Chapter 4003

She stopped hesitating. Nodding, she said firmly, “Then, I’ll give him a call then.” … Meanwhile… On the ground floor of an Italian restaurant on George Street. Gopher was sitting at a large table, personally supervising a few of his subordinates who were counting money with two money detectors. Their gang pays their subordinates once a week, and this evening was payday. Most of the active members were the kind of people who would get drunk in the heat of the moment, without caring to save any cash for rainy days. They would squander all of their money immediately after they received it, only to suffer hard to make ends meet as they wait for the next payday. The entire gang consisted of more than seven hundred people, and the average weekly per capita salary was no less than a thousand Canadian dollars. The cost of the weekly payroll was nearly as high as a million Canadian dollars. As Gopher watched the piles of cash being packed into small envelopes, frustration surged i