Chapter 552: Old Guys Alliance

Middlemen, mediators, this kind of special role often appears in gangs and plays an important role.

Actually, they are like brokers on the other side, just that their titles are not quite the same, but their work is the same.

Obtain some benefits, help people solve problems.

Often middlemen, mediators, are those well-known people who "possess a certain social status and influence." They don't have to be gang members—

For example, Councilor Wei De and Councilor Williams, as long as someone can move them, then they can also be this middleman.

Letting Feijiaer be the middleman to mediate the conflict between them and Lanse was also a decision Bandi made after serious consideration.

First, Feijiaer, as the head of one of the Five Families, had enough reputation and influence.

Secondly, once Lanse angered him, plus Bandi's subsequent plan, he had a very high probability of being able to pull Feijiaer to his side.

Only by driving more people to stand on the opposite side of Lanse did he have the confidence to agree to this war.

Yes, with fewer people, he really didn't have confidence.

Fortunately, Feijiaer agreed, without him wasting much tongue.

After Feijiaer hung up the phone, he sat down and lit a cigarette, pondered for a while, smoothed out his thinking, and dialed Lanse's phone.

The phone waited for a while before it was picked up, and Lanse's voice came from inside, "I am Lanse."

"Lanse?" Feijiaer took a deep breath, and there was a bit more smile on his face, just a little, not much, "I am Feijiaer."

"Mr. Feijiaer, hello, so... is there anything?"

Lanse's words didn't have much respect. With the destruction of the Casia family, the war between the Koda family and Lanse didn't present a one-sided situation. Lanse had already completely lost awe for the so-called Five Families.

You will fear someone who can make you feel pain, but you will not fear someone who cannot make you get hurt.

People, animals, are all learning rules in pain. If there is no pain, no punishment, there will be no rules, and there will be no awe.

Actually, it's not just Lanse; other gangs also lack enough awe for the current Five Families.

Whether a person fears you, one or two sentences, you can hear it, whether he is cautious, or doesn't take you seriously.

Lanse used very ordinary language, didn't even use honorifics, plus his seemingly casual tone, and Feijiaer's brows tightened slightly.

"Hope I didn't disturb you...", although he felt Lanse wasn't that polite, as the head of one of the Five Families, he needed to maintain his status.

This was actually just a polite greeting, just like two people bumping into each other on the road, someone has to open their mouth first to say "the weather is good today."

Lanse's laughter came from the receiver, a very light laughter, just two or three sounds.

Actually, there was no problem with this, but it also made Feijiaer feel that Lanse didn't respect him that much.

He felt very uncomfortable!

However, he adjusted very quickly, "Bandi just called me...", he said one sentence, stopped, and didn't continue.

"Hmm?", Lanse's reaction made him a bit uncertain.

He tentatively said, "He hopes I can act as a middleman to mediate the conflict between you."

"Lanse, we are all making a living here in New Jincheng, and there are no irreconcilable contradictions."

"You sell your alcohol, he opens his casino, and your territories are not together. I think we can completely sit down and spread out the problems and contradictions to talk."

"Blindly falling into struggle now will only weaken each other's power. This is not a friendly society, nor is it a time suitable for war."

"Internal and external contradictions and conflicts, we should temporarily put down our hostility toward each other. Maybe soon you will become friends again."

"Giving others a chance is also giving yourself a chance."

"We don't need to fight to the death because of some small things!"

"How about this, I'll be the host. I know a restaurant with good flavored lamb. Let's sit down and talk, you, me, Bandi, just the three of us."

"How about it?", he waited for Lanse's answer with slight anticipation.

However, Lanse was going to disappoint him.

"I refuse."

Feijiaer was as if he hadn't heard clearly, "Sorry, what did you say?"

"I said, I refuse your proposal, Mr. Feijiaer."

"Why?" Feijar's tone was somewhat displeased. He felt his good intentions had been spurned, and he did not understand why Lans would reject this proposal.

Compared to his voice that clearly expressed emotion, Lanse's voice was still so steady.

"Do you know why we want to go to war?"

Although Feijiaer paid attention to this matter, he actually didn't know very clearly why they wanted to go to war, so he asked, "Why?"

The answer he imagined didn't come, only Lanse's words with a mocking tone, "Look, you don't even know why we would go to war, yet you are thinking about mediating."

"Just like this, you can't possibly truly stand on a neutral position to judge who is at fault in the conflict between me and the Koda family!"

"You claim to be able to mediate, but actually you are just an accomplice invited by Bandi, so I'm sorry, I have no interest in your proposal."

"Don't waste my time and yours. If there's nothing else, I'm going to hang up."

Feijiaer felt he was offended. He was just about to say something more, but Lanse hung up the phone directly.

This was one of the few times he had encountered someone hanging up his phone. In New Jincheng, only he hung up others' phones; there weren't many people who could hang up his phone.

A superior, definitely has some cultivation, but cultivation isn't necessarily very good.

A gang leader who proved himself through fighting and killing, being hung up on like this, he was also full of anger!

If the person who hung up his phone was someone of the same level, then he might not be so angry.

Sometimes he had unpleasantness with other family heads, and cursing each other over the phone would happen.

But this time, Lanse on the other end of the phone was just a "small character." From his start to now, it had only been two years or so. Why didn't he give him face?

Why did he hang up his phone?

Since he inherited the position of family head, he hadn't encountered this kind of thing for a long time.

Before, the Xiong Bang indeed didn't give him face, and both sides fought for half a year. In the end, the Xiong Bang had to roll out of New Jincheng.

Every step he took was stained with blood. He had the qualification to be respected!

And Lanse's words also indeed "hurt" him somewhat. In his view, the so-called mediation was helping Bandi speak, letting Lanse and his Lanse family bow their heads.

From the beginning, he hadn't considered really fairly and justly doing this thing. After all, he and Bandi were the Five Families, and what did he count as with Lanse?

At most, they were competitors. Lanse's business in the Imperial District attracted a portion of the drunks in the city center. Although it wasn't much, it indeed had an influence.

Like all people who are whores, when they do it, they have no psychological burden. The moment they have the biggest psychological burden is when others point out their identity.

He could sit down with a crooked butt, but you couldn't say it, even if you saw it.

Lanse's reaction made Feijiaer curse. He picked up the phone and dialed Bandi again, "I couldn't persuade him, he even scolded me. Fuck, are all young people so arrogant now?"

Bandi laughed, "He doesn't want to mediate, so be it. I don't necessarily fear him!"

He said and laughed twice more, looking very relaxed, "We haven't seen each other for a long time, want to come out and have a meal together tonight?"

"I'll call the Tita family people, the three of us, and by the way, chat with that guy."

Feijiaer hesitated. He understood Bandi's purpose in doing this, which was to let him express his stance, let him choose sides.

However, he wasn't very disgusted with this choice of sides. Lanse indeed didn't give him face just now, plus they hadn't seen each other for a long time, so he agreed.

He thought maybe he could understand what the situation was here at the dining table, why they suddenly started fighting.

After Feijiaer agreed, Bandi contacted the new leader of the Tita family. The Tita family's losses were also quite heavy, and they hadn't fully recovered.

After the new family head took office, he was also willing to connect and connect feelings with the other two families who were also the Five Families. Recently, some changes in New Jincheng were becoming more and more incomprehensible.

If you can't understand, you will feel fear, and you will have a sense of crisis.

Sitting down and chatting with everyone, pulling closer feelings, could instead make people have some sense of security.

Instead of choosing a time, why not put it tonight? They agreed on the time for the party in the evening.

As for why they didn't look for Francisco, they all had numbers in their hearts.

The Pasleto family had already headed toward decline. In the evening, in a quiet restaurant in the Starlight District, the entire restaurant only had one table in the center. Bandi came early, and he was chatting with the new family head of the Tita family.

Waiting for about ten minutes, Feijiaer also arrived late.

"Sorry, some things dragged on when I was leaving.", he took off his hat and coat, handed them to the people beside him, and then strode to the table and sat down.

Just when he was about to leave, someone in the family said it might be Lanse family people entering the city center.

In the afternoon, he had an unpleasant time with Lanse on the phone, and in the evening, he saw Lanse's people in the city center. He didn't think this was a coincidence.

He had people watch for a while, and after confirming that the other party just drove around the city center twice and left, he didn't care anymore.

But even if he didn't think about it, some thoughts would inexplicably float into his mind, making him a bit irritable.

Since when had he suffered this kind of anger?

Bandi's eyes carried some hidden laughter. Pretending to be Lanse family people was very simple, which was to add a red armband on the left sleeve.

This was the simplest feature that could distinguish their identity, without any difficulty.

The people were sent by him, just to let the unpleasantness between them continue to escalate, and finally turn into friction.

Please... you.... bookmark 6... 9... book.... bar....!

Bandi smiled and stood up, walked over and hugged him, "It's okay, we came early."

The Tita family people also hugged him, and the three greeted each other and sat down separately.

The chefs in the restaurant had already prepared the ingredients. After everyone arrived, after simple cooking, the food was served.

Relaxing and soothing music played in the restaurant, and everyone left here, leaving only the three of them.

Bandi picked up the wine glass and clinked it with the other two, and everyone drank a sip of wine first.

When he put down the wine glass, he sighed somewhat desolately. This sigh made the other two look over.

Feijiaer asked, "Still worried about Lanse's matter?"

He thought Bandi sighed because he didn't handle the mediation matter, and his dissatisfaction with Lanse in his heart became more.

The head of the Tita family was the brother of the previous family head. He followed the previous family head and also participated in some similar parties, and was very familiar with the relationship of the Five Families.

Through Feijiaer's simple sentence, he seemed to understand something.

He didn't speak, and put some vegetable salad into the bowl.

Bandi, however, shook his head at this time, shaking the wine glass, "I am not sighing because of Lanse's matter, but because of ourselves."

He sat back, "Five Families, what a glorious title. Once upon a time, we were incomparably glorious in this city."

"From the mayor, Councilor Wei De, Councilor Williams, and those Bay Area political dignitaries, they all had to give us face."

"Maybe we couldn't command them, but as long as we opened our mouths, they all had to respect us!"

In his simple description, the other two people at the table seemed to have returned to the most prosperous period of the Five Families in a trance.

They ruled the world (New Jincheng) with the Bay Area!

The day belonged to them, and the night belonged to the Five Families.

Compared with the glorious past, it was the loneliness of today.

Even the Five Families had become the Four Families.

Bandi drank another sip of wine, "Now a young man can make us embarrassed. Sometimes I really doubt whether we are already old, and our era has already passed."

"Why, this city has become so strange?"

His words triggered the resonance of Feijiaer and the Tita family head. Now it was indeed not like before, people respected them.

Those small gangs would take the initiative to curry favor with them, fear them, and only needed one phone call, and the people they wanted to see would be sent to them.

They could decide the future of a gang in the middle of chatting and laughing, and could also decide the life and death of some big shots in the eyes of ordinary people.

Now, it's different.

Those small gangs are not so fearful of them, and sometimes even resist them.

Their own business has also shrunk a lot, giving up some profits or space to those small gangs they wouldn't even look at in the past.

Just like Bandi said, the era has changed.

It has become strange, and it has also become not so likable.

Feijiaer picked up the wine glass and drank the remaining wine in the cup fiercely. Brandy with ice cubes wouldn't be so spicy, and it wouldn't give people the feeling that its degree was very high after entering the mouth.

He took the initiative to pick up the bottle and poured a little more for himself, "These young people, more and more have no rules!"

Bandi appropriately showed a listening look, and he couldn't help but start complaining.

The city center is definitely a very attractive territory. There are huge profits here, and relatively speaking, the environment is more stable, which can definitely attract the attention of some gangs.

"They open bars everywhere, destroying the price of alcohol. They all learned from Lanse!"

"Lanse's bars in the Imperial District lowered the price to the extent that there was almost no profit. He snatched quite a few of my guests."

"Those small gangs are also learning from him, forcing me to lower the selling price."

"Others can earn twenty dollars, thirty dollars for a bottle of wine, and me, I can only earn ten dollars for a bottle of wine!"

"Egg!"

He raised the wine glass and drank again, then spat out a turbid breath heavily, as if wanting to spit out all the depression in his chest.

The Tita family head also recognized it quite a bit. Behind the decline of the Five Families was the wild growth of numerous small and medium gangs.

It's just that there are fewer fights now, and most of them are competing for time to make money, opening bars, etc.

The fight has changed from a fight between people to a fight in business.

You lower five cents, I lower ten cents, and in the end, everyone can't make money, but you can't not lower it.

Only the Starlight District and the Bay Area are a bit better. The operating cost is too high, and small gangs can't squeeze in.

Bandi started the topic, and the emotions of the two were quickly controlled by him. He sighed lightly, "If it were still the past, how good it would be. Whoever doesn't listen, we destroy whoever."

"Now...", he shook his head, "Everything is different from the past. Maybe at some point we will exit this big stage."

Feijiaer drank some more wine. He drank very fast, slapped the table, and the dishes on the table jumped, "We can't fall like this anymore, brothers!"

"If we don't seek change, soon we will be drowned by those small gangs. People will forget the Five Families, forget us."

"Today Lanse can shout at me without giving me face, tomorrow he can ride on my head!"

"We have to give them some color to see, let them know, in this gang piece, it belongs to us!"

Bandi's eyes lit up, "But the Lanse family's strength is very strong..."

"I don't believe that the three of us combined are not his opponents!"

Feijiaer interrupted his words, "And I don't mean to launch a gang war. My meaning is, we let him realize that this is not his New Jincheng, let him learn, know how to respect us."

"Give him some pressure or something, so that other small gangs will also restrain themselves a bit."

The Tita family head actually didn't think this was a good plan, but now he was kidnapped.

If he didn't join, he would be excluded by these two guys, and at the same time, he couldn't join the new generation of gangs.

In case he really encountered any trouble, these two guys very likely wouldn't reach out to help either.

So he could only bite the bullet and agree with their views, and emphasized, "We just let them understand who has the final say in this city!"

Bandi glanced at him, smiled and nodded, but in his heart he was thinking, once some things start, it's not that you can stop when you say stop.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 553 =====