Father Mavie

Chapter 71 Raymond Wood
A young man in a collarless white shirt and a dark wool jacket appeared in front of the furniture store. He had a white face, messy hair, and muddy shoes that looked like they had just come out of a sewer. .

Seeing him, the elderly old man Ronan became furious. He picked up a wooden stick and tapped it on the young man's arm: "You still know how to come back! You still know how to come back!"

"Father! Stop hitting! Stop hitting!"

The young man ran away from the beating, dodging one after another, begging for mercy.

"Who is he?" Levine asked.

"Raymond Wood, the only son of Mr. Ronan."

Looking at the two figures chasing and fleeing in the furniture store, Ma Wei squinted his eyes and said: "On Kerr Street, Mr. Ronan has a very good reputation. He often makes some small toys for the children around him. He has a gentle personality. Whenever a child came to him to play, he would bring out candy and soda to entertain him. Unfortunately, his only son, Raymond, was an ignorant master, unwilling to inherit the family carpenter business, so he went to fight with the hooligans on South Street. hang out."

"What a gangster, hang out with hooligans, then he is also a hooligan!"

"In the past, Mr. Ronan asked me to persuade his son, hoping to make Raymond change his mind, calm down, learn a craft, marry a wife and have children." Ma Wei said: "But I refused."

"Refused?"

"Well, everyone has their own aspirations. No one knows what the current choice will affect the future. I don't like interfering with children's growth path. Similarly, Mr. Ronan's ideas may not be suitable for Raymond. Who said street hooligans , A beggar can't become a great weapon? That's just prejudice."

"But didn't you force Nia to memorize the nine-nine multiplication table?"

Ma Wei squinted at him, and said quietly: "I don't like interfering with children's growth, but it doesn't mean that I don't teach them even a little bit of survival knowledge. Even if you want to go to the street to be a hooligan, you must be able to count and read. How can you survive in society if you can’t even keep track of your accounts?”

"That's true. But Nia is so smart, she must be able to memorize the ninety-nine multiplication table at the fastest speed!"

Junia, who was holding the bear's arm in one hand and her father's clothes in the other, couldn't help but twitched the corners of her mouth when she heard this, and kept silent in a very sensible manner.

"Father, father, don't be so angry, I'm back, I'm really back!"

After some chasing, Mr. Ronan couldn't run anymore, he leaned on the table to pant, his face was pale, and he coughed violently.

And Lei Meng hurried forward, patted his back with his palm, smoothed his breath for his father, and explained: "You said you are already old, why are you still so excited."

"You still have the face to say?!"

Mr. Ronan stared, reached out and grabbed his son's wrist, clenched his skinny knuckles like eagle claws, with such force that Raymond grinned in pain.

"Don't go?"

"Don't go."

"Really?"

"real."

"You kid didn't cause trouble for me outside, did you?"

"No, it's not like you don't know what I did, how much trouble can it cause?"

"Okay, okay, it's okay if you don't go, it's fine if you don't go"

With a smile on his wrinkled face, Mr. Ronan put down the wooden stick and dragged Lei Meng to the backyard: "Follow me to see your mother!"

"Hey, what's the hurry, didn't you see any guests here!"

Raymond looked at Ma Wei and the others, and said in a low voice, "You are the owner of the shop, and you don't even say hello to the customers. Who will come to your shop to buy things in the future? In this way, I will entertain the priest and the others, and you can do your work. "

Old man Ronan, who was dazzled by joy, did not doubt his son's motives at all. He really hoped that Raymond would come home.

After watching his father enter the backyard, Lei Meng turned around and said with a smile, "Father, are you here to check the damage to the house?"

"You were the one who registered at the church yesterday, right?"

"That's right, my father is old and has bad eyesight. I will do all the inspections of the house."

Ma Wei smiled and didn't expose Raymond's lie.

"You said that the wall of the furniture store is damaged and may collapse at any time. Where is it?"

"plz follow me."

Lei Meng led the three of them out of the furniture store and walked around to an alley. After walking a few meters away, he suddenly stopped, pointed to a black crack on the outer wall and said, "This is it."

The cracks are crooked and spread all the way upwards, and there are indeed damages, but...
Ma Wei touched the traces on it, which were obviously made with a chisel, and after looking at the obviously irresponsible load-bearing wall, he had a rough estimate in his heart.

He was sure that the situation reported by Raymond did not match the actual situation. Not only did it not match, but even the cracks on the wall were chiseled out by himself. The technique was rough, and even a layman could see the flaws at a glance.

For such a small crack, he applied to the Church of Truth for a repair fund of 2 gold pounds. It can be said that the lion opened his mouth.

"What about the priest, I didn't lie to you, did I?" Raymond was smug about his masterpiece: "Don't look at the small gaps, but my father's shop is full of handmade furniture, which is very valuable. Once the roof collapses, Just the loss of the goods will cost a lot of money, including the cost of reinforcement, 2 gold pounds is not much."

"Is two gold pounds enough?"

Raymond blinked and said with a smile: "If you want to give more, then I have no objection. I think my father will be very happy too. The Church of Truth has such a good reputation, so it must not be ruined by such a trivial matter." .”

"Levin, check to see if there is any other damage to this wall."

Ma Wei ignored Raymond, and said softly: "Since Mr. Raymond said the matter is so serious, there must be a basis for it. If you want to do it, you must do your best and don't miss it."

"clear."

Levin smiled strangely, took two steps forward, and patted the undamaged, solid wall covered with green moss: "This place is damaged, and here...here"

Raymond was confused by his actions. He knew best whether the wall was broken or not.
Are you an expert in construction?
Does it match?

Just as Raymond was thinking wildly, a tiny cracking sound sounded in the dark alley.

Where Levin photographed, the originally intact stone bricks suddenly cracked, and with a creepy sound, a dark crack suddenly appeared. Wherever it passed, the walls were cracked, and the houses were shaken, looking like they might collapse at any time.

Ding!
A few golden coins fell to the ground, Mawei took Junia, walked out of the alley with Levin, and said without looking back: "Weijin, you take it, should you use it to spend time and drink, or please It is your freedom to repair the walls, but please remember that the choice you make today may make you regret it for the rest of your life, or it may become a new beginning of your life."

"Think twice."

(End of this chapter)