Chapter 98: Is This Lawyer Reliable?
In Chinatown, the Yonglian Society has almost all its power thrown out, asking around about the origin of the group that infiltrated and attacked their bootlegging factory, and who found it.
However, Liao Baihua has already decided on a candidate in his heart, that is, the president of the Chinese United Trade Union, Li Xiling.
This old gentleman can be said to be the legend of Manhattan's Chinatown, he has been rooted in this place for the last century, and it can be said that the size of Chinatown here is inseparable from his contributions.
It's just that this old man is now the president of the Chinese United Trade Union, living in a simple house, and rarely cares about the affairs of the rivers and lakes, and the "Hutchison" industry under his name includes catering, laundry, massage, cigarette pipes, casinos and other fields.
However, there is less than half a year to go, and the election of the president of the Chinese Federation every three years is about to begin, and Liao Baihua is eyeing this position.
Now he has made a lot of money because of the prohibition of alcohol, and his strength has increased sharply in a short period of time, absorbing many small gangs around him, even if they are not Chinese, as long as they are willing to do things for themselves, Yonglian will not refuse to come.
This move of Yonglian has also been reminded by Li Xiling more euphemistically, but Liao Baihua is in a period of rapid development, and his ambitions are infinitely expanding, where can he listen to other people's suggestions?
However, he would never have thought that this incident was purely coincidental, and he could only blame Song Qing, who had little eyesight.
Zhou Yu and the others talked and laughed at night, and even secretly drank some beer, but just like the good habits cultivated in the trenches of the battlefield or in the Chinese Workers' Battalion, half of them drank alcohol, and the other half of them would inevitably stay awake, and they would never let themselves fall into an unsuspecting situation, even if there seemed to be no danger around.
Late at night, the lights were extinguished at the Loft Villa, and the conditions here were probably something that the C13 brothers had never enjoyed in their lives, and they slept very soundly this night.
Maybe it's a long-term habit, although Zhou Yu didn't wake everyone up the next morning, but at about seven o'clock, everyone all transformed naturally, and one by one yawned into the bathroom to wash their faces and brush their teeth, ready to go out for a morning run.
That's right, the habit of exercising your body cannot be abandoned anywhere, after all, the body is the capital of the revolution.
Seeing that everyone was so conscious, even if Wu Xiaolong, who had not played a cameo role in the past, looked at it and spontaneously organized, although some people were still sleepy-eyed, they still lined up in a neat long line and began to run in a circle.
"Boss, do you have any arrangements for today?"
Zack, the driver who was woken up by the sound of everyone's washing, rubbed his eyes and walked to Zhou Yu's side.
Zhou Yu thought for a moment and took out the lawyer's business card that Madil gave him from his pocket.
"Today we are going to visit the lawyer, it is better to sign a labor contract with him, with his help we will be able to do the next thing much smoother."
Zach moved his arm and tried to ask, "Is it Mr. Les Wood?" I've been to his law firm, but the boss only has one truck now. ”
Zhou Yu knew what Zach meant, if they were going to open a company here, talk about business, or visit others, it would be very rude to drive a truck.
New York is now in the early stage of the boom of drunken money fans, people worship money, live extravagantly, love to compare, and often secretly compete with each other about whose car is the latest and whose clothes are the master design.
Zhou Yu nodded very slightly and said, "I know this, but we don't have an official identity yet, and at most we can only be regarded as an employee of Williams Herbert, so we have to go to see a lawyer first." ”
"Okay boss, then I'll go and prepare now."
Zach was a very diligent young man, he drove the truck to the gate of the villa, then found a cotton cloth to wipe the dust on it, then checked the condition of the car and the fuel tank, and sat in the driver's seat, waiting for the boss's departure order.
"Yes, a very capable young man."
Zhou Yu gave an evaluation in his heart, because he needed to see a lawyer today instead of going to fight, he asked everyone to stay in the villa to take care of their belongings, and targeted Liu Banxian and the Yuan family brothers with him, which can be regarded as letting them contact related matters.
Liu Banxian is good at math and can also calculate accounts, Zhou Yu wants to train him to become the company's financial personnel, after all, such an important position can not be hired externally, but their Master Liu is indeed very good at this aspect, learning very quickly, Zhou Yu taught him what ninety-nine multiplication formula, simple input and output statements, basically read a few times can remember eight or nine without leaving ten.
As for the Yuan brothers, they are very clever, thoughtful, and not bad, the most important thing is that there is some kind of tacit understanding between the two brothers, many times they don't need words at all, and they can understand what the other party is thinking with almost a look.
And the appearance of the two brothers is quite ordinary, they belong to the type that they can't find in the crowd for a long time, and with them by Zhou Yu's side, Hong Ah Ghost reluctantly agreed to stay in the villa to take care of the family.
At eight o'clock in the morning, everyone packed up and had breakfast, went out to take a green pickup truck, and staggered to downtown Manhattan.
Fortunately, the driver, Zack, had been to the Les Wood Law Firm, and he was now familiar with the road, turning three and two times, heading east through Times Square, crossing an extremely long bridge across the river, and finally entering Queens.
When he arrived here, Zhou Yu could clearly feel that the surrounding houses were much shorter, and the streets were much narrower.
At this stage, the development of Queens has made a huge gap with that of Manhattan, where most of the people live are African-Americans, Latinos, and other immigrants, and the population composition is more complex.
The car stopped slowly, Zach shrugged his shoulders, and said helplessly: "Boss, our car can only drive here, the road ahead is a little narrow, we can only go on foot." ”
Zhou Yu looked at the small alleys with sewage flowing and self-built houses in front of him, and for no reason remembered the urban village he used to play in when he was a child, but he didn't expect that there would be such an urban village in New York in the early 20th century.
"Let's get out of the car."
The four jumped out of the truck and walked into the alley under the scrutinizing gaze of the surrounding residents.
Fortunately, Zhou Yu and the others were wearing the blue workers' clothes and peaked caps often worn by the low-level people in New York, and they all looked like low-income people, otherwise they would have to be ransacked by the residents with bad intentions here.
Dark-skinned and thick-lipped African-American immigrants gathered on the side of the road, glancing at the five from time to time, bowing their heads and whispering something.
The Yuan brothers put their hands in their pockets, and they were quite vigilant in their hearts, for fear that those people next to them would suddenly burst out and attack them.
The nerves of several people who walked this short distance were tense, but fortunately there were no accidents.
Zach pointed to the narrow alleyway that could only be entered by one person at a time, "Boss, Mr. Les Wood's law firm is above here, on the second floor. ”
Zhou Yu glanced up, there was a barbershop on the ground floor of a barbershop owned by a bronzed owner with a presumptuous Southeast Asian ancestry, and from the side door of the barbershop hung a crooked sign that read "Les Wood Law Firm".
"Is this person reliable to open his office in this place?"
Zhou Yu kept his doubts in his heart, but he also believed that Williams's little cousin had no reason to deceive him, and Zach also said that Madil had worked with this lawyer before and praised his ability.
"Let's go, let's go have a look."
After Zhou Yu finished speaking, the driver Zack trotted to the front to lead the way, Liu Banxian followed behind Zhou Yu, and the Yuan brothers and the other three went up before finally going upstairs.
Walking through the foul-smelling hallway of debris, the group went up to the second floor, where Zach raised his hand and slammed it vigorously on a filthy iron door.
"Is Mr. Leswood here? I'm Zach, Mr. Wood, are you there? I have a commission to give to you here~"
Zach patted a few times, but there was no movement in the room, he glanced at Zhou Yu suspiciously, and whispered to himself:
"No, Mr. Les Wood doesn't go out so early, he lives in the office, and he usually sleeps until noon before going to work, maybe he drank too much last night."
Thinking of this, Zach decided to slam the door a little harder, but as soon as his right hand was raised, the filthy iron door was slammed open, and a single-shot pistol that seemed to date from the last century stretched out from the black hole.