EFB Chapter 8 Capital
Chapter 8 Capital
"Call the police! Call the police!"
Suddenly, Cheng started shouting loudly.
He just now made a huge fool of himself, having a gun pointed at his head and wetting his pants.
Now that Xu Shengjie and Tupaike had left, he recovered and started shouting loudly, looking like he was determined not to give up.
"No, please don't call the police."
Zhou Wenqiong was startled and quickly stopped her.
"Xiao Zhou, you actually know Jeffrey, the bone crusher?"
A middle-aged woman walked over.
She looks to be in her thirties, yet she still retains her charm.
Time seems to have left few marks on her; she remains stunningly beautiful.
"Sister Gong, who are you talking about?"
"That kid from earlier, he's a member of a notorious gang on Mott Street and Canal Street, a member of the Ghost Gang. He started hanging around Chinatown when he was sixteen. He's a lackey of Justin the Yellow Devil and has a lot of influence in Chinatown. He's extremely ruthless."
A couple of years ago, he was nicknamed the "Bone Crusher" because he often broke people's bones when he got into fights.
I'm warning you, he's a descendant of old immigrants, and he's really fierce! If you don't know him, that's fine, but try to avoid contact with him in the future.
Zhou Wenqiong was stunned for a moment, then realized what was happening.
She smiled wryly and said, "Sister Gong, I really don't know him."
"Then how did he find you? And how did he know you're an actress?"
"How would I know..."
I can't exactly tell you, "I saw him kill someone," can I?
Zhou Wenqiong has been in New York for a year and knows the nature of the Chinese people here very well.
They say they're sticking together for mutual support, but most of them are the kind of people who "go their separate ways when disaster strikes."
Even Cheng himself, Zhou Wenqiong knew perfectly well what he was thinking. But, what could she do when he had a scholar as a teacher?
Among the group of people who came from China, he was considered to be doing quite well.
Sister Gong, whose real name is Gong Xue, is also an actress.
She was incredibly popular in China in the 1980s, known as "Gong Xue in the South and Zhu Lin in the North," and was also one of the leading actresses in entertainment novels during the later era of online literature.
She went to the United States to study in 86 for certain reasons, and later got married and had a daughter in the United States.
He initially lived in Texas, and after 90, he settled in New York with his family, living in Chinatown in Manhattan.
She's been in New York for quite some time, so she's far more familiar with the situation in Chinatown than people like Cheng.
Gong Xue knew very well who she could mess with and who she couldn't.
She returned to China in 93 to star in "Stock Market Romance," which was also her last work.
She then returned to China and is now the host of the 100-episode television series "The Story of Chinese Americans" on New York Overseas Television.
Comparatively speaking, she is one of the few people who have done well in the United States after leaving China.
Meanwhile, Zhang Yu, who studied in the US at the same time as her and had acted in works such as "Romance on Lushan Mountain" and "Night Rain in Bashan Mountain", and who was also an actress from Shanghai Film Studio, has already returned to China... As for Cong Shan, who played Xiu Zhi in "The Herdsman", she was cheated out of her fortune by her foreign husband and returned to China last year to act in the TV series "The Legend of Empress Dowager Cixi".
However, the results were mediocre, and he went back to Hong Kong Island after less than two years.
Gong Xue and Zhou Wenqiong were not familiar with each other.
But after returning to China last year, he took good care of her at the request of others.
Zhou Wenqiong was able to submit her resume to the Pan-Asia Theatre Troupe because Gong Xue asked Zhang Disha for help.
I heard she was in trouble, so I rushed over early this morning. While Xu Shengjie and Zhou Wenqiong were talking, she was packing her things inside. When she came out, it was all over… but she still recognized Xu Shengjie immediately.
This is the notorious "little tyrant" of Chinatown!
She glanced at Cheng, who was somewhat exasperated yet also a little frightened.
"Bone crusher"?
That sounds a bit scary!
Gong Xue suddenly said, "Xiao Zhou, if you ask me, you'd better not move to Jackson Heights."
"You're an actress, and you've come to New York to look for opportunities. The best stage in New York is Broadway. Leaving Manhattan means leaving those opportunities behind… Here's what we'll do: you stay at my place for now. After you meet Disa on Monday, if you get the job smoothly, you can find a place near the theater company. The price will be about the same, but the environment will be a hundred times better than here."
"May I?"
Zhou Wenqiong's eyes lit up.
She then remembered something and whispered, "But that Jeffrey..."
"Jeffrey may be fierce, but he's a reasonable kid."
He didn't cause any trouble today, which means he doesn't intend to cause you any trouble. Well, if he really dares to cause trouble, we can ask Ms. Lu Yan for help, or ask Ms. Zhou Caiqin to intervene; they're both quite influential in Chinatown.
Lu Yan and Zhou Caiqin are representative figures of Chinese people on Broadway during this era.
Zhou Caiqin's father was Zhou Xinfang, a Peking Opera master, who also starred in the Broadway classic "M. Butterfly".
It is also quite famous in Chinatown.
Zhou Wenqiong breathed a sigh of relief.
This seems to be the best solution.
She knew exactly what Cheng and his so-called "progressive young people" were thinking.
Gong Xue is right. If you really leave Broadway and move to Jackson Heights in Queens, you will miss out on a lot of opportunities.
With that thought in mind, she made up her mind.
Cheng was furious!
He came to curry favor, but almost made a fool of himself and failed to achieve his goal.
But Gong Xue...
She's doing better than him in New York, and Gong Xue's husband is a PhD, quite famous in academic circles, and not someone he can afford to mess with.
Forcing a smile, Cheng said, "Teacher Gong's idea is great. It's more important for Wenqiong to establish herself on Broadway, so it's decided then!"
But inside, he was screaming: I'm going to kill that little bastard!
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Xu Shengjie was unaware of Cheng's thoughts.
Even if I found out, I wouldn't care.
He saw the result he wanted in Zhou Wenqiong's eyes.
That's enough!
As for whether she will change her mind?
Xu Shengjie believed that Zhou Wenqiong was a smart person.
Let's just keep to ourselves, since... we won't have any interaction anyway!
I took Tupac to Hehe Restaurant for a Cantonese dim sum breakfast.
It was already 11 o'clock when we finished eating!
Tupac came to New York at the invitation of Puff Daddy.
At the 21st American Music Awards earlier this year, Suger Knight, the owner of Death Row Records, stirred up a war between East and West Coast rap. As a representative of West Coast gangsta rap, he came to ease the tension in New York.
In addition, they also need to participate in some activities.
The reason he came was because Tupac was born in New York and had a relatively harmonious relationship with Puff, a representative figure in the East Coast rap scene, and B.I.G., also known as Mr. Infamous.
In 92, Big wanted to follow Tupac.
Tupac refused and instead persuaded him to follow Puff.
On one hand, if Big went to the West Coast, he might not get enough resources, but if he stayed in New York, Puff's Bad Boys Records would give him full support. This is something Tupac couldn't do, after all, the head of the West Coast is Dr. Red.
On the other hand, if Big goes to the West Coast, it will definitely exacerbate the conflict between the East and West Coast rap scenes.
The situation was already at a fever pitch; if Big were to defect, the conflict would definitely escalate into a war.
The hip-hop scene in the 90s was, to put it bluntly, gangster music.
Behind every hip-hop artist, there exists a gang.
Even Eminem in the future faced gang threats, which were later quelled with the help of gangs.
These black people, when they go crazy, they absolutely don't care about anything.
Even Tupac was still shaken.
But can it be quelled?
Xu Shengjie didn't say anything, but he knew it was impossible.
Do you think Dr. Red and Daddy Puff are just singers and actors?
Bullshit, they're businessmen!
If a conflict between the East and West coasts could bring them benefits, they would certainly not refuse to add fuel to the fire.
In fact, hip-hop's rise in the United States was precisely due to two conflicts between the East and West Coast rap circles.
Of course, Eminem's sudden emergence was also an important factor in the widespread acceptance of hip-hop among white people.
But how should Xu Shengjie say these things?
Could he tell Tupac that you would fall out with Big and even be shot?
"Amaru, be careful... Sug Knight won't start a conflict between the two sides for no reason."
Puff Daddy isn't as simple as you think. Just remember one thing: they're all businessmen…
He hesitated for a moment, but decided to make things clearer.
After all, Tupaik was the original owner's childhood friend.
Just now in the basement, he pulled out his gun and stood by his side without hesitation, which really touched Xu Shengjie.
As Marx said in Capital: "If there is a 20% profit, capital will be restless; if there is a 50% profit, capital will take risks; if there is a 100% profit, capital will dare to risk being hanged; if there is a 300% profit, capital will dare to trample on all human laws."
Bro, don't trust anyone!
Your social circle is far more complex than you imagine.
After a long pause, Tupaike, with Xu Shengjie pinned to his shoulder, suddenly asked, "Are you a member of the Communist Party?"
No, that's not it!
"Then how can you quote Marx so fluently?"
Xu Shengjie was taken aback for a moment, but then couldn't help but laugh. "Amaru, I recommend you also read Das Kapital. It's a good book."
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