"You're sure this thing can go to Stamford, California, which is nearly 5,000 kilometers across the United States." Tommy stood in front of the Chevrolet Corvette C2 sports car, which had been painted with various graffiti on the body of the car and could no longer be seen in its original color, and asked Tony in a somewhat uncertain tone towards Tony, who was doing a final inspection at the front of the car.

Tony lowered the lid and looked at Tommy, "You can trust my skills, Mr. Anderson said I'm out of school." ”

"I'm not questioning you, I'm questioning this car, a stingray that left the factory in '63, older than the two of us, I did dream of driving alone across the United States, but I didn't think it would be in such a car." Tommy circled the car twice and said hesitantly.

The car was a gift from his family for his college years, and according to Tony and his dad, a man should have driven a high-powered sports car across the United States to his dream college to complete the report.

The idea was wild, but the problem was that the car was just an empty shell a month ago, and most of the parts were slowly pieced together by Tony from other cars of the same type.

Daddy helped Tommy put his bag in the trunk, put an old-fashioned shotgun inside, and told Tommy: "Don't play with it if you're not in trouble, if you are questioned by the police, say it's my gun, forget to take it off, if you encounter a jerk, pick it up, pull the trigger two feet above the guy's head, believe me, 80% of the bastards will wet their pants and walk away with their heads in their hands." ”

"What about the remaining twenty percent?" Tommy asked.

"It's not just your pants wetting, it's also the back door." Dad said in an affirmative tone: "Remember to call home every time you go to a city and let us know where you are." ”

"I will." Tommy patted the car and turned to look at his family.

Bessia pounced and hugged Tommy, "Tommy, I'll miss you." ”

"I will too, I will come back to see you during the holidays, and by the way, I will help you buy gifts from California." Tommy picked up Bethea and said with a smile, "Didn't you keep saying that I would buy you a gift from California?" Then you have to get me to California first. ”

At this time, Tony, Daddy, Meloni, and Ashley also gathered around, ready to hug Tommy goodbye, and the neighbors next to him also slowly walked over, ready to say goodbye to the first young man in the block to brave California.

This year, Hawke's family has changed a lot, with the money Tommy earned, Dad brought back Basia, and opened a small shipbreaking yard by himself, shipbreaking is actually manual labor, the biggest input cost is the cost of buying scrapped ships, Dad did odd jobs in the shipbreaking yard before he lost his job, he is no stranger to this industry, the way to make money is nothing more than to completely dismantle the old ship that seems to have no maintenance value as a whole, resell the hull plates, steel, parts, cables, etc. to scrap traders, and then put other radio stations, Light bulbs and other spare parts are sold in the second-hand market, and anyway, as the boss, my father can barely recover to the income level before he lost his job.

Tony is already working in the garage, but he is not ready to continue working in the garage, and now that Becia is home and his dad has a stable job, he no longer needs to rush to get the money to go home, so he wants to go to the Thompson Motor Speedway Modified Garage in Connecticut to get a job and try to learn to repair and modify race cars.

As for Aunt Meloni, who is now also a teacher at Sinclair Elementary School, she hugged Tommy with some reluctance at this time: "Remember to call us and tell us if you are happy in California, if you are not happy, remember to go home, your family will always be waiting here." ”

"I will, Auntie." Tommy patted Melonie on the back and comforted.

Ashley smiled and said to Tommy, "There must be a lot of beautiful girls in California, let them see the charm of the handsome guys on the East Coast." ”

"Don't worry, although Tony asked me to take some pictures of California girls and send them to him, I refused, you can always trust me, Ashley." Tommy hugged Ashley and said.

“F*ckYou！ Tommy. Tony raised his middle finger next to him.

Daddy took out a piece of paper and said to Tommy, "Son, before I say goodbye to you, I want to read this piece of paper, and the people on it have given you gifts." ”

With that, Daddy opened the piece of paper and read, "Morin, two dozen beers and a case of Trojan, Green, a dozen beers and two cases of Trojan, Hull, two cartons of milk and two cases of Trojan, Big Feth, ten gallons of gasoline and two boxes of Trojan, Rogers...... What the is Rogers? Only two tires? Don't have a Trojan? Didn't he know that it consumed faster for college students than food? If I became a grandfather before I was fifty, it was all Rogers' fault! ”

Tony said the car needed two newer tires. Wilson added from the side, "So I'm going...... I'm saying Rogers gave Tommy two tires, and without his own knowledge, he probably forgot to prepare the Trojan. ”

"Anyway, you heard, there's enough Trojan in the trunk for four years, so don't do anything stupid, I don't want you to be a father without thinking about it, but I also don't want you to go to college for four years and not even get a girl into bed, you know what I mean?" When Daddy finished reading, he put the paper away and walked over to Tommy.

Tommy shrugged, "I'll try to save a little bit, Daddy." ”

"Very well, I ...... Very happy, Tommy, your mother is also happy, the first college student of the Hawke family, is going to California, which is where your father, your grandfather, and your grandfather's grandfather have never fucking been, you are like the pioneer of this family, go and conquer the West, son! Colin Hawke said as he put his arm around his son's shoulder.

Tommy also hugged his father: "I will." ”

There was a roar in the distance, and then a new black and red Dodge muscle sports car appeared on the side of the road, and Dennis and Pam poked their heads out of the window to look at Tommy.

This new car was bought by Dennis with the money he earned, and now it is the most popular among the young people in Warwick, and countless girls are willing to sit in the co-pilot of that car.

"I heard you're on your way to California today." Wearing a pair of sunglasses, Dennis said to Tommy, "Pam and I are going to walk you on the last stretch of the road in Rhode Island, man." ”

Tommy looked at his father, brother, sister, aunt, and others, and then tilted his head at Dennis and Pam, "Prepare to follow my car and smell the exhaust." ”

With that, Tommy turned to get into the car and started the car, and the stingray roared and rushed forward.

Dennis whistled and slammed down the throttle, and Dodge quickly caught up to Tommy's Stingray, and the two cars were neck and neck on the road.

As Dennis said, after driving out of Rhode Island, Dennis and Pam lowered the window and looked at Tommy, who turned his head and smiled at each other.

"I wish you a happy college life! Foolish*! Dennis and Pam shouted at Tommy with their middle fingers, then slowly slowed down.

Tommy held the steering wheel, looked at his companion who disappeared in the rearview mirror, and gently turned on the car stereo.

Dennis' recording of "Knocking on the Door of Heaven" immediately sounded in the car: "Come and wipe away those tears for me, I won't cry anymore, the sun is setting in the western sky, I feel like I'm knocking on the door of heaven......"

In the sun, the song accompanies Tommy as he drives in the direction of California.

(Volume 2: Knocking on Heaven's Door End)

Words at the end of the volume: This is probably the most uncomfortable period for me, I am a sheep, my family is a sheep, I wanted to write an absurd comedy in the second volume, but with the sudden high fever completely affected the state, it went directly from absurd to fucked, and it was a continuous impact, how to say, probably from the beginning of the fever, I felt that my brain was broken, and I didn't know what to write when I sat in front of the computer every day.

The outline is there, and normally I can write something that can be done according to the outline, but I can't even do such a simple thing during my illness, and I don't know if it burned out my head.

Even my daughter-in-law persuaded me to stop writing for a period of time and wait for my body to recover before writing, I said no, I don't want to stop coding words now, I just want to keep changing, finish writing a book, the quality is poor I can finish writing and then slowly repair, but I know my own situation, if I stop, most of them will stop all the time, I have to force myself to finish a book, start with the first book, I don't know how many words this book writes, maybe more than a million, maybe two million, but in any case, it should at least be a complete story.

That's it for the second volume, when I feel more relaxed, I'll overhaul it, but I don't have the mentality to touch this style in a short period of time.

The third volume is the entrepreneurial story of college life and the protagonist, I wrote about the campus for the first time, the first time I wrote about serious entrepreneurship, and today I chatted with my daughter-in-law, and my daughter-in-law was shocked, she thought that a person with a junior high school education, who had not even stepped into the threshold of Chinese universities, actually wanted to write about American college life, which was more difficult to create than Pu Songling's writing about Liaozhai.

Thank you for your patience during this time, and I try to adjust my mindset and write a new story.

Welcome to Volume Three: My Days at the University Fraternity.