Chapter 410

412. Chapter 406: Daily Family Gathering

Standing outside the casino, Sarifu looked at Alberto and Francisco walking out of the room, and some smiles appeared on his face.

If these two people didn't follow him out and stayed inside, then he would have to consider leaving New Jincheng.

He could confront the Casia family, but he couldn't confront others.

The Koda family might not be so powerful in his eyes, but they really have a lot of money and can mobilize some political relationships.

These relationships, this money, can allow the Casia family to end this war as soon as possible.

This doesn't need to be thought of with a brain, it can be understood, they are definitely in the same group!

But now there are still people standing on his side, so he has the confidence to continue to find trouble with these people!

"They want to make us put down hatred with a few words, this is absolutely impossible!"

"Alberto, we need to form an alliance to deal with them together!"

"Otherwise, just relying on the power of one of us, I'm afraid we are not their opponents."

Alberto nodded. "Besides this, I have an ally who is very interested in dealing with them. Perhaps we can sit down and have a chat."

Sarifu was a bit curious. People who dare to be "interested" in the five major families in New Jincheng wouldn't be unknown small characters. "Who is he?"

"Lanse!"

"Good, I know... no problem, that's it, see you then."

Lanse hung up the phone. The phone was from Alberto. He had already refused the Koda family's mediation, and at the same time, the Tita family was also very opposed to this matter. Now both sides have united together.

But to confront the combination of two traitors, as well as the Keen family whose position is not yet clear, they need some foreign aid.

This foreign aid is Lanse.

This matter is not a small matter, it can be explained clearly by saying a few words on the phone. This must be negotiated in detail, which relates to the question of how to distribute benefits after the matter is successful.

Only by sitting down to talk, talking well, talking stably, can we start to take action.

Lanse walked to the mirror, tidied up his attire in front of the mirror, and then left the room with his hat.

"Call me if you have anything, you know the number!", he looked at Elvin, and the latter nodded.

He is going to attend the Lawrence family gathering. On one hand, federal big families often have a tradition of gathering every once in a while. On the other hand, it is because William is about to run for municipal councilor.

Although from all aspects, he has no possibility of losing, but for family members, this is still a very important thing. They need to let William feel the power of the family!

Many people who don't know much about the Federation always hear about the "independence" of federal people and federal families in rumors, such as "federal people move out of the house after graduating from high school at eighteen" or "federal people will obtain their own tuition and living expenses through part-time jobs after going to university" and other rumors.

In these rumors, it seems that every federal person and federal family is independent, diligent, and excellent, but is the actual situation really like this?

Of course not. Moving out of the house after graduating from high school is just because parents can no longer afford or are unwilling to continue to bear the expenses of this child's subsequent life.

Unless they pay a sum of daily expenses to their parents, they can continue to live in their parents' house.

Otherwise, they will be required to live on their own, at least not to continue to increase the economic burden on their parents' lives.

The situation of many university students working part-time is also the same. It is not that everyone can take out a large sum of money for them to enjoy university life without worries after paying university tuition.

Most university students have heavy student loans, which have already squeezed the short-term financial situation of their families. If they don't work part-time, they can't get more economic help from their families.

On the contrary, those who should represent the upper-middle class of federal society, especially the upper class, are completely opposite to the federal people in the rumors.

They will live in big manors, each child is arranged by their side as much as possible, and even if the children want to live independently, the elders will be reluctant.

Family relationships always have to do with the amount of wealth. The wealthier the family, the more harmonious the relationship, and the family members are less willing to leave each other.

Who the fuck would want to take the initiative to leave a multi-millionaire grandfather and run out to live a hard life?

On the contrary, the poorer the family, the colder and more independent the family members' relationships.

When your grandfather owes a debt, you only want to stay far away from him!

The Lawrence family is not a bottom-level family, a typical great landlord class. The wealthy life makes them perhaps not live together like those wealthier big families.

But every once in a while, they will still gather once.

Lanse, as Patricia's boyfriend and William's "political partner," obviously has a need to participate.

Elvin nodded. "You told me the number, have a good time tonight!"

Lanse smiled. "Thank you, you should also consider this matter."

After he finished speaking, he put on his hat and left the company.

The luxury car fleet of 20,000 dollars looks different. The traffic flow on the road has changed somewhat because of its entry.

Lanse first went to pick up Patricia and the Lawrence couple, and then came to Barbara's big villa together.

Although they were heavily slaughtered by the swindler group, the debt problem was also solved by Lanse. Except for losing some cash that was indeed heartbreaking, it hadn't reached the stage of hurting muscles and bones.

Seeing the luxury fleet parked outside, Barbara upstairs hurriedly lifted her skirt and ran down from the second floor, while running, she shouted to her father, "Uncle William is here."

The fat man took a deep breath, and together with his wife and daughter, walked toward the entrance.

"I thought you would come later." He hugged William. The two brothers didn't have too many words; saying too much would instead make them seem like strangers.

The two ladies also greeted each other simply, and everyone's eyes were focused on Lanse and Patricia.

Today Lanse chose a blue headband with pearls and shell hangers for Patricia, a pair of amethyst earrings, and a beautiful gemstone necklace.

Her skin is very white, and she can hold up any color system of accessories. Even though it is evening now and the light is not so strong, it makes her look so dazzling.

"Sister Barbara!", Patricia let go of Lanse's arm, took the initiative to go over and stick her face to Barbara's. "You look extremely beautiful!"

Barbara smiled and flattered her. "When you don't speak, I thought it was whose princess had given face to attend our gathering!"

Her gaze focused on those jewels, and then she held Patricia's hand and looked at Lanse.

Her father took the initiative to walk over and stretch out his hand, shaking hands with Lanse. "Thank you for your help last time, otherwise I really don't know what to do!"

Lanse shook hands while patting his arm. "Don't be so grateful to me, for me, this is just a very simple small matter."

"No matter if it is troublesome or not for you, you helped us!"

"Thank you!"

Lanse smiled and patted his hand. "We are all one family."

After they let go, Lanse greeted his wife and Barbara, and the family walked inside.

Actually, at this time, the Lawrence family members had almost all arrived. They also knew about the things that happened before, and they also felt how important a powerful role is to the family!

They didn't have a chance before, but now, they seem to have such a chance too.

"I will formally introduce you..."

"This is Heather...", a blonde aunt who looks to be in her fifties, looks a bit fierce, but she is very enthusiastic about Lanse and speaks very gently.

"This is Marian...", Marian is the youngest sister of their generation, now less than forty years old, only thirty-nine, but she says she is only thirty-eight, more energetic and younger.

"This is Bennett...", Barbara's father is the eldest, Bennett is the second, also a civil servant, and also a lawyer.

"This is Deans...", Deans is the youngest boy among them, thirty-seven years old this year, serving in the family business—

Calling it a family business, it is actually a company specializing in agricultural and livestock products. Every year, the Lawrence family's farm has a large number of agricultural and livestock products that need to be sold. He is mainly responsible for these things.

He introduced the formal members of the family to Lanse. There are eleven people in their generation, and four people in the generation above them.

That is, the generation of their father and uncle, these people are not in New Jincheng now, they are on the land inherited by the Lawrence family for generations.

That is, taking care of crops and livestock on the farm side.

Sounds like... the feeling given is that these people should wear suspenders made of cowhide, put on a vest with many holes on their upper body, then carry a straw hat, and stand in cow dung and horse manure with both hands holding a large amount of green feed to feed the livestock.

But in reality, they don't do these things themselves because they can't do it at all.

That is a very huge farm, which also includes a small river. On the fertile land, there is a team of at least nearly a thousand people responsible for daily work problems.

Grain, vegetables, and fruit trees, as well as pastures.

They also have horses.

According to William, Patricia's grandfather, that is his father, has always wanted to breed a few champion horse kings.

The four brothers are all members of the Federal Horse Racing Association, and the level is not low.

They have already become accustomed to life in the countryside. Letting them come to New Jincheng will only make them suffer, and being in the countryside doesn't mean not enjoying happiness.

After removing the older generation and William's generation, there are more than twenty young people, and children who may be more.

Many people of Patricia's generation are married, so in fact, the number of people who came here today exceeded sixty.

They still sat separately at four different tables. The last time Lanse came, there were not so many people. That was just an ordinary gathering, Barbara's birthday.

But this time, there were a lot of people, basically as many as possible.

Because William has a high probability of becoming the first person in the family to become "upper class." Once he succeeds in running for municipal councilor, the surname Lawrence will have to bloom its former glory on this land again!

People constantly took the initiative to come over to greet William, and also greet Lanse.

The influence of the Lanse family might not be so sensitive to those non-local locals, but for true natives, it still has great influence.

Today's gathering has alcohol. It is normal for the great landlord class to have their own inventory and collection of wine. Even in the constitutional amendment, it only mentioned production, transportation, and sale, and did not mention storage and drinking.

Although the Ministry of Justice added some, such as not being able to quote publicly, but this is a private occasion now. As long as they can prove that these wines come from the family's storage, the Hazardous Materials Bureau has no way except to fight a lawsuit that is unlikely to win with them.

"Lanse!", Jack (Customs Inspector) waved his arm and carried his wine glass and walked over quickly. Other people who originally wanted to come over to chat with Lanse temporarily stopped their steps.

As the Coast Patrol continues to strengthen, the market for customs is getting higher and higher now.

The business that can really make big money is always written in the criminal law, which includes smuggling.

The first hurdle that smuggling has to face is inspection. They have to open boxes to spot-check those goods, saying it is random spot-check, but it can also be non-random.

So Jack's status in the family has also improved.

Lanse touched his wine glass with him. There is no waiter here to bring over a tray to help them take away the wine glass when necessary.

The two walked toward one side naturally. "Is your cooperation with McCork going smoothly?"

Lanse nodded. "It's okay, he is a contented person."

McCork nodded. "He is a smart person, didn't change cars, didn't change houses. If you didn't say it, I would have thought you didn't continue to cooperate."

McCork caught the smuggled alcohol and would bring it over to sell to Lanse. It's not that he didn't want to sell it to others, but he didn't know how to contact this matter.

Can't run to someone else and say, "Brother, I have a batch of smuggled alcohol, do you want it?", right?

On the contrary, Lanse is quick to give money, and it is also very safe. At the same time, he also holds the secret of his selling inspection goods, so before he has any other changes, he will not break contact with Lanse.

"The most afraid of doing this kind of business is meeting a fool. Undoubtedly, McCork is not such a person."

"How have you been lately?"

"Customs is getting more and more popular now. I heard that many people have begun to find ways for customs. Did you also make a fortune?"

When they talk about these things, they naturally won't be so secretive. Jack nodded. "Yes, people bring gifts and checks to find me every day, but I don't dare to accept them much."

"Why?", Lanse asked. He vaguely felt that this had something to do with Jack taking the initiative to find himself.

Jack licked his lips. "My superior is a bit stubborn."

Lanse raised his eyebrows. "What can I do for you?"

Jack glanced at his family in the distance. He picked up his wine glass and took a sip. "Do you know anyone in customs?"

Lanse shook his head and said, "I don't know. Before, our goods were directly bypassed customs, so I didn't have any friendship with customs."

"Can your problem be solved with money?"

"If money can solve it, then I can solve it."

Letting Jack take another step up, no matter whether Lanse will be involved in smuggling business in the future, is a very good choice.

Jack shook his head. "I don't know, just feel that this person is a bit old-fashioned."

Lanse thought of James. "You give me his name, I'll ask James, maybe he can solve it."

"Little Williams?", Jack is very sensitive to this name. "I don't know you still know each other!"

He looked at Lanse, and there was light flickering in his eyes.

These local natives have their own social network. They already know that Councilor Williams is going to run for mayor, and there are no other competitors.

Besides this, Little Williams, that is James, will also announce his participation in the election on September 1st, running for the position of New Jincheng Municipal Councilor.

Such two generations of father and son, firmly controlling New Jincheng's era is about to come.

Although it looks like only four years, after four years, Councilor Little Williams has also gradually mastered a large amount of power. This place will become their backyard!

Lanse didn't know these news. Of course, it's not that Councilor Williams didn't tell him, but they didn't publicize it.

Only some relatives know these things, and some of their relatives happen to be in-laws with people from the Lawrence family, so the news spread over.

"Is it strange that I know James?"

Jack's face is full of smiles. "If he can help me, this matter is still very easy to solve."

Lanse thought about it. He and Jack walked into the house, found a phone, picked it up, and dialed James's number.

"Have something to ask you, are you familiar with customs?"

"Customs?"

"Of course I am familiar, we also often deal with them, but if you want to find trouble with them, you'd better find Arthur."

"This part of the family business is now being taken over by Arthur. If he is more familiar with those people than me, no matter if you want to find trouble with them or give them money, Arthur is the best candidate!"

As soon as Lanse opened his mouth, James probably knew what was going on. Only these two things could make Lanse call him.

"I don't have his phone number."

"You write it down..."

Jack watched Lanse call Arthur again on the side, and Arthur patted his chest to guarantee that he would definitely help him get this matter done. Jack suddenly became a bit excited.

He has actually been stuck in this position for five years.

Five years without any progress, the difficulty of wanting to progress later will be greater. Didn't expect that a phone call from Lanse would let him see hope. How could he not be excited?

"Lanse, thank you for your help. I guarantee that in the future, your goods will pass through customs, and no one will open boxes for inspection."

"Those things are with me, all exempt from inspection!"