American Entertainment 1982

  Chapter 16 Do not be a heresy, deviate from the right path, walk in a dark path

Compared with the cramped and cramped single curtain room, the layout of the champagne box is of course much more spacious and comfortable. Although the space is only the size of a home bathroom, at least it has been replaced with a sofa and has upholstered walls. On the small coffee table, a small dim light turned into a colorful light ball hanging on the top.

There is still no door, but it is no longer like the faintly visible gauze curtain between the curtains, but replaced with a purple opaque soft rubber curtain. The most important point is that there will be no bodyguards guarding the champagne box at any time, and there will only be 15 minutes. Afterwards, she appeared outside the door and reminded the guests and dancers inside that the time was up, and they had to renew or leave.

   "Have a good time, sir." The bodyguard led Tommy Hawk outside the door of this box, said a word, and then turned and left.

Melonie, on the other hand, was holding a bottle of cheap champagne, and walked in from the outside with a hellish expression. Tommy Hawk motioned for Melonie to sit on the sofa, and guarded the door by himself, and raised the curtain to observe that the bodyguards had gone away. , before turning around: "Okay, we now have fifteen minutes to chat undisturbed."

"Why did you appear here, Tommy Hawk?" Melonie seemed uncomfortable being found wearing this gaudy outfit by someone she knew. She sat on the sofa, curled up a little, and tried her best to Reduce your exposure.

  Tommy took off his jacket and handed it to Melonie: "You should be thankful that the highest temperature today is only 17 degrees. I'm wearing a jacket. Let me just say, the wig is pretty good."

Melonie took the jacket and put it on her upper body, tried to take a few deep breaths, so that she still looked like the indifferent expression she had when facing Tommy Hawke: "You haven't told me why you are here, you It's a high school kid, Tommy."

"My classmate gave me a ticket to see the world." Tommy took out a cigarette from his pocket and put one in his mouth. Seeing Melonie's expression, he handed over the case: "I want to come branch?"

Melonie took the cigarette irritably, and after Tommy lit it for his distant aunt, he retreated to the door: "I remember that your job is a substitute teacher, and now your business has expanded to tutoring students like me who don't care about studying in the club." Are you a high school student?"

   "It's not funny, Tommy." Melonie exhaled smoke: "I...I said, I'm going to change jobs."

   "Aren't you preparing to participate in those public school interviews and apply to become a formal teacher?" Tommy Hawk frowned slightly and asked.

My aunt, Melonie, graduated from the College of Education at the University of Rhode Island. Although this university is not a famous school, the career plans of graduates are very clear, that is, to obtain a teacher qualification certificate, and then apply for a job in a certain place in Rhode Island Public middle school or public elementary school, become a teacher who teaches and educates people.

The University of Rhode Island is not a prestigious school, so it is very difficult for graduates who graduate from here to work in that kind of high-end private school, but it is much easier to work in a public school, especially thanks to the rights and interests that the teachers union fought for public school teachers after World War II , As long as a teacher has worked in a public school for two years, he will be automatically promoted to tenure and cannot be fired at will.

This sentence means that as long as the teacher has not committed a crime and went to jail, the difficulty for the school to dismiss the teacher is tantamount to making an enemy of the teachers union with one million primary and secondary school teachers in the United States. According to the teacher's union, the performance of education work should not be considered in the school's dismissal of teachers.

This is also the main reason why the quality of education in American public schools is so different from that of private schools. After all, for teachers, as long as they have passed the two-year probationary period, they are out-and-out iron rice bowls, whether it is hard work or mediocrity. , all earn the same salary, then of course choose to use the easiest way to work until retirement and receive a monthly pension.

Melonie is this kind of teacher who has no pursuit. She is now working as a substitute teacher in various schools in the state. The principal can give her a positive evaluation, win the favor of the school, and then wait for the interview to successfully enter the job, you can earn this stable job with a weekly salary of 240 US dollars, and earn until you retire and die, buried in the cemetery.

  In order to get involved in public school paddling, you have been a substitute teacher for so long, and now you are suddenly planning to change jobs? And a job as a stripper?

   "I come here to work part-time because I need money." Melonie lowered her head and said in a cold voice, "Five hundred yuan, or more."

  Tommy Hawk flicked the ash: "I guess it's because of your ex-boyfriend?"

"We started dating when we were in college. When we were dating... we did some crazy things." Melonie talked about the past, her hands trembled, she barely held a cigarette to her lips and took a deep breath before continuing: "Later that guy became a teacher in a public elementary school faster than me, and then approached a scumbag in the school, and made the scumbag's stomach bigger, so we broke up, but now, he knows that I want to When I was about to become a public school teacher, I started blackmailing me with crazy stories from my past."

"Maybe he has some photos in his hands that would be enough for you to bid farewell to the teaching profession if exposed?" Tommy Hawke was silent for a few seconds, and asked: "So the wound on your face is also due to arguing with him And stay?"

   Melonie looked up at Tommy a little lonely, and finally nodded slightly.

"What a bastard." Tommy said noncommittally, then glanced outside, and then continued to stare at Melonie. After half a minute, he seemed to make up his mind and said, "I'll help you get rid of him, you help me How are you doing?"

Melonie noticed that Tommy had been staring at her blankly just now, and when she heard Tommy's words, her face immediately changed slightly: "You'd better move those eyes away for me, although we are not related by blood, I am still you Auntie, I will never be with you..."

"Auntie Melonie, I'll help you out with that **** and make you a holy teacher of the people, but you need to mortgage your apartment and help me out of the bank by lending me twenty thousand dollars, and I'll pay it back in a month You, including the interest." Tommy Hawke didn't seem to hear Melonie's words at all, and before she finished speaking, he directly stated his cooperation method.

It wasn't until Tommy finished speaking that Melonie realized that she had guessed wrong, but she still maintained a serious expression: "You can borrow money for college tuition yourself, unless you are going to do some shameful things, plus you Haunting a place like this, Tommy Hawk, I suspect you're going to sell…"

   "No! Of course not. Although I do want to do some business, I can guarantee that I will never violate any law in the United States." Tommy Hawke looked at Melonie calmly:

"In the name of my most devout mother, she often tells us about the "Bible" at the dinner table, and the most common sentence she tells us is: Don't be a heretic, stray from the right path, walk in dark paths, and follow crooked paths, Its path is remote. I always keep it in my heart, and I promised her earnestly that I will never take the path of evil."

  Melonie lowered her head: "So, you are not going to kill that bastard, nor are you going to use the money to do hemp or drug business."

"I will send him where he should go. If you are interested in business, I can also tell you. You can decide whether to lend me the money after listening. So, let's go home together, aunt? Look at me For the sake of being a poor high school student, go home and chat, the fees here are too expensive for me." Tommy Hawke smiled at Melonie and held out his hand.

  Melonie hesitated for a moment, and finally stood up, instead of holding Tommy's hand, she gently hugged Tommy in her arms: "Let's go home, kid."

   The second is later, please bear with me

  (end of this chapter)