Chapter 14: A Thought of Wind and Rain (I)
On the same day, Cullen took out the small amount of money he had earned from selling apples in the past two days.
Of the $726 in total, he plans to hand over $656 to Ivan, saying that $70 is enough.
Ivan couldn't help but feel that Cullen may have been used to being exploited by gangs, although the fruit of the apple tree is almost entirely the credit of Ivan, but Cullen goes to the stall early every morning to sell, which is hard Ivan can imagine.
"You can keep half of it, I'm not short of money." Ivan looked at Cullen and said lightly.
"Thank you, but I think this tree and this fruit are actually yours, and I am not qualified to take so much, Ivan." Cullen said.
"What qualifications are not qualified... Don't look down on yourself. ”
"I'll only take 20% at most, $140."
"$156 minimum."
"Ivan..."Karen looked at the boy who was squatting on the steps next to the drawing board, and thought he was so cute, "Thank you..."
"You deserve it."
"Thank you, as a superpower, but you are willing to get to know me and take such good care of me, I was... It's just a gangster, living in the darkness every day... It's my life to get to know you..."
Before he could finish his sentence, he saw that the seven fruit trees in front of him burst out with blue light, and one by one huge apples filled the apple trees again, and then countless apples broke away from the trees and swirled and danced throughout the orchard.
Then, the apples were stacked on top of each other in a building block pattern and arranged in a human shape.
Eventually, the apples moved together, and the brick man made of apples began to dance.
"You see, apples can dance," Ivan said softly.
"Hmm—" Cullen looked stupid, and stopped nagging about those words of gratitude.
But soon, he remembered that he hadn't finished his words, so he continued, "It's really me to get to know you..."
"Look, the Apple people are coming to beat you." Ivan interrupted Cullen with a feigned alarm.
Cullen was stunned for a moment, then saw that the apple-man had stopped dancing and had rushed towards him, so startled that he hurriedly stepped back and hit his back against the wall.
"Haha." Ivan burst out laughing.
Cullen blushed and said, "I was just taken aback when I didn't react for a while." ”
"Really? Do you want to overcome your fear and take down this Apple Man? ”
Cullen was stunned for a moment.
"Ae? Overthrow... Do you mean that you control these apples and let me knock them down with my fists and feet? ”
"Yes, do you want to try?"
"Is that okay? All right! I'll try! Karen thought it was funny and excitedly said, "Don't underestimate me, I used to be on the streets!" As long as you don't interfere with me with your superpowers, I can break it up. ”
"Get ready, it's coming." Ivan reminded.
The Appleman actually attacked, slowly swinging four apples at Cullen with his fist.
Karen easily avoided it and became more confident, thinking that what was being manipulated was just a doll, how could it be possible to compete with a real person?
He then raised a kick and kicked the apple man in the abdomen, but felt that this kick seemed to be kicked on an unshakable hard object, and he stumbled under the interaction of force, and then was thrown to the ground by the apple man with his arms outstretched.
"Hey!"
"Karen, you've been pounced on by the Appleman~" Ivan smiled.
"Damn." Cullen grabbed the appleman's shoulder and tried to push it away, thinking that it was not an appleman made of hundreds of apples, and he had an advantage in terms of weight.
As a result, no matter how he pushed, he couldn't move, and he himself was pressed under the Apple Man and couldn't move.
"Uh~ah!" Karen roared as hard as she could.
At this moment, the nine apples that made up the head of the apple man changed, and each apple made a small cut on the side of Karen, and apple juice sprayed from it!
The juices rushed straight into Karen's open mouth, and every juice was in perfect measure!
"Karen, you were spit on and humiliated by the Apple Man again~" Ivan laughed.
"Ahem. . . Cough. Karen choked on the sudden burst of juice.
"Huh... You may not believe it when you say it, you were defeated by a hundred apples~"
"Ivan, you guy! Don't think you can do whatever you want with superpowers! Cullen yelled.
"(✪ω✪) I'm sorry, I can do whatever I want!"
After spending the afternoon in a pleasant fight, in the evening, Cullen prepared fragrant steamed corn and sliced grilled sausages, and the two enjoyed dinner at the wide table in the room.
"It smells so good."
Watching Ivan nibble on corn, Karen took a deep breath, "I remember that when I was in the Maja Gang, Gerry liked to eat corn. ”
"Who is Gerry?"
Ivan asked, swallowing a mouthful of corn.
"It's the head, the white man, the one with the sunglasses." Cullen said.
"Hmm..."
"He's a terrible and cautious guy who has the trust of Hammerhead, so he was appointed to run our neighborhood and became our second head." Cullen said.
"Who's Hammerhead?" Ivan wondered what the strange name was.
"It's the leader of the Maja Gang, the chief leader, and even Gerry has to listen to him."
"Well, his name is weird, is it a nickname?"
"Yes, there is no one in the circle who doesn't know Hammerhead, when Gerry first mentioned him to us, he called him a god-like being, and I can see that Gerry respects him quite a lot."
Cullen said, picking up a slice of grilled sausage and chewing it in his mouth.
Ivan came interested: "He is called a god-like being, does this mean the mental aspect?" ”
"Yes, in terms of the head, Gerry said that he once hit a moving truck head-on with his headhammer and his head intact, which is incredible, right?" Cullen asked, looking up.
"Uh... It's this kind of mind... (-_-; )”
"Alas, two years ago, with all my enthusiasm, I joined the Majia gang and wasted two years of my youth... I really regret it. Karen sighed.
"Are the Maggia the biggest gang in New York?" Ivan asked curiously.
"Absolutely not!" Cullen said flatly, "As long as Kim is alive, Hammerhead and his Maja gang will never be the biggest gang!" ”
“(-_-; Why are you so excited? ”
...
When I returned to the dormitory at night, my fat roommate had already slept.
Ivan lay on the bed wiggling his phone, checking to see if he had received a text message today.
Several, sent by Richard and Jenny, was to ask if Ivan's living expenses had been sufficient lately.
After replying to the message, Ivan told them not to worry, he used his spare time to work part-time and already had an income.
There was also a message Jessica sent to him, saying that she had checked that there would be rain tomorrow and reminded Ivan to wear more.
The next day, at noon.
Ivan listens to a history lesson in the classroom.
It was overcast, and the chirping of crows resounded outside the window, and they flocked in flocks, and a few even landed on the windowsill.
Dark clouds gradually gathered.
"It's going to rain heavily."
After school, the sky is raining densely, the students who are prepared have put up umbrellas, and those who do not bring umbrellas have stayed for self-study, in fact, even if it doesn't rain every day, the people who should stay for self-study and electives are all staying, Jessica is a member of the elective army.
Outside the school building.
Ivan was a little hungry with his trouser pockets in his pockets, and he was ready to go to a nearby burger restaurant for a meal.
Compared with others walking briskly with umbrellas, he seemed lonely and out of place when he walked in the rain.
The raindrops avoided each other, and as he walked along the road, Ivan heard Jessica's voice behind him.
"Fan, I'm coming!"
Jessica held a large umbrella and trotted all the way to Ivan's side and propped it up on the heads of the two.