King's Back

Chapter 53 Harry Cox’s Family

Jackson only had a few thousand yuan as living expense. Even if he didn’t use any for the past three years, it would still be impossible for him to have one million.

Jackson smiled and said: “It’s just one million. It’s nothing to me. I owned a private bank myself that raises more than one hundred billions of funds annually, which will be invested to major emerging industries.”

Dolcie was stunned and rolled her eyes, “Every time I ask you a question, you brag. You think I will believe you?”

Jackson was speechless for a while. He was telling the truth, but his wife didn’t trust him anymore. Did he look like someone unreliable?

Since Jackson was silent, Dolcie thought that she just exposed his lies, which embarrassed him. So she said:

“But I am still happy that you can buy me a present. Thank you. This is probably the most expensive present you ever give me.”

For the past three years, Jackson had never given a present to Dolcie formally. This was the first and the most valuable one.

Seeing the smile on Dolcie’s face, Jackson smirked as well. He finally managed to make his wife happy.

After going back home, Dolcie locked herself in the room to deal with the documents again.

Dolcie was the CEO. Although she was taking a break at home, yet, for her, it was just changing a place to work.

Jackson had nothing to do in the afternoon and there was a long time till the dinner time. He suddenly thought of Harry Cox.

Harry texted him yesterday, saying that he wouldn’t be able to come to the company for a few days. Consequently, the training had to be stopped.

Jackson didn’t ask why, because he felt that Harry was in trouble.

Jackson drove to the Peace Community in Y City based on the company record.

This was a very old community, and the walls were mottled. There wasn’t a property management in here. The buildings looked as if they were built in the last century.

Jackson wasn’t surprised by this kind of environment, because he already knew that Harry’s family was impoverished.

Jackson went upstairs and the smell of garbage ran into his nose. The stairway was very narrow, without an elevator. Jackson came to the door at the fifth floor. He checked the apartment number and knocked on the door.

After a while, a familiar voice rang out from the apartment.

“Who is it?”

“It’s me, Jackson.”

It was silent for a moment as the person inside heard Jackson’s voice. Then Jackson heard the footsteps approaching. The door was opened, Harry stood at the door.

This guy was in beach pants and a white vest. Unlike how energetic he was normally, Harry’s eyes were swollen and looked fatigue now. He seemed to become another person.

Jackson narrowed his eyes and didn’t say anything. He patted on Harry’s shoulder and said: “Let’s talk inside.”

Harry didn’t expect Jackson to be here. The latter was like a god, or an idol, in his heart.

Especially when Jackson patted on his shoulder, he almost cried out. That was the care of the master for the disciple. Though without words, Harry was very grateful.

Harry’s apartment was very small, with a total area of approximately fifty square meters. A kitchen, a bathroom, plus two small bedrooms, left a tiny amount of space for the living room.

The furnishes were archaic. The old-fashioned refrigerator kept buzzing.

Harry brought Jackson to his room and wiped the tears in his eyes with his back to Jackson. After that, he turned around with a smile and introduced:

“Mom, dad, my colleague came to visit me. This was Jackson that I mentioned.”

“Oh, it’s Jackson. My son always talks about you. Go, go get some water for Jackson.”

“Sit please.”

Two feeble voices sounded from the room. Jackson took a peek into the room and saw a fifty-year-old man lying on a wooden bed. His hairs were grey, and he looked ten years older in appearance.

The old man was skinny and tanned. The skin color was the sign of years of manual labor under the sun. More surprisingly, Jackson noticed that his leg, which hung on the bed, was so swollen that it almost matched the size of a head.

And Harry’s mother, also lying in the bed, shrank her body as if it was very cold, but now was clearly a hot summer.

The two greeted Jackson weakly. Jackson knew that they were not sluggish and did try their best to greet him. They couldn’t even support their bodies.

“Auntie, uncle, you don’t have to get up.”

Jackson suddenly came up with an idea, he said: “I actually came here to give bonus to Harry.”

Bonus?

Harry was surprised. He didn’t remember that he had any bonus.

“Master, what bonus? How come I don’t know that?”

Jackson smiled, “Two days ago, we received one million in the south of the city. Now that we got it back, of course we had bonus.”

Harry thought for a while and felt enlightened at the end. It now made sense why he would have bonus.

After that, Jackson took out fifty thousand from his pocket and handed it to Harry.

“Master, that’s a lot of money. The incident in the south of the city was your contribution, I didn’t…”

Harry was reluctant to receive the money and wanted to refuse. Jackson exerted force in his hand and winked at Harry, “Harry, let your parents rest. We will talk outside.”

After saying that, he smiled at Harry’s parents and dragged the latter to another room.

“Master, tell me the truth. Is the money yours? I have never heard of any bonus.” Harry asked in a low and raucous voice.

Although he was short of money now, yet he would never take the money that didn’t belong to him. This was the stubbornness that he was born with.

“The bonus is real. How can I lie to you. Plus, the money is for your parents and I’m just doing my best to help.”

“Don’t be as timid as a girl. You’re a big man now.”

Harry sighed out a long breath and looked at Jackson gratefully, “Thank you Master.”

Jackson waved his hands, “Tell me, what’s wrong?”

Harry looked overwhelmed, but seeing that Jackson was serious, he had no choice but to tell the truth.

Harry’s parents did not have a formal job. His mother was weak, and could only stay in bed all the time. His father was responsible to earn money to support the family.

Two days ago, his father ran into a few gangsters, who asked for protection fee. Harry’s father refused, and got his leg broken by them.

Since the family was too poor to go to the hospital, his parents could only rest in bed together. As a result, Harry had to ask for a leave to stay at home and take care of his parents.

If it weren’t Jackson’s arrival today, he would have already submitted the resignation report in two days. This content © Nôv/elDr(a)m/a.Org.

After hearing this, Jackson couldn’t help shaking his head. Every family had its own difficulty. Harry looked hilarious and irresponsible all the time at work, but Jackson didn’t expect him to be a filial kid.

“Let’s go check your father’s leg.” Jackson patted on Harry’s shoulder and walked back to the first room.

As Jackson walked in the room, Harry’s father hurriedly asked Jackson to sit down.

“Uncle, please don’t move. Are you hurt at this spot?”

Jackson didn’t sit down. Instead, he walked to the damaged leg of Harry’s father and touched the spot that was already swollen.

“Yes. I thought it will recover in two days, but it’s getting worse and worse!”

“Uncle, relax your body and try not to exert any force in your leg. I will check it for you.”

Jackson said casually while his hand rubbing on the damaged spot. Suddenly his hand stopped at a certain point, and he exerted forces in his fingers.

Crack!

The sound of bones cracking rang out.