Chapter 1 The Chinese teenager in the car wash
In the summer of July, the Chinese settlement area of Los Angeles County and the African-Mexican settlement area are at the intersection of Mark Ayer Street, in a large car wash, dozens of car washers are working hard in the scorching sun and sweating profusely.
This car wash, called "Xinglong", was opened by Daiwan people who had immigrated to California decades ago.
It used to be just a small car wash, but after three generations of efforts, this shop that can only accommodate ten cars can now wash twenty cars at the same time and three hundred cars in a large car wash.
Just as the car washers worked hard, vehicles turned in from time to time and then stopped in the parking lot and waited in line.
The car washers in Xinglong Car Washing Co., Ltd. are basically Mexicans. These people work hard and require much less wages than ordinary people. Therefore, most of the service shops in California like to use Mexicans.
You know, if you hire a white or black person, the basic salary will be at least 8.5 US dollars per hour, but Mexicans only need to give 6 yuan.
Don’t underestimate the difference in salary of just $2.5. If all of it is calculated, it will be a considerable expense. As for Xinglong Car Wash, 20 Mexican car washers were hired here, and each person was given a salary of 2.5 yuan per hour, which is fifty yuan. This is only one hour, right?
Car washes are different from ordinary industries. Starting from 8 a.m. to ending at 8 p.m. If you calculate this in twelve hours, you will save at least 600 yuan in salary expenses in a day, and a monthly expenditure of 18,000 yuan, which is definitely not a small amount of money.
In the capitalist country of America, anyone who does business will do this, so everyone is willing to use these Mexicans. After all, this can save money, and only idiots will not choose.
Moreover, most of these Mexicans have been smuggled and have no identities in the United States, so they are all very honest and willing to work hard to make money, so there is nothing that employers don’t like.
Of course, the premise is that you have to give the salary recognized by both parties in accordance with the oral agreement. If you deceive these Mexicans and deduct difficulties at will, then the one who is unlucky in the end will be yourself.
In California, the two major gangs of Mexicans are not easy to mess with. The two major gangs of Southern California and Family Gang are famous, so most employers will give them a salary of 5 yuan per hour. After all, these Mexicans are really able to work, so the employers do not lose money.
Besides, the salary these Mexicans are indeed very low, right?
If you deduct difficulties or not, it would be really unreasonable. If you force the old Mos who are willing to work honestly and earn salaries to find gangs to support them, the price will be quite high.
So, as long as your brain doesn't get thrust, everyone knows how to do it.
Among these busy figures of Mexican car washers, there is also a Chinese-born boy with a pretty face and a height of about 1.8 meters.
Like those Mexican car washers, the Chinese boy who seemed to be only sixteen or seventeen years old was also a car washer.
But this Chinese-faced boy is different from other car washers because when he was working, he was carrying a baby strap, and inside the strap was a child who looked only about half a year old.
This suddenly made this Chinese boy very different from the old Mohjong workers who worked with him, and even seemed a bit alternative.
However, from the side point of view, the reason why this Chinese boy works with a child who is one and a half years old is obviously helpless. There must be some hidden information in it, but outsiders don’t know what this hidden information is.
Of course, most of the people who work here are hard-working Lao Mo, and everyone is not very interested in exploring the stories of Chinese teenagers. You should know that behind the people here, who doesn’t tell some pitiful stories?
According to the employer's requirements, it takes up to fifteen minutes for car washing workers to wash a car, which means that a car cannot be washed for more than fifteen minutes, and it can also be cleaned to ensure quality.
Therefore, the car washers are working hard one by one, with very quick hands and feet. Chinese teenagers are sweating profusely under the scorching sun, and from time to time they need to look back and try to see if there is any problem with the children behind them.
The poor child is like this Chinese boy, facing the scorching sun, but from the faces of the sleeping baby, it seems that he can't see any uncomfortable reactions, but the child is sleeping very sweetly.
Perhaps Xinglong Car Washing Co., Ltd. has the advantage of geographical location. In the past, customers who came to wash the car have been in constant force since the door was opened, and the car washers have no time to spare.
Kim Hyun-tae flushed the car in front of him with a water gun. After quickly flushing the water, he picked up the brush and started foaming. Then he started to rinse the foam with the water gun again. After the foam was washed away, he quickly turned around and retrieved the dry towel and quickly began to wipe the water stains on the vehicle.
All this work needs to be completed within fifteen minutes. After this time, the employer will not say anything, but you probably won’t need to go to work the next day.
In order for the daughter behind her to avoid starving, Kim Hyun-tae certainly won’t be lazy and completes all the work within fifteen minutes as much as possible, so that the boss and customers can be satisfied and ensure that they can make money.
After washing, a Mexican quickly got into the car and drove away. Then the second car was driven in and parked in front of Kim Hyun-tae.
After the car was parked, Kim Hyun-tae began to clean the next car.
Such a job seems simple, but in fact it is very monotonous and boring, and it also consumes a lot of physical energy. Most people really can't hold on.
"Damn alien elementary school student, if it weren't for this guy, how could my daughter and I come to this time and space? How could I be a car washer? Damn the salary of an hour is only 5 yuan, just like those black workers Lao Mo. If you have the chance, I must go to the Universe Alliance to file a complaint!"
The Chinese teenager who was carrying a child and repeating boring work procedures was doing his work quickly, but he kept muttering some words in a low voice.
It can be seen from his entangled expression that the words he whispered must be nothing good.
Moreover, from the words he said, we can hear that according to his words, we are not a person from this time and space at all!
Indeed, just as this Chinese boy named Kim Hyun Tae was murmured, because he was not a person from this time and space at all, but from another time and space earth, and he was a real Chinese. He was already thirty-six years old at the middle age. He also left a one-and-a-half-year-old daughter when his wife had just passed away due to cancer, which made him fall in love with her father and mother before he had time to be sad.
But the question is, why did Kim Hyun-tae, who was a father and a mother, come to this world, and also appeared in Los Angeles, California, America, and work as a car washer?
At the same time, who is the "alien elementary school student" he keeps talking about?
In fact, Kim Hyun-tae should be considered a "time traveler", and he did not come across alone, but took his daughter through the time and space tunnel together, came to this time and space, and appeared in Los Angeles County, California, America, of the Earth Federation.
The reason is that the school holiday where an alien elementary school student is about to end. He wants to take a shortcut (fly over the earth) and go home to report that the "Namik" elementary school student was reported. However, due to irregular driving of the spacecraft, a small part of the spacecraft broke out from the hull and landed on the earth when passing through the earth. Fortunately, he hit Kim Hyun-tae and his daughter even though he died, causing a universe traffic accident.
This caused Kim Hyun-tae and his daughter to die on the spot, which was extremely unlucky.
In order to evade responsibility, the alien elementary school student had to resurrect Kim Hyun-tae and his one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, and used his special technology to open the time and space tunnel, bringing the father and daughter from the earth to this Earth Federation of time and space.
The main purpose is to allow Kim Hyun-tae and his daughter to disappear from the original time and space to avoid the responsibility for the accident caused by him.
But strictly speaking, that alien elementary school student is a little conscientious.
At least it did not directly hit and run, but gave Kim Hyun-tae and his daughter a chance to live again. Otherwise, Kim Hyun-tae and his one-and-a-half-year-old daughter would have no way to do that alien elementary school student. If they die, they would have no place to reason at all.
You know that Kim Hyun-tae can’t find a complaint from the Universe Alliance?
This alien elementary school student also used the small amount of pocket money left and activated some special technologies to get a legal identity for Kim Hyun-tae and his children in this time and space, which can be regarded as a solution to a problem.
However, the alien elementary school student didn't have much pocket money. After solving the identity problem, he could no longer get the money needed for survival for the father and daughter. Therefore, after Kim Hyun-tae arrived in the United States of this time and space, he had to start running around for survival.
This is also what makes Kim Hyun-tae complain the most.
But this is the case, and Kim Hyun-tae has no way to change this, so he has to find a way to survive in this Earth Federation of Earth in this time and space.
Fortunately, Kim Hyun-tae's thirties can endure hardships for his daughter. At the same time, because Kim Hyun-tae is an orphan, his wife has passed away again. In the original world, he can be said to have basically no one to worry about, and his only daughter also came to this time and space with him, so he really has nothing to miss about the original time and space world.
It is precisely because of this that Kim Hyun-tae can integrate into this time and space America in a short time and accept everything at the moment.
After coming to this time and space, Kim Hyun-tae overcomes the initial difficulties through the 50 yuan nutrition fee he received every time [sperm donation], and then found the job of this car washer, working for half a year.
Unlike what is described in online novels, Kim Hyun-tae has no aura or a variety of halos. Moreover, because he has to make money for his daughter to fill his stomach, he doesn't have that much thought and energy to consider other issues at all.
Fortunately, the alien elementary school student obtained his legal status and a birth certificate for his daughter, so Kim Hyun-tae, who had a stable job, had financial conditions to rent a house through half a year of hard work, and got a place for himself and his daughter to settle down.
Although the rented place is not very good and the house is bad, for Kim Hyun-tae, who is in the current environment, he really has no way to pick on these things.
You can't let him and his daughter sleep on the streets.
People at work basically don’t pay attention to each other, especially in this car wash yard where most of the Mexicans are. Kim Hyun-tae, as a Chinese, and those old Mexicans, have no common language, so everyone works with their heads and will not have any communication at all.
But this is good, Kim Hyun-tae is too lazy to chat with these guys, so he is happy to do his own thing and not have any interaction with those Mexicans.
As time passes little by little, as time goes by and the sun slowly moves in the sky, time comes to 16 pm. Kim Hyun-tae starts working at 8 am and works until now. He has never had a rest at all, and has not even eaten lunch, and has been cooking for 8 hours.
"Xiao Jin, I'm changing shifts, come and get the money."
In the direction of the office, a man in a white shirt and black trousers stood at the door and shouted at Kim Hyun-tae who was cleaning the car.
Hearing this, Kim Hyun-tae raised his hand and wiped the sweat from his face with a dry towel, then rushed to a Mexican middle-aged man who was walking over quickly and nodded and handed over the remaining work, and left the parking space under his jurisdiction.
The middle-aged Mexican man took over Kim Hyun-tae's car and quickly began to wipe the car with a dry towel, taking over the remaining work of Kim Hyun-tae.
Kim Hyun-tae, wearing denim overalls and a white T-shirt, was soaked in sweat, walked into the office of the car wash.
The cool wind in the office made Kim Hyun-tae unable to help but let out a comfortable slap. At the same time, he unbuttoned the lock of the baby strap, carefully held his daughter in his arms, and looked down at the sleeping child.
After being held in his arms by his father, the little guy wrinkled his cute nose and then opened his eyes. When the little guy saw the familiar face of his father, he immediately let out a 'giggle' laugh, and at the same time he waved his short little hand, looking very happy.
Kim Hyun-tae's daughter was originally one and a half years old. Unfortunately, because she traveled through the time and space tunnel and was affected by the mysterious energy magnetic field in the tunnel, her daughter, who was only one and a half years old, became a month old baby after coming to this time and space, which caused quite a lot of trouble to Kim Hyun-tae.
You know, babies are not as easy to raise as one and a half years old.
Kim Hyun-tae himself has also changed from a middle-aged man to the appearance of a 16 or 17-year-old boy, and has regained his youth.
Unfortunately, Kim Hyun-tae didn't care much about this change at all. What he cared about was how to take his daughter to live well and take good care of her.
In this way, the "teenager" Kim Hyun-tae gritted her teeth in this parallel space and space, taking care of her daughter while looking for a job, and she worked hard for half a year.
Because he is a single father, his daughter cannot stay in his rented home. At the same time, Kim Hyun-tae is not at ease to leave it to others, so he has to take his daughter with him every day at work. Although it is a bit harder, he can rest assured that he doesn't have to worry about any accidents that his daughter will have.
"It's so good. It's so hot outside. It's still comfortable in the office. The air conditioner is enough." Kim Hyun-tae closed his eyes and felt the cool air conditioner, then walked towards the boss.
The entire office is large, with car tires and some spare parts inside. There is an office desk in the corner at the end, a computer on the desktop, and a Chinese man in his thirties sat behind him.
This man is the third generation boss of the car wash.
After Kim Hyun-tae walked over, the boss took out a white envelope and handed it to Kim Hyun-tae.
"Your job is very good. One or two cars are used less than Lao Mo's. It seems that the decision I left you was not wrong at the beginning. I hope you will keep working hard. Give it, this is your salary today."
After saying that, the other party's eyes were on the child in Kim Hyun-tae's arms, and then said, "It seems that it's not easy for you. You are so old, you have to support a child. It's very hard."
After taking the white envelope, I opened it and took a look. There were four 10 yuan bills and eight one yuan bills. After confirming it, I responded: "As for my child, no matter how hard it is, it is worth it. Since I am her father, I have to take on the corresponding responsibilities, right?"
The boss shrugged and said nothing, and Kim Hyun-tae didn't have the desire to continue talking about this matter. Besides, even if he continued to talk, the other party might not increase his salary for him, so why waste his words?
"So I'm off work now, will I still start work at 8 o'clock tomorrow?"
“Yes, eight o’clock.”
He turned around and left the office, held his daughter and walked to the street outside the car wash.
"I won't wash cars here all my life. There is no chance to make a name for myself. Besides, I have a new life. How could I not work hard and try to get out of my own way?"
Standing on the street at the entrance of the car wash, Kim Hyun-tae stopped and looked back, then looked at his daughter who was dancing in her arms, and made a secret decision in her heart.
Indeed, there is no way out for doing this work, and it is just to survive now.
As a father, Kim Hyun-tae must consider his own development and his daughter's future development issues.
This matter cannot be neglected.
But Kim Hyun-tae also knew that it was not a good time now, and he still needed this job and salary.
But once there is a chance, Kim Hyun-tae will definitely make the right choice.
"Oh, Dad has received his salary today. I'll buy you milk powder and then go home to make a drink. After eating, Dad will take you to work at the place where you work in the evening."
After retracting his thoughts, Kim Hyun-tae raised his hand and shaved his daughter's face, which made the little guy look a little dissatisfied. Kim Hyun-tae laughed loudly. He didn't care whether his daughter could understand or not. In short, he would talk to his daughter every day.
Chapter completed!