Chapter 78 (1/2)
Club, Ben arranged the last thing and went home from work with his bag.
At night, tramps walk out of dark alleys and roam around the streets. Their favorite dishes are the sewage cans in the back kitchen of restaurants, garbage cans in the streets, and swill buckets in hotels.
Those perishable food is the guarantee of their lives!
The road was also quiet. Except for the occasional tram, Ben was the only one leaving quickly.
Every time his car passed by, tramps would turn their heads and stare at his car, with greed and resentment in their eyes.
If it wasn't for two bodyguards in the car, Ben would never have dared to go home after dark.
The hungry tramp would rush up and overturn his car, tear him alive before the police arrived, and then snatch anything valuable from him.
”Hoo...” After that terrible block, Ben breathed his breath.
Two blocks further on is nanqile street. The people who can still live here are middle-class or powerful people. The public order is much better than other places.
It's not just a rich neighborhood, it's also a federal building, and that's why it's one of the best policed areas in Chicago.
The number of tramps on both sides of the street is becoming less and less. They wear cheap suits and keep a clean and tidy appearance.
Most of them looked haggard and lost, but there was no greed and madness of those tramps before. When looking at the passing vehicles, most of the eyes were recollection and regret.
Most of the vagrants who can stay here are once middle-class or powerful people. Bankruptcy makes them lose their houses, but the government does not drive them out of the block.
Good family education and inheritance of the quality, so that most of them even in the face of bankruptcy, but also can maintain a rational and optimistic.
William also does not want to force these people to have no way out. When the economy recovers, with knowledge and experience, they will soon be able to live a bright life. The strength of the United States needs them.
And this rule has been approved by several neighborhoods nearby. Most of these homeless people who have gone bankrupt are their former colleagues, neighbors, friends and even family members.
Although their families are not well-off now, this does not prevent them from providing them with some trivial help.
For example, staying in a safe block with a small amount of food and water, occasionally providing them with hot water for cleaning, and sleeping on a soft sofa next to a warm fireplace.
”Wait a minute.” Ben is casually looking out of the window, suddenly swept a familiar figure in the corner of his eye, and quickly let the driver stop the car.
Squeak ~ ~
the screeching sound of the brakes was harsh. The wandering tramps raised their heads and looked forward to the car, thinking, ”is there another lucky one?”
Rush was wearing torn trousers, the wound on his knee had just scabbed, and his suit, once worth $1000, had been torn into strips and was walking forward in a daze.
”Rush!” Ben jumped out of the car and ran toward the unkempt rush Jeff. The co pilot's bodyguard rushed to follow.
The driver opened the door, put the Chicago typewriter rack on the roof, and looked around with warning eyes, as if to say, ”don't mess.”
”Rush, you...” Ben looked at the former colleague and friend and couldn't imagine that rush, who was once so high spirited and valuable, would become like this.
Rush, with a funny smile, raised his hand numbly and said, ”Hi, Ben.”
“…… Hi, rush Ben put his arms around him and didn't mind that his suit would be stained by the dirt on his body.
”Come home with me, go.” Ben pulled rush into the car: ”go home.”
When rush hesitated on the expensive carpet and sat on the sofa with a red complexion, Ben began to ask him where he was going after he received the hot tea from Joanna.
”You're right, Ben. I was blinded by greed. The disaster left me destitute. My work, house and car were all used to fill the vacancy.
Mary returned to England with her children. After our divorce, she took away the only savings in our family. Sobbing...”
With hot tea in his hands, rush buried his head between his legs, and his shoulders heaved, sobbing like a cold winter wind.
The temperature across the teacup was the first warmth he felt in two months.
Joanna Yi was on her husband's shoulder, her eyes glowing red, looking at the poor man, unemployed, bankrupt, once a good life collapsed in an instant.
At this time, the wife chose to divorce and leave the United States with her children.
Oh, my God, this is so unfortunate
”Rush, I think I can offer you a job.” Ben thought again and again, but he still felt that he should do so.
There is no doubt about rush's talent. Before the stock market crash, the wealth he was responsible for was as high as $6 million, including some famous investors.
It's not his fault to fall into this way. Investors, economists and rich businessmen who are more famous than him have been looted by this disaster.
Not everyone has the prediction ability of boss almost becoming a demon. Even if he was aware of the crisis, he did not dare to imagine that this disaster would evolve into a global financial crisis.If it wasn't for Li Zitao, his best end now would be to be unemployed at home and live on his savings carefully.
As the disaster spread and moved on, he could only move away from here like his neighbors to live in the suburbs with poor public security, reduce expenses and strive to survive the cold winter.
”Ben.” Rush raised his head excitedly and wiped his eyes hard: ”are you serious?”
”Of course, would I make a joke of it?” I spread my hands and said with a smile.
”Yes, but I...” Rush's face turned red, and he didn't know how to go on thinking that he had mocked Ben as old-fashioned as his grandfather.
”Rush, I hired you because of your ability. It has nothing to do with anything else. After all, I need to be responsible for the boss.” Ben looked at him sincerely.