Chapter 259: A family and going home for a monthly pass) 4600 words together
If this kind of gangster had been left in the past, Portman wouldn't have had to go to such trouble and just kill him. At that time, they all had murder licenses, and their job was to kill. A mere gangster selling drugs died.
If they die, no one will trouble them because of this.
But it's different now. They have retired and are civilians. That's why Portman didn't stab him in the neck with a dagger. He just kneed him in the crotch, making the guy roll around on the ground holding his balls.
Kai looked at a group of gangsters looking at Portman with hatred and fear, and shook his head. After leaving the army, he was really uncomfortable with the scene in front of him. "Call the police. We are all civilians now, so don't be too nervous."
Too much."
The United States is a society governed by the rule of law, at least on the surface. They have no law enforcement power. Even if these bastards are really beaten into trouble, they will still be held criminally responsible. The United States is no better than China. In China, they do laundry like the one just mentioned.
'It is enough to impose a sentence of fifteen years in prison, life imprisonment or death, and confiscation of property. But it is not that serious here, because this fact is too common.
Although the United States may not have the largest number of places producing and manufacturing drugs, it certainly has the most drugs shipped to the United States in the world. According to a large amount of data, nearly 70% of the drugs produced in other countries around the world are shipped to the United States.
Yes, it can be said that the United States is the number one drug consuming country in the world.
According to statistics that I don’t know where to come from, one in ten Americans is a drug addict. Especially among young people, the proportion of taking illegal drugs is particularly high.
The reason is that the United States does not strictly regulate various illegal drugs. Therefore, the maximum sentencing for these guys is only one or two years, which is still too much. According to the sentencing level, they only committed minor crimes. If they are seriously injured,
The police and prosecutors would still find trouble for Portman, so they simply turned their backs on him, taught him a lesson, and handed it over to the police.
Saji also understood this truth. He glared at his sister fiercely, and then asked his friend to call the police.
At this time, Saji's parents also rushed over. Seeing the mess on the ground and the gangsters lying on the ground, the veteran immediately understood what was going on.
He roared angrily at his daughter.
"I warned you a long time ago that you are not allowed to bring these scum into my house! Angel! You must pay for your actions! Now go upstairs, you are in solitary confinement!" This veteran is a typical example.
Old-fashioned, he does not accept the so-called popularity of today's young people.
"Dad, you can't do this! I have grown up and I have my own freedom!" Angel is also a sixteen-year-old girl. She cannot accept that her father will embarrass herself in front of her friends. And she is an American.
They all like to talk about freedom at every turn.
"Let's wait until you are eighteen! You are not qualified to talk about freedom now. Go upstairs! Immediately!" Although the veteran is also used to his children's independence, that happens after they turn eighteen.
"You are unreasonable!" Although Angel was angry, she did not dare to really stand up to resist. Although the veteran was not irritable, everyone knew his stubborn personality.
So she could only struggle to the death, and then go upstairs obediently under the angry eyes of the old man. Her friends, seeing this situation, immediately wanted to run away. Kai had no interest in embarrassing those girls who were sixteen or seventeen. But those who looked at
It's not that easy for a gangster who doesn't look like a good person to escape.
Just when a gangster wanted to leave, he was tripped and fell to the ground.
"You wait for the police to come."
A few gangsters, perhaps with a strong desire to survive, actually planned to rush out. However, before others could react, they saw a few gangsters flying back, clutching their stomachs and screaming.
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After restraining a few gangsters, Saji's father apologized to Kai. He didn't expect that an ordinary barbecue party would turn into this.
But Saji couldn't help it.
"What's going on with these people? I remember the town wasn't like this before!"
Although Jiade Town is not considered poor, it is located in a remote area and the folk customs are relatively simple. Saji has never seen a group of young people gathering to take drugs before. In fact, compared to big cities, Jiade Town is considered a very conservative place. People here are very conservative.
The acceptance of drug use is not high.
These words made his father and neighbor friends feel depressed. In fact, they didn't plan to talk about it today. After all, Saji only came back after a few years away from home. If there is any nonsense, he has to leave it to later.
.But now...
"Guade Town...is no longer the same Guard Town it used to be."
So he told Saji and the others about the changes in Jiade Town in the past few years.
It turns out that five years ago, a wealthy businessman came to Jiade Town and planned to invest in Jiade Town. To be honest, this kind of thing is rare in Jiade Town for a hundred years. What does Jiade Town have? Apart from beautiful mountains and clear waters, there is basically nothing. So...
At first, people just watched the fun and didn't take it seriously.
But then things changed. First, there was a lot of construction in the town, and an entertainment city and several hotels began to be built. Then the wealthy businessman found the local aborigines and opened a casino in partnership with them. Porn, gambling and drugs, these three things are very important
If there is less family separation and more gambling, the other two things will naturally not be far away.
Then the atmosphere in the town changed. People began to indulge in gambling, and the dirty prostitutes and illegal drugs outside began to spread in the town. Not to mention, the wealthy businessman also began to vigorously crack down on local businesses, destroying many local businesses.
Merchants go bankrupt and then buy them at low prices.
Most of the white people in Minnesota are from Scandinavia. They are typical Nordic people. They are extremely tough and tough. Of course they refused to do it, so they had a conflict with the rich businessman. As a result, the rich businessman had many thugs under his command, who used them openly and covertly.
The violent methods left some opponents dead or injured, and the town was completely reduced to the private residence of the wealthy businessman.
By now, almost everyone understands what kind of wealthy businessman that guy is, and he is obviously a gangster.
"So...there's no one to care about him?"
Sage found it incredible that a gangster could actually take charge of a small town. This was really ridiculous to Sage. Did he think the United States was Mexico? Can he tolerate those criminals?
"Care? Who cares? Those policemen have been bribed, and the mayor has also started doing business with him. Who dares to care?"
In fact, many things in the world are the same. Don't think that the United States is really a paradise. The officials there are as clean as water. People who think so are either cents or pure fools. Collusion between officials and businessmen is a world-wide problem.
It can be found everywhere on the Internet, and it is certainly not unusual in the United States. It’s just that Saji didn’t expect that this guy would act so openly, and he didn’t even bother to cover it up.
"Sigh... In fact, even if these bastards are handed over to the police, it won't be long before they come out." Saji's father sighed and said helplessly.
And at this moment, the police also came.
These police officers were very dissatisfied with this call. They even told the Saji family very clearly not to cause trouble. This made Meatball, who was eating, very unhappy. Is this what the police should say?
When the police saw Meatball, Kai, Portman and Sage standing there, they knew that they were all retired soldiers, so they ignored Meatball's displeasure. They simply took the man away.
Gangsters, including those with drugs.
But what puzzled Kai was that the police did not take them away.
This is not because Kay has any masochistic tendencies, but according to the formal procedures, at least Portman and the buddy who called the police must go to the police station. Whether it is to explain the situation or to record a confession, the person involved and the caller need to describe the situation.
But these policemen, firstly, without asking about the situation, and secondly, without taking them to the police station, just walked away with a few gangsters.
"Isn't this... too obvious?" Kai was shocked. These bastards didn't even bother to cover up.
Saji was even more angry. These grandsons came to his house to harm his sister. It turned out that they were a family of policemen and criminals.
"Alas..." Seeing this situation, the locals sighed and stopped talking.
The barbecue banquet just ended like this.
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Kai and his party of four stayed overnight at Sage's house, and the next day they set off together to Kai's hometown, no, it should be Adam's hometown.
Adam's family situation is much better than others. Although his father is missing and his mother is dead, he has a lot of property left to him. The Milligan family is also quite famous in the local area.
The family, in Adam’s grandfather’s generation, immigrated here from England.
His maternal grandfather was a surgeon, and his maternal grandmother was the daughter of a British nobleman. Although she did not inherit a title, she was of aristocratic descent. When she immigrated here, she also brought a lot of family property. In Adam's mother's generation,
Although it has declined a bit, the family fortune is still substantial.
Take real estate for example. His mother left Adam three buildings, two farms and an old house, but not much cash. They all paid taxes.
So in fact, Kai is quite rich. Of course, this doesn't matter to Kai. He doesn't take this money seriously at all.
But it was different for Saji and his group.
When they walked into Kai's old house, they were immediately stunned.
Big, so big!
This is a manor! And it is deep in the wealthy area, with a forest and a lake on the side. The building of the manor is a typical British building, grand and full of classical style. The main building is 4 stories high, with large and small
It has forty-five rooms, twenty-five bedrooms, six halls, fifteen fireplaces, four kitchens, thirteen bathrooms, and covers an area of about fourteen acres.
The price of this manor alone is almost millions of dollars. This is because Wyndham is only a small city. If placed in some more prosperous areas, the price of this kind of classic manor would definitely exceed tens of millions of dollars.
The only drawback is that there aren't many people here.
There was no way. By the time Adam's mother arrived, the family was already in dire straits. When Adam's mother passed away, the inheritance tax and house and land tax alone would be enough to turn Adam into a negative asset.
Here I want to talk about some tax laws in the United States. The first is the inheritance tax. The inheritance tax in the United States is very confusing. In the United States, the inheritance tax is levied starting from one million U.S. dollars, and the levy percentage is 18%-50%. It is even more misleading.
Yes, the inheritance here is based on all inheritances, including real estate!
The three buildings, two farms and this manor alone were worth more than 20 million, calculated at 50%... In order to preserve these ancestral properties, Adam took almost all of her mother's cash, stocks, and funds.
I went to pay taxes and also paid a series of loans.
Not to mention, the house and land tax in the United States is also very confusing. The property tax in most states in the United States is collected in proportion to the value of the house and land, and it is collected every year, so it goes with the market!
For example, take New York as an example. The average tax rate in New York is 2.2%. A house with an annual payment of $250,000 will need to pay about $5,500 in taxes every year. This is equivalent to a house with a price of 1.6 million yuan and an annual tax of 34,650 yuan. And those owned by Kai
Real estate... costs hundreds of thousands a year!
So don’t envy those so-called permanent property rights in foreign countries. China’s 70-year property rights are so good. You don’t have to pay taxes every year, and you can renew them when they expire. It doesn’t cost much. It’s not like the United States. If you can’t pay taxes, then
Just wait to be kicked out of your own house!
Although other real estate properties except the manor have yields, generally speaking, they still cannot make ends meet. The main reason is that the manor is too complicated. It not only needs to pay taxes, but also requires maintenance. The annual cost of maintaining such a manor is hundreds of thousands.
Calculating this, the biggest reason why Adam didn’t go to college was actually not because of anything else, but entirely because of poverty...
He owed millions to the bank just after he entered college, so he had no choice but to join the army. At least he could afford the interest by joining the army, right? This is also due to the environment in which Adam grew up. Adam was not a cheerful child.
He was overprotected by his mother, and he was a bit like a carefree young man. As a result, he ended up being a useless scholar with no great abilities. Otherwise, he would not have gone to join the army just to escape.
If this trend continues, the Milligan family will eventually decline. After inheriting everything from Adam, Kay naturally needs to do something for him, so he helps him pay off his loan and spends a large amount of money every year.
Maintain the estate.
Despite the splendid appearance of the manor now, in fact, in the hands of Adam and his mother, the maintenance of the manor has become a problem. If Kai had not provided the money, perhaps the manor that Saji and the others would have seen would only be a dilapidated scene.
Money has never been a big deal to Kai.
"Farke! Farke! Farke!" Portman was holding the champagne brought by the maid and kept swearing in his mouth.
He was shocked. He had never known that Kai was so rich. In fact, Kai had never said anything about it. Kai rarely talked about his personal affairs with other people. Firstly, it was because it was not necessary. Secondly, this thing was actually
It belongs to Adam, he just occupies it, it is not something worth boasting about, and this thing is not worthy of his boasting.
Kai curled his lips at Portman's dirty words and didn't say much. Few soldiers like them who are killing people and setting fires on the front line are qualified. Besides, the army never promotes quality or lack of quality.
As a soldier, you only need to obey orders and follow instructions, and if you can fight, that's it. Everything else is just trivial matters.
Kai asked all the maids to go down. It was too rude to save Portman and Meatball from staring at other people's breasts and butts. Those maids were from the housekeeping company, not hired by Kai himself. Kai had always
They all handed over the management of the manor to a housekeeping company. To put it bluntly, these maids are all serious workers. It would be very troublesome if they were accused of sexual harassment by these maids.
"Okay, get your eyes out of those girls' asses! We need to talk."
"What to talk about?"
"In the future! Are you just going to eat like this and wait to die?"
Portman actually felt that there was nothing wrong with waiting to die like this, but after thinking about it, he also knew that this was all Kai's and had nothing to do with him. So he withdrew his lewd eyes and looked at Kai.
"I don't know. Anyway, whatever you plan to do, I will do it. In short, there is only one request, I want to live here! I won't go anywhere!" Portman is very single. He knows what kind of virtue he is. If Kai is gone,
He himself didn't know what kind of virtue it would become if he restrained himself. Instead of doing this, he might as well follow Kai. Anyway, he knew that Kai would not ignore him.
It doesn't matter if he's a meatball, he's more of a bachelor than Portman.
Saji, on the other hand, frowned and seemed to have some ideas.
