Chapter 27: The Test
Zach is doing well, with no fractures other than trauma to his head and arms.
Roque estimates that this is Zach has already gained experience in being beaten on Roque Island, and he can perfectly protect the important parts of his body when he is beaten, which is also capable, at least Roque will not, otherwise he would not have been beaten unconscious last time Roque was attacked.
Waving goodbye to Jonathan Jackson and Melody with a regretful face, Roque took Zach and left quickly.
"Where's your family?" Roque doesn't know why Zach lives on the streets, and according to what Roque knows about Zach, Zach should have a family in Cape Town.
Well, the file records that Zack's father has been missing for more than ten years, and in addition to Zack's mother, Zach should also have a younger sister.
Zack, whose head was wrapped like a dumpling, "babbled" for a long time, and Roque didn't understand what Zack wanted to say.
Zach took out the sticky notes and pencil from his pocket, and immediately looked depressed, the sticky notes were crumpled, and the pencils were already in three.
Roque was speechless, and went to the shop on the street to buy pencils and sticky notes, so that the two could communicate normally.
Zach was still smart and knew that working for Roque might be dangerous to his family, so Zach left the money Roque gave his mother and sister and moved out of the house on his own, living in an alley not far from the police quarters.
But in this sad year, it is not safe to live anywhere, and there are little hooligans on the streets of Cape Town, who ask Zach for money, but Zach does not, so they beat Zack for fun.
Yes, it's for fun, maybe Zach, a living person, in the eyes of those little rascals, has only one role left to be fun.
And it was to make fun of Zack's life, Roque had no doubt that if it wasn't for Roque passing by, those little hooligans would have beaten Zack to death, and not everyone was like Roque, who still had compassion for the weak.
"So, what's next for you?" Roque doesn't know whether choosing Zach as an informant is good or bad for Zack, and there should be more good aspects, after all, Roque brought Zach out of Robben Island alive.
But Zach working for Roque is also extremely dangerous in itself, this is just a little hooligan, it is a coincidence, if the Boers find out that Zach is working for Roque, then it is not known what kind of punishment Zach will face.
This relationship is a bit twisted, Roque doesn't want to calculate who owes whom, and relive a lifetime, Roque doesn't want to be too tired, follow the guidance of his heart in life, and don't think too much about right and wrong.
"I don't know." Zach still uses sticky notes to communicate with Roque, which is amazing, even if Zach holds the sticky notes in his hand, the words written are not ugly.
"Come with me, I just bought a house and it's being renovated now, you help me keep an eye on it, and if you behave well, I think, I need someone to take care of the lawn for me." Roque sighed, after all, he still couldn't leave Zach alone.
To put it mildly, looking back thousands of times in the past life, in exchange for passing by in this life, this sentence is placed here, it is not appropriate to describe the relationship between Roque and Zack, but the artistic conception is almost the same, when Roque was able to pick Zack from the thick file, this is also fate, since it is fate, then there must be a throughout.
What's more, Roque does need someone to maintain the "murderous mansion", or rather, the mansion, think about the large lawn of nearly ten acres, Roque has no time to cut the grass, as well as the fountain in front of the house, the sanitation in the room, the garden and swimming pool behind the house, strictly speaking, such a mansion needs at least three to five servants to keep the mansion tidy.
Of course, for Roque, it is not cheap to hire a servant, a maid in London with food and lodging will have a salary of 16 pounds per year, which is higher than Roque's salary when he was not naturalized, and the servant market in Cape Town is estimated to be not as high as in London, but it is not much worse, ten pounds a year is required, and he can't afford to hire it at all if he changes to the previous Roque.
If Roque hires Zack, it shouldn't take so much, not to mention that Zach has experienced all this now, as long as Zack is still grateful, then Zack's loyalty does not have to worry, this is what Roque values the most, as a policeman who already has gray income, and there will be more and more gray income in the future, the people around Roque have to keep secrets for Roque.
This is not a problem with Zack, after all, in the eyes of ordinary people, Zach can't even speak, and no one will beat Zack's idea.
Hearing Roque's words, Zach knelt down and kissed Roque's shoe despite the public.
This is the etiquette of the pope, and Roque is very uncomfortable, but it does not attract the attention of passers-by, and Zack's behavior is no different from those beggars who accept alms, of course, the meaning of the two is completely different.
Since he is a servant, then he must look like a servant, Zack's head is still wrapped in bandages, which cannot be removed, the clothes on his body are dirty, and there are blood stains, so Roque took Zack to the ready-to-wear store first and bought Zack a suit.
Of course, this ready-to-wear store is different from the tailor shop where Roque customizes clothes, the owner of the ready-to-wear store is Jewish, and things are sold very cheaply, a blouse is 4 shillings, a pair of pants is 3 shillings, a pair of leather shoes is 5 shillings, buy a suit and get a pair of socks, Roque is not a stingy person, buy two sets of the same clothes, you can let Zach have a replacement, it only costs less than two pounds in total, it's really cheap, thanks to the Jews everywhere, many people say that Jews are profiteers, Roque feels that the English tailor he customizes clothes is obviously more stingy, I don't even give a pair of socks.
Of course, Roque is not embarrassed to ask for it, if he asks for it, the British tailor should also give it, but Roque can't afford to lose that person, who can spend twenty pounds less to order clothes, can still care about a pair of socks?
Don't embarrass the traverser!
Seeing Roque's mansion, Zach was obviously shocked, Roque estimated that Zach should know that this was a "murderous house", but Zach was obviously not afraid.
This is also understandable, perhaps in Zack's heart, the police are the most fierce existence in the world, what demons and monsters, what ghosts and demons, only the heron and eagle sing leisurely-
Zach got into the groove quickly, and after clarifying his responsibilities, Zach immediately went to the backyard log cabin to find a weeder and began to build a lawn covering an area of nearly ten acres.
That's a lot of work alone.
Roque is not nonsense, since he chooses to trust Zack, then give Zach enough trust, when Roque leaves, leave Zach five pounds, in addition to Zack's living expenses, which also includes the cost of temporary purchase of materials for the workers who are building the ear house.
In fact, Roque does not trust Zach so much, and these five pounds are also Roque's test for Zack.