Chapter 1418 American Dream(2/2)
For Mi Xiaoran, who left her motherland to marry in a foreign country, her American dream has undoubtedly come true and has been fully realized.
House, car, loving husband, lovely children...
Now she has it all.
What more does a woman need?
This is the perfect life for her.
She no longer misses her home at all. How can the small bungalow in Shan'er Hutong, where the two sisters used to sleep in the same bed, compare with such a western-style villa with its own garden?
All the hesitations and regrets she had had have disappeared by now, and she undoubtedly made the right choice.
For Zhao Hanyu, a successful career and a happy family are his greatest rewards.
He has no more hopes for his life except having more children and raising a dog.
In their eyes, life in the United States is so beautiful, just like heaven, and it will always be so beautiful.
But can life really be that simple?
Will you really care about them like this forever and let them go smoothly?
The answer is no.
Mi Xiaoran would never have imagined that his ancestors' life style of being thrifty and fond of saving would seem rustic, rigid and out of place in the United States, a country with rampant consumerism and advanced finance.
However, this lifestyle can prevent problems before they occur, and can ensure the safety and stability of life to the greatest extent.
How could she have imagined that when she voluntarily gave up the Chinese way of thinking and tried to learn from the American way of thinking, and after leveraging her own consumption, what was waiting for her was a storm that would soak her to the core.
Black Monday suddenly arrived.
Immediately afterwards, news of the stock plummeting came one after another from newspapers and television.
Not long after, there was news of the closure of large and small businesses.
Rockefeller's transfer, Brumideo's transfer, and real estate tycoon Trump's bankruptcy are all on the news.
It seems that in just a few days, the United States has become a country that is on the verge of collapse and has no hope.
There is no good news on TV or in the newspapers.
Corporate auction.
Commercial buildings are closed.
The factory was taken away by the government.
Even the arrogant big car companies and big airlines have gone bankrupt one after another.
Thousands of unsold cars are lined up on the huge pier of Elizabeth Port, as far as the eye can see.
There are mountains of household appliances on sale everywhere.
Various foods and daily necessities on the market are also discounted.
The faces of the bosses all lost expression, and all the pedestrians on the street stopped smiling.
As a result, more and more people began to think of the Great Depression that occurred in 1929, and no American could deal with it indifferently.
Although the young couple inside was panicking at this time, they were also a little lucky. After all, Zhao Hanyu himself had never bought a stock, and the Zhao family also preferred to use their money to open a store instead of investing in the stock market. They did not feel this.
The painful feeling of having your property wiped out overnight.
It can even be said that at this time, they more or less believed that they could escape unscathed from this disaster and would not be affected much.
It wasn't until November 12th, when Zhao Hanyu came to work at his company and received the news that the company had been sold by his boss that he realized that he was too naive.
His boss went bankrupt due to the stock market crash and could only repay his debts by transferring the company.
Not to mention, as soon as the new boss showed up, he announced an order to lay off half of the employees.
So Zhao Hanyu, who originally thought he would get a promotion and a salary increase at the end of the year, lost his job.
When he packed up his belongings and left the company with a check for eleven thousand dollars, he was filled with a sense of discouragement and frustration and hesitation about the future.
He didn't know how he should explain to Mi Xiaoran when he went back, and he didn't know how he should face the current situation.
He has a child, and this check is not enough to support his family's expenses for two months.
For this reason, he sat in the car in a daze and never started the car.
As a result, something even more unfortunate happened.
Because at this moment, on the rooftop, there was a man who jumped from the twenty-story building because of financial debts that were difficult to repay.
Not only did he die on the spot, but the place where he fell happened to be on the roof of Zhao Hanyu's car.
Half an hour later, when the police and ambulance arrived, in front of many onlookers, two bodies were taken away from a smashed car.
At this time, Mi Xiaoran, who was completely unaware, was still at home, guarding her sleeping child, looking at those travel flyers longingly, dreaming of traveling around the world in the future, and waiting for her husband to return.
Chapter completed!