Chapter 22: Burn the Heretic
Hugh Spade carefully hid a baseball bat in the doorway, stared at the cat's eye and looked outside for more than ten seconds before taking a deep breath and slowly opening the door.
While it's unlikely that a high school student is a gang member, always be on the alert.
Outside the door, Dennis Herbs was wearing headphones, with a small Walkman pinned to his waist, and seemed to be swaying slightly to the loud music, seeing the door open, Dennis took off the headphones, showed a bright smile at him, and propped his arms on the door frame, revealing a few bills pinched between his fingers: "Mr. Hugh Spader, I'll pick up the goods." ”
"You'd better get the hell out of my way now, there's nothing you need here." Hugh Spade said with a gloomy face.
The smile on Dennis's face suddenly froze, and he stared at Hugh Spade with some anger: "Sir, I drove from Warwick City to East Greenwich, just hoping that my party would be more exciting tonight, and you say there is no goods now?" He said on the phone that you have the goods in your hand, so I'll come over! ”
"That guy obviously tricked you, go and settle accounts with him!" Hugh Spade finished shutting the door shut, then breathed a sigh of relief.
But before he could turn around, the doorbell rang again, Hugh Spader scolded in a low voice, opened the door, and the dollar bill in Dennis Herbs' hand outside the door had become fifty dollars, and said with an ugly face: "You won, I don't want to mess up my party, fifty dollars, sir!" That's fifty dollars! I worked hard part-time for a long time to save a huge amount of money! I'm willing to pay you for my party! Give me what I ordered! ”
"What's your name? Brat? Hugh Spader asked, looking at the bills, then at the high school boy in front of him.
Dennis opened his mouth and said, "Dennis Herbs, all the high schools in the state know my name!" Lincoln High School Man of the Year! The future president of the United States! Sir, he's standing right in front of you, and you're humblingly begging you to sell him the goods and don't mess up his party with lots of hot girls! ”
"Wow~" Hugh Spade paused for a moment, feeling that the name was a little familiar, and after thinking for a few seconds, he pointed to Dennis and said, "You're the guy who aired paid adult programming in school classrooms, causing all schools in the state to check their TV classrooms?" ”
"Yes, but my classmates prefer to call me, the liberal godfather of Lincoln High School, and I have a big party to celebrate my coronation." Dennis grinned in surprise at Hugh Spade hearing his name.
Hugh Spade nodded, the wariness in his eyes dissipating considerably, but he still said, "Go back, boy, there's nothing you want here." ”
"Well, seventy dollars, the highest price I can give!" Seeing that Hugh Spade still refused, Dennis rummaged through his leather pants pockets a little impatiently, and some loose banknotes fell out of them, Dennis picked up and put away the others, leaving seventy dollars in his hand, and handed them to Hugh Spader.
"Looks like you're rich, boy." Hugh Spade spoke.
"There may have been before, but now they have all changed to this outfit, see no, Walkman, one hundred and forty-five dollars of new goods, this pair of Reebok air cushions......" Dennis thought that the other party was ready to continue to raise the price, and quickly said.
"One hundred, you pay me a hundred, and I'll give you the thing." Hugh Spade finally failed to resist the temptation of the money and spoke.
He is not ready to learn from Melonie and become a drug dealer, but it is not a bad thing that this batch of goods in his hand can be sold at a high price to this rotten high school student, and it is a big deal not to touch these things in the future, fifty tablets of Adrael, thirty tablets of sleeping ketone, this amount of prescription drugs will not cause trouble at all, he was also exposed to drugs in college, and he knows how to avoid trouble, as long as he does not touch it again in the future, even if he is passed out this time, the police will not arrest him, at most he will be warned and included in the list that needs attention.
"A hundred? Usually these things are the most...... Sir, you are really good at business. Dennis irritably scraped together all the money on his body, only ninety-six dollars and twenty-five cents, handed it all to Hugh Spader, and said with a depressed face: "It's all here." ”
Hugh Spade took the bills, turned around and walked back to the living room, picked up the medicines on the table, didn't let Dennis in, and threw them directly to him: "Take these things, and get out of here, don't come back." ”
"I won't patronize your business anymore without you saying it!" Dennis checked the medication, then cursed frustratedly at the door before turning to leave.
Hugh Spade closed the door, made sure Dennis was gone through the cat's eye, and then walked to the living room window and looked out to watch Dennis get into an old-fashioned muscle car and go away, before he was completely relieved.
……
It wasn't until the lights were on that Dennis drove back to Tommy Hawke's rented apartment in Warwick, said hello to Meloni, who had just finished receiving psychological counseling and was taking off her coat when she had just come home, and pushed open the bedroom door briskly, dropping the fifty Addrael and thirty sleeping ketones that she had bought from Hugh Spade on the small desk where Tommy was looking down to review his homework:
"These cost a hundred, Tommy, if you want this, you should come to me, I can buy these pills for forty dollars at most, I took a look at the guy, he is indeed a little strong, but shouting Pam and a few guys from the hockey team, we can easily smash the guy's car, and beat him up to make Aunt Melonie angry, without so much trouble."
Tommy Hawk stopped writing, unscrewed the cap of the pen, and hooked his finger at the Walkman around Dennis Herbs' waist.
Dennis said as he took off his Walkman, "Make it clear, you already said you would give it to me." ”
Tommy Hawk put on his headphones and pressed play, and the previous Hugh Spade and Dennis Herbs trade conversation came from inside.
After listening, Tommy Hawk returned the Walkman to Dennis: "Not only the Walkman, but also the tape, what did you just say, you can buy these drugs for forty dollars?" What now? ”
As he spoke, Tommy Hawk opened the drawer and took out the remaining one hundred and twenty Adlar pills, fifty pills of Sleeping Keto, and piled them together with the medicine that Dennis had brought back, like a hill on the table.
Dennis Herbston was stunned: "What the hell! ”
"Only a single illegal trade of 100 or more prescription drugs will trigger the Controlled Substances Act of our great America." Tommy Hawke looked up and said to the shocked Dennis Herbs.
Dennis Herbs looked at Tommy in confusion: "What does that mean?" ”
"It means that if you buy 170 Adderel and 80 sleeping ketones from that guy, and the police find out, not only the FDA (Federal Food and Drug Administration) will target him, but the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) will also intervene in the investigation." Tommy Hawke said to Dennis Herbs: "But if just selling some prescription drugs to give you a high school kid isn't enough to make him lose his job and ruin his reputation." So one last bit of spark is needed. ”
"What Starfire? Tommy, can you not talk like my godfather and talk to me like a human? Dennis Herbers asked frantically.
Tommy Hawk pressed the pen against the mountain of drugs, as if adding a dry piece of wood:
"Bringing these drugs to the Holy Cross Private High School will make the parents of the students who spent a lot of money angry and burn a heretic called Hugh Spader."