Tommy arrived in Flagpole, Arizona, at seven o'clock in the evening, but he was still warmly received by the Erics, who showed him a secret meat-filled burger and redstone volcano ice cream unique to Flagpole.

Eric's wife, a native of Texas, is now a professor at Northern Arizona University, and their children also live in Texas, because Eric's wife has a large farm in Texas, and the children can ride horses, fly planes to spray pesticides, and entrust grandparents to take care of them, saving a lot of money on babysitting costs.

As for Eric, who was a virtuous man when he was younger, and spent most of the year flying around the world, dealing with various geological formations, he found the job very interesting, because earthquakes are more unpredictable than the human heart.

The two of them talked a lot about what happened in college, and Tommy told Eric that the Stanford SSD's recruitment methods are too BT these days, and they will stuff a rookie chrysanthemum with a coin, and then another rookie hits the head with an air hammer to make the coin fall.

Eric laughed and said that he would write to the SSD to discuss what kind of coin to stuff, and that the largest coin he had ever seen was larger than an egg, and it would be spectacular to put it in.

The conversation between the two shocked Mrs. Bell, who had always thought that her husband was a gentle scholar after marriage.

After spending the night in Flagpole Town, Tommy traveled all the way through New Mexico in the evening to Amarillo, Texas, also known as the "Land of the Living Dead", which is the largest producer of helium in the United States, and at the same time, the only nuclear weapons assembly plant in the United States, Pantex is also located here, and more than 200,000 people living here may explode due to improper disassembly of nuclear weapons, turning from living to dead in an instant.

Originally, Holly Keener was going to come from Austin, Texas to meet Tommy, but Tommy refused, Amarillo is not a good place to catch up, and from Austin, it is better to rush to his next stop, Oklahoma City, not to mention, he and Holly don't have too many old relationships to talk about, after all, they often meet.

Among the original five members of the Actor company, Jason chose to return to his hometown in Mississippi three years ago because of Susie's unexpected death, and the small town of Greenville enjoyed the rest of his life, Mark Warren succeeded her as the president of Susan's agency after Susan entered politics, Susan followed her mentor Condoleezza Rice into politics, served as mayor of San Francisco for two terms, a secretary of state of California, and is now a Republican senator for the California district of the United States Congress, which is a reluctantly inherited the political connections of her mentor.

Only Holly has been active in the Internet and computer industry, often meeting Tommy, the only difference is that she moved from Silicon Valley, California to Austin, Texas, and is now the founder of the Austin Bioinformation Technology and Life Science Center, in short, it is to research various high-tech medical devices to help patients improve their living environment, such as intelligent implanted spine, intelligent knee joint, hip joint, artificial heart and some ear, nose and throat soft tissue repair technology.

She doesn't need Tommy's advice now to trick the rich into investing money in her, such as selling the not-so-wealthy concept of high-tech life sciences.

The not-so-wealthy are unlikely to spend as much money on a dedicated medical center as Rockefeller did, and the best option is for a group of people to pool money and hire people like Holly to help them figure out how to live longer.

After spending the night in Amarillo, Tommy picked two backpackers on the way who hitchhiked and didn't care about the destination, as long as they were closer to the north.

It was an old man and a young man, from California, the old man had lived in San Diego, California all his life, relying on a fast food restaurant to support his family, no vacation, from birth to before this trip, he had never left San Diego, he had never seen real snow, now his children have started a family, no longer need to take care of him, his wife has passed away, he chose to close the restaurant, and hiked to the north with his savings to see the snow, and the young man is a more active local short video blogger in San Diego, he wants to record the image of the old man along the way, And willing to take care of each other during this journey.

In Oklahoma City, Tommy put them down and watched them walk north with their backpacks, if it weren't for the old man's own words, Tommy really didn't think that there are still many people in this world who have never seen real snowflakes.

Arriving in Oklahoma also means saying goodbye to the American West, driving into the lush Midwest, after getting your car serviced, rushing to Little Rock, Arkansas, for a night's rest, and then heading south along the Mississippi River to Jason's hometown, Greenville.

If you don't have an impression of Greenville, just watch Quentin's movie "Django", in which Leonardo's black slaves climb a tree and are persuaded by him to let the dog bite to death, which was filmed in Greenville, Mississippi.

Half of the state was covered with trees, and the remaining half was plain farmland, which was a paradise for American slave owners, and when slavery was in vogue, the state's male black slaves were responsible for logging, female black slaves were responsible for growing cotton, and whites and dogs were responsible for overseers.

It's probably the most traditional America to date, where residents are allowed to carry automatic handguns without a license or background check, minors who commit serious crimes like murder are allowed to be sentenced to life in prison without parole, the death penalty is retained, and gambling is legalized.

When Tommy met Jason, Jason looked very happy, Tommy could understand why this guy was so happy, because this guy had almost bought this small town of more than 30,000 people, and now lived in a mansion that was more luxurious than Leonardo's house in "Django", thousands of black people worked for him every day, harvesting crops or catching catfish for him, and almost all the land and ponds he could see on the outskirts of the city were his property, in order to make sure that there was enough socialization, The guy also built a floating luxury private club on Lake Ferguson, just to receive friends who came to visit him.

The whole of Greenville, black and white, almost all served as waitresses in his private clubhouse, and most of the time, there were no guests in the clubhouse, that is, they had to serve Jason alone.

"AIDS or cancer?" Jason asked seriously when he saw Tommy.

Tommy's face was puzzled: "What? ”

"Is it testicular cancer? Need to cut out? Otherwise, why would you come out of your way to meet me, I thought it was the final farewell trip. Jason said to Tommy.

Tommy sighed, "My balls are very good, Jason, I'm just going back to Rhode Island for the wedding and inviting you to my pre-wedding party along the way." ”

"You're getting married again? And with whom? The last time we saw each other before, that young female companion you brought with you? Jason poured Tommy a glass of wine and said in a shocked tone, "That girl is only twenty years old, and I think your hemorrhoids at the age of thirty are now older than her." ”

"Otilia." Tommy took the glass: "I'm going to marry Otilia." ”

Jason's face was full of incredulity: "You slept with her three best friends and their mother, and she can forgive you?" Have you brainwashed her to the point where you can give up all your dignity for her? ”

"Not for me, maybe for the Hawk family, maybe like you abused yourself for Susie." Tommy looked at the décor in the room, "It doesn't look like there's any trace of Susie here, it's all hidden in your head. ”

Jason leaned back on the sofa and said with emotion: "I don't talk about her often, but I think of her a lot." ”

"You should call those bastards back to your family with you, don't think too much about her, Susie probably doesn't want you to see her too soon, maybe she's busy in heaven dressed in leather, and tricking God to get him to kneel in front of her and lick her toes."

"I don't even know where they are, they have nothing to do with me, when their mothers took a sum of money and disappeared with them, in fact, I did think that such a big house, there should be a large family around me, so that I don't have to miss Susie all the time, we have said that if someone dies first, the living person will continue to enjoy life happily, so I am here, enjoy every day."

"You should still be able to have children, and there is no shortage of women here."

"I don't want to give birth, I don't even have an X life right now, three years, I haven't lived any X life, and to be honest, I wasn't so loyal when Susie was alive."

"Maybe Susie played you bad before she died, and it has nothing to do with the word loyalty."

Jason's cell phone rang at this time, and after he connected it, he first said a few perfunctory words in disapproval, then his face became a little angry, and finally turned to shock, and after reporting his address, he hung up the phone in a daze.

"Your face is like hearing that Susie is still alive." Tommy said as he took a sip of wine next to him.

Jason looked at Susie, "This call tells me that I have a large family now." ”

"Your bastards are going to come and divide your money?"

"I ...... Belch...... It was a man on the phone just now, and he said it was my son, who was forty-two years old. ”

"You are the same age as me, which means that you gave birth to this son when you were eighteen? This can't be, we were just freshmen at that time, and we were busy studying and starting a business, and that was a lie to you, you didn't have any money to raise a woman at that time, remember, your three girlfriends were country women who went back to Greenville after the OSS went on sale, and you were nineteen years old at that time. ”

"No, what the other party said is right, and you are right, I really didn't have the money to support a woman at that time, but there was a woman who paid for it at that time...... Took care of my business, a forty-year-old single rich woman with a firebird, I had a few times with her, and I even treated you to pizza with the overnight fee that the woman paid me. ”

Tommy's eyes widened: "No! That's impossible! The man on the phone ......"

"That's what he said, his mother was the single rich woman who patronized my cowherd business back then, and she got pregnant unexpectedly, she thought she had no chance to get pregnant, but it happened, and then she felt that this was the best gift God had given her, because she had a child before, but it died, so she wanted to give birth, and thought that the child didn't need a father, she could handle it herself, and just like that, the woman quietly left California and went to Canada to settle down, where she raised the child as an adult."

"This year, his mom passed away, and on her deathbed, told him that his father's name was Jason White, a college student at Stanford University, and now, he wanted to see me, just to visit, not to deal with property, just because I was his biological father."

(End of chapter)