Chapter 13 Tourists before dawn

After waiting for twenty minutes in a slightly nervous mood, the steam bus finally arrived.

The car door opened, Chen Yan took a step towards the bus stop, and half of his legs were immediately submerged in the snow.

In one night, the blizzard had almost completely buried the bus stop.

The snow has not stopped at this time, but it is lighter than last night. At least it will not be like last night in the early morning, with no visibility at all.

The Byron Weiss Zoo occupies a corner of the Central Forest Park in Yanan City. When you get off the bus stop, you will see the entrance to the zoo in front of you.

Chen Yan struggled to pull his legs out of the snow nest, raised his head, and had a chance to look at the zoo gate in the snow.

The door was not as grand as Chen Yan imagined, but just an ordinary black lacquered double door with carved patterns.

A huge banyan tree, bent by snow, stands on the right rear of the gate.

The branches weighed down by the snow blocked most of the view and light, making the entire door look a bit dark.

He thought of the scratched out employment notice, still feeling uneasy.

[Before going to work, please enter the park within XX minutes from work time.]

The Byron Weiss Zoo opens at 8 o'clock. This is something the public knows and there is no mistaking it.

Arrive 99 minutes early, that is, after 6:21.

It is now 6:01 in the morning, a full 20 minutes before Chen Yan's expected work time.

He comforted himself that if he came so early, he would not be late anyway!

On the first day of work, Chen Yan was very nervous. Chen Yan couldn't help but recall the information about this zoo.

According to what he learned these days:

The Byron Weiss Zoo itself has little traffic because the zoo is not open to the public.

You don't have to "pay money for a ticket" to enter the zoo.

Instead, you must "accept a random invitation" to get a ticket to the zoo gate.

Yes, tickets to this zoo are issued based on mood, and the target is completely random. Everyone in the world may receive an invitation.

Whether or not to come after receiving the invitation is another matter.

When Chen Yan originally submitted his resume, he knew that the zoo's business was more focused on scientific research than tourism.

His ability to enter the zoo belongs to another situation - he has the status of an employee of the Byron Weiss Group.

Byron Weiss is a multinational group with a wide range of businesses, focusing on high-end technology, and has many branches.

But Chen Yan didn't know what he did exactly.

Chen Yan thought to himself that the Byron Weiss Zoo did not disclose its business mostly because of commercial confidentiality.

Because before Chen Yan joined the company, he signed the confidentiality agreement of the Byron Weiss Group.

What exactly are the trade secrets? When he enters the park, he might be able to touch them.

He raised his head and saw that it was already three minutes brighter.

The winter in the empire is cold, and there are not many pedestrians on the streets in the early morning. Coupled with the blizzard last night, if it were not for work, almost no one would go out in such weather.

But unexpectedly, there was already a queue in front of the park's black lacquered and carved gate.

Chen Yan walked through the snow and approached the door.

The person at the front of the team looked like a family of three. The two adults were dressed very decently, with oily mink velvet on their shoulders and shiny boots on their feet... At first glance, they belonged to a wealthy family.

They brought a little girl with them. The little girl seemed to be at odds with them. She held a doll in her arms and lowered her head without speaking.

Next up is a missionary…

Um?

missionary!

The man was wearing a white monk's robe and a white high hat.

Holding the holy book in his hand, he is really a preacher of the choir!

Extremists like missionaries can actually receive invitations!

Chen Yan had a bad impression of the choir because he had seen them forcibly take children away from their parents.

Standing behind the preacher was a young man who looked like a hooligan.

There are many young people like this in the old town of Yanan. They are usually very lazy and unwilling to find a serious job. They are keen to hang out and spend the day they can.

When he looked at the young man, the young man also looked over like him.

Chen Yan made eye contact with him, and the latter immediately turned his head as if he was electrocuted.

Chen Yan was stunned for a moment, and a strange thought appeared in his mind.

'He seems to know me.'

Chen Yan looked at the last person in the team with doubts.

When he saw the man's profile, he was shocked.

"Damn it, Third Uncle!"

The short middle-aged Asian man was stunned, turned around and saw Chen Yan, his ugly face burst into laughter.

"Hey! Street boy! You're here too!"

This person was actually the head of Taishenghe's branch in the old city of Yanan, who introduced Ogami and Nuomiguo to Chen Yan's third uncle!

Damn! This old bitch has caused me so much harm!

Chen Yan cursed in his heart, but still had a smile on his face.

Third uncle is not easy to mess with,

Tai Shenghe is not a small gangster who only bullies ordinary citizens.

When civilians and Asian gangsters go head-to-head, there is basically only one outcome:

Evaporated.

He went up to meet him, feeling extremely vigilant.

In Taishenghe, the third uncle, although he was just a hall leader and didn't have many subordinates, he still had a certain status.

Because he knows how to do business and can pay protection fees to the superiors.

Tai Shenghe's business structure is very complex. In addition to those really shameful businesses, one of their main businesses is to help stowaways enter the empire.

People who do this kind of business are called "snakeheads".

Uncle San is one of the biggest snakeheads in the old town of Yanan City.

Since it is a completely unreliable and extremely risky business, whether it succeeds in the end depends mostly on the "conscience" of the snakehead.

The smuggling process sometimes fails,

Or he was discovered by the imperial border patrol,

Or some abnormal events may occur, and the stowaways disappear directly.

Only the snakehead knows what happened in the specific process.

Chen Yan followed the formal procedure and entered the empire through customs. He originally had no interaction with people like his third uncle.

The reason why I got to know my third uncle was because when I was looking for a house later, my third uncle was the agent for his old apartment.

Old immigrants like Uncle San have monopolized certain industries that are closely related to immigration:

Agency, sociolinguistic school, massage parlor, barber shop, women's branch, fire shop...

Those smart old gangsters know best what their compatriots need.

Some of the old immigrants even got to know some natives of the empire who had certain status in certain industries through their own accumulation.

The noses of this group of old immigrants are more sensitive than dogs. When new immigrants with their own skills enter the empire, they will immediately smell them.

If new immigrants who have skills themselves can pay some price, these old immigrants can open up relationships with the natives of the empire and obtain "letters of recommendation" from related companies in related industries.

The natives of the empire attach great importance to personal connections, which makes a "letter of recommendation" almost as effective as a "notice of employment".

But without a "letter of recommendation", even if they have skills, due to language barriers and other reasons, new immigrants can only work in places like massage parlors, earn 1 penny an hour, and live in cheap shared basements.

Some female immigrants may even be abducted into some unfair industries due to their own needs.

Once you're in, it's difficult to get out.

There are 10,000 ways for a powerful smuggler like Uncle San to make a person work in a shady industry for a lifetime.

The third uncle's real name is Liang Ansheng, and he is an old bachelor who is not very good at something.

Young people were afraid of his connections and called him Third Uncle.

In fact, most Taoist people call him "Old Ghost" because Third Uncle sometimes behaves in a shady manner and will trick others from time to time.
To be continued...