FOE Family First Chapter 18 I have a plan
At five o'clock in the afternoon, a second-hand champagne-colored Chevrolet Chevette two-seater compact family sedan drove off Highway 95 and turned into Warwick.
The trunk door was wide open, with Tommy Hawke's bicycle inside. This forced Tommy, who was sitting in the passenger seat holding a bottle of cheap champagne, to turn his head every few minutes to see if his bicycle might have fallen off.
"So, what business are you going to do with 20,000 dollars?" Melonie asked, looking straight ahead, holding the steering wheel with one hand and turning off the car radio playing country folk songs with the other hand.
Tommy sat up straight and looked away. "The most important thing now is not business, but what to eat for dinner. I want to make a hearty dinner. Usually when I'm doing some housework that doesn't require any brainpower, I always have time to think about complicated problems."
"Like making up a plausible excuse?" Melonie asked, glancing at Tommy suspiciously.
Tommy Hawke exhaled, "No, I am thinking about how to deal with your ex-boyfriend and how to help you complete the induction process, but before these two issues, it is important to keep my hands busy and make a good dinner."
"Yeah, if lemon chicken breast and spaghetti bolognese are worthy of the word hearty, then you can indeed make a hearty dinner." Melonie smiled when she heard that Tommy Hawke was going to prepare a hearty dinner.
During the time this child rented his own apartment, he lived in a more miserable state than an Indian ascetic most of the time.
The daily schedule is roughly as follows: go to school, work part-time to earn money after school , buy cheap ingredients after work, go home to cook dinner and prepare lunch for the next day, and after dinner continue to review homework until late at night, and repeat the cycle over and over again.
Most of his dinners consisted of a plate of cheap pasta from Costco topped with black pepper meat sauce, a chicken breast and a few slices of lemon. Melonie could no longer tolerate the monotony of the food after eating it a few times. She would rather drink coffee with a few snacks than touch the dinner made by Tommy. She also advised Tommy Hawke to learn from her and buy some discounted desserts and cakes to make do, but Tommy Hawke refused. The reason he gave was that a dinner of coffee and snacks cost $1.2, while he only needed 50 cents to enjoy a dinner that provided vitamins from lemon, protein from chicken, and the rest from carbohydrates. Although the taste was a bit bad, it was nutritious.
So when Tommy Hawke mentioned dinner, the first thing Melonie thought of was the Italian black pepper bolognese sauce that made her stomach subconsciously cramp.
Tommy also laughed when he heard Melonie talking about his signature Bolognese. "I can not only make Bolognese, but I can also cook Chinese food very well. I just didn't have so much time to prepare it before."
"Did Sonny, the Chinese owner of the laundry, teach you?" Melonie asked casually. After all, the only possibility that Tommy had any connection with Chinese food before was that he worked part-time in a laundry run by a Chinese owner.
"I guess so." Tommy nodded.
"Okay, let's see what Chinese food you can make." Melonie drove to the parking lot of Costco supermarket. Tommy entered the supermarket and went straight to the cold and fresh area without even looking at the dazzling array of fruits and organic vegetables. He was already familiar with the placement and prices of the meat here. Chicken legs cost 21 cents a pound, chicken breasts cost 22 cents a pound, pork chops cost $1 a pound, pig's trotters cost 23 cents a pound, and fine steaks cost $2 a piece.
After buying some chicken and pork chops and some seasonings, which cost a total of seven dollars, Tommy Hawke returned to the apartment with Melanie, carrying the bags.
Tommy carried the ingredients into the kitchen and started cleaning. At the same time, he asked Melonie, who was not prepared to help at all, "Tell me about your ex-boyfriend, Aunt Melonie. Give me some ideas."
From Melonie, Tommy Hawke learned that her ex-boyfriend was named Hugh Spade, who currently works at Sinclair Elementary School in East Greenwich, Kent County. They met in college because they both liked the band Aerosmith and eventually fell in love.
The two spent some sweet time together, working part-time to save money for travel, such as going to Boston to watch the Aerosmith concert, and going to New York to watch the New York Dolls concert. After graduation, they had the same life goal, which was to obtain a teaching certificate and become public school teachers, working hard to be able to slack off all their lives.
Last year, Hugh Spade was the first to pass the teacher qualification exam, and then worked as a paid substitute teacher to gain some favor in major public schools in Rhode Island. During the interview, he received letters of recommendation from many elementary and middle school principals and was eventually hired by Sinclair Elementary School.
According to their agreement, Hugh Spade was supposed to continue living in the apartment left to her by her parents as her boyfriend, but he soon rented another apartment in East Greenwich, on the grounds that he was busy with his new job and Melanie needed to concentrate on preparing for the exam. However, after Melanie got her teaching certificate, she got a surprise. Not only did the bastard have an affair with another new female teacher at Sinclair Elementary School, he even got her pregnant.
Melanie had a big fight with the man and then broke up with him. She told the teacher that Hugh Spade was a scumbag, and the story should have ended here.
What is happening now is the sequel. Hugh Spade did not marry the teacher in the end, and the two broke up.
The only problem is that the teacher gave birth to a child, which was a bolt from the blue for Hugh Spade. As the biological father, this meant that he needed to pay child support to the teacher every month. While the teacher was enjoying maternity leave, birth subsidies, school salary and other benefits to raise the child, she could also get 40% of his monthly salary as child support. The life of a single mother was simply too comfortable.
Hugh Spade had no right to refuse payment. The Rhode Island Child Protection Agency had the right to deduct the money directly from his salary account, collect a handling fee, and then pay it to the teacher.
The weekly salary of $240 directly became $140 per week, which changed Hugh Spade's quality of life from a happy bachelor to a homeless person.
In the end, he blamed it all on the appearance of Melonie. If Melonie hadn't made a big fuss, the teacher wouldn't have broken up with him, and he wouldn't have fallen to such a state. So when he learned that Melonie was substituting for classes everywhere to prepare for interviews for admission, he found Melonie and asked her to pay him at least five hundred dollars before next week, otherwise the explosive photos of Melonie taken when they were dating before would appear in the offices of those school principals, and he would never be able to find a teaching job in Rhode Island in his lifetime.
But Melanie couldn't pay the five hundred dollars. She hadn't yet paid off her college loan, and she had to pay the property tax for the apartment. She could only make ends meet by running around teaching classes every day. Finally, out of desperation, Melanie plucked up the courage to work part-time at the club to make some quick money. As a result, the first customer on the first day of work was her tenant and nephew, Tommy Hawke.
Tommy Hawke served the dishes to the table while listening to Melonie's story. He then took off his apron and opened the champagne: "Dinner is ready. Next, let's talk about how to deal with Mr. Hugh Spade."
Melonie looked at the dishes on the table and exclaimed, " What else do you want to talk about when we have so much delicious food?"
Tommy Hawke handed Melonie a glass of champagne and said, imitating Dutch van der Linde's tone, "I have a plan."
