In this era where information is basically communicated face to face, it is not difficult to find someone, especially if the other person does not deliberately avoid it.
Carmen just said that she was an intern reporter for the newspaper and needed to let the citizens know about the sailors' situation, so she received a hero's welcome in the dock area.
Now is the era of the Great Depression, and nothing is easy to do. When factories lose business, they will lay off employees. After employees are laid off, consumption will decrease. Once consumption decreases, stores will close down. After stores close down, the factory's supply volume will be reduced.
This triggers a vicious cycle.
Most of the ships at the dock are transporting raw materials to factories or transporting goods to stores. Without these two industry pillars, the shipping industry has also ushered in its own winter.
A large number of unemployed sailors and refugees crowded on the pier. Whenever a ship came over, groups of sailors would gather around and ask if they needed crew members.
Most of them will not be selected and will just wander the docks like ghosts. All they need is a glass of the cheapest beer and a piece of toast, and they will answer all your questions.
They just found two sailors, and soon Carmen asked who the person she was looking for was.
David Bailey, a legendary old sailor, was the second mate on a warship when he was young. He drove the warship and defeated many notorious pirates.
After retiring due to injury, Bailey worked as a captain for a marine company and was very famous among sailors in the dock area. Many people knew that he had a collecting habit.
With the address she got, Carmen easily found a thatched house on the beach, where the Old Bailey lived.
Logically speaking, based on the experience of the Old Bailey, even if you are not rich and powerful, you will at least be no worse than the middle class.
But in fact, the residence at the Old Bailey was so shabby that Carmen, who was used to seeing shabby places, even wondered if she had come to the wrong place.
Dong dong dong...
After glancing at the dried salted fish hanging outside, Carmen knocked on the door.
"Ahem, cough, who is it?"
Accompanied by a cough, an old man with gray hair and a cane opened the door.
Seeing Carmen standing outside the door, the old man held a pipe in his mouth and asked: "Young man, who are you looking for?"
"I came to see you, Mr. Bailey."
Carmen raised the bread and cheese she was carrying and said softly: "Am I welcome to come in and sit down?"
"come in."
Old Bailey limped inside with a cane.
Carmen followed him into the house, and after entering, he realized that this place was better than he thought.
The room is filled with shelves, and there are many old objects on large and small shelves.
None of the things on the shelves were modern. Carmen even saw a bust of Poseidon from the corner.
"This is it!"
In the corner of the shelf, Carmen saw what she was looking for, an oval-shaped badge the size of a fruit core.
On the front of the badge, there is a lifelike wolf head carved on it. With just one glance, Carmen knew that this was what he was looking for.
"do not move..."
Carmen was just about to get her badge when she heard the voice of the Old Bailey.
Old Bailey, leaning on a cane and holding a silver revolver, whispered: "Don't touch what doesn't belong to you."
"Sir, let me introduce myself. My name is Asinde Carmen. Do you remember this name?" Carmen said without looking back, standing in front of the shelf.
"Carmen?"
Old Bailey read a few sentences and found that the name was really familiar, but he couldn't remember it.
"Are you my distant nephew?" Old Bailey thought for a long time and could not think of any other possibility.
Carmen's face was a little dark. He said his name to remind Old Bailey that the word "Carmen" engraved on the back of the badge was not for his uncle.
"no?"
Seeing Carmen's reaction, Old Bailey became even more confused. He racked his brains and couldn't think of where he had heard this name.
"Let me make a long story short, my name is Carmen, and the word Carmen is also engraved on the back of this badge, because it is the crest of our family. The reason I came here this time is to discuss with you, and to take this crest from your hands.
Redeem it." Carmen was tired of wrangling and said straight to the point.
"Oh, I remember, Carmen, there is this name on the badge, it's wrong..."
Old Bailey suddenly realized it at first, but then he figured it out and said angrily: "Maybe this badge belonged to you before, but it now belongs to me, to Douglas Bailey. If you want to take it back, don't even think about it!"
"
"I came here very sincerely. Although I don't know how much you paid for it, I definitely won't pay more than one dollar. Now I can give you two dollars, and then you give it to me. This pair
It’s good for you and me.”
The Old Bailey doesn't want to lose its badge, and so does Carmen.
To be fair, for such an old man, he really didn't want to use special means unless he had to.
"Wake up, boy, when I was galloping on the sea, you were still drinking milk from your mother's womb." Old Bailey raised his gun, and his behavior of seeing off the guests was completely exposed.
Carmen nodded slightly. Although he didn't want to admit it, things always develop for the worse. Sometimes the choice is not in our hands.
But this was not a bad thing, it actually made Carmen relieved.
After all, to him, two dollars was not a small amount. If it weren't for his uneasy conscience, he would have wanted to get the things back with nothing.
"Goodbye, Mr. Bailey."
Carmen lowered her head slightly, turned around and walked away neatly.
Old Bailey stood at the door, panting, put the revolver in his pocket, and said loudly: "Don't let me see you again, or I'll spank you until your ass blossoms."
"Failed?"
At the same time, Wang Xu, who was using Sha Niu to monitor Carmen, could not help but frown secretly at the development of the plot.
The protagonists are all invincible. Faced with Carmen's fortune of millions, there is nothing that cannot be accomplished.
Why was the Old Bailey not suppressed by luck, but instead gained the upper hand in the confrontation with the protagonist? Isn't this old man not a simple person?
"open!"
Wang Xu tapped his temple with his hand and looked at the Old Bailey with his third eye.
Upon entering his eyes, Old Bailey's luck condensed and never dispersed. It shrouded his head and turned into a magic wand. The deep purple smoke column of luck stung Wang Xu's eyes.
"hiss!"
Wang Xu took a breath. Old Bailey's luck was actually higher than that of Bertie, the suspected heroine.
In terms of numbers, Bertie's luck is ten thousand, Carmen's luck is one million, and Old Bailey's luck is one hundred thousand.
You know, Wang Xu worked so hard in the magic mobile phone plane, and finally received only 100,000 blessings of luck. The identity of Old Bailey may not be simple.
The incarnation of the mighty, the reincarnated strong man, and the supporting role chosen by fate.
From the perspective of luck, Old Bailey is more loved by heaven and earth than Bertie, who is suspected to be the heroine. On the contrary, Bertie's 10,000 points of luck are a bit unworthy of the protagonist Carmen.
"Except for the two Bucks who died young, everyone involved with Carmen has good luck. Now there is an Old Bailey with 100,000 points of luck. What does this mean? Could it be that this Old Bailey,
Will it play an important role in Carmen’s growth trajectory?”
Wang Xu knows very well that the things around the protagonist are not simple. Even a mouse may be the son of some great existence.
Therefore, he can conclude that the character of Old Bailey is definitely extraordinary, and ordinary people have no right to play with the protagonist.
On the contrary, Bertie, who is suspected to be the heroine, seems a bit unlike the heroine in Wang Xu's opinion, because her luck is much lower than that of Carmen. A normal heroine, even if her luck is not as good as that of the male protagonist, how can she
It must be one-tenth or two-tenths.
Bod is so good. Ten thousand points of luck is just like a joke. Even a supporting role cannot be so low.
"Something's wrong. Why is Bertie's luck so low? Could it be that in the planned trajectory, Bertie is not Carmen's significant other at all, but just a memory from when she was young and ignorant? That's really possible. Only Bertie is not the real heroine.
, can explain why her luck is so low. However, Bertie and Carmen seem to be a couple, what happened?"
Wang Xu fell into deep thought. At present, what can be called a change is the fact that Carmen is imprisoned.
If this world didn't have him, Carmen would still be in jail. After all, he didn't interfere too much in the plot. According to the proper development trajectory, Tom would still borrow money from Carmen to let his brother go to school, and Carmen would still steal Henry's money.
Money, thereby leading to the novice area boss Anders, and then transformed in a desperate situation, paving the way for the next chapter.
The only time he intervened was to lend Bod $200 when he wanted to ransom him.
Think about it, what would Bertie do if she didn't have the $200?
She will definitely want to rescue Carmen at all costs.
Just as Bertie could dance for Carmen, she could dance for others under the same circumstances.
Not everyone is a gentleman like Wang Xu. In the normal trajectory without him, Bertie may have sacrificed more to save Carmen, thus triggering a rift between the two. This makes sense.
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"No wonder the luck is so low. Bertie may not be the heroine, or even a supporting role. She is just a tragic character in the early stage."
Wang Xu's eyes were filled with excitement and he whispered: "It turns out that the word "luck" can explain so many things. It seems that this world is more exciting than I thought. However, in this story, Bertie's ending may be