"Come again tomorrow?" the two black boys cried out weakly.
Luke nodded with a smile: "Yes, I gave you two extra hours' salary today. Are you happy?"
The two black boys felt so "happy" that they wanted to die immediately.
Today they both worked for five or six hours without much rest, which made them feel like hell.
As a result, Luke told them to continue like this tomorrow.
Oh my god, is work really that hard? They suddenly felt sympathy for their cousin and mother.
They felt they would die from overwork if they worked like this every day, but their mother and cousin had actually been working for many years.
Seeing the expressions of the two black boys, Luke was satisfied: Are you planning to take over my new home? If I don't let you work hard for a week this time, it would be a waste of the high salary I paid you.
Due to confidentiality considerations, most of the earth and stone excavated from the house had to be stored in the storage space and handled separately.
These two guys have such an easy job today.
According to Luke's plan, the renovation of the new house will last for five to seven days. The last few days will be mainly for decoration, so not much construction waste will be generated.
But he had already thought of new jobs and offered them to these two temporary workers. He would never let them work for just two days.
The newly hired temporary worker left, and after dinner the two men moved on and went upstairs to decorate their room.
Neither of them likes to make their home complicated and gorgeous, so Luke follows the minimalist style without any unnecessary decorations.
However, he doesn't like too cold tones, so he didn't choose the black, white and gray that are most commonly used in minimalism, but instead matched them with some warm tones.
Selena chose light blue for her room, which is more simple and elegant.
They were busy again until twelve o'clock, when they finally stopped.
However, Selina didn't want to go to bed today, so she pulled Luke to the rooftop.
Two small chairs, a small folding table, plus drinks and desserts brought by Nugget, accompanied by the dazzling night view of the Hudson River and Manhattan not far away.
After taking a bite of the strawberry cream cake, Selina sighed with satisfaction: "Looking at this scenery, I suddenly feel that the new home is actually quite good."
Luke smiled but said nothing.
This is the place he chose specifically.
The area is poor in terms of public security, but it has convenient transportation, and it only takes an average person more than 20 minutes to walk to Times Square.
In addition, it is only six kilometers from here to the NYPD headquarters, and it takes fifteen to twenty minutes to get there when there is not much traffic. There is also a Lincoln Tunnel not far away, which leads to New Jersey across the river.
Because it is close to the Hudson River, there are not so many high-rise buildings within a hundred meters, and the river side is even more open.
This was his new foundation.
The prosperous city in front of him was the great empire he was going to conquer! Luke felt very happy as he looked at the night view.
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The next day, Luke called Dustin and Elsa separately to tell them that he and Selina had arrived in New York, but because of problems settling in their new home, they would not report until next week.
Both of them just said they understood and hung up the phone without bothering to exchange pleasantries.
Dustin has already completed most of the formalities for Luke to take office and is just waiting for the two of them to take office.
But they had already waited for more than half a month, so there was no need for him to rush people in these last few days.
Next comes the busy daily decoration routine.
Two black boys came to do hard labor every day for six days in a row.
Starting from the third day, there was not much construction waste generated here at Luke's place. After all, there was not much that needed to be demolished in this small building.
The two boys thought they were about to get rid of their status as forced temporary workers, but Luke and Temple talked to them privately.
Temple came back and told them that the three of them had a new job: transporting building materials.
With Temple and the two black boys as local residents, Luke no longer needs to find a professional transportation company to deliver the building materials.
He also generously doubled the three people's hourly wage to twenty US dollars.
The cost of renting a car and the salary of three people was less than one thousand US dollars a day, while the professional transportation company that Luke called last time paid one thousand five hundred US dollars for one truck, and the driver could not even help him load and unload building materials.
The small building needed far more new facilities than what was to be demolished, so Temple and the two black boys were very busy.
The two black boys were also numb.
They went from being in excruciating pain on the first day to mechanical labor on the last two days, and they were even able to joke with each other while doing the work.
This made Luke nod in his heart: That's right. When you get used to carrying bricks, I can often provide you with hard labor jobs in the future.
Charlie and Laka work here, and the side benefit is that other punks rarely come over.
Because the gangsters thought the new residents were their relatives, and it was a rule here not to attack friends and relatives of acquaintances.
Of course, this rule is only to prevent the gangsters from attacking each other's relatives and friends. If everyone keeps hurting each other, life will be unbearable.
If someone succeeds in stealing something and no one knows who did it, then it doesn't matter.
There was only one incident during the renovation when seven or eight thugs came to our door.
They greeted Charlie who was moving things in a familiar manner and ignored Temple who was standing next to them.
Charlie had just finished greeting each other when he saw this group of playmates trying to go into the house.
He quickly stopped the other person: "Hey, Hudson, what do you want to do?"
Hudson, who has an Afro and is a bit chubby, winked and said, "Brother, I checked, there are two white people here. You don't have any white relatives, so you can't eat alone. Don't worry, we'll go in and get something and leave. If you point out something valuable, we'll go in and out quickly and won't ruin your "job."
Charlie moved his mouth, wanting to say something, but suddenly he felt that he had nothing to say.
Was he going to tell these playmates that he was conscripted into the army and forced to do hard labor
Laka next to him couldn't help but remind him: "You'd better not barge in, otherwise..."
Hudson, the leader of the gang, didn't care at all. He pushed open the half-closed door, took a step forward, and smiled at Laka, "How else..."
Whoosh! Boom! Bang!
Hudson, who was talking at the door with his head tilted to one side, heard a noise beside his ear and a small cloud of smoke spread from the wall near his head.
His companions, who were a few steps behind him, were now looking at the spot near his head with horror on their faces.
Hudson slowly turned his neck 180 degrees from right to left, and saw a hole appearing on the wall next to the door on the side of his head. A heavy octagonal hammer head smashed through the wall and hung there.
And the hole was less than twenty centimeters away from his head.
Gulu! He swallowed hard and looked inside the house.
I saw a young man walking over with an apologetic smile on his face, and he apologized loudly: "I'm sorry, I was just renovating and my hand slipped. I didn't hurt you, did I?"