America 1982

Melonie picked up a piece of fried crab horn, dipped it in the sweet and sour sauce and put it in her mouth. After finishing it, she couldn't wait to taste the tangerine peel chicken salad, Manchurian fried pork chop, and almond fried chicken on the table, and then Tommy Hawke said in surprise:

"I thought if you really had 20,000 dollars, you should start a business with it. Tommy, you should open a Chinese fast food restaurant. These dishes are great. I have eaten Chinese food in Boston and I think that restaurant The one I made is not as delicious as yours. This is not a compliment, but a fact.”

Tommy Hawke was noncommittal about Melonie's compliment.

In fact, these American-style Chinese dishes have nothing to do with real Chinese food. Fried crab horns are fried with artificial crab meat and cheese wrapped in wonton wrappers, and served with American-style sweet and sour sauce. Orange peel chicken salad is It's lettuce, boiled chicken breast, rice noodles, peanuts steamed with citrus juice, vegetable oil, dry hot mustard with pickled ginger and tangerine peel. Manzhouli fried pork chop is small pork chops fried with onions, seasoned with sweet sauce, almonds Fried chicken is chicken wrapped in batter mixed with almonds, fried and served with spicy sauce.

In line with the tastes of most Americans and all their stereotypes about Chinese food, all Chinese food is stir-fried or fried.

Tommy Hawke actually doesn’t have any superb cooking skills, or these dishes don’t require any advanced cooking skills. Chinese people who have eaten them a few times and know how to cook can easily copy them, because the preparation method is too simple. This is also the main reason why more than 70% of Chinese restaurants in the United States add these dishes to their menus.

It’s okay to deceive Americans who have never eaten real Chinese food.

He picked some rice noodles from the chicken salad with his fork and put it on his plate. He didn't care about Melonie's compliment at all. He lowered his head to eat and said, "If you have time tomorrow, contact Hugh Spade. Ask him to come see you tomorrow and tell him that if you earn one hundred yuan, you can pay him first, hoping to get some of the photos back and give him some time."

Melonie, who had just adjusted her mood due to the delicious food, was slightly startled when she heard Tommy Hawke talk about Hugh Spade in a voice without any emotion, without any small talk. She subconsciously put the smile on her face away : "Then what? I can't afford a hundred yuan now."

"Here's a hundred dollars." Tommy Hawke held a fork in one hand, took out a few bills from his pocket with the other hand, and pushed them along the dining table in front of Melonie.

Melonie glanced at the bills in front of her. They were all in twenty or ten dollar denominations.

"You earned it?"

"Not only have I earned this, I also have three hundred dollars in my pocket, and one hundred and seventy Adderal pills and eighty Quaalude pills in my bedroom." Tommy Hawke swallowed the food in his mouth gracefully. , wiped his lips, raised his head and looked at Melonie.

Melonie frowned. Of course she knew that these prescription drugs were used by many young people to have fun at parties. Although they were not listed as drugs like hemp, they were subject to strict drug control: "So, no It’s not poison, but medicine.”

"No, I said, I'm not going to do business that violates any American laws. I just want to give Mr. Hugh Spade fifty Adderall and thirty Somazone." Tommy said.

"Give it to him? Giving him some prescription drugs will not make the police arrest him. Instead, the police will find it on you. I don't agree with you doing this." Melonie decisively refused.

Tommy Hawke said: "When he comes to collect the money tomorrow, you will be packing the medicines in the living room. Tell him that you took this job of packing medicines for me in order to make money, and describe me as a trashy high school hangout. You are a rubbish student who does not have a serious job, but he has access to prescription drugs. He is very short of money. When he sees those drugs and knows that I am only a high school student, he will definitely take those drugs away from you because of lack of money and greed, and refuse any of them. Come on, just let him take it away, but you have to get back a few photos that belong to you."

"You know, it's the negatives that should be brought back." Melonie lowered her head and sighed. What the big boy opposite said was completely irrelevant, which made her doubt that she actually believed that he could help her solve her trouble in the afternoon. Whether the action was too hasty.

"No, what you need are photos. It's time to get the negatives back." Tommy Hawke said to Melonie with a firm tone.

Melonie frowned slightly and looked at Tommy suspiciously: "Then what?"

Tommy Hawke picked up the rice noodles with his fork and brought it to his mouth: "Then, it's up to me, a high school student who suffered a loss, to go find him."

Seeing Melonie about to speak, Tommy Hawke continued: "Don't worry, the fights you imagined won't happen. If he is investigated by the police or imprisoned, the public school will have an excuse to fire him, right?"

"Yes." Melonie nodded.

"The teachers' union has a special department to listen to teachers' troubles, right, such as psychological counseling and legal consultation departments?"

“The union is really going to help us.”

"Send Hugh Spade away tomorrow. You need to go to the union department for some consultation. For example, you need to tell the psychological counselor that you have experienced psychological trauma. You have tried hard to get out of the shadows, but now the nightmare has reappeared. You are worried that if it continues, , it will have a serious impact on your teaching career, or you may say goodbye to this profession that you love deeply."

Melonie was about to listen carefully to Tommy's talk about the arrangement, and she took the champagne and brought it to her lips. However, these words made her almost choke. She hurriedly covered her mouth with a napkin and looked at Tommy Hawke: " what are you saying?"

"You were deceived into taking drugs by your ex-boyfriend who was severely dependent on drugs and had bad habits. Then he took a lot of photos of you when you were unconscious. Now he is trying to get close to and control you. This feeling makes you panic. This is you. The main reason for seeking psychological counseling is the same as for legal counsel. You have to ask them whether, after many years and without evidence, they can legally force Hugh Spade to distance himself from you, but regardless of whether counseling or counseling , don’t mention the other person’s name, use the title of ex-boyfriend instead.” Tommy Hawke continued:

"You have to go to counseling and counseling twice a week to let those people have an impression of you. The rest of the time, just continue to be your substitute teacher and leave all the rest to me until I inform you that you need to prepare Be a witness against Hugh Spade."

"Witness?" Melonie was stunned for a moment: "Am I a witness? Not the one who is going to prosecute him?"

Tommy Hawke took a bite of the fried pork chop he made and shook his head slightly: "The fried pork chop is a bit hard."

Then answered Melonie's question: "The identity of the witness will be more beneficial to you. There are regulations to protect witnesses. From the moment you become a witness, it doesn't matter who owns your photos, but if he dares to leak it again, you can Find a well-known lawyer to file a claim with the court on the grounds that protecting the witness's privacy is unfavorable. Therefore, in order to avoid being legally blackmailed by you, the court or the state government will definitely help you take back all your photos and negatives. This will ensure that you do not need to face him. Fighting, you just have to help drive the last nail in when Hugh Spade lays in the coffin."

"What on earth are you going to do, Tommy Hawke?" Melonie felt that her mind could no longer capture Tommy's thoughts in time.

Tommy Hawk swallowed the food in his mouth, ignored Melonie's question, and continued: "After sending him in, a position became vacant at Sinclair Elementary School, and you, the witness, can take Hugh's place. -Spade, becomes the new teacher at Sinclair Elementary."

"Will the school agree?" Melonie asked in disbelief: "What are you talking about, kid?"

"If the principal of Sinclair Elementary School is not an idiot, he'd better agree." Tommy Hawke finished the food, picked up a cigarette, lit one, exhaled the smoke, and said in a monotonous voice:

"Because he disagrees, he will lose his position as principal. Whether he will be kicked out of that position, or he will give you a job and continue to be the principal, he should know how to make a wise choice."

Melonie felt a chill in her heart after hearing this. For some reason, Melonie felt that all the delicacies had lost their taste. She was now looking at Tommy Hawke, who had a normal expression. This big boy obviously had a deep feeling in his heart. With careful planning, the look on his face made it seem as if his troubles might be as easy to him as solving a math problem and not worth any emotional reaction at all.

She seemed to feel that the words Tommy Hawke said while sitting in the passenger seat on the way home were vaguely echoing in her ears:

"I want to make a sumptuous dinner. Usually when I do some household chores that don't require using my brain, I always free up my brain to think about complex issues."

Although she didn't know what Tommy Hawke was going to do, her instinct told her that Hugh Spade was in big trouble.

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