Chapter 366 The Past and the Bastard
The car didn't stop for long, and the big iron gate of the juvenile detention center opened, and no one came to check the car, it seems that Raymond is very familiar here.
Xiao Peng got out of the car and looked around. Bungalows and barbed wire fence make up the juvenile detention center, and a few people come out of the juvenile detention center, greet Raymond and Pagio, and help carry the contents of the car into the room.
"Come in and sit down. Pagio beckoned Xiao Peng and the others into the office, there was a row of surveillance screens inside, and as soon as a few people sat down, a middle-aged man with a big back walked in: "Raymond, Peggy, are you here?"
"Hey, Ben, just like you, these are our winery customers, and I'm bringing them here to give them a love and a shocking education. Raymond smiled and shook hands with the middle-aged man. Introduce Xiao Peng and others to Ben.
Ben looked at Alexandra, "Wow, there's such a pretty girl coming, you have to be careful of her safety." β
Raymond nodded: "Don't worry, we know it." β
"Damn!" Ben said suddenly, looking at the crowd puzzled, Ben pointed to one of the surveillance screens, and then hurried out. Everyone tilted their heads and looked, uh, it turned out that a couple of young people were fighting there. The scene was chaotic.
Raymond looked at Xiao Peng, who was puzzled, and said with a smile: "This juvenile management center was established and operated by me and Pagio. β
"What? Juvenile Management Center or Private Operation?" Xiao Peng was a little dumbfounded.
"Isn't that weird? Our country's prisons are all privately run. Pagio said.
"Okay, okay, now you can explain to me what's going on, right?" Xiao Peng was puzzled all the way.
Raymond took out his wallet from his pocket, took out a yellowed old photo from it, and handed it to Xiao Peng, Xiao Peng and a few people leaned over and tilted their heads to see that it was a group photo of three young people, Xiao Peng looked at it carefully for a long time: "This is you?"
Raymond and Pagio nodded, and Xiao Peng asked, "Who is that woman in the middle?"
"Kevin Patterson, this juvenile detention center is named after her. Pagio said.
Xiao Peng looked at the photos for a long time, and suddenly laughed: "Hey, I really can't imagine that you two were like this when you were young?" I saw the two people in the photo, wearing leather jackets and jeans, perming their hair, absolutely the most fashionable image of the seventies.
Pagio coughed dryly, "Everybody has a young age, right? β
Yang Meng nodded: "Well, I turned out a photo of my father at that time, with long hair fluttering, and my worldview was about to collapse at that time." β
Xiao Peng pointed to the woman in the long skirt in the middle and asked, "What about Ms. Kevin Patterson?
"She's dead. "It's a long story. After speaking, he told Xiao Peng the ins and outs of the matter.
After Xiao Peng listened, he shrugged: "Pagio, you should pay to make your story into a movie!" Pagio and Raymond raised their middle fingers at Xiao Peng together.
It turns out that the reason why this Padgio and Raymond have such a good relationship is because they are classmates at Nazarene Middle School in Mount Vernon, and as you can tell by the name, this is a Christian school. Now this school is already a university.
In the Stars and Stripes, church schools are the preferred target for the children of wealthy people to go to school, because church schools are private schools in nature, and they are founded through various foundations, social groups, and private funds. The purpose of this type of school is not to make a profit. More than 80% of the private schools in the Stars and Stripes, whether boarding or day schools, are funded by the church and are all church schools. A large part of those celebrities now have come out of church schools. Nowadays, many wealthy people in China also send their children to church schools------ because church schools do not require students to become believers and have freedom of belief?
Of course, it is not always honest people who come out of church schools, and this period of rebellion is not only for young people in China, but also everywhere in the world. To give a simple example, the Hilton sisters all came out of the church school, one came out of school and changed boyfriends every day, and finally the XX video was sold, and the other came out and couldn't wait to get married, and then left after three monthsγγγγγγ
This Padgio and Raymond were not good at stubble when they were young, and they ran out of school to have a 'spiritual journey' across the Stars and Stripes. The two families are energetic families, and after the two of them ran away, almost the entire Stars and Stripes country police were mobilized, and the chickens and dogs jumped for a while. But no two were found.
Where did the two go? The two of them ran into a hippie girl who was hitchhiking, well, it was Kevin Patterson. The two fell in love instantly, so the two collectively concealed their identities------ hippies paid attention to peace, believing that only a simple life of inaction could ensure the dignity and freedom of individual citizens. The fact that Pagio and the others came from a wealthy family was not conducive to them arousing Kevin's favor, so one of them became a 'mechanic who was oppressed by the capitalists', and the other was a 'winery brewer', and in the end, Kevin chose Patgio. The two wander around with Kevin, attending hippie gatherings everywhere. Until they are taken away by the police who have been informed, Padgio returns to New York, and Raymond is captured and returned to his hometown of Dallas.
That's how it was. A few years later, by chance, Raymond went to New York to watch the Yankees baseball game, but unexpectedly saw Kevin in the Bronx.
Kevin Parson is no longer homeless, but works as a cleaner at a juvenile detention center in the Bronx, raising a child on his own. Uh, that's the crystallization of the love between Padgio and Kevin ------.
By that time, Pagio was already married. Raymond also moved his own careful mind and began to pursue Kevin frantically. finally moved Kevin, and the two entered the palace of marriage. Of course, Raymond's wedding was not agreed by his family, and Raymond was also a violent temper, directly cut off relations with his family, settled in the Bronx, and really became a 'mechanic who was oppressed by capitalists', which is what Padgio said, 'Since 1984, Raymond has not invited him to drink'------ at that time Raymond avoided Padgio.
And Raymond's car repair technology is really not covered, and in the end, Raymond relied on his own efforts to establish his own car repair shop. The small life of the family of three also began to get better and better------ until Kevin got pancreatic cancer.
The process of medical treatment in this Stars and Stripes is generally as follows: Do you have an appointment? Do you have health insurance? The cost of treatment is sky-high, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is not uncommon for millionaires to go bankrupt after a serious illness (the cost of Stars and Stripes health insurance is very high. More than half of middle-class households do not have health insurance, and even 10% of the richest 20% of people in the Stars and Stripes do not have health insurance. οΌ
But even if Raymond's garage is sold, it won't be able to afford Kevin's treatment, but Kevin's illness needs to be treated, right? Raymond ran back to Dallas to ask his father for money, but let his father blow him out. With no choice but to do what he didn't want to do------ Raymond went to Padgio.
When Padgio found out about Kevin and Raymond, he was also shocked, he and Raymond hadn't seen each other for many years, and they always thought that Raymond was in Dallas, but he didn't expect Raymond to be in New York and married Kevin. What is even more surprising is that he still has a son? He and Raymond had a good fight and paid for Kevin's medical expenses.
Kevin doesn't tell Ben that Padgio is his biological father, saying that it's a friend of Raymond Winery. Pagio also accepted this statement, after all, Pagio and Miu Miu had no children after they got married, can Miu Miu accept a child who suddenly came out of the door? Besides, it's not fair to Raymond, isn't it?
But there are some things that can't really be solved with money, and Kevin passed away despite the medical bills. Ben was also an older man at the time, and after being discharged from the military, he worked as a correctional officer in a juvenile detention center in New York City.
Pagio wants Ben to go to Manhattan and have a better development, and with his connections, Ben can get a good job. But Ben inherited his mother's legacy and was reluctant to leave the juvenile detention center, and it has to be said that most hippies were kind, and Kevin was one of them. At least 500 people went to her funeral, and a considerable number of them were people she had helped in the juvenile detention centerγγγγγγ You must know that in the entire Stars and Stripes country, at least 75% of juvenile offenders who leave juvenile detention facilities will return to prison. But only 25% of Kevin's juvenile detention center returned to prison, relying on Kevin's kindness and patience.
Later, however, due to funding and other issues, the juvenile detention center where I was located was closed. During that period of financial crisis, the entire Stars and Stripes country closed down many government-affiliated departments, such as prisons and juvenile detention centers. In order to save money, these departments were instead handed over to private operations.
Ben didn't want to give up those children, but he was suffering from no money, and he was sad every day.
So Pagio's 'uncle' and his stepfather Raymond, who 'opened the winery', stood up and 'raised' a sum of money, but it was not much, 'after all, the two were not rich and noble', so they could only buy a piece of land in the suburbs of Mount Vernon and establish such a juvenile detention center, which was also named after Kevin and handed over to Ben to take care of it. And Padgio really invested in a small winery in Mount Vernon, not to make money, but to be the first to know about things here. Help can be provided in a timely manner.
"In other words, Ben doesn't know how rich your father is?" Xiao Peng asked.
Pagio nodded, and Raymond on the side explained: "This is what we promised Kevin, Kevin hopes that he can live an ordinary life, not to be rich and rich, but to be happy and happy." Otherwise, why don't you let Ben know who Pagio really is?"
Xiao Peng said: "Then you can tell me what you need me to do now, right?"
"The operation here has been very difficult, there are a few ideas that are beneficial to juvenile delinquency, but the funds cannot be implemented, and we can't give him money directly, so we want you to set up a fund in your own name, so that we can also have an excuse to inject money into this place and solve the financial problems here." β
"It's not a big deal, but why me? You know so many people with status, you can find anyone to do it. Xiao Peng asked puzzled.
Wealthy people in the Stars and Stripes are keen to set up a fund because it doesn't count in the estate tax, and some states don't even bother with the money in the fund when they go into bankruptcy. So it's not difficult to find someone to set up a fund, and even for that person, it's a good thing for fame and fortune.
Why does such a good thing fall on oneself?
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