Chapter 17 One Week Is Worth Someone Else's Year

Put away the cash, and follow the waiter upstairs to check in a business room that costs $5 a night.

Early the next morning, Li Changheng checked out directly, got into a taxi, and complained in Spanish about all the bad things about the hotel just now.

The driver recommended a hotel knowingly. In this way, Li Changheng entered a hotel in a taxi, and when he opened the room, he received a personal check for $100.

Then when the other party checked in, he took the cash and went to a special place to make calls on the grounds of calling his colleagues.

A few minutes later, he hung up the phone pretending to be depressed, walked to the door and asked the doorman the address of the hotel where he stayed yesterday, and then left with a suitcase in his face apologetically.

And what he asked the doorman quickly reached the ears of the lobby manager.

The manager immediately understood that Li Changheng was embarrassed just now, so he didn't ask him. As for why Li Changheng left when the room was about to be opened,

After a little brainstorming, I knew that it must be the rest of the crew who had already checked into the hotel that grabbed the business.

It is not surprising that Li Changheng, who is only the co-pilot, will be influenced by the captain.

The dissatisfaction in the lobby manager's heart was aimed at Li Changheng, and at the same time, he was even more resentful at the non-existent captain and the hotel where Li Changheng stayed yesterday.

And Li Changheng visited 31 hotels in one day, and got 3,000 US dollars in cash in addition to spending 100 US dollars.

It's a pity that although Rio is also a tourist city at this time, its scale is not comparable to that of later generations, and there are not so many high-end hotels for him to withdraw money.

Going to a mid-to-low-end hotel is not in line with his status as a captain, and they might not accept checks from abroad.

At night, at the most famous beach in Rio, I ate a seafood feast with the sea breeze blowing, and my eyes swept back and forth on the 4-5 km long beach.

From time to time, he saw a Latin American girl with a body that exploded. He wanted to stay for a few days to relax. After thinking about it, he went to the airport for safety reasons and took a short flight to Sao Paulo, the largest city in Brazil.

Then, as in Rio, every time you enter a hotel, you need to exchange 100 US dollars first.

However, this time, he didn't make any excuses not to open the room, but wasted the ten-dollar deposit, staying in an ordinary hotel room for half an hour before leaving to go to another one.

Doing this can greatly dispel the suspicion of the hotel. When the hotel finds out that he left without checking out, it will be at least a day or two later. At that time, he was no longer in Sao Paulo.

After visiting 30 hotels in two days, Li Changheng left Sao Paulo with 2,600 US dollars and went to the third largest city in Brazil, which is the city of Salvador that he used to lie about.

When he continued to earn another $2,600 and left, he had only 10 checks left in his checkbook, but he had $8,200 on him.

In a week or so, I got the income of a middle-class family in Los Angeles for a year.

And in the wealthy area where he and Frank worked temporarily, the best house is about 300,000 US dollars, and the middle price is 80,000 to 150,000 US dollars.

Houses in middle-class communities cost between 10,000 and 50,000.

That is to say, if Argentina, Chile and other rich Latin American countries go around, they can directly buy a 200-square-meter three-story villa with a large lawn.

Even if he targets the bank, his income will double or triple.

The money was so easy to earn that he didn't know whether he should stop it or not.

As for jewellery, coffee, furs, etc., if you buy them, you have to go back to the United States to sell them. At this time, he has already made several times the money.

While waiting for the plane to New York at the airport, in the shopping mall at the airport, I saw various airplane toys hanging on the floor-to-ceiling glass of the aisle in the toy store,

There happened to be a Pan Am blue globe logo on the rear wing of a 707.

Seeing this, Li Changheng was taken aback for a moment, then walked into the toy store overjoyed, and bought this apparently expensive toy plane for $5.

Then, enduring the excitement in my heart, I walked into the airport toilet, closed a partition door, and immersed the toy plane in the water storage tank.

Ten minutes later, the Pan Am logo, which was soaked in water, was easily and carefully torn off by him and pasted on a blank check.

Put this check in a novel for entertainment, put it at the bottom of the suitcase, then break the toy plane with one hand, leave the bathroom with the suitcase, and throw the broken toy plane in the trash can.

Walk out of the airport and stay in a hotel next to the airport.

Following the doorman into the luxurious single room, Li Changheng took out a $5 bill and said to the doorman with bright eyes, "I need a typewriter, and it must be a multifunctional magnetic ink typewriter."

The head of the door hesitated, "Ordinary typewriters are fine, but magnetic ink typewriters are...".

It is normal for the hotel for customers to borrow typewriters. The only trouble is that magnetic ink typewriters are generally used to write checks. The only one in the hotel is always in the financial room and is rarely lent out.

But this is Brazil. When Li Changheng handed the five-dollar bill to the doorman, and then put a ten-dollar bill on the table, the doorman immediately understood what he meant.

The magnetic ink typewriter was on that table, and the ten-dollar bill was his.

For the sake of money, this matter is not a problem at all.

As far as Li Changheng is concerned, as long as his fake salary check is not exchanged in this hotel or in El Salvador, with the backward communication system of this era, it may take months or even a week for the news to be known to the doorman in front of him. two years.

How could the doorman be there at that time, he clearly recalled his appearance.

Half an hour later, a typewriter with a style different from normal typewriters appeared in front of him.

The doorman who took away the ten-dollar cash on the table asked obsequiously, "Do you need me to show you how to do it?"

"Well," Li Changheng nodded, and after 5 minutes, he sent the doorman away with bright eyes, putting aside even the thought of forging checks.

I found paper and pencils in the desk drawer of the guest room, traced the Italian logo on the typewriter, and carefully put it in the coat pocket.

Immediately, I called the front desk of the hotel and asked them to check the flight time to Rome.

Lying on the bed excitedly, secretly cursing himself for forgetting to make objects by hand.

Of course, there are pure handmade products in the United States, but too much industrialization will lead to the bankruptcy of many handmade merchants.

As for Italy, a country that is prevalent in handcrafts and has a low degree of industrialization, it is really not too simple to customize a typewriter with special requirements for customers.

And the manual typewriter ten years ago in front of me is the best proof,

Or in order to keep it secret, you can figure out the principle of the typewriter by yourself first, find several craftsmen separately for the reason of damaged spare parts, and finally assemble it by yourself.