Chapter 8: Victory in the first battle
"Oh, Farke! I remember that today was an important day, but I never remembered what it was!" Frank looked frustrated!
The disability subsidy fraudulently obtained from the Chicago government's disability assistance agency is one of the important sources of funding for Frank's daily drunken life.
He's on the bank at the Eller Bar, and he's waiting for the check to be reversed.
Reaching out to snatch the check from Lip's hand, but looking at Lip's expressionless face, Frank withdrew his hand and waved his hand, "Okay!
Lip got Frank's permission to tear open the envelope, take out the check inside, put it on the edge of the billiard table, and pressed it down with one hand to make room for his signature, and handed Frank a pen.
Seeing that Lip was guarding him well, Frank had no chance to snatch the check from his hand, so he could only lean down honestly and sign his name on the check.
Lip glanced at the number on the check and said, "This check is eight hundred dollars, I will go to the bank to exchange it for you later, deduct two hundred dollars, and the remaining six hundred dollars will be given to you, you have no objection to this practice!"
"No, no, don't tell me, disappear from my eyes, I don't want to see you again!" Frank waved impatiently as he threw away two hundred dollars.
Lip put away the check, picked up his credit card, took the three Ian with him, and left without looking back.
I went to the bank to exchange the check, deducted 200 yuan, and took out 50 of the other 600 yuan, bought four chicken leg sets, and had a beautiful meal with Ian, Debbie, and Carl, and the rest of the change was divided equally between Debbie and Carl as their pocket money.
Discuss with Carl, his freshly opened and unused credit card, Lip will help him keep it first, help him keep the card casually, and return it to him when he needs it.
Debbie's one was treated in the same way, but with Frank's overdraft paid first.
Ian's card, Lip gave him directly, and Frank's overdrawn amount, Ian first figured out how to repay it himself.
Several of their credit cards, because Frank applied for them by illegal means, so the amount is not very high, and Frank is not very overdrawn, according to the installment repayment plan agreed between Lip and him, it is not difficult to slowly make up the overdraft limit.
Debbie's easiest, her card application time is not very long, and the number of default periods is not very large, Lip decided to activate her card first.
Lip's own card, the information queried shows that it has been applied for by Frank for more than two years, and the amount of the first overdraft has been in default for more than 20 months.
But there is no way, the credit information between American banks is connected to each other, and the default information of this card, if it cannot be eliminated, will affect Lip to apply for credit cards from other banks in the future, and can only be raised slowly.
Lip is not particularly worried about this, it is just a default of a few hundred yuan, and when he earns money in the future, he only needs to deposit tens of thousands of dollars into this card to write off the bad record!
In the United States, being rich means being capricious!
Ian goes to work, Debbie and Carl go home, and Lip takes the rest of the money and goes back to Eleber's Bar, gives it to Frank, and says to him, "I used your money to treat everyone to a meal, this is what you should do as our dad, don't thank me!"
Frank had nothing to say about it, except to say "Farke!"
Kevin had already learned the whole picture of today's matter from Frank's nagging, and highly praised Lip's handling of it, giving him a thumbs up.
Lip smiled back.
If Kevin knows this, Veronica will know, and if Veronica knows, Fiona will naturally know.
So, when Fiona saw Lip in the evening, she patted him on the shoulder and boasted, "Well done!"
Lip smiled, took out the two credit cards of Debbie and Carl from his pocket, handed them to Fiona, and said to her, "You can hold these two cards for your emergency use!"
Although these two credit cards have a very low limit and an even lower overdraft limit, only a few hundred dollars, they can play an immeasurable role for the siblings whose daily living expenses are only 500 dollars a month.
At least there will be no more situations where you can't even pay the electricity and gas bills, and when winter is already coming, the gas company will turn off the heating.
Fiona has been supporting the family alone since she was seventeen years old, and it has been nearly four years now, and Lip has gone from a teenager who didn't know anything to now be able to plan and complete such a thing that has a certain impact on the lives of the six siblings without her help, which makes Fiona feel very relieved.
After taking the two credit cards, he hugged Lip tightly.
A girl who has just come of age, supporting a family of six on her own, and is responsible for raising five minor siblings, only she knows how much Fiona has suffered and how tired she has suffered in the past few years.
She is strong, but she does not allow herself to show vulnerability in front of her younger siblings, even if she wants to cry, she has to hide in a place where there is no one, and she can't release it happily, bite her teeth and swallow it in her stomach.
Now, she found that Lip had grown up and could help her share some of the burden of supporting her family, so she showed some weakness in front of him.
However, I still endured it and didn't cry.
Lip understood her feelings, raised his hand and patted her on the back, and whispered in relief, "Alright! everything will be fine! and it will get better and better!"
Fiona took a deep breath, let go of Lip, squeezed a smile on her face, patted him on the shoulder again, pursed her mouth tightly, and did not speak—for fear that if she opened her mouth, she would not have time to speak, and she would cry first.
The two hundred dollars extorted from Frank today, Lip paid back one hundred and fifty dollars to Debbie's credit card, and kept the remaining fifty dollars for himself as a reserve in case of emergency.
Turning his head, Lip came to Jackson's house again after school in the afternoon to tutor Karen.
This time, like last time, she explained physics to Karen, and her body slowly slid under the table.
In the next few days, Lip no longer went to tutor Karen every other day, but every day, and she didn't even charge her tuition fees!
Now Lipu is different from before, although he still needs money very much, but he enjoys the service of Karen's small mouth, and he has to collect her money, such a thing, once or twice, he can still be ruthless, and if he has many times, he will inevitably be unhappy.
Love over time!
Although the current Lip will no longer have true feelings for Karen, even if it is ***, Lip has to be more generous.