Manhattan Reborn 1978

new York.

Morning, quarter past six.

Outside LaGuardia Airport, Queens.

The four "brothers" Black Mike, White Mike, Ravis and Giovanni stood next to the car with a cigarette in each hand, looking up at the passenger plane slowly descending in mid-air, silently extinguished their cigarette butts, and walked towards the airport lobby.

In the car behind them, Polly Sidrich was flipping through the papers in her hands under the light of the car.

Her cousin "Wooden Man" Rosenlow, who was sitting next to her, looked at the plane landing at the airport through the car glass and couldn't help but ask.

"Aren't we going in?"

"No, it's enough for them to go in."

"..."

"Haha~" Polly tilted her head and glanced at Rosenlow feeling a little funny, closed the document in her hand, and asked.

"Tell me, what urgent matter do you want to find David about?"

"I..." Rosenlow looked at the "four brothers" who had walked away, hesitated for a few seconds, and said.

"Our loan application to the New York Fed was rejected..."

"Oh?"

The smile at the corner of Polly's mouth "frozen" instantly, she frowned and asked: "Why? Did they give a reason?"

"They said... our bank does not meet the current borrowing requirements of the New York Fed, and if we want to borrow, we can only borrow from other banks..."

"Fellows? If we want to borrow money from our peers, please..." Polly said mid-sentence, resisting the urge to complain. She raised her hand to her forehead and thought for a moment before asking again.

"Who knows about this?"

"For now, it's just you and me."

"Okay~ Don't tell anyone. When we meet David, he and I..."

"no!"

"You need to say this yourself..."

"The bank is a family property. If you ask David for help, I won't be able to speak again..." Polly rubbed her temples with her hands and looked at Rosenlow, explaining seriously.

"Business is business, it's best not to get involved with anything else..."

"The first time is the first time, there will be countless times."

"This is also the main reason why our company, Da, has to clearly dissociate itself from David and try to maintain mutual independence as much as possible."

"Yeah!" Rosenlow took a deep breath silently when he heard Polly say this.

Polly smiled and shook her head, reopening the file in her hand and looking through it.

About half an hour later.

After David, Kanes, little secretary Maggie, Sister Manqi, and Brotney Mejia left LaGuardia Airport in a car driven by the "Four Brothers", they soon arrived at an intersection. We split up and headed to Queens and Manhattan.

On the road ~

Polly, who specially took her sister Manqi into a car, glanced at the driver Bai Mike in front of her, held her arm and asked a few questions in a caring voice.

After Manqi followed David on this long journey, she seemed to have become much quieter.

She listened quietly to her sister's questions with a calm expression, and explained most of her experiences in just a few simple sentences, except for the conversation between her and David that night at the hot spring hotel. .

Polly was vaguely aware of her sister's strangeness. She smiled and changed the topic, taking the initiative to mention her parents and children who had returned from vacation in Hawaii.

When Manqi heard her sister mention the children, her face finally showed some of the urgency and expectation of her mother's return home, which made Polly feel relieved in her heart.

On the other side, in a trio of cars heading into Manhattan.

After Giovanni drove his car to a stop at an intersection, he looked at the confused little secretary Maggie and Brotney Mecia in the rearview mirror and asked.

"Should I send you all to the Gold Coin Hotel?"

"Yes!" Mecia said with a smile.

"There are some words that David wants Maggie to bring to Otis Parker first."

"Then I'll be responsible for sending Maggie back."

"Oh.."

Giovanni glanced at Maggie in the rearview mirror, turned on the right turn signal, and flashed the high beam twice on the car in front. After the green light turned on, he quickly turned right and left the convoy.

In the two cars ahead.

The lead car, Lavis, sat in the driver's seat, glanced at the silent Rosenlot through the rearview mirror, and drove forward quickly.

Black Mike, who was in the driver's seat of the second car, observed Giovanni turning to "leave the team", glanced at David in the rearview mirror, who had his eyes closed, and whispered.

"Shall we go home directly?"

"Well, go home."

"Is Carnes' apartment ready?"

"Yeah." Black Mike glanced at Kanes, who was napping with his head tilted, and nodded.

"Carmen, Erica, and Martha thoroughly cleaned the third-floor apartment and purchased a complete set of brand-new furniture and bedding."

"Really..." David opened his eyes and looked out the window, smiling.

"Are you and Carmen sure you want to be together?"

"Um...what do you think?" Black Mike asked instead without answering directly.

"This is a private matter between the two of you, and I have no control over it."

"As long as you are happy!"

"When you prepare for your wedding, don't forget to tell me in advance."

"Okay!" Black Mike nodded with a crooked mouth, and his nervous mood instantly relaxed.

David looked out the window quietly, as if he wanted to discover some "shattering secret" from the familiar and unfamiliar scenery on the street.

After a while.

When the car drove onto 42nd Street and was about to stop in front of the Wildfire Bar, David suddenly spoke.

"Mike, help me tell Chef Zhang Wenbiao of Wildfire Restaurant that the bar is closed tonight and we will have a dinner party."

"It's been a long time since I sat down and chatted with everyone. No matter who they are, let them come as much as possible!"

"Okay." Black Mike parked the car steadily, turned to look at David, raised his finger and pointed across the street with a smile.

"Some of the guys in the auxiliary police office returned from the police academy a few days ago..."

"Shall we call Superintendent Allston tonight?"

"Oh? Don't they have to train for three months?" David asked curiously, patting Kanes who was napping.

Black Mike shrugged, opened the car door and said with a smile: "The New York Police Department, in the past month, more than 2,700 police officers have resigned and there is an urgent need for additional police officers on the streets."

David opened the car door from the other side, looked at the auxiliary police office, narrowed his eyes and answered.

"So these auxiliary police officers who have been trained by the police academy will be able to take to the streets to perform their duties more legitimately in the future?"

"Yes!"

Black Mike reached out to help Kanes, who was still a little confused, turned around and walked around to the back of the car, opened the trunk, and smiled while carrying two suitcases.

"Mayor Front Hardman, you recently got those bastards on the City Council to pass your proposed concession area plan."

“On our street, after the New York Times reported that Mayor Hardman’s proposal was approved, housing prices immediately increased by 30%!”