America 1982

"Bethia likes you very much. She had a lot of fun today." Under the setting sun, Colin Hawke held the steering wheel and drove the car along the interstate highway toward home. At the same time, he said to Tommy in the passenger seat said.

Tony Leon, wearing the cat whiskers Bethea left for him, was curled up in the back seat and dozing.

Tommy turned his face and looked at his father: "I don't know why, Dad, I always have the feeling that you are giving your last words. I hope it is my imagination."

"Last words? No, it's not last words, but I have some thoughts recently... I think you should spend more time with Bethea. Although I rarely mentioned her after your mother passed away, I will often think of what she said during her lifetime. "Colin Hawke's eyes were a little sad, and he said in a sad tone: "You know, if your mother was still here, she would never let me..."

At this time, Tony in the back seat suddenly opened his sleepy eyes and put his upper body between the two of them: "Dad, please stop at the convenience store owned by Jason Old. I'm going to buy Trojan. Ashley is waiting for me."

"You can buy that thing in any supermarket, son." Colin Hawke, whose mood was completely ruined by Tony's words, said unhappily: "Why do you insist on buying it from the store owned by old Jason?"

"Because old Jason allowed me to take it away first, and then Ashley would help me pay the bill the next day." Tony said shamelessly.

"You're dating your girlfriend and you even have to pay for that thing on credit? Boy, let daddy teach you how to leave a better impression in front of your girlfriend and avoid being treated like a jerk. The first thing is that thing. You must use your own money to pay the bill..." Colin Hawke was quite shocked that his son said such shameless words. He held the steering wheel with one hand and fumbled around in his pockets with the other hand, in vain. He retracted his hand and changed the subject: "Ashley is a good girl. She is a bit like your mother. She is gentle and kind. You can't let her down."

After being interrupted by Tony, Dad didn't return to the original topic until Tommy Hawke got out of the car. Colin Hawke poked his head out of the car window and looked at Tommy standing outside, grinning. After a moment: "See you next time, son."

"Goodbye, dad, goodbye, Tony." Tommy Hawke waved and watched the pickup truck turn around and drive away, then turned his back to the sunset and walked towards the apartment.

He didn't know if his father had been enlightened by a priest or if there were other reasons, but he didn't have time to find out more now. The most important thing at the moment was making money. All the troubles the family had at this time needed to be solved with money.

After taking out the key and opening the apartment door, Tommy saw Melonie sitting on her knees on the sofa in the living room, resting her head on her knees, biting her fingertips gently with her teeth, her expression looked a little tangled, although The TV was on, but her eyes were in space.

"Is Bethea okay?" Seeing Tommy Hawk come back, Melonie put away her expression when she was alone, sat up straight, and asked Tommy Hawk with a smile.

Tommy nodded: "Very good. She has grown about half an inch taller than the last time I saw her. She looks more and more like my mother, but her personality is a bit like my father's. She has an attitude of always being curious about everything in the world. , and, most of the time during this visit, I spent playing with Bethea.”

"What are Tony and your father doing?"

"Tony went to help Mrs. Hopkins of the foster family clean up the lawn and check the car. He hoped to use this behavior to express the couple's gratitude to Bethea for her meticulous care." Tommy Hawke changed into slippers. , sat on the sofa, maintaining the same position as Melonie, and said: "As for my dad, he was sitting in the park watching me playing with Bethea. I don't know what happened to him. I always felt that he was a little abnormal. I will find out after I finish the cigarette business."

Melonie sighed, "Tony inherited the character of your mother Alida Leon. She is like a lion. She has a strong sense of family and will do anything for the family."

"When I first walked in, I noticed that you were a little entangled, aunt. Are you worried that if you don't repay the loan, the bank will take over the apartment?" Tommy Hawk asked Melonie.

Melonie looked at the layout of the room casually, then looked at Tommy Hawke, and said seriously: "I will use this apartment to apply for a mortgage loan with a maximum amount of 40,000 U.S. dollars. The bank has agreed. You can sign it at any time." contract."

"It seems that you are more confident about this than me. Auntie, you have to know that twenty thousand yuan means that if we don't make any money in this business, we can barely afford the bank interest if we work hard, but Forty thousand dollars, if something goes wrong with the business, you will be left to dance as a striptease, while I will work as a drug dealer to work hard to make money and pay off debts to avoid having this apartment taken away by the bank." Tommy Hawke looked at him calmly. Melonie.

Melonie looked back at Tommy Hawke for a long time before nodding and smiling: "I have thought about this issue. If you can do what you promised me, why can't I give you all my trust? If you really My business failed. The most I could do was teach in an elementary school during the day and do a striptease at night. I could handle it, after all, even my nephew bought me champagne time. I don’t think anything more embarrassing than this would happen again.”

"Thank you for your trust. I never thought that teaching Hugh Spade a lesson would expand your trust in me to this point. But that's not important. What's important is, what were you struggling with just now?" Tommy - Hawke smiled.

Melonie withdrew her gaze and looked back into space, as if she had thought about it seriously, and then turned her head to look at Tommy Hawke again in frustration: "You know, before you came back, I had been thinking about a question. How do you, a high school student, find a buyer, and it’s in Canada? I want to complete this part of the work for you, but I’ve been sitting here thinking about it for a long time, but I have no clue. Tommy, I want to help you, but I can’t. I know how to help you, that’s my struggle.”

"Buyers are not just sitting here thinking about it. In fact, if your mortgage application is approved, I will take three days to go on a trip to Yarmouth, Canada and Portland, New Hampshire." Tommy -Hawke revealed his next plans.

"I won't allow you, a high school student, to go on an excursion away from home, and the real purpose is to find cigarette dealers." Hearing that Tommy Hawke was going to Canada and Portland alone, Melonie shook her head decisively: "Tommy , you are very smart, but it does not mean that you have rich enough social experience."

There are two coastal cities, one in Canada and one in the United States. Although Portland is not too far from Warwick, about 470 kilometers, it is the farthest city that Tommy Hawke has ever visited before. It is Boston, a hundred kilometers away. As for Yarmouth, it is located in Canada, across the Gulf of Maine from Portland.

"I will find a paid guide for myself." Tommy Hawke took out a cigarette and lit it: "I guess there will be a large number of buyers in Yarmouth, because the tobacco ship was parked on the high seas near Yarmouth before. , spreading Marlboro throughout Canada through smuggling channels, so Yarmouth should have a complete cigarette trafficking network."

"Unless you agree to be accompanied by me as your guardian, I will not agree. I will inform your father as soon as possible. You are only a high school student. I cannot let you go to a strange city alone and deal with smugglers." Mei Loni spoke quickly and expressed her worries: "Maybe they will deceive you, just like in the movie, they accept the goods but refuse to pay..."

Tommy Hawke looked at Melonie with a smile, which made Melonie a little puzzled. When she found that the other party had no intention of speaking, Melonie could only take the initiative to ask: "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing. If you insist, you can of course travel with me as my guardian, but I still need a paid tour guide." Tommy shook his head and said to Melonie.

Melonie stared at Tommy closely and asked, "But your eyes seem to be laughing at me. Did I say something wrong?"

"Nothing, just reminding you that you missed something when you were thinking about certain issues."

"What's missing?"

"We are Italian."

Sorry, I just finished my work and the update is late. I'm sorry.