At sunset, Tommy Hawk walked to Kingston's seaview pier boardwalk with two beers, and as a few days before, the old, fat Marduff wore a beach hat and sat on a small fisherman's stool, fishing quietly.

"With your current size, wouldn't it feel a little painful to sit on this fisherman's bench?" Tommy stood next to Marduff, handed him a beer, and then asked as he admired the view of the sea in the distance.

Madouf took a sip of his beer and said slowly and embarrassedly: "Sometimes it hurts, sometimes it hurts." ”

"Since you can look at the problem this way, Mr. Prime Minister, then I can not be too tactful in my next words, if the first few days of playing with us high school students was only painful, then then, everyone in this country will become clown-like characters, in order to please the eyes of the Americans, then it may be a very painful time for you and this country." Tommy Hawk simply sat down on a nearby reef and spoke to Marduff.

Marduff put down his beer, retracted his line, rearranged the bait, and threw it out again, before looking into the sunset, the white teenager who was not talking to him at all like an immature high school student, smiled: "Maybe I guessed a little bit of your thinking?" Started in the UK and ended in the UK? ”

"Yes, because there are two problems in this country, they belong to two equally powerful groups but outwardly different, one is called the government and the other is called the capitalists, the former is hypocritical, the latter is barbaric, and the school life at the bottom from childhood to adulthood has taught me that you can never spend the money of a magazine to harvest both "Attic" and "Playboy" at the same time." Tommy looked at Madouf and shrugged.

Marduff retracted his gaze, looked at the sea, and said with a smile: "Don't think I don't know what those two magazines are, son, your path to education sounds very beautiful." ”

"So I think that saving the face of the government and pushing the issue of aid to Britain can give the US government a buffer opportunity, so that they can represent credibility and justice, and stand with us on the opposite side of the capitalists, although it will not really change the game of capital, but a little punishment of the overseas factories of Bolton Sugar can gain the goodwill of the country and the government that most Americans imagine is like, and they are still willing to do it." Tommy Hawk tilted his head and took a sip of his beer, and smiled at Marduff:

"Just like when you ask me every day, why don't you experience the daily work of a real prime minister, my answer is always the same, this job is too tiring, especially the position of this small country, even more tiring, sitting in this position is far less comfortable than making money and being a capitalist, when the national policy affects my business, donate a donation to buy politicians to vote against the adoption of the policy, hire a few lobbying companies to go to the White House to do public relations operations, persuade the government to retract the decision that is not in my favor, instead of like this, And to think about the dignity and face of the citizens of this country, then it shouldn't be a problem for a selfish person like me. ”

Marduff grinned, his eyes looking at the undulating sea in the distance: "You're not a selfish child, Tommy, I knew it the first time you came, so I'll sign a contract with you, because you offered to give us the money you earned, and selfish people won't do that, at least not at the Burton Sugar Company." ”

"So, from the moment you didn't choose to split the account, I should have realized that there was going to be a situation where I was now." Tommy put down his beer, took his cigarette out of his pocket, turned slightly to avoid the sea breeze, lit the cigarette, and said with a smile.

"Actually, I also think that the job of prime minister is too tiring, I ...... I studied medicine in Nottingham, England, when the country was still a colony, the medical environment was poor, uneducated blacks could not go to the same hospital as whites, they could only go to rudimentary clinics, I wanted to be a doctor, to treat them, I started as a doctor, all the way up to the country's chief medical officer, I wrote to the British Overseas Colony Office, the colonial governor's office, and even the teachers and classmates of the British university, hoping to ask them to give the country a little help, and finally I worked hard for many years, the British decided to build a medical school here with an affiliated hospital...... "Maduf said here and suddenly laughed:

"Do you know what's going on at this time? That's right, the United States forced Britain to give up this colony, St. Vincent became independent, my years of hard work came to naught, the medical school did not come, the British also left, leaving behind countless high-ranking positions that were previously inaccessible to blacks, the Americans told us, although we help you bring freedom, but don't take it to heart, if you really want to be grateful, you can cooperate, join my American Cooperation Organization, I will open a factory, and I will give you financial support, by the way, you only need to form two political parties, like us in the United States, By forming a state institution with a separation of powers, the country can be fully functioning...... If it weren't for the fact that I couldn't beat the Yankees, I would have ridden my bicycle to Washington to scold those bastards, and when it was clear that the country did not even have a university or a decent hospital, and that 80 percent of the people were illiterate who could not write their names, the advice given was to form two political parties first? ”

"St. Vincent is not the first victim, nor is it the last, maybe I say that to make you feel better?" Tommy Hawke puffed out the smoke and lowered his head and said.

Marduff took a few sips of beer into his mouth before looking at Tommy with a smile: "Kid, did anyone tell you that you don't look like a high school student at all?" ”

"Not like?" Tommy looked down at his dress, then at Marduff and asked rhetorically.

"Sometimes it's not like it, sometimes it's very different." Maduf laughed: "Like now, according to your train of thought, I guess...... Will it be that high school student among you who graduated from high school and spent his days praying to God that his grandfather would ascend to heaven sooner rather than later to fulfill your final plan? This is not something that high school students can come up with, and high school students prefer to do this kind of bloody experience themselves. ”

Tommy flicked the gray-white soot, and the ash was bounced off the cigarette itself, and before it could hit the ground, it was blown away by the sea breeze:

"Of course I want to, but I don't have a rich grandfather who can make me pray that God will take him away as soon as possible, Stephen is the kind of real elite high school student, the pride of the sky, he doesn't need to think about whether he himself is really that good, his family is there, he has not made a big mistake, he has not disgraced the family, he is excellent, he can be in the limelight, the family behind him naturally likes to see it, and then add fuel to the fire to expand his influence and increase his popularity, whether in business or politics...... Aside from him, even the other students, including Catherine, could not fully absorb the influence of this incident, because Catherine still needed to go to Children's TV to brush up on her resume. As for my own appearance, it is 100% lost the opportunity, I can tell you now what my family will do when they learn that I go to Washington, my dad will take a group of unemployed workers to promote in the community, my dear son Tommy went to Washington, to negotiate with the United States on behalf of a country, we have to drive to Washington to support him~~ Then the community neighborhood will intimately call the psychiatric hospital and the police station for free for my dad, come! Colin Hawke is drunk again! ”

At this time, the fishing line shook suddenly, and Maduff skillfully and slowly reeled the line, patiently engaged in a tug-of-war with the baited prey, and finally, a banana fish at least 70 centimeters long was pulled out of the water by him!

"Looks like I've had a lot better luck since you came, kid." Marduf looked at the struggling and jumping prey and said happily to Tommy.

Tommy drank all the beer in his hand and jumped off the reef: "So, sometimes painful, sometimes very painful? What do you think? ”

"Whether it's pain or embarrassment, it's just a process, the most important thing is the harvest, as long as the result is good, whether it's pain or embarrassment, it doesn't matter." Maduf took off the hook and placed the fish in the bucket next to him: "Don't feel guilty about what you are going to do next, child, this country, and I personally, will be sincerely grateful to you, no matter how it ends." ”

Tommy Hawke took a deep breath: "Mr. Prime Minister, you are probably the smartest person in this country, although you look like a postman, I hope you understand, maybe we can still receive some gratitude, but you are afraid that you will not be grateful in this country again, Americans are very vindictive, after a period of low profile, use ignorant citizens to attack you and make you step down, and you pay ......"

"As I said, Tommy, if the country can be fair in this matter, it won't be pain for me." Marduff rehung the bait and threw the rod towards the glittering sea, interrupting Tommy: "Also, I'm not the smartest man in the country, but smart or not, I just want to use this rare free time to fish in peace at the moment." ”

Tommy nodded understandingly, then turned and walked slowly towards the way he came, muttering softly the words that had been filled in his mother's ears since childhood:

"He has no beauty to make us look at him, and no beauty to make us look up to him. He was despised and rejected by men; Afflicted with sorrow, and full of sorrows. He is despised as if his face is hidden, and we have no respect for him. Surely he bore our griefs and carried our sorrows; But we think that he was chastised because he was beaten and afflicted by God. He was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities. By his punishment we have peace; And because of his stripes we healed him, though he was not cruel, and there was no deceit in his mouth, but they made him to be in the grave with the wicked, and with the rich man......