small table with a bench. On the table is a bamboo tube with a pair of chopsticks inside. There is also a teapot, a set of teacups, and two ceramics. jars with chilli sauce and vinegar respectively.

While waiting for the ramen, Si Zhai looked around.

Opposite the ramen shop is the steamed stuffed bun shop. This steamed stuffed bun shop does not sell steamed stuffed buns in the house, but has a few tall bamboo drawers at the entrance of the store. When customers come to buy, the store directly opens the drawers with long bamboo clips. folder.

After picking out the buns, you can eat them on the side or take them away. The table over there is the same as the table here, with the same small low table and long benches. The difference is that there are not so many bottles and cans on the table.

People who buy buns there usually eat there directly, and most of them will order a bowl of tofu nao when they eat.

The white and tender tofu nao is paired with a clear black base soup, sprinkled with a handful of green coriander, which looks mouth-watering.

Si Zhai took a deep breath of the aroma of tofu nao wafting over, um, for this tofu nao, he also had to serve a basket of steamed stuffed buns!Well, let's eat after eating ramen!

After a while, the ramen came over. In the thick soup, there were distinct ramen floating in it, with a few slices of green coriander dotted on it, and two chunks of beef on top.

Alas, this is the amount of beef ramen that should be... Si Zhai was copying his chopsticks, almost bursting into tears. It's really a lifetime series, I never imagined that I could eat it in this life...

Picking up a chopstick to pull the noodles, put it in his mouth, sip the soup and eat it.

Well……

As for ramen, just two words: delicious!
but……

This body is not good... With such an authentic taste, this body has no reaction to eating delicious food at all!

Even though the parasitic animal cells in his body had no love for beef ramen, Si Zhai still had mixed feelings, and finished a bowl of ramen with a few mouthfuls, along with the two large slices of beef and a bowl of bottom soup.This is Si Zhai’s rule for eating ramen: Beef must be eaten for ramen, and there is never any soup left in ramen!
After paying the money and looking at the steamed stuffed bun shop opposite, Si Zhai sighed in a very complicated way: Forget it, don't eat it, and it won't taste good after eating it, so it's better not to destroy the taste in memory.

After leaving the ramen restaurant, Si Zhai wanted to go back and continue to study Heliwan, but was attracted by the noise on the side of the street.

As I said before, there are also some strange shops on this street: pawn shops and escort agencies.

The pawnshops and bodyguards here are naturally not real pawnshops and bodyguards, but the operation is similar.

The pawn shop is still a place for mortgages, but the mortgages here are no longer mainly antique gold and silver. To be honest, these things are quite rare now. If you bring them, the clerk may not be able to tell the real from the fake.

The main collateral items of the pawn shop are: cars.

The car here refers to the kind of car that has four wheels, burns oil, and costs between seven and eight million to several million.

Like a three-wheeled electric scooter or a two-wheeled real motorcycle, forget it, no matter how expensive it is, they won’t give you a mortgage when you come.

The reason for this is that the mortgage here has a rule that complies with the provisions of the law: during the mortgage period, all the right to use the item belongs to the pawnshop.

What does this rule mean?

To put it bluntly, you took a BMW to me as a mortgage. During the mortgage period, I can use this car at will, of course, without damage.

And what would the pawn shop do with the car?
To get the most out of this car, the best way is to rent it out.

After all, there are always some people who charter cars to travel, or rent luxury cars to show off. They rent their cars to these people. According to different cars, they charge hundreds of dollars a day. The money was also earned back.

Of course, at this time, the car is almost ruined. At this time, if the mortgager comes to redeem the car, he can earn more money. If he does not redeem it, he can sell it directly. deficit.

But renting an electric car is different. Not to mention not earning much money, it is easy to waste the battery, and it is not cost-effective to spend money on repairs. Therefore, no pawnshop will accept electric cars.

Generally speaking, if the operation is successful, this pawn shop is also a profitable business. Naturally, those who dare to do this business need to have a little brains.

The quarrel that is happening now is at the door of a pawnshop, and the other party, or the one who is cursing angrily, is the head of another special shop on this street-the head of the escort agency.

To put it bluntly, the bodyguard bureau here is actually a security company, mainly responsible for serving as bodyguards for people. Of course, they will occasionally be responsible for helping people deliver some valuables. .

The current situation is that the big man dressed as the head of the escort is holding the collar of the shopkeeper behind the pawn shop counter, spitting on his face and cursing angrily.

The head of the escort was not as reckless as he appeared on the surface, at least he didn't make a move, it was obvious that he was quite professional.

As a person in the bodyguard industry, the key to evaluating a bodyguard is not to do it easily, especially when he is normal.

The shopkeeper who was hanging in mid-air by the collar held by the escort was a white and fat middle-aged man. Cold sweat was pouring down his forehead, and he tried hard to break away the hand of the escort holding his collar, but he couldn't do it no matter what. I couldn't open it, so I had to ask for forgiveness: "Old Wang, if you have something to say, say it well, if you have something to say, talk it out, there are so many people watching outside!"

The escort head spat at him resentfully: "Speaking of your uncle, damn it, Fatty Li! You're such a fucking white-eyed wolf! I've helped you a lot in your business, but you're actually doing it for a few bastards!" Qiankeng Laozi, have you had enough of your conscience!"

(End of this chapter)