Manhattan Reborn 1978

Jincheng Restaurant.

After more than half an hour.

Giovanni took Jin Ji, and the two finally arrived here.

David saw the Giovanni couple who had just come in and walked towards them with a smile.

Giovanni introduced the two of them: "This is my wife Jin Ji."

"This is my boss..."

"Hello Jinji! I'm David Coleman, just call me David!"

"Hello David! Thank you for your help to us." Jin Ji thanked David generously.

"It's nothing, it's all what I should do!"

"You guys sit down first, I'll ask the boss here to serve the food now!"

As David spoke, he made way for the Giovannis to go inside.

He looked at Jin Ji's back and frowned slightly.

she. .Why does it look so familiar?

Is Jin Ji a plot character in some TV series like Giovanni?

David stood there and thought hard for a while, but still couldn't remember.

David must have never seen a film or television series in which the couple were the protagonists in his previous life. .

At this time, under the guidance of Boss Zhang, Brother Biao and his apprentice had already filled a large table with various delicious dishes for everyone.

He directed his apprentices and waiters to serve the dishes while introducing them to everyone with a smile.

Cantonese dishes include: roasted suckling pig, braised suckling pigeon, honey-glazed barbecued pork, baked lobster in soup, oyster bake, and dry-roasted prawns.

Sichuan cuisine includes: white pork with garlic paste, Kung Pao chicken, Mapo tofu, Guojiang bean curd, boiled beef, and twice-cooked pork.

In addition to these, Brother Biao also got a big grouper from somewhere and made a steamed grouper.

It is also topped with Brother Biao's special seasoning soup. The taste is simply delicious!

David shook his head as he listened to Brother Biao's introduction.

Let’s eat first. There will be plenty of time to think about Jin Ji’s matters later.

He walked to his old seat and sat down, looking at the dishes on the big table, selectively forgetting all the troubles today, and invited Boss Zhang and Brother Biao to sit down and eat together.

Brother Biao smiled at David and said, "There are three more dishes to go with the wine. I'll be back soon!"

Boss Zhang also smiled and said: "Everyone eats first, I'll get the wine!"

He took out two bottles of Maotai he had just bought from Shirley's father and placed them in front of David.

David looked at the two bottles of wine in front of him in surprise: "Feixian Moutai?"

"Haha, yes, domestic export goods obtained from Lao Wu!"

"Good guys!" David exclaimed, holding them in his hand and looking at them again and again.

This is Feixian brand Moutai liquor that has been aged for more than 20 years!

It can be regarded as the first batch of Moutai wine to enter the Southeast Asian market when it goes abroad!

David drank Moutai only a handful of times in his previous life, let alone Feixian brand Moutai, which can be called a cultural relic.

He gently put the wine on the table, looked at Boss Zhang and said: "Boss Zhang, this wine... we'd better not drink it. None of them can drink the benefits of this wine. You can save it all." I’ll make an appointment with Lao Wu later, and we’ll drink them together.”

The smile on Boss Zhang's face became deeper.

When he was begging for a drink with Lao Wu, he made a bet with the stubborn old man.

If David chooses to open these two bottles of wine today, his restaurant will let Lao Wu and his family eat for free for a month!

But if David chooses not to open these two bottles of wine, the wines that Old Wu brought out today will be regarded as generous sponsorship...

It seems that Boss Zhang won today's bet.

Old Wu Tou has suffered a heavy loss today!

Boss Zhang smiled and picked up a bottle of Maotai: "Everyone is happy today! Let's open one bottle to try it first, and when we make an appointment with Lao Wu someday, we will open another bottle, which will just stop the old guy's mouth. Yes. Haha~"

David swallowed his saliva, but after all he couldn't resist the temptation of Feixian Moutai: "Okay, let's open a bottle first and taste its taste!"

"Haha~ OK! Come on, fill it up with this little cup!"

David thanked Boss Zhang for the full bottle of white wine and glanced at the people at the table: "Everyone, please try Brother Biao's cooking. These dishes are rare and authentic dishes!"

"Brother Biao, have you finished your work over there? Come quickly!"

"I'm coming!"

Brother Biao brought out two more dishes, one shredded eel with chives and one Teochew braised food platter, and his apprentice followed behind with a plate of fried peanuts.

Hey, when David saw these three people having wine and food, he immediately felt as if he had returned to a restaurant in China.

He asked Brother Biao to sit down first, then picked up his chopsticks and tasted the dishes on the table one by one.

"Brother Biao, your skills are great! You want me to stay drunk again today!"

Brother Biao smiled and filled himself a glass of Maotai: "The meal last time doesn't count! This time is our real meeting wine. Let's see, this Feixian Maotai, which is the best in domestic exports, can we still leave it?" Are you ready? Haha~"

"Haha~ Well, let us all raise a toast together and thank Boss Zhang and Brother Biao for their warm hospitality!"

"Thank you~!"

"Thank you!"

"cheers!"

"Cheers~"

Everyone smiled, raised their wine glasses to express their gratitude to Boss Zhang and Brother Biao, and took a sip of wine.

Then they couldn't wait to pick up the tableware and launch an all-out attack on the dishes in front of them.

David smiled, clinked glasses with Boss Zhang and Brother Biao, and took a sip of Maotai.

Ok. . .

This taste is so strong!

fragrant!mellow!

Even though he had drunk famous wines from all over the world at Giles' place, he was still fascinated by the taste of Feixian Moutai!

This feeling is that of a person who has not been home for a long time, drinking hometown wine in a foreign country and thinking about things from his hometown.

Lilith was beside her and glanced at David, who was looking at the glass of wine blankly after finishing his drink, a little puzzled.

She looked at Boss Zhang's uncle and nephew. Like David, they both looked like they were drunk from the glass of wine and were in a daze.

She stretched out her hand and patted David: "What's wrong with you guys?"

David was woken up. He looked at the wine glass in his hand. Why did he drink up the small glass without realizing it?

"Lilith, I'm fine, it's just that this glass of wine brought back some memories."

"Memories?"

Lilith rolled her eyes and shrugged. This David has been a little weird since he came to this restaurant.

Boss Zhang slowly opened his eyes and praised: "What a wine! What a wine!"

"Actually, I didn't expect Lao Wu to still have such good wine! Haha~"

"Today we can count on his help!"

Brother Biao also echoed: "Yes, I only heard that Feixian Moutai is good before. After drinking it today, I realized that the rumors are not worth it!"

David pursed his lips, nodded silently, and said nothing.

I have to say that Boss Zhang is worthy of being called the old man at the wine table.

He saw that David was a little depressed after drinking, so he took David to eat and drink together, and chatted about some interesting things about Old Wu, the stubborn old man and Shirley in Chinatown.

Brother Biao was also on the side and told some interesting things that happened when he was studying art in Xiangjiang.

Mike Bai and Ravis were still answering, interrupting, and telling jokes to the two of them, making everyone laugh for a while.

David was also infected by their topics and atmosphere, and started eating and drinking happily with everyone again.

The lively crowd was eating delicious dishes and drinking wine from their glasses.

For a time, there was constant chatter and laughter in the Jincheng restaurant.

Lilith was also infected by their happy atmosphere and drank more red wine, with a blush on her face.

In the meantime, David took the opportunity to drink and chat with everyone and chatted a few words with Giovanni's wife Jin Ji to learn about their current situation.

While David was chatting with her, he looked carefully at Jin Ji who was sitting next to Giovanni.

Slightly wider forehead, three-dimensional facial features, light blue eyes, high bridge of nose, long blond curly hair, and approximately over 1.7 meters tall.

He slowly remembered who Jin Ji's face was.

Michelle Pfeiffer!

Pfeiffer, the film and television series that left the deepest impression on him was in the movie series "Ant-Man", where he played the wife of Dr. Hank Pym, Janet, the first-generation Wasp.

And Dr. Hank Pym, who invented the Pym Particles, was the first generation of Ant-Man!

Emmm. .

You know, when Michelle Pfeiffer participated in the "Ant-Man 2" movie, she was already 59 years old!

In the later "Avengers", some scenes of her also appeared. At that time, she was already 60 years old!

Jin Ji should be in her early 20s now. She just gave birth not long ago, and she didn't dress up seriously. She didn't have a good rest in the past two days, so her face looked a little dull and haggard.

If she recovers well and dresses up properly, Jin Ji's appearance will definitely be the standard of Hollywood's first-tier actresses, and she can instantly kill those second-tier Hollywood actresses who rely on their faces to make a living.

tsk~

I really don’t know where Giovanni got the good fortune to marry Jin Ji.

During the chat with Jin Ji, she expressed that she was very satisfied with the new apartment she moved into today.

David smiled and told Jin Ji that after the Wildfire Bar and the apartment above it were renovated, Giovanni's family of three could move there. It would be bigger, more spacious and comfortable.

If Jin Ji wants to, she can choose to work at the Wildfire Bar. Susan can be her companion while working during the day, and she can take care of the children when she goes home at night, so she doesn't miss both. .

After seeing her husband Giovanni nodding, Jin Ji smiled and nodded in agreement.

It took everyone two hours to finish the feast of Chinese cuisine.

At the end of the meal, David and Brother Biao each drank half a bottle of Maotai, a few glasses of Nuerhong, and some red wine.

After drinking these drinks, he felt at his best again. He was dizzy, hugging Brother Biao's shoulders and kept having fun, talking nonsense while drinking.

Everyone knew why David wanted to get drunk today.

But what they didn't know was that there was another reason why David was drunk.

Familiar wine, familiar dishes, familiar local accent. .

Make him feel homesick~!

In his memory, the home he lived in for more than 20 years in his previous life!

----

Boss Zhang's uncle and nephew stood at the door of the restaurant with red faces, watching several cars go away and disappear at the far corner of the street.

"Wen Biao, today we really met David and became friends reluctantly!"

"I can only help you so far. How you get along with him in the future is up to you."

Brother Biao nodded and assured his clan uncle: "Don't worry, I will do it!"

"Haha~ Yes! You are no longer the stupid young boy you were back then!"

Brother Biao smiled and scratched his head: "Uncle, it's starting to get cold outside at night. Let's go in first and talk later."

"Okay, okay~!"

"By the way, don't forget to go to Lao Wu's place tomorrow and talk to him about today's events."

After Boss Zhang finished speaking, he thought for a moment, shook his head and waved his hands: "Forget it, I'll go and talk to him myself. If you go and say it, you don't know what unpleasant things the old man will say."

"Okay!" Brother Biao breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

The uncle and nephew met and had dinner with David last time.

Boss Zhang tried his best to find a way to ask for help and investigated the identity and background of David who suddenly came to the door.

This guy David brought a few people to Jincheng Restaurant. They all had a meal together, drank some wine, talked about filming a food show, and said some seemingly candid words, which made Boss Zhang, a veteran of the world. believe him?

If Boss Zhang is so naive, why would he open a shitty restaurant?

What else is he doing in Chinatown?

hehe~

After he got the investigation results.

Only then did Boss Zhang realize that this David boy was not lying. He was really not a high-ranking liar with a sincere face and full of lies.

On the contrary, when David was chatting with Boss Zhang's uncle and nephew, he concealed or said less about his identity, background and company's strength.

Boss Zhang Jinhong, as one of the most well-informed people in Chinatown, knew the reputation and reputation of the Sidrich family.

Those guys who kill without batting an eyelid and have been rampant in New York and Manhattan for decades. Not only have they not been killed, but they have gotten better and better. Not everyone can afford to offend them.

David can get involved with the Sidrich family and cooperate with people from their family to start a company, but David himself has no family background. .

This really makes Boss Zhang sigh, today's young people are really. .How brave!

In addition, after David established a large company, he seemed to have hooked up with family members and children of a large company or consortium.

The one who came today, Lilith, who made David's bodyguards stay away, must be the legendary wealthy daughter!

That's why today, after Boss Zhang saw Lilith and realized something was wrong, he took the initiative to go to Lao Wu, spent all his money, and begged for two bottles of Maotai to give to David.

David's sudden appearance may be the biggest opportunity in his life for his nephew Wen Biao, bar none!

Brother Biao naturally knows what Boss Zhang has done!

When he served David some plain chicken and roasted bacon, not all of the words he said were his own thoughts and realizations!

That was something Boss Zhang taught him several times in the back kitchen!

Of course, Brother Biao is not a fool. He understands the help his uncle has given him and everything Boss Zhang has done today is to find a future for him.

----

In front of a store on Central Park North.

Sani, who had just joined the street informant, stood at the door of the store and looked at a small building with smoke and fire in the distance.

"Woo~Didi~"

Fire trucks and police cars rushed towards the small building on fire in the distance.

Not far from Sani, there was a group of people standing on the street watching various vehicles passing by, talking loudly: "The gunshots just came from that small building. I didn't expect that just after such a moment, It’s burning!”

"How many times has this happened this year?"

"For the fourth time!"

"fxxx! Those fucking bastards from Harlem!"

"Yes, those Jewish gangs, French gangs, and Irish gangs are fighting in Harlem. They are bleeding and fighting every day. They regard this place as a place where they can do whatever they want."

"Yeah, those guys made a mess here."

Sani quietly moved closer and understood what they were saying.

It turned out that in the past few years after he went to prison.

Frank Lucas, the former maintainer of order in Harlem, was arrested and imprisoned by the DEA for drug trafficking.

After he was caught, Harlem without Lucas directly turned into a battlefield for various large and small gangs to fight.

Throughout Harlem and nearby neighborhoods in the Bronx, the number of shootings on the streets every day was several times greater than the number of times Sani went to the bathroom every day.

Arson, destruction of corpses, and burning everything after a murder have become the best means for these gangs to eliminate evidence of crime after a fight.

In the small building in the distance, there should have been a fight between gangs not long ago.

In this fire, Sani didn't know how many gangsters would die inside, burned to charcoal.

Sani stood there watching and listening for a while, shook his head, lifted his pants, turned around and walked towards Central Park.

There, he hooked up with a guy he'd met in prison.

Supposedly, the guy knew something about the bank robbers.

----

On a small building not far from where Sani saw the fire.

Shinny, a gang leader in the Bronx, was standing on the edge of the roof, looking at the smoke and fire rising into the sky in the distance for a long time.

"Those Irish bastards!"

"Have you all found out? Who are they at war with?"

Several people standing behind Sinni looked at each other, and one of them said: "It should be a group of Spaniards who came from Chicago in the past two days. They robbed a warehouse owned by the Irish gang in New Jersey."

"It is said that there is a batch of valuable goods smuggled in by the Irish gang recently in that warehouse!"

"Valuable goods? What are they?"

"Well... we don't know this yet. We only found out that these Spaniards robbed this batch of goods. After transporting them, they entered a club in Harlem and were discovered by the Irish Gang. That's why There will be what we see now..."

"You mean there's a club in that small building? Who runs it? Why didn't I know?"

"That club, it...it was originally owned by Nicky Barn, and then...we don't know who took it over."

"fxxx! It's Nicky Baan again? How come everything can be related to him?"

"Then... was this fire set by the Irish gang after they won?"

"We don't know this yet, I can check it out right away."

Xinni sucked on the cigar in his hand and looked at the firefighters who were busy fighting the fire in the distance, holding water spray guns and struggling to put out the fire.

"No need to check, it doesn't matter~!"

"It seems like there is going to be a new chaos here."

"Go tell all of us to cheer up and be careful during this period, and don't cause any trouble for me."

"Someone will take care of these naughty little gangs and bastards."

One of his men thought of something. He glanced at Xinni's back, thought for a while and said, "Matthews asked Auston to send a message that the street informants from the security company have returned from New Jersey. "

"If our people encounter these informants with auxiliary police badges, there should be no misunderstandings."

"Auxiliary police badge?"

Sinney thought about the man he met in the bar after meeting Matthews last time.

"Then you should pay attention to these people in your daily life. You should also know what kind of company Da Security Company is."

Xinni blew out a cloud of smoke from his mouth: "I can't understand New York now!"

"By the way, that boy David, did something happen to him over there?"

"Yes!"

"The news we just received is that David was targeted by two gunmen downstairs in his apartment. Later, it was because of the heavy rain that the two gunmen did not succeed."

Xinni frowned and turned to look at the speaker.

His name is Karu, and he is the most powerful person under Xinni!

"So... is David, boy, okay?"

"It should be fine!"

"Where are the two gunmen?"

"Caught by the Sidrich family!"

"Is it Ludy?"

"Uh... it should be."

"Should? You fucking ****!~"

Xinni cursed halfway, but still controlled his anger.

He took a deep breath and looked at Karu: "Take a few people with you and keep an eye on David for the next few days to see if anyone else wants to kill David."

"If anyone asks you, tell me that I sent you to protect David."

"No! You go directly to Mike Bai and tell him that I sent you there."

"If he doesn't agree, you follow them from a distance. If they are really attacked, you help them."

"If I don't call you, you don't have to come back."

He sighed softly: "I still like that guy David, he is at Bonini's restaurant..."

Yes, Sinny remembered David's performance in Bonini's restaurant, and what he said about waiting for someone to kill him in his apartment.

Xinni didn't expect that what this kid said would actually come true~!

Now sending people to David's side is also a way for Xinni to leave an extra path for his future.

Da company!

It's growing so damn fast!

It’s so fast that even old Jianghu Xinni can’t understand or understand it!

Xinni stood back at his original position and looked at the firefighters and policemen in the distance shouting and busy.

10 minute later.

"Karu~ If, I arrange for you to join the DA security company, you..."

"No, Cinnie, I'm not going."

Xinni didn't look back, just waved his hand gently: "Don't refuse in a hurry!"

"You go, it's for you, it's for me, for us, to create a new path."

Several of the men behind Xinni were silent and did not speak, while Karu felt that something was stuck in his throat, and he wanted to say it but couldn't.

Xinni waited patiently for a while and did not hear Karu speak. He raised the corners of his mouth and smiled happily.

"Actually, the franchise area can emerge smoothly, and the Bonini Agreement can have big guys like us personally signing our names on it."

"These things themselves show that the change has begun quietly with everyone's mutual acquiescence."

"Just like David Boy said in Bonini's restaurant, we gang bosses have never seriously thought about why these gangs in New York are declining more and more?"

"In the past few days, no! Just when I was standing here just now, I suddenly figured it out!"

"It's because we used to be short-sighted, only focusing on the little benefit in front of us, and holding on to it!"

“We were blinded only by the things in front of us that seemed like we could reach out and grab them.”

"If we don't get ahead of ourselves now, keep up with the pace of change, and find some new paths for ourselves."

"We will all be eliminated!"

"It is even possible that he will die without a burial place!"

"You guys, do you understand?"

Without waiting for anyone to answer, Xinni continued: "Kalu, you go now."

"Remember what I said!"

"After you see Mike Bai, no matter what he says, you have to do what you should do!"

"As for...the future~"

"I, Xinni, have never lost a bet since I joined a gang at the age of 16, and this time will be no exception!"

Karu stared at Xinni's back for a while, then looked at the fire scene in the distance.

"Okay, I'll go~!"

After saying that, Karu turned around and glanced at the people next to him, nodded, and went downstairs.

Xinni smiled and smoked the cigar in his hand, feeling happy as he listened to Carew's retreating footsteps.

What he said just now can be regarded as the most ridiculously wise thing he has said in his life so far!

Xinni felt that it was better to stand here for a while.

Don't let the men behind him see the proud smile on his face.