Chapter 3442 The Son of Midnight (Forty-one)
Wanda took out the key from his handbag and poked it into the keyhole for a long time and couldn't open it. When she came to her senses, she realized that she had taken the wrong key. This was the key of the community university storage locker, which was different from the key at the front yard gate, so of course she couldn't rotate.
She sighed in some frustration, took out the real front yard key and opened the door. After pushing open the door, she almost tripped by the threshold again, and she was so angry that she grabbed the chain of the bag and threw it back.
He walked to the front door and before she could open the door, Jarvis opened the door. He was wearing an apron, and the smell of fried eggs came out of the crack of the door.
Seeing Jarvis, Wanda seemed to be feeling better. She smiled at Jarvis, hung her bag on the hook next to her, and sat on the shoe bench to start changing her shoes.
Jarvis walked back to the kitchen, turned off the scrambled eggs, poured them out, picked up the scissors beside him, cut off the basil leaves planted in small flower pots for placing them, and turned to look at Wanda and asked, "How are you doing today? Have you practiced getting injections again?"
Wanda sat on the stool in a daze, and when he heard Jarvis ask, "Ah, yes. Today's operation class requires practicing infusion care, and we also learned to identify prescriptions..."
When Jarvis saw that her condition was wrong, the behavioral analysis module was fully fired and immediately realized what was going on.
"Was that Judy telling you again?"
Wanda supported her hands on both sides of her body, lowered her head, trying to cover her expression with her long red hair hanging from her face so that she could not see Jarvis.
A few seconds later, a shadow appeared beside her. Jarvis walked up to her, squatted down and reached out to hold her face.
"What the hell is wrong? Dear?"
"It's just a little thing," Wanda said, "it's just normal chats, nothing to pay attention to."
"But you look sad and a little confused."
Wanda pursed her lips, first glanced at Jarvis, then fell down her eyes, and slowly tightened her hands holding the edge of the shoe bench.
"Do you think we are not suitable for living here?"
"Why did you suddenly ask this?"
"We are not very rich," said Wanda. "I don't have a fixed job and I have no income. I have to support this family."
"That's because you're still in recovery," Jarvis said. "You have twins, which is a great harm to your body. Even the doctors say you should take a double break. If it's not that the community college courses are easy, I would recommend you not to go."
"But brothers Billy are almost two years old, so there is no need for me to take such a long rest, right?"
"But you are not resting now. Aren't you in class?"
"But not only can't make money in class, but you also have to spend money."
"Oh my God, Wanda, what's wrong with you? Why did you suddenly remember the money?" Jarvis was really a little confused. He looked at Wanda from the bottom up, but he didn't see any special expression on her face.
"I think everything we use to live here is expensive. This house is expensive, property tax and property fees are expensive, water, electricity, network fees, lawn maintenance fees..."
"Yes, but did you forget why we moved here? Because we could afford it. We even made a more cost-effective option or we moved to Long Island."
Wanda opened his mouth and said, "That's because you can make money with your technology, but I..."
Jarvis was confused by her. He said, "You can't make money now because you still need to recuperate. This is due to your physical condition, not that I don't let you make money, or that you don't have the ability to make money. What's the problem?"
“Don’t you feel stressed?”
Jarvis opened his mouth, a series of data passed through his mind, and then shook his head seriously.
He grabbed Wanda's hand, kissed her first knuckle gently and said, "All the engineers in the entire Silicon Valley combined will not be able to complete your husband's work for one night. The Stark Group paid me enough to live in the best wealthy district in New York. What pressure should I have?"
Wanda was a little distracted again, and seemed to be in confusion. Jarvis really felt something was wrong.
He immediately retrieved the surveillance of the community university and began to search for Wanda in it, but first saw a woman he hated, who often talked about Wanda's mutant identity, their neighbor Judy.
Judy and her husband live at the end of the street. Houses at both ends of this community are cheaper than the middle ones, so they are the bottom of the contempt chain of this community.
In fact, their economic situation is not very good. Judy's husband is an investor, but this is just a nice saying, and he is actually a futures speculator.
Futures products can be profitable and lose money. When Wanda and his friends first moved in, they heard from their neighbors that Judy and his family had lost a lot and even sold their cars.
Originally, Judy was a full-time housewife, and now she had to go out to work, but she thought that jobs such as supermarket collectors were too tiring, so she found an excuse to study in a community school, which was called improving herself so that she would not have to go out to work.
The reason why this incident caused a lot of controversy was that their family had been owed to property fees before and the property management company initiated a vote by the owners to decide whether to kick them out of the community.
Judy is not popular at all, and many owners agree. But because Judy is a black man, she posted a video to accuse racial discrimination, and the property management company faces great public pressure, so she gave up.
During the period of time when he was having a child and recuperating, Wanda had been working as a self-media. She became popular because of her discrimination, and later transformed into a couple blogger with Jarvis. The two were welcomed by many people because of their high looks and special race, and they had millions of fans on the entire network.
Although Wanda is not willing to accept advertisements for maternal and child products, she is not very monetized, but she still has many fans of true feelings, and can even occasionally encounter them on the road or in supermarkets.
Judy has also been filming videos that are subject to discrimination, but it is not Wanda Fire. This may be the reason that Judy has been a little jealous of them.
Not long after Wanda moved in, Judy yelled her identity as a mutant so that the community could be filled with the community. Even the next community knew about it, and insisted on asking the property to initiate a vote so that the owners in the community could unite to kick the Wanda and his wife out.
Fortunately, Wanda's tenderness in his bones gave the neighbors a good impression. Jarvis has always appeared as a Kochi and has helped the property management company solve network problems before, so Judy did not succeed. But this made her target Wanda even more and spread Wanda's gossip.
After the two met at a community school, they were incompatible. Judy formed a gang in the school to exclude Wanda. Wanda was too lazy to pay attention to her, but was also annoyed by their small group.
Fortunately, when Wanda signed up for the community school, he used the surname Lanchel, which happened to be seen by another student. This surname is not very common, and it happened to be exactly the same as the surname of the famous mutant leader Magneto. He guessed that Wanda was Magneto's daughter.
Several classmates with good relationship with Wanda went to ask her, but Wanda refused to admit it. But the rumors spread more and more. Since then, Judy's small group has been much more restrained. Although Wanda doesn't want to have too much involvement with Magneto, she can provide her with a stable learning environment, so she pinched her nose and accepted it.
After finding that Wanda was not wronged, Jarvis did not care too much about her personal relationships. After all, even couples had to leave a good personal space for each other, and excessive interference was not advisable.
But this time it was different. Wanda was obviously stimulated by something. Fortunately, since she met Dr. Schiller last time, her mental state has become particularly stable. Otherwise, the entire community would have to move with her.
While comforting Wanda, Jarvis stared at Judy in the surveillance video. His intuition told him that this woman was the one who did it.
Sure enough, during lunch at community college, Judy was leaning against the wall with bread and talking to several people in the small group.
Wanda was picking up the meal plate and was talking to the little daughter of the Punk family on the street opposite. Jarvis remembered that the girl was a freshman who had just entered school a few days ago and had a good relationship with Wanda before entering school.
"...Yes, I was scared. Can you imagine it? I spent a full 200 yuan! My friend told me before that he added half a tank of oil to me and spent more than 100 yuan, but I don't believe it."
Wanda seemed to be complaining about oil prices with her friend, but Judy heard it. The woman walked over with her arms and said sarcastically:
"Let me hear who is worried about 200 yuan? It turns out that he is a poor mutant. The wife of Maximov's family can't even afford to add 200 yuan of oil. If you tell me, our entire community will be embarrassed!"
Wanda was used to this kind of scene, so she immediately retorted: "Your family doesn't have to worry about gas money. After all, you walk 20 minutes a day to go to school to strengthen your body."
Judy's face immediately became ugly. They had no cars at home, which was her pain point. She also sarcastically said: "Only poor people like you will think that oil is expensive. Oil in New York State is obviously very cheap. It's okay if you don't have a car, but you can't bear to drive it. You look poor!"
Wanda was so angry that she was almost out of her body by the oil price bill. After Judy said this, she couldn't help but say, "Not expensive?! Do you know that the oil price in New York is the second in the federal government now?! It's up 36% from last year! It's even rising, 2% more expensive than I last time!"
As soon as she said this, she found that everyone around her was looking at her with strange eyes. Even her good friend pulled her sleeve.
"But it's not expensive," said one person in the small group for granted. "If you live in a community like ours, if you still worry about money, you don't know what will happen!"
"Yes, the gas is only a few dollars. I went to the beauty salon once and it would be enough to refuel the car until next year."
"And the oil in the United States is already very cheap, right? I heard that the oil prices in many Asian countries are four or five times that of here. We are already good enough."
Wanda looked at them in disbelief and said, "Not much money?! But it has risen by 40% a year, and it has risen by 2% in just one week, and it continues to rise. Do you think it is normal to raise prices like this?!"
"And now that solar energy is so popular, all aerial equipment is new energy, and the market for new energy vehicles is also very good. Why is gasoline so expensive to sell?!"
Wanda's words were not approved by anyone, and even the Punk lady felt it was indifferent. Finally, Judy added:
Chapter completed!