Manhattan Reborn 1978

Chapter 697 The Gradient World (3)

USA, Texas.

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

After David and his family had breakfast, "driver" Odis Parker arrived as scheduled.

However, today he is not alone.

David asked very surprised when he saw the two people behind Mr. Parker.

"You...why are you here?"

The one-eyed Andres of the DA security company who once led two teams to follow David shrugged with a smile and pointed at the people around him.

"I came back with Mr. Cui En..."

"Oh~" David turned to look at Edward B. Tryon, the old superior of Lawrence, the head of DA Security Company, who had served in the New Jersey State Prison and had been paroled for just over two months, and smiled.

"Come in quickly and I'll introduce you to my family!"

"Hehe~"

Old Cui En, wearing a slightly worn cowboy hat on his head, walked past Mr. Parker with a smile, walked to David's side, and followed him around.

After listening to their son's introduction, Old David and Serra invited Old Cui En, One-Eyed Andres and Mr. Parker into the living room very enthusiastically.

David turned and walked into the kitchen, patted his busy sister Salonia with his hand, put his arm around Lilith's shoulders and asked with a smile.

“Laura, when are you coming over?”

"We'll be leaving soon!"

Lilith felt a little itchy in her ears, stopped washing the dishes, shrank her neck and said with a smile: "Don't make trouble!"

"She should be here soon."

"Hmm~"

David deliberately kissed Lilith twice under Salonia's peek, and then returned to the living room with satisfaction to sit next to his family and chat with Old Cui En.

. . .

ten minutes later.

Old Trin and One-Eyed Andres gave a general account of the reasons why they came from New York.

It turned out to be John Rambo, the "Crooked God of War". After David led his family to leave Hawaii, he also flew back to New York and told Lawrence of the security company about his experiences these days.

After discussing with Cohen and Jackal, Lawrence decided to let Edward B. Tryon, a "local snake" whose hometown is in Texas, and One-Eyed Andres, who is familiar with David's family, follow them to ensure their safety.

As for Old Cui En’s joke about Lawrence and others being overly worried about David’s safety, Lawrence’s explanation directly silenced him.

“I can’t find a generous boss in the whole country who is willing to provide a place for us, a group of despised Vietnam War veterans, and who understands and respects us very well!”

"Although da Security Company has only been established for a few months, the sense of belonging may seem illusory, but in fact it has already been deeply rooted in people's hearts!"

"If something happens to David, there will be no need for us to exist..."

“Because for us, no one can do it better than him!!”

----

new York.

It’s approaching noon~

Malkin Sr.'s home in Queens.

Almost all the senior members of the Sidrich family were sitting quietly in the living room, watching old Malkin pull out a small blackboard from nowhere and writing while talking.

"As of yesterday, all our family's businesses have completed their year-end financial inventory."

Old Malkin drew a simple grid on the small blackboard, wrote several numbers in succession according to the data list in his hand, and smiled at his surprised cousins.

"You all saw it."

“One of our biggest expenses last year was the purchase of property within the Manhattan concession area.”

"It cost us 4962 million yuan!"

“Where’s the income?!”

"The business with the fastest growing revenue is the United Small Film Production and Distribution Company we established a few months ago."

“In the last two months of last year, it transferred 1700 million yuan for us!!”

"If it can maintain its current momentum of development this year, we will earn more than [-] million yuan from it!!"

"Whoa~hoo!" Several of old Malkin's most funny cousins ​​couldn't help but whistle and laugh.

"This speed of making money is much better than our smuggling business!"

"It's just that it would be better if the girls who make small films can be replaced faster..."

"There are so many girls taking pictures of dozens of bags in a row. I'm almost tired of seeing them..."

"fxxxyou!"

"Has your wife recently gone to see that little..."

"No! Bastard!"

"You fucking xxx..."

"@#&%…"

"Hahahaha~"

Old Malkin looked at his cousins ​​who were starting to mess around again, and waved helplessly to Ludi, the "melon-eating crowd", and asked him to distribute the prepared materials to everyone.

"Ahem~that's enough!"

"Quiet!!"

"Look carefully at the form in your hands and listen to me!"

"...ok!" The living room slowly became quiet, and everyone was obedient and looked at the form in their hands carefully and listened carefully.

Old Malkin smiled with satisfaction, looked at the first block of the form and said: "The properties and street shops we purchased last year will be recorded in all of your names equally according to the purchase price."

"Then, they will be unified into the property management company that will be established to help you manage the leasing, maintenance and other work of these properties."

"You should also take out about 5% of the rent from the rent and pay it to the property company as management fees."

"This fully legal property management company will be incorporated into our Sidrich Family Trust and will manage its day-to-day operations on our behalf."

"It is also the first asset managed by our Sidrich Family Trust after its official establishment!"

Old Malkin raised his head and looked at his brothers with "exquisite brain circuits", shrugged and smiled.

"The reason why these properties are not transferred to the trust fund company for custody according to what we have discussed."

"It's because we will continue to purchase a large number of properties and land in the next few years."

"Last year, Manhattan housing prices doubled from five years ago."

“But I believe that this place will slowly recover during the trough period and become prosperous again!”

"By then, the income from investing in Manhattan real estate will be enough to support us old guys in our retirement years~"

"Hahaha~" Everyone couldn't help laughing.

"Quiet!"

"Let's move on to the next piece!"

After laughing.

Old Malkin directly "controlled the field", waved the form in his hand and continued.

"Last year, we allowed most of our peripheral personnel to join the NYPD's Auxiliary Police Office."

“Their departure has allowed us to save a lot of expenses and virtually increase our income.”

"But I think we should not save this money!"

"We must let them understand that the Sidrich family has never forgotten their contributions, and they will also never forget that they worked for our family!"

"So, I'm going to let Ludy distribute the money to them or their families through some special ways."

"What's your opinion?"

"..."

Old Malkin's cousins, you look at me, I look at you, no one spoke to express their opinions.

"Hmm~"

"Then it's settled!"

Old Malkin waited for more than ten seconds, nodded with great satisfaction and said with a smile: "This money is actually not too much for us."

"But it means something completely different to them!"

"Tch~ You don't have to say this!"

"That's right, don't we understand this little trick to win people's hearts?"

"Hahaha~"

Old Malkin grinned and waved his hands slightly irritably: "Okay~ shut up!"

"Let's continue to look at the data below..."

"..."

When Lu Di saw this group of old guys who were almost a thousand years old in total, they all immediately closed their mouths and couldn't help but tilt their heads and snicker.

----

Manhattan.

Wall Street, Stanley [-]th Floor.

In Sam Rogers' office.

Polly Sidrich crossed her legs casually, holding the coffee and smiling at Sam.

"In other words, before the forward contract of sugar futures fell sharply this morning, you closed your long position, switched to short position, and made another transaction?"

"Yes~"

"But wasn't your original intention to be long in the sugar forward contract?"

Sam, who was only wearing a sweater, put down his coffee cup with a smile and explained to Polly.

“In the futures market, there are never permanent longs or shorts.”

"It's like betting on big or small. A few days ago, I made a lot of money betting that sugar futures prices would rise. Today I saw a large amount of money pouring into the sugar futures market to go short, so I followed suit and switched from long to short. Another transfer..."

"Oh~"

Polly nodded with some vague understanding, thought for a while and asked: "You mean, the most important thing about investing in futures is not to choose a direction based entirely on fundamental information, but... to follow the trend of large-scale funds. ?!”

"That's right, that's pretty much what it means."

Sam waved his right hand and said with a smile: "The biggest short seller in the sugar futures market is the American Sugar Association."

"In order to improve the price competitiveness of sugar substitute products such as white sugar and cyclamate, they can only spend a large amount of money to ensure that the price of white sugar will not rise significantly!"

"Um.."

Polly's fingertips caressed the sofa unconsciously, and she quickly asked inferences.

"and then?"

"Can they keep sugar prices from rising along with frozen orange juice concentrate?"

"How much investment does it take?!"

"Hehe~"

"They can't hold back the price of sugar forward futures contracts when they rise..."

"But~"

“They can let it go up later!”

"later??"

"Correct!"

Sam narrowed his eyes habitually and said with a smile: "The price fluctuation trend in the futures market has a certain timeliness."

"If traders see that the price of sugar futures is not soaring along with frozen orange juice as expected..."

"What do you think they will do?"

"Um.."

After thinking for a few seconds, Polly's eyes suddenly brightened: "They will put most of their energy on the frozen orange juice, and can only pay a small amount of attention to the tepid state of the sugar!"

"Yes!"

Sam spread his right hand again: "So~ I won't pay special attention to its price trend in the past few days, just leave it as it is."

"We'll wait until the middle or end of next month to see it."

Polly felt that she had gained a lot and smiled: "Thank you, Sam!"

"Haha~ You're welcome!"

. . .

"Clang clang clang~"

Just as the two of them were changing topics and chatting, there was a knock on the door.

Pine opened the door and smiled at the two of them: "Hey~ I kept you waiting!"

"I'll treat you to lunch, what do you want to eat?"

"Lobster!" Polly raised her left hand and shouted with a smile.

"...Okay!" Paine was stunned by the "shock" and nodded in response.

Sam stood up and walked behind his desk, took out a few documents from the drawer, put them in Pine's hands, and joked.

“The best pairing with lobster is white wine.”

"I heard from the boss that you guys have many bottles of old wine here!"

"..."

Pine lowered his head and glanced at the document, couldn't help but feel the pain in his heart, and complained: "That bastard David, why do you tell you everything?!"

"Hahaha~"

Polly walked quickly to Pine, took his arm and joked: "Even if he doesn't tell me, I have seen them in Giles' wine cabinet!"

“Just a bottle of white wine~”

"You're not so stingy, are you?"

"I.."

He tilted his head and looked at Polly, sighing helplessly: "A bottle!?"

"Yes! Just one bottle!"

"Row!"

"But you can't tell Giles that I took it..."

"Hahaha~"

"We are accomplices, how could we betray you?"

"Uh..." Pine was speechless.

. . .

After half an hour.

42nd Street, second floor of Wildfire Restaurant.

Restaurant managers Zhang Wenbiao and Biao Ge personally carried the restaurant's signature dish, strange-flavored lobster, into Polly, Pine and Sam's private room and said with a smile.

"Long wait, everyone!"

"Later, there will be vegetable salad and fruit ice cream desserts."

"Please enjoy!"

"Wow ~ thank you!"

Polly, who had already rolled up her sleeves and looked like she was going to have a big meal, nodded to Brother Biao to thank her, picked up a red Boston lobster, and ate it happily.

Pine glanced at the small red lantern hanging above the window with a smile, and asked curiously.

"This is..?"

"Oh~"

Brother Biao wiped his hands with the hand towel in his pocket, pointed at the red lantern and explained: "Tomorrow is our traditional festival: the Lunar New Year."

"The red lanterns represent our prosperous business and family happiness in the new year."

"New Year...?"

Pine picked up the wine bottle from the table, found an empty glass, poured half a glass of wine for Brother Biao, raised his glass and smiled.

"Wish you a Happy New Year!"

"Hahaha~ Happy New Year!" Brother Biao happily raised his wine glass with both hands and said with a smile.

"Hmm~"

Polly, who was devouring lobster, wiped her fingers, raised her glass and smiled: "Happy New Year!"

"well!"

"Thank you, thank you!"

Sam looked back and forth at the three of them for a while, thought for a moment, took out his wallet from his pocket, and asked Brother Biao.

"I heard my wife say that when you send blessings to each other in the traditional New Year, you will wrap a... red envelope? Right?"

"Sorry~"

"I didn't take it with me..."

"Uh... No, no!"

"Hahaha~ Thank you so much!" Brother Biao quickly put down the cup and explained to Sam.

"Our traditional custom during the New Year is for the elders to give red envelopes to the younger ones..."

"elder..?"

"Hahaha~"

Polly held up the wine glass, rolled her eyes at Sam who was a little embarrassed, and laughed: "Put it away, Sam!"

"Do you still want to consider yourself an elder?"

"..." Sam quickly put down his wallet and waved his hand to Brother Biao to express that he just made an honest mistake.

Of course Brother Biao wouldn't be angry. He nodded to Sam with a smile and changed the topic.

"Cui Yingying and my master happened to go to San Francisco a few days ago."

"So, I plan to fly to San Francisco with my family tomorrow morning to spend the New Year with them."

"The restaurant... may have to rest for a few days. We will resume business when we come back."

"Oh~" Polly put down her glass and glanced at Pine, who remained silent.

"How many days do you plan to go?"

"Three or four days."

Brother Biao rubbed his hands together and said with a smile: "Our traditional New Year custom is to reunite with our loved ones."

"But this kind of New Year's reunion is usually very short-lived..."

"Everyone has their own life and work, as well as their own families, relatives and children."

"Ok!"

Polly seemed to be touched by Brother Biao's explanation, and said casually, slightly distracted.

"Then please take my place and say hello to Cui Yingying and the others~"

"Ok!"

Brother Biao took a step back with a wink, said a few more words, turned around and strode away.

After he left, the room fell into a brief silence.

Pine tried to pick up a large lobster with chopsticks and put it on his plate, sighing and laughing.

"It's a new year!"

"Why do I always feel like time flies by so fast?"

Sam worked hard to peel off a piece of lobster shell with both hands, and then continued with some emotion.

"Yes~"

"Today, it's almost the end of January."

“One-twelfth of a year seems to pass by in the blink of an eye.”

"..."

Polly stared at the lobster meat in her hand quietly, murmuring with a somewhat hollow look in her eyes: "New Year... Reunion!"