On March 27, 1994, this long day passed. Arthur came to the third day of this plane and witnessed the death of four people, Vera, Casey, Tony, and Larry; He also found the person who corresponded to the four cards, himself, Russell, Abramo, and the little girl who didn't want to speak.

The day passed in a fantastic and blurry, when he sat in the passenger seat of the Russell Camry, driving on the road at two o'clock in the morning, the heavy darkness on both sides of the road seemed to be overwhelming. It is a small road with no street lights, and the only light is the lights on Russell's car, which cut through the darkness and kept moving forward, looking for a road with no end in sight.

When you get to Brooklyn and Manhattan, everything comes alive and the lights around the Hudson River are brilliantly lit up, and it's a city that never sleeps. The car drove to the vicinity of Little Italy, parking a few people separately. At parting, Arthur instructed Russell and Montolo not to do anything for the next two days, as if nothing had happened. Wait for the person below to feel that something is wrong, and then slowly make the move. Also, be careful of other families and other gangs in Manhattan and don't give others a chance to get in.

And then there's the little girl, Arthur tries to communicate with her all the way, but she doesn't say a word, just nods and shakes her head. Montello advocated handing her over to the social worker, and Arthur certainly wouldn't do that, this TM is my square J. He explained that the social worker would ask the little girl where she was from, and if they didn't know where they would call the police, it would be troublesome.

How can gang members go and trouble the police. Arthur thought about it and decided to ask Abramo for help when the time came to identify the little girl. As for the problems in the little girl's life, Arthur asked her to follow Russell, and he was more reassuring. Of course, Russell didn't seem very happy, and his bachelor and gangster killer with a little girl of unknown origin seemed strange to look at. But there is no more suitable candidate besides him, it is inconvenient for Arthur and Gina to live together, and taking care of Gina is enough for him to have a headache.

When everything was in order, Arthur went home alone, and after a day of thrills, he still felt energetic. It's no wonder that I can talk about the girlfriend of a rugby team, who is really talented and energetic. When she opened the door and returned home, Gina had already slept, and she didn't lock the door tonight. Because Arthur had told her in advance that he had something to do today and would come back late.

Taking off his coat, Arthur went to the bathroom and "snapped" to turn on the light and looked in the mirror. He touched his rather handsome face, it was really a good skin. The scab on his face from the wound cut by Russell's umbrella had partially fallen off, revealing the new pink flesh inside. The speed of healing is really amazing, could it be that what has happened to my body?

Arthur didn't know, didn't want to think too much, squeezed some toothpaste and started brushing his teeth, and had to go to work in the restaurant tomorrow morning. Arthur had a plan in his mind that after Montolo seized the power of the family, he would rely on Russell to manipulate the family's affairs internally, and Abramo's assistance externally to grab his due interests. He wants to take stock of the family's assets and hand over the black part to Montolo to continue the business, after all, the people below have to eat. The white part should be stripped out as much as possible, and the black part should be separated from each other, and the legitimate business can be truly bigger and stronger.

As for how to become bigger and stronger...... Arthur didn't think about it that much, anyway, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and of course, the more important thing is to find out the secret behind the playing cards......

Arthur brushed his teeth while thinking, the white toothpaste was foamy, and Little Italy was quite quiet in the middle of the night, with only the "rustle" of brushing teeth in his ears. After brushing his teeth and rinsing his mouth, Arthur washed his face, and just after wiping his face, there was a "rustling" sound in his ears again. He's finished brushing his teeth.

In the quiet of the night, the "rustle" sound was particularly harsh, Arthur put down the towel in his hand and listened attentively, the sound came from the living room.

He slowly opened the bathroom door and saw a faint light in the living room, and the TV was somehow turned on, and the rustling sound was coming from the TV.

Arthur swallowed and walked over to the living room TV, black and white snowflakes shining on the screen, a piercing rustle filling the eardrums. Arthur thought that when he was watching the game that day, the narrator on the TV show suddenly talked to him, was it real or a dream? He still hasn't figured it out.

Arthur was about to step forward and turn off the TV, when the snowflakes on the screen suddenly disappeared and turned into a CBS TV studio, and Dick Stockton again.

"Good evening, audience friends, welcome to tonight's NBA live broadcast, tonight brings you the 1994 NBA regular season game, Boston Celtics vs. Philadelphia 76ers, I'm the host Dick Stockton......"

It seemed like a replay of tonight's game, but Arthur didn't think so, he watched the screen and waited, waiting for a change to appear.

Dick Stockton was gushing about the situation against both sides of the game, and he stopped in the middle of speaking, looked up, looked at Arthur through the TV screen, licked his lips and said, "Good evening, Arthur." ”

Sure enough, it wasn't a dream, the people on TV really talked to themselves. Arthur was convinced of this and breathed a sigh of relief. For a person who has experienced a crossing, there is nothing that he cannot accept. Moreover, it is better to take the initiative to have someone come to you to explain the situation than to guess it slowly. Although this person is the one in the TV.

"Good evening, Dick." Arthur replied in as calm a tone as he could, and it was the first time he had spoken to someone on the television.

The man on the TV smiled slightly, and his smile made Arthur look familiar.

"I'm not Dick, but it doesn't matter, and you're not Arthur."

Arthur was shocked, he actually knew that he was crossing over?

"Don't worry, I don't know who you are, and you don't need to know who I am, because it doesn't matter." Stockton seemed to guess Arthur's thoughts, added.

"So what's important?" Arthur didn't want to know who was on the TV, he wanted to know what he was going to do when he came to this plane, what he could do, who sent him to this plane and body.

"I can't tell you." Stockton shook his head and said to Arthur in a firm tone.

Arthur scolded in his heart, can't you tell me that you came to scare me and talk to me in this way? Something wrong with you, right? Even if you ask me to overthrow American imperialism and plant the red flag all over the world, I can try to do it, and whether it succeeds or not is another matter.

"When God created man," Stockton said in a serious tone, "he did not create language, because God and man are of the same mind." When language began to be created, the gap between God and man began. Human language can only get close to the truth, but cannot reach the truth, so I can't tell you because I can't tell you. ”

Arthur didn't know what the hell was talking about, and if he lived on the TV, he would have threatened him with the truth by pulling the plug.

"And what can you tell me?" Arthur didn't give up and continued to ask.

"Nowadays people cannot think and communicate without language, and poetry is the closest language to God, and to comprehend it is to get closer to God." Stockton continued, "There's a saying in the East that says, 'You can only mean what you can't say,' and I think you'll understand. ”

I understand your size, I don't understand at all, what can only be understood is unspeakable, the more Arthur looks, the more he thinks that this Stockton is not a bald monk behind it.

"The only thing I can tell you is to do what you want, and when you find people who are in touch with you, everything will be clear."

Arthur finally got a more affirmative word, and he wanted to ask, but the TV "clicked" and turned it off. The living room was quiet and dark again, except for the static sound of the TV screen. Arthur sat on the couch and thought for a while before making a decision: no matter what, sleep! Two days later, I sold the TV at a low price.

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After that, Arthur lived two days of peace. Gina wakes up in the morning with a sweet morning kiss, Arthur will ride a motorcycle to send Gina to school as usual, Gina will get off the bus proudly at the school gate, and then leave for class with a kiss of separation. Soon the rumor that Gina "has an Italian gang boyfriend" was confirmed at school, and no prodigal boy dared to go up and provoke her.

After sending Gina Arthur back to work at the Luciano restaurant in Manhattan, Schmidt was respectful to Arthur, and he didn't dare to slack off in the slightest, and it didn't matter if he was ten or twenty minutes late. After all, there was a deadly handle in his hand, and Schmidt didn't know that Tony was already sleeping by the brook in Oyster Bay. The issue of the ownership and management rights of the restaurant will be left to the lawyers of the Luciano family.

When he rides to pick up Gina after work, he'll usually go a little earlier to see if Gina is training on the cheerleading squad, or to see if there's any familiar talent on the street courts in Brooklyn to meet. However, the odds were slim, and it wasn't safe for him to hang out in a black neighborhood in Brooklyn as an Italian, so Arthur decided to wait for Artest's call.

and Abramo, who has not been contacted since the separation of East Rutherford. After the assassination, he needs time to calm people and find out the real culprit behind the arrangement of the killer on the construction truck. The television news has been airing the East Rutherford shooting this week, and the police are involved in the investigation, and the F.B.I. must have been involved. Eavesdropping is something I've seen enough in Arthur's movies and TV series. Arthur needs to find a safe way to communicate with him without being noticed by the police or the FBI.

It's April, April 1st, which happens to be Friday, the first Friday before Easter, so it's Good Friday. Italians in Little Italy are mostly Catholic, so today they celebrate Good Friday. On this day, the stock exchange in New York is closed, and it is the only day of the year that the market is closed on a non-U.S. federal holiday.

In the morning, Arthur came to work in the restaurant after sending Gina to school, and as soon as he saw Schmidt, he said, "Manager Schmidt, I want to ask you for a leave, I have something to do today." As soon as the goods arrived at the workplace, the first thing he did was to ask for leave and change to another employee, and Schmidt directly told him to get out. Today is Good Friday, Little Italy is going to be very busy, and of course the restaurant business will be very good, and it is the time when people are needed.

Schmidt is still thinking about doing business today to increase revenue, and you will come here for me as soon as you come? Schmidt came out of the counter and said sharply to Arthur: "Arthur, if you want to ask for leave, just call and come over, and you have to run again, this is not delaying your errands!" This is righteous, Arthur couldn't refute it for a while, it was my fault that I came to ask for leave in person.

Arthur had no choice but to spread his hands, "I'll pay attention next time." ”

Schmidt immediately put on a smiling face, stepped forward to Arthur and whispered, "Arthur, what's happened to Tony lately?" He hadn't been here in a while, and he hadn't called, what had happened to him? ”

Arthur shook his head and said, "I don't know, you should ask Russell, or Casey, I heard that he went to Argentina, there seems to be something going on in the gang, and he is going to avoid the limelight." ”

Russell said that Tony used to travel to Argentina a lot, so he could use this as a temporary excuse. Schmidt nodded slightly, anyway, he wanted to know Tony's movements, mainly because he was afraid that he would know about using the restaurant money to make usury, if he was not in New York, it would naturally be better. A lot of things drag on, and in the end it's over.

After asking for leave, Arthur was about to leave when the ordering phone in the restaurant rang, and the waitress took the phone, listened to it, and said to Arthur: "Arthur! Someone is looking for you! ”

Someone looking to use this phone? Arthur was overjoyed, and Artest had taken the bait.