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Chapter 18 The Colt Problem

Li Sike's sorrow of parting was also diluted by the popular sales of this new book.

The next day, Li Siko browsed news about himself on Facebook.

"Li Sike's new book is great. After I got it, I read it overnight. It brought me a lot of insights. The country where we live and this era are in a state of great change, everything is developing rapidly. Society is constantly improving, and people's ideas are also changing. Many people are beginning to be confused and depressed. They gradually forget their ideals, no longer have their initial enthusiasm, and begin to yearn for mediocrity.

We are a group of children living in the new era, and naturally they are used to confusion and troubles, but we should focus on our front, our path, and we should be a group of people with ideals and ambitions. If Holden does not have his pure ideals, he will fall to the end, and it is his ideal to make him survive. Ideals are the guiding light for people, which leads people to the future and towards light. Our life has just begun. Even though life makes our generation a little confused and confused, everything is just temporary and will pass. What we need most now is our ideal."

"The protagonist is full of rebellious colors. He fights, skips classes, smokes, drinks, etc., which are typical rebellious characteristics of adolescent children. He hates school, teachers, classmates and other people and things. He always wants to escape from real life and go to his ideal world, but he is disappointed and confused by reality again and again, reminding him again and again that there is a gap between ideals and reality.

It is true that there is a contrast between ideals and reality. Your ideals are often things that you cannot get in reality but are eager to get. The worse the reality, the better the ideals are. And ideals can only be realized through our efforts.”

"Holden, whether you are in the wheat field or in the wind and rain, please continue to watch. Watch for the sincerity that has not been drowned by falsehood, the simplicity that has not been stabbed by vanity, the love that has not been smeared by vulgarity, the dream that has not been wrapped in money, fame and fortune, and all pure and innocent children."

When Li Ske saw these hot discussions, he realized that his book was really too popular now. Random House has also increased its publicity, so the sales this time are likely to be really beyond his expectations.

Just after posting Facebook to thank readers for their approval, visitors came to Li Sike's home.

"Lee," the cock and Colt drove a second-hand pickup truck to the front of the house.

Li Sike opened the refrigerator, took two cans of their favorite beer and threw it over.

"Why are you free to come to see me today?" Li Sike poured a glass of water and asked them.

"Colt has something to come to you," the cock wiped the beer dipped from his beard.

"Colt?" Lisco looked at him in confusion.

Colt was a little embarrassed. He held the beer slowly and didn't know how to speak.

"He had a fight with Bo. He was planning to propose to Goli recently, and Bo drove him away from the ranch." The cockerel could not stand Colt's silly look and told Lisco directly.

"Is there a quarrel with Bo? So you have no place to live?" Lisco probably guessed what Colt meant.

"No, there is a house outside our ranch, the one in the woods we were kids, where Colt lives now."

Lisco recalled the house that the cock mentioned. It was built after Maggie was arguing with Bo when she was young, and it has been many years.

"Oh, I remember, but the house has not lived in a long time, and it is still raining. There are spider webs everywhere. Nowadays, children regard it as a haunted house."

Colt finally spoke at this time, "Li, I want to ask if I can come to your ranch to work? I want to marry Goli, but I can't always have no job. I can't support my family in this way, and Goli's parents wouldn't want to marry her to a useless waste like me."

Li Sike is a bit difficult to deal with. The ranch is now just enough. If you add people, you will have to bear unnecessary salary. In this way, other cowboys will have opinions. After all, when signing the contract, Li Sike stipulated that the ranch would eliminate expenses and share them with cowboys. Now, adding people will break the rules he sets.

But Colt is his brother who has been playing with since childhood. He rarely asks for help if he has any difficulties. If he refuses, he will seem inhumane.

Colt saw Li Sike's embarrassment, "It's okay, Li, actually I just asked, don't be too embarrassed. I've been out for so many years and I've forgotten almost everything about the ranch. If I come to work, I still have to study again."

There is nothing to say about the rooster. As the leader of the ranch, Colt is his younger brother, and he really understands Lisco's difficulties.

Suddenly, Lisco raised his head, "Colt, where have you been working for so many years?"

Colt was a little embarrassed. After all, he still came back in shame for many years. He always avoided such things.

"After I left home, I joined the Florida Golden Eagles as a defensive end. After playing for a season, I was cut off without any results. Then I turned around to various clubs as substitutes until I came back." Colt said slowly and felt relieved. "I even went to college to train for others for a period of time, for a salary of ten dollars a day."

Lisco interrupted him, "That's it, would you like to go to Garrison Middle School to be a football coach?"

"Coach? I don't have a coaching certificate. When someone suggested that I take the exam, I was arrogant and thought that I would definitely be able to score in the league and get promoted to the first team, so I refused." Colt was also a little regretful when he looked back.

Li Sike picked up the phone, broadcast a number, and signaled the two of them.

"Principal Moss? I'm Lisko."

A hearty laughter came from the opposite side of the phone, "Li, how are you doing recently? I have read your new book, it's great. I'm planning to report to the school board recently and list this book as a must-read for the school recommendation of the school."

Li Sike responded politely, "Really? I'm so grateful. When I have time, I come to my place to sit here? I have a custom Cuban cigar I brought back from my mentor, and it tastes very good."

"Of course, I will definitely not be absent from cigars. I also try the customized high-end goods that literary writers enjoy in private,"

Li Sike exchanged a few greetings and then went straight to the topic, "Principal Moss, do you remember Colt in our school? The one who plays rugby,"

Moss on the other end of the phone thought. "I remember, I watched the Golden Eagles at that time. I think their coach is an idiot who always pressed our Garrison's pride on the bench. I heard that he was cut off from behind."

"Yes, it's that Colt. Now the school honors column also has photos of him leading the football team to the top 30 high school football games in the United States."

"Bo's son, our school team has never played in Cordorola since he left. He had better grades back then, so some universities would definitely be willing to admit him, but he insisted on going to the club." Moss' tone was regretful. He had been the principal for twenty years and regarded Garrison Middle School as his home.

"Colt was at home recently, and I was wondering if it was possible to bring us a football coach with a club-level former professional player to our Garrison High School and save the varsity team we are about to lay off?" Lisco tentatively proposed his purpose.

"Of course," Moss thought for a moment and agreed immediately. He happened to want to cut off the ineffective coach on the school team.

"But there is a problem. Colt does not have a rugby coach certificate, which is a problem." Li Sike did not do it.

"It doesn't matter. He can join the company first. I will find a relationship to arrange for him to take the exam and get a certificate in three weeks. He was a professional player before, so no one in Garrison knows how to play the game better than him." Moss' attitude was very clear.
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