Throughout the 1960s, the United States focused its energy on South Asia because of the Vietnam War and had no time to manage the desert area. The rich countries would not give up too many opportunities to make money. Oil prices were slowly rising throughout the 1960s.
It was like cutting meat with a soft knife, causing the cost of industrial products in the United States to rise. The economy was naturally in a slump. When it finally broke out, it caused four economic crises in the 1970s.
Moreover, the economy was sluggish, and it was difficult for Americans to find a job. They also had to face a large number of retired soldiers joining the ranks of job snatchers. Thinking of this, William lowered his head and worried that he would not even be able to find a Burger King waiter, who only worked for one or two months. When he saw a few Chinese people in front of him wearing linen black martial arts uniforms with red borders, he suddenly looked up and asked,"Are you the disciples of the martial arts school in Chinatown?"”
The young man in the lead nodded and saw William ask happily,"If I can help you introduce middle school students to learn martial arts, how much will you give me?"”
"This…" The surrounding disciples of the Chinese Martial Arts Dojo looked at each other in surprise. After a while, their faces showed a hesitant expression.
There were dozens of martial arts centers in Chinatown, but there were ten official martial arts centers with a space of one or two hundred square meters.
But the problem was that although everyone wanted to earn money from foreigners, they did not want to teach foreigners real kung fu.
He didn't even want to teach them the routine, let alone real Kung Fu. He would rather live a tight life than teach Kung Fu to outsiders. Otherwise, Brother Xiaolong wouldn't have been scolded for opening a martial arts school in San Francisco and taking in foreigners as disciples.
After hearing the explanation of the leading disciple, he had already made up his mind. With his doubled physical fitness and memory, he would first learn a few moves or a complete set of moves from the master of the martial arts club.
Then, he performed a few times in school to attract the nerds who had been bullied by school bullies to learn boxing. William couldn't help but curse in his heart. It would be the same even decades later, let alone in this era. Moreover, the more closed it was, the less it could develop and keep up with the times.
This meant that he couldn't even find someone to teach him Kung Fu, let alone earn a recommendation fee. With a heavy heart, William turned around and left without even entering Chinatown.
For the next two days, William did not plan to give up his student status. In order to prevent the welfare institute from chasing him away, he lost free food and accommodation. He could not work full-time, so he could not find a suitable job so quickly.
Even if there was, it would be unwise to give up the opportunity to go to college for six or seven dollars a day.
After all, he could prepare for his university application in February next year. If he worked hard for seven months, he might be able to get into a good university.
Fortunately, Frank might be really kind, or he might be worried that the money he borrowed would go down the drain.
After Frank's introduction, William found people to help tidy up the lawn, touch up the paint on the walls, and clean the swimming pool in the rich neighborhood where his family used to live.
In the following week, using the spare time after school in the afternoon, he made a profit of 48 dollars with the price of 8 dollars per family, including the lawn and some other odd jobs.
Moreover, the place where he worked was a truly rich area. Even if someone was dissatisfied with him for snatching a job at a price 15% lower than the market price, they would not dare to block him in the community.
As for the outside of the community, it was not difficult to avoid people who were looking for trouble.
After five hours of physical labor every day, he found that not only did he not feel tired, but his physical fitness was also constantly increasing with the supplement of the all-meat burger.
The only troublesome thing was that, probably because he was handsome and the weather was hot, there would always be aunties with blurred eyes when he wore a vest to work. There would even be little girls who would say strange things under the pretext of bringing water or drinks.
If he hadn't just started earning money and didn't want to get into trouble, he probably wouldn't have to go back to the orphanage for the night. According to the newspaper, a weekly salary of 48 USD and a monthly salary of 192 USD could be considered as a middle-low income group. After all, a set meal of two Big Macs, fries, and coke was only between 1 to 2 USD.
The hamburgers from the Americans were definitely comparable to the two or three hamburgers from China.
Last year, the average annual income in Los Angeles was 5000 dollars. William, who earned nearly 200 dollars a month, could support himself.
As long as he could support himself, William would have the time and energy to study hard for university, read newspapers, and talk to people in the rich areas who were willing to talk to him, thinking of other ways to make money.
During this period, he kept his promise. After getting the first 8 dollars, he returned Frank's money and took him to eat a Burger King set meal that cost 2 dollars. Their relationship suddenly improved a lot.
A month passed by slowly. One day, Frank suddenly looked for William with an ugly expression, hoping to do odd jobs with him.
It was only a few days later that William found out that Frank's parents had signed the divorce papers.
Frank couldn't accept the fact that his family was broken. He ran away from home without thinking. After he had nowhere to go, he thought of William, his only friend.
William was not angry about bringing along a burden.
With Frank's participation, his time would not be so tight. He could let Frank do the morning and afternoon work, and he would take over after school. Moreover, with two people, they could also take on part-time jobs with a higher workload and earn more money.
After that, the two of them appeared in various wealthy districts in San Francisco from time to time.
The only problem was where to stay. Li Changheng instinctively wanted to live in a place with many Chinese people.
After a week of hard work, the two of them had more money left in their pockets. In a dilapidated apartment building a street away from Chinatown, they spent 80 US dollars a month to rent a small two-bedroom apartment with a living room of 36 square meters that was at least 30 years old. It was close to Chinatown, and they could taste Chinese food from time to time.
One day in early September, they spent a day helping a rich man build a small tree house for his daughter with the template made in the factory. They received a check with 20 dollars written on it.
William put the check in his pocket and took the bus back to his residence. He couldn't help but look at Frank, who was complaining about being too tired.
The 16-year-old young man in the movie had cheated 1.2 million US dollars in less than a year with fake checks.
If he remembered correctly, there were too many banks in the United States that could scam such a large sum of money. There were hundreds of banks that crossed the country, not to mention international banks. There were also a large number of private banks in the local counties and cities. As long as there was a mutual settlement service between the banks, once the checks of different banks were cheated by the bank's window staff,
After the check was cashed, it would not be checked again. Instead, it would be shipped to the bank where the checkbook was opened. They even had the same bank, a blank check issued by New York's Morgan Stanley Bank, and after it was cashed in San Francisco's Morgan Stanley Bank,
This check would also be shipped to New York. When the two sides settled accounts, someone would check the check again to see if it was real. The shipping time was usually two weeks or even more than 14 days.
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