Chapter 164: Father and Son "Boss, you made two people who were attentive appear."
With the cold air on the dock, Gin got into the car, while Su Ming closed his eyes with a wine glass.
"Rogers and Barnes, I guess?"
"Worthy of the boss, that's what you said."
"Very good, make a note of the home address, and we'll go together in a few days."
Su Ming finished drinking the wine in the cup and turned his head to look out the window: "Is there any news from Africa?"
” "Not yet, boss, the country you mentioned is called Wakanda, as if it doesn't exist, no one has heard of it, let alone knows where it is" Gin feels guilty for his disadvantage, but "It's okay, take your time, as long as something exists, be patient and find it will always find."
Young Steve is woken up hungry and in a dream he is eating a cake with beautiful cream and fruit garnishes, but for some reason, the more he eats, the hungrier he gets.
The emptiness in his stomach made him feel pain, and the burning stomach acid tumbled and he finally woke up from his dream.
There was no cake, no food, he just bit his pillow, which was full of tooth marks and saliva.
Like his father, he only ate a loaf of bread today, and the only food left in the family was a little flour and potatoes, which had to be saved.
It was the middle of the night, the windows were covered with frost, it was cold outside, and even in his cabin it was not warm at all.
His family is not well-off, his mother used to be a nurse, and now she is also unemployed, so she can only occasionally help people sew and wash to earn some change, and she is very busy.
In today's world, even children know that it is difficult to make money.
He and his little friend Bucky didn't go to school anymore, they would go to the street to sell newspapers during the day, and if they were lucky, they would only earn a dozen cents, and more often they would eat the newspapers to satisfy their hunger.
They had seen newspaper eaters, and there was an old beggar a few blocks away, and he and Bucky saw him eat a wad of newspapers and were dragged away by the police the next day covered with a white cloth.
It is unknown if the cause of death was hunger or eating the newspaper, but both he and Bucky were so scared that they could only hope that the paper would be exchanged for normal food.
Bucky's family is in a slightly better situation, his father is more flexible than his own, and he can occasionally find temporary work, so life is slightly better, but only a little better.
In order not to feel hungry, Steve wrapped his belly tightly in the quilt while he began to think that maybe his father or himself would get a good job.
But his brain is like uncontrollable, and he always thinks of the cake in his dreams, even if it is a cherry on top.
Then he heard the door knock, it was his father who had returned, and the apartment building they lived in was very simple, and the soundproofing was something that did not exist.
When the door is opened in the middle of the night, the neighbors can hear it.
He heard Uncle Tom talking to his father, in a very small voice, but both of them spoke quickly and looked very happy.
"See you tomorrow, Tom."
"Ha, see you tomorrow."
His father closed the door and turned around with the contents in his arms, but in the dim moonlight, he saw Steve walking out of his room wrapped in a quilt.
"Why haven't you slept yet?"
He began to pull out the contents of his arms, which were brown paper-wrapped squares, dozens of them, and the food sent by the group, including burgers and sandwiches.
Tom's mind was quick, and when he heard the man in charge say to take it casually, he asked the two of them to unbutton their shirts and keep loading them like a big pocket.
Although the food is cold and stuffed into their arms makes their whole body tremble, their hearts are hot, and this is hope.
The only strange thing is that although they are all people who have worked on the docks, they are not boatmen, so why are they assigned to work in the shipyard office?
But this doubt had already disappeared in front of the food, and they were hungry and could not think about anything else after looking at the mountains of food brought by several large trucks.
All they could think about was how to take more home.
"I just woke up when I heard a voice."
Steve looked at the paper bags and wondered why his father came back in the middle of the night with so many things.
"Oh, I'm hungry, just right, I'm back with food."
Joseph smiled, picked up a few paper packets and handed them to him: "Add some coal to the stove, put these things on and bake them before eating, otherwise you will have diarrhea." ” Steve took the paper bags, which were almost the size of his head, and he had been seriously ill as a child, and although he was better now, he was much thinner than his peers.
He smelled the food, maybe beef, and cheesesauce and tomato through the paper bag.
"Dad, where did this come from?
Did you do something bad?
” The food was so good, especially this winter, that he knew that even though he was a child, the people who jumped off the building last month wouldn't avoid him.
"Why do you think so?"
Joseph took all the food out of his arms and hung his coat on the hook behind the door, he crouched down and touched Steve's head with his cold hand: "I told you to be an upright person at all times, and the more difficult it is, the more you have to persevere." ” "What about these foods?"
"Hehe, it's a gift from the new boss to our employees, not only me, your Uncle Tom, but also many uncles you know have brought home food, so you don't have to keep these in front of you for Bucky, eat with confidence."
"You've got a job?
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That's great!
” Steve settled down, quickly threw his quilt on the couch, and began to re-pop the stove in his pajamas, adding coal to it, not only to heat the food, but also to boil the kettle of hot water.
"Yes, I got a job."
Joseph leaned over to the fire, stretched out his palms to warm himself by the fire, and walked home from the dock with the contents of his arms in his arms, walking nearly ten kilometers, his hands were frozen white, but the smile on his face remained the same: "A good job, in a shipyard." ” "Then we'll all have something to eat later, right?"
Steve looked at his father expectantly.
Joseph opened a paper bag and revealed the burgers inside, thick bread with a large hamburger steak sandwiched, which he placed in a tray and baked by the fireside, the light of the fire illuminating the similar faces of the two men.
"We'll have something to eat in the future, and after a few days, you and Bucky will be able to go to school again."
"I can also work, but my mother is not in good health."
Steve shook his head, he didn't want to go to school anymore, a lot of kids his age didn't go to school.
He has grown up and can earn money to support his family.
"No, my new job pays well and I can buy a lot of food."
His father twisted his head towards himself and said seriously, "I discussed it with Tom, he was upset that Bucky had picked up the pocket watch from the dead man that day, so we'll send you back to school in a few days."
You are not allowed to go out and run around these days, and you are going to study your homework at home. ” "The guy jumped down from the stairs and almost hit us, we freaked out, the pocket watch rolled in front of us, we didn't think about anything else, Bucky just picked it up subconsciously, we didn't touch the body" Joseph rubbed his brow, rummaging through corpses or not, it wasn't the kind of scene children should see.
Not to mention their son, he and Tom were walking down the street when suddenly a corpse fell in front of them, red and white, and both of them were going to vomit out.
But the two children were fine at the time, and they could still run away, was it because the cruel reality had cast a shadow on them?
This really isn't a good time for kids to grow up.
"Listen to me, Steve, you have to be a capable person, a useful person to the country and society, there are many more people than we are poor, you have to go to school and learn the knowledge that can make everyone happy, this is what you should do at your age."
"Okay, Dad."
Steve nodded, although he didn't understand much, he understood that he should still read.
"Very good, you look at these foods, I'll call your mother."
Joseph stood up on his knees and walked to the bedroom in the back, while Steve's gaze fell from the glossy burgers to their wrappers.
The brown paper is orange against the red flames of the flickering stove, and in the center of it is a large black letter.
He picked up the paper, smoothed it in his hand, and saw in the firelight a line of small writing under the symbol.
"Wilson Enterprises" P Meiman Knell 48302dexhtp