money player

After returning home and answering Cen Peipei's call, Xian Yaowen sorted out the information.

Bill, Russell, Frank Sinatra, Ava Garner, and "Sam," whose full name Pepe was afraid to say.

By the importance of Bill and Russell attending the game together and the presence of Frank Sinatra, he easily deduced that Sam was referring to Sam Giancana of the Chicago Group.

Frank Sinatra's relationship with the Chicago Group is no secret now and in the future. Many opportunities in his acting career were fought for him by the Mafia. His story was also included in the movie "The Godfather". The actor in the movie who asked the Godfather for help, which led to the "Horse Head" incident, was an allusion to him.

His deepest memory of Frank Sinatra is the song "My Way", his chaotic love life, and his image as a pimp - many of the female stars who climbed into the beds of the Kennedy Group were introduced by him.

Frank Sinatra was just the guy standing in the front and doing the work. The real person in charge was Giancana. The Chicago Group could get half of the credit for Kennedy's successful election and the presidency.

Giancana spared no effort in "supporting" Kennedy, providing money, labor and girls...

Xian Yaowen thought for a while, but couldn't remember the name of Giancana's lover. That person was probably Giancana's true love, but he still sent her to the bed of Kennedy or maybe Kennedy's brother.

Marilyn Monroe was his lover, and Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn might also have been introduced by this old guy. Tsk... this old guy treated Kennedy as a trash can and didn't even pay attention to trash sorting.

He thought it necessary to warn the fat guy Clay Simpson not to spread the fact that he had slept with Marilyn Monroe, otherwise he might die in obscurity in the future.

Xian Yaowen's most profound memory of Giancana is the assassination attempt on Fidel Castro.

At present, Cuba is the backyard of the United States. Many Americans go to Cuba for tourism and vacation. The Chicago Group cooperates with Cuban forces and invests in many casinos in Cuba. The success of Castro’s revolution caused great losses to the Chicago Group. Before the Bay of Pigs incident, the CIA found Giancana and asked him to plan the assassination of Castro.

The matter seemed to have been dropped in the end because of the Bay of Pigs incident, but it led to a lot of scandals, most of which involved Kennedy.

"Kennedy..."

Xian Yaowen stroked his chin and recalled the strategies and things Kennedy implemented and did after he came to power in his previous life. It seemed that if he continued as planned, Kennedy would hinder his interests.

"I didn't pay for the bullet that tore off Kennedy's skull, did I?"

After daydreaming for a while, Xian Yaowen pulled his thoughts back from the distant past and pondered over what was happening in front of him. Bill said that "we" had business to discuss with him, and this "we" must include Giancana, otherwise he would not have said it in Giancana's territory.

The two gangs could discuss business with him together. No need to guess, it must be smuggling. Carlo Gambino's actions could be hidden from others, but not from other Italian mafias. It is also possible that Carlo Gambino took the initiative to leak it for the purpose of...

His intervention made Carlo Gambino's power expand faster than in the original history. Perhaps this sinister guy is already planning to kill the boss and take the position himself.

The New York Mafia set a bad example in the past, and each generation has followed suit, causing no peace.

"Gambino, you bastard, you dare to use me as a pawn. If you don't give me an explanation, I will kill you in two years."

The Bufalino family and the Chicago Group came to him at the same time, and he had to take the business. If he didn't, he would not only offend people, but also face a strong new competitor.

Since the two companies have already set their sights on the smuggling line in Hong Kong, they will not let it go easily. If he doesn't take it, the two companies will naturally look for others to cooperate with.

If he took the job, the benefits would be obvious: the business would expand and the money he would make would increase exponentially. However, the downside was that he needed a thicker fig leaf to fool the CIA and FBI into turning a blind eye and not discovering him as a smuggling tycoon who was breaking the embargo. He would have no choice but to make some moves and give up some benefits.

"Damn it, the extra money will be shared among us, and the increased costs will be borne by me alone."

Xian Yaowen felt a little unhappy, but there was nothing he could do. Just like he sought cooperation with Hong Yingdong in order to get him to take the blame for him, the reason why shareholders such as Sophia and Ge Mulin invested in Jinji Trading Company also had a big premise - if there was any profit, everyone would share it, and if something went wrong, he would bear it alone.

If the United States causes trouble for him, it is only natural for him to solve the problem himself, and the cost must be borne by him personally.

Lighting a cigar, Xian Yaowen walked in the garden, thinking carefully about how many handles he had now and in the future, and how much it would cost to "destroy" these handles.

He paced in the garden while Cai Jinman stood at the gate and watched silently.

"Wei Xiu, tell Mei Jiao to make some sweet soup. The master will need some later."

"Okay, ma'am."

After giving the instructions, Cai Jinman went to the refrigerator to get some chilled juice, poured a glass, held it in his hand, and continued to stand at the door.

a long time.

Seeing Xian Yaowen stop pacing, she walked over with the juice.

"Master, have some juice."

Xian Yaowen took the cup and smiled faintly, "Don't worry about me next time, don't make yourself too tired."

Cai Jinman shook his head, "I'm not tired."

Xian Yaowen drank half a cup of juice and walked into the house with Cai Jinman in his arms, "Shall we go to the street to eat something?"

"No, Mei Jiao is already cooking the sugar water."

"I'm sorry, I didn't do what I promised you. Please come back to Hong Kong a day later and try again tomorrow night."

"No, the ticket has already been booked. It's too troublesome to change it."

"Then I'll make it up later. I'll take some time tomorrow to go to the beach where we talked about building a holiday home last time, buy a piece of land, and build a holiday home for my mother as soon as possible. We'll build two, one for us and one for the children."

"Does the child need a separate building?"

"Well, it's to prevent him from bothering us. Besides, it will be convenient for him to bring girls over when he grows up."

Cai Jinman subconsciously rubbed his belly and said, "Weixin must be a good boy."

Xian Yaowen sneered, "Like father, like mother, my son Xian Yaowen cannot be a romantic man."

……

"Hey~"

A whistle sounded, and a swaying hip was chased into the door.

"This girl is so hot. If I were to touch her butt, I would be fine even if my hands were chopped off..."

Before he could finish his words, a big hand came to the face of the foul-mouthed man, followed by a rain of punches.

"Just right...Fuck you, I'll teach you a lesson."

The owner of the perky butt, Su Lizhen, stepped back to take a look, frowned, and walked back into the room.

"Guolong, is that one of your men outside?"

"Mrs. Xian, you bastard, you should be taught a lesson." Zhen Guolong handed the deed to Su Lizhen, "The lease of the three beautiful buildings has expired."

Su Lizhen took the deed paper, flipped through it, and asked, "How much?"

"25 dollars."

Su Lizhen heard this and checked the deed again, then said, "I've been eating out too much recently, so I don't have that much cash. Go to the store tomorrow and get 50,000, and wait three days for the rest."

"Okay." Zhen Guolong pointed in the direction of the stairs, "The hot pot upstairs is ready. Would you like to have some, Mrs. Xian?"

Su Lizhen touched her waist and said, "No, I've gained a lot of weight recently and I don't dare to eat at night. I came here today to inform you that I will be away from Hong Kong for a few days. If you have any business, please contact Uncle Yu."

"No problem."

"Let's go. I'll treat you to a meal when I get back to Hong Kong."

Su Lizhen came quickly and left quickly. She no longer liked going to the mahjong house.

When I first started playing, I was a little addicted to it. I could play 32 rounds a day without any problem. But since I started mixing plastic rings and played a lot of business mahjong with the boss of the plastics factory, winning or losing didn't matter to me, so my enthusiasm for playing cards faded a lot.

Back in the car, Su Lizhen looked at the deeds carefully, picked out one and put it in her bag, and stuffed the other two into a brown paper bag, preparing to send them to Friendship Properties for sale tomorrow.

The two buildings are in Tsim Sha Tsui. If they are sold slowly and the right buyer is found, they can be sold for HK$270,000 or HK$280,000. She lowered her expectations and sold them at HK$230,000 or HK$240,000 to recover the funds as soon as possible. The holding cost of the remaining building will be reduced to a very low level.

By repeating this operation, the cost of the building previously purchased at a "high price" will be diluted.

Su Lizhen curled her lips, happy with her own cleverness. She had already understood what her husband meant by the capital utilization rate.

From the time Jin Da Ya started to acquire properties to now, property prices have gone up a bit. Because the properties were acquired at prices below the market price, each building has made a profit ranging from 3 to 10 yuan. She sold the properties with high profits and good locations, recovered the funds and invested them in cost-flattening operations, holding the most properties at the lowest cost. This not only reduced Jin Da Ya's property holding risk, but also enhanced its ability to hold properties for a longer term.

"The tide ebbs and flows, the property market will rise and fall, buy when it's high and buy when it's low."

Su Lizhen smiled slightly, and thought of the cow-horse theory that her teacher had said:

Those who can afford to buy a house are people, while those who cannot are cattle and horses. Cattle and horses work hard all their lives and cannot spend their whole lives in slums. Driving cattle and horses into flats on the pretext of improving their living environment is a sign of the prosperity of Hong Kong's property market.

Look at the total number of cattle and horses that are hoarding grass and borrowing money to buy a house. If there are less than two in five, take the one that is bold enough to hold the house.

"Chun Ning, go to Beihe Street and have a bowl of porridge."

"Ma'am, didn't you say diet?"

"A bowl of porridge is fine. I don't know if I can have good porridge in Shanghai."

Dong Chuning hesitated for a moment and said, "It's a bit risky for the gentleman to ask his wife to go back to the mainland to handle the matter."

Su Lizhen said calmly, "It's okay. If there's real danger, my husband won't let me go. Go quickly and come back quickly. I'll be back in less than half a month. My husband said that if I don't go back now, I may not find a chance to go back in the next few decades."

Dong Chuning did not reply and drove silently to Beihe Street.

The two got off the car and came to a porridge stall, where they saw Xian Yaowu sitting at the table, holding a piece of deed in his hand and explaining something to the people next to him. There were all kinds of food on the table, the quantity far exceeded the normal amount. It was obvious at a glance that they were not ordered, but given by the vendors.

"Two bowls of porridge."

"Mrs. Xian, you are here. Would you like to sit at the same table with Mr. Xian?"

"Ah."

Su Lizhen responded and sat down next to Xian Yaowu.

"Tomorrow, bring the deed and the street papers to the law firm to find me. I will help you take care of the transfer."

"Mr. Xian, thank you very much, thank you very much."

"We're just neighbors, you're welcome." Xian Yaowu sent the person who asked for help away, then turned to Su Lizhen and said, "So late?"

"Come from Guolong." Su Lizhen pointed at the red spot on Xian Yaowu's sleeve, "Are you injured?"

Xian Yaowu glanced at it and said nonchalantly, "It's okay. There was a burglary on Qingshan Road. An armed robber ran to the next street and was shot by me. The blood was stained when I was carrying the body."

Su Lizhen frowned and said, "Be careful next time and don't work so hard."

"I know."

As time went by, Xian Yaowu's view of Su Lizhen became much more positive, but it was still difficult for him to call her sister-in-law. When the two of them faced each other alone, they always felt a little awkward and uncomfortable.

When the white porridge was served, Su Lizhen started to eat it with the ten peanuts that Gunzhou Chang had given her.

It's not that Gun Zhou Chang is stingy, but that Su Lizhen went in the wrong direction of dieting. She thought that she gained weight because she ate too much oil, so she controlled the oil but never thought of controlling carbohydrates.

Xian Yaowen was most bothered by Su Lizhen's slight plumpness. Before she became obese, he would never have mentioned losing weight to Su Lizhen, let alone told her that the key to dieting is carbohydrates.

The three of them ate in silence.

Finally, Xian Yaowu wiped his mouth and said, "Go back to the mainland and be careful."

"Ah."

It's another morning.

After breakfast, Xian Yaowen sat on the sofa in the living room reading a newspaper. A phone call pulled his thoughts away from the newspaper.

"Hello."

"Yao Wen, it's me, Li Guangqian."

"Uncle Li, hello, hello."

"Why didn't you call me when you came to Xingzhou? If your family hadn't seen you, I wouldn't have known you were in Xingzhou."

"Uncle Li, I'm sorry. I came here to take care of an urgent matter. I was planning to take care of that first and then visit you at your house, but I didn't expect..." Xian Yaowen smiled awkwardly.

"Well." Li Guangqian was silent for a moment, then said, "Are you free today? Come to my house for dinner. Lunch or dinner is fine. If Jin Man is here, bring her along."

"Uncle Li, Jin Man and I will go to your house later."

"Okay, I'll wait for you."

"Uncle Li, goodbye."

After hanging up the phone, Xian Yaowen turned his head to look at the large grandfather clock behind him and saw that the pendulum was weak. He glanced at his watch and found that the clock was slow. He got up and walked to the clock, opened the door, picked up the winding key, inserted it into the winding hole, and turned the key to wind it up.

"Jin Man, Jin Man." He shouted upstairs while turning around.

After a while, there was a creaking sound on the stairs. Cai Jinman leaned down holding the handrail and looked down, "Master, what's the matter?"

"We're going to have dinner at Li Guangqian's house tonight. Get ready. I'll come back to pick you up at five o'clock."

Cai Jinman went down the stairs and came to Xian Yaowen. "So sudden?"

"Li Guangqian called just now. Please prepare some souvenirs."

"What should I prepare?"

"Take a ginseng root and prepare a jar of Nyonya pickled vegetables that you made."

"Is it bad to send pickles?"

"It's okay, just keep an eye on the time. I think four hours in the refrigerator is just right for your pickles."

Cai Jinman nodded and said, "I'll do it after lunch. It's just the right time."

"Yes." Xian Yaowen nodded and said, "Go to the study and help me take down the briefcase. Put the picture on the desk into the bag."

"Okay." (End of chapter)