blackstone code

Chapter 350 The price of growth

Actually...Michael already had a feeling for this kind of thing.

His wife was several years younger than him, and with his outstanding work and status, he easily captured the heart of a young girl.

Everyone yearns for a good life. It may not be appropriate to say this, but it is the truth.

Michael is indeed much older than the girl, but he has a stable job, more income, and a higher social status. The girl who has been hit by a bloody head within two years of just entering the society soon resigned. .

Whenever I look at those classmates or former colleagues who still live in small dilapidated houses in the downtown area that only cost tens of dollars a month, or pay the rent through their bodies, I am still confused about the future.

She was already in the bright room, lying on the sofa, applying nail polish to her toenails that was so enviable but still unaffordable.

She can direct the servants to do anything, she can sleep until ten o'clock in the morning every day, and then have a nap, and watch dramas until late at night every day.

This kind of life is so comfortable, so comfortable that she is not much different from many years ago.

The understanding of society, the understanding of the cruel reality, all of this is still in the night when she decides to make her future easier.

She has no ability to work, no ability to survive in society, and Michael himself knows this very well.

But he's never considered rectifying that before, he feels his job is stable, Chief Johnson isn't a pushy chief, and he's easy to talk to.

In addition, Michael's own status is not low, and there is still a chance to go up. Why does the wife of the future director of the Sabine City Taxation Bureau want to find a job that is no different from ordinary women?

He loves this young woman, and sometimes people will joke about it. Colleagues say that a 30-year-old man married a high school student in a tone of envy and jealousy, which seems to be talking about him.

But sometimes, he doesn't know whether he loves this woman, her young body, or his own face.

Until the moment he came in, he knew that some things could not be changed.

His wife is incapable of working, in other words she cannot support herself and their children, let alone pay the bills.

Even though he kept some of his savings, and despite Commissioner Johnson's promise to release him early if he met the criteria in the Exceptional Talent Acquisition Act, there was still a gap of a few years.

The family's money can't last so long. His parents' side, his wife's parents' side, may support a woman, but they can't support a child.

Not to mention, there are so many bills.

In fact, he had been mentally prepared for a long time, maybe he would get divorced, or something would happen, but he didn't expect that everything would happen so quickly, and within less than a year, his wife was pregnant.

The purpose of his wife's coming here is to hope that he can give her some advice. The man hopes that she can keep the child. She doesn't know how to choose, so she asks her husband. She has never been on such a big matter. I made my own decision.

It's realistic and brutal.

What's more cruel is that the man has his own family, he will not marry Michael's wife, in other words, even if Michael divorces his wife, his wife can only be that man's lover.

It was some of the things she brought up that broke Michael in the end.

Various bills, and little Michael's academic problems.

Michael Jr. was imprisoned because he was abetted to admit that he committed a crime. Although Michael later admitted to the judge that these were all abetted by himself, Michael Jr. was acquitted, but the impact of these things has spread.

In the private school, the classmates rejected little Michael, regarded him as a thief, called him the son of a criminal, and should not defile the sacred campus.

The originally lively and cheerful child has become taciturn, and the smile has disappeared from his face. He seems to be preoccupied every day, and he is even more afraid of going to school.

The psychologist who provided psychological counseling for Michael's wife told her that if little Michael continued to be in such an environment, it was very likely that he would cause a series of mental illnesses.

The best way is to change his living and learning environment, but all of this requires money.

a lot of money.

The money for psychological counseling, the cost of changing schools, the cost of renting a house near the new school or they can continue to live in the original place, but they need more tolls.

It was money..., a lot of money, and the family's need for money eventually broke Michael, who silently respected his wife's choice.

He didn't interfere with her wife's decision, it was up to her to decide whether to give birth to this other man's child.

At the same time, he also knew that the man would pay the bills for them every month, continue to hire a maid to maintain their daily life, and was even willing to spend some money to provide psychological counseling for little Michael and change schools for him.

How else could he choose?
Angrily scolded this woman for sleeping with others shamelessly after he was imprisoned and got pregnant?

Or ask them to move out of their homes, rent a house in the downtown area, come through the landlord every week...in exchange for the right to continue to live, and then let little Michael go to those free garbage public schools in the downtown area, and eventually become a street Gang members on the Internet?
Or choose suicide under extreme depression and pressure?

For the current Michael, there are not many choices he can make, and in the end he gave up everything and chose the child.

This is also the reason why he is so painful. For the first time, he feels humble, weak and powerless.

Even when he started serving his sentence, he didn't feel that way.

Garp looked at the man next to him who was pulling his hair and weeping bitterly, and he also had some indescribable feelings in his heart, some sympathy, some pity, but also some gratitude.

Before he came in, he had already divorced Vera, and even divided the property. The most important thing was that he never restrained Vera's work and life, and he even encouraged her to take the accountant qualification.

Of course, his purpose at that time was just to let this woman find something to do, not to pester him all day to interfere with his work and life, that's all.

But these practices make Garp’s current problems much easier than Michael’s. Someone once said that happiness is actually very simple. As long as you live better than the unlucky people around you, you are happy.

He felt that this sentence was so right that he could still comfort Michael now, "You have to be strong, Michael, think about your child, everything is not so bad..."

Had Garp and Michael known that Michael Jr.'s sexuality was changing, they might not have thought so.

"I...I'm just so sad, I want to cry, it makes me feel better!", Michael, with tears and snot on his face, wiped the things that made Garp sick with his clothes, "Thank you, thank you, brother , I will be strong, for my children."

Perhaps after such a vent, Michael's emotions gradually stabilized, and he also accepted the fact, even if he didn't accept it, so what?
Both of them had something on their minds. At this time, no one answered. After a while, Michael suddenly said, "Those books of yours, those about the law, can you show me what you have read?"

There is something called strength in his eyes, and he wants to change.

In the past, he was too irascible, maybe he had some ability, but he was still irascible, his work style was brutal, and most importantly, he knew little about the law.

In fact, many low-level law enforcement workers, their understanding of the law is limited to some situations that often appear in their work, and they even don't know the definition of obstructing official duties and assaulting the police.

Michael actually suffered some losses in this regard. If he knew more about the law at the time, maybe the problem would not be so serious.

His roommate, an accountant named Garp, has been studying law by himself since the first day he came in. He also had the same idea, but he never put it into action. Now is the time.

Even while serving a sentence, there is still time for change.

"Of course!" Garp liked this kind of learning atmosphere, which would make his prison life less boring.

Both of them think that they are victims, they are framed people who stand together and encourage each other to learn. This will become a very special learning place for them to grow rapidly.

The next day, when Garp was reading - he had a lot of time to read, he didn't need to be forced to work, he didn't need to be forced to go out, he didn't need to take off his clothes to take a shower in front of many people, he had privilege.

Because he had worked as an audit accountant for Ristoane, the middle and high levels of the prison, including the warden, all hoped that Gap could help them avoid taxes legally and reasonably when they filed their taxes.

This is also the most special phenomenon in federal prisons. Criminals with special professions such as accountants, doctors, and lawyers are particularly popular in prisons.

The warden not only procured him the law books he needed, but placed him with Michael, a "good man."

While he was reading a book, the prison guard opened the door of the cell, very politely, "Mr. Garp, someone is here to visit the prison!"

Garp, who was sitting on the bed, was stunned for a moment, and he quickly stood up, "I'll go..." He put on the light blue local prison uniform and walked towards, "I can know who it is in advance." ?"

The prison guard shook his head, "Sorry, I don't know, it's two men."

Not long after, Garp walked through the corridor and appeared in the working area of ​​the prison. Under the leadership of the prison guards, he did not go to the room specially prepared for prison visits, but came to the warden's office.

Pushing open the door, there was a heroic figure standing outside the huge floor-to-ceiling windows. The light outside the window was so dazzling that Garp could only see a rough shadow.

"Mr. Garp, we meet again!"

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①, the author here uses the comparison of Michael’s performance before and after he was imprisoned to describe a change that occurred after he experienced these things, so that everyone in the full text has a human nature, no longer a face-made npc, but a living person .

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