David made a pause gesture: "Are you too sensitive? It's okay, it's just an ordinary phone call!"
Rose crossed her arms, gave a disdainful smile, and raised her head slightly: "You know where I work, right?"
"Uh... what do you want to say?" David originally wanted to answer this question directly, but after taking a look at his son and daughter who were staring at him next to him, he subconsciously concealed the less elegant vocabulary.
"My daily job is to meet men, watch them talk, listen to their stories, and find ways to take money out of these guys' pockets. Man, to be blunt, I hear more lies in a day than you have told in your entire life."
There are so many lies. Do you think you can deceive me?"
Rose said with certainty: "You are lying!"
Kate nodded in agreement: "Yes, and you are not very good at lying. Your expression is simply terrible! When you are talking, you are staring straight at people. Don't you know that this is a sign of lying?"
Kenny was shocked: "Is that so?"
"Of course! If you don't believe me, think about how you behave when you lie!" Kate snorted.
Kenny lowered his head and thought for a moment, then stopped talking.
Rose and Kate are still dating David, tonight's express delivery, and the sudden phone call, all made the two of them feel inexplicably uneasy, and they want to know the answer.
David was in a stalemate for a few seconds. Seeing that the two women were very insistent, David could only sigh.
"Okay, I admit it, I won't lie, otherwise the ordinary hemp leaf business wouldn't have been in business for so many years, and you would be at the bottom!"
"David, let's get to the point. No one wants to hear your boring struggle history. It's not inspiring at all, okay?"
"Okay, okay!" David raised his hands in surrender: "The call was from a stranger. I don't know who he is, but he knows our situation!"
"What's going on?" Rose asked hurriedly.
"He knew that there were two hemp leaves hidden in our RV, and he knew who the real owner of the hemp leaves was, and reminded me that those vicious Mexicans had already taken action and might find us at any time!"
When he said this, David suddenly rubbed his face. Although he had always been calm before, he was still a little panicked after hearing such breaking news.
After all, as an ordinary hemp leaf vendor and more or less an insider, he knew very well how ruthless those wholesalers were.
Sometimes he would dare to kill mayors and judges in order to seize territory. Several police-robber wars every year were just a common occurrence. Low-class people like him might be shot dead if caught.
"Wait a minute, what does the real owner of the hemp leaves mean? Aren't we just engaged in transportation?" Rose instinctively felt that something was wrong.
Kate's face changed slightly: "Don't tell me, these two hemp leaves were actually stolen by us?"
David pointed at Kate with his index finger, nodded and said, "You're right, that's the general situation!"
"Then what happened to your boss... Oh no, your boss is the mastermind. He just wanted to use you as a gunman, but you idiot made us anxious as a cover, so we are accomplices now!"
After all, Rose is also a scene person, and she knows quite a lot about various things on the road.
Although David did not make it completely clear, this vague explanation allowed Rose to quickly grasp the key points and find the correct answer.
As soon as these words came out, both Kate and Kenny looked unhappy.
Strictly speaking, they are still minors, although one of them is unwilling to settle for mediocrity and thinks about a vigorous life all day long, enjoying the passionate youth of young people.
The other is a rebellious girl who ran away from home for various reasons and would rather wander than return to that home.
However, even so, they don't want to lose their lives for no reason.
Rose was obviously much calmer, but the eyes staring closely at David still contained the anger coming from the bottom of his heart.
David lowered his head and said more or less innocently: "Don't be nervous. We haven't had time to verify this matter yet, and we don't know whether it is true or not. You can't let others play and applaud you just based on a phone call, right?"
David tried to comfort them, but Rose heard a special word.
"What do you mean by playing around?" Rose's eyes widened and her voice raised an octave: "You still have something to hide from us?"
"No, no! It's just that I haven't finished speaking yet!"
David waved his hand quickly.
It's not because of fear, well, it's also because of fear. It's just that I'm not only afraid that they will walk away and leave me here, but I'm also afraid that the other two families will hear my voice if it's too loud.
After all, their family is not real, and they also carry the title of transport criminals.
"The person on the phone gave me two options. One is to pretend not to know anything and continue driving, but the destination has to be changed. Instead of going back to Chicago, we will go directly to New York!"
"He wants to take advantage of others?" Rose was alert.
David nodded: "The second option is for us to dump our cars and goods here, disband on the spot, and hide our names from now on, avoiding the pursuit of both the Mexicans and my boss!"
"That doesn't sound like a choice!" Kenny couldn't help complaining.
Kate glared at her brother fiercely. I heard that at such a critical moment, what did you say?
Kenny quickly made a gesture of surrender, indicating that he would not interrupt anymore.
Rose frowned: "If we hand the hemp leaves to this person, will he promise our safety?" "He promised, but do you dare to believe it?" David asked back.
The room suddenly became quiet.
Everyone found a place to sit down and thought about their own thoughts.
No one said anything for a while, and Kenny raised his hand cautiously.
David glanced at him and said nothing, while Kate rolled her eyes and turned in another direction.
Finally, Rose said impatiently: "Kenny, this is not a classroom. You don't need to raise your hands to speak. What do you want to say?"
"Oh, sorry!" Kenny was also reprimanded, somewhat uneasy: "I want to say, David also said just now, this is just one side of the words of the person on the phone. Before confirming that the information is correct, should the employer make a call?
Telephone?"
The three people looked at Kenny together, looking at him a little uncomfortable: "What's wrong? Did you say something wrong?"
Kate slapped him on the shoulder: "Yes, you caught the point!"
Rose also nodded, then looked at David.
"Do you want to wait until after eight o'clock tomorrow morning? Or are you talking about working days?"
David said: "Okay, okay, I'll make a call right now!" As he said that, he took out the phone.
