"Come again tomorrow?" The two dark-skinned kids exclaimed weakly.
Luke nodded with a smile. "That's right. I even gave you two extra hours of pay today. Are you happy?"
The two boys felt so "happy" that they wanted to die immediately.
They had worked for five or six hours today without much rest, which was like hell for them.
In the end, Luke told them that they had to continue tomorrow.
My God, is work so tiring? They suddenly felt sympathy for their cousin and mother.
They felt that they would definitely die from overwork if they worked like this every day, but their mother and cousin had actually worked for years.
Looking at the two boys' expressions, Luke was satisfied. You're eyeing my new home? If I don't let you work hard for a week, you'll be wasting your high salary.
Because of confidentiality, most of the earth and stone that had been dug up in the house could only be stored in Luke's inventory and dealt with separately.
That was why the two boys' work today was so easy.
According to Luke's plan, the renovation of the new home would last five to seven days. The last few days were mainly for decoration, so there wouldn't be too much construction waste.
But he had already thought of a new job for these two temporary workers. He definitely wouldn't let them work for two days.
After the new temporary workers left, Luke and Selina had dinner and went upstairs to decorate their rooms.
Neither of them liked to make the house complicated or fancy, so Luke followed a minimalist style without any unnecessary decorations.
But he didn't like too cold colors, so he didn't choose the most common minimalist colors, black, white, and gray. Instead, he chose some warm colors.
Selina, on the other hand, chose light blue for her room, which was more elegant.
Once again, they busied themselves until twelve o 'clock before stopping.
But Selina didn't feel like going to bed yet, so she pulled Luke up to the rooftop.
There were two chairs, a folding table, and drinks and desserts that Gold Nugget had brought up. The Hudson River flowed not far away, and the dazzling night view of Manhattan.
Taking a bite of strawberry cream cake, Selina sighed in satisfaction. "Looking at this view, I suddenly feel that my new home isn't bad."
Luke smiled but didn't say anything.
This was a place that he had specially chosen.
What was lacking in this area was the security environment, but it had convenient transportation. It only took an ordinary person twenty minutes to walk to Times Square.
Also, it was only a little more than six kilometers from here to NYPD headquarters. If there wasn't too much traffic, they could get there in fifteen to twenty minutes. Not far away was the Lincoln Tunnel, which led across the river to New Jersey.
Because it was next to the Hudson River, the high-rise buildings within a hundred meters of it weren't that densely packed, and the side facing the river was even more spacious.
This was his new foundation.
The flourishing city in front of him was the great empire that he had to conquer! Looking at the night view, Luke was in a great mood.
…
The next day, Luke called Dustin and Elsa and told them that he and Selina had arrived in New York, but they wouldn't be able to report in until next week because they had to settle in a new home.
Both of them just said that they understood. They were too lazy to be polite and hung up the phone.
Dustin had already taken care of most of the paperwork for Luke's appointment, and was just waiting for them to take office.
However, he had already waited for more than half a month. There was no need for him to rush him in these last few days.
Next, it was the busy daily renovation.
The two boys worked hard every day for six days in a row.
From the third day onward, Luke didn't generate much construction waste. After all, there weren't many parts of the building that needed to be demolished.
The two boys thought that they were about to get rid of their forced status as temporary workers, but Luke and Temple had a private conversation.
Temple came back to tell them that they had a new job: transporting construction materials.
With Temple and the two boys, who were local residents, Luke didn't need to find a professional transportation company to transport construction materials.
He also generously doubled their hourly wages to twenty dollars.
Renting a car and their salaries were less than a thousand dollars a day. The professional transportation company that Luke had called last time had paid them fifteen hundred dollars per car, and the driver didn't even know how to help him load and unload construction materials.
The building needed to be built far more than it needed to be demolished. Thus, Temple and the two boys were very busy.
The two boys were numb to it.
From the excruciating pain on the first day to the mechanical labor on the last two days, they could even joke with each other as they worked.
Luke nodded inwardly. That's right. When you get used to moving bricks, I can often provide you with hard work in the future.
The side benefit of Charlie and Raqael working here was that other hooligans rarely came over.
That was because hooligans thought that the new residents were their relatives, and it was a rule not to attack the relatives and friends of acquaintances.
Of course, this rule was only to prevent hooligans from attacking each other's relatives and friends. If everyone kept hurting each other, they wouldn't be able to survive.
If someone succeeded in stealing and no one knew who did it, it wouldn't matter.
There was only one time during the renovation when seven or eight hooligans came knocking.
They greeted Charlie, who was moving the stuff, and ignored Temple.
Charlie had just finished greeting them when he saw that his playmates were about to walk into the house.
He hurriedly stopped them. "Hey, Hudson, what are you doing?"
Hudson, who had an afro and was a little chubby, winked. "Bro, I've checked. It's two white people. You don't have any white relatives, so you can't take everything for yourself. Don't worry, we'll go in and get something. If you point out something valuable, we'll go in and out quickly. We won't ruin your 'job.' "
Charlie's mouth moved. He really wanted to say something, but he suddenly felt that there was nothing to say.
Was he going to tell his playmates that he had been forced to work as a laborer?
Raqael couldn't help but remind them, "It's best if you don't barge in, or else …"
Hudson, the leader of the hooligans, didn't care at all. He pushed open the door and took a step forward, not forgetting to turn his head and smile at Raqael. "Or else …"
Swoosh! Bang! Boom!
Hudson, who was talking at the door, heard a noise, and a small cloud of dust spread out from the wall near his head.
His companions, who were a few steps behind him, looked at the side of his head in horror.
Hudson slowly turned his neck 180 degrees from right to left, and saw a hole in the wall next to the door next to his head. A heavy octagonal hammer had smashed through the wall and hung there.
The hole was less than twenty centimeters away from his head.
Gulp! He swallowed hard and looked into the house.
A young man walked over with an apologetic smile and apologized loudly, "I'm sorry. I was renovating and slipped my hand. I didn't hurt you, did I?"
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