Dean continued to inquire about Tyreen Ives, monitoring the movements of Suren and Hawkins Labs, and waited for the day of the party with his uncle's girlfriend.

Weekends, Holradic Mall, Mexican Restaurant.

The sunlight through the glass windows illuminates the red and green aromatic delicacies on the table: burritos, cheese tortillas, paella, chicken and corn soup...

At the dining table, an Asian lady in a beige women's suit gave Dean a warm hug.

"Paqui has mentioned you many times, and today we finally met, handsome lad." Kelly Chan smiled passionately with eight teeth. She is not very beautiful, with big eyes and thick lips, but she is cheerful and generous, with a plump figure, and her skin is ruddy and shiny, and she looks very healthy

"He has also stressed to me countless times that you are the most confident, sexy, wise and wise lady in the world." Dean also made a face for his uncle's life events, "He can make a girlfriend like you, it must be the blessing of the spirit of the ancestors." ”

Kelly was overjoyed by the praise, seeing Dean's eyes becoming more and more affectionate, she reached out to help him straighten his neckline, pulled him to sit down, and asked diligently,

"You just graduated from high school this year, do you have a girlfriend? Let me introduce you to one, the daughter of a music teacher at Hawkins Middle School, who is beautiful and gentle, and has just graduated from high school, how about I arrange for you to meet tomorrow? ”

"Thank you for your kindness, but I don't have any plans to do so at the moment."

Dean smiled and refused, grabbed a piece of tortilla and stuffed it into his mouth, his curious gaze swept over Paqui's rugged face and Kelly's intellectual face,

"Or, let's talk about your acquaintance, why you chose to go to a restaurant outside, this kind of gathering is usually at home, I would have liked to see 100% of Paqui's cooking."

"Haha, the first time I met Kelly was at this Mexican restaurant." Paqui put his arm around Kelly's shoulders with a big grin, and the two looked at each other and smiled, "It means a lot to us. ”

"You don't know how weird it was," Kelly said with a laugh, "and this guy was sitting at the table across from me, peeking at me during his meal, and his expression was as serious as a police officer watching a prisoner, and I thought there was a wanted man sitting next to him." ”

"Ahem, you're so beautiful, I'm so strongly attracted..."Paqui complimented, "I almost suffocated." ”

"It's not almost, you patronized and looked at me at the time, choked on eating, and your face was red and uncomfortable." Kelly said with trepidation, "I was so tired that I collapsed to help you get the chicken burrito out that stuck in your throat." ”

Paqui took a sip of the soup to hide her embarrassment.

"It's actually a beautiful woman saving a hero? Why didn't you tell me! Dean playfully looked at his uncle, whose face was flushed,

"Don't talk nonsense, I fell in love with Kelly at first sight, so I reacted a little more violently." Paqui made a warning face, "Don't tell Jacob and Andre about today..."

"Isn't that interesting? The professional bodyguard who has experienced countless fierce shootouts almost choked to death at the dinner table," Dean laughed and swallowed a chicken leg, "Speaking it will surely make Jacob and them happy." ”

"You dare."

"Do you want to go back to wrestling and decide?"

Kelly looked at the bickering uncle and nephew with a smile, and took over the conversation, "After that time, Paqui went to Hawkins Middle School to block the door, and he had to invite me to a meal to thank me, but I didn't agree, so he came every day... Who called me soft-hearted. ”

Paqui took her right hand for a moment, and Kelly looked over as well, tenderness swelling between her eyes.

……

The meal was full of laughter, and Dean, as a perfect listener and cheerer, succeeded in bringing the relationship between Uncle and Kelly to the fore.

"Then we're going to the movies... Next time you come to my house, try my craft. Kelly took Paqui's arm and waved goodbye to Dean,

"Have fun!" Dean made a congratulatory gesture to the red-faced Paqui, watched the incomparably good back go away, and pondered, "There is probably a wedding in a few months, and I have to prepare a big red envelope in advance." ”

……

Leaving the restaurant, Dean prepares to continue walking around the mall to replenish the depleted emergency food reserves in the fantasy space.

As a result, I walked near the familiar ice cream counter and heard an unusual commotion, and when I saw a tall man with a bare shirt and a turban, he was pressing another skinny brunette man to the ground and slapping him insultingly.

"Stop! Stop calling, call me again! ”

Catherine anxiously reached out to pull the violent man but was pushed away, and at the same time another red-faced man stood in front of her, took off her navy hat lightly, touched her soft blonde hair, and smiled with a mouth full of wine,

"Beautiful lady, you can't distinguish between right and wrong, obviously this guy was unkind to us first, so we defended ourselves and fought back, he deserved to be beaten. But for your sake, as long as you accept our date, we'll let him go. ”

The woman's face became ugly,

"What's wrong, Catherine?"

"Dean, help me, these two guys are drinking too much and making trouble."

“OK。”

"Where did the Indians come from, they really think of themselves as supermen... Hmm..."The drunken man rushed over and grabbed Dean by the collar in a rage, and then his eyes flashed, and his wrist was caught in a sharp pain like a steel plier, and the whole person involuntarily bent down with the force.

"It hurts! Let go, let go! Dean brutally shoved him behind another man who was obsessed with slapping, and with a twist and a squeeze of his hand, both drunks fell to their knees and screamed at their wrists.

Dean continued to push his hands, keeping their cheeks against the cold ground,

"Give me a good soberness!"

Catherine glanced at Dean gratefully and in surprise, and hurriedly picked up another man at the counter who was beaten and had a red slap on his face, and said with concern, "This gentleman, are you okay, I'll take you to the hospital?" ”

The man was obviously stunned, and it took a while for his misty eyes to return to normal, but when he saw Catherine in front of him clearly, a trace of shame flashed on his face, and he hurriedly got up and ran away, no matter how much the woman shouted behind him.

"What's going on, do you know him?" Dean looked at the man's limping back and asked,

"It's a little impressive, like I've seen it before, but I don't remember the name." Catherine's slender eyebrows frowned slightly, "These two drunks have been staying at the counter to harass me before, and that gentleman can't stand it anymore and stands up." But why did he leave without saying a word? ”

The two didn't figure it out.

But soon after, Sheriff Hope, wearing a cowboy hat, belatedly questioned witnesses in the mall, handcuffed two drunks, poked their noses and began to spit.

"Marin, Sheryl, how many times? After drinking too much, he started to mess around, he used to spoil Karin's dog, and now he harasses the lady, will he be strong next time? ”

"Don't wait for next time, we've had some fun," the tall, lanky drunk joked at the sheriff with a mouth full of foul-smelling vomit, "Your wife looked more tired than we did when we left your house just now. ”

"Fako! Dare to attack the police! ”

Hope struck an uppercut angrily, hitting the man curled up like a shrimp, he was not enough, directly in front of a group of customers in the mall, and beat up two drunks, hooks, knees, Dean's eyelids jumped not far away, is the country sheriff law enforcement so fierce?

Catherine was also frightened, and then she pulled her hair and smiled at Dean.

"Thanks, I don't know what to do if it wasn't for you just now."

"It's okay, I just moved my muscles and bones, and if you have this kind of trouble in the future, you will continue to call me." Dean looked at Catherine's face casually, there was a light sweat just now, her smooth and delicate skin was dyed with a touch of red, and the sweat flowed down the dense blonde hair to the undulating curve under the sea soul shirt, and the whole person was like a delicate rose.

No wonder it makes two drunks fall in love.

"How can I thank you?"

"Please give me some ice cream, vanilla."

The two sat at the ice cream counter, enjoying the sheriff's performance of teaching criminals a lesson, and chatted,

"Next time you come back, I shouldn't be here." Catherine also took a small bite and licked the strawberry ice cream,

"What do you mean?"

"I got a new job, an editor and reporter at the Hawkins Daily."

"Congratulations, I knew that your talent would not be buried, and you would become the boss of a newspaper sooner or later."

"Giggles, I hope so, by the way, next weekend, the day before the newspaper goes to work, I'm going to invite a few friends to dinner, will you come?" Catherine warmly invited, "I don't know many friends in Hawkins, you count as one." ”

"No problem."

"Then to thank you for your help and support, if you are in trouble in the future, please come to this reporter." Catherine looked at the other party's indifferent look and patted her towering chest, "Don't believe it? Do you know, to do our business, not only do you need good expression skills, keen observation and analysis skills, but also excellent memory, if you say a problem now, maybe I can help you solve it immediately. ”

Dean hesitated for a moment, and said with the attitude of a dead horse as a live horse doctor,

"Then you'll have to keep it a secret for me first."

"God is mysterious, then I swear."

"I've been looking for someone lately," Dean whispered close to her ear, "Tyri Ives, a middle-aged woman in her 40s, with long dark blonde hair..."

Catherine thought for a moment, and nodded with a tense face,

"I have an impression."

"It's okay if you don't know each other, wait, you say you have an impression?" Dean was surprised, even the FBI couldn't find a clue, this ice cream lady actually knew.

"When I was in Las Vegas, I read all the influential newspapers of the past few decades in order to work. I'm 100 percent sure that this lady Tyree Ives has been in some of these newspapers, but I can't remember exactly what the story was. ”

Catherine looked into Dean's eyes,

"I suggest you look for the New York Times and The Washington Post that are less than twenty years old."

The system shook.

Dean discovers that the long-term event that has remained unchanged for thousands of years, bloodline, and the progress has jumped from three percent to four percent!

"The Times and the Post within 20 years, there must be thousands of copies, right?" Dean asked excitedly, "Do you know anyone from these two newspapers, can you help me get in touch?" ”

"I'm sorry, I used to be just a small reporter, and I couldn't talk to anyone from those big newspapers." Catherine's voice changed, "But there's a stupid idea, you can try to ask your local government office, they may have been subscribing to the Times and the Post. ”

"Be specific."

Catherine's eyes turned into the distance and finally finished venting, and Hope, who was panting like a bear,

"Ask the sheriff of our Hawkins Police Department."

"Catherine, you've done me a great favor!"

The woman smiled with satisfaction, "Then remember, don't miss the next dinner." ”

Dean nodded, exchanged phone numbers with Catherine, left a pager, and found Hope.

The latter smiled at him, patted his shoulder with a generous palm,

"You were too light at the beginning, you didn't let them have a good lesson, they don't have a long memory at all, how can you join our police station to learn and learn?"

"I have other things to do." Dean recounted Catherine's flowers,

"Are you serious?"

"Can't lie to you? Where can I find these two newspapers? ”

"Let's send the prisoner back to the police station first, and then I'll take you to the town library to look for it, where there should be a collection of miniature flats of large newspapers."

"What is a miniature plain film?"

"You'll find out then."

(End of chapter)