"My dear friend: When you read this letter, you should also receive that little gift from your lovely child, the kindest little angel in the world, to you on my behalf."

"Maybe you wonder, is this guy Jeff LaVine drunk and giving the wrong gift? None of the friends would use this gift to maintain friendship, and besides, it was forwarded through the children, and I was going to talk to him about it in person tomorrow. ”

"In fact, I did something more courageous than giving the wrong gift while drunk, and I ran in the special election in my district and became one of the candidates."

"The reason for running is that I think the beautiful 18th District needs to be more ethnically diverse, and the purpose of this gift is to hope that the white residents will use Trojan to show that you are tolerant of racial diversity, and that there is more room for Cubans and blacks to live in this district."

"The greatness of America lies in love and tolerance, and your most loyal friend in this district: Jeff LaVine."

A cramped utility room in the after-school children's playground provided by the Catholic Church in Miami's 18th Ward was temporarily used as the office of campaign manager Martin.

At this moment, Martin took the letter written in the name of Jeff to the parents of the child handed to him by Tommy, read it carefully, thought for a few minutes, and then suddenly said to Tommy:

"Boss, I understand what you think, you are going to make Jeff offend all white people, make him look ostracized by the white community, and win the sympathy of Cubans and blacks with a pitiful and tolerant image of other groups, after all, he called on these white people to use Torjan more in his letter to prevent unwanted pregnancies, so that Cuban immigrants and can have more children, right?"

"Copy this letter in a hundred copies." Tommy didn't answer Martin's guess, but said to Martin seriously: "It's all handwritten, you can't ask anyone else to help you, you have to finish it before Jeff and the children end today's assembly, and then when the little ones come home, let them take it back and give it to their parents." ”

After finishing speaking, he handed Martin a few ballpoint pens and a stack of letter paper: "After copying, remember to burn the original I wrote." ”

"Make everyone believe that Jeff wrote it, right? I understand. Martin wanted to refuse, but he saw Tommy take fifty dollars from his wallet and hand it to him: "Fifty cents a letter, more work, more pay." ”

Martin asked suspiciously, "But...... There are only more than seventy children, and to whom are the rest of the extra letters to? ”

"There is a church children's hospital on the next street, and I go to the inpatient department to give a shot to the children who are hospitalized due to illness." Tommy said with a casual expression: "And, not to make everyone think that this letter was written by Jeff, but by you, and when someone comes to the door, you have to admit that you drafted the letter yourself." ”

After Tommy finished speaking, Martin, who was left with his brain directly shut down by the operation of going to deliver a message to a child in the children's hospital, turned around and walked to the side:

"Also, when you're done, remember to put them in separate envelopes, and attach a Torjan to the envelope, and I'll go see how Jeff behaves in front of the kids."

Martin looked at the thick stack of letterheads, made up his mind not to go to the children's hospital to deliver the letter, so as not to be chased by the angry accompanying parents, and was about to pick up the pen to write the letter, when he saw Page appear in the door with his hands folded, staring at him blankly.

"That's nice, Mr. Page, and you're watching me at the door like a fucking prison guard?" Martin scratched his head frantically, then leaned on the humble table and began to write: "I won't escape from prison, don't worry." ”

Paige watched Martin's movements and said, "No, Tommy asked me to tell you what you need to pay attention to after being taken to the police station while you are writing the letter." ”

“What？” Hearing Paige's words, Martin looked up and asked puzzledly, "Why the fucking cops are bothering me just because I stole a seven-dollar box of ten Trojans at Costco?" ”

"You stole those?" Page was slightly stunned.

Martin said to Page with confidence: "What do you think? The boss didn't give me the money to pay for it, but don't worry, the supermarket never suspects that a black guy would steal it, and they don't think ever use it when they go to bed. ”

"There are some discrepancies with the boss's instructions, but it's not a big problem, so listen to it obediently now." Page said to Martin.

Martin felt that Page was affecting the speed at which he made money, and his tone was a little impatient: "What are you listening to?" Listen to a racist white retired veteran police officer who shot and kills a black man, teach me how to be like a fish in water in the police station? I'm black, black people have their own way of dealing with cops in the police station, please, I'm working, I'm not lazy. ”

"Listen to what Tommy asked me to convey to you, as a campaign manager, how to help raise the profile of your clients in the police department, and how to maximize the benefits if you frame potential opponents." Page said.

Martin frowned, showing a puzzled look: "Why didn't the boss tell me personally?" ”

Page showed the electric shocker around his waist: "Because the effect of this method of teaching is more intuitive." ”

Tommy walked to the church's activity room and watched Jeff on the stage holding a children's version of the Bible and telling aloud the story of Adam and Eve being expelled from the Garden of Eden for their mistakes, while sixty or seventy children sat around him, eating snacks or sweets that Jeff had given them for free.

"This story tells us that if you don't listen to God, you will be punished, God is like a teacher, he makes us clear all the truths in the world, and Adam and Eve's behavior of taking the apple that does not belong to them is obviously very, very wrong, God punished Adam and Eve and expelled them from the Garden of Eden, and the consequence is that they will lose the opportunity to live in such a beautiful home forever, so, children, we can't be like them, to take other people's things for ourselves, to be good children, only to do the right thing." After Jeff finished telling the story of the Garden of Eden, he looked at the children and gave him his understanding of the story.

Tommy stood in the corner, quietly listening to Jeff finish telling the story of the Garden of Eden, and then exhaled slowly.

Jeff's eloquence is a bit bad, he only knows how to read according to the content of the book, dry, not vivid at all, but the last sentence made Tommy resound, when he was a child, his mother would tell himself and Tony a story every night before bed, most of them were Bible stories, because she was a devout Catholic, and at the end of every story, she would tell him and Tony to do the right thing, just like Jeff.

"Jeff ruined this sentence, he is not fit to be a woman." Tommy finally gave such an assessment in his heart.

A little white boy who looked to be about seven or eight years old swallowed the food in his mouth, and suddenly asked Jeff a question in a puzzled tone: "Why did God only drive Adam and Eve out of their house, but did not dare to teach the real bad guy, the bad snake who tricked Adam and Eve into eating apples?" Is it the real villain? ”

Seeing Jeff's face immediately turn stunned, Tommy realizes that his brain is now in a mess, which is a bad phenomenon, because if children see his reaction, they will ask more questions to get answers, or rather, it's not just children, it's human innate aggression.

"The book says that God created all things, but the bad serpent, like Adam and Eve, was also created by God, so why did God create a bad serpent?"

"Why did God create so many pythons in Florida? My dad said there were more pythons in the swamp than there were people, and he said he saw a python crawl into a neighbor's house and eat the neighbor's dog. ”

"Adam and Eve ate apples and found themselves unclothed, why did God trick Adam and Eve into stripping naked by letting them live unclothed in his Garden of Eden for so long and inviting other friends to his house?"

"I know, he's a pervert, there's an episode in the cartoon "Sheriff Bresta" about a villain who likes to trick children into going to his house, is God a villain who likes to trick children? Which is worse or worse, he or the bad snake? ”

"Snakes aren't badass! The serpent said that after Adam and Eve ate the apple, they would have wisdom and distinguish between good and evil, and that God would be bad, and he hoped that Adam and Eve would always be two fools who couldn't even put on clothes! ”

"Uncle Jeff is stupid, he only reads stories and experiments with solid wood balls and planks! Every time you ask a question, you won't be answered! ”

Sure enough, when the first child asked, more children joined the battle group and began to ask all kinds of strange questions questioning God's behavior, and their eyes shimmered at Jeff, who was caught off guard.

Jeff probably didn't expect that he would cause such an uproar by just telling an ordinary story of Paradise Lost, and the children's questions were about to drown him like a tidal wave, and worse, the children were about to treat God as a knowingly alchemist!

It's his own fault, as a believer, he should help these little guys solve their doubts instead of God, but he doesn't know how to say anything to these little ones who are eager to learn, so he can only look at the other two school workers who distribute candy for help.

The two school workers gave Jeff a helpless look, after all, Jeff was the smartest of the three.

Jeff opened his mouth and opened the Bible children's book, but it was completely devoid of the answers to the questions posed by the little devils.

"Because God wants them to discern good from evil through their own eyes, and wants them to understand how to take things from the cold through their own bodies, not through the mouths of others, God can give life, but wisdom needs to be acquired through learning." Tommy approached the children with a smile, opening his mouth to relieve Jeff as he went, drawing the attention of all the children to himself, he gently touched the top of the head of a little boy who had just asked a question, bowed down and squatted in front of the other party:

"Like I'm telling you at this moment, the waters of Miami's Treasure Beach are bottomless, and there is also the Kraken, the giant monster of the North Sea, who comes out every day and drags the yacht into the water with his tentacles, and eats it with his mouth open, do you believe it?"

Tommy made a gesture of teeth and claws, which made the little ones laugh, and a little girl said next to him, "It's strange, there is no Kraken at Treasure Beach, and the water is very shallow." ”

A group of children nodded in agreement.

"Why do you think there is no Kraken, why do you think the sea is shallow?" Tommy's eyes were encouraging, and he looked at the little girl.

The little girl said to Tommy: "Because the school also organized us to go to Treasure Beach for a parent-child camping activity, we stayed at Treasure Beach for a day and a night, and we didn't see Kraken surface, day or night. ”

"What's your name?"

"Emily."

"Very well, Emily, think about it, did I look like that bad snake just now?" Tommy looked at the little girl with a gentle gaze: "If you haven't seen Treasure Beach in person, you might take my words seriously, right, after all, how can an adult be willing to deceive a cute little girl like you?" So now think about it, why didn't God just let Adam and Eve eat apples? ”

The little girl named Emily nodded as if she didn't understand, and in Tommy's encouraging and rewarding gaze, she said with some hesitation: "So, God wants us to see it for ourselves, so that we can know if the bad snake is lying?" ”

“VeryGood！ The answer is very correct! Tommy exclaimed with an exaggerated expression.

The little girl laughed happily.

The Bible is a terrible religious book with countless logical loopholes, and later generations continue to wipe their ass crazy for their predecessors, the real reason why God drove Adam and Eve away from the Garden of Eden, the original text of the Bible records: The people can not be good and evil, as if they are like me, afraid that they will raise their hands, and also take the fruit of life, eat it and live forever.

In other words, God is worried that they have eaten the fruit of wisdom and already have wisdom, and if they eat the fruit of life and gain eternal life under the temptation of Satan, it will be no different from creating themselves.

Through this, God tried to make Adam and Eve understand that the excuse of learning to think for themselves was completely improvised by Tommy, and had nothing to do with God's real thoughts, just to help God, or to help Jeff wipe his ass.

Just like those clergy today, finding all kinds of reasons that sound milder and more compassionate to glorify the black history before God is not for God, after all, if it is really for God, they should tell their believers that God likes his followers to always be bare-assed fools*.

Seeing that the children thought they had the answer, Tommy immediately struck while the iron was hot and said, "So, I want you to understand that dear Uncle Jeff is definitely not stupid, he wants you to learn to think for yourself, understand?" ”

"Sheriff Bresta doesn't always have to ask his uncle every time before he understands how to catch the criminal, he must have the wisdom and courage to face the difficulties alone, I think you are very, very rude, Uncle Jeff and his friends, every day they help you prepare cookies, candy, help you tell beautiful stories, you don't thank him, you question him, mock him, think about it, hey, you, little one, if you bring your best friend delicious candy every day, What would you do if your best friends ate the candy you sent and laughed at you for dressing like a rabbit with a shaved butt today? ”

"I ...... I might ...... Pretend that nothing happened, then fill the powdered stool in a candy wrap the next day, and give it to them to continue tasting as gummies. The little boy who was pointed at by Tommy seriously thought of a way to teach those who dared to laugh at him a lesson.

This method of revenge, what a Florida, Tommy thought silently.

But he still had a smile on his face: "What are you going to do if you don't want your dear Uncle Jeff to prepare a poop gummy for each of you tomorrow?" ”

"I'm sorry, Mr. Laven."

"I'm sorry, Uncle Jeff."

The children apologized to Jeff.

Jeff replied in a bit of a hurry: "It's okay, kids, I promise I will never make poop gummies, I will continue to bring you candy tomorrow." ”

"Uncle Jeff has forgiven you, but he wants you to do him a small favor, which is to bring your mom and dad a little gift that he has carefully prepared." When Tommy saw the children apologizing, he stood up and walked to the corner: "When you get home, someone will give you the gifts." ”

"I ...... When am I going ......" Jeff was a little stunned when he heard Tommy say that he had prepared gifts for the parents of these children.

Tommy stood in the corner and turned to look at Jeff, who was surrounded by the little ones, "It's Martin, your campaign manager, Martin, who paid out of his own pocket to help you prepare gifts for their parents, move on to the next story, Jeff." ”

It's too late, so I won't divide it into chapters, nearly 5,000 words ~ divided into two chapters and it seems to be too little~

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