I'm telling fortunes in North America. I'm really not a wizard.

Chapter 24 Henry
[Some of the plots in the first two chapters seemed inappropriate, so I changed them. If you feel that they don’t fit, you can go back and read the first two chapters.]

It turned out that Zeng Hongbing's fellow villager told people in his hometown on the phone and chat software that the blue-collar wages here are very high, and working here for two or three days is equivalent to working for a month in China.

The labor cost here is very high. Building a wall or installing electrical appliances or air conditioners will cost hundreds of dollars.

If you have some other skills, such as welding, forklift, shovel loader, etc., you can earn more.

This is called a technical job. That fellow villager does this job and earns a lot of money.

At that time, Zeng Hongbing was in a state of anxiety due to debts and famine. He heard that it was easy to live here, so he felt that it was just like how people from Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi and Gansu went south to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Pengcheng Special Economic Zone to work.

I work so hard in my hometown, but the money I earn in a whole year is still not enough to cover what I earn in a month working outside.

A move is a life saver. He gritted his teeth, stomped his feet, and ran over with the little money he had left.

But I never expected that after I got on the Greyhound bus to Los Angeles and reported that I was safe, I heard this news.

In fact, he knew that he must have been stood up!

If he really went to New York to work on a construction site, he would have to leave a phone number. But now he doesn't even leave a phone number. It's clearly an excuse.

I don't want him to find it.

"Then what are your plans now?"

Chen Yaozu couldn't give any advice on this matter. He could only say that the person Zeng Hongbing wanted to join was indeed a bit of a coward. If you didn't want him to come, you shouldn't have said it in the first place.

You said it and encouraged others to come, but when they really came, you wilted!
“Let’s take it one step at a time!

You can't let a living person die from holding his urine. Just like in China, if you go to a big city to work and can't find a job yourself, you can find an agency.

It should be the same here!
I can weld, do bricklaying, carpentry, and use forklifts, shovels, and excavators. I don’t believe I can’t find a job in Los Angeles!”

Zeng Hongbing is still very confident. He has skills and is not nervous. He is just like this kind of person.

To be honest, Chen Yaozu is less confident than him. Although he still has some money on him now, the compensation from his parents and the 2 US dollars returned by Songchai add up to more than US dollars.

But this amount of money will not last long in America. If there is only outgoings and no incomings, he is not sure how long it will last.

Cindy talked to him and learned that in Los Angeles, the rent alone would cost tens of thousands of dollars a year, and that was for the cheapest room in the suburbs with inconvenient transportation.

If it is a small one-bedroom apartment in the city center, the minimum cost is $2500 per month.

We also have to eat, plus what about daily expenses?
So he also needs to have a job. If Cindy had given him a note before, saying that she could help him get a work card more quickly.

There is also the note given by Officer Grillos, saying that the lawyer named Henry might be able to help me solve my identity problem and work card problem.

Both of these phone numbers refer to work cards!
But now that I have a work card, what kind of work should I do?

What can you do?
After traveling through time, he only inherited a few months of his original body's memory. No matter what skills he had before, he couldn't master them anyway.

What's more, there is no certificate to use.

Then you can only count on what you can do. What can you do?
In the forty-one years before the time travel, he worked as a firefighter for 12 years and then retired. He then opened a barbecue restaurant and also did some volunteer rescue work on the side.

I can drive, have firefighting knowledge and skills, can grill, and cook a few home-cooked dishes, but I don’t know anything else.

With my cooking skills of cooking some home-cooked meals, no one will hire me as a chef, so I can only wash dishes?

The two of them were thinking about how to go on the road, so they didn't talk much, just looking at the scenery outside the window in their spare time. In fact, the scenery outside the American Interstate Highway was quite fresh when I first saw it, with large country villas everywhere.

But in fact, after looking at it for a long time, it is just like that, because most of these big villas are dilapidated and remote.

But there are some new things. At the gas stations where Greyhound buses stop, people don’t necessarily have to stop to refuel, they may also stop to buy food.

They were surprised to find that the gas station here was actually a combination of a gas station, a restaurant and a convenience store.

The food was lackluster though, just burritos, pizza, hot dogs and donuts in alternating order.

After crossing two continents and changing several trains, the two finally arrived in Los Angeles with great difficulty.

Before arriving in Los Angeles, Chen Yaozu was holding two pieces of paper and hesitating whether to call the number Cindy gave him and look for the Oriental man she mentioned, or to call the number given by Sheriff Grillos to find Lawyer Henry?

After weighing it over in my mind, I decided that I should call attorney Henry. The man on the note that Cindy gave me came here a few years ago, and he would introduce the lawyer to the office card.

But what Officer Grillos gave me was a direct call to a lawyer, who might even be able to help solve the identity issue. Of course, if the identity issue couldn't be solved, the work permit issue could be resolved.

When you went to see the person on Cindy's note, didn't you also ask him to introduce a lawyer?

It is also a good choice for me to find a lawyer directly and avoid the middleman who makes a profit from the price difference.

So he took out his phone and dialed: "Hello, I'm looking for Lawyer Henry!"

"I am. This is my personal number. Who is calling you?"

A slightly deep voice answered the phone, but unexpectedly it was Henry himself.

When Chen Yaozu heard that it was a private call from the other party, he realized that Officer Grillos really wanted to repay him sincerely.

"The person who gave me the phone number was Officer Ben Grillos. I'm an Asian who just arrived in America. He said he could contact you to help with my identity and work permit issues."

You should be prepared when facing a lawyer by briefly explaining the identity of the introducer and yourself as well as what you need to do on the phone.

Otherwise, if the other party presses the clock with one finger, he or she may be asked to pay.

"Oh well!

Sir, I need to confirm with Ben!"

The person on the other end of the line was a middle-aged white man with a severely receding hairline. He took a sip of the coffee on the table before finding Grillos' phone number and dialing it.

"Ben, what's the situation with this client you introduced to me this time? You actually gave me my personal number!"

“Henry, that’s my friend!

An oriental wizard helped me a lot!
I owe him a big favor, Henry!
He is an illegal immigrant. I asked him to contact you to see if his identity problem can be solved. Even if the identity problem cannot be solved, you can solve the work permit issue.

Henry, listen, he is a wizard, a wizard with very magical powers.

I suggest you try to be friends with him, he saved my life!"

As he was speaking, there was an electronic voice in Oriental Mandarin on the other end of the phone: "Please No. 17 b, e, n, G, r, y, l, l, o, s go to Department No. 2 for examination..."

(End of this chapter)