After leaving Mr. Fox, Lynch walked around the street, and after negotiating the deal, he would soon have his first payment, and the amount of this income was directly related to how much he had invested.

The more he invests, the higher the profit, and this kind of business is actually very covetous even for the top consortia.

During this time, he has been reading newspapers, and even if the whole world is engaged in development and construction, no matter how much the financial economy is improving, the annual rate of return promised by some funds has not exceeded 15 percent.

In the first quarter of this year, the "Transaction News" disclosed some detailed data from last year, and the fund with the highest actual rate of return had a one-year return of only 9.74, less than 10 percent, and had become the most profitable fund last year.

So this transaction is very important, but at the same time, there is a new problem, he needs to have a "principal" to exchange for those change and coins.

Mr. Fox did not talk about the money, and it is impossible for him to not know that Lynch does not have even a hundred dollars on his body and in his bank account, let alone the scale of his promise to help Mr. Fox complete the "transformation" as soon as possible.

He had to get another sum of money, not too much, a few hundred dollars or one or two thousand would suffice, for this would only get faster and faster once it turned, a small sum of money, and he planned to talk to Catherine when he returned in the evening.

Although he felt that he did ...... to do so , but for the sake of the future, this is also something that cannot be helped.

Time passed little by little in the midst of wandering, and today Lynch returned home early, and at half past six in the evening, Catherine walked back from outside with a bag in her hand.

Inside are the scraps of meat and some vegetables that don't look fresh that the supermarket where she works is going to be discarded today, and these things will basically be divided by the employees, after all, the purpose of everyone to accept oppression and exploitation here is to get these things for free.

As soon as she returned to the apartment, Catherine was a little surprised, Lynch always came late during this time, and it was the first time in the family that he had returned early like today.

In the beginning, she still fantasized that Lynch could honestly find a job, preferably in a factory.

Although the work in the factory is very hard and there are certain dangers, it has to be said that the welfare and social security of the workers are the best.

Not only do the big business owners have to take care of all aspects of them, they can also join organizations like trade unions, which Catherine, who works in supermarkets, can't join because she's not a worker.

Moreover, there is no such unofficial organization as the "cashiers' guild".

Nightmares are always immersed in them, but good dreams are easy to wake up.

For a week, Lynch, who seemed to have just regained his spirits, returned to the original starting point, but now he changed his tricks, he no longer stayed at home, but used the excuse of finding a job to go out and mix time.

The thought of this made Catherine disheartened, and she felt that her past choices were not only as simple as stupidity, but also blind to her.

It was precisely because of these experiences that she realized how true her mother's words were - it is useless to look good, and life needs a foundation, not a good look.

She glanced up at Lynch, then changed her shoes and walked into the kitchen with the bag in her hand, and began to wash the scraps of meat.

These crumbs are removed from the rack of bones, shapeless, and most of them are finger-sized, and for some reason they look a little darker than the neatly stacked beef.

So even if they are very cheap, they are difficult to sell, and most people buy them not for their own consumption, but to feed their dogs.

Actually, there is nothing wrong with these minced meat.

The silence in the room was filled with something unpleasant, something that was still spreading, surging.

Lynch sat on a couch they had picked up from the garbage heap, looking at his girlfriend who was silently handling the food, and it was clear that the distance between the two was less than ten meters, but it seemed that an abyss had appeared in the middle.

"You...... Do you have any extra money?", Lynch asked.

Catherine's movements paused slightly, she didn't look back, didn't say anything, and continued to deal with the work at hand after a short pause, "There are some, less than five hundred yuan, which I saved this year." ”

Saving money is not easy, especially for these young people who only have a high school education.

Rent, electricity, water, heating, some necessary expenses and losses, plus two people living with only one person working, it is not easy to save more than 400 yuan.

Suddenly, there was something heavy in the atmosphere that weighed on the chests of the two men.

Neither of them spoke again until Catherine had prepared dinner.

As always, crumbs plus fried eggs, some tattered vegetable leaves, and some lasagna broken into a centimeter or two.

These are the things that supermarkets need to discard every day, and now they feed a lot of poor families.

"Today my mother came to me......", Catherine broke her peace as she ate, "she doesn't want us to go on like this, but I can't convince her ......"

Lynch put down his knife and fork and watched as the plate in front of the girl had been filled with some fresh "spices", transparent, somewhat bitter, and slightly salty.

In fact, Catherine has made it very clear that she cannot convince her mother, so one of them must be persuaded by the other, and it is only possible that she is convinced.

The things on the plate that weren't already very tasty became even more unpalatable, and Lynch sighed, "When are you leaving?"

Catherine was almost breaking down, "Tomorrow, my mom and brother will come to pick me up, I'm sorry, I don't want to do this, but ......"

"Alright, you don't have to apologize, it's me who should apologize!", Lynch reached out and touched the girl's cheek, which was wet with tears, he needed to pay for what his body had done before.

For more than two years, the two young people have had all the burden of life on this twenty-year-old girl.

There is no doubt that Lynch is a scumbag, a very scumbag.

This life gradually consumes all the girl's illusions about romance and the future, and she goes through this, and begins to bow to reality and fate, even if there may still be a trace of fantasy in the deepest part of her heart.

For example......

No, for example, Lynch would not have asked the girl to stay, whether she said that she was going to leave first, or whether she was still uncertain later, but definitely filled with some uneasiness and danger, it was not quite suitable for this girl.

It's cruel to say that, but the facts are the facts.

After an unforgettable night, Catherine left early the next morning with her belongings, but also left something for Lynch.

A passbook, as well as keys to the apartment.

Thanks to the bank, it doesn't care much about who deposits and distracts the money in the passbook, which may also be a testament to Catherine's farewell to her past life.

Lynch, who had repacked himself, took out all the money in his passbook in the morning, four hundred and forty-nine dollars and thirty-five cents.

Then he found the landlord, and after talking with the landlord for about half an hour, he returned a hundred dollars for the remaining half a month's house—it was seventy-five dollars, but Lynch's things were gone.

The landlord felt that the deal could not be regarded as too bad, and finally agreed, giving an extra twenty-five yuan.

The change was saved for the first few days, and the rest was rolled into his plan, and he was already a little impatient, and he was eager to teach this simple world a lesson.