[Comprehensive British and American dramas] No.1 is called non-plural

After hanging up the phone, Isaac was not used to the leisure at this moment.Staring out the window for a while, Isaac felt that he was looking for something to do, and called Hugh again, asking him to send himself a copy of the information about May that he had found.

Anyway, idle is idle, since Emma doesn't like May, he will see if there is any loophole to make May's name disappear from the list of candidate guardians.

"I've thought about this too. If we can find Emma's other relatives, the maneuverability of this matter will increase." Hugh still attaches great importance to May. Her life experience is too rich, most of which are still with her. It is related to scrambling for business, regardless of whether her previous education level is only a little better than illiterate, this experience is enough to make people daunting. "It's hard, though."

So, Isaac knew that during this time, Hugh spent a lot of time researching Emma's family tree. Her biological father seemed to be a stowaway who was reduced to a stripper. He came from a certain country in Eastern Europe. Needs to think again; her matrilineal line, um, has a maternal grandmother, but they're currently working on stripping her of custody.Then I went to investigate May's kinship, and I didn't get much.

In other words, although one or two of May's relatives are still alive, they are all in prison.

"I dare not say whether it is a coincidence or intentional." Hugh sighed, "But if I had a choice, I would never live with such a person."

"Well, be optimistic, buddy." Isaac stood in front of the fax machine, receiving faxes one by one from Hugh who was in another city, "Didn't Mrs. Jully send a statement of severing the relationship between mother and daughter? Maybe You can make a fuss about it.”

"It's really that easy." Hugh said he was not optimistic. "I suspect that someone must have tampered with this matter. Do you know that when Mrs. July made the statement, she was not an adult at all, and neither was this statement?" What legal significance."

"But in May's divorce process, this statement still played a role." Isaac mused.

"At the time, I felt that someone was plotting against May, and even Mrs. Jully might just be used by someone." Hugh also felt concerned, "Not to mention anything else, from what I know, May was really serious to Mrs. Jully back then. Not bad, never stingy in material things, the annual tuition fee of the school she chose was tens of thousands, and that was 20 years ago! After staying in this kind of school, how did she see a person who had nothing and was still under the hands of her mother Damn it..."

"That's another story." While listening to Hugh's complaints, Isaac looked at the documents that had been faxed, "It said that May had a son before..."

"Oh..." Hugh groaned in pain, "That hope is even more remote, I suggest not to waste time there."

"What did you find out?" Isaac braced himself for bad news.

"I asked my friends who are still studying at Harvard to help them find out, but I didn't report much hope. After all, this is an old thing of the last century." Hugh said, "I have never understood that In the era, they lived more unrestrained and free than us..."

"The point!"

"OK!" Hugh took a deep breath, "That buddy is also fond of reasoning. Based on the few clues he got from me, he checked from the restaurant where May first worked. The owner has changed there, but Fortunately, they have not changed. May’s aunt’s family left the restaurant unexpectedly and took over the restaurant. Although the old woman in charge of the cashier is gray-haired, she has a sharp mind and a good memory. I also remember the gossip about him very well."

"Gossip?" Isaac couldn't help raising his voice.

"Of course, the uninteresting truth will be buried by time, and only those gossip news full of bizarre twists and turns can have this eternal vitality." Hugh defended his buddies, "Of course, although the process of dissemination may be distorted, but in it The basic elements of the should be constant."

"You won." Hugh's words were too reasonable, and Isaac couldn't refute them. "But according to you, this gossip has been passed on for more than half a century. Are you sure it hasn't been demonized?"

"You can judge after listening." Hugh cleared his throat, "That matter, um, is very suitable for entertainment before and after tea."

The story begins in the 60s of the last century. One is a college student who came from a foreign country to study at Harvard, and the other is a girl who just walked out of the village and works as a waiter in the restaurant of a world-renowned university. It's not a big news, after all, no one stipulates that the relationship partner can only be people of the same level as them.The reason why this incident was noticed by some boring people is because of the age of the protagonist of the story.

The man was only 14 years old at that time, and the woman was only one year older than him.

"Are you sure this is a college couple, not middle school?" Isaac raised his eyebrows, "In a different environment, the persuasion will be much stronger."

"If everything is unremarkable, how can it be said that it has not been forgotten for half a century." Hugh was very calm on the other side, or he was already surprised, "But this is also good, if it is not because of them They are not considered adults in the true sense, even if they are in love with each other, the adult partner will be accused of rape. But I still have to say, Italian men are really too precocious, and the romantic gene is simply engraved in their bones."

"Don't worry about the map, there are a lot of teenage mothers on campus now, and their boyfriends are not Italian." Issac reminded.

"Hehe." Hugh didn't care, "but we're talking about them now. They fell in love and lived together and had children very quickly, and it seemed that their reason seemed to have disappeared. That's Harvard, and you know their style of painting, noble and glamorous No need, plus that era was very xenophobic, Italians were not that popular, and finally entered Harvard to have a chance to change his background, but he was willing to stay with an illiterate girl. There is no cure!"

"It sounds like a negative teaching material?" Isaac asked with some uncertainty.

"That's right." Hugh's voice was a little schadenfreude, "Harvard, no one will be surprised that people from there will one day go to Mars to establish diplomatic relations with aliens. Compared with this, witnessing a person commit stupidity Interesting. A person who received a letter of admission at the age of 13, even now, is very rare, okay?"

"…" Isaac shook his head, "boring."

"You should interpret this as the pity of the onlookers, but it turns out that their point of view is not wrong." Hugh continued, "A 15-year-old, a 16-year-old, plus a baby, such a family of three will put I think you can guess what life is like, crying, quarreling, and finally turned into a tragedy..."

"What happened?" Isaac quickly recalled, "I remember it was written in the information that May left the father and son..." How did it become a tragedy?

"If the information is not true." Hugh was also surprised when he found out. After all, it is understandable that the two parties broke up and gave the child up for adoption, but the tragedy is another matter. "May had a big fight with her boyfriend, and then ran away in a fit of anger. During that time, a natural gas explosion occurred in her aunt's restaurant due to poor management. The couple in the restaurant were injured. In order to raise medical expenses, they put The restaurant was sold out, and May disappeared for a while. During that time, some people said that they saw the ambulance coming and going, and then, the neighbors of the house they rented never heard the baby cry again. .The young college student also moved out of there soon, and never appeared in that area again.”

"Do you know the name of May's boyfriend?" Isaac held out a little hope.

"It seems that there was a habit of substituting numbers in that era. I only found out that the person was called KC, and I'm not sure which abbreviation it is." Hugh also felt very tricky, "I plan to see if I can look it up in a while. Check out the alumni record, but if that person drops out..."

"Why didn't he just call him KFC?" Isaac rubbed his forehead, "Leave this line to me. If Emma really has an uncle alive, as long as he is not too bad, we don't need May."

"Then leave it to you." Hugh was also very happy to have someone share the burden for him, "I'm in charge of May's side. Although it can't be decisive, if you find a few more troubles, the court will automatically reduce May's side when considering guardians." side chips."

"She has a brothel?" Isaac thought of May's business.

"Of course, but in Nevada, it's a legal business. But for a girl's guardian, it's a real disadvantage." Hugh tapped the table with a ballpoint pen, "If you don't make progress there, all I have to do is Let’s magnify this disadvantage. To be honest, compared with May, Emma’s agent is much more reliable and responsible.”

On this point, Isaac agrees.Although the agent also gets a commission from Emma, ​​it's all within a reasonable range. With this commission, she takes care of Emma more than Mrs. Jully...

Isaac hung up the phone and sorted out the stack of documents that had been faxed.It was already dark, and he got up to turn on the light.

It's getting late, I don't know when Emma will wake up, Isaac decided to have a good chat with Emma at that time, what is he planning, but the center of this plan revolves around Emma, ​​he can't deprive the little girl of her knowledge right. Emma has grown up, she has her own ideas, and she needs to be respected as well.

Isaac thought so, walked to the door, and pressed the switch there.

The room became brighter, and as soon as Isaac turned around, he saw Emma standing at the door of the bedroom, listening for an unknown amount of time.

"Emma? When did you wake up?" Isaac just froze for a moment, then greeted.

"Is it true?" Emma looked completely transfixed.

"What?" He talked to Hugh a lot, not sure for a moment what Emma was asking.

"She also runs a brothel?!" Emma's voice became shrill.