Chapter 5: Hard to make money

Danny couldn't hear anything. He didn't know that someone had troubled Lin Yuxun before, and he didn't know that someone had hit the door not long ago.
Full of food, he sat obediently on the bed, fiddled with several pull-tab cans, put them on his fingers, and took them off.
Cheng Hao glanced at him and comforted Lin Yuxun: "Rest assured, I'll fix the door, and I will fix it tomorrow." The structure of the door is simple, and he should be able to try to fix it.
Lin Yuxun's face was still ugly, but there was some glory in his eyes: "Thank you."
"It's me who says thank you. If you didn't save me, I'd be dead." Cheng Hao said.
"I didn't do anything ..." Lin Yu seeks, "I have no money to take you to the hospital."
"I'm fine, I don't need to go to the hospital." Cheng Hao said, he had been to the United States when he participated in a boxing match before and knew how terrible the medical expenses in the United States were without medical insurance.
Although it is now 1880, 40 years ago, it is certainly not cheap to see a doctor here.
And ... according to Cheng Jinhao's memory, the poor community has no hospital at all.
Lin Yuxun was obviously a little introverted. He glanced at Cheng Hao and didn't answer. He sat quietly for a while and said, "I'm going to do laundry."
He said, took Cheng Hao's dirty clothes and his own clothes and went outside. Soon, the sound of water came from the outside.
Cheng Hao wanted to thank him, but felt that it was not enough to just say "thank you", plus tiredness ... He didn't say much, but closed his eyes again.
He was a little uncomfortable at the moment. He was very weak and very hungry.
The smell of canned tuna became tempting ... Cheng Hao restrained himself from thinking about it and thinking about other things.
Such as how to live next.
His situation today can continue to go to school, but if he goes to school, he will have no income, no way to live-people have all the needs of food, clothing and housing, even if there are benefits here to protect "eating", he also You cannot afford to rent a house to buy clothes.
Therefore, he must find a way to make money.
But making money is not so easy.
To find a job, at least a high school diploma, and preferably a driver's license, but he ... or should say Cheng Jinhao, has nothing.
He is young.
Even a restaurant would not ask a minor like him to be a waiter.
There must be such a low standard for recruiting waiters in restaurants. He should not be able to those who are born and raised here.
Why are people in poor communities so poor? Is it not because many of them are not working? Although there are people here who would rather be homeless than work, there are also many people who are willing to break up with others for a job opportunity.
Therefore, he does not need technical work, he cannot find it at all.
As for jobs that require technical content ... he has no skills at all. He has been punching in his whole life, and he can only punch.
Of course, he has one advantage over others-he knows Chinese.
But these years, Americans are definitely not interested in learning Chinese.
Even if some of them wanted to learn, he could not find them. The upscale community here does not allow people like him to approach at all.
Cheng Hao suddenly discovered that ... he was worthless.
He can't do robbery and steal money like Cheng Jinhao, so the only thing he can do is go to the relief center to line up.
Thinking of Cheng Jinhao, Cheng Hao thought of Cheng Jinhao's family.
He also had the option to contact Cheng Jinhao's family.
But he couldn't do it ... he still wanted to live.
Cheng Jinhao was sent to the United States and was stabbed with a knife. Obviously someone wanted to kill him. In this case, contacting Cheng Jinhao's family would simply kill him.
Cheng Hao thought a lot of things, and finally fell asleep in the end.
Cheng Hao didn't know how long he had slept, he was awakened by the sound of the flapping shutter door.
He woke up and felt a pain in his stomach.
The mulatto child next to him slept soundly, completely unaffected by the sound of door knocks, and Lin Yuxun was not in the bedroom.
Accompanied by the slamming sound of the shutter door knocking yesterday, the voice of those middle-aged men who were driven away by the black people rang out yesterday: "Damn! Little bastard, you broke my door, You have to compensate my door! "
"Sorry ..." Lin Yuxun's voice was weak.
"Open the door!" The man's voice said again.
"I ... sorry ..." Lin Yuxun's voice was almost inaudible from the sound of the rolling door shaking.
Cheng Hao felt that his condition was much better than yesterday. He got out of bed and walked out of the bedroom, and saw Lin Yuxun trying to open the door.
Lin Yuxun was wearing a pale-washed shirt, and a non-fitting wool vest with small pompoms on the outside of the shirt was anxious to sweat on his head, but he couldn't open the door.
That rolling door has been deformed.
There is an iron rod with a thick finger on the left and right of the shutter door. When the lock is locked, the key turns, and the iron rod protrudes to both sides. It is inserted into the hole of the iron door frame next to it. The key retracted the iron rod.
But now, because someone had hit the door before, the iron rod was bent, and the door naturally couldn't open.
"I shouldn't have given the house to you! Even if I can't pay the rent, I still like to cause trouble!" The voice of the middle-aged man rang out again, and he cursed and let Lin Yu find the door.
"The door is stuck now and cannot be opened, but you can rest assured that I will repair the door later," Cheng Hao said in English. The broken door has nothing to do with them, but it has nothing to do with the landlord, so he is willing to find a way to repair it.
Unfortunately, the middle-aged man who was supposed to be the landlord was even more angry when he said aloud, "Who is this? Xiaozi, I said I can't bring people back! You bring people back, you need to increase the rent!"
Talking, he scolded, very badly.
Cheng Hao has n’t been scolded before, and I do n’t know how to deal with this situation. Fortunately, at this time, the voices of those black women who scolded were heard last night: "Dear, stop scolding, scold this The door won't be good ... just let them fix it! "
"Does that poor ghost have money to repair my door?"
"If he has no money, kick him out." The woman said, "Dear don't be angry, I'll cook you onion soup, come and eat."
The sound was drifting away, and it was finally quiet here.
At this time, Lin Yuxun looked at Cheng Hao: "If the door is to be repaired, you have to pull back the iron bars ... I can't move." The structure of the roller shutter door is very simple, and it is more clear to look in the door. He can still See clearly.
"I'm coming," Cheng Hao said.
"You are hurt ..." Lin Yuxun hesitated.
"I'm okay." Cheng Hao said, he must be working now, otherwise they won't be able to go out-Lin Yuxun is too thin and looks helpless.
With that said, Cheng Hao came to the door, observed it, and slammed it hard ...
The iron rod wasn't thick, and he was really straightened by him, even though his wound seemed to collapse.
Fortunately, he had been resting all night, and he was much better. Even if the wound collapsed, he would not faint.
Cheng Hao sat on the stool next to him and asked Lin Yu: "Open the door and try.
Lin Yuxun nodded and tried to open the door.
The lock can be opened, but the door is deformed and cannot be pulled up to a certain extent. In the end, the door can only be one meter off the ground.
If you want to go out, you must bend over and drill out.
However, I can go out anyway.
Cheng Hao said: "This way, I'll wait for the rest."
"Okay," Lin Yu said.
"Are you doing anything today?" Cheng Hao asked again.
Lin Yu seeks: "I'm going to school."
Cheng Hao thought for a while and thought, "I'll send you to school." Those blacks might have trouble coming to Lin Yuxun, or he'd better send Lin Yuxun to school.
Lin Yu looked for a moment. "You have an injury."
"I said, I'm fine." Cheng Hao said. Now, he must go out to see this ... When Lin Yuxun was sent to school, he would look for the relief center over here and go to the line to receive relief.
Lin Yuxun still wanted to refuse, but Cheng Hao insisted, he said, "Let's go."
"Wait a minute, you have something to eat first." Cheng Hao said, Lin Yuxun didn't eat anything last night and shouldn't have eaten anything this morning.
Lin Yuxun's face blushed a little: "There is no food at home ... but you don't have to worry about it, there is a free breakfast at the school. When you wait for me at the school gate, I can bring you some."
Cheng Hao had speculated that Lin Yuxun might not have more food, and it was even more embarrassing after it was determined: "I don't need you to take it out ... I will eat it myself."
Schools in poor communities are not strictly controlled. When Cheng Jinhao left the place where he originally lived and wandered around, he had done hungry and went to school to eat, and he could do the same.
He was so hungry that he wouldn't even care if he did so a little humiliating.