Chapter 225: Last Stand

Call Stone-Banners and Snape, whose nickname was changed from surgeon to blade by Li Changheng, to go to the tavern in the town together.

With Stone and Blade as bodyguards, and outsiders rarely come to Sono Town, there is no need to worry about safety.

Moreover, because of the establishment of this airstrip before, not to mention that the entire town benefited, but at least no town resident would reject him, a rich man who invested a lot of money in the town.

After all, because of the Vietnam War in the United States at this time, even jobs in big cities like New York and Los Angeles were hard to find.

As for Lao Tu and Bonaparte, they took 200,000 US dollars three days ago and went to New York to build an intelligence network.

The four of them came to the bar, and as soon as they entered the door, they saw no less than 20 small town residents, old or young, sitting at noon.

Li Changheng curled his lips and laughed inwardly, but he waved to the bar owner whose eyes lit up when he saw him.

The middle-aged man named Thornton immediately shouted, "Guys, welcome our friend, Henry."

The small town residents sitting in the tavern immediately showed surprise expressions on their faces.

Then they tapped their wine glasses on the table together, shouting expectantly and eagerly, "Henry, Henry, Henry."

This week, any residents who entered the tavern have been invited three times. Li Changheng, who drinks casually, certainly knows what these people are thinking.

Smiling and nodding to Thornton.

The town residents cheered instantly when they knew that they had free alcohol again today.

"God bless you, young man."

Li Changheng smiled and nodded to the people around him. This kind of customers are all taverns with an annual income of about one or two thousand dollars. Don't expect the boss Thornton to buy expensive wine.

And what the middle and lower classes of Americans are used to drinking is beer, mass-produced whiskey and cheap gin.

Therefore, randomly drawing five hundred-dollar bills and putting them on the bar counter is enough for dozens of drunkards in the town to drink until they crawl out of the tavern and have another drink tomorrow.

Sitting on the long bar counter, Li Changheng said to the only pretty girl in town, Chris, "Beautiful Miss Chris, old rules."

When Chris, who was only 18 years old, heard Li Changheng praised her beauty, her face blushed immediately, and then she nodded with love in her eyes.

"I'll go to the kitchen to make Tomahawk steak for you, but should I replace the wine with whiskey?"

"Forget ordinary whiskey," Li Changheng was taken aback after speaking, and then said with a smile, "Is Thornton finally willing to buy fine wine?"

Chris nodded with a smile, took out a bottle of wine from the wine cabinet and put it on the bar, "Thornton said that this bottle of Macallan whiskey is produced by a distillery in Scotland, and it costs 400 dollars a bottle.

Want to try it? "

But when Chris said "I want to try", she actually licked her lips, which immediately made Li Changheng stare blankly at those delicate lips and stopped talking.

Scott beside him couldn't help laughing.

The shoulder touched Li Changheng's arm, "Henry, I think you should really try it, this is a rare delicacy."

After giving Scott a blank look, Li Changheng took the whiskey bottle in Chrissy's hand, looked at the year on it, which was 68 last year, and suddenly became curious.

A bottle of whiskey produced last year dared to be more than ten times more expensive than whiskey produced in the United States, so I immediately had the idea of ​​trying it.

"Open it for me, Chris."

Let Stone Banners sit on the bar with Blade, and the four men are drinking whiskey and talking about the Yuenan battlefield.

It didn't take long for the four lunches to be served. Li Changheng smiled and picked up the knife and fork and began to look at the three-finger-thick, at least one kilogram of fatty and tender steak.

But Scott, Stone and Daofeng couldn't help laughing when they saw the fried egg on Li Changheng's plate, which was actually heart-shaped.

Dao Feng smiled and showed his white teeth, "Boss, I don't think God will forgive you if you don't date Chris tonight."

In the United States in the late 1960s, although the status of blacks has risen a little bit, even if they can go to the same school as whites, they don't have to sit in the corner reserved for them in restaurants to eat.

But the actual situation is that once there are more black children in a school, white families with better conditions will transfer their children to other schools or not go to that restaurant.

And Arizona is the southern continent, with New Mexico and Texas next to it. The first time Dao Feng followed Li Changheng to the tavern for dinner, he was coaxed to drive him out.

Therefore, Dao Feng is definitely more loyal to Li Changheng, who has not shown any discriminatory meaning in terms of tone or when getting along with him, than Stonebanners and the others.

But what Dao Feng didn't know was that Li Changheng accepted him definitely because of his face and ability.

Otherwise, just choose another black buddy to come over and guarantee that Li Changheng will absolutely ignore him.

However, even if he is a white skin, Li Changheng seems to ignore it.

Ignoring Dao Feng's words, Li Changheng smiled and said to Scott while eating the steak, "Which department will you transfer to when you go back?"

"Go back to Phoenix first, and then find a way to transfer to Virginia?"

Scott said with a helpless expression, "If the transfer order is not successful, I should apply for retirement.

Not being able to sit in Virginia's office meant not being able to rise to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and wasting time in the National Guard might as well be applying for a first officer job at Pan Am.

After a few years, I will be promoted to the position of captain, and my annual salary should be enough for me to marry a wife and have children. "

After hearing this, Li Changheng knew that Scott was implying himself.

And he does need to build his own network of relationships.

In the future, the Death Squad has the status of a military contractor of the US military, and many things will be much easier to do.

"How much is enough for you to transfer to Virginia, and take an office in the Military Joint Conference Building?"

Scott didn't hold back, and said in a low voice, "One hundred thousand dollars should be enough for me to be promoted from major to colonel within three years, and then I am eligible to leave the National Guard and apply for transfer to the Wu Corner Building or a certain department of the Air Force. "

Li Changheng's eyes lit up, and he nodded with a smile, "When you leave in the afternoon, Stone will see you off."

"Thank you," Scott understood that it was impossible for Li Changheng, who had been with him for a week, to give money to him in person.

And to put it bluntly, if he hadn't been lucky enough to receive the mission to investigate the Sono Town Air Base, he, a major of the National Guard, wouldn't even have the chance to deal with the young man beside him.

For Li Changheng, it is not expensive to buy a "possible" for one hundred thousand dollars. Even if he can't, he has to wait until the end of the Vietnam War to keep his status as a National Guard pilot.

The things to talk about are done, and the rest is drinking.

And in the only restaurant in the town not far from the tavern, a middle-aged man named Brill walked into the restaurant with two men driving a truck to order food.

Travis County, Texas, more than 800 kilometers away from Sono Town.

FB1 director Harrison is nervously waiting for the night to come.

At that time, he will bring more than 20 heavily armed agents to escort the Mexican reading owl Gabriel Cordis captured at the modified car rally held at the Americas Raceway in Travis County three days ago. Go to Austin, the capital of Texas.