241. Foreign hooligans
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After more than ten hours of flight, Li Yifan arrived in Vancouver, Canada's third largest city. Due to the jet lag, it was the local evening when he arrived in Vancouver.
It is summer in the northern hemisphere, but the temperature in Vancouver is not as hot as the capital. It is adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, so the temperature here is very cool.
I took a breath of North American air from the airport and admired some Vancouver landscapes. No wonder this place was once rated as the most suitable city for humans to live in the world. The whole city has done a very good job of greening. Although it is located in a high latitude area in the northern hemisphere, because warm ocean currents often pass by, the climate here is very pleasant, it is not cold in winter and not hot in summer.
As early as the United States implemented the ban on China, many Chinese workers in the United States migrated here to settle down. After World War II, a large number of people from Xiangjiang and Baodao moved here. In addition, the city's relatively open temperament, this place has become the preferred place for more and more Chinese people in North America to settle down.
So far, about 500,000 Chinese have settled here, and this place has become the largest gathering place for Chinese in North America.
After leaving the airport, I thought it would be the second uncle who saw in Aunt Anna's photo that would come here to pick me up, but after waiting for a long time, I didn't see anyone.
It was not until Li Yifan saw a card holding his Chinese name in the pick-up hall that he calmed down. However, when he saw the person holding the sign, his heart still trembled. This was a young man with black hair, completely different from his second uncle he imagined.
Just as Li Yifan looked at the other party, the other party also noticed Li Yifan. Without hesitation, the young man who looked a little like Keanu, smiled at Li Yifan and then walked over.
"Are you Yifan?"
The other party's Chinese was very standard, which surprised Li Yifan.
"Yes, I am."
"Haha, hello. Welcome to Vancouver, I am Billy Lee, your cousin."
"Hello, I'm glad to see you."
Li Yifan stretched out his right hand, but unexpectedly he received a big bear hug from his cousin.
"Dad. There's something happening to be something. So let me pick you up."
Cousin Billy is a familiar person with the cheerful and passion of Europeans and Americans. He was not at all interested in his cousin whom he met for the first time. He took over his luggage in his hand while talking.
Li Yifan didn't say much, but followed the other party outside.
"Aunt Anna is okay? By the way, why didn't your parents come? Didn't you agree to come together?"
Billy asked.
"Aunt Anna is very good. She is very busy recently. Please don't worry about her. My parents can't come here because of some personal reasons, so I'm the only one this time."
"Oh? Buying cattle breeds is not a trivial matter?"
Billy raised his eyebrows and looked at Li Yifan slantedly. It was obvious that he was surprised that his relatives in China had such a child-like person to deal with such a thing.
"Haha, nothing? You guys check here. We are very relieved."
Li Yifan of course understood what Billy meant, and he explained to Billy. When Billy heard this, he felt that his cousin was very good at speaking. When he said this, he expressed his trust in people like him. This made him feel warm.
Billy's car is a Chevrolet Impala from the 1960s. From the perspective of modern people, this is a scrap metal, but with Billy's careful construction, this car looks very hippie.
The sharp large wheel arc, coupled with the cool flames, makes this car look like a retro fire chariot.
“Good car.”
Li Yifan casually praised it because from Billy's careful care of this classic car, it can be seen that Billy is a car lover.
"Oh? Do you know the car, too?"
The handsome man raised his eyebrows again, and he looked like a odor. When he was in China, he was definitely the kind of handsome man who could fascinate all living beings.
"Well, I can't understand, but I have a few cars at home, and I like them very much."
Li Yifan said casually, but unexpectedly this touched Billy's itchy spot.
"Hehe, don't underestimate my car. Although it looks old on the outside, it has been carefully crafted inside. Look, I replaced the V8 engine and this transmission..."
While putting Li Yifan's luggage into the trunk of the car, Billy began to recite the car for Li Yifan. Billy was not old, but he was very knowledgeable about the car coming.
In addition, Li Yifan is also a person who likes cars very much. The two soon got to chat with each other and quickly passed the car, which means to become a good friend who can talk about everything.
"My dad wants me to go to the United States to study in college, Haval or Princeton, but I am not interested in being a study worm. I want to learn how to repair cars, but my dad strongly opposes..."
Billy soon became familiar with Li Yifan, so he began to talk about his situation.
It was not until this time that Li Yifan knew why Aunt Anna's tone and expression were so strange when she talked about this cousin Billy.
Love is a Canadian angry young man with a strong rebellious mentality!
Moreover, through chatting with Billy, Li Yifan learned that Billy was not old, only one or two years older than him. It seems that this foreigner really looks more mature.
"Hehe, I didn't expect that you would be such a person. I thought that Chinese people from the mainland would be more rigid, the same as before."
It is only 2000, not ten years later. Now, foreign countries, especially countries like Canada, understand the national quality of Xinhua, generally stays at the level of international students in the early 1980s and 1990s.
After all, now is the time when the craze for studying abroad is just emerging. In addition, although there are many Chinese in Vancouver, most of the Chinese here come to Xiangjiang or Baodao, and the number of Chinese in mainland China is still relatively small.
"Haha, it's like that everywhere. Have you ever contacted many people from the mainland here?"
Li Yifan responded casually.
"Well, I have come into contact with some of them. Many of them went to the United States a few years ago and recently came to Vancouver. Recently, the mainland students in the city have begun to gradually hide, but the people I come into contact with are older..."
Billy was driving while chatting with Li Yifan, and soon they drove out of the airport and passed through the city center.
Li Yifan's second uncle lives in the southwest of Vancouver. Like many European and American cities, Vancouver is the kind of bungalows except for some high-rise buildings in the city center.
However, the concept of bungalows in other people is different from that in China. If they change to ordinary bungalows in China, they should be called independent villas.
"No, this is Chinatown, then Broadway and Chilanri. Be careful when you come to this place in the future."
When passing through Chinatown and reaching the intersection of Broadway and Chilanri neighborhoods, Billy introduced Li Yifan.
"Oh? Why?"
“The security here is not very good…”
When it comes to this, Billy's expression is rather strange.
As soon as Billy finished speaking, a motor roar came from behind the impala they were riding. Billy turned his head and looked back from the rearview mirror.
"Damn..."
Billy cursed softly, and Li Yifan immediately knew that they were probably in trouble.
Sure enough, Billy was about to step on the accelerator. When he was throwing away the Dodge pickup behind, the Dodge pickup behind suddenly passed by them, and then stopped Billy's car on this relatively remote road.
Billy did not turn off the engine, but instead went in reverse gear and wanted to reverse the car, but a black off-road vehicle came up behind, blocking Billy's car in the middle.
Billy's face changed a few times, and then he quickly returned to normal. He did not get off the car directly. At this time, a few big men jumped off the pickup truck in front, and the off-road vehicles behind him began to go down one after another.
A total of seven or eight tall and strong foreign men came down. The weather outside was not very cold. Most of these men were dressed in T-shirts or vests, and the exposed thick arms were covered with various tattoos.
Li Yifan knew that it seemed that he had met a foreign hooligan now.
"Hey! Billy, it's been a long time no see!"
A big man with a flower scarf that the motorcycle often brought with him on his head walked to Billy and the others' car, and then punched him hard on the hood.
"who is he?"
Li Yifan looked at the big man outside the car, then turned around and asked Billy.
"He... his nickname is Mad Dog. We used to be classmates from the same high school..."
When Li Yifan heard Billy's introduction, he couldn't help but feel a little surprised. This mad dog could see the big gold teeth inside with just one mouth. Hei Tian also wore a pair of sunglasses and a goatee on his chin. No matter how you look, they were all dressed like a middle-aged uncle. Unexpectedly, he was a high school classmate with Billy. Isn't this guy only in his early twenties?
"Did you have any holiday with him?"
Li Yifan asked.
"Haha, a while ago, he and I lost 10,000 Canadian dollars to me..."
"That's all?"
"Of course, there's another hanging hair?"
"Puchi..."
"That's really all?"
"In addition, I slept with his girlfriend..."
Chapter completed!