At the end of May, it had been two months since he arrived in the United States, and Arthur's life gradually became regular.

Wake up early every day to make Gina breakfast, ride her to school on a motorcycle, and pedal to work at Luciano's restaurant. Schmidt was completely afraid to care what time Arthur came, and he would sometimes disappear for a whole day, so Schmidt had to hire a new black handyman named Willie to take over the shift when necessary. Luckily, Arthur worked hard most of the time and had been learning from Carson. Schmidt wondered if the kid wanted to go out and open his own shop after he finished his studies.

After a day at work, Arthur would finish his work and head to a nearby bar for a drink. Because of his young and handsome appearance, the women who put it on him are naturally indispensable. Arthur has his own taste for women, and not every girl he is interested in. And unlike the one who liked to change girlfriends like crazy in the past, Arthur now prefers fast food and is very satisfied with Gina. It's easy and comfortable to be with her, and you can get back to the feeling of your youth.

Of course, Arthur also had his principles. He would never take a woman home, never spend the night outside, and would definitely go back at night. Ever since that time at the library, he had been thinking about it. It's a pity that there is no WeChat in this era, and there is no other contact information, and it is estimated that it is difficult to encounter it again in the vast sea of people in New York. The woman I met at the bar was far worse than Karen in terms of quality, taste, and temperament.

If there's a game in the evening, Arthur chooses to go home and watch the game, admiring the '90s NBA and enjoying the fight of those interior behemoths. He did not quit his gambling habits, and every Friday night, he would go to the casino controlled by Montolo to have a small game. He never let Montolo take care of himself, and occasionally met other members of the Luciano family in the casino, including some of the periphery. They knew Arthur's surname was Luciano, but they didn't know his true identity, which allowed Arthur to get some news from within the family.

This is one of the best ways for him to control the family, and the slightest movement of Montolo, Dior, or Sylvais will be detected by Arthur.

On weekends, Sundays, Arthur would attend St. James's Cathedral on time to meet with Abramo to talk about the progress of many matters. Connie didn't understand why she came to church so far away, one time on Good Friday was enough. But it doesn't matter if her husband has become so religious, farther away. The attentive Paula had long noticed Arthur, and she always saw him every time she came to church, and she consciously kept a secret for her father. Angelo's relationship with his father has eased somewhat, and his father is more open-minded than before, but he still refuses to let up on the issue of having a girlfriend, and does not allow him to have a girlfriend of non-Italian descent.

St. James's Cathedral was in full swing to replace the stained glass windows, and Arthur was able to enter the church's reference room to look through the past materials because he donated a window. However, so far, it has not been possible to find out the identity of the black-clad priest. Abramo also sent someone to Wisconsin to investigate Anna's affairs, but because of the age, the investigation has not progressed. Got some information from her loved ones, and officials suspected that she had died in a kidnapping murder. She was said to have been sedated after being abducted by a man named Buford Sennett, died unexpectedly from an overdose, and her body was hastily disposed of.

The prisoner, Sennett, had confessed verbally to killing Georgia Wakeler, but the body was never found, and no other convincing evidence was found. The prisoner had died in prison more than a decade earlier, and the case had become an unsolved case, forever on the missing population list, which could not be erased.

In addition to these day-to-day events, Arthur will also make time to watch Ron Artest play, and he has his eye on Artai as a long-term prospect for a smooth career in the world of sports agents.

If he was in Queens, he would go to Flo's house for dinner and enjoy their tacos and authentic Mexican tequila. He made an appointment with Bamond and offered him a very tempting price to consider working with the Luciano family. Bamond was impressed, but he wondered why Montolo wasn't particularly concerned about supplies. Arthur could only explain that he didn't want to attract the attention of the Gandolfil family for the time being, because of the need for secrecy.

Barmond nodded, but he said a word to Arthur, "There are no real secrets in the living world, secrets are only hidden underground, in the hands of the Holy Spirit of Death. "The Holy Spirit of Death is the Mexican god of death, a female skeleton with a huge scythe and a red robe.

Anna had been to Arthur's house a few times, and she didn't seem to like Gina very much, and often glared at her strangely, which made Gina a little uncomfortable. She still doesn't speak, spending most of her time at Russell's house, and Arthur considers whether to forge an identity for her in September and let her go to school. But think that she is too dangerous, it is better to let Russell accompany her, he is a dead man anyway.

As for Matthew, who continues his undercover life, Arthur has another pair of eyes that peek into Jackie Gandolfel. The Gandolfer family investigates Wood's disappearance, but Arthur and Matthew cover it up well and don't show any flaws. At the same time, the underground market for illegal drugs in Manhattan was briefly in chaos, and the Gandolfe family wasted much effort to reorganize it, but the seeds of collapse were planted.

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In late May, the NBA playoffs reached the final stage.

The battle between the New York Knicks and the Chicago Bulls came to a tiebreaker.

Both sides have won their home stadiums in their first six matches. Although the Bulls were missing Jordan, in the summer of 1993, the Bulls' roster underwent a substantial upgrade. They brought in Bill Winnington and Luke Langley on the inside to make it even thicker. On the front line, Croatian Wizards Kukoc finally came to the NBA to join the Bulls. The guard line signed shooters Steve Kerr and Pete Meyers to carve up the playing time that was free after Jordan's departure.

The Knicks took a 2-0 lead in the first two games, and the situation was very good. But just like in 1993, the Knicks came to the Chicago Union Center and lost two games in a row. In the third of the games, a group brawl broke out near the end of the first half, when Derrick Harper locked the Bulls' substitute Angelish, triggering a big fight between players on both sides. As a result, Inglish was suspended for one game and Harper was banned for two games.

Harper, who was traded to the Knicks in the middle of the season, moved to the starting point guard position in place of the injured Doug Rivers and is an important piece of the puzzle for the Knicks. His absence is a major loss for Nisker. Especially in the crucial fifth battle of Tianwang Mountain, Harper was unable to play, causing the Knicks to play very hard. With the Knicks trailing the Bulls by one point 85-86 until the final 2.1 seconds of the battle, Charles Smith's offense under the basket was blocked three times in a row, and the Knicks were pushed to the edge of the cliff. If they lose to Tianwang Mountain, the Chicago Union Center in Game 6 will most likely be their grave, and they will repeat the mistakes of last year and be nailed to the pillar of shame in history.

But in the final moments, a penalty changed the Knicks' fortunes.

Herbert Davis received a pass from a teammate and missed a jumper, but referee Hugh Hollins blew for a foul on defender Scott Pippen. Herbert Davis was sent to the free-throw line, and with 2.1 seconds left in the game, the impact of such a decision on the game was decisive. Davis hit both free throws, and the Knicks took the lead. The Bulls' last offensive serve was wronged, and the ball was intercepted by Starks, and the game ended.

Pippen and Phil Jackson were extremely unhappy with the decision, but they couldn't change the referee's blow. Slow motion also shows that Pippen did hit Davis' arm after Davis' ball was shot and before his foot hit the ground, which was a foul. The foul also ruined the Bulls' hopes of advancing in six games. Although the sixth game was in Chicago, the Bulls slaughtered the Knicks 93-79, Pippen even overturned Ewing in the game, and then collapsed from Ewing, and was relieved by a technical foul, but the battle of life and death still has to return to New York.

On May 22, the battle will take place at Madison Square Garden.

At half past six in the evening, Arthur got off work from Luciano's restaurant and took the subway to Madison Garden Plaza. If he doesn't go to Brooklyn or Queens, in Manhattan, Arthur chooses to take public transportation instead of motorcycles. Because motorcycles are forbidden to shuttle between cars in urban areas, they must follow the same queue as cars, which means that they have to eat exhaust fumes and the speed is slow, so it is more convenient to take the subway.

New York has an extremely large and complex subway line, which has a history of 90 years since it was completed and opened to traffic in 1904. If Gina hadn't led Arthur back and forth through the long corridors and stairwells, he would have been lost in this underground labyrinth. Once you get in the wrong direction here, it is very, very troublesome to correct it. After nearly 100 years of operation, many subway lines and vehicles have become dirty and dilapidated. The passages are often filled with unclothed homeless people, wild singers playing the piano and singing, kitten-sized mice, caught chickens, pole dancing performance artists on railings, and drunks pooping on their seats with their pants off.

Seeing this situation, Arthur thought to himself that he would have to spend more time in the future and ride Gina to school, the subway environment is too bad.

The race started at half-past seven, and at seven o'clock Arthur and Gina took the subway to Madison Garden Plaza, squeezing out of the subway station along with the surging crowd. Tonight, the fans in New York are very excited, very nervous, whether they can break the Bulls, it's up here.

This was Arthur's first visit to Madison Garden Square after coming to New York, and the ticket was given by Abram. Tonight, he became an avid New York fan in Madison, watching the NBA playoffs in the high-decibel highs.

However, the Knicks didn't play well in the first half. Ewing didn't score a point in the first half, which made Knicks fans nervous. The Knicks relied on the play of other players to barely lead by one point into the second half. Gina looked nervous, she's not much of a Knicks fan, but it's hard for any New Yorker to come to Maddison without being swept up in the emotions here, and she's just as worried about the home team as the Knicks diehards around her. Only Arthur was not worried, and he comforted Gina by saying that the Knicks would definitely win tonight.

In the third quarter, the Bulls, led by Pippen, began to play with the advantage, and the Bulls overtook the score. At this moment, Ewing finally stepped up, first hitting a three-point shot, followed by a series of layups, dunks and mid-range jumpers, leading the Knicks to a wave of counterattacks. Helped the Knicks to overtake the score by 4 points when they were once behind! The hearts of Knicks fans have finally fallen.

In the fourth quarter, the game finally entered the rhythm of the Knicks, and the two giants of Oakley and Ewing were crazy to grab rebounds inside, and their suffocating defense destroyed the Bulls, and the margin was stretched to more than 10 points. It was a huge margin in the NBA in the 1990s, and in the playoffs, unless you have Jordan, it's hard to get around. The Bulls finally fell, and the final score was 87:77, with both sides scoring low. The Knicks finally won and finally stepped over the Chicago Bulls.

At the end of the game, Ewing raised his arms like King Kong to the roar of the Madison Garden fans.

Gina screamed loudly along with the fans around her, venting all her excess energy. Arthur had long discovered that Americans had a fanaticism about sports that was incomprehensible to other countries, and he believed that one of the main reasons was that people here had too high calorie and alcohol intake to vent on sports.

Arthur cheered along, but he knew in his heart that in this game, Jackie had made another profit.

A big reality show has come to an end for the time being, and it will continue until the climax in June.

Arthur and Gina left Madison to watch a good basketball game for two hours, and there was a sense of joy all over them. The small flame in Gina's heart had already been ignited by the passion of the arena and Arthur's hormones, and she began to do something to Arthur on the way back. Tearing off his shirt and pulling it up from his back, gently caressing his back, and standing on tiptoe to kiss Arthur's lips, his face rubbing against Arthur's broad chest from time to time, like a little she-cat in heat.

When they got out of the subway, the two rushed out impatiently, trotted all the way back to the apartment building, and climbed upstairs with a slump. At the door they began to kiss each other, Arthur kissed and took the key out of his trouser pocket, and after a while it was pointed at the keyhole, the door opened with a "click", and the two fell into the house, only to find that the light in the room was on, and there was a person, a woman, sitting in the living room.

The two were so frightened that they hurriedly separated, and Arthur looked at the woman fixedly, and the memory in his mind quickly searched for the corresponding answer.

"Cousin Dorothy?"