Manhattan Reborn 1978

The old Malkin family.

Ludy joked a little with the hostess Sena and Polly's sister Manqi, then walked into the study on the second floor with two paper bags and old Malkin.

The two sat down, and Ludy placed the bag on the desk in front of old Malkin: "Where's Polly?"

"Still sleeping upstairs."

"Then take a look at these first!"

Old Malkin put his hand on the file bag with some confusion: "What is this?"

Ludy closed his mouth and shrugged: "It's what Polly asked me to help with!"

Old Malkin frowned and said nothing. He slowly opened the thicker one of the two bags.

In the bag, there were several pieces of paper and many photos that were individually categorized and labeled.

The male protagonist in the photo is Polly's husband, the second son-in-law of the old Malkin family, the guy who works as a manager in a construction company.

The heroines in these photos are five or six women of different ages and styles.

The corner of each photo is numbered.

Behind each number on the paper, it is stated that on a certain day, a certain year, a certain time, in a certain place, Polly's husband had an intimate relationship with a certain woman.

Old Malkin's brows had turned into a knot. He took out a pair of glasses from the desk drawer, put them on, and read through their contents one by one according to the numbers on the photos and the notes on the paper.

After a while, he reached out and asked Ludy for a cigarette, lit it, took off his glasses, and rubbed his temples.

"When did Polly find out?"

"Polly asked someone to take these pictures."

Old Malkin picked up the photo and looked up the date on the paper: "Is it more than a year ago? No wonder~"

Old Malkin shut up halfway through saying this.

Ludy didn't seem to hear him, sitting there silently blowing smoke.

After a few minutes.

Old Malkin put his eyes back on, picked up another slightly thinner bag, and opened it.

Inside the bag was a divorce agreement, signed by Polly's husband.

Old Malkin read the agreement carefully and his brows slowly relaxed.

"Is this what Polly means?"

"Well, she asked our family lawyer to draft the agreement. The lawyer found the person in the morning and asked him to sign it. It was sent to me just now."

"Call Sena for me."

"Okay!" Lu Di put out his cigarette butt and stood up and walked out of the study.

After a few minutes.

Sena sat in Ludy's seat just now, and after reading the contents of the two bags, she was shaking with anger. .

She took some time to read the divorce agreement carefully, and then slammed it on the table.

"This damn bastard!"

"Look at it! At that time in this photo, Polly was still pregnant with his second child!"

"he.."

Old Malkin played with his glasses calmly, waiting for his wife Sena's anger to subside. .

Lu Di stood silently in the corner of the door, lowered his head, looking at his leather shoes, how could it be. .Dirty again?

ten minutes later.

Sena, who was tired of scolding, angrily pressed her hands on the scattered photos, and looked back with lingering anger at Ludi, who was pretending to be a transparent person.

"Did you already know about this?"

Forehead. . .

Ludy felt like he was going to sit on wax. .

He lowered his head, not daring to look at Sena: "Yes..."

"Ludy!"

Sena suddenly jumped up. She strode up to Ludi, grabbed his collar, and shouted: "Then why didn't you bastard break his legs earlier?"

"you.."

"enough!"

Old Malkin's voice was not high-pitched, but his words were extremely clear in this study.

"That's enough, Sena!"

"Polly has made her own decision, and now we no longer need to pursue those bad things in the past!"

"Sena, come back and sit down!"

"Let's discuss what to do..."

"There's no need to discuss it."

At this time, the door of the study room was opened by Polly from the outside. As she spoke, she walked to her mother's side, reached out and patted Ludy, and pulled her mother's hand from Ludy's collar.

"Mom, Dad is right."

"I can't bear it anymore!"

"I've made my choice."

"Don't be angry about me anymore."

"He doesn't deserve it, and I feel happy and relieved because I can leave him!"

"Polly..."

"mom!"

"Now that he has signed, this marriage between us is a thing of the past!"

"I will move back to live with you in the future, but you don't want to... dislike me!"

"how could be!"

"us.."

"Yes~yes~I know you and dad are caring about me..."

Sena was pulled by Polly, and the two sat opposite old Malkin.

Polly took a look at the photos and the agreement on the desk, took a pen and signed her name on the agreement, put them in a bag, and told her parents all her feelings for more than a year.

Ludy, who was standing at the door, blinked and quietly slipped out of the study, closing the door behind him, leaving a space for the family of three to open up and communicate.

The first floor of the old Malkin house.

Ludy saw that the eldest daughter of the old Malkin family, Polly's sister Manqi, was busy preparing dinner in the kitchen, so he walked to the small bar in the living room, poured himself a glass, and looked at the children playing in the living room. Relax. .

Manqi in the kitchen inadvertently looked up and saw Lu Di. After thinking about it, she wiped her hands clean and poured a glass of water for Lu Di. She walked up to him, grabbed the wine glass and put it aside, then stuffed the water glass into it. In his hand, he whispered.

"Were you talking about Polly's divorce in the study just now?"

"You know that too?"

"Polly...she had a lawyer draw up an agreement and they all signed it."

Manqi rolled her eyes at him, pulled Lu Di into the kitchen, looked at the children who were still playing, sighed and said, "I have known about Polly's husband for a long time."

"When I found out, Polly was still pregnant with the child, so I didn't tell her about it."

"Later, after the child was born, I felt that Polly should already know about her husband's affairs."

Ludy was speechless. .

He rolled his eyes and glanced at the children, secretly complaining: "Is Sena the only one in this family who doesn't know this shit?"

Manqi crossed her arms in front of her chest and smoothed the broken hair around her ears with her hands: "Polly and I are different, you should know this."

"My husband and I are..."

"Forget it, don't talk about us!"

"Polly...what was left for him?"

"Only the house they live in."

"Huh~ It's okay!"

"Then as an elder brother, haven't you ever thought of doing something for Polly?"

"Uh..." Lu Di looked at Manqi's serious expression and smacked his lips.

"I'm waiting. After all their procedures are completed, I will teach that bastard a lesson."

"Ok!"

"You have to remember, just don't kill me!"

"..good!"

Lu Di simply showed his big white teeth and nodded repeatedly in assurance.

"Where's little Malkin? Have you seen him these days?"

"No...I've been busy with the company these days, and I haven't seen him for a long time."

"He...didn't he go to Yehuo to find that woman during this time?"

"No... Malkin probably never went to the Wildfire Bar after your father gave it to David."

Manqi slightly tilted her head and looked at Ludi, raised her hand to help him straighten his collar, where Sena had wrinkled it just now: "Then next time you meet little Malkin, give him a few big ones for me. Mouth, teach that bastard a lesson and tell him that I asked you to hit him."

"it is good!"

Lu Di watched Manqi adjusting his collar with a gentle expression on her face, but she told him to give her brother a beating. .Couldn't help but swallow.

"Okay~ Do you have anything else?"

"No! It's okay~"

"Then you go to the living room and watch the children for a while~"

"My mother and I are still discussing today whether we should hire a nanny to help take care of the children."

"Now it seems.."

"Forehead.."

"Go ahead~ Why am I telling you this!"

Manqi patted Ludy on the shoulder, turned around, took a look, picked up the kitchen knife and pointed it at a few red tomatoes, and continued to make dinner.

Lu Di blinked, looked down at the water glass in his hand, and walked to the living room to stay quietly for a while. .

"correct!"

Manqi suddenly remembered something. She stopped what she was doing, raised her head and asked.

"Did Polly come back by herself today, or did someone send her back? Is it David?"

"It seems... right?!"

Ludy shrugged uncertainly.

"Oh...then...it's okay!"

"Go ahead~ We can have dinner soon, so please stop drinking!"

"Hey~"

Ludy came to the living room and handed a toy on the sofa to Manqi's children and asked them to play with it.

A sentence he had heard somewhere popped into his head inexplicably.

Women are like records, with sides A and B.

If you still feel unsatisfied after listening to side A, please hold back your curiosity and don’t listen to the other side of her.

amount. .

Among the women in the old Malkin family, the one who frightened Rudy the most was not Sena or Polly, but Mankey Sideli, who had a gentle look on her face when she was adjusting his collar just now. strange. .

There is not much age difference between Manqi and Ludi, and they can be considered to have grown up together in the family.

He knew too well the other side of this woman who now looked like a good wife and mother. .

Is she worthy of being a woman from the Sidrich family?

hehe~

----

Wildfire Bar.

David, his father David Sr., and Black Mike pushed open the door and walked into Wildfire, which was almost full.

After the wildfire was renovated, old David, who had never been here, waved to his son and his son, then walked around the bar with a somewhat curious expression to watch the excitement.

David touched his nose, shook his head, and came to the bar to say hello to Old Rhett, Erica, Martha, Jin Ji, and Madonna one by one.

Old Rhett saw him coming, smiled and took out a bag from a corner of the bar.

"Here are the notebooks and pens you asked for, as well as the video tapes that Harvey sent in the afternoon."

"Video?"

"Yes, he said what is this...a documentary? I want to leave it as a souvenir for you."

"Oh.."

David seemed to remember that Harvey had indeed told him to start shooting during the preparation stage of the flash mob operation to make a film that could be kept as a souvenir.

He opened the bag, took a look, turned to Jin Ji and asked, "Where is Giovanni? Is there any news from him and Lavis?"

"No~"

Jin Ji couldn't control herself and gave David a roll of her eyes. .

This David knew that they were going to steal something. .Are you still pressing so hard?

amount. .

David scratched his head in embarrassment, picked up the bag, waved to a few people, and prepared to leave.

"Wait a moment."

Seeing that David was leaving, Jin Ji shouted loudly: "The Karu you asked me to find is still waiting for you!"

"Ah~ yes! I know~"

David patted his head and remembered that at noon, in order to fend off Jin Ji, he asked her to go find Karu. .

"Um... Madonna~ Come on, come out with me."

"Okay~" Madonna, who heard David calling her name, put down the tray in her hand, stared at David's back, and followed him out of the bar.

street.

After David walked out, he saw Mike Bai and Karu standing by a car not far away, smoking and chatting.

After they saw David coming out, they all dropped their cigarette butts and walked over.

"I heard you were looking for me~"

Carew glanced at Madonna who was following David, raised his head to David and said.

"Ah...right~"

"Here, this is Madonna~ She will become a signed singer of Xinni Records in the future, so I want you to meet her."

"Madonna, this is Karu, boss Shinny's... friend~"

"Haha~ You can be considered a subordinate~ I will still follow Xinni in the future!"

David glanced at Carew in surprise, nodded slightly and said, "Okay!"

"Madonna, I have arranged for her to learn music knowledge for a period of time. After Xinni's record company is settled, you can take her to sign a contract and visit the company."

"Okay!" Carew nodded crisply to Madonna.

"Anything else?"

"No, remember to remind me after Xinni has finished everything!"

"it is good!"

"Mike Bai, come with me."

"Then...Madonna, please go back first~"

"Call me Black Mike, and the old man who came with me, he's my dad."

"ok~"

After David finished speaking, Madonna smiled at a few people, said no more, and turned back to the bar.

Mike Bai looked at her with a smile as if on purpose, twisted his waist, rubbed his chin with his fingers and said, "David, are you...interested in her?"

David turned around and kicked him angrily: "It means shit~!"

"Is it because I arranged for her to be a singer that I am interested in her?"

"fxxx!"

"Haha~ Who knows what you are thinking..."

"you.."

David pointed his finger at Bai Mike, who was smiling evilly, and then glanced at Karu who was eating melon next to him, and cursed in a low voice in frustration.

"Okay~ Where is the car? Let's wait for my dad to come out and then set off!"

"Haha~ok, I'll go pick up the car~"

Mike Bai gave Karu a proud look, turned around and left with a laugh.

----

The old Malkin family.

Everyone has finished their dinner.

The visit of David Sr. and David made Sena very happy.

After everyone chatted for a while, David took out the documentary video tape shot by Harvey.

It just so happens that the old Malkin family bought a video recorder not long ago, so everyone can watch it together and have fun.

After a few minutes.

In the living room on the first floor, everyone was sitting around the sofa talking and laughing. David and Polly finally got the VCR and pressed the play button. After a brief period of chaotic scenes, a group of young people dressed in different styles appeared on the TV. , and a group of dancing girls who were talking and laughing together.

"This is..." Sena asked, somewhat confused.

"They are all participants in this event!"

"Look, this time on TV is still early this morning, and it's not yet dawn!"

"The purpose of shooting this is to record the entire process before and after our event."

"Okay~ Then let's see what new tricks you came up with on Wall Street today~"

Sena smiled and patted David, who was sitting on the floor in front of her, and glanced at Polly, who was leaning next to David, hugging her knees and smiling.

"I'm going to turn off the lights in the living room."

David looked at the TV and noticed Polly sitting next to him out of the corner of his eye, and wanted to find an excuse to get up and leave.

"No, um... Mike Bai, can you help turn off the lights?"

"ok~"

Mike Bai turned off the light, squinted his eyes, and looked at David and Polly sitting side by side on the floor. The fire of gossip in his heart began to burn brightly. .

Polly had just gently pulled David's arm to stop him from getting up, and then. .I won’t let go. .

Just holding his arm, the two sat next to each other and watched TV with the family. .

Manqi, who was sitting on the edge of the sofa, patted Lu Di next to her and pointed to David and the others with her eyes: the two of them. .What is the situation?

Lu Di spread his hands with an innocent expression on his face: How do I know?

Manqi glared at Lu Di, who looked a little aggrieved. After thinking about it, she stood up and sat next to Polly on the floor, holding her arm. .

Polly saw her sister Manqi sitting next to her, turned around and smiled at her: What do you want to do?

Manqi turned her head slightly and glanced at the parents behind her: What are you doing!

Polly stared and raised her eyebrows: I can do whatever I want~

you~

Manqi was speechless. .

Seeing her sister's expression, Polly felt funny and pulled her. They both leaned closer to David. Polly sat in the middle. She hugged David's entire right arm with her left arm. Here, he put David's hand on his thigh, stopped paying attention to other people's eyes, and watched TV seriously.

Um. .

There was silence in the living room.

The people sitting on the sofa looked at each other at first, and they all conveyed information with their eyes and expressions. . .

Old David frowned and looked at Old Malkin next to him: Your daughter. .What's going on?

Old Malkin chirped: You saw it all!

Old David was a little angry and looked at Sena next to Old Malkin: Are you just going to leave it alone?

Sena spread her hands with a helpless expression: I can't control it.

Then she mouthed: It's okay ~ Look at David!

Old David's breathing became heavier, and he looked at his only son. .

At this time, David was stiff and didn't know what Polly's situation was today. .

He understood Polly's thoughts in the morning, as he walked her home.

Can. .I'm at home now~

Their families are all sitting behind them~

Was Polly asserting her sovereignty by holding his arm in such an affectionate manner? . .

David turned his stiff neck helplessly, looked at Polly, and opened his mouth, not knowing what to say. .

Polly saw him like this, smiled and whispered something in his ear.

David's eyes suddenly widened. .

He couldn't help but whisper in Polly's ear: "Yes...really?"

Polly nodded.

"Then...what do you think?"

Polly shook her head and tightened her arms around David.

this. .

David didn't dare to look back, let alone take his arm out of Polly's arms. .

He turned his head slightly helplessly, glanced at Manqi, and then at Ludi.

Manchi sat on the other side of Polly. She glanced at David sideways, with no expression on her face. .

Ludy was sitting on the sofa. He noticed David looking over, leaned back, bared his teeth and said silently to David: You are so awesome!

Then he gave David a thumbs up!

fxxx!

David raised his left hand and scratched his head, feeling that after taking a nap during the day, this thing started to happen. .Did it go astray?

time. .In this living room, the somewhat weird atmosphere slowly slipped away.

On the TV, the documentary was also placed near the end.

On Wall Street, there are some white shirts mixed in among the large crowds.

Everyone danced to the rhythm of the song and dance, and the smiles on their faces and the various shouts in their mouths were all faithfully recorded by the camera.

of course.

The important part of the whole event, David and Lilith's confession, Lilith's answer, the two were coaxed into kissing, and the two finally kissed each other, all made the atmosphere in the living room even weirder. .

The end of the film.

Manqi watched David fall into the arms of Laura and Lilith on the TV, covering his ears and shouting something. She finally couldn't help but turned to look at her sister Polly.

Polly noticed her gaze, nodded slightly, and said silently: I do!

Alright~

Manqi glared at her sister angrily, then stood up helplessly and walked to the kitchen to prepare some fruit and coffee for everyone.

The film is over.

David was as stiff as a robot. .Pulled up from the floor by Polly.

Polly tidied David's clothes like she was taking care of her own children, patted the dust that she didn't know existed, then smiled at her father, mother, and old David, and walked into the kitchen. .

in the living room. .Old David got up first, signaled to David, and walked up to the second floor with his head down.

Old Malkin and Sena looked at each other, followed suit with a wry smile.

Ludy, who was sitting on the sofa, saw that they were all gone, so he waved to the two Mikes and asked them to sit down and watch this interesting movie together again.

The three of them were just busy observing the expressions and movements of the people in the living room, and they didn't pay much attention to what was shown on the TV. .

They didn't say anything or discuss anything.

This is a family matter between old David and old Malkin. What can outsiders say?

The three of them didn't know what they were talking about in the kitchen and the study on the second floor, and they didn't want to know.

As long as you know the result, that's all!

----

This documentary is over 50 minutes long.

Ludy and Mike watched it for the second time quietly.

Just when they wanted to watch it again, Polly and Manchi came out of the kitchen and brought them fruit and coffee.

The three of them thanked each other politely and silently observed the two women who seemed to have cried.

The second floor.

David rubbed his head and walked out of the study with an expression of "How could this happen?" and went to the first floor to call Ludy and Polly, ready to start the meeting.

After a few minutes.

After everyone was sitting in the study, Sena and Manqi went out.

Old Malkin was the first to speak: "David has an idea, and I want to hear your opinions."

"Let him tell you first."

"Ok~"

David nodded, distributed notebooks and pens to everyone, then sat at the desk, looked at the few notebooks he brought from the apartment and said, "Everyone knows."

"When I first met Giles and Pine, I mentioned to them the series of violent incidents that have occurred in Iran in recent years, which may very well lead to the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty."

“Later, I predicted that pension investment restrictions would be fully lifted, and Congress passed the president’s bill to increase relief payments.”

"These two successes have allowed me to gain more trust and favor from Giles and Pine."

"So, they are now making some preparations for the highly likely second world oil crisis."

“Let’s not talk about what they will gain from this oil crisis in the future.”

"What I want to say now is what we are going to do in this oil crisis! Do you understand?"

Several people in the study, Old David, Old Malkin, Ludy, and Polly all nodded to express their understanding, but their expressions were slightly different.

Old David hesitated for a moment, then asked a question: "Is the Morgan family already taking action?"

"Yes!"

"They have started buying crude oil futures and crude oil spot."

"If we want to enter the market, we need to make a decision as soon as possible, then raise funds, enter the market quickly, and get enough chips before the oil crisis comes."

Old David nodded: "You continue!"

"ok~"

"In order for our investment to be more stable this time."

"Here's my plan!"

"The first step is to use the funds raised to buy spot gold."

"Let me briefly explain the reason for doing this."

"It starts with the initial fluctuations in gold prices many years ago."

"In 1971, President Nixon announced in a televised speech that he would close the gold window and stop governments or central banks from holding rice dollars in exchange for gold. The exchange rate of the rice dollar broke free from the shackles of gold and began to float freely in the world's foreign exchange market."

"In 1972, the price of gold in the London market rose from 46 meters to 64 meters per ounce."

"In 1973, the price of gold exceeded 100 yuan!"

"From 1974 to 1977, the price of gold fluctuated between 130 meters and 180 meters."

"Finally, this year, the price of gold rose from a low of about 1 meters in January to about 160 meters in August."

"I predict that after we raise all the funds, the price of gold will have some periodic fluctuations and fall back."

"Many long-term investors who bought gold at the beginning of this year will sell their goods in the near future and make a batch of profits. They will be safe at a high point."

"So, we can find the right time to buy all spot gold when the gold price is around 200-210 yuan."

"After the oil crisis occurs and the price of gold rises, we can look for opportunities to sell it and make a profit."

After David said this, he looked up at a few people.

Polly raised her hand and said, "I have a few questions."

“Why do you think buying gold is the best option?”

"Now that you've predicted another oil crisis, why not buy crude oil?"

"After the oil crisis, will the price of gold rise more than that of crude oil?"

"good question!"

David smiled and nodded to Polly, and asked everyone another question first: "Miyuan, it also has a name: Mijin."

"Everyone knows this, right?"

Everyone nodded in confusion.

David touched his nose, took a sip of coffee, and continued: "The United States has been fighting a war in Vietnam for 20 years."

"Now some people are shouting that they have won, and some are shouting that they have lost."

"Winning or losing this war is actually not too important to us ordinary people."

"But it brought down the peg between the dollar and gold, the U.S. government's currency credit, and the U.S. government's finances!"

"From this aspect, the United States has completely lost."

"The name Mijin that we all know is so called because rice yuan has been equivalent to gold for a long time."

"Each ounce of gold can be exchanged for 35 meters."

"But after the United States has experienced war after war."

“The circulation of rice dollars has far exceeded the amount of gold mined in the world every year.”

"When Nixon takes office, if he does not choose to stop converting the rice dollar into gold, then all countries that hold and reserve the rice dollar as foreign exchange can use the rice dollar to exchange for gold from the United States."

"As a result, the total amount of gold in stock in the United States is simply not enough to exchange for so many U.S. dollars, and the U.S. financial market will collapse, directly leading to the collapse of the entire U.S. financial system."

"Let's not talk about these big issues first, only those that are relevant to us."

"Gold price!"

"When the U.S. government had to choose to issue rice dollars indiscriminately due to war, growing fiscal deficits and other reasons, the price of gold began to slowly lose control!"

“This year, our President Warren White’s proposal to alleviate domestic stagflation was approved by Congress. This wave of issuance of rice dollars will have a big impact on the domestic and international gold markets. "

"So, from the perspective of the most stable investment, I chose to buy gold spot first as the first bargaining chip in our hands."

After listening to David's explanation, Polly understood what he meant, and continued: "When faced with the current domestic stagflation, the government chose to issue additional rice dollars to stimulate market consumption, hoping that the degree of domestic stagflation could be alleviated. "

"However, the more they issue rice dollars indiscriminately, the more they will cause the rice dollar to depreciate."

"And in the international financial market, gold, which is usually priced in rice dollars, will slowly depreciate as the rice dollar, and the price will rise?!"

"That's right!"

"It seems that you have really learned a lot during this time!"

David smiled and praised Polly, giving her a thumbs up for her continuous hard work in studying!

Old David, Old Malkin, and Lu Di couldn't help but frowned when they saw that the two of them had found the same frequency band and interacted with each other. .