Chapter 343: Undercurrents are surging
"I'm sorry dear sir, it's my daughter who is so rude, I hope you don't blame her. Margaret apologized to Zhou Ming, but Zhou Ming said that it didn't matter, so Margaret continued to tell Zhou Ming.
In the words that followed, Margaret told Zhou Ming that they were indeed from a wealthy family living in Orlando, and that her parents were executives of car companies, but everything changed since she went to state college, because she had a boyfriend in college, which was normal, but the problem was that this boyfriend was black.
The United States is a very inclusive country of immigrants, but it is also one of the most racist countries, and this is especially true at Eitley.
Margaret's family was originally very prejudiced against blacks because of the culture of the ghetto, and Margaret thought that if she was pregnant, her parents would forgive her for the sake of her grandson, but God played a very big joke on her at this time, and the day after she found out that she was pregnant, a large-scale racial conflict broke out in the city of Itley.
More than 100,000 people were involved in the conflict, more than 2,000 buildings were destroyed in several neighborhoods, and federal forces had to enter the town to quell the conflict, resulting in nearly 10,000 arrests and nearly 1,000 dead or wounded in the clashes, including Margaret's black boyfriend.
Because the black man was arrested and put in prison, Margaret's parents asked her to immediately kill the child in her womb and cut off all contact with her black boyfriend, but Margaret, who was still in a rebellious period at the moment, could not accept it anyway, she thought that love was everything in her life, so she fell out with her family completely, moved out of Orlando and bought the villa here.
Eight months later, when the child was born, Margaret's parents visited her in the hospital once, but they could not accept the child's dark skin in any way, and considered it a disgrace to the family, so they moved out of Itley after leaving her some money, and then cut off contact with her completely.
Margaret couldn't bear to abandon her children, so she raised them alone, but fortunately, she was white and had a state college diploma, plus the money left by her parents, even if she raised the child alone, there was no problem. But God seemed to be making things difficult for her, and at this time she was found to have uremia, which made Margaret feel that the whole world was gray.
You must know that uremia is not a disease that kills people all at once, although it can be treated by kidney replacement, but because it is difficult to contact her family, it is difficult to find a match elsewhere, plus Margaret herself cannot pay the high cost of surgery and postoperative costs, and the huge risk of the operation itself, so Margaret can only choose dialysis and ordinary drug treatment to save her life.
The principle of dialysis is simply to use a machine to replace the patient's kidneys to work, excrete the metabolic waste in the human body, ensure the normal operation of physiological functions, and then take medicine to replenish the hormones in the body due to insufficient renal secretion.
Such treatments can only prolong a person's life, but cannot restore the already failed kidney, so this treatment is a bottomless pit that keeps spending money.
At first, Margaret was able to barely pay the expenses, but when her company learned about her condition, they found an excuse to fire her, and because other companies were unwilling to hire her, she had to rely on her own savings and sell her property to support the treatment and the life of the mother and daughter.
After all, they lost their income, and treatment was a place where they needed to spend money constantly, and over time, their family fell into the way it is now.
"Now that everything that can be sold at home has been sold, my credit card has been overspent, and it is estimated that the bank will come to my door and take my house next year at the latest. Margaret smiled bitterly and said, "It doesn't matter what I say, after all, I have to pay the price for my willfulness at the beginning, but my child is innocent, why should she bear this sin with me?"
Margaret finally burst into tears, and the little girl Julia couldn't help but hug her mother and cry together.
After listening to Margaret's story, Zhou Ming also felt very uncomfortable, after all, this is a very helpless tragedy, just like she said, maybe her initial willfulness was wrong, but it was not like this.
After crying for a while, Margaret wiped her tears and said to Zhou Ming: "I'm sorry to make you laugh, I'm going to help you clean up a room where you can live." ”
Zhou Ming immediately got up and said to her: "Mrs. Margaret, you don't have to trouble your physical condition, we can just clean it up ourselves, as for your current situation, I am very sympathetic and willing to help you, but I only have the ten thousand dollars I have on you now, if I can, I will give me your credit account, and I can help you pay off all the arrears." ”
"How can this work? We are already very unhappy to accept your gift of $10,000, how can we still ask you to help me pay off all my credit accounts?"
Margaret originally wanted to refuse, but Zhou Ming suddenly asked her, "Madam, do you believe in God?"
Faced with this question, Margaret was stunned at the time, not knowing why Zhou Ming suddenly asked such a question.
Zhou Ming then told her: "Didn't you just say that uremia was God's capricious punishment for you at the beginning? Of course, a merciful father in heaven would not see his children suffer so much, so I appeared at this time, and I was sent by God to save you." ”
When she heard this, the little girl Julia immediately said, "Really, are you an angel sent by God to save us? But my mother's credit card is overdrawn with $100,000!"
Zhou Ming smiled and rubbed the little girl's head and said to her, "Don't say 100,000 dollars, even 1 million I can help you settle it." ”
"That's great, brother, you really are the angel sent by God to save us!" said Julia, very excited.
On the other side, Margaret was silently in tears, she pulled Julia to Zhou Ming's knees, and said to Zhou Ming: "Dear sir, thank you very much, I can't find any other words except thanks." ”
Seeing the mother and daughter kneeling in front of him, Zhou Ming's first reaction was to help them up, but they didn't get up, Zhou Ming then remembered that the 100,000 dollars were not worth mentioning to him, but for them, it was equivalent to their lives, how could this not move them, to put it more vulgarly, he was their savior.
Then Zhou Ming and Zhang Lin went to the bedroom on the second floor, and in the end it was Mrs. Margaret who helped clean up, because she said that if she didn't do this, she would hate herself for the rest of her life.
And at night, when Zhou Ming sat on the edge of the bed and thought about the next day's course of action, he didn't know that his arrival had affected the entire situation in Itley.
At nine o'clock in the evening, three Lincoln limousines drove up to the door of the Gross Hotel, the door opened, and a middle-aged white man stepped out of the car.
Richard waited at the door, and after a while, two people came out of the hotel, and they came to him and told him that the person he was looking for was not in the hotel, and this answer made Richard frown.
At this moment, there was the sound of a rumbling car engine behind him, and a Land Rover luxury car stopped next to Richard, and then a young man came down and said to him: "Mr. Richard, are you looking for someone here?" ”
Richard's subordinates here told him something, and Richard smiled: "I just heard that at the William Bridge, someone was stopped outside and not allowed to enter, it seems that your Wood family is not so bold, and he is not allowed to enter Orlando, are you so afraid?"
The young man innocently said, "Is there such a thing?" I'm sorry I don't know. ”
"You can pretend to be innocent in front of me, but that Zhou Ming from California will be like a stone thrown into water, and he is destined to make waves. ”
Richard returned to the car as he said this, and the young man came to him and said, "It seems that Mr. Richard has a lot of confidence in him, but I don't know how long you can keep this confidence?
In the face of the young man's ridicule, Richard turned grimace and said, "What are you? ”
After Richard finished speaking, he ignored the young man, sat back in the car directly, and then let the driver start and leave, as for the young man behind him, he sent Richard away with a smile.
And after Richard's car disappeared from view, the smile on the young man's face also turned cold, and he said to the servant next to him: "Keep up with his car, keep an eye on all their movements, and report to me any movement!"
The servants nodded yes, and then cautiously drove the car after Richard's car.
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At eleven o'clock in the evening, on Third Street, Louise District, which had become a completely black ghetto in Itley, and at the same time the most chaotic street in the whole city, three or two very luxurious cars were moving.
Along the way, the three luxury cars bumped into drug dealers with guns and scantily clad women, or gangsters who whistled aggressively at them, but all three cars did not stop until they reached a park that had been overrun by drunks and drug-seeking men and women.
Several men armed with submachine guns got out of the car first, and after clearing out all the idle people in the park, a man in a suit and leather shoes stepped out of the car and kicked a drunkard sleeping under a chair.
In the dim light, he could see that the people below were unkempt, their clothes were in tatters, and they emitted a disgusting smell.
This made him frown, but instead of turning away, he crouched down and said to the drunkard, "A new storm is coming, and this may be our best chance to change, are you still going to get drunk?" or to your ...... Escape?"