In May, Zhou Ming drove to the garden restaurant in South Brighton, where the waiter warmly received him and led him all the way to an open-air garden-style dining venue.

"Mr. Zhou Ming, please, Mr. Anthony has been waiting in the restaurant for a long time. The waiter said.

A very elegant-looking white man is sitting in this open-air restaurant, this white man is Mr. Anthony, who was introduced to Zhou Ming by the waiter, he is the deputy governor and speaker of the Massachusetts Congress, Anthony was originally drinking coffee in his seat, he saw Zhou Ming coming over and got up to say hello: "Hello Mr. Zhou Ming, welcome to this luxury restaurant that is very close to nature." ”

In the face of the white man's politeness, Zhou Ming waved his hand and sat down directly, and said at the same time: "Mr. Anthony is polite, but this is not the first time I have come to this luxurious restaurant, but the last time I ate here did not leave me any good memories." ”

Anthony's face was embarrassed for a moment, obviously he knew what Zhou Ming was talking about, but he didn't show any panicked expression, just smiled and said, "That seems to be a very bad dinner, I am deeply sorry for this, so I hope we can have a pleasant dinner this time." ”

"Mr. Zhou Ming, rest assured, I will do my best. Anthony said in a sonorous voice.

"I'm very confident in this, but I don't know what Mr. Anthony's request for asking me over today is?" Zhou Ming asked.

Anthony shook his head, and did not answer Zhou Ming directly, but pointed around and asked Zhou Ming: "Mr. Zhou Ming, I don't know if you still remember this place?"

Zhou Ming nodded to indicate that he knew: "Mr. Anthony, I think my memory is not so bad that this is the place where I brought my Chinese classmates over for dinner last time." ”

"That's true, so I'm going to make up for your meal today. Anthony said.

Saying that, the waiter had already come up with a plate of fruit salad, and Anthony said to Zhou Ming: "This is a fruit platter, I asked the restaurant to remake it according to the menu you ordered before." ”

The waiter came over as usual to put the fruit salad on the table, but was blocked by Zhou Ming, facing Anthony and the waiter's puzzled eyes, Zhou Ming told them: "Please wait a minute, Mr. Anthony, I only have one question for you, why did you invite me to dinner today, or in what kind of luxurious restaurant? I don't think there is anything I can do that deserves the appearance of the lieutenant governor or the speaker." ”

"That's Mr. Zhou Ming, you underestimate yourself too much, just your great achievements at the press conference are enough for me to invite you. Anthony said.

"Is that so?" Zhou Ming said with a smile.

Antonion sighed, and then touched a glass of wine with Zhou Ming before saying: "Mr. Zhou Ming, I heard that you have already contacted the press conference, right? I wonder if Mr. Zhou Ming can tell me the content of your press conference? I can understand that the content of the press conference generally belongs to the category of trade secrets, but this time the situation is different, this involves the face of the entire state legislature. ”

Zhou Ming smiled: "It turns out that Mr. Anthony is for that, but as far as I know, this has nothing to do with Mr. Anthony, even if you are best friends......

Without waiting for Zhou Ming to finish speaking, Anthony interrupted him and said: "If it were me, then I would definitely not think about it, after all, as a social person, I always have to keep my bottom line, and I must be punished by the law for anything that crosses the bottom line." ”

Speaking of this, Anthony's words paused for a moment and then said: "It's just that some things are not so simple to explain, so this time my request is very simple, I hope that Mr. Zhou Ming can be noble and not worry about this matter, let alone disclose the video tape you keep in your hands, of course, if you can, you had better bring this video tape to us, and make sure you don't back it up." ”

Zhou Ming immediately frowned, he thought for a while and decided to pretend to be stupid first: "I don't understand what Mr. Anthony are talking about, can you please explain it clearly?"

Of course, Anthony understood that Zhou Ming was pretending to be stupid, but he still replied very comfortably: "Of course there is no problem, in fact, this matter is about Old Brooke who committed illegal acts before, sending gang members to intercept and kill you on the road." Once this news is revealed, it will be a huge scandal for Parliament, and I, as Speaker of Parliament, I think I must convince you on behalf of Parliament to help us keep this secret. ”

Zhou Ming nodded silently and said: "I'm not injured, it's just that my lawyer and I were frightened, so it doesn't matter to me whether it's exposed or not, it's just that I'm a little curious, what will happen if I don't agree?"

"Then I am sorry to say sorry to you," said Anthony, "maybe Mr. Zhou Ming, you don't know the power of the parliament, he has legislative power and investigative power, we can also take the initiative to apply for the cooperation of any violent organs, if you don't do so, I think we will take a series of coercive measures, but this series of coercive measures, I'm afraid it is not as friendly as we are now." ”

Anthony then said, "On the contrary, if you are willing to cooperate with my suggestion to withdraw the press conference you have prepared?" then I will give you a little of our reward as well." ”

"What reward?" Zhou Ming asked.

Anthony held out a finger and replied, "A million dollars." ”

Zhou Ming smiled: "Mr. Anthony, are you sure you're not joking with me?"

"Do you think I'm joking right now?"

Anthony choked Zhou Ming back, and then said: "I know that Mr. Zhou Ming will think that this money is small, but there is a problem I hope Mr. Zhou Ming can understand first, my million dollars is just that I personally gave you a million dollars for the house, because in the eyes of the council, there is only your pitiful background, we can use all kinds of means to deal with you, but I personally can still hope to solve the matter within the framework as well." ”

Zhou Ming didn't answer immediately, Anthony had to stand up, open the window and continue: "The United States is indeed a country that adheres to the rule of law, but there will also be corruption cases here. Do you know why corruption happens? It's all because everybody wants to have their own privileges. ”

After speaking, Anthony finally looked at Zhou Ming and asked, "How is it? Do you want to know what the corruption case in the United States is?"

Zhou Ming frowned and looked at Anthony, who asked him, and wanted to know what Zhou Ming's result was, and at the same time, there were a few people who wanted to know the result.

In the back seat of Zhou Ming's car, Chen Shu, Li Yang and Li Ning were anxiously waiting for Zhou Ming's return.

"Chen Shuye Ning, who do you say our Zhou Ming will invite our teacher to dinner this time? The person who can afford to eat here must be a person from the upper class. Li Yang said uncertainly.

He immediately got the white eyes of Chen Shu and Ye Ning, and Ye Ning said to him: "Li Yang, I ask if your eyes can work? Don't you see the luxury car parked over there? According to the results I saw on the news, I very much doubt that this time it was Mr. Anthony who came to find Zhou Ming?"

These words made Li Yang gasp: "Could it be that Anthony? According to the information I know, this person is the vice governor and speaker of Massachusetts, and he usually works with our teachers in Massachusetts, so he won't suffer at his hands, right?"

"Our teachers have always only taken advantage of others, how can we suffer at the hands of others?" Ye Ning immediately asked rhetorically.

This rhetorical question made Li Yang a little speechless, because if you think about it carefully, her teacher is indeed very powerful, and just like Ye Ning said, he is always the only one who bullies others, who can bully her?

After a while, Zhou Ming walked out of the restaurant, Chen Shu, Li Yang and Li Sisi hurriedly got out of the car and came over to say hello to Zhou Ming, Li Yang first asked curiously: "Teacher, I heard that you came here today to go to Speaker Anthony's appointment, you didn't suffer a loss, right?"

Suffer?

Chen Shu, Li Yang and Li Sisi's words reminded Zhou Ming of the situation he finally promised Anthony in the café just now.

At that time, Zhou Ming thought that he had won the victory, but he didn't think that the other party suddenly gave him a heavy blow from behind, but put himself in a very embarrassing situation.

"Why did Speaker Anthony suddenly find you, Teacher?, is he going to use his power in the government department, and then do his best to prohibit Teacher Zhou, from making Mr. Brooke's video public?" Ye Ning also asked.

Zhou Ming nodded yes, Ye Ning and they scolded angrily: "This damn capitalist, this is obviously their fault, why do you want to compromise with them, teacher?"

Zhou Ming didn't answer this question, he just stunned there, staring straight to the side with his eyes, over there Speaker Anthony had also left the garden restaurant, he seemed to feel Zhou Ming's gaze before getting into the car, and waved his hand to Zhou Ming.

Chen Shu, Li Yang, and Ye Ning didn't speak at this time, because looking at Anthony's relaxed posture, they all seemed to have expected the result.

Their eyes were on Zhou Ming, and Ye Ning asked Zhou Ming: "Teacher, did you suffer a loss from Anthony? We will do whatever you want us to do, and we will find a venue from him!"

Zhou Ming smiled and rubbed Ye Ning's little head and said, "Don't worry, even if you don't say it, I will definitely do it, but today's conversation makes me think that I am still very rewarding, because from today onwards, I will also know that power in the United States is also so easy to use, and it seems that my future path will also be adjusted." ”