Dreaming for 10,000 years

Chapter 330 Family
Shi Fei watched from the side and Li Zhao said a lot of nice things to him. Finally, he promised a good time and even used Shi Fei as a shield. He finally got rid of that woman.

"Tsk tsk tsk, it's so hard to accept the favor of a beautiful woman!" Shi Fei teased.

"What beauty's favor? We are just husband and wife for one day!" Li Zhao said casually.

"Oh?"

Li Zhao explained: "She was introduced by a friend of a friend. In Goff City, life is quite stressful, so... "

"After all, I am a normal man and I don't have a girlfriend!" He said frankly, "Isn't this normal?"

Shi Fei laughed and patted him on the shoulder.

This guy is really a wonderful person!

He added: "But not all the students who stay here are like me. There are also a few who don't care about what's happening outside the window. They just concentrate on finishing their studies and go back early."

A small part of them don't miss him, but there are still some who are like him. Liuzi is a very complex group of people, and it is not something that can be simply described by a label.

They came to an old bar, pushed open the door, and a warm scent mixed with alcohol and woody scent hit them in the face.

Although the bar's decoration is old, it gives people an inexplicable sense of intimacy. There are several old photos hanging on the wall, and an old-fashioned jukebox in the corner, playing soft jazz music.

As soon as he entered, the bar owner greeted Li Zhao skillfully. Li Zhao also responded with a smile and walked up to the owner to exchange a few words. The owner was a middle-aged white man with a kind smile on his face, and it was obvious that he was very familiar with Li Zhao.

After a while, the boss brought over two bottles of white wine and a plate of peanuts and placed them on their table.

"Oh? Still Laobai Gan?" Shi Fei picked up the wine bottle with a hint of surprise in his tone.

"This is good, better than foreign liquor." Li Zhao said with a smile, a hint of nostalgia in his tone: "Whiskey is too hard to drink, and brandy is too expensive. I'm more used to this."

Shi Fei looked at the peanuts on the table again and asked: "This bar also sells peanuts?"

The Laobai Gan and peanuts made Shi Fei feel as if he was in a small restaurant in Hebei.

"That's nothing. We'll have lamb skewers later!" Li Zhao said with a smile, a hint of pride in his tone.

"Huh?" Now it was Shi Fei's turn to be surprised. When he came in just now, he thought this was a western-style bar, but it turned out to be a barbecue stall.

No wonder Li Zhao likes to come here with his friends. This place is indeed suitable for keeping children.

"Their business was not very good before." Li Zhao explained: "Later, I gave him some suggestions and taught the boss how to make barbecue and peanuts. Although the business was not very good, it was not too bad either."

"You can do this too?" Shi Fei said.

"Hey, what's that?" Li Zhao waved his hand and said, "In Gaofu City, if we, the foreigners, don't want to suffer, then we will suffer a great punishment."

He laughed jokingly, "Not only can I make barbecue, I can also cook! So I am the godfather of several roommates."

As we all know, the cost of living in Goff is very high. An ordinary prepared meal costs about 30 to 50 US dollars.

If you are an international student studying in Goff City, sharing a suite with several roommates, and your roommate not only cooks delicious meals, but also invites you to join them for dinner every time.

Then you will also regard him as your "godfather". "Interesting!" Shi Fei also said with a smile. He opened the wine, poured a glass for Li Zhao and a glass for himself.

"Come on, let's have a drink first!" Li Zhao raised his glass, with a hint of generosity in his tone.

Shi Fei also raised his glass, the two of them clinked their glasses together gently, and drank it all in one gulp.

"Can you continue to talk about black families?" Shi Fei was still thinking about the previous question.

Do black people also have family values?
Li Zhao put down his glass, picked up a peanut, and said, "I have seen many dead bodies of young black men. Most of them died in gang gunfights, and a few died from police gunfire."

"I also have a few good black friends and I've talked to them. Most of them really don't have any impression of their fathers, but they have mothers."

"Their mothers raised them with great difficulty, so when they grow up, they will definitely support their mothers. This is human nature."

Shi Fei nodded and continued to listen to Li Zhao. "But in Goff City, the education level of black people is very low. The content of the textbooks in those public schools is not even as good as my sixth grade textbooks, especially in mathematics."

"By the time they graduate from high school, they may not even be able to read a newspaper, or do addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. In our country, they can be called semi-illiterate."

"What can people like this do in a city like Goff with a population of 20 million? They can't do hard labor as well as illegal labor. They don't have the diplomas or skills to do decent jobs."

"So... they can only do illegal things. Especially when they commit crimes to support their elderly mothers and their families, they have no psychological burden at all."

"In order to support the family and to make money, taking risks is not a big deal in their eyes." Li Zhao said all this in one breath, with a hint of helplessness and emotion in his tone.

Shi Fei commented: "It's just like the family hero in the movie!"

Li Zhao asked back, "Then where do you think the audience for a movie like Family Heroes will be?"

It is precisely because there was an audience for Family Man that there were movies like Family Man.

"In Goff City, blacks, Mexicans, Italians, and South Americans all value family." Li Zhao added: "Black children don't have fathers, and in many cases it's because their fathers were beaten to death while working outside to make money."

"Just like the hunters in primitive society who went out hunting and died outside, a matriarchal society was formed. They only knew that there was a mother, but not who the father was."

Shi Fei finally understood. He thought of the black kid Qidi he saw in the underground boxing ring yesterday. His father died in a gang fight.

"This city is really surprising." Shi Fei said: "Don't stereotype."

"Yes!" Li Zhao said, "Without research, you have no right to speak. In the past few years, I have participated in many charity events and met many people. I can barely say that I have some understanding of this city, right?"

"Then why did you become a corpse mover?" Shi Fei thought of the way he saw Li Zhao during the day and said, "I guess your parents sent you here to study, not to do this, right?"

He first came to find Li Zhao because he saw Li Zhao carrying corpses and was afraid that Li Zhao might have encountered some difficulties, so he came to find out.

I never thought that Li Zhao seemed to be doing quite well here.

After hearing what Shi Fei said, Li Zhao clinked a glass with Shi Fei, then drank it in one gulp and said, "It's all because of the instructor's arrangement. Here, we live like cattle and horses, and we have to listen to the instructor in everything."

(End of this chapter)