Ten minutes later, Josie and Peggy Carter sat down opposite each other in the restaurant of the Ritz Hotel in London.
The Ritz Hotel is considered one of the most upscale hotels in London of this era. It was built in 1904 and has a sister hotel also named Ritz in Paris.
But now both hotels actually belong to Josie.
In addition to these two hotels, Qiao Xi is also acquiring high-end hotels in major cities in Europe and the United States, preparing to form a high-end international hotel chain group.
Firstly, this can be a good business in itself, and secondly, it can also serve as an intelligence station for Qiao Xi to lay out around the world.
Of course, it is enough for Josie to know about this kind of thing. There is no need to show it off in front of Carter at the moment.
"Speaking of which, I haven't said thank you to you for Bucky's matter!" After sitting down and ordering some food, Carter thanked Josie and said, "Bucky can be said to be Steve's most important concern in the world."
So Steve has always been worried about Bucky falling off the cliff, but it’s a pity that he can never see it again.”
"What's there to be thankful for? Not to mention that Steve and I are also friends, and Bucky himself is also our hero. As an American, this is what I should do!" Josie waved his hand.
"That's right, after all, you are compatriots!" Carter also smiled slightly when she heard this. Then she remembered that the three Americans, Josie, Steve, and Bucky, were compatriots, and she, the British, was the foreigner.
"And to say that the person Steve misses most in the world might have been Bucky at one time, but now I think we have to add another one!" Josie pointed out with a smile on her face.
Carter smiled slightly and said nothing. She naturally understood what Josie meant, but what was the point of saying this now? The person was gone.
"By the way, you said you wanted to talk to me about something about Steve. What exactly was it?" Carter asked, changing the subject.
"Ah, look at my memory, it's actually not a big deal...it's just this!" Qiao Xi put his hand into his arms as if to pull something out, but actually took out an envelope from the system warehouse and handed it to
Carter.
"What is this?" Carter took it in surprise, and after opening it, there was a key inside.
"This is the key to Steve's apartment in Brooklyn, New York!" Josie said.
"What? The key to Steve's apartment? How could that happen?" Carter was very surprised.
"The reason is very simple. This apartment was originally rented. Although Steve paid full rent when he joined the army, after the news of his sacrifice spread to the United States, the landlord used his name and prepared to auction it at a high price.
, I happened to know about this, so I just bought the whole building!" Josie explained casually, "Originally, I wanted to give the key to Bucky, but today I met you on the road, so I
Maybe it would be good to leave it to you!"
These words of Josie are really not lying to Carter.
In his previous life, Josie had read many American comic books, and they would all mention that after Captain America wakes up, he will return to his old house in New York to live in something like that.
But from the beginning of Captain America 2, it can be found that the city where Captain America lives is actually Washington... Of course, it may also be that he moved to Washington after the Avengers 1 battle.
However, with this idea in mind, when he went to attend the board of directors meeting before, Josie also specifically inquired about the location of the legendary former residence of Captain America and planned to go there and take a look.
Although it may sound awkward for a Hydra leader to visit the former home of Hydra's nemesis, that's exactly what Josie did.
But the news he got from the men of the Blackwater Gang was that this apartment had actually been rented by Captain America's parents.
Although Captain America's father was a hero in World War I and died after being poisoned by mustard gas, Captain America admired his father very much. To some extent, this was one of the reasons why Captain America wanted to join the army.
But after getting to know Josie, he realized that Captain America's father, Joseph Rogers, had died, but to say he was a hero was nonsense.
Captain America's parents were Irish immigrants who immigrated to the United States in the early days of World War I.
Their life trajectory is actually very similar to that of Vito's parents. They both belong to the extremely poor class and have no money to buy a house at all.
Joseph, like Vito's father, could only work as a coolie at the bottom of society to support his family, and even joined the local Irish gang.
But as Steve's mother became pregnant, in order to earn more money and give the unborn Steve a slightly better living environment, she took the risk to join the army...
When the U.S. military entered World War I, it was already at the end of the war. The United States was just looking for bargains, and the country's army only had 300,000 soldiers.
So four million people were temporarily recruited and sent to the front line without much training.
Joseph arrived in Europe at the beginning of 2018, and went to the battlefield for the first time in May. He was infected with mustard gas and died within a few shots. Then in July, Captain America was born as a posthumous son.
If such an ordinary soldier can be called a war hero, then this hero is too cheap.
Captain America's mother also beautified the image of his father in order to set an example for Captain America.
The only thing Joseph Rogers did was to leave a pension to Captain America and his son.
But what Steve Rogers probably never knew was that this pension never actually fell into the hands of his mother.
Why? Because the U.S. government defaulted on its debt.
Not only did he want to miss out on the pensions of a large number of soldiers who died in battle, he also wanted to miss out on the wages of American soldiers in World War I... The wages of American soldiers during World War I were not paid after the war, so when the Great Depression came, a famous
Pension march event!
In 1932, tens of thousands of World War I veterans went to the Capitol to ask for wages, but were violently suppressed by the then active U.S. military, resulting in the death of several veterans and two children (family members of the veterans who were asking for wages), and thousands of injuries.
After the incident was over, the US government still labeled these marching veterans as red criminals.
But speaking of this matter, there is another interesting thing.
That is, among the officers who led troops to suppress the war, three of them were Eisenhower, Mike Arthur, and Patton, who were famous during World War II.
Eisenhower and Patton were relatively cautious about this matter and did not resort to violence at first.
But the one with the highest military rank among the three at that time was not Eisenhower, but Mike Arthur.
At the same time, Mike Arthur was also the one with the toughest attitude. He ignored the orders of President Hoover and forced Eisenhower and Patton to lead people to violently suppress the marching veterans.
It was a very coincidence that among the people marching at that time, there was a rather special World War II veteran.
This man was Truman, the first U.S. president after World War II.
The president was also a World War I veteran and a company commander.
So when the wage march occurred, Truman, who was still just a judge in Jackson County, Missouri, also participated with a group of comrades.
As a result, he was almost crushed to death by a tank commanded by Mike Arthur at the entrance of the Capitol.
In other words, the conflict between Michael Arthur and Truman had actually been laid at that time.
It is precisely because of the U.S. government's default that Captain America has been raised entirely by his mother working alone since childhood.
In order to make more money, his mother became a nurse in the tuberculosis ward, which was notorious at that time, and finally got herself involved.
It is also because of this kind of living environment that Captain America has been malnourished since childhood, resulting in asthma, scarlet fever, rheumatic fever and a lot of other problems.
With such economic conditions, buying a house is simply impossible.
Not even a small apartment in Brooklyn, which was still a ghetto at the time.
Even if Steve hadn't met Bucky as a good friend during his childhood, Steve might have died long ago - compared to Steve, Bucky's family is much better. Although he is not a rich man, he is still
middle-class family.
This can be seen from the completely different clothes of the two in the meeting between Captain America 2 and Captain America.
It is precisely because of the care of Bucky and his family that Captain America is able to live as long as he does.
It is precisely because of this almost brotherly relationship that Captain America cares so much about Bucky.
In comparison, Captain America and Howard and his son can only have a relatively ordinary relationship as friends.
It’s no wonder that during the Civil War, Captain America would rather hurt Tony than protect Bucky.
People are all selfish, and when it comes to things they really care about, even Captain America is not immune.
"Thank you, Josie. This is the first time I know that his childhood was so rough!" After hearing what Josie said about Captain America, Peggy Carter looked at the key in her hand and sighed, "The house
I will find a way to return the money to you."
Yes, although Carter is Cap’s lover and thinks he knows Cap’s character very well.
But this was really the first time Carter knew about the things Josie said about Captain America's birth and childhood.
From this point of view, Captain America has never had a good life since he was young, except for the time when he first became "Captain America".
"It's pointless to ask me for money, or do you actually think of me as a friend at all?" Qiao Xi said pretending to be displeased.
"Haha, that's right. You, a rich man, probably don't need such a house, so I'm sorry. I'm going to the United States next week, so I don't have to find another place to live." Carter didn't notice this.
Reject again.
"Oh? You're going to New York next week?" Josie was a little surprised when she heard this.
Josie knew that Carter would go to the United States. After all, how could he build S.H.I.E.L.D. if he didn't go to the United States? But going now was still a bit surprising.
"Yes, this is not a secret. With the end of the war, the Strategic Science Corps has begun to withdraw to the United States. Naturally, I have to go there. This time I return to the UK to say goodbye to my family, my sister-in-law and my nephew.
." Carter explained, but as soon as he finished speaking, he found that Josie was looking at him with a strange look, and couldn't help but ask, "Is there something on my face?"
"Oh, it's nothing, it's just that something else just happened to me." Josie laughed, and then said, "I've heard about your brother, he is a hero."
In fact, when Carter mentioned her sister-in-law just now, Josie suddenly remembered a joke about Peggy Carter and Sharon Carter on the Internet in her previous life.
That is, in the Avengers series of movies played in Xia Guo, Sharon Carter was translated into Peggy Carter's niece.
But Sharon Carter in the Avengers era was obviously only in her twenties and thirties, while Peggy Carter was already in her nineties.
Also, Peggy Carter only had one older brother, who died during World War II, leaving only a posthumous son.
So Peggy Carter should have only one nephew, but no niece.
In this case, where did Sharon Carter, the niece, come from?
Qiao Xi had been puzzled by this for a long time in his previous life, and only later did he realize that it was actually the fault of the translator.
Because in English, aunt can refer to all female elders, and the English word for aunt is also anut.
Now the case was solved, Sharon Carter was not Peggy's niece, but her great-nephew.