"It's not a threat, it's more accurately, a suggestion."

Richard was expressionless, looking directly into the other party's gloomy gaze, "We're down, don't think about it." ”

The penguin lowered his head, rolled up the unsalted cream mille-feuille pasta with a fork, and said from between his teeth, "Get out of here, bed bugs." ”

The atmosphere froze, and several gangsters behind Richard stepped forward with some excitement, silently pressing their hands on the hidden butts of their waists.

The sound of the violin, which served as background music, suddenly stopped, and after a dozen or so canary waiters with smiling faces said "please wait a moment" to the guests, they all walked in unison towards the corner of the restaurant.

They pulled out their muffler-sized pistols from their pockets and pressed them against the waists of the gangsters and thugs, without even making a murmur, and the silence was eeri.

The inquisitive eyes of the guests were inquisitive, and no one at the corner table moved, except for the penguin sipping a goblet, agitating the thick Adam's apple and pouring a drink.

Finally, the glass emptied, the penguin snapped his fingers to disperse the waiter, and the violin music began to play in the dining room again.

"If a person underestimates his own roots, he will inevitably do something that exceeds the limit; The branches and leaves detached from the trunk of the tree, and then withered, and later had to be burned as dry wood. ”

Penguin quoted lines from "King Lear" in a bard-like aria, looked at the gang leaders who were sitting on pins and needles, and said with a kind expression: "I don't blame you, Richard, you are what I have watched grow up with my own eyes, from a rough young man who knows nothing, to a qualified head of the family." ”

Richard replied dryly, "You're overrated." ”

"No, no, no." Penguin pressed his hunched back to his seat and moved his ass to make himself as comfortable as possible, "You know, before I retired, I always thought you could carry the banner of the leader, lead the gang, and set the order of the Gotham underworld......."

He politely wiped his fingers with a napkin and swirled the tungsten ring on his thick knuckles back and forth, "You've failed, and it's clear that you can't deal with the invasion of the Russian gangsters and the Yamaguchi-gumi like I do—in my day, immigrants needed my permission to buy packs of cigarettes." ”

"Times have changed." Richard said indifferently.

“.... Yes, times have changed. The penguin sighed happily, took back the long list of words, waved his hand and said, "I won't interfere in this matter, you can go." ”

The gangster silently got up from his chair and walked towards the door. And Richard suddenly turned around as he was leaving, and said to the penguin: "Do you know, compared to Batman, who can only fight violence with violence, Lincoln March, who stands in the light and also knows how to play with power, is our end." ”

The penguin lit a cigar and let its sharp hooked nose hide in the smoke.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors, and the meal, which only occupied a small area of the plate, was not eaten, Leon left the Canary Restaurant with the twins and called a taxi to take them home.

Then came the money laundering link, Leon returned to the motel, put a total of one million dollar bills into a rucksack, got on the intercity bus, and rushed to the neighboring city.

After getting off the bus, he directly adjusted his appearance and ran to the Indian casino.

It should be noted here that unlike other countries, the United States has an extremely strict banking regulatory system, and if a user deposits too much cash at one time, the bank needs to fill out a special CTR form to report to the relevant authorities, compare your usual bills, and see if you have any property income from a suspicious source.

There is no problem for the president of a listed company to deposit $3 million, while a Chinese teenager who works in a restaurant deposits $3 million in the bank, which is simply pasting the words "I have a huge amount of property from unknown sources, come and investigate me" on the door of his head.

There are many common methods of money laundering in the market, including but not limited to the sale of antiques, the opening of shell companies, and the use of cash-intensive industries (for example, in the American drama "Breaking Bad", Lao Bai laundered the stolen money from his drug production through a car wash with large cash flow and difficult to ascertain daily turnover).

Of course, these are relatively low-level money laundering methods, and higher-end black money, such as the income from gangster smuggling, must be laundered through Caribbean banks, the world's tax havens.

The Cayman Islands, Grenada, and the Marshall Islands, these narrow islands, have always been high occurrences of tax avoidance and money laundering because of their lax and indulgent official financial supervision and difficulties in international law enforcement.

The reason why Leon chose the casino is because legal casinos are protected by U.S. law, and it is strictly forbidden to disclose customers' personal information to any third party, and it is almost impossible for the judicial authorities to find out whether the suspect really obtained this huge amount of money through gambling within a limited time and a certain cost.

So why Indian casinos? This involves the Indian reservation policy of the United States, where Indians living in the enclave can largely circumvent legal constraints and open casinos freely, and because of the remnants of ethnic consciousness, almost every Indian has a stake in the casino and unites to earn money from the pockets of tourists.

In recent years, because of the squeeze of Las Vegas, the life of the Indian casino is very difficult, relying on the northwest wind to maintain a life, fortunately, with the economic rise of a certain country in the East, more and more tourists to the United States, the Indians in the reservation in order to make the rich Chinese who have a lot of money and spend money have a good time, and they are more reluctant to external supervision, and there is a big look of "whoever dares to bully Chinese tourists, I will cut off whose dog's head".

Leon, who had changed the contour of his face with his bones, stepped into the door of the casino with neon signs of Indian heads, and the Indian security guard at the gate looked at his Asian face and warmly invited him to play.

When Li Ang arrived at the counter, he opened the rucksack without changing his face, and poured the one million dollar bills on the counter, "All of them are exchanged for chips, thank you." ”

The salesman behind the counter is also a person who has seen the world, and he has a clear understanding of the wealth of Chinese people, and he immediately reacted after being stunned for half a second, and enthusiastically took out a large stack of chips and handed it to Li Ang.