Chapter 73 Knocking on the Door of Heaven
"Are you sure this thing can drive to Stanford, California? It's nearly 5,000 kilometers across the entire United States." Tommy Li painted various graffiti on the body of the car, and the original color of the Chevrolet Corvette could no longer be seen In front of the C2 sports car, asked Tony who was doing the final inspection at the front of the car with a somewhat uncertain tone.
Tony put down the hood and looked at Tommy: "You can trust my skills, Mr. Anderson said that I have already graduated."
"I'm not questioning you, I'm questioning this car. The stingray manufactured in 1963 is older than the two of us. I did look forward to driving across the United States alone, but I didn't expect to drive like this. A car." Tommy walked around the car twice, and said with some hesitation.
This car is a gift prepared by his family for him to go to college. According to Tony and Dad, a man should drive a high-powered sports car across the United States to arrive at his dream university to complete the report.
The idea is wild, but the problem is that this car was just a shell a month ago, and most of the parts were disassembled by Tony from other cars of the same model and slowly put together.
The old man helped Tommy put the bag into the trunk, put an old-fashioned shotgun in it, and told Tommy: "Don't play with it if you are not in trouble. If you are questioned by the police, say it is mine." Gun, forget to take it off, if you meet a jerk, take it, put the trigger two feet above the guy's head, believe me, 80% of the jerks will wet their pants and walk away with their heads in their hands."
"What about the other twenty percent?" Tommy asked.
"Not only wet your pants, but also the back door will fall." The old man said with certainty: "Every time you go to a city, remember to call home and let us know where you are."
"I will." Tommy patted the car and turned to look at his family.
Bethea rushed over and hugged Tommy: "Tommy, I will miss you."
"Me too, I will come back to see you during the holidays, and help you buy gifts from California." Tommy hugged Bethea and said with a smile: "Didn't you keep saying that I would buy you gifts from California? Then Gotta get me to California first."
At this time, Tony, Dad, Melonie, and Ashley also gathered around, ready to hug and bid farewell to Tommy. Young people say goodbye.
This year the Hawke family changed a lot. With the money Tommy earned, Dad brought Bethea back and opened a small shipbreaking yard by himself. Shipbreaking is actually manual labor, and the biggest input cost It is the cost of buying scrapped ships. My father worked part-time at the ship breaking yard before he lost his job. He is no stranger to this industry. The way to make money is nothing more than completely dismantling old ships that seem to have no maintenance value as a whole. , Steel, mechanical parts, cables, etc. are resold to scrap dealers, and other spare parts such as radio stations, light bulbs, etc. are sold in the second-hand market. Anyway, as the boss, Dad can barely return to his pre-unemployment income level. .
Tony has also graduated from the auto repair shop, but he does not plan to continue working in the auto repair shop. Now that Bethea has returned home, and his father has a stable job, he no longer needs to rush home with money, so he wants to Get a job at the Thompson Speedway tuning garage in Connecticut and try to learn how to fix tuned cars.
As for Aunt Melonie, who is now a teacher at Sinclair Elementary School, she hugged Tommy with some reluctance at this time: "Remember to call us and tell us if you are happy in California. Just remember to go home, your family will always be here."
"I will, Aunt." Tommy patted Melonie on the back and comforted her.
Ashley smiled and said to Tommy: "There must be many beautiful girls in California, let them see the charm of handsome guys on the east coast."
"Don't worry, although Tony asked me to take some photos of California girls and send them to him, I refused. You can always trust me, Ashley." Tommy said, hugging Ashley.
"F*ckYou! Tommy." Tony raised his **** beside him.
Dad took out a piece of paper and said to Tommy: "Son, before I say goodbye to you, I want to read this paper. The people on it have given you gifts."
As he spoke, Dad opened the paper and read, "Maureen, two dozen beers and a box of Trojans, Green, a dozen beers and two boxes of Trojans, Hull, two boxes of milk and two boxes of Trojans, Big Faith, ten Gallons of gas and two boxes of Trojan, Rogers... What the **** is Rogers? Only two tires? No Trojans? Doesn't he know that stuff eats up college students faster than food? If I'm a grandpa before I'm fifty, It's all Rogers' fault!"
"Tony said that this car needs two newer tires." Wilson added from the side: "So I'll go... I mean, Rogers gave Tommy two tires, and without his knowledge, He probably forgot to prepare Trojan."
Tommy shrugged: "I try to save as much as possible, Dad."
"Very good, I... very happy, Tommy, your mother is also very happy, the first college student in the Hawk family is going to California, but your father, your grandfather, and your grandfather's grandfather didn't **** go You are like the pioneers of this family, go and conquer the west, son!" Colin Hawke said, putting his arms around his son's shoulders.
Tommy also hugged his father: "I will."
There was a roar in the distance, and then a new black and red Dodge muscle sports car appeared on the side of the road. Dennis and Pam poked their heads out of the car window and looked at Tommy.
This new car was bought by Dennis with the money he earned, and now it is the most attractive car among young people in Warwick City, and countless girls are willing to sit in the co-pilot of that car.
"I heard that you are going to go on the road today, heading to California." Dennis said to Tommy wearing a pair of sunglasses, "Pam and I are going to accompany you on the last road in Rhode Island, buddy."
Tommy looked at his father, brother, sister, aunt and others, then tilted his head towards Dennis and Pam: "Get ready to follow my car and smell the exhaust."
After speaking, Tommy turned around and got into the car, started the car, and the stingray roared and rushed forward.
Dennis let out a roar and slammed down the gas pedal. The Dodge quickly caught up with Tommy's stingray, and the two cars drove side by side on the road.
As Dennis said, after driving out of Rhode Island, Dennis and Pam lowered the car window and looked at Tommy. Tommy also turned his head and smiled at the two of them.
"Happy college life! Stupid!" Dennis and Pam raised two middle fingers and cursed at Tommy, and then slowly slowed down the car.
Tommy held the steering wheel, looked at his companion who disappeared in the rearview mirror, and gently turned on the car audio.
The "Knock on Heaven's Door" recorded by Dennis immediately sounded in the car: "Come and wipe away those tears for me, I won't cry anymore, the sun is setting in the western sky, I feel like I'm knocking on the door of heaven..."
Under the sun, accompanied by singing, Tommy drove towards California.
(Volume II: Knocking on Heaven's Door)
The words at the end of the cursive: This is probably the most uncomfortable period of time for me. I am a sheep, and my family is a sheep. I wanted to use the second volume to write an absurd comedy, but the sudden high fever completely affected my state, and it directly changed from absurd to Fucking, and it’s a persistent effect, how should I put it, probably since the fever started, I feel my brain is broken, and I don’t know what to write when I sit in front of the computer every day.
The outline is right there. Normally, things can be written according to the expansion of the outline, but when I was sick, I couldn’t even do such a simple thing. I don’t know if I burned my head.
Even my daughter-in-law persuaded me to stop writing for a while and wait for my body to recover. I said no, I don’t want to stop coding now, I just want to keep updating and finish writing a book. I can write it slowly after the quality is poor. Xiu, but I know my own situation. If I stop, I will probably stop forever. I have to force myself to finish writing a book, starting from the first one. I don’t know how many words to write in this book. Maybe more than a million, maybe two million, but in any case, it should at least be a complete story.
The second volume will be like this. When I feel relaxed, I will overhaul it again, but I don’t have the mentality to touch this style in a short time.
The third volume is the story of college life and the protagonist’s entrepreneurship. It’s the first time I’ve written about the campus, and the first time I’ve written about serious entrepreneurship. Today, I chatted with my daughter-in-law. My daughter-in-law was shocked. She thought that a junior high school education didn’t even make it to the threshold of a Chinese university. People, actually want to write about American college life, which is more difficult than Pu Songling's writing about Liaozhai.
Thank you for your tolerance during this period of time. I will try my best to adjust my mentality and write a new story.
Welcome to Volume Three: My College Fraternity Days.
(end of this chapter)