Saturday 21 July 2018

Kimmie Zhou 周

This is Zhou (周) Keung, a beer drinker from the Tianjin ProvinceNinghe District, he lives with his mom in a small place just outside Lutai. One night, about two and a half years ago, while drinking beer on his porch, he heard sounds of breaking, screeching, impacting, and crashing. He jumped up and ran to the highway where he saw a huge white BMW rolled on its side with wheels still spinning. The driver was fine he had only some scratches, the passenger, a young woman hanging in the seat belt, was clearly dead. The young man asked him for his name and then ordered Keung to help him move the girl into the driver seat and the roll the car down into the gorge below. The BMW bumped faster and faster through the bushes and landed, almost invisible, two hundred feet below. Then the young man told Keung to take him to the train station which he did on his old scooter. Once there, the guy took out all the cash from his wallet and gave it to Keung with a business card, he said somebody will come by (it was almost 5,000 Yuan, about six hundred bucks). After a few days a lawyer came by, asked for a bank account number and Keung signed a consulting contract with the Province. The next day there were 150,000 Yuan more in the bank, so he bought a new stove for his mom and paid a guy to repair the roof. In a newspaper, Keung read about a female car thief who crashed a car and died (the car belonged, apparently, to the son of a high party boss). Keung changed his name to cooler Kimmie, quit his job and sat at home drinking beer all day. After a while, he started to travel and to drink beer all over the world. I met him in Florence on the steps of Santa Croce (we had beers).

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