Manhattan Reborn 1978

new York.

Early morning~

Manhattan.

Wall Street, Stanley [-]th Floor.

In Sam Rogers' office.

Bernard Madoff took the folder from Sam, flipped through a few pages, raised his head in surprise and asked.

"Are you going to...?"

Sam didn't seem to want to explain too much, shook his head and smiled: "This is the boss's arrangement."

"Oh~" Madoff stared at Sam for a few seconds, nodded slowly, and continued to look through the documents in his hand.

After a few minutes.

He took the pen from Sam, signed his name on the last two pages, and stamped it with the company seal he brought specially.

The contract is signed and completed.

Sam took back the folder, checked it carefully, returned one of the contracts to Madoff, and smiled.

"Today is Thursday."

"Tomorrow, I hope you can open at least 5 positions for us in the Chicago Exchange Foreign Exchange Market Department."

"no problem!"

Madoff carefully put away the contract, carried his briefcase and extended an invitation to Sam.

"Tomorrow night, I'm going to a party a friend is having on Long Island."

"Many of the Wall Street friends you met last time will also participate..."

"You also go over and meet them and have a chat, right?"

"Okay~"

Sam put the folder in his hand next to him, without any of the hesitation or pushback that Madoff had when he extended the invitation last time, and answered very readily.

"Ok!"

Madoff, although I don’t know why this young Sam changed like this. .

But he was still very happy and said with a frank smile: "Everyone will bring a female companion to this party."

"I'll have someone send you an invitation when I get back."

"Ok!"

Sam took the initiative to walk up to Madoff, held her hand, smiled and said a few polite words, which made the previously invisible "difference" between the two people fade a lot~

Bernard Madoff, gone.

Sam stood next to the phone, looked at the signed contract, picked up the phone with an expressionless face, and dialed.

----

Manhattan.

At the intersection of No. 12 Avenue and 40 Street.

The company's small building has five floors.

Polly took off her coat, looked at the two "little brothers" Rosenlot and Artaud, and asked with a sigh.

"Every time you two come to see me, nothing good happens!"

"Hahaha~"

Aalto, who has been "letting himself go" recently, laughed and patted Rosenlot on the shoulder, stretched out his hand and shouted.

"I won~get the money!"

"What?" Polly watched Rosenlot take out 20 yuan and handed it to Alto. She couldn't help but clenched her fists and cursed with eyes wide open.

"asshole!"

"You＠#￥＠#￥..."

"Hahaha~" Alto shook his head without fear, waved the 20-meter yuan on his fingertips, and laughed.

"It just so happens that we are going to Chicago today. I will use this to buy you some gifts when we come back."

"What are you going to Chicago for?"

Polly glared at the "irregular" Alto, turned to look at Rosenlow and asked.

"Wooden Man" Rosenluo pondered for a few seconds in a polite manner before explaining.

"Ludi called. He said that Uncle Meyer Lansky had arrived in Hawaii and accidentally mentioned that someone had asked him about David."

"That man was Joseph Aippa of Chicago."

"..." When Polly heard this familiar name, she frowned, thought for a moment, and asked.

"What will you say when you plan to meet him?"

"Say it directly."

"Ask him directly why you want to inquire about David, and tell him by the way... something your father wanted me to convey."

Rosenlow did not wait for Polly to ask again, and then said: "When the boots hit the ground, people will see clearly who is lying!"

"that's it?"

"Ok!"

Polly was silent.

Alto, who was still laughing just now, also stopped joking and said seriously.

"That old man Joseph Aipa never does anything meaningless."

"But he won't tell others his intentions casually..."

"So?" Polly asked casually, wanting to hear what "advice" he had.

Aalto shrugged and said: "I think he probably called Meyer Lansky on purpose to let us know about it from his mouth."

"Because it's not a secret that Uncle Lansky is going to Hawaii for vacation."

"His close friendship with our family was something Joseph Aippa knew very well."

"If I were Joseph Aipa, I didn't know anything about this New York kid named David Coleman before~"

"Suddenly, someone came to my door and asked me for help... What should I do?"

"Would I offend my old friend Sidric in order to help someone?"

"Obviously, no."

"Joseph Aipa is not that stupid!"

"Hmm..." Polly thought about it carefully and felt that based on her understanding of Uncle Aipa, he would definitely not leave such omissions in his work. "

"Unless he did it on purpose!"

"Okay~"

After Polly thought for a moment, she waved to her two younger brothers: "You still have to catch a plane, right? Let's go!"

"When you see Uncle Aipa, remember to bring him a greeting for me."

"Don't worry~" Alto patted Rosenlow on the shoulder and left.

Polly followed them to the stairs. After watching them leave, she still felt a little uneasy as she stood there. She turned around and returned to the office, picked up the phone and made a call.

----

Manhattan.

42nd Street, across from Wildfire Bar.

Xu Cuizhen stood quietly at the door of the breakfast shop. When she saw Cui Yingying walking towards her holding Susan's arm, she quickly smiled and greeted her.

"Good morning~"

"Good morning to you too." Cui Yingying smiled and nodded. Without introducing Susan and the two, she directly took out the key and opened the breakfast shop and said as she walked inside. .

"The renovation here has been basically completed, and the kitchen equipment is..."

Cui Yingying led Xu Cuizhen around the store. After a brief introduction, she stood behind the cashier and pointed to the door of the store.

"Most of the guests here are neighbors and auxiliary police officers from the nearby auxiliary police office."

"Originally, I wanted to sell the improved Xiangjiang breakfast here, plus some sandwiches, pancakes, pumpkin pancakes, etc. that are more suitable for American breakfast habits."

"But my senior brother suggested to me that it's best to stick to the store's specialty Xiangjiang breakfast, plus some takeout services, and run it for a while first to see what happens~"

"Did you learn how to make breakfast in senior brother's kitchen?"

"No.."

"Then you plan your time from the beginning today. While you are learning how to make breakfast, you can also go to the surrounding blocks to inspect the operations of nearby breakfast restaurants."

"This place will open in a few days, and I need to conduct another interview with you!"

"Okay!" Xu Cuizhen nodded enthusiastically.

Cui Yingying smiled and encouraged her a few more words, then sent her away.

Susan stood on the street, looking at Xu Cuizhen's brisk footsteps, and asked Cui Yingying curiously.

"How old is she?"

"Are you so confident about leaving the store to her?"

"Yeah..." Cui Yingying responded without explaining immediately.

She took Susan back to the store, thought about it, and said with a smile: "Actually, I haven't opened a breakfast shop before..."

"As for why we opened this store, you should know best!"

"Uh..." Susan curled her lips feeling speechless.

Cui Yingying smiled and hugged her, whispering: "Do you think...he has changed?"

"That's not true." Susan shook her head as she recalled the scene in the Plaza Hotel.

"Hehe~"

“There’s a saying that goes around in my hometown.”

"Men become bad when they are rich, and women become rich when they become bad."

"There are too few men who can truly remember their original intentions and not let themselves indulge in pleasure~"

"First of all, when a man gets rich, he will definitely get to know more rich people, see their luxurious life, and then reflect on himself... He will definitely feel that his identity and status are different. In the past, cheap cars and clothes , not worthy of who I am now..."

"Secondly, when he often goes to various high-end places and sees others spending money like water and surrounded by beautiful women, he will inevitably have some thoughts and feel that he should also be treated like this."

Cui Yingying thought of the years she lived in Xiangjiang, and whispered with a hint of the sigh of someone who had been there.

"I have seen many people who became rich in a short period of time, but could not withstand the crazy praise and entanglement of the girls around them. In the end, their wives and children were separated, and their businesses were on the verge of bankruptcy."

"Most of these people have several very common characteristics."

"For example: I love face very much and care very much about other people's attitudes and evaluations of me, especially in front of those of the opposite sex I once wanted to look up to. I must prove myself and conquer the other person..."

"But they have forgotten that before they got rich, only his wife was willing to live in poverty with him."

After hearing this, Susan tilted her head and looked at Cui Yingying, somewhat confused as to what she had experienced.

Cui Yingying smiled and shook her head gently. She leaned close to Susan's ear and said, "Many men will indeed become bad when they get rich."

"Because these people originally lack a sense of responsibility for their lovers and families. They only know that after getting rich suddenly, they must make themselves more respectable and blindly pursue the so-called upper class life."

"Even if a man with a sense of responsibility becomes a super rich man, he will not let himself lose his true heart and fall~"

"What kind of person do you think David is?"

Cui Yingying didn't wait for Susan to answer, she smiled and said: "I don't think he is the kind of man who likes the new and hates the old..."

"Perhaps he will occasionally break through his moral constraints..."

"But I believe him!"

"No matter how rich he is, he is still the David Coleman we know, know and love deeply!"

"...Haha!" Susan couldn't help pinching Cui Yingying's nose with her hand, making a big-eyed expression, and teased.

"Dearly...huh?"

"When did you start falling in love with him?"

"..." Cui Yingying shook her head and smiled without saying a word.

Susan sighed deliberately and looked around: "Okay, you helped that bastard make me happy again..."

"Hahaha~" Cui Yingying laughed and hugged Susan. She felt that meeting this smart and kind girl was definitely her greatest luck.

----

Texas.

Northwest of Houston, eastern suburbs of the small city of Hempstead.

In the morning light~

David held Sera's mother's arm, stood in the yard and watched Zina and Elena get into the car, and smiled at his father, old David.

"I guess~ before you went to bed last night, you might have discussed why I brought them back..."

"Right?"

Old David glanced behind him very "alertly", and Sera's mother deliberately made a cold face, pinched her son, and whispered.

"Yup!"

"You usually have so many women around you, we can't control it, and we don't want to!"

"But why did you take them home?"

"you do not know.."

"I know!"

David clapped his mother's hand with his hand, looked at his father, and explained.

"We have talked more than once before about the huge changes that have taken place in me and my living environment."

"I love you!"

"You are my closest relatives in this world."

"At the same time, you are also my biggest weakness in this world."

"Weakness?" Old David couldn't help shaking his beard a few times.

Sierra's mother seemed to understand her son's words, reached out and patted her husband, shaking her head.

David looked at the "interaction" between the old couple with a smile and continued.

"These days, I will often tell myself..."

"I can't have unrealistic expectations about the things or people I see in front of me~"

"Because the only thing I am certain about my life is...it can never be certain!"

"Many things, many things, are not something I can decide by myself~"

"It's hard for me to create a script of my own, and it's hard for my performance to satisfy everyone."

"But~"

"When a new script is forced into my hands, even if there are all kinds of accidents and accidents in this new script, it will surprise or scare me at any time."

"I will perform it well!"

David hugged his mother's shoulders, kissed her, and gave his father a "sunny" smile.

"Some things in the future will definitely be beyond our expectations and control."

"So we must start from now on and slowly learn to do our best within our own abilities instead of blindly trying to grasp..."

"I will be cautious about things that are controllable and optimistic about things that are uncontrollable."

"I will accept any chance or surprise, and I can bear any accident or shock~"

"I will always maintain an optimistic attitude and tell everyone that I will work harder!"

David winked at his father, old David, and motioned to his mother. He looked at Zina and the two girls in the car in the distance and whispered.

"I don't spend money like those nouveau riche people."

"I didn't act very greedy in front of others..."

"I have not become arrogant or arrogant just because I have established initial friendships with many big people."

"But I'm human and I have weaknesses."

"And these weaknesses are precisely what... surprise and frighten me!"

David looked at his parents with a sincere expression, and said in a small voice: "Gorgeousness is a weakness I deliberately left behind."

"Before I decided to confess my love to Polly, I had already thought clearly that I must have more weaknesses to make you less attractive..."

"Of course~"

"I am willing to accept them, and I also want to leave weaknesses around me while establishing a final line of defense!"

"I will protect them just like I protect you."

"I will love them just as much as you do!"

"Because they may all be the mothers of the next generation of the Coleman family."

"I am the only successor of the Coleman family. It is my responsibility to protect you and them!"

"So, please...my parents, give me some more time and let me prove it to you!"

"..." After hearing this, Old David looked at his son with a "resolute" expression for a while, then looked at his wife Sierra, and whispered with the corner of his mouth pulled.

"Is this... my son?"

"Get out!" Sierra's mother glared at her husband fiercely, kicked his lame leg a few times, held her son's hand, and sighed.

"Don't blame mom for nagging you again..."

"There are enough women in the house!"

"You must... take care of yourself!"

"interesting!"

David scratched his mother's nose with his fingertips and sneered: "Don't worry~ Even if I want to not cherish my body, they won't agree."

"Hahaha~" Sierra's mother "understood" her son's words instantly, patted him and laughed.

Old David looked towards the car in the distance with a headache and toothache. He recalled the "Soprano Duet" he heard last night and smiled with his lips curled up~