It was close to ten o'clock in the evening when Nattle returned home to a modest blue-collar apartment in Los Angeles. Escaping the crowd of fans on the street, Theolod takes Natel to Susan's restaurant.

Although Theolod had become a star by this time, in Susan's eyes, he was still the child who needed help. Of course she recognized him, but in order to avoid Theolod being disturbed by the fans, she did not show her happiness, but cooperated to leave the corner of the restaurant to him and his friends.

The two of their long-separated friends were finally able to sit down and catch up, so naturally they spent a bit of time in the restaurant, where they stayed until it closed at almost nine o'clock.

Natel pushed open the door, he had thought his mother and sister had gone to bed, so he moved very lightly, but he didn't expect the two to sit in the living room all the time, waiting for him to come back. And judging by their expressions, it seemed that something had happened. This made Nattle instinctively think of the remnants of the gang hiding in North Las Vegas.

"Horn and Rice's men found us?" The smile that had been on Nattle's lips since this afternoon suddenly disappeared, and he narrowed his eyes slightly, his coat clenched in his hands, and there was a great feeling that if the two of them nodded, he would immediately pry a car into North Las Vegas.

"What? No, of course not, Nattle. Natle's mother, Helen, saw that her son was full of anger and murder, and hurriedly waved her hand, "Of course not, it's something else......

"Maggie called us around noon and Theo came back early." Coria said, her expression a little hesitant, "Natel...... Are you really not going to sue SùTheo? You said you'd leave before Theo came back, and now you're going to leave too? We've only been seeing you for a short time......"

"I know, I've seen him." If Natel hadn't met Theorod today, he would have immediately gone back to his room to pack his belongings and run back to their hometown early the next morning, however...... It would have been nice if this news had come a step earlier. Natel sighed softly and turned to hang his clothes on the hanger, as if to hide something.

"What? You're looking for him?! Coria's eyes widened in surprise.

"I met by chance, how could I take the initiative to find him."

"Then you ......" Coria frowned suspiciously, and then, with some eagerness, "you must have said something bastard to him, right, Nattel, you can't be like this, you can't be so selfish, your self-righteous protection is so unfair!" ”

"That's enough, Coria, I don't want to discuss this with an ignorant child."

"I ......"

"Alright, Kolia, don't mess with your brother, he's bothered enough." Helen comforted Coria, who had begun to lose her temper before she could say a few words to Nattel, and then looked at Nattell, who was walking towards her room, as if she already knew something, "When are you leaving?" ”

"Tomorrow."

“…… When will you be back? Helen already knew the answer to the question when it came out, and if nothing else, Nattle would not have returned......

"By the beginning of July at the latest."

“…… What the? Helen looked at Natel in disbelief, and even the sulking Coria turned her head in surprise. What did he say? Early July? So fast? So he's gone for a maximum of two months? Is this still the same Natl who once wanted to keep Theolod in the dark all his life?

"It's just a bunch of remnants, I can't waste much time, I have other business to do."

"Business?"

"A ...... Work only. Natel said, walking into his room without looking back, and began to pack his things.

Outside the door, Helen's voice asked: "Work? Don't you have a job as a chef? Did you change jobs? And Theo? Are you two alright? ”

Nattle didn't know if he should take the job.

While at Susan's restaurant, Theolod told Natel some interesting stories about filming, and Natel listened silently all the time. He didn't really want to tell SùTheorod about the invisible things he had done in the past few years, so Natel downplayed the past few years in just a few words.

"I joined Horn after you left, you know your friend is a very capable person, and the gangster power in North Las Vegas is so big to put it bluntly, Horn and Rice are just the kind of snakes in the real predators, so it didn't take long for me to climb up the top and walk sideways around the block. Then I went to a drug rehabilitation center, and then to prison, and let the sissies be obedient, and I didn't do anything, and it didn't take long for me to be released on probation. Now, you hear it too, I've been fired by the only person who can accept my identity. ”

If it were placed in normal times, Nattell's experience would probably be written as a thrilling history of the rise of the gangster godfather, but it is a pity that Nattel's tone is too sparse and usually understated, so that the original ups and downs of the plot have become a story of grievances about the unlucky gangsters being imprisoned.

After Natel finished speaking, he habitually took out a cigarette and just wanted to light it, but somehow, he raised his head and glanced at Theorod.

Theorod's face didn't change much.

Natel thought for a moment and shoved the cigarette back in.

"What's wrong? Susan has an ashtray here. Theolod raised his hand to borrow an ashtray from Susan, but Natel waved his hand.

"Forget it, I don't want to smoke." He said that perhaps he noticed the frowning expression of Theorod as they came to the restaurant and passed by a table of smokers, "Go ahead and talk about you." ”

Theolod also heard that the other party didn't want to talk too much about it, so he talked about the football match he had with the crew of "Two Big Smoking Guns". When Natel heard that Theolod had been in and out for a month and a half, eating, filming, going home and sleeping with an Englishman, his face was a little delicate - they were at their best in the relationship...... None of them have such a high "synchronization" rate.

For the first time in the years of separation from Theorod, Natel felt threatened as a "good brother" and ...... England, the kind of place where homosexuality is abundant! How could Theorod, as a Hollywood star, live in the home of an Englishman? Even if the other party is a director, it doesn't matter!

Theorod had already turned over the topic, and Natel was still thinking about it because of this question, so he held back for a long time, and finally when Theorod talked about how he met his agent, he suddenly opened his mouth: "You...... Live with a rookie director...... I mean, if the media knows, what will they say? ”

Natel assured that he had made himself tactful enough, although he wanted to grab Theolod by the collar and growl, WTF, you have never lived with him, did you take him seriously, and did you treat him as a brother?!

Theolod thought for a long time before he realized that Nattel's train of thought was still stuck on the first few pages, so he shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently, his tone was a little more downplayed than Nattel's understatement: "They like to say what they want, anyway, our crew is so poor." ”

This attitude is no different from a dead pig not being afraid of boiling water. But...... What he wants to say is not a question of whether your crew is poor or not!

Nattle was still wondering how to make his words tactful enough not to misunderstand Theorod, but Theorod threw the question at him: "For the next ...... Do you have any plans? ”

Back to North Las Vegas, without alarming the FBI, thoroughly clean those dirty and smelly "garbage" inside and out, return to Los Angeles after never suffering from future troubles, squat under the noses of those FBIs, obediently do dirty work and be a small citizen, receive the lowest salary, suffer the most anger, and just let the FBI think that he is a low-level garbage without pursuit, and live a lifetime?

"Nothing to do." Nattle lowered his eyes and looked at his coffee cup, "I ran forty or fifty places before this job, and as soon as people heard that I was a parolee, they kicked me out without saying a word. I believe that I have no choice but to be a sanitation worker, and no one wants to hire someone with a criminal record to do things for them. ”

"Of course there is, there's one in front of you." Theorod propped his head and looked at Natel with a smile in his eyes.

“…… You? Natel frowned, and raised his eyes, perhaps in the gray area for a long time, and his frowning and staring expression looked very evil. He stared at Theolod for a long time, and then suddenly laughed, "Don't joke, boy, although I haven't mixed with Hollywood, but from a certain point of view, mixing Hollywood is no different from mixing gangsters, the news here spreads very quickly, everyone seems to have no * in front of you, and everywhere is *." If you hire me -- let's not talk about what you want me to do -- soon everyone will know that you have hired someone with a criminal record. ”

"I'm also a person with a criminal record."

"It's different."

"In front of the media, all criminal records are the same, no matter how big or small, those uncrowned kings can smear you in general."

"Okay, then why are you suing me?"

"I didn't ...... because I sympathized with you"

"Nonsense, if you had sympathized with me, you would have thrown a □□ in front of me, and then Lao Tzu would have given you a few punches in the face of you who eats on it."

"If only you couldn't get me wrong." Theolod breathed a sigh of relief, "Actually, I've been thinking about finding myself an assistant for a long time. An actor's job is tedious, and the greater the fame, the greater the workload that comes with it. It's okay now because I'm used to doing things myself, but after that, there's a good chance that I don't have the time and energy to do it myself, even if I want to. Plus, as my fame grew, so did my personal safety. I'm not very famous now, so there are only four or five people chasing us today, but what about later? What if you run into even crazier fans? I need bodyguards. ”

"Assistants and bodyguards, one more person will open one mouth to eat, I thought that after a while, for example, after filming the next movie, I would ask acquaintances in the industry to help find a suitable candidate, but before the next movie started, I found that I found a more suitable person."

Theolod leaned lazily back in his chair, his legs folded at random, his hands clasped to his chest, and with a look that blended scrutiny and a smile, he looked at Natel and said slowly.

"As a bodyguard, you're not as good as a soldier who has been on the battlefield, but you're also better than other retired fighters who have only received proper boxing training or competitions. As an assistant...... I Theolod doesn't need my assistant to be so versatile, after all, with me, you can take care of Helen and Coria, and I also believe that you can take care of me, and if there is anything that can't, I can also teach. ”

"These are objective reasons."

"As for the subjective reason...... Theolod paused, he suddenly put his hands on the table and slowly approached Nattel, "Natle, I know that you have always wanted to give your mother and sister a warm family, you don't want them to continue to suffer, and you don't want Coria to go through what we have experienced, which is one of the reasons why you joined Horn, right?" In this world, it is not so easy to beg for food, and your forty or fifty rejection experiences have taught you this. If you have a criminal record, you'll be branded forever, and you'll not be able to find a job, let alone a well-paying job. ”

"But I can offer you this kind of job now, because you are cheap and cost-effective for me at this stage. Your salary level is directly proportional to your ability, your assistant ability is naturally not as good as that of professionals, and due to the lack of relevant reliable certificates, your security level reliability is also lower than that of professionals in bodyguard companies, which makes your salary much lower than that of peers in the industry, but it will still be higher than your salary for working as a sanitation worker, and if you are excellent in the future, we can also renegotiate the contract for a salary increase. ”

"If you don't have a good time with me, or if you find a job that is more suitable for you, you can also leave, I won't stop you, I just want to provide you with an opportunity to make your family live a more stable and good life at this stage. You don't have to give me an answer now, you can think about it for a few days and give me an answer at the beginning of July. ”

True, the deadline is the beginning of July.

Now that Theorod has given him a deadline, he's going to have to speed it up......

Natel glanced at the cigarette he had just pulled out and threw it on the ground. Carrying his bag and slipping it into his pocket with one hand, he walked out of the train station in North Las Vegas and got into a black car that had come to greet him.