Chapter 9 Chinatown
The lead-green rain curtain splashed with splashes of water, and the water on the ground reflected the flashing light of neon lights. A figure walked quickly past, bringing a circle of ripples.
Wang Ruhu looked at the names of the shops hanging around him in English. After recalling for a long time, he vaguely felt the meaning of these English.
When he pushed open a nearby store that had not been closed, the boss was wearing headphones behind the counter while reading magazines while shaking his head and listening to music.
Suddenly, his eyes became dark and when he raised his head, cold water vapor rushed over, and Wang Ruhu was already standing in front of him.
"What are you...what are you...doing?" The boss was a white man, a little thin. He looked at his expressionless face under his sunglasses, swallowed his saliva, and instinctively reached out to the drawer to get the money.
Wang Ruhu swept the counter, grabbed it straight, remembered the address pronunciation that Harold said in the car, wrote down the Chicago words and showed them to the other party. Because the pronunciation was inaccurate, or the place name was not deeply remembered, and the vocabulary letters were not accurate, the owner of the store thought for a long time before he found out that it was Chicago.
Looking at the oriental man in front of him who looked carefully for a while, thinking that he could not speak, he squatted down the counter and searched around. Unfortunately, he couldn't find the one he was looking for, so he got up and spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders.
"I'm sorry, I want to help you too, but I haven't been to Chicago. There is no map in the store. Maybe you can go to the phone booth on the street outside, where you can find a map of the entire state of the United States. There should be important state cities marked on it."
On the other side, Wang Ruhu did not make things difficult for him, but just nodded, folded the paper with Chicago written on it, put it in his arms, pushed the door open, and it was more than 20 meters away from the store, and there was a telephone booth.
Wow—
In the drizzling sound of rain, the bright and trendy leather shoes were walking on a pool of water, and in the rain, they went to open the door. On one side of the landline hanging inside, there were two books, one should be the address and phone number of the residents of the state, and the other was unfolded, all of which were outlined by colorful lines.
“Chicago….”
Wang Ruhu followed the words relisted by the store owner and quickly swept the names of cities. At this time, in the store that was just grateful to the music album, the thin boss leaned against the window and looked at the figure of flipping through the book in the phone booth outside, took out his cell phone, and dialed a string of numbers.
"...I found a suspicious person, an oriental man, suspected that he was a smuggler, at a telephone booth near Teton Falls Apartment..."
After reporting the address, the man was careful that the store door was locked, and looked at the misty water vapor outside and slipped back to the counter. Soon, the vehicle flashing the police lights drove past the outside. When the flashing red and blue lights passed by the telephone booth, Wang Ruhu raised his face, and a police car slowly stopped to the street, and two people in uniforms came down.
hiss--
Wang Ruhu directly tore off the map that had not been checked yet, pushed open the door and turned around and headed in the other direction. Two policemen of different skin colors, black and white, who got off the car behind, followed them with the gun handle at their waists.
"Hey, stop!"
"Let's go, we're going to shoot!"
While running, the white policeman turned his head to look at his dark-skinned partner, "This is my word."
Just as the two of them were chasing, Wang Ruhu flashed into the back of a house, swept over the blocked iron net in front, jumped, stepped on one wall, moved left and right twice, climbed to the balcony on the second floor with one hand, and heard the movement. Wang Ruhu stretched out his hand and pushed it back into the house, stepped on the stone railing of the balcony, and threw it outside the iron net below.
The two policemen who were chasing, panting and attached to the wall, looked at the four or five meters high iron net and the figures that disappeared in the rain. They reached out and tried to climb the iron net, and shouted softly, "hiss!". The black policeman covered his bleeding fingers and retreated clumsyly, murmured with his thick lips.
"If you can't get through, how can you get through this..."
The white policeman looked at both sides. There was a balcony nearly one meter different on the high courtyard wall. Even if he jumped through the iron net, it was still four or five meters away. He took back his incredible eyes and looked at his partner, and he couldn't believe it.
"Chinese Kung Fu, ha?"
.........
Going away from the quiet town in the rain, in the drizzle of rain, Wang Ruhu wiped away the water stains on his face, looked at the highway in front of him, and walked with his big hands covering the map while screening the city name. Finally, he found the name of Chicago on the third map, and then looked at his location, and instantly felt a little overwhelmed.
It takes four states to reach Chicago on the southwest shore of Lake Huron.
"Suddenly I missed the bed in Tagong Prison...and Harold's mouth."
With his teeth grinning, Wang Ruhu's eyes passed through the rain curtain to identify the road he was going to take, folded the map, took a deep breath, and stepped on his feet. The moment the sole of his shoe fell, the concrete ground suddenly cracked, and a afterimage was dragged out of his body, and he ran wildly at full speed.
Of course, it is impossible to run to Chicago all the way. After running more than 100 kilometers in one go, the soles of the shoe were only polished with a thin layer of rubber soles, and the smoke was burning her feet.
I saw the street sign saying Lewisburg, and I was resting under a tree on the open roadside. I occasionally encountered a large truck. I took advantage of the front of the truck and chased me behind and jumped on the rear and snatched it. After reaching the fork, I jumped off the route I planned and continued to move forward.
He was just going to deal with the whole night in the wild. If he saw the township, he sneaked into the hotel, "take the trick" to open the window lock, went in and took a comfortable bath, and then took a nap. He didn't think about going to withdraw money, but the password of the card Harold gave him was simply wrong.
"I have a chance to see him again, so I have to beat him up."
After patting the card in his hand, Wang Ruhu kicked a stone on the side of the road and landed in the distance in front of him. He bounced a few times on the side of the road and flew into the weeds on the gentle slope on one side.
“Ah~~”
A woman's cry suddenly sounded in the wasteland and grass half a meter high. After a moment, a woman wearing a peach-hearted short-sleeved and a baseball cap hurriedly lifted her hot pants and climbed up the gentle slope. She squinted her eyes and saw her figure walking on foot, and she spoke and gestured as if she had seen a savior.
"Hello, can you do a favor? My car accidentally drove downstairs."
The man who was waiting for him approached and saw the face, the pretty girl was still stunned for a moment, but she reacted quickly and still repeated the sentence just now. However, Wang Ruhu ignored her and he couldn't drive the car. Wouldn't that be embarrassing then?
Seeing that the oriental man ignored him, there was no idea when a car would come around. The girl hurriedly followed, folded her hands together on her open T-shirt's chest, and begged in a rather pitiful tone.
"Please help me. My holiday is over today. I have to rush back to Chicago tonight, otherwise I won't be able to rush back to work tomorrow."
Chicago?
Wang Ruhu stopped and looked at the freckled girl. The latter thought she was looking at him, so he quickly sorted out the instrument and was about to speak. The man opposite passed her straight past her and jumped down the gentle slope. Between the weeds there, a convertible red sedan was tilted inside.
"Can you drive up?"
The girl also came down and stood aside, barely reaching the height of Wang Ruhu's chest. The latter nodded, took off his sunglasses, looked at the curbside, pursed his lips and pondered for a moment. It was too terrifying. He pushed the car door with both hands and gritted his teeth and exerted force, which made the girl suddenly laugh.
"You won't push..."
As soon as the words fell, the twisted "squeak" sound of metal came from the car. The next second, in her sight, the horizontal body slowly moved, the tires rubbed against mud and stones and weeds, and were pushed up to the gentle slope by the oriental man in front of him little by little, and then onto the road.
"My God, you are so lucky..." The girl waved her hand excitedly, and even took out her cell phone from her bag in the car, ran to get close to Wang Ruhu, and made a V gesture towards the camera of the phone.
"I actually met an oriental strongman. Thank you very much." As he said that, the girl stood on tiptoe and pursed her red lips to kiss her, but she could reach it. Wang Ruhu turned her head and looked at her pouting pretty face in confusion.
‘She wants to use this as a reward? Then how else can I go to Chicago?’
How can she succeed?
Thinking of this, Wang Ruhu held the girl's shoulder with both hands, pushed her away, took out the map from her arms, and pointed to Chicago. The girl, who was originally a little embarrassed, probably understood what it meant, and held the rear of the car with her exposed waist and pulled the door open, shook the key in her hand.
"What are you waiting for? Let's go, kindly Oriental Hercules, let's take a wild road trip tonight."
As he said that, he suddenly lifted up his t-shirt towards Wang Ruhu, who was sitting in the passenger seat, and exposed a pair of fair-looking men on his chest. He quickly covered him back, laughing and twisting the keys to start the car.
Buzz!
Step on the accelerator, quickly leave the roadside, and speed up along the highway.
"My name is Linda! I'm so happy to meet you!"
The wind roared, and the girl named Linda shouted loudly. The voice drifted to the distance of the road behind her with the wind, and her long brown hair spread out to the back and flew back in the air. Along the way, she had never seen Wang Ruhu say half of the words. She thought she was disabled, so she simply said nothing more scruples. She drove the express train while sucking big.
As she was talking, she cried. After listening to her words, Wang Ruhu realized that the girl was actually going to Washington to visit her boyfriend during this holiday. She found that she had been cheated on her. She simply spent all the previous breath and bought the sedan that she had been thinking about for a long time as a gift for herself. However, she didn't drive often and was too big in the car. The result was the scene just now.
The night gradually fell, and it was already past nine o'clock when it entered downtown Chicago. In the dense city lights, the red car slowly stopped nearby. Linda took the tissue handed over to the side, wiped the crying eye makeup, and sucked her nose twice.
"Actually, this is my first time to smoke... I won't know anything about it anymore, and I won't be sad."
He turned his head to look at Wang Ruhu who was about to get off the bus, "Hey, Dongfang Hercules, I know you were smuggled... But I won't tell the police, there is a saying that when you see the police, you should put your hands in the place they can see, and... You should go to Chinatown first, walk through the intersection in front and arrive. There is your companion there, and you will take some care to make you adapt to life here."
The girl was not in a hurry to leave, nor did she leave her contact information, so she gave her thumbs up and compared.
"And...Welcome to the United States!"
After saying that, he stepped on the accelerator and drove towards the traffic ahead in the direction. Wang Ruhu stood there and watched the disappearing taillights of the car, and his eyes turned to the surrounding street intersection.
"Chinatown......."
A whispered between the thick beard, following the direction the girl had just guided, walked to a street in front. With the brilliant city lights, a tall archway with blue background and golden characters stood at the end of the long street, mixing with steam and noise.
On both sides of the eaves of the archway with the words "Chinatown" written on it, the swaying red lanterns inexplicably made him feel a little warm and familiar.
Chapter completed!