American Entertainment 1982

Watermere, Long Island, New York.

"It's so big that it can fit the entire Hope Hill block." Colin stood in front of his Ford pickup, with his hands on his hips, and looked at the manor with the open door in front of him, feeling shocked.

On the co-pilot, Bethea, the 14-year-old youngest daughter of the Hawk family, jumped out of the car wearing a thick winter coat, raised the camera on her chest that looked more expensive than her father's car, and turned the lens Aim at the iconic building of Watermere, the windmill built more than a hundred years ago, adjust the angle, and take a picture of the scenery.

"When I first arrived, I was also taken aback. There are about fifteen acres. The sea you see now, and the windmill, strictly speaking belong to this Mary Manor." Tommy wrapped himself up It became a cotton ball, came over and stood beside the old man, imitating the other's akimbo movement, and introduced.

Living in California for too long made him not used to the winter in New York.

Colin turned his face to look at Tommy, and said in disbelief, "Fifteen acres?"

Then I looked around the scenery: "I said on the phone before, is it too hasty for me to pay the short-term rent this time? You know, in winter, the business of the shipbreaking yard is generally not very good. What's worse, The sperm donation company I used to go to in Warwick closed down. Speaking of which, even if it didn’t close down, I don’t think the money I earned from selling tadpoles could afford the rent here. How much does this place cost for a night’s sleep? "

"One dollar." Tommy said affirmatively, and then looked at his sister who was playing with the camera beside him, and didn't come up to say hello to him immediately: "Hey, I still gave birth to me because I couldn't go home for Christmas. Are you angry? To be honest, I have to pay for the camera that Otilia gave you. Besides, have you seen that big house? I think you should let Sophia accompany you in now. I specially prepared a gift. Hidden in one of the eleven bedrooms."

Bethea stood there as if she didn't hear it at all. Tommy sighed and admitted his mistake obediently: "Well, I'm sorry, my dear sister, it's my fault that I promised to go home for Christmas but I couldn't. Make sure it will never happen again this year, I promise."

Hearing Tommy's voluntary confession, a smile finally appeared on Bethea's always indifferent face: "Last Christmas, although Otilia and Ashley came to accompany me and Dad, I still felt deserted because you and Tony didn't even come home, but that's okay, I forgive you."

"I'm you, so I'll go and see the presents first." Tommy said with a smile when he heard his sister forgive him, so he dared to reach out and pat her on the head.

Seeing Sophia standing at the gate of the main building of the manor waving at her in the distance, Bethea ran towards the manor, turned around after running a long way, and asked Tommy loudly: "I forgot to ask, yes What gift, Tommy?"

"You will definitely be shocked, Bethea!" Tommy responded loudly to her, and when Bethea continued to run forward, he added in a low voice: "In order to prevent your studies from declining due to the holiday, I let you Mrs. Morgan, the governess in Rhode Island, is here, and I hope you enjoy the surprise."

After finishing speaking, Tommy turned around and was about to walk towards the manor with his father, but he saw his father taking out his wallet and counting a stack of banknotes. Tommy asked suspiciously, "What's the matter? The servant here People don't need to tip, Dad."

"It's about 320 yuan here, and I'll pay you another 50 yuan later, and you can renew the lease for another year." Colin handed the banknote to Tommy: "Although this ghost place looks nothing like the Warwick countryside difference, but the rent for this big house is still very good."

Tommy didn't go to accept the banknotes handed over by his father. He smiled and hugged him by the shoulders, and walked towards the manor with him: "I can't figure it out. This is the church property of St. Dominique's Abbey, which can be borrowed for vacation. Thanks to Ottilia, she helped the monastery do some charity activities before, and in order to thank her for her kindness, the monastery rented this property that has always been vacant to her for one dollar."

"I also often participate in the church's charity activities. I go to the church every week...why the church never thought of thanking me. The church in Warwick is too stingy. When I go back, I will call on the neighbors of Hope Hill to demonstrate. It is all God. The New York church can rent such a big house to believers for a vacation for one dollar, but the Warwick church will only tell us, believers, this church needs to be repaired again, and we need to raise funds..." Colin heard Tommy said that Otilia rented such a big house for one dollar, and immediately began to criticize the church in Warwick.

Tommy didn’t lie, this was built in 1887 and has the British Baroque style of Mary’s Manor. It is indeed a property of the church, and it was indeed leased to Ottilia by the church for $1. Ottilia even has priority The right to buy, but what Tommy didn’t tell Dad is how much Otilia paid for those charity activities, and during the one-dollar lease, the repair and maintenance of this manor will also be borne by Otilia .

After the two entered the main building of the manor, after Tommy introduced Page, Martin, and Dorothy to Colin, Colin looked at Martin who was helping Dorothy carry various things, and asked Tommy quietly: " Son, you brought two women, an old white man, a black... black man, even diapers from LA to New York, but you didn't bring Otilia back for our family reunion."

"Otilia, Ashley will meet up with their parents tomorrow, and then we will pick up Tony. I promise, I didn't leave her in Los Angeles on purpose. In fact, she is in New York now, just temporarily absent." Time will come." Tommy immediately explained to Colin obediently that he had no intention of leaving Otilia in Los Angeles and bringing the other two women to New York to fool around.

After getting the guarantee from Tommy that Otilia would definitely appear, Colin walked towards Martin in the distance with a cigarette in his mouth.

Tommy breathed a sigh of relief. In Hawke's house, women have a higher status than men. If he dared to tell his father that he didn't respect Ottilia today, Tommy would definitely believe that his father would teach him a lesson in public. Come.

Last Christmas, Tommy couldn't go home because he had to stay in California to help Jason handle some EFF work, and Tony was overseas, so the Hawker family had to take Bethea with them for Christmas. Cool off.

But Ashley and Otilia didn't let this happen. Ashley took her parents, and Otilia rushed to the Hawke's house with her parents. The three families spent happily Christmas 1988.

This also made Colin recognize Otilia even more. Every time he talked on the phone, he would persuade his son Tommy not to fool around, but to be loyal to love.

But today, Papa Colin didn't spend too much time teaching Tommy, because a black man named Martin attracted his attention, and now he has more important things than telling Tommy.

...

In the afternoon, in the gymnasium of Mary Manor, Martin played with Mr. Page's electric shock device, pushing the switch from time to time to make the electric shock device make a crackling sound. Mr. Page was relying on the equipment in the gym, doing squats with weights one after another. .

"Mr. Page, do you feel that the boss's father is targeting me?" Martin asked, "I mean, he is like a supervisor, always finding something for me to do, lest I be idle."

Martin felt that he was being targeted. There were more than a dozen servants in this manor. Tommy even brought Dorothy, his butler in Los Angeles. Originally, he didn't need a driver and bodyguard for anything, but this The old guy named Colin would just stare at him, arranging various things for him to do.

For example, when cleaning the car, Colin saw him chatting with Page, so he walked over and asked him to help him clean the tattered pickup truck. The reason was that he was the driver of the Hawk family, and the driver should help clean the car.

But as soon as I finished wiping the car, and went back to Mr. Page to take a breath, that damn old guy immediately appeared in front of me with "Biu", and he didn't call himself Martin, but said with a straight face: "Ha Mr. Te, my son didn't pay you to let you stand here and brag with others."

Martin said that he had just finished wiping the car, and then the guy tilted his head and asked himself to follow him to a place in the manor. Martin was dumbfounded when he got there. It was a fucking carriage house at the corner of the manor.

The carriage house, this kind of building, has basically disappeared in American urban families after World War I.

And in the carriage house of this manor, there are two dilapidated old-fashioned wooden carriages that have accumulated dust for at least a hundred years.

"The carriage is also a car, Mr. Driver." Martin imitated Colin's tone depressedly, and complained to Page: "Can you imagine? He actually moved a recliner and placed it at the door of the carriage house, sat on it and watched me wipe it. After finishing those two carriages, what the hell are humans capable of doing? What were you doing while I was cleaning the carriages? Mr. Page? What were you doing~"

Page counted silently, and after finishing squatting, he moved his limbs and said, "I moved another recliner and sat next to him, drinking beer and chatting, and accompanying him to supervise your car cleaning."

"That's the problem, Mr. Page, he and you are both damned racists!" Martin cursed bitterly.

Paige wiped his sweat and corrected the mistakes in Martin's words: "No, I must be, but Colin must not be."

"Where did you get that he didn't answer that? Because he was wearing a black coat?" Martin asked, rolling his eyes.

"No, in fact, when I observed the surroundings of the manor, I found that besides the carriage house, there was also an old-fashioned mill. I told Colin that after you finished wiping the car, you should go to the mill to grind some flour, but Colin refused. , if he is a racist, he will definitely agree with my suggestion." Page said solemnly:

"But Colin said that if one day he settles here, you can come and be a miller and hire other niggers to work for you."

Martin clenched the electric shock device in his hand: "You know what, I'm going to shock your club first, then go to the boss's club, and then..."

"Martin~" Sophia came in from the outside at this time, holding a credit card and a note filled with a dozen phone numbers and handing it to Martin: "This is Tommy's credit card and a dozen high-end New York companies. The phone number of the club or nightclub, and the address of a car rental company in Long Island. You can rent a luxury car you like, or even ask them to provide a driver, and then drive to those clubs and nightclubs. Pick your favorite, invite your friends in New York to drink there tonight, and pay for everything with this credit card."

What Martin hadn't finished just now was stuck in his throat. He took the credit card and phone number from Sophia, looked down, and looked back at Sophia blankly.

Sophia asked Martin puzzled, "What's the matter? Do you have other arrangements?"

"He's about to blast Tommy's cue." Paige walked over and said, wiping his sweat.

"Really?" Sophia immediately looked at Martin with admiration: "Shock him a few more times for me, Warrior, you did what I always wanted to do."

"Crackling~" Martin shocked himself with the electric shocker, his body trembled unconsciously with the electric current, and then he said, "I feel ashamed for thinking I was going to hurt the boss and his father just now. , I am Martin, the faithful miller of the Hawkes."