Chapter 343: Undercurrents

'I'm sorry, dear sir. My daughter is very rude. I hope you won't blame her. $℉,' Margaret apologised to Zhou Ming, who said it was fine, so Margaret continued to tell Zhou Ming.

In the ensuing conversation, Margaret tells Ming that they did originally come from a wealthy family in Orlando, and that her parents were both executives at an automobile company. However, everything changed after she went to state university, because she made a boyfriend there. This would have been fine, but the problem was that this boyfriend was black.

The United States is a very tolerant immigrant country, but it is also one of the countries with the worst racial discrimination, and this is particularly obvious in Itely.

Margaret's family already had a strong prejudice against blacks due to the culture of the ghetto. At that time, Margaret thought that if she got pregnant, her parents would forgive her for the sake of a grandchild. for a grandchild, she was expecting to be forgiven by her parents. But then the heavens played a big joke on her: the day after she found out she was pregnant, a large-scale race conflict broke out in Etrille.

More than 100,000 people were involved in the clashes, and more than 2,000 buildings were damaged in several neighbourhoods. In order to the federal army had to enter the town to quell the conflict. In the end, nearly 10,000 people were arrested and nearly 1,000 people were killed or injured in the conflict, including Margaret's black boyfriend.

Since her black boyfriend was imprisoned, Margaret's parents demanded that she terminate the pregnancy immediately and sever all contact with her black boyfriend. However, Margaret, who was still in her rebellious phase at the time, could not accept this under any circumstances. couldn't accept this. She believed that love was everything in her life, so she had a complete falling out with her family, moved out of Orlando and bought this villa here.

Eight months later, the baby was born. Margaret's parents came to visit her once at the hospital, but they could never accept the baby's dark skin and considered it a disgrace to the family. So they left her some money and moved out of Itly, and then they completely cut off contact with her.

Margaret could not bear to abandon her child, so she raised him alone. Fortunately, she was white and had a diploma from a state university, and with the money her parents left her, she was able to raise her child without much trouble. But as if the heavens were trying to make things difficult for her, at this time she was diagnosed with uremia, which made Margaret feel as if the whole world had turned grey.

You have to know that uremia is not a disease that kills you immediately. Although it can be treated by replacing the kidney, it is difficult to find a match elsewhere because she could not contact her family. was unable to pay the high cost of the surgery and aftercare, as well as the huge risks involved, Margaret had no choice but to opt for dialysis and ordinary medication to keep her alive.

The principle of dialysis is simple: a machine is used to replace the patient's kidneys and expel metabolic waste from the body, ensuring the normal functioning of physiological functions. Hormones that are not secreted by the kidneys are then supplemented by taking medication.

This treatment can only prolong life, but it cannot restore the kidneys to health. Therefore, this treatment is a bottomless pit that will continue to cost money.

At first, Margaret could barely afford the costs, but then the company she worked for found an excuse to fire her after learning about her illness. Since no other company wanted to hire her because of her illness, she could only rely on her savings and sell her family's possessions to pay for her treatment and her and her daughter's living expenses.

After all, she had lost her income, and medical treatment was a place that required constant spending. In the long run, her family fell into ruin and became what it is now.

'Now that everything sellable in the house has been sold, and my credit card has been overdrawn, I estimate that the bank will come to take my house next year at the latest,' Margaret said with a bitter smile, 'I don't mind, after all, I have to pay for my own selfishness, but my child is innocent, why should she suffer this guilt with me?'

Margaret burst into tears at the end of her story, and little Julia couldn't hold back her tears either as she hugged her mother.

After listening to Margaret's story, Zhou Ming also felt very uncomfortable. After all, this was a very helpless tragedy. As she said herself, perhaps she was wrong to be so headstrong at first, but it didn't have to come to this.

After crying for a while, Margaret wiped her tears and said to Zhou Ming, 'I'm sorry to make you laugh. I'll go help you find a room to live in.'

Zhou Ming immediately got up and said to her, 'Mrs. Margaret, you don't need to trouble yourself in your current condition. We'll clean up ourselves. As for your current situation, I sympathetic and willing to help you, but I only have this $10,000 for you right now. If possible, I will take over your credit account and I can help you pay off all your debts.'

'How can this be? We are already very grateful to accept your gift of $10,000, so how can we let you pay off all of our credit card debt for us?'

Margaret wanted to refuse, but then suddenly Zhou Ming asked her, 'Madam, do you believe in God?'

Faced with this question, Margaret froze for a moment, wondering why Zhou Ming had suddenly asked such a question.

Zhou Ming then told her, 'A moment ago you said that uremia was God's punishment for your wilfulness. So the merciful Father in heaven certainly wouldn't let his child suffer so much, so that's when I appeared, I was sent by God to save you.'

Upon hearing this, the little girl Julia immediately said, 'Really? Then you are God's angel sent to save us, right? But my mother's credit card is already overdrawn by $100,000!'

Zhou Ming smiled and patted the little girl on the head, saying, 'Don't mention $100,000, I can help you pay off even $1 million.'

'That's great! You really are an angel sent by God to save us!' Julia said excitedly.

Margaret, on the other hand, was silently weeping. She took Julia by the hand and made her kneel down before Zhou Ming, and said to him, 'Dear sir, thank you very much. I can find no other words to express my gratitude.'

Seeing the mother and daughter kneeling before him, Zhou Ming's first reaction was to help them up, but they didn't get up. It was only then that Zhou Ming remembered that the $100,000 was wasn't worth mentioning at all, but to them, it was equivalent to their lives. How could it not move them? To put it more vulgarly, he was their saviour.

Zhou Minghe then went to the bedroom on the second floor, but in the end it was Mrs Margaret who helped tidy up, because she said that if she didn't, she would hate herself forever.

That night, as Zhou Ming sat by the bed, pondering his course of action for the next day, he had no idea that his arrival had already affected the entire situation in Itely.

At 9pm, three Lincoln limousines pulled up to the entrance of the Hotel Gross. The doors opened and a middle-aged white man got out. If someone had been was reading today's issue of the Ettlinger Zeitung and saw him, they would have been very surprised to see the middle-aged man. He was none other than Richard, the chairman of the board of directors of Tefal, who was the lead story on the front page of the newspaper.

Richard was waiting at the door when two people came out of the hotel a short while later. They came up to him and told him that the person he was looking for was no longer in the hotel. This answer made Richard frown immediately.

At that moment, a loud car engine noise came from behind him, and a Land Rover luxury car stopped next to Richard. Then a young man got out and said to him, 'Mr. Richard, are you here to see someone? But judging from your current situation, it seems that the person you are looking for is no longer in the hotel.'

Richard's servant told him something, and Richard laughed: 'I just heard that someone was stopped from entering at the Wilhelm Bridge. It seems that the Wood family doesn't have that much courage. You actually disallowed him from entering Orlando. Are you that afraid?'

The young man said innocently, 'I didn't know there was such a thing. I'm sorry.'

'You can pretend to be innocent in front of me, but Ming Zhou from California is like a stone dropped into the water, destined to cause a ripple.'

Richard said this and got back in the car, while the young man came up to him and said, 'It seems that Mr Richard has a lot of confidence in him, but I wonder how long you can maintain this confidence. Do you know that Etly has a history of nearly 300 years since the city was founded? Do you think that in these 300 years, whether it is the founding of a country or the Civil War, there is anything that has not been seen? I advise you not to do useless things!'

Facing the young man's mockery, Richard said sternly, 'Who are you to lecture me? Goodbye.'

Richard then ignored the young man, got into the car, and told the driver to start the engine and leave. The young man behind him smiled as he watched Richard leave.

After Richard's car disappeared from view, the young man's smile faded. He said to the servant beside him, 'Follow his car and keep an eye on all their movements. Report back to me no matter what!'

The servants nodded and said yes, then carefully drove and followed Richard's car.

It was 11 o'clock at night. On Third Street in the Louis District of Etrile, which had become a black neighbourhood, and also the most chaotic street in the entire city, a few very luxurious cars were driving.

Along the way, the three luxury cars encountered gun-toting drug dealers and scantily clad women, or gangsters who whistled provocatively at them, but none of the cars stopped, until they drove into a park that had already been occupied by drunk and drug-seeking men and women.

A few heavily armed men with submachine guns got out of the car first. After clearing out all the people in the park, a well-dressed man in a suit got out of the car and kicked an alcoholic sleeping under a chair.

In the dim light, he could see that the person underneath was unkempt, wearing tattered clothes, and emitting a nauseating stench.

This made him frown, but instead of turning away, he squatted down, holding back the stench, and said to the drunk, 'A new storm is coming, and this may be the best opportunity for us to change. Are you going to continue getting drunk? Or is it an escape from your past?'