Manhattan Reborn 1978

The sky is dark.

It's long past the normal dinner time.

In front of the Stanley Building.

Everyone came out of the building in twos and threes.

David said to Peggy and Norris: "Now our beverage factory needs to determine a brand of its own. You can help Polly come up with an advertising slogan to help it occupy the market of daily household drinks."

"Price stores and nightclubs also need to shoot an advertisement to be broadcast on television. In terms of creativity, you must come up with a plan as soon as possible."

Pine, Giles, Laura, and Lilith came from behind David.

Giles called out to him: "David, wait a moment."

"Man, does the clothing company you didn't mention just now have any other plans? Is it related to Laura?"

David looked at Giles with some special eyes, but he didn't expect that this boy could guess his thoughts.

He whispered in Giles' ear: "Don't I still owe Laura a gift? I plan to give her this gift in a few days, but I don't know if she will like it yet!"

"Gift? Clothing company?"

"Of course it's not the company, it's my future plan for the clothing company. In short... don't ask me about it yet, buddy, I need to talk to Harvey~"

David sent away Giles who was scratching his head, glanced around and found Harvey and Tangtang.

"Harvey! After you arrive at the restaurant, I have other things to talk to you about, so don't leave first~"

"Okay boss! ~Tangtang and I are planning to go to our nightclub to have a good time at night!"

"Haha~ Then you will definitely like the nightclub!"

Ludy pulled David from behind, who was talking to Harvey and the others: "You can take my car and we'll go together."

David listened for a moment, then nodded and talked to Harvey and the others.

Then, the two got into Ludy's car and drove towards Bonini's restaurant.

The car drove for a few minutes, and Ludy and David said two things: Tom was dead, and Alto Sidrich returned to New York and took over the Volkswagen Entertainment business.

Ludy put one arm on the car door and his voice was a little low and erratic.

"When I found Vince and wanted him to quit working with me, I had a conversation with Tom who came with me."

"That kid also thinks he can take my place in the gang and wants to succeed."

"It was a bit of a coincidence that he was caught reselling powdered medicine this time, but his death was not unjust!"

"Since he dares to do it, he must be mentally prepared to bear the consequences."

Upon hearing the news of Tom's death, David was silent for a while.

More than a month ago, Tom Boy was still in the basement of the Wildfire Bar. He used a gun to scare the piss out of one of Joey's gangsters.

David still remembers the look on Tom's face.

As Ludy's right-hand man, Tom has taken great care of David in all aspects of his job in the Wildfire Bar in the past three years.

David would agree with him on this point.

No matter what others say about him, to David, Tom is a somewhat neurotic brother who takes good care of him!

"Where are Tom's family?"

"He has an ex-wife with a little girl. The child is five years old. I am going to arrange for his ex-wife to work in a service company. If she is unwilling, I will give them a sum of money."

David looked at the street scene outside the window: "Give me fifty thousand dollars, too."

"Okay!" Ludy continued to drive silently.

"Where is his funeral? When will it be held?"

"There is no ceremony. He has been buried. If you want to see it, I can tell you the place."

David nodded silently, planning to find a time to visit and send him a bouquet of flowers and two bottles of wine.

After the car drove through several streets.

David exhaled a breath and slid down a bit.

"Alto Sidric, I remember he came to the Wildfire Bar before. He was the young man who came with you, right?"

"Yes, that's him! That guy is pretty good. Old Malkin and I are very optimistic about him."

"Why are you bringing him up now? What?"

Ludy was silent for a moment.

"Sr. Malkin once said that he saw a shadow of me in Aalto."

"However, the day Alto killed Tom, I saw the shadow of the old David in his youth."

"In comparison, I still think Alto is more like your father when he was young."

"Oh? Like?"

"Respect people, value emotions, be smart, and know how to make choices."

"These are all advantages you mentioned, man!"

"Of course, he also has many shortcomings, such as liking women as well as men."

"Um...you mean..."

"That's right!"

"Okay, that's nothing...anything else?"

"What else? Also, his hands are no longer clean. Does this count?"

David frowned and whispered: "Tell me more specifically!"

Ludy slowed down the car: "Alto has been secretly doing things since he was 14 years old. Over the years, we know that he has at least 6 lives in his hands. If you include Tom, he is the seventh. indivual."

David glanced at Ludy curiously: "I don't know yet, what about you? How many lives do you have in your hands?"

A smile appeared on Ludy's lips: "Old Malkin never let me touch these, so my hands are very clean. Tom and Mike Bai did these things, and I just watched from the side."

"Okay~" David curled his lips in disappointment.

"It doesn't matter whether Artaud's hands are clean or not. Has he ever been in the powder business?"

"As far as I know, there shouldn't be!"

"Then you can ask him to go to the nightclub later, and we can meet and chat there."

"Ok!"

The car turned an intersection and saw Bonini Restaurant in front of it.

Ludy parked this not far from the restaurant.

David put his hand on Ludy's arm.

"I want you to take over the security company."

Ludy put down his hand to open the door, took out a cigarette from his pocket, took one out, and lit it: "Why? What happened to that boy Cohen again?"

David asked Ludy for a cigarette, lit it, looked out the window and took two puffs: "In my future plan for the security company, I plan to divide it into five departments, commercial security, private security, combat team and intelligence Department, and mercenary squads.”

"In addition to putting Cohen in charge of the combat team and mercenary team, I plan to let Lawrence be in charge of private security, commercial security operations, recruitment, and training."

"You will be in charge of the logistics and intelligence departments, and take charge of the company's overall work."

"Cohen and Lawrence, all their work and plans require your approval before they can be executed."

"Ludi, in my plan, the future security company may become a behemoth that even I can't imagine."

"I've thought about this monster's chain a lot, and only putting it in your hands can make me feel at ease the most."

Ludy silently put out the cigarette he had just lit.

"Where are the street informants? How do you plan to arrange them?"

David sat up a little straighter: "The murder of the street informant made me think about one thing."

"These people, with their own little thoughts, come to our security company and take the money we give them to protect their own interests."

"I haven't asked Cohen and Mike Bai how many street informants still choose to stay."

"No matter how many are left, these people will be transferred to Mike Bai, and you will be in charge of them from now on."

"I believe that your ability will not be worse than that kid Mike Bai, right?"

"Do you want me to take care of those shitty little gangsters? There are some of them that I know before."

"What about Pine and Giles? They don't have any ideas, do they?"

David put out the cigarette butt in his hand and shrugged: "Their attitude has been very clear to me since that night in the nightclub."

"I will explain to Pine later what kind of arrangements we will make."

"What about this Lawrence? Where is he now?"

amount. .

David scratched his head: "I'll go find Forrest Gump later and solve the matter that Lawrence is currently dealing with."

"Ludi, we need our own intelligence sources. The help I can give you is very little in this regard. It all requires you to establish it yourself."

"We can no longer be as passive as we were during this incident."

Ludi said thoughtfully: "You mean that Bog Beru who the FBI wants to negotiate a deal with?"

David nodded silently: "You saw it in the conference room just now. Pine just reminded me that he didn't want to talk about it or care about these things."

"Cohen has some ideas of his own and may want to talk to me about this alone."

"They all stood their ground and chose not to talk about it at the meeting."

"Then how are you going to tell Cohen about this?"

David smiled, opened the car door and prepared to get out of the car: "Pine once said something right in a nightclub."

"I am the boss of Da Security Company. He doesn't want to take care of this. Everything in the company can only be done according to my ideas."

“I started my own company with the intention of helping more veterans like Lawrence.

I paid for it, raised it, and in the end it made me feel unhappy. What did I want? "

"If Cohen and Lawrence have any ideas and we can't reach an agreement in the end, then we will disband the DA Security Company and we will establish a new one."

“I believe there will always be people who have the same heart and thoughts as me.

Then let's work together to help more people in need, and drive away all those who want to cause trouble and are restless. "

Lu Di looked at David in surprise. He didn't expect that David would be a little different from before after he returned from a few days' rest at home.

He also got out of the car and locked it.

Then he walked towards David who was standing on the street and patted him on the shoulder: "I will help you tighten its chain so that it won't cause trouble for us everywhere."

David smiled and gave Ludy a thumbs up, and then the two of them walked to Bonini's restaurant arm in arm.