After lunch, guests began to arrive one after another. In the end, the guests invited by Henderson plus their family members or subordinates, the banquet hall was filled with fifty or sixty people.
But there are less than ten real bosses of Henderson's level, and they are the core of the game. Others are either smaller gangs, alliance partners, or direct subordinates, and are not qualified to be on an equal footing with these top bosses.
Among them, there is also a gang, which is a Chinese gang leader from Chinatown named Luo Yuanwu. He controls the street business in Chinatown. He is considered a medium force and barely meets the qualifications to enter this hall.
Willard specifically chatted with Luo Yuanwu for a few words and inquired about the situation in Chinatown, and Luo Yuanwu also introduced it enthusiastically.
According to Luo Yuanwu, wherever Chinese people go, hard work is synonymous with getting rich, and most overseas Chinese are considered relatively prosperous. There are also Chinese gangs at the bottom who stick together to keep themselves warm so that their lives will not be without a solution.
Because of Henderson's introduction, everyone knew that Alan Willard was Desia's boyfriend and remembered this person.
Henderson's introduction meant that without a life-and-death feud, Desia and Alan Willard could not be touched.
If you move, it will be a fight to the death.
It was precisely because of this that Luo Yuanwu respected Willard, introduced many situations to Willard, and finally left contact information with Willard, hoping to make friends with Willard.
Luo Yuanwu's purpose was very simple, that is, if there was any conflict with Simpson Henderson over business on the road in the future, he could make peace with Willard, Henderson's prospective son-in-law.
There are many friends and many paths. Not all people in the underworld are just good at fighting and killing. Those kind of people are just cannon fodder, how can they be the boss.
There was an episode at the banquet, but it turned out that one of Henderson's men named Martin Kedra had liked Desia before, but Desia didn't accept it.
Originally, he wanted to be Henderson's son-in-law and inherit Henderson's territory and power, but he had not made any progress yet. Now, Willard has taken the lead, and he and Desia are living together, which makes him very unhappy. As Henderson's career grew, he became even more jealous.
Therefore, Kedra got drunk at the banquet and ran up to Willard to provoke him, saying that Willard was too weak to be with Desia, and she wanted to challenge Willard. If he wins, Willard will give up Desia.
Naturally, this was angrily rebuked by Desia and Henderson, and Willard would not agree even more. How could he use his girlfriend as a bet? That is what a fool with a pig brain would do.
However, Willard still said: "It is impossible to use Desia as a bet, but we can bet money. There are so many big guys here today, and it is unsightly to fight with fists and kicks. Let's be civilized and let's arm wrestle. The game will be decided. Winning or losing, 100,000 pesos, do you want to bet or not?”
Martin Kedra was a little disappointed when he heard that Willard disagreed with using Desia as a bet, and thought that Willard was too timid to bet. When he heard that Willard was going to arm-wrestle with him for money, he thought that he would have to give Willard a little face in order to get rid of the frustration in his heart.
Thinking about it in Kedra, Velarde is a professional football player, so his foot strength must be very good, but his hand strength is not necessarily the case.
He is Henderson's veteran thug and capable man, and his skills are not low. Although he does not seem to have as good a physique as Willard, he is still confident in arm wrestling, so he agreed.
With a group of road bosses watching with great interest, Willard's strength brought by his 90-meter-high physique suddenly exerted force and pushed Martin Kedra down.
Desia held Willard in her arms and kissed him with the intention of making him give up.
As a result, Martin Kedra, an idiot who was drunk, shouted: "It doesn't count! It doesn't count! I'm not ready yet!"
The face of Simpson Henderson on the side was so gloomy that he could drink water. He obviously thought that his subordinate Martin Kedra was ruining his birthday party.
Willard looked at this alcoholic lunatic with a sneer and said, "Then come again, you won't be willing to lose face today unless you lose face."
This time, Willard repeatedly asked the opponent if he was ready, and then gave the referee's order. As a result, Willard easily suppressed him again, without any ability to fight back.
This time, Martin Kedra finally gave in. After transferring 100,000 pesos in cash to Velarde on his mobile phone, he left the venue early with his men in despair.
Seeing the unwillingness in Desia's eyes when the other party left, and the hatred shown towards Willard, Willard decisively found an opportunity to say to Simpson Henderson: "Uncle, you You have to pay attention to Martin Kedra, be careful that he will hate Daisia because of his love, hurt Daisia or ruin your good deeds."
Although Henderson was dissatisfied with the fact that this old subordinate was causing trouble for his daughter and prospective son-in-law at his birthday party, and felt that Kedra was indifferent to the occasion and the importance, he really didn't expect this level.
After hearing Willard's reminder, Henderson suddenly felt nervous. He immediately waved his hand to find his confidants and ordered him to keep an eye on Martin Kedra. If there was any unruly behavior, he would immediately implement family laws and eradicate the roots.
Having been in the underworld for decades, and being able to reach this status from nothing, Simpson Henderson is obviously not a womanly person.
As for Willard, although he has never personally experienced anything in the underworld, in order to protect himself and his girlfriend, and to nip things in the bud, he didn't mind giving Martin Kedra some eye drops in front of his father-in-law.
If the other party has no evil intentions, forget it. Once he has evil intentions, discover and remove them as soon as possible, which can be regarded as eliminating the hidden danger.
Willard is not a womanly person either.
At around 22:00 in the evening, the guests dispersed. After Villard, Desia and Henderson chatted for a while, they were escorted back to Villard's home by bodyguards.
Desia now lives with Willard and rarely goes home, which makes it easier for Henderson to change women every now and then. Therefore, Henderson did not object to his daughter and Willard living together, nor did he require his daughter to go home to live.
After returning home and resting for a night, the team began normal training the next day.
On April 18, in the 10th round of the A-League, Hurricanes faced Tigre at home.
The Tigre team ranked 7th in the A-League last season and is currently ranked 9th in the A-League this season. Their strength is above average, which is very good.
But it was a pity that they encountered the Hurricanes Athletic Team, which played at home and went all out.
After a break in the last Copa Libertadores group stage, Atletico Hurricanes played all their main players in this game, with the goal of taking all three points.
Although Tigre carefully chose to defend and counterattack and did not attack rashly in the away game, the goal was quickly conceded under the attack of Hurricane Athletic's strong main lineup.
In the 14th minute, Hurricanes forward Avila received a pass from Alejandro Romero in the penalty area and used a bicycle fake to successfully shake off the defensive player in front of him, and then won With enough space to shoot, he hit the far corner of the penalty area and opened the scoring for Hurricanes Athletics, leading the Tigres 1-0.
After taking the lead, the Hurricanes played more confidently.
After adjusting for two rounds of games, the Hurricanes Athletic Team has basically no worries about physical fitness despite the intensive schedule. What's more, it is playing at home. Although the Tigre team is good, they can't help the Hurricanes defense line led by Willard.
It wasn't until the 23rd minute that the Tigre team completed their first threatening shot of the game, but it was at a wrong angle and was directly caught in the arms of goalkeeper Marcos Dias.
Even so, Tigre, who was lagging behind, had to take the initiative to strengthen his attack, intending to score an equalizer.
However, the Hurricanes' defense was too tight for them, and there was nothing they could do. Instead, when they lost the ball in the offense, they were easily counterattacked by the Hurricanes.
In the 30th minute, Velarde stepped in to participate in the attack. He received Toranso's cross from outside the penalty area and hit a powerful and violent long-range shot from the back row. He almost scored a goal, but unfortunately it ended up in the penalty area. On the outside of the pillar, the bottom line popped up.
As long as the ball is slightly deflected inward, it may be scored.
pity.
However, just a few minutes later, in the 36th minute, Villard intercepted the ball in the backcourt and launched an attack. In the end, winger Turaza passed the ball across to Toranso, who was also at the top of the penalty area. A long shot from outside.
He had better luck than Velarde, hitting the goal frame, and was blocked by Tigre defender Bruncio subconsciously extending his foot. The intention was to destroy the ball, but it only hit a little bit of skin. The ball changed slightly and just avoided the save of goalkeeper Javier Garcia, and finally flew into the goal.
Toranso was the icing on the cake for the Hurricanes Athletics, and the home team led 2-0. The home fans in the stands applauded and celebrated.
This game felt a bit easy. Although the Tigre team was ranked ninth in the standings, they seemed to have no resistance at all against the Hurricanes Athletic Team, which played all their main players.
This gap is a bit big.
But in fact, everyone knows that, except for Velarde, the Hurricanes' lineup is not better than Tigre or other A-League teams. On the contrary, due to the newly promoted team and the lack of large-scale recruitment, the strength should be in the middle and lower reaches.
However, because of Willard's presence, the Hurricanes' strength on both offense and defense has been greatly improved, and they are directly in the first place in both the A-League and the Libertadores.
This improvement in strength is simply amazing. As some experts have analyzed, this is definitely not only an improvement brought by Velarde's personal strength, but also a leap in the overall state of the team brought by Velarde's confidence, commanding ability, infectiousness, leadership skills, etc.
Otherwise, Willard's strength alone will never be able to bring about such a big change in the entire team.
Not to mention anything else, forward Avila alone is currently second in the A-League scorer list, second only to Rosario Central forward Marco Reuven, and is expected to compete for this year's A-League Golden Boot. .
If you only looked at Avila's performance in the A-League last year, no one would have thought that he could compete for the A-League Golden Boot this year.
However, a careful analysis of Avila's personal strength shows that there is no visible improvement or change like Velarde's. The reason why this happened is obviously due to the overall strength of the Hurricanes Athletic Team, which allowed Avila to get more shooting opportunities. The quantitative change caused the qualitative change, so the goals became more and more, and he was able to enter the competition for the Golden Boot. of ranks.
After the score became 2-0, the Hurricane Athletics played more easily. And Tigre was a little helpless.
Although they were two goals behind, they still did not dare to go all-out and attack as the whole team would be more likely to be counterattacked by the Hurricanes.
From Alan Willard and Lucas Villaruel in the backcourt, to Alejandro Romero, Toranso, and Turaza in the frontcourt, to Alejandro Alejandro at the front. Vera is a master of counterattack.
If you have scruples, you will naturally not be able to go all out.
Therefore, until the referee blew the whistle at the end of the first half, the score between the two sides was still 2-0, with the Hurricanes playing at home temporarily leading by two goals.
