Manhattan Reborn 1978

August.

It's a sunny afternoon.

The weather is very hot.

In front of an apartment on 43rd Street in Manhattan.A girl carried several suitcases and put them into the back seat of a Mustang parked on the roadside.

The girl turned to a young man standing next to her and said, "David promises me to take care of himself, okay?"

The young man nodded sadly. "You too Ruby, take care of yourself!"

Hearing this, the girl stepped forward, hugged the boy gently, and kissed his face.Then he nodded to him, turned around, got in the car and left.

The young man watched the Mustang start and watched its taillights disappear around the corner.

I couldn't tell whether I felt happy or sad, so I took a long breath, turned around and walked in the other direction.

The young man David Coleman is a time traveler named Jiang David.In the past few days after traveling back in time, he had been trying to be careful with Ruby, fearing that it would be discovered that David had been replaced by someone else.

Ruby met David when he was working in a bar. After graduating from high school, he set out to explore the world.She wants to travel through the most prosperous cities on the east and west coasts of the United States to find the city of freedom in her heart.

Now it seems he has passed.And David became a passer-by in her life.

After sending away David's ex-live-in girlfriend, I finally let go of the big stone in my heart.

In the past few days, the memory of this body has been completely integrated.David already understood that this was a parallel world.

The time is 1978.

Three years ago, David graduated from high school and left a small town called Morrison, New Jersey.I came to work as a bartender at the Wildfire Bar in Manhattan, New York.

The Wildfire Bar is owned by Malkin Sidrich Sr., a member of the Italian family gang.When he was young, he was in gangs with David's father, David Sr.

When David Coleman was a few years old, David Sr. and Malkin Sr. were seriously injured in an accidental conflict. As a result, both of them became lame.

The difference is that one has a lame left leg and the other has a lame right leg. . .

After that, David Sr. chose to leave the gang, bought a small farm with the support of Sr. Malkin, and opened a soda fountain to support his family.The ginger ale sold in bars now is produced by David's Factory.What does ginger soda taste like?

Ok. . .

Malkin Sr. ran family businesses such as bars and underground casinos in New York under family arrangements.

Before coming to New York to work, David Sr. held an in-depth conversation with 18-year-old David.

David was his only child, and his father told him from his own experience that it was OK to work in a bar.But never join a gang, let alone get involved in some gang business.

Most of the business of the old Malkin family is related to illegal business, and if you participate, you will become a peripheral member of the gang.I will never be able to escape from it for the rest of my life.

There are very few people like old David who can be said to have escaped unscathed and died a good death.

Little David, who has listened to his parents since he was a child, was deeply convinced after hearing this.

Every Christmas these past few years, David would go home to visit his parents.Old David, who was originally worried about his child, was also very relieved that the child did not follow his old path, nor did he touch those harmful things.

Now in this body is David Jiang who has traveled through time, and he agrees with the words of his father David Sr.What can you do in this era that is not a hundred times better than joining a gangster with no future?

In David Jiang's view, this is an era that is about to be stormy. Some Internet giants that are still in the seedling or even seed stage have just started and are even confused about the future of their companies.

You can seize some opportunities that can be obtained in advance based on the development of the general trend in your memory before traveling.

In later generations, those who appear in the news every day to criticize Fang Qiu are still young people, some are still in elementary school, and some are not even born yet. Xiao Mazi, the founder of a certain book, was born in 84.

David also wanted to be the pig that flew into the sky in the wind. . .

Um. . .This famous saying now belongs to David. . .

But the above is not what David needs to pay attention to now. In front of him is - he took out a few pieces of change in his pocket and counted them, a total of 22 knives.

It's not David's character to be ambitious. He just needs to be flirty occasionally.

It's better to go to work first and continue the life of a worker. I haven't gone to work for a few days since I traveled through time. I just want to fill my stomach first and then think about other things.

Superman is awesome, right? !

He still needs to ask Batman for help to redeem his house.

"Money power = super power"!

This is true in every world!

Time passed quietly in his wild thoughts, and the sunset was still casting its last afterglow.

The weather was so hot. David found Uncle M on the street and wanted to go in and buy a glass of iced Coke.

This Uncle M restaurant does not have tables for dine-in, only a take-out window.

On the wall to the left of the entrance, there is a menu and a large advertisement for new burger set recommendations.

看上去这汉堡料很足，很有食欲的样子才1．49刀。大杯可乐0．49刀。将军炸鸡翅一对0．99刀。大份薯条0．59刀，新款巧克力冰激凌0．49刀等等。

A beautiful black waiter with an afro at the counter saw David looking at the menu and recommended: "The new set meal is at a discount: burger + Coke + French fries + General Fried Chicken Wings for only $3 per pair!"

David turned his head in surprise and looked at the pretty waiter who smiled at him, shook his head, and only ordered a large Coke.

But I complained in my heart: "This new product package is at a discounted price? What does it mean that it is 3 cents more expensive than the sum of the individual purchases? Is testing customers' math problems a new profit point?!"

While waiting, he looked up and saw two surveillance cameras, one facing the door and one facing the counter.

I have been robbed so many times before I feel so nervous.It seems that the bank only has a few more security guards than you, right?

David, who had a lot of experience, took the Coke and coin change that Uncle M's waiter handed from under the glass window, turned around and walked out.

I drank the iced Coke in my hand and felt the coolness in my stomach. I went out and walked around Times Square.This place is far from the prosperity of the world financial center in the new century.

The streets of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan are now filled with all kinds of garbage!

There are all kinds of old cars that I don’t recognize on the road.

Roadside shops, small supermarkets, pharmacies, and bookstores are all flashing with dazzling neon lights of various colors.

Under the light, all kinds of girls with slim figures, cool clothes and hot figures are looking for a male customer who can sponsor them tonight.

It's as if this is the stage for their performances, and each of them is performing hard as if they are the protagonist of this stage.

From time to time, passing cars would stop, and the driver would sit in the car and strike up a conversation with the girls. If they agreed on a price, they would get in the car and find a place to start playing sports and games together.

The brokers, who smoked cigarettes and dressed well and looked relaxed, glanced at the girls under them from time to time.See if they are working hard to get the job and performing hard.

Cardboard boxes were spread out in the dark at the corner of a shop facing the street, and a homeless man was sleeping soundly with a wine bottle in his arms.

This is Manhattan in 1978, Times Square on Fifth Avenue.

The police car is always parked on a certain street corner, with two police officers sitting in the car.Drinking coffee, looking at the people on the street, chatting with each other, treating those people coming and going as if they were nothing.

It seems that they are more concerned about where to watch a football game and have a drink after get off work, or to catch up with old lovers.

After all, they are just ordinary street police.

Allocate some pitiful little money every month to do some dirty work.

Do you still want to ask them to correct their attitude and work hard?

David threw away the Coke cup and watched as he walked, slowly walking to the door of a bar at the intersection of 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue.He kicked away a pile of cardboard trash not far from the door, took out the key from his pocket, opened the door and walked in.

After wiping the sweat from my head and entering the door, I turned on the outdoor "Wildfire-BAR" light box as usual and flipped the sign on the door to "open".

I turned on the TV and put on a random song and started playing it.

He took off his short sleeves and walked to the warehouse behind the bar. He turned on the air conditioner in the bar and listened to the sound of it running. A stream of cool air gushes out from the air outlet above his head.

It's finally cooler!Even at night, the summer temperature in New York is over [-] degrees.What the hell weather!Is it because the greenhouse effect has advanced?

After changing into the work clothes of the bar, which was a green short-sleeved shirt with a big "Wildfire" logo printed on it, David looked down at the clothes on his body and complained in his heart: "Green clothes with red letters, what kind of bullshit aesthetic is this!" Little Malkin that bastard!”

While David was busy doing business for a while, he heard a familiar singing voice.

A song is playing on the TV. This song describes New York in this era, "Shattered". It is the new single released by "The Rolling Stones" this year.

The lyrics of this song are simple, straightforward, and very personal, which is impressive.

The lead singer's slightly hoarse voice floated in the bar.

"Pride, joy, and dirty dreams are everywhere in the city."

“It’s what makes our city the best.”

new York.

This is a city where desires and ideals can bloom and fall at the same time.

To survive in this city, you must be patient, persistent, and maybe seize all fleeting opportunities.