Upon hearing the girl's words, Zhang Lisheng had a bad premonition in his heart. He looked back at Tina and asked, "You've booked two tickets. Who else wants to go to New Mexico?"
"Me, of course. As the secretary of the board of directors of LS, of course I should be present at the critical moment when the group is laying out the most important industry in the future." Maddie blinked and replied.
"Woman, don't act smart. You won't get anything by doing this," the young man looked into the girl's eyes and said with a blank expression.
"But I feel that I've gotten everything I want just by being able to see you and stay by your side for a while," Maddie replied in a soothing and gentle voice as she looked back into Zhang Lisheng's eyes.
"Maddie, you're already a paranoid patient. You should go see a psychiatrist," the young man said with a blank expression after looking into the girl's eyes for a while. After looking at the girl for a while, the young man said expressionlessly and turned his head to continue browsing the information on the Internet.
After spending nearly an hour to read all the information he was interested in, he blurted out, "It's only been half a year, but the entire Earth has become different from before. This is really unexpected …"
"Lisheng, actually, the changes in the lives of ordinary people are not that big. The endurance of humans at this time is beyond your imagination." When Maddie, who had been waiting patiently by the side, heard Zhang Lisheng's endless speech, she suddenly said softly, "Let me take you to see how the lives of ordinary New Yorkers, or rather, ordinary Americans are like now, okay?"
"There's no need, Maddie. I want to go, go, go …" Zhang Lisheng originally wanted to reject Maddie, but he suddenly realized that his mother and girlfriend were already far away in the Noah World. Other than them, he had no other place to go, so he could not help but shut his mouth.
"Baby, out of the three people who truly love you on Earth, two of them have already left. Other than going out with me, who else can you go to?" Upon seeing the young man stuttering, Maddie said with a smile.
"What the hell? A few hours ago, I was still feeling proud that I'm going to have a 'world' successfully, but now, I feel so pitiful." Zhang Lisheng pondered about it and stood up with a grave expression. Vaguely, he said, "Alright, Maddie, I really don't want to stay in the office alone to cook my own steak in such a mood.
You drive, let's go to the city to eat something good. We can also take a look at your so-called ordinary American's life now.
I suddenly realized that after leaving high school, I seemed to have left the word 'ordinary' for too long. Now I really need to understand the real life of the general public, so that I can make some judgments. "
"Okay," the girl said joyfully. She naturally held the young man's arm and walked out of the office building.
It was already nighttime, and a whistling sea breeze had started blowing outside. The dust in the darkness seemed to have lessened a little, and the stars in the sky revealed their blurry shadows.
Even so, after Zhang Lisheng breathed a few mouthfuls of the dirty salty air, he still had an annoyed expression on his face. Following Maddie, he walked around half of the factory and entered a small medieval blue Ford Fiesta.
By right, although the Ford Fiesta was not big, it was more than enough to fit the skinny Zhang Lisheng.
However, ever since the young man came to the US, be it driving or sitting, he had always been using an extended SUV or a RV. For this reason, he looked at the narrow space in the car unaccustomed to it and could not help but say, "Maddie, your salary plus dividends should be at least tens of millions of dollars a year, right?
Why is your car as bad as an unemployed waitress in a third-rate restaurant? "
"It's because the place where I live is not very safe, and a brand new Ferrari is just too eye-catching," the girl replied and started the car.
"Not very safe? Oh, don't tell me that you're still living at No. 57 West Jasmine Street?" Zhang Lisheng asked in shock.
"Why can't I live there? I'm a 23-year-old single girl who has just graduated from college. Isn't it reasonable for me to pay to live in my parents' house? At least, no matter how late I work, I'll still have a hot dinner. In other words, I'll have new sheets to sleep on every week."
"Even if that's the case, you can still move your parents to an apartment in a better community, right? I remember that the street outside your house is not even fully lit, and the sounds of cats and dogs are even more miserable than other places." The young man sat in the passenger seat and looked at the constantly changing scenery outside the window as he said with a curl of his lips.
"It's not as bad as you think. A neighborhood with pets can be 'livable' in New York."
"Is that so? Looks like other than being afraid of your car being stolen, you're also enjoying living in West Jasmine Street." Zhang Lisheng shrugged. "I really don't understand the way you Americans think, but this is your life, so it's fine as long as you're satisfied."
"Thank you." As the girl drove, she turned her head and nodded at the young man with a smile. "Don't worry. Even though the dishes that my mother can cook are limited and very ordinary, her skills are not inferior to the chefs of Michelin restaurants. You'll definitely be satisfied with your meal tonight."
"Wait a minute, you mean we're not going to the restaurant but to your house for dinner?"
"Of course! Don't you want to understand the changes in the lives of ordinary Americans? There's no blue-collar family in New York that's more ordinary than my family," Maddie said with a smile.
"Oh, a blue-collar family that has a daughter who is a board member of the largest livestock slaughtering chain in the US is indeed 'ordinary' enough." Zhang Lisheng became silent for a while before replying unnaturally. "But I think that we can also observe the lives of ordinary people in any restaurant in Brooklyn or Blanx."
"First of all, my parents don't know that I'm the secretary of the LS Group's board of directors, so they can't imagine this at all.
Secondly, I think that if you really want to observe the lives of ordinary people, a family is far more suitable than a restaurant, unless you're afraid. "After the girl drove the car out of the factory, she turned onto the road leading to New York City and said.
"Afraid? What am I afraid of? This is really a clumsy 'goading' …" Zhang Lisheng shrugged awkwardly and said, unwilling to give up, "But you've already taken out more than 500,000 dollars to treat your father's cancer a few years ago when you just graduated from high school, but your parents still don't know what your job is until now. Isn't this just ridiculous?"
"When I was treating him back then, I lied to them that I was lucky enough to receive help from a charity organization. Otherwise, my father would not have allowed his daughter, who had just reached adulthood, to take out a large sum of money for him to go abroad for treatment for no reason."
"You received help from a charity organization?" The young man patted the soft seat of the car in astonishment. "How could they believe such a lie? How ridiculous! Also, Maddie, the clothes that you're wearing should not be cheap, right? They look at least more expensive than this car …"
"Lisheng, after tearing off the logo, not everyone can tell that the Chanel fashion is expensive just by feeling it." The girl interrupted Zhang Lisheng's words. "Especially when my father is just an ordinary construction worker while my mother has always been a housewife. The word 'fashion' is very far away from them."
Maddie's answer made Zhang Lisheng completely speechless. He no longer said a word while sitting in the car. The girl, who had miraculously obtained the opportunity to go home to have a meal with her sweetheart after much difficulty, was afraid that there would be any more changes to the situation, so she also remained silent.
Just like that, the car quietly passed through the faint sand fog and drove along the intercity highway into New York City.
After turning left and right on the street for a while, they passed through the Undersea Tunnel and passed through an intersection with a neon sign of a building with the words' Manhattan Jinling Office 'written in English. Finally, they came to a block filled with Chinese signboards.
"Even though I've only been here once, I still have a deep impression of this place." Zhang Lisheng, who was staring at the shiny black signboard with the words' Authentic Yunnan Mountain Products' and the houses with cornices on the walls on both sides and a stone sculpture of a lion rolling hydrangea at the entrance, suddenly said, "This is Chinatown, Maddie. You're going in the wrong direction."
"No, Lisheng, I'm not going in the wrong direction. Even though my mom's good at cooking, it's only natural that I have to buy a few Chinese dishes so that you can have a more delicious meal tonight." The girl said as she turned a few intersections on the street with familiarity and parked the car in front of a white three-story building. She asked with a smile, "Do you still remember this restaurant?"
Looking at the six traditional Chinese characters' Spicy Chicken Restaurant 'written on the signboard of the small building, Zhang Lisheng shrugged and said, "Of course I remember, Maddie. I've spent 50,000 or 100,000 dollars on the top floor of this restaurant to learn the true essence of Shape-Will Fist from that Chinese medicine doctor with the surname Song. That money can be said to be the most worthwhile money I've ever spent in my life.
Come to think of it, that was already a few years ago. I wonder how Dr. Song is doing now. "
"If you want to know how Dr. Song has been doing these few years, you can go and ask him yourself later." Maddie reached out to hold Zhang Lisheng's chin and gently turned his head before saying softly, "I'll put on some light makeup for you before you go."
"What?" The young man asked in astonishment.
"Your face is as pale as a vampire and your eyes are even greenish. You look like you should stay in a hospital bed instead of driving around the city in a car. I know that this is the result of your continuous advancement in witchcraft cultivation, but other people don't know about it. Not only that, you can't explain this kind of thing.
For this reason, it's better to put on some light makeup to make your complexion look better and avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble. What do you think? "
"Is my complexion really that bad?" Zhang Lisheng asked with a frown. He pulled down the car's sun visor and looked at his own face in the mirror for the first time since he made a breakthrough in witchcraft. Sighing, he muttered, "I've already reached Rank-10 Wizard, but I can't even cover up the aura of death with a 'mask'? It's indeed strange if I don't stay in the hospital's intensive care unit with such a complexion …"
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