In addition to its history, the city has also produced many famous people, such as Benjamin. Franklin, although he was born in Boston, has lived in Philadelphia since his youth. Franklin was not only a master of electricity, mathematics, heat, and optics, but he was also a brilliant statesman and diplomat, who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, and served as ambassador to Great Britain and France.

In addition, Philadelphia is also a great city in terms of economy, sports and culture, its economy has always been among the best in the United States, and there are sports teams like the Philadelphia 76ers, the Phillies and the Philadelphia Eagles that have won many championships in the United States or the world, and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia is an Ivy League school, and the famous Wharton School is actually the business school of the University of Pennsylvania.

Although it is one of the oldest cities in the United States, Philadelphia has not declined with the relocation of the capital, and it is still the fifth largest city in the United States, behind New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston.

Having said so much, it was so lively, but it was a pity that Hong Tao didn't even see the edge of Philadelphia, and he listened to Erin tell him these things. Because Paul's home is not downtown, but in the southern suburbs of Philadelphia, just a few minutes north from Highway 95.

An ancient four-story building is tucked away between trees and grass, with gray walls made of granite, covered with various reliefs, with a green roof and a circular fountain in front of the door, which looks like the home of a local tyrant.

Paul was not polite to Mr. and Mrs. Hong Tao at all, and did not even let the door in. I drove the car directly to the back of the building. To say that this local tyrant's house is not as glamorous as it seems on the surface, the back and front of the building are simply two blocks, and in front of the building is a green lawn and fountain relief. Behind the building is ruins, broken bricks and tiles everywhere, the only thing that matches Paul's identity as a local tyrant is that there is a modern style 2-story villa behind this old building.

"Did Paul let the subprime mortgage crisis go bankrupt? His buildings have fallen down and are not repaired, they are all moss......" Hong Tao looked at the dilapidated old building and asked Erin suspiciously.

"I don't know, he should live in the back house, is the front building his ancestral home?" Erin also didn't know much about Paul's situation. Before that reception, she had only met the well-known lawyer in the firm.

"Mr. Hong, you must be wondering why I didn't repair that house, right?" When two cars stopped at the door of the villa in the back. Paul quickly understood the guest's problem from Hong Tao's eyes.

"That's right, although Erin robbed your business, you won't run out of money to repair the house, right?" Hong Tao likes to poke Paul's weakness, and this well-known lawyer in New York seems to have a very bad temper. also has an eerie face. In fact, he is very open-minded and doesn't mind others revealing his scars. But there is one thing, you don't let him grab the pigtails, otherwise he will poke you for the rest of his life.

"It's not about money, it's about the inheritance of my ancestors, including the surrounding land, which at the time of the War of Independence was royalists. Later, the British army retreated, and during the battle, the ancestral house was blown down. In fact, 19 years my family returned from England and took over again. Paul stood in front of the cottage with his hands on his hips, looked up at the old building dozens of meters away, and told Hong Tao about his family history.

"Does this have anything to do with repairing a house?" Hong Tao didn't quite understand what Paul was trying to illustrate.

"Does the state list this as a cultural relic?" Erin clearly understood.

"That's right, this house was built in 1770, and it was Jefferson's temporary residence during the Revolutionary War, so the state government wants to build this place into a memorial, but my family is not willing to lose this land, the lawsuit has been fought for more than ten years, and there is no result yet, let's go, go in and rest, I'll go change clothes, you wait for me for a while." Paul seemed reluctant to talk about the details of his family, and reached out to let Hong Tao and Erin into the living room of the villa behind, while he and the hapless driver slipped through the small door next to him.

"I like this decoration style more, it's simple." After Hong Tao entered the living room, he first observed the decoration of the living room and felt quite satisfied.

Paul's two-storey building and the old building in front of it are definitely two different styles, the decoration and furnishings here are all modern, and the furniture is so simple that the whole living room looks empty.

By the way, I still didn't understand why Paul didn't repair his family's ancestral home. Isn't this place still owned by his family? Hong Tao saw the ruins in front of him from the large floor-to-ceiling window of the living room.

"If you want to repair cultural relics, you must get the approval of the state government, how to repair them, what materials to use, and how much money to spend must be approved by the state legislature, and he personally has no right to touch the bricks and tiles of the house, although the house still belongs to their family in name, but he has no right to control it." Erin told the real reason.

"Isn't this a forced buying and selling? Could it be that this kind of thing happens in the liberal and democratic United States? Paul is a lawyer himself and won't take the state government to court? Hong Tao finally found an opportunity to criticize the American system, and even though Erin was his wife, he couldn't help but want to disgust American law.

"It's not that simple, didn't you listen to Paul, the lawsuit has been going on for more than ten years, and there is no result, the state government wants his family to donate this land to build a memorial, so he is embarrassed in the name of this cultural relics protection, this is indeed a cultural relic, so Paul is in big trouble, and it is difficult to win this lawsuit." Although Erin did not specialize in this area of law, she was a lawyer after all, and she was not optimistic about the struggle of the Paul family.

"This is much more balanced, it turns out that not only China has forced demolitions, but also the United States, hahahaha." Hong Tao probably understood what had happened, and laughed happily, it was Erin who used to laugh at him with these questions, and now he has also pulled back a game, whether it is a forced demolition or not, the essence is almost the same.

"I'm not going to be fooled by you, and I'm not going to discuss this with you." Erin is very smart, she rarely argues with Hong Tao about the system of China and the United States, and even if Hong Tao wants to, she tries to avoid it, because she knows that it is meaningless to fight over these issues, and it will destroy her relationship with Hong Tao.

Less than a cigarette was gone, Paul was in the drawing-room, no longer dressed as an elite man in a suit and leather shoes, but in a pair of jeans and a leather jacket, a checkered cotton shirt, and a soft-brimmed hat in his hand, looking like an American peasant.

"Alright, let's go, you unload all the things in the car and load it into my car, and we'll drive a car." Paul was really polite, and didn't even pour a cup of tea for the guests, so he urged the guests to leave quickly.

When he came out of the villa, Hong Tao's eyes lit up again, there was a huge black RV parked in front of the villa, and there was a trailer hanging behind the car, on the trailer was a large motorboat as dazzling as a flame, not only the hull was painted with fiery red paint, but even the bottom of the boat had a red pattern.

"Your car was made from a Raptor right?" Hong Tao had never seen this kind of 6-door model, he deliberately ran to the front of the car to see a car logo, Ford's.

"Well, the F650, it only left the factory at the beginning of this year, I found an acquaintance, a test car bought from a factory in Mexico in advance, and then spent 200,000 to change it to this, I call it a Ranger!" Paul patted the front fender of the car, proudly introducing his masterpiece to Hong Tao, and asked why he wanted to shoot the front fender, because the chassis of this car is too high, the height of the fenders is higher than the roof of Erin's Mazda6 Series, and the lower edge of its doors is exactly as high as the roof of an ordinary sedan.

"Can you let me try? I have a driver's license, and I have a translated copy, all the formalities are complete, and my driving skills are good! "A man likes cars, and this American muscle car is a man killer, and Hong Tao is inevitably vulgar, and he does not hesitate to give up his face to fight for a chance to drive it.

"Of course, no problem, Carl was reluctant to drive for me, every time I took him out, he always pulled a stinky face, oh yes, I forgot to introduce you, this is my nephew Carl, you should have seen it, he sent you fishing gear." Although Paul liked his big toy, he didn't buckle the ropes, and generously invited Hong Tao to get into the car, and by the way, he also dragged the unlucky driver over to introduce it.

"Oh, it's your nephew, he said he was your driver, and he still said bad things about you behind your back, hahahaha." Hong Tao looked at the unlucky driver and wanted to be happy, he was like an angry bag at this time, standing next to the car with his head drooping, and his suit was changed into a casual denim suit, just like his uncle.

"He never said anything nice about me, I remember when he was ten years old, he saw me like this, like he was my uncle, but the more he hated me, the more I had to torture him, and I made him my race assistant to see if he would push me off the boat, you say, Carl?" Paul, who is an uncle, really doesn't look like an elder, and he still quarrels with his nephew.

"Sooner or later, one day it will!" Carl's face turned red with anger, he threw down a sentence, grabbed the handrail, climbed on the footboard more than half a meter high, opened the middle door and got into the car to ignore his uncle.

"Leave him alone, he's been like a girl since he was a child, and if he dares to throw me into the sea one day, then he's really a man. Come on, I never open the door for men, you go up yourself. Paul didn't seem to care about his nephew's attitude, and left the flood and ran to pay his respects to Irene. (To be continued......)

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