Manhattan Reborn 1978

new York.

night~

Manhattan, upstairs at Wildfire Bar on 42nd Street.

When Polly Sidrich came back from get off work at DA Company, Zina, Elena and Toby were in the kitchen, chatting casually while preparing dinner.

Polly took off her coat in the living room, walked to the kitchen door with her hands behind her back, greeted the three of them with a shrug and a smile, and asked interestingly.

"Where's David?"

"He's in the study~"

"Are there guests at home?"

When Zina heard Polly's tone when she said this, she felt a very warm feeling in her heart and nodded. She pulled Elena to Polly and explained with a smile.

"David said: Tomorrow afternoon he and Lilith will go to Houston to find their mentor, Professor Bartlet, and continue writing the book."

"He must leave a detailed follow-up arrangement to the company before leaving."

"So tonight he invited Giles, Pine, Laura and others over for dinner."

"Oh~"

Polly leaned against the door and thought for a while, looked at Zina and Elena and smiled: "Did you just come back today?"

"Ok!"

"Did your trip to Europe go well this time?"

"It's okay~"

"Come on, I think you are almost ready. Please tell me in detail first..."

Zina let go of Elena's arm, stepped forward and took Polly's arm and said with a smile: "Giles and the others just called and they will be here soon~"

"You come and join us, we'll make dinner while we talk..."

"Okay!" Polly rolled up her sleeves cheerfully, walked into the kitchen and looked around, then deliberately leaned next to Toby, picked up a piece of vegetable salad she was preparing, put it in her mouth, and said with a smile.

"Too rich!"

"My stomach is growling..."

"Let's get it done quickly!"

"Hahaha~ok!"

Zina and Elena looked at each other in understanding, smiled and continued to work.

. . .

Dinner time!

Giles and his partner Pine arrived on time for the appointment, bringing two bottles of good wine.

Laura and Lilith, who went shopping with their friends today, put all the "trophies" in the living room and chatted with Polly, Zina, Elena and Toby. .

"Come and eat!" David shouted to the women in the living room while holding two open bottles of good wine~

"Got it~right now!"

"Tsk tsk..."

Giles stood at the dining table, looking at the women in the living room who were talking casually, and asked David jokingly: "You don't seem to have much authority in this family?"

"Hehe~"

David glanced at Pine who had nothing to do with him, tilted his head and glared at his friend Giles, and mocked: "You idiot who can't even get a girlfriend, how dare you come over and taunt me?"

"Where did you get your confidence?"

"Ignorance?"

"You...I..." Giles' face instantly turned red, making Pine couldn't help laughing.

"Why do you have to talk to him about women?"

"You're not afraid... huh?"

"...Tch!" Giles rolled his eyes and stared at the ceiling for 1.745 seconds, then sighed in frustration.

"Isn't it just that you have many girlfriends?"

"Me too!"

"Hey~"

David took the wine bottle and poured drinks for several people respectively. He put it down and pointed towards the living room and said with a smile: "Dear, Giles said it's like a group of hens that only chirp all day long. It's annoying to death." !”

"Hen?" When the women in the living room heard David's words, they all stood up suddenly and rushed to the dining room, staring at Giles with "waving" and "severe" eyes. .

"what?"

"I didn't say...I'm not!!"

"It's all what he said... He slandered me..." Giles raised his hands with a stiff expression and hurriedly explained hesitantly.

"Ok?"

Lilith seemed to see that Giles was not lying. She tilted her head and looked at David and asked, "Did he really say that?"

"of course not!"

David deliberately paused for two seconds between two words, causing cold sweat to break out on Giles' forehead.

"..??"

David smiled and pulled Lilith for a kiss, then pulled Polly for a kiss, pulled Zina for a kiss, pulled Elena for a kiss, and pulled Laura for a kiss. .Skip~

Finally, he pulled Toby, who was a little embarrassed, smiled, scratched her nose with his finger, and joked: "No weight loss tonight!"

"ok?"

"...ok!" Toby felt a little disappointed suddenly for some reason, and nodded with a smile.

"Eat, eat!"

"Nothing is as important as eating!"

"..."

The women who once again witnessed David's "shamelessness" looked at me and I looked at you. They all smiled and shrugged, pulled up their chairs and tacitly ignored everything that had just happened~

Only Laura had a stinking little face and stared at David "viciously", as if she wanted to kill him with her eyes. .

"Uh..." Giles sat honestly next to Pine, looking at the "harmonious" scene of the girls across from him, covering his face with his hands and asked Pine.

"Why do I feel like I'm dreaming every time I see this scene?"

"Hahaha~"

Pine shook his head with a smile, spread his hands and said, "Actually, as long as you admit it just now, you will know immediately whether you are dreaming or not!"

"..."

Giles was stunned for a few seconds, stared at Pine in disbelief for a while, grinned and muttered: "I'm not stupid!"

"Hahaha~"

. . .

after dinner.

After Giles learned that David had some new ideas, he dragged him into the study room, "took" David's manuscript out of curiosity, and read it carefully.

Pine looked at the relaxed David, thought for a moment and asked, "Elder came back this time and told me that you have been accepted as a student by Professor Bartley?"

"Yes!"

David smiled and shrugged, pretending to be humble and said: "I didn't expect that Professor Bartley would agree to accept me so readily."

Pine looked at the "humble" David, shook his head slightly and said with a smile: "Okay!"

"How long do you plan to come back to Houston this time?"

"When I go there this time, I will at least write out all the chapters of the entire book!"

"The whole book?"

"Correct!"

"According to my estimation, it should be almost complete in four weeks."

"All around..." Pine was speechless.

David saw that he seemed to have something to say, but couldn't say anything for a while, so he walked to him and sat down: "Hey~"

"I heard from Giles that you want to propose to your girlfriend Misu?"

"Um.."

"when?"

"It's summer~"

"After she graduates?"

"Ok!"

David gave Pine a thumbs up with great admiration and said with a smile: "Do you have your own career plan after graduation from Misu?"

"Yes~ she wants to join the New York Philharmonic."

"Uh..." David recalled the information related to the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, shrugged and spread his hands.

"Sorry~ I may not be able to help you much."

"Hehe~"

Pine smiled and glanced at the "fascinated" Giles: "Don't worry, I have already arranged everything for her."

"Wow~"

David sighed with envy and leaned on the sofa: "Do you know?"

"I have also imagined that I can easily make people around me fulfill their wishes~"

"But that is my unrealistic fantasy after all..."

"That's why you work so hard?"

"Yup!"

"Then you've never thought too much about yourself?"

"I.."

David scratched his forehead with his hand and was confused by this question for a moment~

He crossed his legs and lay completely relaxed on the sofa. He looked at the ceiling with a somewhat blank look and said as if he was asking questions to himself.

"I... really like the history hidden behind the movie!"

"do you know?"

"Of course I also like the various seductive beauties in the movie, the thrilling action fights, the touching life-and-death love, etc.~"

"But history can allow us to see some things that we can't usually see..."

"But the stories in the movie have been reshaped by the screenwriters into what the audience most wants to see~"

"Some people think this is a crime!"

"But I don't think so~"

"Because only by rewriting my history can I face my biggest fear!"

David closed his eyes more relaxedly and gestured back and forth in the air with his fingers.

"Actually, the road in front of me is already very clear~"

"As long as I keep going step by step, all my plans can come true!"

"But~"

"As it is said in the book "The Great Gatsby": glitz and glamor lose one's original intention, and materiality wanders around oneself."

"All the glamor and beauty cannot compete with time."

"It will never come back!"

"..."

Pine suddenly showed a "literary style" that looked down on everything towards David, and felt a bit toothache. .

He tried hard to control the urge to complain and turned to look at the "quiet" Giles, thinking about another question in his mind.

. . .

After half an hour.

Polly knocked on the door from outside the study: "Hi, gentlemen!"

"We've finished sorting it out, what about you?"

"Forehead.."

Behind the desk, David put down the pencil in his hand, shrugged and smiled at Giles.

"Sorry ~ the entertainment time after dinner is over."

"I still want to accompany Polly home to see~"

"Oh!" Giles shook his head with regret, picked up his notebook, and smiled at Polly.

"Have a great night!"

"Thank you~" Polly nodded happily.

Pine stood up from the sofa on the other side, walked to David and Polly and smiled: "I heard that the movie "The Godfather" has received all the filming permits and will start shooting soon."

"Oh?"

"Oops~ I forgot about it!" David was reminded by Pine and immediately slapped his forehead and said with a bitter smile.

"I haven't contacted director Coppola during this period, let alone the progress of his preparations for filming."

"Haha~ It doesn't matter, I will keep an eye on him for you!" Polly took half a step forward, took David's arm and smiled.

"All right!"

David tilted his head and glanced at Polly, then looked at Pine, and said with a smile: "I told Sam today that the 500 meters you lent me will be converted into equivalent gold for investment~"

“When we sell it all, it will go into your personal account with interest.”

"...Hmm!" Pine's eyes flickered a few times, and he nodded without saying anything more.

David smiled and continued: "I still need to trouble you to help me pay back the mortgage of the building under our feet to the bank~"

"loan?"

"What are you in such a hurry for?"

"Waiting for the money?" Giles put away his notebook and asked curiously.

"No~"

David felt helpless and explained: "It turned out that I planned that the monthly operating income of the Wildfire Bar would be enough to repay the monthly mortgage loan."

"But recently, the business of the bar has gradually deteriorated, and the income has dropped again and again, and the interest rate of bank loans..."

"Okay~ Got it."

Before David could finish his words, Pine nodded and said with a smile: "I can handle the early loan repayment procedures for you first, and then have someone take the documents to Houston for you to sign."

"OK, thanks!"

"You're welcome."

"Hahaha~"

----

The Queen.

The home of Malkin Sidrich Sr.

David took Black Mike, who drove them back, and walked into the living room, motioning for Polly to go upstairs first, and then teased White Mike and Ludy beside him.

"Hey~ did you miss me?"

"Hahaha~"

Ludy laughed and put down the cigar in his hand, walked up to David and hugged him: "If you didn't ask, I might not remember it."

"fxxxyou!" David spat out a curse word in dissatisfaction.

Ludy shook his head indifferently, pulled David to the living room, sat down together, and asked, "I heard that you are returning to Houston tomorrow?"

"Yes!"

"I have recently completed my plan to write a book, and Houston is the best choice."

"Hmm~"

Ludy glanced at Black Mike and White Mike who were chatting in the kitchen, smiled and lowered his voice and said: "At home, everything is almost done."

"By the time you come back, Sena and Manqi should also be back."

"..??"

David felt very strange and asked: "Why does it take so long?"

"Tsk~"

Lu Di smacked his lips and sighed: "Manqi's husband was in a trance due to drugs. He drove out in the middle of the night and had an accident..."

"So what Old Malkin and Sena want is for Manqi to stay in Hawaii for a while and wait for her..."

"Accident? Drugs?"

David frowned and interrupted Ludy directly. After pondering for a moment, he asked, "Did he really have an accident?"

"..yes!"

Ludy shrugged calmly and curled his lips and said: "He had a car accident while driving on the Brooklyn Bridge in the middle of the night, and then he jumped off the bridge without knowing what he was thinking."

"..."

David stared at Ludy silently for a while, took a deep breath and nodded slowly: "Okay!"

"I'll call Susan and ask her to say hello to Manchi for me."

"greeting?"

"What's your greeting?"

The smile disappeared from Lu Di's face, and he looked at David seriously and said: "Just across the street, Manqi was domestically abused in her own home in front of her children for more than half a year. Did you know?"

"..."

"She's been hiding her pain and misfortune in front of everyone, you know?"

"..."

"That bastard, he's not satisfied even if he doesn't work all day outside and just plays with women, he actually brings them home to have a xx party together, do you know?"

"What's even more ridiculous is that after that bastard died, a woman came over with a child who was just a few months old and said she would call the police if she couldn't find him."

"It wasn't until the police came that they found out that the bastard lied about being single and accidentally gave birth to an illegitimate child..."

"do you know?"

"..." David lowered his head silently, looking at his toes without speaking.

"Humph!"

Lu Di seemed to still have some anger left and said angrily: "Just letting him die unexpectedly after a drug overdose is too easy for him!"

"Do you still think you should continue to tolerate this kind of scum?"

"..No!"

David waved his right hand fiercely, looked directly at Ludy and said: "But you should understand better that you can't ruin all our efforts for a scumbag!"

"...I know~"

Ludy felt a little depressed and sighed: "If it was this time last year, he would have been made into a cement block and sunk into the Hudson River..."

David asked with a dull expression: "So, the police have determined that he accidentally fell off the bridge and died?"

"Whoo~"

Lu Di took a deep breath, nodded slowly and said, "That's... an accident that is very likely to happen!"

"Really, was it an accident?"

"Correct!"

"..."

David closed his eyes, pursed his lips and remained silent for a moment, then said, "I deliberately left Brother Zach in Hawaii."

"They will take good care of the safety of Sena's mother and Sister Manqi."

"Yeah!" Lu Di said with a smile on his face, blinked his eyes quickly a few times, and changed the topic.

"Erto and my son Asti are back from Naples, Italy."

"David Romano is in a very bad situation over there~"

"It is said that the Italian government has announced a wanted order for him, and there are also bounties on him in the underground black market."

"..."

David held his forehead with his hand, trying hard to change his mood, and asked: "Zina and the others came back today and told me that he had disappeared from Paris...?"

"Ok!"

"He is like a rabbit ready to escape at any time, always insecure~"

Rudy recalled the character of his old friend Romano and said with a smile: "So, he has already prepared many escape routes for himself, and is always prepared for the bad situation he is experiencing now."

"Forehead.."

David twitched the corners of his mouth a few times, licked his lips and smiled bitterly: "Do you need my help?"

"Being not."

Lu Di couldn't help laughing and said: "We don't even know where he is hiding, so even if we want to help, we can't help~"

"Do not worry!"

"After this period of time, he will naturally contact us..."

"Okay~"

David glanced down at his watch, and then at the two Mikes sitting in the restaurant: "Where's Dad?"

"Polly went upstairs to call him, why hasn't he come down yet?"

Lu Di shrugged, spread his hands and smiled: "How do I know?"

"Go up and see for yourself!"

"Forehead.."

"What about you? Aren't you coming together?"

"I'm not going~"

"If you have any questions, you'd better talk to him alone."

"Ok!"

David made a shooting gesture to Ludy and joked: "Your family is also in Hawaii."

"I will help them keep an eye on you!"

"Lest you become a disgusting bastard too!"

"Hahaha~" Lu Di smiled and raised his middle finger to David in response. After watching him slowly walk up the stairs, his smile slowly dissipated and he whispered.

"Asshole...?"

"Hehe~"