The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 3442: Son of Midnight (Forty-one)

Wanda took out the key from her handbag and poked it into the keyhole for a long time but couldn't open it. When she came to her senses, she realized that she had taken the wrong key. This was the key for the community college locker, which was exactly the same as the key for the front door, so of course it wouldn't turn.

She sighed in frustration, took out the real front yard key and opened the door. After pushing the door open, she almost tripped over the threshold, and she was so angry that she pulled the bag chain and threw it back.

When she reached the front door, Jarvis opened it before she could open it. He was wearing an apron, and the aroma of scrambled eggs came through the crack of the door.

Seeing Jarvis, Wanda seemed to feel better. She smiled at Jarvis, hung her bag on the hook next to her, sat on the shoe stool and started to change her shoes.

Jarvis walked back to the kitchen, turned off the fire and poured out the scrambled eggs. He picked up the scissors beside him and cut the basil leaves planted in the small flowerpot to decorate the plate. He turned to look at Wanda and asked, "How was it today? Did you practice giving injections again?"

Wanda sat on the stool in a daze. When she heard Jarvis' question, she said, "Ah, yes. Today's operation class is to practice infusion care, and we also learned to identify prescriptions..."

When Jarvis saw that something was wrong with her, his behavioral analysis module went into full swing and he immediately realized what was going on.

"That Judy gossiping about you again?"

Wanda supported her hands on both sides of her body, lowered her head, and tried to hide her expression with her long red hair hanging on the side of her face so that Jarvis would not see it.

A few seconds later, a shadow appeared beside her. Jarvis walked in front of her, squatted down and held her face in his hands.

"What's the matter, dear?"

"Just some small stuff," Wanda said, "Just normal small talk, nothing to be concerned about."

"But you look sad and a little confused."

Wanda pursed her lips, first glanced at Jarvis, then lowered her eyes, and slowly tightened her grip on the edge of the shoe stool.

"Do you think we are not suitable to live here?"

"Why do you ask so suddenly?"

"We are not very rich," Wanda said. "I don't have a stable job and don't have much income. This whole family depends on you to support them."

"That's because you're still recovering," Jarvis said. "You gave birth to twins, which is very harmful to your body. Even the doctor said you should rest for twice as long. If the courses at the community college weren't so easy, I would have advised you not to go."

"But Brother Billy is almost two years old, so there's no need for me to take such a long break, right?"

"But you're not resting now, aren't you in class?"

"But not only can you not earn money by taking classes, you also have to spend money."

"Oh my God, Wanda, what's wrong with you? Why did you suddenly think of money?" Jarvis was really confused. He looked at Wanda from bottom to top, but didn't see any special expression on her face.

"I feel like everything we use to live here is expensive. This house is expensive, the property taxes and fees are expensive, the water, electricity, internet, lawn maintenance..."

"Yeah, but did you forget why we moved here? Because we could afford it. We even made a better deal, otherwise we would have moved to Long Island."

Wanda opened her 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 need to rest. This is due to your physical condition, not because I don't allow you to make money or you don't have the ability to make money. What's the problem?"

"Don't you feel a lot of pressure?"

Jarvis opened his mouth, a series of data flashed through his mind, and then he shook his head seriously.

He took Wanda's hand, kissed her first knuckle gently and said, "All the engineers in the entire Silicon Valley combined can't finish your husband's work in one night. The salary that Stark Group offers me is enough for us to live in the best wealthy area in New York. What pressure should I have?"

Wanda was distracted again, looking lost. Jarvis really felt that something was wrong.

He immediately retrieved the community college's surveillance footage and began looking for Wanda, but first he saw a woman he hated, their neighbor Judy, who always brought up Wanda's mutant identity.

Judy and her husband live at the end of the street. In this kind of community, the houses at both ends of the street are cheaper than those in the middle, so the two of them are at the bottom of the contempt chain in this community.

In fact, their financial situation is not very good. Judy's husband is an investor, but this is just a nice way of saying it. In fact, he is a futures trader.

Futures trading is about making money and losing money. When Wanda and her family first moved in, they heard from their neighbors that Judy and her family had lost a lot of money and even sold their car.

Originally Judy was a full-time housewife, but now she had to go out to work. However, she felt that jobs like supermarket cashier were too tiring, so she found an excuse to go to a community school, under the pretext of improving herself so that she wouldn't have to go out to work.

The reason why this matter has caused such a stir is that they were previously in arrears with property management fees and were visited by someone. The property management company initiated a vote among the owners to decide whether to kick them out of the community.

Judy was not popular to begin with, and many owners voted in favor. But because Judy was black and posted a video accusing racial discrimination, the property management company faced great public pressure, so the matter was dropped.

During the period of recuperation after giving birth, Wanda has been working on her own media. She became famous for the discrimination she suffered before, and later she and Jarvis transformed into a couple blogger. Because of their good looks and special race, they are welcomed by many people and have millions of fans on the Internet.

Although Wanda’s monetization ability is not very strong because she is unwilling to accept advertisements for some maternal and child products, she still has many genuine fans, and you can even occasionally meet them on the street or in the supermarket.

Judy has also been shooting videos about being discriminated against, but she is not as popular as Wanda. Maybe this is why Judy has always been a little jealous of them.

Not long after Wanda moved in, Judy spread the news of her mutant identity throughout the community. Even the neighboring community knew about it and insisted on asking the property management to initiate a vote so that the property owners in the community could unite and kick Wanda and her husband out.

Fortunately, Wanda's gentleness left a good impression on the neighbors. Jarvis also always appeared to be highly educated and had helped the property management company solve the network problem before, so Judy did not succeed. But this made her more targeted at Wanda and spread gossip about Wanda at every turn.

The two became even more incompatible after they met at the community school. Judy formed a gang in the school to exclude Wanda. Wanda was too lazy to pay attention to her, but she was also annoyed by their small group.

Fortunately, Wanda used the last name Lansheer when she registered for the community school, and was seen by another student by chance. This last name is not very common, and it happens to be exactly the same as the last name of the famous mutant leader Magneto. He guessed that Wanda was Magneto's daughter.

Wanda refused to admit it when several classmates who were close to her asked her. But the rumor spread more and more. Since then, Judy's clique has become more restrained. Although Wanda didn't want to be too involved with Magneto, she accepted it because it could provide her with a stable learning environment.

After finding out that Wanda was not wronged, Jarvis did not bother too much with her personal relationships. After all, even husband and wife should give each other personal space, and excessive interference is not advisable.

But this time was different. Wanda was obviously stimulated by something. Fortunately, since her last visit to Dr. Schiller, her mental state has become particularly stable. Otherwise, the whole community would have to move.

While comforting Wanda, Jarvis stared closely at Judy in the surveillance video. His intuition told him that this woman was the one who did it.

Sure enough, during lunch at the community college, Judy was leaning against the wall with a piece of bread, talking to a few people in the small group.

Wanda was taking the food tray and talking to the little daughter of the Punk family across the street. Jarvis remembered that the girl was a freshman who had just enrolled a few days ago and had a good relationship with Wanda before enrolling.

"...Yes, I was shocked. Can you imagine? I spent a full 200 yuan! My friend told me before that he filled up half a tank of gas for me and spent more than 100 yuan, but I didn't believe it."

Wanda seemed to be complaining to her friend about the price of gas, but Judy happened to hear it. The woman walked over with her arms folded and said sarcastically:

"Let me hear who is worrying about $200? It turns out it's the poor mutant. The Maximov family's wife can't even afford a $200 gas tank. If this gets out, our entire community will be embarrassed!"

Wanda was used to this kind of scene, and she immediately retorted: "Your family doesn't have to worry about gas money. After all, you walk 20 minutes to school every day, which keeps you healthy."

Judy's face immediately turned ugly. Her family still didn't have a car, which was a sore spot for her. She also sarcastically replied: "Only poor people like you would think that oil is expensive. Oil in New York State is obviously very cheap. It's okay to not have a car, but if you have a car and don't want to drive it, you look like a poor person!"

Wanda was already so angry about the gas bill that she almost lost her soul. After hearing what Judy said, she couldn't help but say, "Not expensive?! Did you know that the gas price in New York State is now the second highest in the federal government?! It's up 36% from last year! And it's still rising. It's 2% more expensive than the last time I filled up my tank!"

As soon as she said this, she found that people around her were looking at her with strange eyes. Even her good friend pulled her sleeve.

"But it's not expensive to begin with," one of the group said matter-of-factly. "If you live in a community like ours and still worry about money, who knows what you'll do!"

"Yeah, gas is just a few bucks. One visit to the beauty salon is enough to keep my car filled until next year."

"Besides, 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 higher than here. We are already doing pretty well."

Wanda looked at them in disbelief and said, "Not much money?! But it has increased by 40% in a year, and increased by 2% in just one week, and it is still rising. Do you think this price increase is normal?!"

"Besides, solar energy is so popular now, all aerial equipment is powered by new energy, and the market for new energy vehicles is also booming. Why is gasoline so expensive?!"

No one agreed with what Wanda said, not even the punk girl. Finally, Judy added:
"You think it's expensive because you can't make money. Poor people should go to the community where poor people live, and don't come here to complain!"