The kidnapper was able to barely staggering to his feet after struggling on the ground a few times, and I was able to see his face clearly, and then I was taken aback, "You, you, aren't you Homney?" ”

A long time ago, I met a slender middle-aged man in a bar on the island, when he was selling his potion to the bar owner, but the bar owner was not interested in the black potion at all, and then I tasted the potion in his hand, only to find out that it was actually Coke, although it was a little strange to drink because there was no carbon dioxide, but it must be Coke, and I decided to buy his recipe at that time, and after some bargaining, it was finally sold for 480 pounds. Then I got five hundred pounds from Matthieson and paid Holmney a hundred as a deposit, and if I remember correctly, I said that I would pay him another three hundred pounds after he went into production, and then pay the remaining hundred pounds when it was confirmed that there was no problem with the market, and I also invited Holmney to be my engineer and gave him a salary of thirty pounds a month, but I forgot all this mess that happened later, and the coke recipe was still locked in the drawer of the distillery's bedroom.

"You remember me! After you gave me a hundred pounds, you asked me to go back and wait for news, I trusted you so much, but I didn't expect that such a long time had passed, did you plan to cheat my formula back and then stop giving me the rest of the money? ”

"Speaking of which, I really have to say I'm sorry to you, but I swear I definitely didn't mean to cheat you, it's just that after the last time I bought the formula back, I went through a lot of things, and I was busy and my brain was busy in the end, if you hadn't robbed me today, I don't know when I would have remembered." I am very sorry to say to Homney.

"What you say is true? Didn't you mean to pay the bills? Homney asked, incredulously.

"Of course! Do you think I, the manager of an island distillery, would deliberately deserve three or four hundred pounds from you? Even if I want to, how can I rely on it? I can run alive, but my winery can't run away, I really forgot about it. ”

"Okay, I'll believe you once, but if I find out later that you lied to me, I won't spare you! Do the ones you said before still count? ”

"Of course! Of course, as long as the potion enters mass production, I will immediately pay you the remaining three hundred pounds, and it will also count if I hire you as my engineer, and my salary of thirty pounds a month will not be discounted. ”

"Okay." Homney said with a smile on his face, "Then pay me these two or three months' wages first?" ”

"What's that?" I looked at Homney a little upset and said, "That's a bit too much for you, isn't it?" I'm going to hire you as my engineer, but haven't you taken up your post yet? Why do you ask me to pay you for the first two or three months? ”

"Because you were already verbally agreeing with me at that time, although I didn't actually work since then, but that's just because you didn't arrange any work for me, so you have to pay me a salary!"

The wretched will be hateful! I knew that Homney was this virtue, so I didn't buy his formula in the first place.

"You have to do whatever you want, I admit it, but it's impossible to settle it now! I haven't even produced a bottle of potion, let alone a profit, and I haven't made money yet, so how can I have the money to pay you a salary? If you want, just wait for me. ”

"You! You! Homney watched as the joy on my face turned to deep disappointment, and he clenched his fists, his emaciated body began to tremble.

I didn't pay much attention to his posture when I saw it, but reminded him lightly: "You still don't want to be impulsive for this money, it's not that I don't give it to you, I just don't give it now, and you calm down and think about it, isn't your appeal a bit excessive?" Also, let go of that fist for me, don't blame me for not reminding you, you are no match for three more than me. "Plop! Holmney suddenly fell to his knees, and then cried and said, "I beg you to give me some money first!" My children haven't eaten for days, my wife is sick in bed, and I'm going to die if I don't have any money. ”

It turned out that Homney had lived in another overseas territory of the British Empire, and his family had been pharmacists for generations, and in his generation, he inherited his father's business naturally. However, Homney is not interested in those common medicines, but likes to mix some new potions such as Coke, in the eyes of the local people, Homney is typical of not doing his job, and the new potions he concocted look black, so no one buys it.

Over time, Homney's life became difficult, so he decided to move away from his hometown with his family and to a paradise island thousands of miles away, where no one knew him and he could start over. Then, the unforgiving reality was that Homney's potion didn't work here, and he tried several small bars, but no one cared about them, and finally he met me at the last bar, and he kindled the hope of life.

It was only then that I forgot about him because I was affected by other things, and Holmney waited and waited, but could not wait for any news. Homney doesn't know anything but to concoct potions, and the island doesn't need a pharmacist at the moment, so he can't do manual work, and his body is obviously unable to bear it, so his life is in a quandary again, and he can only rely on the little wealth he brought with him to make ends meet.

Homney went to the distillery a few times to squat at me, but he was too timid to go in and look for me, and each time he always looked for a place to watch, but unfortunately I was not at the distillery the few times he went, so he stopped looking for me later.

In the past few days, the little belongings brought by Homney have finally been exhausted, his wife has become sick again, the two children have not eaten much for several days, and he has been crying for a long time hungry, so he is helpless to go to the street to beg for food, but he didn't expect to see me enter the clinic as soon as he went out, so he quickly went back and took a knife and hid it on his body, and then kept squatting near the clinic.

After listening to Homney's words, I felt some sympathy for him, took some money out of my pocket, handed it to him, and said, "I didn't expect you to have such a hard time these days?" Why didn't you say it earlier, I talked nonsense for a long time, I don't have much money with me now, you take it first, go back and buy some food for the children, and then take your wife to the clinic to see a doctor, by the way, you can go to a female doctor named Zhou An'an, she is my friend. ”

"Thank you! Thank you! Holmney took my money with a handful of snot and tears, and thanked me repeatedly, and he asked me, "Manager, when did you start producing potions?" I really want to be able to earn money to support my family with my own hands, after all, you can't help me all the time. ”

"It's really hard to talk about this! You tell me to go back and think about how to do it, you use the money first, if you run out, go to the distillery to find me, if I am not there, you can find someone named Rockefeller, you can rest assured that I will let the potion enter the production stage as soon as possible, after all, I don't want to help you for the rest of my life. ”

After Homney leaves, I'm going to go to Camp Boulder and tell everyone about last night's conversation with Jackson and the man with glasses, and then listen to everyone's thoughts, and ask about the production of Coke by the way.

But how far did I go out, and suddenly two more figures quickly stuck to my left and right, I looked at each other as if they were a little familiar, and then thought about what kind of Protestants it seemed to be, and which one of these people were singing?