Phyllis. Winston had only planned to stay in Manchester for one day, and her assistant had booked her a flight for the night of the opening ceremony, but she felt the need to stay for another day, and the next day she finally met her son, who was like a fish in water and happy, and at a Chinese restaurant, she had pineapple goo meat and Zuo Zongtang chicken (fried chicken with sweet sauce), broccoli beef and steamed dumplings, and she pretended to accidentally mention the man with whom she had a discussion about ham and black-eyed peas twenty years earlier.

Quinta nodded, "Yes, Mom," he said, "There's a Hopkins, in the same suite as me, but not in a bedroom—what's wrong with you?" He picked up a piece of chicken, put it in his mouth and chewed it, only to find that his mother's face was very bad.

"Mom?"

"Father-son?"

"It should be," Quinta said, playing with the broccoli on the plate with her fork, "No, I don't know, but I've seen them standing together, and they look exactly the same from their backs, and when they turn around, they look similar, but Sasha is much prettier than his father." ”

Phyllis lowered his head and thought for a moment.

"Can you change dorms?"

"All the freshmen have to live together," Quinta said patiently, "I thought you knew." ”

"How about just changing suites?"

"That's not going to work," Quinta said, "I love my room now, and my roommates." ”

"But it would make me shudder that you live there—given that little Mr. Hopkins has such a close relationship with the one I mentioned."

"You've been a food show collaborator and you've been a psychiatrist?"

"A criminal," said Phyllis, "a serial murderer with a cannibalistic pervert." ”

Quinta's expression became solemn: "He killed someone? ”

"Yes."

"So he's on parole now?"

"No, he was pardoned."

"Wait," Quinta pushed the plate in front of her in confusion, "Since you say serial murderer, that is, he killed more than one person?" So how did he get parole? "One-third of the Western Continent does not have the death penalty, but as long as you kill someone and prove guilty, your sentence can be extended for seven hundred years, and parole is simply not possible for the first fifty years.

"Well, because ...... Some of the evidence disappeared and some of the testimony was overturned...... Another group of witnesses ran out to testify against him," Phyllis shook his palm helplessly: "For this, the government lost a large sum of money, and in the end it fell on Dr. Hopkins only one or two minor charges of inconsequential offences, for whom our former president generously signed an amnesty. But," Phyllis lowered his voice, "son, I know, he's not so innocent. ”

Quinta pulled back the plate and subconsciously pounded the broccoli that he had been destroying for a long time with his fork.

"But," he replied in the same subtle voice, "just because a father is a criminal does not mean that a son will be a criminal too." ”

"Maybe little Mr. Hopkins is a good law-abiding boy, but he has a dangerous crazy father," Phyllis shook his son's hand across the table, "and who knows when his father will think you're getting in the way or hurting his son?" Believe me, a lot of people think Anthony. Dr. Hopkins is a tolerant and gentle gentleman, and I know very well that he may not be a disgusting villain, but he is a ruthless and rewarding fellow, and you never know what is in his head. ”

"As long as I'm in Manchester – Mom, we live together, we have a common restaurant, library, gym...... We had the same course for the first two years, and if you want me to stay away from Hopkins — okay, I'll leave Manchester and go to university somewhere else, that's fine, but do you really want to do that? "We've been fighting for it together for fifteen years!" ”

Moreover, Quinta does not think that Mr. Hopkins Jr. will be the kind of person who brings bad luck to people, and he likes the boy.

In the end, it was Quinta who convinced his mother, and he promised her that he would talk to Sasha. Hopkins kept his distance, did not quarrel with him, and did not fight with him.

"If, I mean," Phyllis said, "if anything...... Not so good, I think you can take a leave of absence - for a short period of time? ”

"If anything bad happens." Quinta held up three fingers and swore, "I'll take a break for one semester and another semester at once." "Two semesters are a year, and sophomores are free to combine and apply for rooms in other dormitories.

***

The caretaker of the freshman dormitory is a fourth-year student, Brian. DuPont, with smooth blond-brown hair, known as flaxen, and brown eyes, is like the Asian kind, but his surname vouches for the blood that runs in his body, because the DuPont family only marries cousins to ensure that the family wealth does not leak out.

His invitation is a privilege for a freshman, but it may also involve some curiosity and temptation - thanks to his last name, Brian Brown. DuPont can see every high school student's application as well as the interviewer in Manchester. Hopkins was the student he decided he wanted to give more exposure to in the first round.

Sasha. Hopkins' work is not urgent, but it is important—a map for new students, including large and small supermarkets, shopping areas, specialty stores, food markets, second-hand stores—with transportation directions (driving, bus, walking), and hours of operation; There are also cafes, bars, fast food outlets, street food – in addition to transportation routes and opening hours, they also need to be marked with prices and specialties, such as Chinese, Indian, Japanese and Thai, as well as pizzas, cakes, roast chicken, etc. The map is regularly distributed to new students each year and is updated every term to ensure that the information on it is error-free (after all, every mall and restaurant can close and open at any time, and with the exception of a few people who have a relationship with Manchester, they don't greet the students and teachers who are responsible for the work).

Beelzebub's focus is that the job is not only paid, but also gets coupons for restaurants and cafes, and special treatment for priority positioning, Beelzebub is not as greedy and insatiable as Chegalle, but is interested in trying new things.

Sasha, of course, didn't mind the multiple volunteers, and he made an agreement with Beelzebub to start doing the tedious but by no means obnoxious work together from tomorrow, using his spare time, of course.

He went back to his bedroom, where his roommate was waiting for him.

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