"If you love him, take him to New York, because it's heaven. If you hate him, take him to New York, too, because it's a region. This is a classic dialogue that Adair saw in the TV series in his previous life, a seemingly inconsistent sentence, but it reflects the huge gap between the rich and the poor in New York.

Today, Adair has captured this feeling vividly: during the day, he works in the most prosperous part of New York, amassing wealth at an incredible rate, and at night, he mostly returns to Hell's Kitchen Wharf, the slum within the slum of New York, where he now lives.

It was another early morning, a rare sunny day of the week, but it was only six or seven o'clock, and the bright white sun had already risen above the sea level, casting a scorching light over the entire Upper New York Bay.

Before he could open his eyes, he heard Cliffor's loud voice shouting: "Adelle, Adelle! Cole, this mad dog is dead, killed by the Italians!"

Raising his hand and wiping it on his face, feeling the oily slippery hands on, Adel put a force on his waist and sat up from the broken bed made of wooden planks, rubbing his eyes while helplessly glancing at Clifford who rushed into the room.

"Look, it's in the newspaper," Clifford said unconsciously as he walked briskly to the edge of the bed, knocked Daniela aside, who hadn't had time to put on his clothes, and sat down on the edge of the bed, holding up the newspaper for Adel to read.

"Clifford, next time you enter the door, can you knock on the door first?" Speechless, taking the newspaper, Adel said with one hand on his head.

"I've knocked," said Clifford, with a look of arguity, "you slept to death, didn't hear you." After saying that, he didn't wait for Adel to continue speaking, he reached out and poked at the newspaper, "Look and see, whether it's the mad dog Cole is dead, and that Angelo is also dead, and the death is quite miserable." ”

He's a scumbag here, and he's finally diverted Adele's attention.

The newspaper was today's New York Times, and the news about Cole the Mad Dog was prominently featured on the front page. The newspaper first reported that the shootout in Fort Lee in the early hours of yesterday morning, which lasted nearly 30 minutes, and the police suspected that it was a gang firefight, mainly the encirclement and suppression of the mad dog Cole by several Italian gangs. Through the police clearance of the Fort-Lee pier, a total of 7 bodies were found, including the mad dog Cole and his important assistant Angelo.

The newspaper highlighted that when the police found the body of Cole, the mad dog, the man who had silenced all of New York, had been roped to his ankles and hung upside down from the roof of an abandoned warehouse. After forensic examination, a total of 63 bullets were recovered from Cole's body, as for bullet holes, many gunshot wounds were caused by close range of fire, and his ears and nose were also cut off, which shows how much those gunmen hated him.

According to newspaper analysis, the death of the mad dog Cole will deal a heavy blow to the Irish gangsters in New York and even the United States, after all, this guy is a Robin Hood-like figure in the eyes of many Irish gangsters. At a time when the Italian gangs were swelling rapidly, not to mention in New York, even in the whole of the United States, there was only one Irishman who was not afraid to challenge the authority of the Sicilians.

"The death of Mad Dog Cole heralded the end of an era of American gangsters, which began with John Morrissey and ended today. That's the New York Times' assessment at the end of the story.

For Adel, he didn't care if the era ended or not, what he really cared about was that Cole was finally dead, and he didn't have to worry about the trouble from this scoundrel anymore, and at the same time, he also got a sum of money out of thin air, even if it was a lot of black money.

"Let's go, hurry up and get dressed, let's go to Reuben," Seeing that Adair finished reading the newspaper, Clifford stretched out his hand a little impatiently, grabbed the newspaper with one hand, threw it aside, and urged, "Ruben has already said, as long as Cole's death is confirmed, let's celebrate, haha, that's right, this matter does need to be celebrated." ”

Adair shook his head and smiled, got up and began to get dressed. That's right, as Clifford said, this event is indeed worth celebrating, and Cole's affairs have been like a heavy stone for so many days, always weighing heavily on his heart. Well, now that damn threat has finally been lifted.

After getting dressed, Adel jumped out of bed, and was about to wash up briefly, when he heard footsteps at the door, and in a few moments, Reuben walked in quickly.

"Adele, it's time to celebrate!" "As soon as Ruben entered the door, before he could even stand on his heels, he opened his arms and said in a loud voice, "I have already thought about it, in order to celebrate this victory, we must go out and consume, unrestrained consumption, what do you think?"

"No problem, Reuben," Adair smiled, beckoning to Daniela, who was hiding in the corner, and made a gesture of brushing his teeth, before continuing, "I'll listen to you what you want." ”

"Look, I'm ready," said Reuben, pulling two bundles of cash out of his pocket, "two thousand dollars, how about we use them all at once today?"

Adair blinked, looking at the two bundles of cash in his hand, how to say, two thousand dollars is indeed a lot, in the eyes of ordinary people, spending so much money in a day is too luxurious, but the problem is that they are not ordinary people now, but rich people. Reuben still has $300,000 in black money, what else can that black money do other than use it for piecemeal spending?

Oh, and maybe it can be used for bribes. A thought popped up in Adair's mind out of thin air, but he didn't say it directly, but looked at Ruben and said, "Reuben, don't be so stingy, since you have decided to have a good day of luxury, how can two thousand dollars be enough?"

"Can't go too far," said Reuben, shaking his head, as he put the two bundles back in his pocket, "You know, this is New York, and if we spend too much money and are seen by someone who cares, I'm afraid it will cause trouble." ”

Adel admires Reuben, a guy who has lived at the bottom of the United States for more than 30 years, has a kind of caution hidden in his bones, and he always seems to be able to control himself well.

"Who said it was in New York?" Adele smiled as she took the mouthwash Daniela had prepared, "I've already figured it out, let's go to Philadelphia, where we can splurge without any scruples." ”

"yes, let's go to Philadelphia, ha, I love Philadelphia!" Clifford was the first to raise his hands in agreement.

"Well, then go to Philadelphia," Reuben certainly didn't have a problem, he touched his pocket for the money, and said, "Since I'm going to Philadelphia, I'll go and prepare some more money." ”

"You should bring as many as you can," Adair said, "and I'm going to bring two more people, like Casey and Daniela." ”

"Then I'll take Dover with me," said Clifford at once, a woman he now liked, an immigrant from Cuba.

"Two more lads you can trust," Adair nodded and continued.

"Huh?" Ruben was a little surprised, he didn't know what Adel was up to.

"I'm going to order a batch of clothes in Philadelphia and come back," Adair said as he walked to the sink with his glass of water, "Reuben, it's not a good idea to keep that money in our hands all the time, and I'm going to find a safer way to use it in pieces." ”

"How do you use it? That's 300,000,000," Ruben didn't hurry to leave, he looked around, found a stool to move over, sat down, and then said while pulling out a cigarette.

"I've thought I'd buy gold in batches," Adel said, putting down his glass, taking the cigarette Reuben had thrown over, and lit the match Daniela had given him.

"Gold?" Ruben blinked, he didn't know what it took to buy gold.

"Now, there's not a lot of formalities to buy gold, and there are a lot of banks on Wall Street that are selling freely," Adair said, "and I've basically understood that the price of gold has been stable for the last few years, so investing in gold is not a very good option, and because of that, it's very easy to buy gold now." $20.67 an ounce, pay for it and pick it up. ”

Adel is right, in the United States today, there is no "Emergency Banking Act" of 1933 and "Gold Reserve Act" of 1934, and gold can be bought and sold freely in the market. However, because of the dollar system, the price of gold in the United States has not fluctuated much, so not many investors like to invest in gold. In many banks, even some of the larger jewelry stores, anyone can buy gold with cash, but it is easy to buy, but it is difficult to sell, because banks do not buy gold for $20.67 an ounce.

So, why did Adel buy gold? The reason is very simple, he knows very well that in more than two months, the US economy will collapse, and the collapse of the stock market will make the trading volume of gold rise sharply - the concept of gold in the prosperous antiques, troubled times is not only for Chinese. At that time, there will be a surge in the price of gold, and at the same time, the banks that can survive the economic crisis will also buy large amounts of gold stored in private hands. Banks generally buy gold by one of three means: by paying cash or by writing a cheque, and of course, if possible, they will try to make sure that the person who bought the gold will exchange it for a bank deposit, that is, the bank will not give cash, but will open a bank account for the seller, and pay the money in the form of a bank deposit.

For Adele, this is obviously equivalent to completing a money laundering process with ease.