Chapter 2 The days of the ghetto
On the way home, Kim Hyun-tae passed by a Chinese-owned supermarket and bought a box of ten-pack chicken legs and a can of baby milk powder along the way.
A box of chicken legs costs 2.99 yuan for ten pieces, and baby milk powder costs 9.99 yuan. This price is really not expensive. At least after comparing Kim Hyun-tae with the original Chinese prices in time and space, this is not expensive at all.
Originally, Kim Hyun-tae wanted to buy a few boxes of discounted beef, but he finally gave up. Although he is very greedy now and the beef in the supermarket is not expensive, he still did not let himself spend more money.
Twenty minutes after leaving the supermarket, Kim Hyun-tae took his daughter back to his rental place.
The place where Kim Hyun-tae rents is located on the outermost edge of the Chinese community in the eastern suburbs of Los Angeles. This place borders the poor community of African and Mexicans. The three parties only cross a road. This place is also a place where only Chinese poor people live, so public security is not very good.
The houses in this community are not the kind of townhouses, single-family buildings, or villas with independent styles. They are all flat-screen houses built with simple materials.
The reason why he chose this place was mainly because Kim Hyun-tae was not financially affluent. If he could, he would not have taken his daughter here. He also hoped to take his daughter to live in so-called white communities, or good communities like Monica Beach, or even places like Beverly Hills.
But the economic conditions are here, and he really can't do this.
In this community, every day after nightfall, drug dealers and various types of criminals began to appear in the African and Meccan communities.
Gunfight! Robbery! Fighting and fighting are often seen here. Even several of Kim Hyun-tae's neighbors have encountered such a thing. At night, they were robbed of money by Lao Hei or Lao Mo, and some were stabbed by a knife, and some were shot...
So Kim Hyun-tae knew that sometimes it wasn't strange to kill people for five dollars in this place.
Therefore, Kim Hyun-tae hated this place deeply, but he did not have enough financial conditions to take his daughter out of this chaotic community, so he had to grit his teeth and insist on living here.
The land of the house that Kim Hyun-tae rented is owned by the landlord. It is built with simple materials. The monthly rent is US$600. The price is relatively cheap. This is why Kim Hyun-tae chose this place at first, but he only needs to ignore the security issues in this community.
But Kim Hyun-tae couldn't be picky about this at the time, because Kim Hyun-tae didn't rent a house here, so he could only live on the street with his daughter. Then, it was obvious that he could not take his daughter to sleep on the street with his daughter, so he could only live here with his nose pinched.
When she got home, Kim Hyun-tae, who was busy, opened the newly bought milk powder and brewed it for her daughter. She gave it to her daughter who was uneasy after seeing her making the milk powder. She focused her attention on the bottle, so she had time to start busy preparing dinner for herself.
This is really tiring to be a father and a mother, both mentally and physically.
Fortunately, my daughter didn't know if it was because of the free mysterious energy magnetic field in the time and space tunnel. Since she arrived in this time and space, the little guy's body has been great, he has never been sick at all, and he is in good spirits.
This is also the biggest reason why the little guy can be carried behind his back and working under the scorching sun.
This is also an advantage that can satisfy Kim Hyun-tae after the "time travel".
Kim Hyun-tae's dinner was very simple. He cooked two chicken legs with clear water and salt, stuffed a pot of white rice, and served with Lao Ganma, and that's all.
In this American Chinese supermarket in this time and space, you can buy Lao Ganma chili sauce, which is also an invisible comfort for Kim Hyun-tae.
After finishing the simple dinner at a rapid speed, after cleaning up, I saw that my daughter had half of her milk bottle and had not finished drinking, so Kim Hyun-tae went to the bathroom to wash up briefly.
Before her daughter finished drinking milk, she was very quiet, so Kim Hyun-tae had to make good use of this time period.
After taking a quick shower and taking away the sweat stains from the hard work of the day, Kim Hyun-tae came to the living room and looked at the old-fashioned wall clock hanging on the wall. It was already 5 o'clock in the evening.
Walking to the crib where her daughter was, her daughter had just finished drinking the milk in the bottle. Kim Hyun-tae gently picked up her daughter and began to gently pat her behind her to help her burp her breasts.
I have to say that after my daughter becomes younger, everything has to be done again.
The little guy who was held in Kim Hyun-tae's arms seemed very happy. He kept raising his little arms to hug his father.
Unfortunately, it is impossible for a little guy who is only half a year old to do something like one and a half years old.
The little guy obviously couldn't understand such a change, so when he encountered the little guy who was constantly failing, he seemed a little impatient and started kicking his legs to express his dissatisfaction.
"It's better for you. You can live a carefree life at the age of not knowing anything. I miss your father and me. Now I am a father and a mother. I have to make money while taking care of you."
Seeing his daughter getting angry, Kim Hyun-tae complained at her daughter with a lot of laughter and cry.
Unfortunately, the little guy couldn't understand at all, so he could only look at him with confusion when Kim Hyun-tae finished speaking.
It was getting late, and Kim Hyun-tae could not continue to delay. He had to take his daughter away from home as soon as possible and go to the second place to work.
When Kim Hyun-tae got his second job, it took fifteen minutes to ride a bicycle. It was located in a Chinese restaurant in the Rolandgang area. His main job was to wash dishes. It took five hours in total from 19 o'clock to 24 o'clock at night. The salary was 8.5 yuan per hour, which was much higher than the 5 yuan hourly salary in the car wash.
Kim Hyun-tae can earn 42.5 yuan in these five hours, and it is more than 1,000 yuan in a month. In addition, the 48 yuan earned by working in a car wash yard for eight hours a day, Kim Hyun-tae can earn 2,500 yuan a month by working two jobs. This income can completely afford rent, water and electricity, and various expenses for himself and his children. If you have some plans, you can save some.
Therefore, Kim Hyun-tae currently attaches great importance to both jobs.
After comforting his daughter and letting the little guy stop playing tricks, Kim Hyun-tae changed his daughter to diapers, then prepared a black backpack and carried it on his chest, then carried his daughter into the baby strap and behind her back.
The black backpack is basically filled with daughter's supplies, such as diapers, brewed bottles, and wet tissues.
After all, when you work with your daughter, the little guy will have some unexpected situations, and you can use these things, ready for emergencies.
Everything was ready, and Kim Hyun-tae left home with his daughter on his back and started to go to the workplace where he worked for his second job. Of course, the transportation he used was the second-hand bicycle he bought.
When the father and daughter went out, night had already fallen, and the night enveloped Los Angeles. Kim Hyun-tae, who was riding a bicycle, looked a little thin under the dim street lights, and people couldn't help but feel a little pity when they looked at it.
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It was midnight at around 30:00. He dragged his tired body, Kim Hyun-tae rode his second-hand bicycle and appeared on the street corner with his daughter on his back.
Another day of work was over, and my daughter was already in a deep sleep behind her back.
Under the dim street lights on the street corner, several African-American street girls in exposed clothes stood there in a pose of sensation. When Kim Hyun-tae rode his bicycle, one of them even made a tempting position and called him a few times.
Kim Hyun-tae is not interested in these women at all.
It’s not that Kim Hyun-tae is a gentleman who doesn’t have any meat or fish. After all, he is a normal man and will definitely have this kind of need in terms of physiology.
But Kim Hyun-tae really doesn't like such a woman.
Damn, I am in my forties. No matter how exposed I wear it, I can only visit the taste of the heavy taste.
I have to say here that the taste of "Huai Guoren" is really strong, and Kim Hyun-tae admires this very much.
Because he has seen many people visit these middle-aged African-American street girls.
Kim Hyun-tae lives alone with her children and lives in such an unsafe community. It is very unwise to deal with such a woman. What should I do if I get into trouble?
Besides, his financial conditions do not allow him to do such things. Is it not good to save money for accidents or use it as much as possible on his daughter?
The most important thing is that he would recall his wife's voice, appearance, smile and the happy family life when his wife was still alive. So even though Kim Hyun-tae, as a man with normal physiological reactions, occasionally had some impulses, he would not go out to do anything, but instead solved it himself.
As for how to solve it, as a guy with a soul in his thirties, it is not difficult to come...
Kim Hyun-tae always feels that even in this parallel time and space, going out to mess around is a matter of sorry for his wife.
To put it bluntly, it is Kim Hyun-tae's heart that he has not forgotten his deceased wife, so he has been "guarding his body like jade" like this.
But it can also be seen from this point of view that Kim Hyun-tae is not a ruthless man.
Kim Hyun-tae, who was riding a bicycle, rode his bike by the street girls without looking sideways.
The two sides of the street were covered with graffiti corners, and in the dim and insufficient light were several burly men. These men were all black Africans and were very big, as if they were big animals. They were basically bald. When they looked at Kim Hyun-tae riding a bicycle, his eyes were filled with unfriendliness and vigilance.
Guys like this type can often be seen on both sides of the community street on the way home.
There are African-American blacks and bald Megamis. They all gather together in groups on the streets, standing together in groups of three or three.
Kim Hyun-tae knew that these were drug dealers and they all carried guns on them.
In addition to selling drugs here, these guys also have the burden of managing the territory. Once they find that someone from other gangs crosses the line, it will definitely lead to a gunfight. Like the American gangsters in time and space, everyone attaches great importance to the boundaries of the territory, and crossing the line is an unforgivable provocation.
If this really happens, then there is only one solution...killing!
A street was obviously divided into two gangs by African and Megami, which made Kim Hyun-tae feel very uncomfortable.
Damn!
Is this a Chinese community good?
Even in the slums in the Chinese community, Nima is controlled by African-American blacks and Mexican gangs. What's going on?
Kim Hyun-tae, who was riding a bicycle, ran by tens of thousands of grass and mud horses in his heart.
Since he has lived here for half a year and learned a little bit of the situation, he has really been dissatisfied with it.
I have to say that the Chinese here are... really...ah!
But this kind of thing has nothing to do with him, so Kim Hyun-tae thought about it indignantly and threw it behind his mind.
After all, he is not a cliché, so he can't control so much about what this community has become, even if he can't control it.
When he returned home, he locked the door and put his sleeping daughter in the crib. After gently covering the quilt, he came to the window and hung curtains, and then followed the gaps in the curtains to observe the movement outside.
Recently, due to frequent occurrence of gang members and deteriorating public security, many cases of robbery have occurred.
Kim Hyun-tae had to be careful about this.
After some careful observation, Kim Hyun-tae was relieved after confirming that no one was following her.
"Every day I go home, I have to worry about it. When will this kind of life end? If I were just me, I wouldn't be worried about this problem, but now I have to face this problem carefully with my daughter."
Kim Hyun-tae, who had relaxed, dragged his tired body to the living room, sat on the sofa and sighed deeply, while talking to himself.
"No matter what, I have to find a way to move out of here no matter what, so I have to move for my daughter." Sitting on the sofa, gasping for a few breaths, Kim Hyun-tae raised his right hand and patted his thigh hard, and made a decision.
My daughter was still sleeping soundly. Kim Hyun took off her clothes, took a hot shower, washed away all her fatigue, looked at the time. It was already past 1 o'clock in the middle of the night.
Well, there is still some time to do your own thing, and the work of the car wash is at 8 am.
Kim Hyun-tae, who had confirmed the time, felt aware of it. Then he took a dilapidated laptop from the bedroom, sat back on the sofa in the living room, and placed the laptop on the coffee table in front of him.
"Daughter, daughter, your father, I am working very hard now to give you a good growth environment and a better living environment. If it were in the original time and space, I might not have such ambition, but in this time and space...hehe..."
Chapter completed!