[Titanic] Where Your Heart Goes

Carl walked downstairs with doubts. His private house is not big, and there are only a few servants. The whole house has only two master bedrooms and four guest rooms. The first floor is occupied by the living room and kitchen. The so-called third floor is just an attic—there was no hiding place in Karl's house.Carl is not worried about being stolen. He never puts too many belongings at home. The real question is whether the maid Judy who stayed in the house just caught him making out with Jack.

Carl walked into the kitchen with low footsteps, and Judy leaned against the wall with a pale face. The moment she saw Carl, her body trembled violently, and she was terrified.Seeing Judy's appearance, Carl laughed instead, and said as if nothing had happened: "Judy, please help me bring a pot of black tea and a digestible dinner upstairs."

What fear is there in a maid who dares not run away?What's more, in order to hide the truth she discovered, Judy tried her best to tidy up the corridor on the second floor as if nothing happened-Judy herself was more afraid of discovering Carl's secret than anyone else.No one knows that in the current society where people of color are discriminated against, Judy has one-eighth Indian blood-if Carl denounces her, she will be sent back to the Indian colony.

Carl does not have the disadvantage of racial discrimination, but at this time he thanked the Americans for the most vicious behavior committed against Indians before, which can effectively deter Judy-the number of Indians killed by the US government is higher than that of Germans during World War II. Killing the Jews is five times more, but it is very well covered up, and few people notice this problem.

If Judy is willing to pretend that nothing happened, then Carl is willing to accept her pretending. Sometimes everyone pretending to be stupid together will only make life better. The maid whose relationship spread between Jack is simply too tough.

It didn't take long for Judy to bring the dinner upstairs. She seemed to believe that Carl hadn't noticed what she had discovered, and her face slowly returned to normal.Judy is well-trained to stand in the living room of the master bedroom and put every dinner on the table. The rare rice in America is boiled into porridge exuding natural fragrance, which is dotted with ham and mint leaves cut into small pieces.

Carl glanced at Judy with satisfaction, and at the same time made sure in his heart that his maid had indeed discovered the secret—otherwise, as an immigrant from Britain with strong democracy, Carl would hardly touch "rice porridge", a food full of oriental flavor .Carl thought about it for a while and decided that it would be better not to let Judy have the luxury of leaving at any time: "Judy, your salary will double from tomorrow, and you won't need to change jobs in your life. I don't think any other gentleman welcomes you." A half-breed woman who knows the master's secret, right?"

Judy Lianshan's newly recovered blood faded away again, and she stared at Carl with widened dark pupils, as if her mind was blank and she didn't know what to say to him.After a stick, Carl began to coax Judy with sweet honey, and he patted Judy's shoulder gently: "Judy, you don't have to be so frightened, I am not a person who discriminates against mixed races of color, and I I have always been very satisfied with your work, for example, the dinner is very good, and you have cleaned the corridor on the second floor very clean-for this reason, I have raised your salary, and you will never worry about losing your job for the rest of your life."

"Okay, you can come back to clean up the tableware at night." Carl waved his hand, and Judy left the room silently, but watching her walking posture, Carl was sure that his maid was no longer a dangerous problem.

"Jack, why did you run out? I was going to bring you dinner into the room." Seeing Jack who was holding on to the door frame and dawdling in small steps, Carl hurried forward to support him.

Jack got rid of Carl's support and laughed: "Maybe I'm used to it. Now it's not as painful as it was at the beginning, and my body recovered much faster afterwards. I don't have any problems now, I just need to walk slowly. Ah , there is porridge! It smells so good!"

"It's a bit hot, eat it slowly, um, and this is a relatively tender fish, steamed with cheese, you can eat some to supplement protein~" Carl stuck to Jack, and his voice revealed a wretched taste: " After all, you have shot so many times, you should make up for it."

Jack is used to being teased by Karl all the time. Although he has experienced it once or twice, the hardships of life weigh on him.Jack has no material conditions to maintain a long-term and stable intimate relationship with a woman who desires a stable life. Poor technology is a normal thing, and Jack is not very good at controlling his body.

Carl is already a veteran - even the original owner of this body has learned this early - how Carl wants to toss Jack, Jack can only surrender on the bed, he is a straightforward person and doesn't care much about up and down Problem - Although Jack has always harbored a dream that one day he will overwhelm Carl in turn, he has hardly acted.

"Carl, do you have any special things to do when you go to Dakota? If it's just to send me off, don't go. I heard from Mrs. Brown that the environment there is not very good-except for the large tracts of cotton, the land is only What's left is the scattered mines that have been mined. I don't think you will like the scenery there, and you rarely go out when you are in Pittsburgh." Jack put a large piece of fish into his mouth, squinted his eyes and let out a sigh of relief. enjoyment expression.

Carl reached out his hand to wipe off the sauce on the corner of his mouth and replied: "Actually, I don't want to go either, but I am very interested in Mrs. Brown's gold mine. When you are in Europe, I can't go to visit you, I originally I also have some investments in the UK, Germany, France and Italy, and I can go there even if I go on vacation, so I don’t feel the pain of our parting very strongly.”

"Gold mines? Are you still interested in this? I thought you only liked dollar bills." Jack teased. The documents Carl usually brings home never shy away from Jack. He has long been used to the strings of "0"s on them.

"Dear Jack, I think I should give you a general education. I can make dollars because I can sell the goods I produce, but you see, the second industrial revolution is almost completed in many countries , The whole of Europe has constant friction, so I can sell the products produced to Europe more quickly. They are preparing military supplies. But what if they stop fighting, or finish fighting? Who will buy the mass-produced things? The materials in the hands of every merchant will be squeezed into piles, so banknotes will depreciate at that time, depreciation worldwide-only gold remains unchanged. Therefore, I need to slowly and without trace change all the banknotes into Save the gold." Carl said with a nonchalant smile.

In fact, most merchants are fond of war, and only when they consume a large amount of their goods can they be sold well; otherwise, what other activities in developed areas can cause the goods to be consumed in large quantities?

"What if there is no war? Will your factory go bankrupt?" Jack became more curious about this, and Carl tried to explain it as simply as possible after thinking about it.

"It's just a matter of supply and demand. As a boss, I am of course willing to let workers do more work and pay less money. Over time, there will be more goods, but they can only buy fewer things, and the extra things will naturally disappear." People are needed. If the backlog is in the warehouse for one more day, I will lose money. When all the bosses lose money, the entire economy will collapse. The bosses can’t pay wages, so they can only fire workers, so the next is a vicious circle ——The so-called economic crisis, the United States has already experienced it in 1860.

After a while—no one knows how long—the economic order will be re-established until it collapses again, and the cycle repeats, and none of us can stop it. Carl finally concluded, he looked at the confused expression on Jack's face and smiled, Carl suddenly kissed Jack's lips and warned loudly: "Don't mention communism, the American order is based on private ownership, if you If you dare to do this, Congress will directly murder you. "

"Communism? What's that?" Jack had never heard of it, and he looked into Carl's eyes curiously, and Carl suddenly felt like he was digging his own grave - very unpleasant.

"No, you don't need to know, Jack. I think this is something we will never be exposed to in our lifetime." Carl waved his hand and rejected Jack's question with a smile, and Jack didn't continue to ask this question any more.

"After dinner, shall we go for a walk? Macy's already has a part of me. Before you go to Germany, let me, the fiancee, prepare you a big box of clothes for a single artist who doesn't like to do laundry. Clothes." Carl said with a smile, the title "fiancee" is really full of fun for him.

Jack obediently speeded up his meal. Only when the two of them were together, eating was always enjoyed, not an activity restrained by etiquette.Watching Jack boldly pour the whole bowl of porridge into his stomach, Carl also dropped the knife and fork in his hand, and directly stuffed the last piece of beef into his mouth and began to chew boldly.

Jack looked at Carl and laughed, and Carl showed a smirk, and deliberately leaned forward and hugged Jack's neck so that he couldn't escape, rubbing the sauce on his mouth all over Jack's face.

After playing and cleaning themselves up together, Carl personally drove Jack to Hai Nuo's Plaza. The flagship store of Macy's department store has not yet been built, and what appeared in front of Carl's eyes was just a department store with a luxurious appearance, but, It currently only serves nobles.

Although Carl is not a famous artist, the clothes he chooses for Jack are based on the standards of comfort, activity, and of course, the most important thing is that they are easy to wash.The heir to the Hawley family, the first time someone misunderstood him as a butler was from the saleswomen of Macy's department store... Carl smiled indifferently, and he took the initiative to step back half a step behind Jack, imitating Lai Fujie's gesture of respect Keep everything close at hand.

As soon as he got back in the car, Jack laughed out loud. Carl pressed him on the seat and kissed him wantonly, and then said with a frightening look, "Do you want to experience the novelty of being in the car?"

If Carl hadn't parked the car in a dark corner, he would not have dared to kiss Jack, but now this dark corner belongs to the two of them.Jack stopped laughing and looked into Carl's eyes intently. He put his arms around Carl's neck and kissed his lips comfortingly: "Let's go home, we still have to take the train tomorrow."

Carl started the car and muttered softly, "Actually, it would be nice to do it on the train..."

Jack watched Carl's lips move, but he couldn't hear what Carl was saying clearly. When Jack turned his head to look at Carl, he only got Carl's perfect smile.In this regard, Jack can only let go of his curiosity. He has never got an answer to what Carl didn't want to say.

When I got home, I packed my luggage myself. Carl and Jack lay on the same bed and hugged each other. Before Carl fell asleep, Jack said softly: "Thank you, Carl, I can guess that you are the one who funded my study in Germany. I will not Hypocritically rejecting the opportunity you created for me, five years later I will become someone who can stand side by side with you in the upper class.”

Carl hugged Jack in his arms with his eyes closed, and he lazily kissed Jack's forehead with a vague voice: "Don't always say things you can definitely do, go to sleep."

Jack fell into sleep with a smile on the corner of his mouth. After he fell asleep, Carl opened his eyes. His fingertips reluctantly rubbed the skin of Jack's neck. Carl sighed silently, pressed his lips against Jack's forehead, and slowly closed his eyes. Eye.

Early the next morning, the driver put Carl and Jack on the train to Dakota, and there were even newly married Mr. Andrew and Miss Rose with them.Married life has brought Mr. Andrew back to life very well, the investigation of the Titanic shipwreck has ended, Mr. Andrew's reputation has been restored, and he is a talented designer again.

Mr. Lawrence seemed to have nothing happened yesterday, and he warmly greeted all the people present to board the train - the box belonging to the nobles.Almost a carriage belonged to them alone. Mrs. Brown was already sitting in the carriage, and she called her maid to help arrange the carriage.Soon, a long table was placed in the center of the carriage, covered with a tablecloth with intricate patterns.

Hearing the voices of Carl and others, Mrs. Brown greeted her with a smile on her face: "Hi, children, you are all here, take a seat."

Jack looked around curiously, and then laughed: "I can't believe I just came back to New York from Pennsylvania the day before yesterday, and now I'm heading to Dakota."

"Did your painting be finished in Pennsylvania, Jack?" Miss Rose's eyes widened curiously, and she smiled embarrassedly: "I saw that the paint was just dry, so I guess you probably just finished painting Yeah, Hawley's steel mill happens to be in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, so...sorry, I'm getting a little excited."

"Oh, that's right! Rose likes that painting very much, so she changed her French honeymoon to first follow me to the mine to see what the workers are really like, and then go around the world. Thomas really Love you, oh, my husband James is so boring, he likes to watch the gold mine calculate how much gold he earns every day.” Mrs. Brown complained but smiled happily on her face, if women in this era don’t The husband's support could not have given Mrs. Brown so much freedom.

"I thought I'd see Ms. Celine. Didn't she always go with you?" Carl interrupted the topic naturally. He sat beside Jack in a regular manner, maintaining the demeanor of a close friend rather than a lover.

"She has already gone to Germany, I decided to take you from my house to the mine for a tour, and then go to Germany." Mrs. Brown smiled heartily. She looked a lot thinner than when the Titanic sank. Circle: "Children, look forward to your journey. Being with me will not have the vulgarity of the past!"

Volume III Xintiandi