Fortunately, Arthur is not a mad gambler, otherwise he would definitely grab the metal folding chair next to him and smash the TV screen when he sees such a situation.

Even so, as a former old fan, Arthur was still very panicked. It seems that someone is indeed manipulating the referee and the game in some way to make the bookmaker more profitable. In tonight's game, it is estimated that many people are betting on the Knicks to beat the Nets by more than 10 points, and these people's gambling funds have been wasted.

Thinking of his gamble with Jackie, Arthur sighed, he didn't care about $5,000, someone would help him pay for it. But go to Jackie's house to cook? Now is not the time to kill him, why don't you go to his house to find out the truth first? According to Arthur's plan, the timetable for the eradication of the Gandolfil family was set this summer, after the World Cup in the United States.

At that point, the Gandolfer family's drug market will be encroached, the casinos will go bankrupt and run out, and it would be better if the police and the FBI will intervene to sweep them up. As for how to deal with Jackie, whether to kill him with his own hands or send him to prison for the rest of his life, Arthur is still considering.

After clearing these obstacles, Arthur will integrate the power and resources of the Italian gangs in the New York area, return the black to the black, and wash the white as much as possible, using financial rather than violent means to build a new empire relying on the Luciano family and the Abramo family. This is the rough blueprint in his mind at the moment, but he has no clue where the final destination is, everything is just the beginning.

Arthur went through his plan over and over again in his head, looking for omissions. The plan is never perfect, there will be accidents and flaws in the implementation process, how to take into account all aspects of emergency preparedness, is the key to the success of a plan. The habit of going through everything before going to bed, Arthur still didn't fall behind.

And Gina had already washed up and lay on the bed ready to sleep, this time she did not call Arthur "come quickly", but turned off the light and fell asleep first. She is a girl who can't hide her emotions, and when she is unhappy, she wants to watch TV and sleep, and she has no interest in anything else. Arthur got up and closed the door for her, then returned to the sofa in the living room.

The TV was still on, CBS's NBA was wrapping up the game, and Arthur was making himself a cup of tea. The tea was bought by Russell from Chinatown, and it is said to be authentic Anhui Maofeng, but after soaking it, I smelled the fragrance, and I always felt that it was Indian Maofeng, as if there was a curry smell.

Sitting comfortably on the sofa, gently blowing the hot tea in the cup with his mouth, cooling the water, Arthur waited, waiting for the person to appear. The reason why he wanted to sell the TV was because he didn't want to meet that person. And he got another TV set back, but it was because he wanted to see the man.

"That's the end of today's NBA show, we'll see you in the next game." CBS TV host Dick Stockton said goodbye to viewers as this is his final season at CBS TV and his contract is expiring in the summer. Of course, his commentary is as precise as ever, the speed of his speech is steady, and his voice is magnetic, so that everyone can listen comfortably.

The TV camera was focused on his face, and he stared straight at the audience off the screen — and now he had only one viewer left, Arthur.

"Long time no see, Arthur." The camera zooms in to see only one of Stockton's faces, and he speaks again, apparently not as he was saying. Snowflakes flashed on the TV screen, and his expression was blurry, making it impossible to see if he was smiling or not

"Hi Dick, nice to meet you." Seeing "Dick Stockton" again, Arthur was no longer surprised, and asked, "If I don't have a new TV, you won't show up all the time, right?" Do you live in TV? ”

"Stockton" smiled this time, genuinely, and said in his deep and calm voice: "I'm not on TV, but in your heart, and I'll be there when you need it, with or without TV." For me, TV doesn't matter, for you, TV is what matters. I thought I was supposed to be on TV, and I was on TV. ”

Arthur's head is big, he doesn't want to bend with this guy, and since he is here, he has a question to ask him.

"Don't be verbose, I want to ask you, how the hell am I going to find the people who are the four cards?" Arthur asked bluntly as he pulled out the four cards he had gotten in the church from the safe.

It's been a month since I got these four cards, and so far no one who can see the poetry behind the cards has noticed. Compared to the previous four, it took a week to collect all of them, but this time it was too slow. The point is that Arthur couldn't find any clue, and he couldn't understand the poems that followed, so he couldn't figure out what they meant, so he came to ask.

"Hehe," Stockton smiled, and another snowflake flashed on the TV, "the answer is in those poems, and, on the cards." The hint has already been given to you, accept the arrangement of fate, don't be in a hurry. ”

Arthur felt the urge to pick up the metal folding stool next to the couch and smash the TV screen, and he took a deep breath to calm himself down, he had been too impulsive lately to put up with it. This Panasonic TV is still quite expensive.

At this time, the TV camera turned, and there was another snowflake, followed by Dick Stockton's disappearance, and CBS TV resumed broadcasting other programs as normal. Arthur looked at the cards in his hand, and the 6 of hearts, the same suit as his 2 of hearts, read:

I was caught up by you in the dark night, and you made me lie down with a candle in hand. I also receive the blessing of the soul of the transcendent.

Yes, our future is different, your hut faces the sun, and all around me must be the sea, and the north.

Yes, thy garden flowers bloom first, and mine, sow in the bitter cold.

Yet there was a summer when we were queens, but you, crowned in June.

……

The next morning Arthur offered to take Gina to school, and this Saturday, there was a competition at school, and Gina was going to be a cheerleader.

Gina pouted and agreed, and when the two went downstairs, they met Uncle Ceci who was out to set up a stall. Uncle Secy looked at the two with a kind of disgust in his eyes, if it weren't for the fact that Uncle Secy was a neighbor and an elder, Arthur would definitely blow his dog's head with one punch.

On the way to school, Gina hugged Arthur tightly and pressed her face against his back to feel the safety and warmth that she had experienced with her father, but only later...... Gina's feelings for her father have always been complicated, because his father himself is a very complicated and strange person.

He's just a dock worker, but he's not vulgar, he doesn't drink or smoke, and of course he looks ordinary, but he can capture Gina's mother's heart, which is enough to show that he is extraordinary. But in the end, love lost to reality, Gina's mother ran away with someone, Gina followed her father, and finally one day she also left.

On the day of leaving, Gina kind of understood why her mother would leave, not just because of reality, but for more reasons. It is hidden in his father's character, the seemingly ordinary dock worker, which is both charming and intolerably multifaceted. Gina sometimes wonders if her personality genes are also imprinted with her father's shadow.

She didn't know that the wind was blowing in her ears, and Arthur was riding fast and had already crossed the Brooklyn Bridge. She still remembers that night, when she quietly left the house, and met Arthur fatefully under the Brooklyn Bridge, the windy man who appeared on a motorcycle, and she got into his motorcycle in a daze and stayed at his house.

To this day, her father has never come to look for her, not once, never to school, not to call her teacher. More than two weeks ago, she finally met her father at the school gate, wearing a dirty red plaid shirt, a pair of light blue jeans, and a bouquet of white roses in his hand, looking particularly funny.

But what's even funnier is that he actually walked with Jenny, and Gina saw it from a distance, and was stunned and didn't know what to do.

What the hell is going on here, what the hell is going on?

"Gina, Gina?" Gina came back to her memories and found that Arthur had ridden to the school gate, and she got out of the car and walked towards the school without kissing Arthur as usual.