Chapter 129 Chapter 129(1/2)
It was a very simple home-cooked dish, and Taylor directly cooked two bowls of rice.
Zhang Xiaofeng also ate a bowl and a half of rice.
After dinner, Taylor put away the dishes.
Zhang Wenya made tea, each person with a cup of tea.
Zhang Xiaofeng was very satisfied, "If I could buy a house in Flushing, I would think it would be fine when I retire and live there."
"I'm afraid you can't get used to it. You only stayed in New York for half a month, but you still couldn't understand the local conditions. I heard that older Chinese people can't adapt to it even when they come to the United States."
"I can't adapt to it? But it's also true. There is nothing better than China. You can eat, drink, and everything you want. It's cheap. I see that the things sold in supermarkets here are so expensive, so I can't bear to give up."
This is a common problem for Chinese people who have just arrived in the United States. The US dollar was converted into RMB and was killed by prices.
As he was talking, he said that he should go back. Before the Spring Festival, there were a lot of things in the store. He had to make a record and went to the food processing factory to check it out. He gave the year-end bonus. The boss was not in China, so his boss's father wanted to be optimistic about the family business for his daughter.
I was just a little worried about Yang's revenge.
"Dad, probably won't. I'll ask Uncle Li to pay more attention."
"Hey, do you think you want it?" Zhang Xiaofeng made a gesture.
"Others may not be able to like it. The Li family has a foundation of one or two, and they look down on our small shop."
Comrade Lao Zhang was worried, "We have no power and no power, and I don't know anyone."
"There must be a road before the car arrives at the mountain. Those small shops will not attract people to worry about." This is the class difference. The Zhang family has no foundation and background, and they just don't have the chance to meet any big shots. Fortunately, "Yikou Tian" is a small workshop, and there are less than ten stores in total, and it is just a small sesame seed, which cannot arouse others' greed.
Whether Yang can cause trouble after returning to China depends on whether his father has disciplined him well. Another day, I will ask Ambassador Li to confirm.
Also, she wants to improve her value and let the country's father value her.
Mr. Bate gave her a very difficult topic to write by herself, which was a test. This topic was very sensitive and was difficult to write, so no one wanted to take over. It was not necessarily possible to write for her. It would be possible to write for her, but it would make the editor-in-chief and even the editor-in-chief see her writing ability. Whether to publish it or not is not the point. She would know what she would do in her own magazine in the future.
Oh! There is still a lot to learn!
Not to mention how strong you are in the media industry, there is at least one channel to speak out. If the country’s father lacks channels to speak out, he will definitely take care of her.
After studying political science, you don’t mean you have to go into politics. There are many ways to achieve your goals.
The next day when she went to work, she asked Sammy to find the information. She handed in the draft of the opening, which was indeed very naive and Mr. Bate didn't understand it.
He frowned and asked her to make an outline first. The whole American public knows this issue. She doesn't need to start from scratch. She starts with New York City. What do ordinary people think, what do celebrities think, and why clinic doctors are willing to risk their lives to insist on abortion business. These are all written.
It makes sense.
She has only written columns before and does not need to write long; Harvard life is equivalent to daily records and does not require any outline.
She has to think about how many sectors there are first.
If you refer to the exclusive interviews and in-depth reports written by others, these are all ready-made and there are a lot of learning materials.
I was holding the outline in the morning and preparing to put interviews among the masses in front of the crowd. Celebrities... It is probably difficult, celebrities are very cautious and unlikely to take sides publicly. Besides, there are only a few celebrities she knows, which are not easy to ask, and it is impossible to write them out after asking.
She can write down her experiences in Greater China first and compare them with two different systems. The early family planning work was simple and crude, and there were tragedy of pregnant women dying on the operating table, which led to many accusations against the Greater China's family planning system in the international community, believing that it disregarded "human rights". Since the early 1970s, after a whole generation, the family planning system in Greater China was implemented nationwide, allowing more girls to receive better education and contribute to the contemporary era.
The existence of abortion clinics in the United States is precisely a manifestation of respecting "human rights". Women should have the right to choose. Just as before the implementation of the Greater China family planning system, women in Greater China could hardly choose when to have children or how many children they had. The original intention of the family planning system was to curb too fast population growth, and the unexpected side effects brought by the company actually improved the status of women, allowing women to "few children and get eugenics" with the support of the national system.
This is the system of the two countries. The "different paths and the same destination" caused by different national systems, and the basis is "right to choose".
Having written this, stop for the time being.
Did she think so? At least "before" it was.
She remembered less and less.
It's like a dream, a long, painful dream.
If she finishes writing and is really published on the newspaper, will she be attacked? It is very likely, but if you want to become a "celebrity", you will always encounter malice from others and cannot be avoided.
Is she afraid?
It seems that I'm not afraid!
It is a mediocre person not to be jealous of others! No! It should be "knowing that there is a tiger in the mountain, he tends to go to the tiger mountain"!
After lunch, I went upstairs and the front desk said that someone gave her a fruit basket with a card attached with the signature "jkfjr".
Happy.
I opened the cellophane wrapped in the fruit basket and took an orange to give it to the front desk.
Fruit baskets are better than flower baskets, and flower baskets are so vulgar.
The fruit was distributed to the reporters and interns around them, and there was a small box with a ribbon tied to the bottom of the fruit basket.
Unlocked the ribbon and put a car key in the box.
Oh! This person!
Gifts are too low-key!
There is also a note stacked with two stacks under the car key:
honey, I have never noticed that you don’t have transportation tools, I believe you can afford it yourself, but it will be an honor to me if you are willing to accept it.
Your, john.
There is no harm without comparison. Charlie, who is more exaggerated than the nouveau riche, is so tall!
Now it’s the era of text messages, and he still writes notes with his own hand.
However, she likes it.
He happily called him, thanking him for his gift. He seemed a little embarrassed and said that they didn't meet much, so he didn't expect that she didn't have a car.
Be careful.
She followed his words and said with a smile that she should have met several times more often, but she was very busy recently, so the editor gave her a topic to choose, and she would not have time until the weekend.
See you on Friday night.
The back of the note reads the car parked in the underground parking lot of the Foster House Apartment Building, with the license plate number.
When she went to the underground garage to check the car at night, she found a gift bag on the driver's seat, and a plush toy was placed in the bag: Bonnie Rabbit.
She is over the age to play with plush toys, but this light pink Bonnie Rabbit is the first plush toy she has received in her "in her life". It feels so good in the touch, it feels soft and warm, and she likes it very much.
She took Bonnie Rabbit upstairs, put it on the bed, and held it while sleeping.
I slept well.
The next day, Charlie called her early in the morning and asked if she was free today?
Not available.
I saw her that night, and I went to the newspaper to pick her up.
"I will only stay in the newspaper for an hour today and have to go out for an interview."
"You can go out for an interview by yourself now? Congratulations." Charlie said relaxedly: "It seems that I can wait for your name to appear in the New York Times."
"My name has appeared in the New York Times long ago."
"I mean, front page." He smiled, "I believe you have this level."
OK, it sounds like a flatterer, but it's also very good. Who doesn't like it?
"If you finish your work, call me and I'll pick you up."
"Where to go? Don't be too long, I'm going to Flushing to see my dad."
"Is it OK to ask him to join me?"
"Okay, I'll ask Taylor to send him over."
"Taylor? Who is Taylor?"
"Harvard classmate lives in Flushing. His father likes Flushing. He now lives in Taylor's house."
Charlie frowned, his intuition was not very good.
Today’s work plan is to interview passers-by.
But it is best not to ask passers-by directly what they think about abortion, and Americans are not willing to express their true thoughts to strangers directly. The best way is to design a questionnaire to "hide" the abortion problem in many questions, so that when passers-by do the previous question, they will relax their vigilance and unknowingly answer the questions she really wants to ask.
It is not difficult to do a questionnaire, and there are not too many questions on the questionnaire. The fifteen questions on both sides are almost the same.
Then find some small gifts from the newspaper's warehouse as a reward for passers-by who fill out the questionnaire. Of course, using money is the best. It should be fine to give a questionnaire of five to ten dollars. If you can get five or ten dollars by filling out the questionnaire, many people should be happy to do it.
There is no need for too many people, ten valid questionnaires are enough.
She made a questionnaire, typed out twenty pictures with the newspaper's printer, pulled Sammy up, and asked him to go to Chelsea to find someone to fill out the questionnaire, each of whom gave him five dollars, and some small gifts.
She went to Hell's Kitchen Area to find someone to fill out the questionnaire.
Manhattan is basically safe during the day. Even in a slum like Hell Kitchen, it is safer on the streets as long as you don’t go to any remote corners. Hell Kitchen used to be an Irish immigration area, so it can’t be said that the quality is high, and it won’t be too bad.
I returned to the newspaper at noon, and Sammy has already returned.
The task was completed very smoothly, with thirteen effective questionnaires. Someone was smart and jumped out of the abortion problem.
I also asked Sammy to do a questionnaire, and he was fine today.
To be continued...