Chapter 616: Saving the Urgent, Not the Poor
In a detached house in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens, New York, the dark-skinned Phyllis Beretta sat in an empty living room, put down a copy of the New York Post in her hand, and sighed at the poster of "I Am Legend" on it, which had its premiere in New York in about ten days, but she could not attend.
Turning her head to look at the portrait of her parents on the wall, her eyes moistened again.
Life has been in an unprecedented state of shock in recent months, and Phyllis Beretta feels like she's about to be crushed.
First, the parents were seriously injured in a car accident and were treated in the hospital for several weeks, but in the end, there was no recovery, and their loss brought not only sadness, but also heavy debts.
After years of hard work, Phyllis Berrita's parents are considered to be in the middle class, but like most Americans, they are also accustomed to overdrafts, from credit cards to homes to car purchases, with huge debts and loans, and actually working for banks for a long time to come.
The car accident happened during the weekend outing, and the main responsible party was the company, and the company of the two quickly ignored it except for a symbolic condolence payment, and the insurance company's compensation and the medical insurance of the cheating father were not even enough for the medical expenses of those weeks......
Phyllis Beretta sold some valuable items such as the leather sofa and piano at home to settle the settlement with the hospital and the funeral of her parents, but she was unable to repay the mortgage and car loan.
When her parents were alive, those colleagues would occasionally come to her house, and they all seemed amiable, but when it came to borrowing money......
It's better not to mention it.
Even if there are a very small number of people who want to borrow money, they don't have the ability, they are almost all spending in advance, no savings, monthly salary to pay off mortgages and car loans, etc., plus basic living expenses, in fact, there are not a few left, and even sometimes not enough, need to swipe credit cards.
Phyllis Beretta looked up at the empty living room, the furniture in it had almost sold her out, the house ......
The doorbell rang suddenly, she slowly got up from the chair, walked through the living room into the hallway, walked towards the door step by step, leaned over the cat's eye to take a look, and outside was a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes.
She had seen this person, she had come to the door by phone before, and he was from the bank.
The doorbell rang again, and Phyllis Beretta opened the door, and the middle-aged man immediately showed a professional smile when he saw her, looking quite amiable.
"Hello, Miss Beretta. The middle-aged man's words were not at all kissable, "I came to inform you that Mr. and Mrs. Beretta have not repaid the mortgage loan for six consecutive months since May, and the bank has officially filed a lawsuit and published it in the newspaper......"
He opened his briefcase, pulled out a document, and handed it to Phyllis Beretta, "This is the official notification letter. ”
Phyllis Beretta took the file and flipped through it.
The middle-aged man continued, "Miss Phyllis, you still have a week to raise funds or move out of this house, and if you can't repay the loan after a week, the bank has full authority to dispose of this property, and we will auction it at a no-reserve price, and after paying off the principal and interest of the bank loan, and the expenses, if there is a balance, we will return it to you in time." ”
"Miss Beretta. He still had a professional smile, "I won't bother, please prepare early." ”
After saying that, the middle-aged man turned around and left.
Putting away the papers, Phyllis Beretta returned to the house, looking at the portrait of her parents for a moment, only to feel that the sky was about to fall.
I don't know how long it took, but the phone rang suddenly.
Phyllis Beretta took the phone and found out that it was Christine, a screen fan at the support station, who had been talking on the phone a lot in the past few months and could be said to be good friends.
"Hi, Phyllis. As soon as she answered the phone, she heard a familiar female voice, "Are you okay over there?"
"It's not very good. Phyllis Beretta told the truth, "The bankers just came again......"
She briefly explained the situation.
On the other side, Christine was walking around her room, and after listening to Phyllis Beretta, her head was sweating, but she couldn't do anything about it.
She has just started working, her salary is very low, not to mention saving money in the past, and she has to help her parents pay off her credit card......
The situation on the parents' side is good, but a friend of hers who helped her for no reason, with the parents' person, there is no possibility at all.
"Honey, don't summon, you'll think of a way, everything will be fine!"
Christine couldn't think of anything but to say comforting words.
Hanging up the phone, she scratched her head in frustration, scolding the bank in fragments for a while, and scolding the authorities in Washington for a while.
But none of this will solve the dilemma that Phyllis Beretta is facing.
Christine kept walking back and forth in the room, and suddenly thought of a way, Phyllis Beretta is a very famous front-line fan on Matthew's support website, if she posts about her on the website, will it attract a lot of attention?
Matthew has a lot of fans, and there is a lot of power, maybe he can solve Phyllis Beretta's problem.
As soon as she thought of it, Christine quickly turned on her computer, logged on to Matthew's fan support website, and wrote an article about Phyllis Beretta with pictures and text, and uploaded it to the website.
Then, she waited patiently to see what the others had to say.
This fan support site has a lot of traffic, and just a few minutes later, Christine refreshed the post, and there are already hundreds of resumes below, and the fans who often haunt the site are no strangers to Phyllis Beretta, a hardcore front-line fan.
The mobile phone rang suddenly, and Christine thought it was Phyllis Barrett calling, and quickly took the phone, but it was an unfamiliar number.
She put it to her ear and pressed the answer button, "Hello, this is Kristen Johnson." ”
"Hello, Christine. It was a man on the other end of the line, "I'm Brian Liszt, do you remember me?"
Christine hurriedly said, "Yes. Hello, Brian. ”
She met several times with Brian Lister, one of the leading figures in the Los Angeles area of Matthew's fan group, and was said to be able to contact Matthew directly.
The voice over there rang out again, "I just read your post, is it true?"
"It's true!" Christine thought of Brian Liszt's influence in the fan base, and immediately said, "I promise, it's all true!"
She recounted what she knew, and finally said, "Phyllis must be worse than I said. ”
There was suddenly no sound on the other side of the phone, and after a while, the words came, "Christine, I'll give you the email in a moment, you send Phyllis Beretta's details and contact information to my mailbox, I'll see if I can help her." ”
"Okay!" Christine breathed a sigh of relief.
Ten minutes later, Brian Liszt, who was waiting in front of the computer, received the email, opened it and read it carefully, and called Phyllis Beretta and the bank that defaulted on the loan respectively, and also found the notice of arrears from the bank, there should be no problem, and after he submitted it, he will definitely check it carefully to determine the authenticity.
As early as the beginning of this year, he received a notice from Bella Anderson that if a die-hard fan encounters a huge difficulty, he can give her feedback in time.
Brian Liszt is no longer a simple fan of what he used to be, just like his father Liszt said, he regarded this as a career, not only professionalized, but also became a top-notch existence, with a considerable income.
He could probably guess a little bit of why Bella Anderson did this, so he never submitted a candidate randomly, because Bella Anderson also told him that this kind of thing has always been to save the emergency rather than the poor.
Brian Liszt understands what this means, isn't Phyllis Beretta the best option?
So, he first sent Phyllis Beretta's information to Bella Anderson's mailbox, and then dialed her number.
Outside CBS's studio in Burbank, Bella Anderson hung up the phone and returned to the studio, where Mars was recording an interview and couldn't get out for a while, just in time to check his email.
In front of the camera, Ellen DeGeneres asks Matthew, "I watched the entertainment news and found out that you recently changed girlfriends, didn't you?"
Matthew didn't answer, just nodded.
Alan DeGeneres is also an insider, and he asked more politely, in fact, everyone knows what the so-called girlfriend really means.
Whoever comes back, she may be one of the female stars who has ever had the most women in Hollywood.
"I'm curious. Ellen DeGeneres asked, "Why do pretty girls like you so much?"
Everyone knows this, but it's definitely not appropriate to say it publicly, so Matthew, "Women like me because I know how to make them laugh." ”
He shrugged, "Nobody believes me, but humor is more useful than money or looks." If you can make a girl laugh, you're the winner. ”
Bella Anderson read the email, waited for a while, and saw that Matthew went to the dressing room after recording the show, but he didn't follow along, and the makeup sound insulation here is too poor.
It wasn't until Matthew came out of the dressing room and followed him into the car that she detailed the email she had seen.
After listening to Bella Anderson's description, Matthew tapped lightly on the armrest of the chair and confirmed, "You mean a black female fan is in the dilemma of having her family ruined?"
"Yes. Bella Anderson nodded and then said, "You told me about this earlier this year, and if all this is true, she should be the best person to do." ”
Matthew thought for a moment, then said, "I have an impression of this Phyllis Beretta! So, Bella, find someone to find out what happened, and then you go to New York and get in touch with her." ”
At this point, he took out his mobile phone and called Amanda, Helen Herman, and Elena Boyal, inviting them to Horner Manor to discuss business.