The Blacklist

Chapter 439: Wesco cheated Lao Lei out of everything

Chapter 439: Wesco cheated Lao Lei out of everything
During the move, Reddington also took the initiative to help. Although he could not show up in public, he had sufficient resources, especially in the metropolis of New York, where his hidden connections were far beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Just talking about the house, renting houses for hundreds of CTU employees was a big project, but with Dembe's help, it was easily solved. In fact, it was all thanks to Reddington.

SLR and SER moved to Manhattan, and Reddington followed them, set up permanent residence in New York, and even prepared a large villa in the East Side for Carrie, Gina, and Elizabeth! However, Carrie and her friends certainly won't live there all the time, because it's too conspicuous, but they can occasionally go on vacation or spend the weekend there.

In general, the relocation of the department was completed smoothly. After a week of migration and adaptation, the two departments quickly got back on track...
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On June 6, Tuesday at noon, Reddington came to the "Town Building" with a lot of seafood delicacies. With the latest certificate issued to him by Carrie, he went all the way to the 11th floor unimpeded. He entered Carrie's office and called Elizabeth and Gina to come and eat, but they ignored Carrie arrogantly!

Kerry knew from his expression that this guy must have something wrong, so he waited for her to ask, but he didn't bother to answer! He walked to the sofa and sat down, grabbed a big crab and started to eat it, and Gina next to him even helped to peel shrimp for him...

Elizabeth saw that Reddington couldn't get the upper hand in front of Carrie as usual. She found it funny but also felt sorry for him, so she kindly peeled two shrimps for him, which made Reddington very happy!

After finishing the meal, Elizabeth couldn't help but ask, "Lao Lei, why didn't I see Felix today? Did you come here by yourself?"

Reddington smoked a cigar and said, "Two guys under Felix came with me. They followed Dumby to the restaurant on the ninth floor for dinner."

Carrie lay on the sofa, drinking the fresh tea made by Gina, chatting with her about SLR's recent work, and just ignoring Reddington. Let's see what he will do?
Ten minutes later, Reddington couldn't help himself and turned to say, "Lee, you are not a good friend. You don't care about me like Liz does!"

"Tsk! I'm not your daughter!" Carrie pouted.

Puff! Gina and Elizabeth burst out laughing. The bickering between these two people is getting more and more intense!
Reddington was so angry that he shook his head helplessly and said, "Lee, don't you want to know where Felix went?"

"No!" Kerry immediately shook his head and said, "Felix is ​​an honest man. If you send him out, he will either do hard labor to transport goods or dig graves to find corpses. Either way, it's not a good thing!"

With a "click", the cigar in Reddington's hand fell. Elizabeth beside him hurriedly helped to pick it up to avoid burning the carpet. In fact, she knew in her heart: Carrie guessed right again!
After taking back the cigar handed back by Elizabeth, Reddington sighed: "Well, I shouldn't have mentioned this to you. I should have known it a long time ago. You must know something..."

"No, I don't know. I'm just guessing." Kerry immediately denied, "Old Lei, just say whatever you want to say. Don't keep us in suspense. We don't buy it!"

When Gina and Elizabeth heard this, they couldn't stop laughing!

After laughing for a while, Reddington told a story from more than 20 years ago. At that time, he had just started to venture out under the name of Reddington and met a big man who was very influential in the underground world at that time - Robert Wesco!
At that time, Wesco thought highly of him and treated him as an apprentice. He took him with him, taught him, and helped him quickly gain a foothold in the underground world and even made a name for himself... But it was this Wesco who, twenty years ago, when he last invested with him, cheated him of all his savings and then disappeared!

Hearing this, Gina and Elizabeth laughed so hard. They didn't expect Reddington to have such an experience. He was deceived so badly by his master! Reddington didn't take it as an offense and continued, "Later, there was news that Wesco died in Cuba in 2007, but I couldn't believe it..."

Kerry said, "So you asked Felix to go to Cuba to dig up the bodies and do some DNA testing?"

At this time, Reddington was no longer making a fuss, but nodded directly and said, "Yes! I suspect that he is not dead at all. He faked his death and escaped. He should be hiding somewhere now!"

Elizabeth smiled and said, "Old Lei, do you want to find him and get back the money he cheated you of?"

"That's just small change!" Reddington waved his hand generously and said, "I want to find him, but it's a big deal, definitely beyond your expectations!"

Seeing him showing off, Kerry suddenly said, "The gold of the De La Cruz!"

Reddington was speechless and too angry to even talk, but Gina and Elizabeth became interested. Gold!
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On Wednesday, in the SER command hall, Elizabeth began to introduce to the agents the first blacklist target after moving to the tenement building!

"Robert Wesco played an important role in the financial and political scandals in the United States in the 1971s, and had a great influence on the underground world." Elizabeth said, "In , Wesco was accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of illegally profiting $ million by using the mutual funds he managed, but the charges were later dropped. But a year later, someone revealed that Wesco donated an illegal campaign donation to then-President Nixon in order to avoid being convicted!
"After the incident, Wesco fled to Central America to avoid investigation. There are reports that he died in Cuba in 2007! But Reddington suspected that Wesco faked his own death, so he sent people to Havana to dig up graves and steal bodies not long ago. They are on their way back now. He hopes that we can do a DNA test on the bones."

Hearing this, the agents looked at each other in bewilderment. Nawabi said, "What does Lao Lei want to do? Why are you making such a fuss for a guy who has been dead for more than ten years?"

Elizabeth suppressed her laughter and said, "Old Lei said that this Wesco was his master who led him into the underworld, but in the end he cheated all his money and ran away, so he has been brooding over it for more than 20 years!"

The agents were stunned for a moment, and then they all burst into laughter - no one expected that the cool Reddington would have such an experience, the contrast was too great!

After everyone had finished laughing, Elizabeth continued, "Old Ray suspected that Wesco had faked his death, because he remembered what he had said: If he could find the Spanish cargo ship 'De La Cruz' that was loaded with gold and sank off the coast of Florida in the 18th century, he would disappear forever and enjoy a comfortable old age."

The De La Cruz? The scene suddenly became quiet...

(End of this chapter)

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