1771 Live for Yourself

Johnson and his first wife divorced. They couldn't face Johnson's "mistress" and his illegitimate child, so they eventually divorced.

After the divorce, Johnson gave all his property to his original wife, which can be regarded as a kind of compensation.

In fact, speaking of it, there isn’t much.

The two houses are not in a very good location, and their total value is about 350,000.

The three cars originally cost more than 10,000 to 20,000 yuan, but they have been driven for many years. They are all second-hand cars and may only be worth two to three thousand yuan now.

There is still some money, a little over fifty thousand.

That's all he can give.

After working as the director of the tax bureau for so many years, he actually didn't save much money.

Buying a house, buying a car, and sending his children to college basically take up most of his income.

In addition, he often needs to socialize at work, and he does not dare to accept bribes casually. In fact, he has not saved much money in his life.

He gave everything to his original wife and children, and then rented a house in the state capital with that woman.

But no matter what, in York State, people who know him, including teachers at the school, will look at that child with a strange look!

He is just a child, he is innocent, but society doesn't think so!

This also made his youngest son feel tired of studying. He was unwilling to go to school and had a low self-esteem.

He even cried and asked Johnson why he was born and made to suffer all this pain!

God, he was just a child, how could he have such mature ideas?

Johnson was also greatly traumatized by this. He tried to change everything, but the situation did not change much.

His relationship had always been in York State, in Sabine, and if he needed to move to another state, he would need to switch.

Not to mention information-based offices these days, not even large computers have appeared. To transfer files, he had to take his social security files from York State to the Social Security Bureau in the receiving place.

A new file should be created there, then included in the protection list, and then implemented.

But this thing is not easy to handle. It is very easy to leave. If you want to join, you need some connections.

Even though his current retirement salary is only over 700 yuan, no social security bureau in any region wants to incur such an additional expenditure.

He was in another state when he paid the insurance, but now he comes here to enjoy the pension. Even if the Social Security Bureau must eventually let him transfer according to the rules, they will add some artificial thresholds.

This is not a challenge, but a tacit practice. They will require transferees to own at least one house of their own in the local area.

Now that Johnson has no money to buy a house, it will be difficult for him to transfer his files.

And... when he goes to a new place, everything has to start over. He has no money, no job and no power now. It is too difficult for him as an old man to have to fight in society!

Fortunately, the new deputy director job gave him some breathing space.

Coupled with his terms of reference and this visit to Bupen, he seems to have made some decisions.

He has dedicated his life to his lifeless home and this country. In his later years, he hopes to live for himself!

The society's ill will toward him after he lost everything caused some changes in this good old man's way of thinking.

He proposed this idea in a deliberation and even pleading tone.

Lynch nodded, "It's not difficult. I can help you contact the best primary school in Bupen. Nell's children also go to school there."

He just helped to contact him, but did not say anything more. Johnson pursed his lips and said, "If...I mean if I let him go to school there, how much will it cost for a year?"

Lynch asked him to wait for a moment, and then called Vera. She was responsible for many expenses.

These expenses involve some privacy. Lynch is not comfortable leaving it to others, but Vera is very suitable.

Moreover, Vera's child also attended that elementary school and became lively and cheerful.

"It's about 20,000 yuan per semester and 49,800 yuan a year. That's all. There will be no additional fees."

After Lynch sat down again, Director Johnson felt like he had been punched hard in the heart.

Fifty thousand yuan a year, if you rent a house nearby, and then include the woman's living expenses...

He was sweating a little.

That woman... still has no ability to live independently, and her and Michael's children have been sent back to Michael's mother's home.

He will pay sixty-five yuan in alimony every month. Of course, this is paid for the woman. The fee standard in York State is slightly lower.

If you change to other places, it may cost 70 to 80 yuan.

Then I have to spend 400 yuan for daily life, and I can’t save the rest.

The past events had hit her hard, and she now stayed at home all day without going anywhere. Sometimes Johnson felt that she was not his mistress, as outsiders said, but more like his daughter.

This breathless thought is somewhat morally distorted, but it is also his truest thought.

He took care of her, and he had to take care of him. He couldn't save any money, and he had to endure some people's unpleasant words.

And now, this money makes him even more desperate. He just wants to find a place where others don't know them and start over...

He was in a bit of pain.

Lynch saw the obvious expression on his face and handed him a cigarette, "Are you in trouble?"

Johnson nodded, thanked Lynch, took the cigarette, lit it, and took a deep breath.

Lynch's cigarettes are specially made every moment. Within the company, Lynch's cigarettes and Croft's high-end customer base are huge.

They are not a minority as one might imagine, they are not a small number at all.

The price of customized cigarettes is relatively low. It only costs RMB 360,000 per year to enjoy a full 360 boxes of customized cigarettes, which is still twelve cigarettes per box.

The cigarette boxes used in these customized cigarettes, nicotine concentration, flavor concentration, and passage rate during inhalation are all specially customized.

And the cigarette holder of each cigarette will have the customizer's independent number and their signature!

They could even ask for gold foil to be used instead of the paper on the outside of the cigarette, but few people do that because that's... too tacky.

The luxury of the rich is always low-key.

As the largest shareholder at all times, the chairman of the board of directors, and the second largest shareholder (owned by the company), Lynch is fully qualified and capable to customize his own cigarettes.

The cigarettes are very powerful, with a nicotine content of more than five milligrams, which is almost twice as much as ordinary cigarettes on the market——

The federal cigarette consumer market mainly uses raw cut tobacco. The nicotine content of raw cut tobacco is actually very high. The content of each ordinary cigarette is about 2.5 to 3 mg.

Different sources of cut tobacco will have different levels of alkaloids. For example, cut tobacco from the alpine areas of Marillo will have more alkaloids.

The climate in Nagaril is good, and the alkaloid content of tobacco leaves will be slightly less.

However, in order to open up the market among teenagers and women, the company has started producing flue-cured cigarettes.

To put it simply, the raw tobacco is fermented and baked for the first time, which will cause a lot of nicotine loss, and the impact when eaten will be weaker, making it suitable for people who have just smoked.

But for men, especially men with a history of smoking, smoking is a manly choice!

Lynch's cigarettes have a better nicotine content, giving them a higher throat hit and instant euphoria.

It seems that this index is very high and dangerous, but in fact most of it will be dissipated in the air together with smoke from open fires.

The small part that is inhaled into the body will also be quickly metabolized.

Unless you smoke dozens of cigarettes one after another, it won't cause much harm.

Lynch is still very young and has a strong tolerance for nicotine, but Director Johnson is not used to this concentration.

He just took a breath and coughed violently.

High-concentration nicotine smoke will give a very special feeling in the throat, just like the feeling when people smoke for the first time.

He coughed for a while and then gradually calmed down, but Lynch could still feel that his throat was not completely healed yet.

"I'm sorry, I forgot you might not be used to it."

Mr. Trueman was also a regular smoker and smoked enhanced cigarettes, and he had no problem at all with Lynch's cigarettes.

The same goes for Mr. Wardrick. Those who like to smoke Clove actually have a higher tolerance.

Because they occasionally inhale a little bit of it into their lungs, they have unknowingly adapted to tolerate high concentrations of nicotine.

Director Johnson waved his hand, "It's okay, I'm much better."

He hesitated for a moment, then took another small sip, slowly.

This time, he felt its power!

After a few seconds, he considered it and said, "I made some mistakes before, and now I want to do something, but look at how I am now, I can't do anything about it."

He had made his words very clear, and he was even a little worried whether Lynch would understand what he meant.

But it was obvious that he was overthinking it. From the first time he spoke, Lynch basically guessed why he contacted her.

He smiled and took out a business card from his pocket. It had a phone number on it and it was his, but he didn't sign it.

Without a signature, it means that the business card will not be of any use to others. It is impossible for them to hold the business card to ask for a meeting with Lynch or seek some business cooperation.

Lynch wrote another phone number on the back of the business card and handed it over.

"They can help you!"

Director Johnson looked at the business card in his hand, a little confused, "Them?"