Chapter 1417 Guangzong Yaozu (Third update, please subscribe)
This is Tokyo!
Finally, after walking out of Ueno Train Station, what kind of look did Taro Kawada see in his eyes?
Except for some buildings along the street, there are rows of low houses built of iron sheets and paper everywhere in the back. More than ten years after the end of the war, Tokyo still looks like a ghost.
There are many street children begging at the train station. After seeing the passengers coming out, they rush up and beg loudly, but they are often reprimanded by people. Only a few street children I got some change.
There was a seven or eight-year-old street boy on the side of the road, holding a cigarette. He glanced at Kawada who was carrying his luggage, and then looked away.
In the eyes of Langlang'er, he is just a poor guy from the countryside, with no luck at all.
Kawada is indeed a poor man. He is carrying a suitcase left by his father. Although the school uniform on his body has no patches, it has become a little white after washing. The leather shoes on his feet are not only old and dull, but also The wrinkles are also noticeable.
He is indeed very poor, but Kawada came here with hope. After all, he has graduated from college.
And he came to Tokyo to find his dream.
Of course, his dream is not in Tokyo. Tokyo, like the rest of Japan, looks like a ghost.
All the people here are poor and have no hope. Even the children have left home because of hunger. They wander on the streets and live a life of hunger.
This is the day of ordinary Japanese people, everyone is lingering on.
There is no hope.
Actually, you can’t say that, at least there is hope in one place.
After asking all the way, Kawada finally arrived at the destination of his trip - the representative office in Tokyo. As before, there was a long queue outside the representative office.
“It’s just like what the newspaper said!”
There is always a long queue of Japanese people who want to get a work visa to go overseas. Most of them are in their twenties. There are only a few people in their thirties and forties who look many years old - outstanding talents at this age have long gone overseas. Of course, there are many stubborn guys who stay in Japan, but except for university professors, most people They are all unemployed or semi-unemployed. Finally, due to the helplessness of real life, they came here and tried to obtain a visa.
"Okay, here it is..."
Kawada, who was carrying his suitcase, looked at the long queue in front of him and waited like this from morning to afternoon. I don't even dare to leave here to get a sip of water or a sip of food, not because I have no money, but because I'm afraid of being robbed of my seat.
Finally, after a long wait and numerous checks, Kawada entered the representative office. After filling out the form, he waited in line for a while before meeting the interviewer.
Visa is hard to say but easy to say.
It is relatively easy if you have received higher education. For foreigners, these are valuable and will create wealth for society. Of course, the more such people, the better. Basically It passed last time, and there are some rich people.
Although Japanese society as a whole is very poor, there are also wealthy people, and many of them have purchased properties overseas.
However, most of the people here are ordinary people like Kawada who hope to change their destiny and work overseas with a graduation certificate.
Finally, it was Kawada's turn. Looking at the visa officer in front of him, Kawada seemed a little nervous. In front of him was a man in his thirties. He looked at him and asked:
"Why do you want to go? Overseas? "
"Work, work, although I am a chemistry monk, but I can't find a job in Japan."
A monk, that is, a master's degree, but so what. , this is Japan, so there are so many jobs for him!
Kawada explained:
"Only overseas can I get a job."
"Why not wait for the school recruitment in one month?" The interviewer said about the school recruitment.
It refers to the fact that overseas companies will hold campus recruitment at several well-known universities in Japan during the graduation season.
"Nagoya University, this is also a famous school. If nothing else happens, you will definitely get a job opportunity."
Faced with such a question, Kawada hesitated for a moment, and then felt a little bit Embarrassed and said:
"I, I...have no money anymore. I can't wait until school recruits."
The interviewer looked at Kawada and looked at his school uniform with a frayed collar. He did not ask if he had money. How to go overseas.
Because he only needs a visa, he can go to some institutions to apply for loans. There are many such institutions in Japan. They specialize in providing loans to migrant workers. Workers who have nothing can rely on loans to work overseas. , and then repay it in installments. Many gangsters rely on such loans to make huge profits.
For this kind of gangs, the officials turn a blind eye or close an eye, because their existence can ensure that workers will not be illegal overseas.
However, what financial companies like to do most is still this kind of business-providing loans to these high-level talents because the interest rates are higher and the turnover period is shorter.
"Hmm..."
After thinking for a while, the interviewer stamped the passport directly.
"I think you will find a good job there, Mr. Kawada."
Kawada Taro is destined to remember this day, it is a day that will never be forgotten.
Although his stomach is still growling with hunger, he has now set foot overseas. As long as he gets a long-term job there, he can change his short-term work permit into a long-term work permit and work for a few days. After years, you can become a naturalized citizen.
From today on, his destiny will change dramatically.
When he walked out of the representative office, Taro Kawada found that the sky was so blue, the air was so fresh, and the world was so beautiful. At this moment, he felt that his entire mentality had changed. In the past, his life was poor and hopeless. His only hope was to go overseas one day. Only when he got there could he realize the value of life. Only then can you change your own destiny.
Now, the god of fate has finally favored him!
At this moment, a guy came over and said to him:
"Sir, I am Matsumoto from Chengbang Credit. Do you need help?"
This is a change. Not only one guy, but two more guys came over soon and offered preferential loans. condition.
Half an hour later, Taro Kawada followed Matsumoto to Chengbang Credit. The reason why he chose this place was not because Matsumoto was the first to find him, but because Matsumoto told him - they The loans provided are "red banknotes", which are also known as "more children, more blessings" overseas.
Soon, he signed for a loan of 1,000 yuan.
You only need a visa to get a loan of hundreds of thousands of yen, which was something that was unimaginable in the past.
But looking at the bright red banknotes and the playing children on the banknotes, Taro Kawada knew that this was a change in identity.
Even the gang members in front of him looked at him with envy, because he could go overseas. A few years later, when he returned to Japan, he would be an expat!
"It's just a little interest, no big deal. I can repay the loan in just a few months."
After leaving the credit company, Taro Kawada was passing by the department store , he couldn't help but glance at the floor-to-ceiling glass again, and saw that the young man in the reflection of the glass was still thin, his clothes were still shabby, but his figure was much taller and taller for some reason.
Is this... what it feels like to be an expat?
Yes, that’s what it feels like!
At this moment, Taro Kawada suddenly felt some kind of ancient power rising from his heart. He felt an unprecedented power.
This kind of power seemed to be injected from the top of his head suddenly, changing his whole person and making him become more confident.
On the way, Kawada’s perspective on everything also changed.
“Oh, this street is too dirty. There is so much garbage. It turns out that Japan is like this!”
"Really, no wonder we are so backward!"
"Oh, street children are begging on the street like this. Why don't the police come and take care of them? Shouldn't they be in school?"
Now Kawada is looking at everything from the perspective of a bystander or a foreigner. In his opinion, everything in Japan is backward and unsightly, even the street garbage he is used to. It was also an eyesore in Kawada's eyes.
When passing the public toilet on the roadside, he even covered his nose in disgust. In fact, just a few hours ago, he had used a public toilet full of flies.
But what about now?
Everything was different, he was no longer Japanese.
In other words, he is no longer an ordinary Japanese, but a noble "expatriate". This is of course just the beginning. After he arrives overseas, he will soon get a well-paying job, and then obtain Right of Residence.
Eventually he will settle there like many others and become a noble local. By then he will be completely different from the Japanese living in the garbage dump.
This is the change of fate!
With excitement in his heart, Kawada walked briskly to the post office, and then dialed his hometown phone number at the post office.
After a brief chat with the village chief and learning that his mother was not at home, Kawada said to the village chief:
"Please tell mother that I have done it. I have got a job overseas. Visa. "
The village chief on the other end of the phone said excitedly after hearing what he said.
“Oh, Hetian, I knew you could do it. I knew when you were a child that you must be the pride of our village and the hope of all of us.
Oh , you must work hard when you go overseas! But you must remember that you must not bring over some of the habits you have in Japan, you know? I heard that it is a completely different place from Japan.”
Listening to the village chief's instructions, Kawada kept nodding in agreement. Of course he knew that overseas was different from Japan, where rules and integrity were emphasized.
Soon, Keiko, who was working in the fields, learned the good news about her son from the village chief. She immediately stepped on her clogs and ran towards the village office.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, the phone rang again. After answering the phone, Keiko heard her son's voice.
"Mother, I did it, I did it!"
"Mom knows, mom knows that you will succeed..."
Keiko's eyes were also red. She knew that her son's fate had changed dramatically, not only her son, but also her.
When she hung up the phone, she could feel the changes in the eyes of the people around her. They were all envious.
“Oh, Mrs. Kawada, Taro is so amazing!”
For a while, there were compliments all around. At this moment, Keiko, this country peasant woman was no longer a peasant woman. She is the mother of an overseas immigrant. Although she will never be able to settle overseas in the name of family reunion, even with a family visit visa, she can only stay for three months per year, but so what?
Now her son is no longer Japanese!
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(End of this chapter)