American Entertainment 1982

  Chapter 19 Someone seems to be in big trouble

Melonie picked up a fried crab horn, dipped it in the sweet and sour sauce and put it in her mouth. After eating it, she couldn't wait to taste the orange peel chicken salad, Manzhouli fried pork chop, and almond fried chicken on the table, and then Admired Tommy Hawke's surprised opening:

"I thought that if you really got 20,000 yuan, you should use it to do business. Tommy, you should open a Chinese fast food restaurant. The dishes are amazing. I have eaten Chinese food in Boston. I think that restaurant It’s not a compliment, it’s a fact that it’s not as tasty as yours.”

   Tommy Hawke was noncommittal about Melonie's compliment.

In fact, these American-style Chinese dishes have nothing to do with real Chinese dishes. The fried crab horns are wrapped in wonton wrappers and fried with artificial crab meat and cheese. They are eaten with American-style sweet and sour sauce. It is lettuce, poached chicken breast, rice noodles, peanuts with citrus juice, vegetable oil, dry hot mustard with pickled **** and dried tangerine peel steamed, Manchurian fried pork chops are small pork chops fried with onions, seasoned with a sweet sauce, almonds Fried chicken is wrapped in batter mixed with almonds, fried and served with spicy sauce.

  It conforms to the tastes of most Americans and all their stereotypes about Chinese food, that is, Chinese food is all cooked by stir-frying or frying.

Tommy Hawk actually doesn’t have great cooking skills, or these dishes don’t require any great cooking skills. Chinese people who have eaten a few times and know how to cook can easily copy them, because the production method is too simple. This is also the main reason why more than 70% of Chinese restaurants in the United States will add these dishes to their menus.

   It’s okay to deceive Americans who have never eaten real Chinese food.

He used a fork to pick some rice noodles from the chicken salad and put them on his plate. He didn't care about Melonie's compliment at all, and said while eating with his head down: "If you have time tomorrow, contact Hugh Spade, Let him come to see you tomorrow, tell him that you earn one hundred yuan, you can pay him first, and hope to get some photos back, and give him some time."

Hearing that Tommy Hawke didn't have any small talk, and talked about Hugh Spade in a voice without any emotional fluctuations, Melonie, who had just adjusted her mood because of the food, was slightly taken aback, and subconsciously restrained the smile on her face : "And then? I can't afford a hundred yuan now."

   "Here's a hundred dollars." Tommy Hawke held the fork in one hand, took out a few banknotes from his pocket with the other hand, and pushed them along the dining table in front of Melonie.

  Melonie glanced at the banknotes in front of her, they were all in denominations of 20 or 10 yuan.

   "You earned it?"

"I've earned more than that, I still have three hundred dollars in my pocket, one hundred and seventy Adlars, and eighty sleeping pills in my bedroom." Tommy Hawk swallowed the food in his mouth in a gentle manner , wiped his lips, looked up at Melonie.

Melonie frowned. Of course, she knew that these prescription drugs were used by many young people to enjoy parties. Although they were not listed as drugs like marijuana, they were subject to strict drug control: "So, no A poison, but a drug."

   "No, as I said, I am not going to do business that violates any American laws. I just want to give Mr. Hugh Spade fifty Adlars and thirty sleeping pills." Tommy said.

   "Give it to him? Giving him some prescription drugs won't let the police catch him in, but it's true that the police will find you. I don't agree with you doing this." Melonie refused decisively.

Tommy Hawk said: "Tomorrow when he comes to get the money, you're dispensing those meds in the living room, tell him you took this job of dispensing my meds for money, and describe me as a **** high school dawdle You are a trash student who does not do business, but has access to prescription drugs. He is very short of money. When he sees those drugs, he knows that I am just a high school student. Because of lack of money and greed, he will definitely take those drugs away from you and refuse them a few times. Next, just let him take it away, but you have to get back a few photos that belong to you."

"Do you know, what should be brought back is the negative." Melonie lowered her head and sighed. What the big boy opposite said was completely irrelevant, which made her suspect that she actually believed that he could help her solve her troubles in the afternoon. Whether the action is too hasty.

   "No, what you need are photos, and the negatives are not ready yet." Tommy Hawke said to Melonie with affirmative tone.

  Melonie frowned slightly, and looked at Tommy suspiciously: "And then?"

  Tommy Hawke picked up the rice noodles with a fork and sent them to his mouth: "Then, it's up to me, a high school student who suffered a loss, to go find him."

  Seeing that Melonie was about to speak, Tommy Hawke continued: "Don't worry, the fights you imagined won't happen. If he is investigated by the police or goes to jail, the public school will have an excuse to dismiss him, right?"

   "Yes." Melonie nodded.

   "The teachers' union has a special department to listen to teachers' troubles, right, such as psychological counseling and legal consultation?"

   “Unions do help us.”

"Hugh Spade will be sent away tomorrow, and you will go to the union departments for some consultation, for example, you have to tell the psychological counselors that you have suffered psychological trauma, you try to get out of the shadows, but now the nightmare reappears, you are worried that if it continues , have a serious impact on your own teaching career, or say goodbye to a profession you love so much.”

Melonie was about to listen carefully to Tommy talking about the arrangement, and she picked up the champagne and sent it to her lips, but the words made her almost choke, she hurriedly covered her mouth with a napkin, and looked at Tommy Hawke: " what are you saying?"

"You've been tricked into drugging by an ex-boyfriend who's heavily drugged and nasty, and then he's taking pictures of you when you're not conscious, and now he's trying to get close to you and control you, and it scares you, that's who you are The main reason for seeking psychological counseling is the same for legal counselors, you have to ask them, after many years, without evidence, whether Hugh Spade can be legally forced to keep distance from you, but regardless of counseling and counseling , don’t mention the other party’s name, use the name of ex-boyfriend instead.” Tommy Hawke continued:

"You have to consult and tutor twice a week to let those people have an impression of you. For the rest of the time, just continue to be your substitute teacher and leave all the rest to me until I inform you that you need to prepare Be a witness against Hugh Spade."

   "Witness?" Melonie froze for a moment: "I'm a witness? Isn't it the one who plans to sue him?"

  Tommy Hawk took a bite of the fried pork cutlet he made, and shook his head slightly: "It's a bit hard fried."

Then answer Melonie's question: "The identity of the witness will be more beneficial to you. There are witness protection regulations. From the moment you become a witness, it doesn't matter who owns your photo, but if he dares to leak it again, you can Find a well-known lawyer to claim from the court on the grounds that the protection of witness privacy is not good, so the court or the state government will definitely help you recover all your photos and negatives in order to avoid being legally blackmailed by you, so that you can ensure that you do not need to confront him. Fighting, you just have to help drive that final nail in the moment Hugh Spader lays in the coffin."

   "What are you going to do, Tommy Hawk?" Melonie felt that her mind could no longer catch Tommy's thoughts in time.

Tommy Hawke swallowed the food in his mouth, ignored Melonie's question, but continued: "After sending him in, there is a vacancy in Sinclair Elementary School, and you, the witness, can replace Hugh. - Spade, new teacher at Sinclair Elementary."

   "Will the school agree?" Melonie asked incredulously, "What are you talking about, child."

   "If the principal of Sinclair Elementary School is not an idiot, he'd better agree." Tommy Hawke finished his food, picked up a cigarette and lit one, exhaled the smoke, and said in a monotonous voice:

   "Because he disagrees, he will lose the position of principal. Whether he will be kicked out of that position or give you a job to continue as the principal, he should know how to make a wise choice."

Melonie felt a little cold after hearing this. For some reason, Melonie felt that all the delicious food had lost its taste. Now she was sizing up Tommy Hawke who looked normal. With careful planning, looking at his face, it seems that his own troubles may be as easy as solving a math problem for him, and it is not worth any emotional reaction at all.

  She seemed to feel the words that Tommy Hawke said while sitting in the co-pilot on the way home:

   "I want to make a big dinner. Generally, when I do some housework that doesn't require brains, I always use my brain to think about complex problems."

  Although she didn't know what Tommy Hawk was going to do, her intuition told her that Hugh Spade was in big trouble.

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  (end of this chapter)