Chapter 186

At ten o'clock in the morning, Lanse came to the Empire Night side.

Generally speaking, Empire Night was not open in the morning; its business hours were from after five o'clock until one o'clock in the evening.

The actors needed to rest, the service staff also needed to rest, and they also needed to clean and check the goods, etc., to prepare for the new day's business, which also took time.

Coming here today was because today was "payday"; Empire Night had been reopened for nearly a month, and it was time to pay wages.

When he arrived, Lanse saw Ailike; the latter opened the office window and stood by the window smoking; Lanse noticed him when he got out of the car, and he also saw Lanse.

The two looked at each other for a moment across a distance of tens of meters, and then moved their eyes away from each other.

Aierwen cursed from the side: "I feel uncomfortable when I see this son of a bitch; I've inquired about some things recently!"

Lanse became a little interested: "About what?"

The two walked toward the nightclub while greeting the staff who came to collect their wages.

"He's just a jerk, hanging around the entertainment venues in the Starlight District every day; I heard he's pursuing a female star, but the other party seems to look down on him a bit."

"Look down on him?", Lanse was a little surprised, "Does that female star have a big background?"

Aierwen shook his head and said: "Not clear, but she's quite famous in the Starlight District, mainly in opera."

He paused while saying this: "Besides, it also has to do with Ailike's identity; after all, it is rumored that that person has an unusual relationship with his mother and his nominal father; no one likes such a messy family relationship."

Everyone was saying that Ailike's father was the mayor and not someone else, but the mayor and his father were cousins; perhaps people in the upper class liked a little taboo.

It looked like Ailike was just an illegitimate child; for some girls who longed to climb higher, this was actually a good choice.

They couldn't cling to the mayor's legitimate heir, but for an illegitimate child, they still had some opportunities.

But if he was an illegitimate child under a chaotic relationship, then even the girls who wanted to cling would be deterred by this kind of family relationship.

When the two started to go upstairs, Aierwen shut his mouth.

Kailu's office was crowded with people; everyone was very enthusiastic about paying wages.

Whenever someone received their wages, they would say thank you, and then sign their name or press their fingerprint in a notebook, representing that they had received their wages.

The payment of wages was in the form of checks, which facilitated the management of funds and also reduced the work intensity of the accountants.

After all, the difficulty of dividing thousands or tens of thousands of dollars according to different wage standards without messing them up was far higher than writing a number on a piece of paper.

When people saw Lanse coming, they all took the initiative to let him go to the front; Lanse didn't refuse either, and after smiling and thanking them, he came to the front.

Kailu glanced at him, found a light blue envelope from a stack of envelopes, took it out, and placed it on the table.

Lanse just wanted to take it, but was stopped by her: "Sign or press your fingerprint here first, and then you can take the money."

Lanse looked at her for two or three seconds, then signed his name in the notebook: "Does he belong to me now?"

Kailu didn't speak; she clearly had emotions.

At that time, she expressed the hope of having an office to herself, but Lanse arranged a few more people here for her, which made her very unhappy; she felt that she had been slighted, so she didn't have a good face for Lanse either.

Lanse shook his head indifferently; these were all the mayor, or people found by the mayor; he wouldn't get along with these people; he wasn't Qiaobafu, not that... cheap.

"How much?", Aierwen couldn't help it anymore; according to Lawyer Aosen's statement, he could get 30% of the profits here.

In the past month, the business situation of the Empire Night nightclub had been even better than before; after Lanse controlled this place, many people were willing to come and consume because it was safe.

He wasn't the Kamila Gang, who would kidnap and blackmail their own people, so they were willing to come and play, and also willing to consume.

There were quite a few hidden wealthy people in the Empire District; usually, you couldn't see anything, but their consumption ability was really not low, and there were also federal people from other places.

After all, "Empire Style" could also be considered a feature in New Jincheng.

The daily profit in the past was about 400 to 500, sometimes even more; 10,000 to 20,000 a month, taking a median value, 15,000, 30% was 4,500 dollars.

This made Aierwen a little envious; this was almost catching up with half of the law firm and financial company.

After walking out of the crowd, Lanse opened the envelope and took out the check, but soon the expression on his face changed from expectation to calm.

"Is it a lot?", Aierwen didn't notice the change in his expression and asked.

Lanse gave him the check; Aierwen also took the check with expectation, but soon became obviously unconvinced and angry!

"Five hundred dollars?"

"How do they have the face to write such a number?", he said and was about to go back to the office, "I'll go find her and ask; I don't believe that the total for this month is less than 2,000 dollars!"

Lanse grabbed his arm: "It's useless to ask her."

Aierwen looked at him: "Are we just going to let it go like this?"

Lanse shook his head: "Kailu is just a puppet; even if you kill her, she doesn't have the qualifications to give us more."

"Let's go up and see first, see what they say!", the people upstairs were the key!

Aierwen calmed down a bit at this time: "You mean, Ailike?"

He realized: "This son of a bitch!"

The two went to the room; Ailike seemed to realize that Lanse was coming; he sat in Lanse's chair.

Haile's things were all thrown out by Lanse and replaced with new things; the whole office was filled with a sense of freshness.

His feet were propped up on the table Lanse had just bought; the dust on the soles of his shoes had already fallen onto the tabletop.

Lawyer Aosen was sitting by the sofa, looking at some documents; when he heard the sound of the door opening, he took the initiative to stand up.

"Mr. Lanse...", then his eyes fell on Aierwen, "And Mr. Aierwen."

"How is it, did you get your wages?"

Aierwen didn't speak; he knew that everything was based on Lanse at this time; he took the coat and hat Lanse took off, hung them on the coat rack, and then stood to the side.

Lanse walked to the sofa and sat down; he picked up the coffee pot and poured himself a cup of hot coffee: "Received."

He blew on the steaming heat on the back of the coffee and took a small sip; the thick greasy taste brought a better experience, but it was obviously more bitter.

Most federal people could accept slight acidity better than bitterness.

A smile appeared on Ailike's face as he sat in Lanse's chair, a very contemptuous smile.

Lanse took out the check along with the envelope, placed it on the table, and pushed it to Lawyer Aosen with his finger.

Lawyer Aosen glanced at the check: 500 dollars.

The profit of the nightclub last month was about 22,000 dollars; if according to what they had agreed before, then in fact, Lanse should have received at least 6,600 dollars in dividends.

There were only 500 dollars here, not even enough for the fraction; he knew what was going on.

Ailike had spent too much money pursuing that young opera actress recently; pursuing an opera actress was not an easy thing during this period, especially one who was already famous.

If one were to make an analogy, then this girl was about equal to the top tier during the most prosperous period of the film industry; that was not something an illegitimate child after the mayor's chaos could easily get his hands on.

There were also some capitalists, gentlemen of the upper class, who were pursuing that girl together.

With more opportunities and levels to choose from, Ailike obviously didn't have the advantage, so he could only think of ways to please his goddess.

And spending money was the best way he could think of.

All kinds of romance, romance piled up with money, indeed made that girl seem to have a little more favor for him than others.

But spending money like this, he couldn't hold on either!

The mayor gave him quite a bit of money and also turned a blind eye to his occasional money-grabbing behavior, so when he heard that there was a dividend here at Empire Night and that Lanse could get 6,600 dollars, he had some ideas.

"It's nothing more than the leader of a small gang; if you said he was a member of the Five Great Families, perhaps I would hesitate for a moment."

"But the Lanse family... apart from the Empire District, no one knows them; why should I respect them?"

"Giving him 500 dollars is already the decency I've left for him."

"If it weren't for watching that he still has to work for my uncle, I wouldn't even want to give him 500 dollars!"

This was the original words he said to Lawyer Aosen; Lawyer Aosen recalled some things the mayor had once said to him; the thought of persuading him was dispelled, replaced by smiling and acquiescing, and letting Kailu modify Lanse's wages.

At this time, Ailike was very happy; with 6,100 dollars, he could continue to pursue his goddess fiercely, and the other five bars also had to be divided.

The profits of these bars were also very high; Lanse should be able to get 7,000 or 8,000 dollars; when the time came, he would only leave 500 for Lanse, and the rest would all be his!

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but laugh; perhaps realizing that he had laughed out loud, he coughed a few times to cover it up.

After all, this money had nothing to do with him originally, and the person involved was right here.

The two sitting by the sofa both looked at Ailike; Lawyer Aosen always maintained the smile on his face that seemed to never change for thousands of years.

Lanse also had a smile that was not a smile; he thought of many things.

He had chatted with a friend surnamed Du before; he had seen many big shots in his life; the higher the status of the big shot, the more humble and polite they were, fearing that they had done something wrong somewhere.

On the contrary, those small characters the size of boogers were lawless and arrogant, as if the whole world was him apart from his old man.

These words seemed to be just right for Ailike.

Perhaps realizing that both were looking at themselves, Ailike turned his head and lit a cigarette, and the two also took back their eyes.

They looked at each other and noticed something from each other's eyes, but neither spoke.

"Is Mr. Lanse not very satisfied with the wages?", Lawyer Aosen picked up the check, looked at it again, and then put it back into the envelope.

Lanse shook his head with a smile: "It is already my honor to serve the boss of this city; how dare I really want a dividend?"

Lawyer Aosen was a little unpredictable again; he didn't know if what he said was true or false.

But if it was true, how to explain the problem of the red high heels?

But if it was false, could he control his emotions so well?

From the time he fought the Kamila Gang in a fit of anger to the time he wiped out the entire Kamila Gang like a miracle, he didn't look like the character of Mr. Qiaobafu; this was also where Lawyer Aosen felt very contradictory.

He couldn't guess Lanse's thoughts, so he hesitated, hesitating how to say this.

Probing Lanse was also one of his jobs; just when he was still thinking about how to speak, Ailike suddenly added a sentence: "Since Lanse is so generous, then Aosen, you might as well put that 500 dollars away; it just so happens that my car is out of gas and needs to be refueled."

He put down the feet he had propped up on the table, stomped his feet on the floor, walked to the coffee table, and under Lawyer Aosen's gaze, took the envelope: "Forget it, put it with me; it just so happens that I'm going to refuel now.", he paused while saying this, "Are you going, Aosen?"

Lawyer Aosen thought for a while; he still had some work to do next; the mayor's industry was not just this little bit; during payday, he would be very busy.

Many people knew that he could represent the mayor's attitude to a certain extent, so his appearance was a very important thing.

"It just so happens to be on the way; let's go together.", he decided to leave the matter of probing Lanse for the next time.

He then got up, and Lanse also stood up, and even took the initiative to reach out his hand: "Goodbye, Lawyer Aosen."

Lawyer Aosen smiled and shook hands with him, looking very enthusiastic: "Goodbye, Mr. Lanse."

Lanse looked at Ailike; the latter gave a light hum, disdainful as he walked toward the door, without any intention of stopping to shake hands with Lanse.

He glanced at Aierwen by the door, said "get lost" impatiently, kicked the door, and left the room.

Lawyer Aosen looked at Ailike who broke out of the door and sighed: "Let you see a joke, but sometimes he has no way to deal with him...", he shook his head while saying this, as if he was afraid that others wouldn't see the mayor's doting on him.

Lanse made a very appropriate expression, both a little dissatisfied, but still within the range of being able to endure: "It's all for all of us."

When this sentence came out of Lanse's mouth, Lawyer Aosen had another trance; he couldn't tell whether this was sarcasm or speaking from the heart.

He stared at Lanse for a while before nodding slightly: "Don't worry, we will compensate you."

He didn't want to continue guessing what kind of emotion Lanse had, and cut it off here: "Okay, I should go; I don't want to let him wait anxiously; who knows what he will do."

After saying goodbye to each other again, Lanse watched Lawyer Aosen leave.

After Aierwen closed the door, his face was very bad: "Just let him do this?"

Lanse came to the window and watched the three cars leave; he shook his head: "This is an unintelligent dog; if you show hostility, he will keep biting you."

"You know it; he is an unintelligent dog, so doing this has no meaning."

He paused for a while: "Find another dog for him, let them bite each other."

"As for the money they owe me...", Lanse lit a cigarette, "Just calculate it with them according to the company's highest interest rate, and find a suitable time to collect it back from them."

Aierwen was still a little unwilling, but he also knew that this seemed to be the best solution now, because the person they were facing would not be a small character like Haile.

They were facing the number one person on the surface of this city, the mayor, who held great power; he could even apply to the governor to let the slave-catching team enter the city when necessary.

Of course, they didn't call it this now; they had a better-sounding, more legal name.

Although doing so would cause the mayor's status within the Socialist Party to be severely damaged, he had the courage and ability to fight, and Lanse and the others didn't have the ability to confront him now.

Even the mayor only needed to make some deals with one of the Five Great Families, and he could easily deal with the Lanse family through legal channels.

This was also why almost all rulers in all regions of the Federation seemed to be letting gang forces develop wildly.

They were raising pigs, preparing to have a full meal later, and at the same time, they were not afraid that gang organizations would get out of control, because they were always outside the scope allowed by law!

Using the power of a country to deal with an organized gang, no organized gang could withstand it all at once!

Ailike's mind was full of the goddess's smile, but he didn't know that because of his small move today, those bars of Lanse had all opened in advance.

With cheap potato wine from Luigi's side, as well as large-scale brewing starting in the surrounding farms and ranches, the price of alcohol in Lanse's hands could be said to be very low, if one didn't consider the quality.

But this was the Empire District, not the city center full of elite classes, nor the Starlight District where the stars gathered, and even less the Bay Area of the upper circle.

What the people here needed was just the alcohol in the wine, not some big brand.

What they cared about was how much alcohol they could get for the same price, not what copper label or silver label they needed.

The mayor knew about this in the evening; Aosen told him everything Ailike had done.

After listening, he asked about Lanse's performance and reaction; after Lawyer Aosen said it, the mayor thought for a while and didn't take it to heart.

In this city, apart from the opinion leaders of the three major parties and the Five Great Families who would give him a bit of a headache, he didn't take anyone else to heart.

Just the leader of a small gang; he still spent more time on the representatives of the Socialist Party.

They were the key to his ability to nominate the Speaker of the House of Representatives!

"Don't worry about him for now; you have some new work to do next; I heard that the Liberal Party's plan is the same as our idea; check who our competitors are, and see if we can get some black material..."

Soon Mr. Mayor was immersed in his grand blueprint; as for some noise in the poor corners of the city?

Who the fuck could hear that?!