At five o'clock in the afternoon, a second-hand champagne-colored Chevrolet Chevrolet Chevet two-seater small family sedan pulled off Route 95 and turned into Warwick City.

The trunk door was wide open, and Tommy Hawk's bike was inside, which made Tommy, who was holding a bottle of cheap champagne, have to turn his head every few minutes to see if his bike might fall.

"So, what are you going to do with 20,000 yuan?" Melonie asked, looking ahead, holding the steering wheel with one hand, and turning off the car radio playing country ballads with the other.

Tommy sat up straight and withdrew his gaze: "The most important thing now is not business, but what to eat for dinner, I want to make a good dinner, usually when I do some household chores that don't require my brain, I always have the habit of freeing my brain to think about complex problems." ”

"Like making up a justification on the fly?" Melonie asked, giving Tommy a suspicious look.

Tommy Hawke exhaled: "No, it's about thinking about how to clean up your ex-boyfriend and how to help you complete the onboarding, but before those two questions, it's important to keep your hands busy and make a good dinner." ”

"yes, if lemon chicken breast and spaghetti bolognese deserve the word hearty, then you can indeed make a hearty dinner." Hearing Tommy Hawk prepare a sumptuous dinner, Melonie smiled.

During the time that the child lived in his own apartment, he was more miserable than an Indian ascetic.

The daily schedule is roughly as follows: go to school, go to work part-time to earn money after school, buy cheap ingredients after work, go home to make dinner and prepare the next day's lunch box for yourself, and after dinner, continue to review your homework until late at night, and so on.

And most of his dinners are a cheap Costco supermarket pasta topped with black pepper meat sauce, accompanied by a chicken breast and a few slices of lemon, Melonie can no longer stand the monotony of food after eating it a few times, she would rather drink coffee with a few pieces of snacks than touch Tommy's dinner, and also persuaded Tommy Hawke that he can learn from her and buy some discounted dessert cakes to cope, but Tommy Hawke refuses, giving the reason that coffee and snacks are such a dinner, It costs $1.2, and he only needs 50 cents to enjoy a nutritious dinner with lemon for vitamins, chicken for protein, and carbs for the rest.

So when Tommy Hawke mentions dinner, Melanie's first thought is the spasming of Italian black pepper bolognese.

Tommy laughed when he heard Melonie talk about his signature Bolognese noodles: "I don't just make Bolognese noodles, I also make Chinese food very well, but I didn't have that much time to prepare it before." ”

"Sonny, the Chinese owner of the laundry, taught you?" Melonie asked casually, after all, the only possibility that Tommy could have been connected to Chinese food before was that he worked part-time at a laundry owned by a Chinese owner.

"Sort of." Tommy nodded.

"Okay, let's see what Chinese food you can make." Melonie drove the car to the parking lot of Costco, Tommy went into the supermarket, and without looking at the dazzling array of fruits and organic vegetables, he went straight to the cold section, where he was already familiar with the location and price of meat: thighs for 21 cents a pound, chicken breasts for 22 cents a pound, pork chops for $1 a pound, trotters for 23 cents a pound, and refined steaks for $2 a piece.

After buying some chicken and pork chops, and some spices, for a total of seven dollars, Tommy Hawk returned to the apartment with Meloni in his bag.

Tommy walked into the kitchen with the ingredients and began to clean up, and at the same time asked Meloni, who was not ready to help at all, "Tell me about your ex-boyfriend, Aunt Meloni, give me some ideas." ”

From Meloni's mouth, Tommy Hawke learns that her ex-boyfriend is called Hugh Spader, who is currently working at Sinclair Elementary School in East Greenwich, Kent County, and met Meloni in college because she and the other party both liked the Aerosmith band, and eventually fell in love.

The two spent a sweet time, working part-time to save money for travel, such as going to Boston to watch the Smith Aero concert, going to New York to watch the New York Doll's concert, etc., and then graduated with the same goal in life, that is, to get a teaching certificate, become a public school teacher, and work hard to be able to paddle and fish for a lifetime.

Last year, Hugh Spader was the first to pass the teacher qualification exam, and then worked as a paid substitute teacher to brush up on public schools in Rhode Island, and finally joined Sinclair Elementary School after receiving many letters of recommendation from elementary and middle school principals during interviews.

According to the agreement, Hugh Spade should continue to live in the apartment left by Meloni's parents as her boyfriend, but the other party soon rented another apartment in East Greenwich, on the grounds that he was a new recruit with a busy job, and Melonie needed to concentrate on preparing for the exam, but after Melonie got her teaching certificate, she learned that the bastard not only got involved with another new female teacher at Sinclair Elementary School, but even enlarged the other party's belly.

Melonie broke up after a big fight with the other party, and informed the female teacher that Hugh Spade was a scumbag, and the story should have ended here.

Now it's a sequel, Hugh Spade doesn't end up marrying the governess, and the two break up.

The only problem is that the female teacher gave birth to a child, which is a bolt from the blue for Hugh Spader, as a biological father, this means that he needs to pay a monthly child support to the female teacher, and the female teacher can enjoy maternity leave, maternity allowance, school salary and other benefits to raise the child with peace of mind, and at the same time, can get 40% of his monthly salary as child support, single mother life is simply not too comfortable.

Hugh Spade has no right to refuse to pay at all, and the Rhode Island Department of Child Protection has the right to deduct it directly from his payroll account, collect a processing fee, and release it to the female teacher.

The weekly salary of $240 directly became a weekly salary of 140 yuan, which made Hugh Spader's quality of life directly change from a happy bachelor to a homeless man on the street.

In the end, he blamed all this on Meloni's appearance, if Melonie hadn't made a big fuss, the female teacher wouldn't have broken up with him, and he wouldn't have fallen to such a point, so when he learned that Melonie was substitute teaching everywhere to prepare for the interview, he approached Melonie and asked Melonie to pay him at least 500 yuan by next week, otherwise Melonie would have appeared in the offices of the principals of those schools when she had a relationship with him, and he would never want to get a job as a teacher in Rhode Island in his life.

But Melonie couldn't pay 500 yuan, her college loan had not been paid off, she had to pay the property tax of this apartment, and she could only barely make ends meet by running around as substitute teachers every day.

Tommy Hawke listened to Melonie talk about her past experiences as she brought the dishes to the table, then took off her apron and opened the champagne: "Dinner is ready, and now let's talk about how to deal with Mr. Hugh Spader." ”

Melonie looked at the dishes on the table and let out a wow-oh exclamation: "What else do you want to talk about in terms of food?" ”

Tommy Hawk handed Meloni the glass of champagne and said in the tone of Ducky van der Lind, "I have a plan." ”