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Chapter 1521 They all really exist

The family had breakfast and gathered around the bed. Edward looked a little better. Although he was not fully recovered, his expression was optimistic. For the first time he felt hungry.

He watched Sandra put the cap on the syrup bottle.

Edward is still the same Edward, and he is still the first to start: "Have I ever told you, about..."

Will was the first to interrupt: "I told you."

Edward was startled.

Will continued: "We have heard the story of the maple tree and the Buick."

Edward said, alluding to Josephine: "I don't think there are people who haven't heard of it."

Unexpectedly, Josephine smiled and said: "The maple tree fell on the Buick, and the maple syrup splashed attracted many flies. The flies were stuck to the car, and they flew away with the car."

Undaunted, Edward continued: "But the real story is how I got this car. You see."

Edward suddenly asked: "What's the matter?"

Edward couldn't understand or accept: "Kill you, huh? What do you want, Will? Who do you want me to be?"

Will looked at him: "Be yourself. Good or bad, show your true colors, even just once."

When the door was opened, the scene had changed, and Sandra, Will and Josephine were seen staring at this forgotten corner of the house. The basement storage room is filled with unused items: an unfinished outboard motor, a dead bonsai, an odd lawn mower. We also found boxes of products that Edward had promoted.

Will opened the desk lid with some difficulty. Just hearing a "hiss" sound, a cat emerged from nowhere. But Will was used to being frightened.

Edward said without thinking: "I once saw an iceberg. They transported it to Texas as a source of drinking water. But unexpectedly, there was an elephant frozen in the iceberg. It was a furry elephant. Mammoth.”

Will looked at him: "I don't know you. You have never told me a fact."

Edward shook his head and still insisted on his opinion: "I have been myself since I was born. If you can't see it, it's your failure, not mine."

He can always make a very simple thing very interesting.

Will said seriously: "Can we talk?"

Edward was a little angry: "You think I'm fake."

Will shrugged: "Only on the surface, but I can only see the surface."

Will interrupted again: "Dad?"

Edward disagreed: "I told you a thousand facts. That's what I do, Will, I tell stories."

Will couldn't believe the telegram.

Will and Edward both smiled, as the women hoped they would, and they quickly packed up and left.

Sandra stood up and said, "I'll go see him."

Will interrupted again: "Dad!"

Suddenly, a vague illusion appeared in the water, causing waves to rise. Will was startled, and when he missed it, the pole fell into the dirty water and disappeared.

Will couldn't believe it. He always thought that the stories his father told were all made up and meant to deceive children, but he didn't expect that this was really the case!

"Is this really happening?"

Sandra told Will, "Your dad needs an office, but there's no room at home. You know what's important better than I do."

The two women quickly cleared away the dishes.

Will, Sandra and Josephine cleared out two large bags of trash to throw away. Sandra screams when she sees a newly discovered document!

Will was a little confused and curious about his mother's exclamation: "What is that?"

Sandra nodded: "Not everything your father said is false."

Sandra immediately said: "I'm going to wash the dishes."

Will shook his head: "You are telling lies, Dad. You are telling interesting lies, those fairy tales you tell when you put a 5-year-old child to bed. When your son grows up to be 10, 15, 20 or even 30, When I was years old, it was still the same. I always believed in you and your stories. When I realized that everything you said couldn't happen - EVERYTHING! I felt like a fool, Always trusting you so much. You are like a cross between Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, equally charming and equally false.”

He looked around, but fortunately no one saw all this, so he walked away casually.

Edward turned his face away angrily. He couldn't believe what his son said.

Edward was surprised: "Son?"

The conversation between father and son still ended in failure. Will could not understand his father, but Edward stubbornly insisted on his own opinion.

Sandra led Will to a dusty roll-top desk flanked by two metal filing cabinets.

Sandra said: "During the war, your father disappeared and they thought he was dead."

Will was a little frustrated: "The thing about icebergs is that you only see 10% of the iceberg, and the other 90% is hidden under the water. That's you, I only see a little bit above the water. Pointy corners.”

Will spoke again: "Dad, I'm going to have a child of my own. If he can't understand me in his life, it will be like killing me."

Sandra handed Will a yellowed telegram and asked him and Josephine to read it together.

Edward said with some dissatisfaction: "Then you shouldn't start with a question. Because questions need to be answered. You should say: "The thing about the iceberg is..."

Edward heard this and said in a joking tone: "What, are you looking at the tip of my nose? Or is it my chin?"

Josephine immediately followed: "I'll help you."

Will finally said, "Dad, how much do you know about icebergs?"

The camera pans to show Will using a pole to skim leaves and debris from the surface of the swimming pool, a futile task. The swimming pool had not been cleaned for a long time, and the water was covered with a slippery, shiny layer of algae, and the cement stones were coated in slime.

Will looked at him and said, "I was just making a metaphor."

Josephine also said, "I need to lie down for a while."

Will knew they wanted to give him some alone time.

Josephine kissed Will goodbye and followed Sandra. Will read the telegram again, still confused.

Will thrust the telegram into a strange mechanical hand on the table, which automatically clamped the telegram.

Will smiled, this reminded him of a long time ago, when he was very young. He had long forgotten this mechanical gadget, and the camera slowly zoomed in on the telegram in the mechanical hand.

Edward's voice sounded

"After the war, the children of Alabama returned home to look for work. Each of them had an advantage over me in that they were still alive. I was—officially—dead."

Next comes a narrative from Edward.

At the Civic Center office, Edward shook hands with his new boss, who was wearing a wig. The company was called United Products, and the female employees all liked Edward.

Edward's voice narrated: "Since it was not easy to find a job, I simply became a traveling salesman. This job suited me very well. The most noteworthy advantage of Edward Bloom is his strong communication skills. "

At the market, Edward was promoting a new product to everyone at the booth.

“I’ve traveled a lot, from Tennessee to as far away as Timbuktu, and one thing everyone agrees on is that we all need a hand in the home.”

As he spoke, Edward took out a wonderful mechanical device, which unfolded like a flower, revealing four fingers and a thumb. This is the "Household Multi-Hand" (trademark). “Once you have this product, you can”

As Edward demonstrates, a quick montage appears.

"Open jars, open letters, scratch an itch, pick up a book, hold a baby. It's powerful enough that you can even do a handstand on it."

After speaking, the agile Edward immediately demonstrated how the robot hand could support his entire body weight, and the onlookers applauded enthusiastically.

"It can point to important information, or dangerous signals, and it can point to beautiful women."

The first finger of the robot hand pointed at a stout man wearing overalls.

Edward quickly made amends: "Of course, we are still improving its functions."

The onlookers laughed.

On the highway, Edward drove the car and stretched one hand out of the window to feel the breeze.

“I quickly added new products and visited more cities. My travels stretched from the East Coast to West Texas.”

The scene switches again, and Edward kisses his pregnant wife goodbye. His affection for her remains the same as before.

"I would stay away from home for weeks at a time. Every other Friday, I would deposit the money into my bank account so I could buy a nice house with a white picket fence."

Savings and Loans in Texas.

During lunch time, there were many people in the bank and there was a long queue. While Edward was filling out the deposit form in line, the man standing in front of him turned to look at him.

Yes, he met the poet from the ghost town again.

It turns out that the poet came to rob the bank. In order to avoid casualties, Edward had to cooperate with the poet in the robbery. However, a funny scene happened. The bank actually went bankrupt long ago.

The cashier who cried and opened the vault actually said seriously: "You have to promise not to tell anyone."

The audience was stunned by this scene!

After that, Edward had to escape with Norther. Later, Norther found that the money from robbery was really slow, so he planned to go to Wall Street because capital robs money faster.

"When Norther made his first million, he sent me a check for 10,000 yuan. I didn't want it, but he said it was my labor fee for planning his career." Edward's voice sounded again. said.

Back home, Sandra watered the garden. His son Will, who was still just a little boy, ran over to greet Edward who had just returned home.

"Ten thousand dollars is nothing to most men, but it was enough to buy my wife a nice house with a purple picket fence."

Because of this ten thousand yuan, Edward's house is the most beautiful in the entire community. Edward kissed his wife.

"A wife's love is the greatest wealth a man can ever wish for."

Sandra lowered the watering hose and water poured onto the lawn.

The camera switches, Edward turns on the faucet, water spills into the bathtub, and gradually fills the bathtub.

He climbed into the bathtub in his pajamas and sat down slowly.

When the water level reached the second button of his pajamas, Edward slipped under the water. Blisters kept coming out of his nostrils, and soon the blisters disappeared. Except for the sound of filling water, everything was quiet, and Edward closed his eyes.

After a while, the sound of water filling stopped. Edward opened one eye, then the other. He sat up and found Sandra sitting on the edge of the tub. She didn't seem worried at all, because she knew her husband always did.

"I'm fucked to death."

"We should water you like a flower."

Edward smiled and arched his legs to make room for Sandra. Sandra hesitated, then took off her sandals, climbed into the tub, and faced Edward. Her dress was soaked, but she didn't care.

Edward kissed her, and when they broke apart, Sandra's eyes filled with tears.

Edward wiped away her tears.

Sandra said emotionally: "It seems I will never be able to do it."

Back in the basement, Will sits awkwardly in a canoe and retrieves another filing cabinet. He flipped through the folders page by page, often tossing the entire folder into the trash when he was done.

When he was about to throw away another document, he suddenly stopped and looked at it again. Something didn't make sense.

As Will walked upstairs from the basement, he saw his mother coming around the corner, holding some laundry, including her wet dress.

Will asked, "Is he awake?"

Sandra: "Just fell asleep, Josephine was with him."

She walked past him and Will turned his head.

"Mother?"

"what's up?"

Will quickly debated whether he should ask her.

“Do you and Dad own another property?”

Sandra thought for a moment: "When your grandmother passed away, she left a house behind, but we sold it quickly and your cousin Shirley bought it."

Will wanted to make sure again: "You haven't bought any other real estate?"

Sandra shook her head: "Of course not. We don't even have enough time just to take care of this house."

Will nodded, feeling strange, and continued upstairs.

In fact, everyone is also very confused, what exactly does Will think is wrong?

So he put on his clothes and drove to follow the address on the document. As a result, he actually saw road signs that said "Ashton, 10 miles"!

What's even more amazing is that he actually saw a road sign that said: "Welcome to Ghost Town!"

There really is a ghost town. At this moment, the audience in the theater had the same idea as Will.

Will soon found the house at the address, and the sound of a piano came from inside. To Will's surprise, the woman who opened the door was the woman he had met in the supermarket before.

The truth is about to be revealed.

Will's first question was to ask this woman named Jenny Hill if she had an extramarital affair with his father.

At this time, everyone also remembered that she appeared in Edward's story, but she was just a little girl when she appeared!

This can be said to be unexpected by everyone, because no one expected that the little girl Jenny in Edward's story actually existed.

Of course, since Ghost Town exists, it seems not surprising that Jenny also exists.

At this moment, everyone became more and more curious, or in other words, they had been successfully caught by the hook laid before!

Desperately like Will, he wants to know what happened?

What Edward said must have traces of processing, but what is the truth?

(End of this chapter)