Chapter 1010 Try your luck

The English name "Mafia" of the Mafia is derived from Arabic, which means "escape".

This term was borrowed to refer to a group of middle-aged men living in Sicily. At that time, Sicily was occupied by Turks and Normans. They organized themselves originally to protect their families from harassment by these invaders. Later, they became

This group of people evolved into a group of people who secretly enforced the law for revenge, and then evolved into a criminal organization.

In the local area, becoming a member of the Mafia is an honor and is called "mafioso", which means "man of honour". The origin of the Mafia has nothing to do with the secret organizations in the Middle Ages.

The second part of the movie The Godfather tells the story of Lord Vito Creon's process of making a fortune in the United States. There is a story that impressed Pomona deeply. There was a widow who raised a puppy in order to relieve her loneliness. However, this

A dog likes to bark very much, which annoys the surrounding neighbors. They band together to give the landlord advice, and either the dog goes away or they go away.

The landlord was a northern Italian who was educated and looked down upon the illiterate southerners from Sicily and Naples. He neglected the management of his tenement apartment, allowing cockroaches and rats to chew through the walls, and was constantly worried about the return on his investment.

He didn't go back to his original self, so he was extremely irritable.

He heard the tenants' demands, so he took this opportunity to increase the rent to the widow, saying that it would be rented to new guests.

The widow was desperate. She had no money and her friends were all in the apartment, so she asked Vito Creon for help, and he agreed to her request.

In the street, Vito Creon stopped the landlord and negotiated with him politely: Since we are all Italians, I beg you to do a favor.

The landlord still has a arrogant attitude, which is always the case with northern Italians. How can a countryside with only citrus and olive trees be as good as a magnificent city?

Northern Italy is relatively close to France and Germany, is more consistent with the EU in terms of ideological concepts, behavioral standards, etc., and its economy is more developed.

People in southern Italy are more committed to a leisurely life, rather than a rush to work. They pay more attention to the enjoyment of life. The pace of life is relatively slow. People appear to be lazier, have a stronger sense of family, and are passionate about life.

But in the eyes of the landlord, this passion meant that the southerners would stab him at any time.

When Vito Creon stopped him, he was reluctant, although he and the unknown young man yelled, "Who do you think you are? You dare to give orders to me. Show me some respect, otherwise your Sicilian ass will be too."

I'm going to live on the streets!" He didn't seem to worry about whether the passionate Sicilian would stab him with a knife.

Vito Creon had always been very polite to him and insisted on putting money into the landlord's hands as an expression of his goodwill. As a result, the landlord knocked on the door of Vito Creon's house that night and handed the landlord the money.

A sum of money as an expression of goodwill was returned to "Lord Cleon".

The widow could continue to live in the four-room, dingy tenement apartment facing the railroad without raising the rent, and she could still keep her annoying dog.

In terms of money, there is a big difference between the south and the north of Italy. In the south, women do not control property and they need to ask their men to buy food. In the north, women control property.

Northern men believe that "a happy wife leads a happy life" and women can buy whatever they want.

The landlord is from northern Italy, so he is a good husband and father. It is precisely because of this that he is so anxious about money and investment and financial management.

Vito Creon later opened an olive oil store. The same olive oil was used. There was a huge price difference between the olive oil used by ordinary people and the virgin olive oil. Creon was interested in civilian business. Two of his men visited Manhattan one by one.

, every grocery store in Brooklyn and the Bronx, persuading the owner to sell olive oil imported from Italy. If he really encounters a store owner who cannot be persuaded by his subordinates, he will personally take action.

When he was young, Vito Creon had a reputation as a "reasonable person". He did not give those shopkeepers "reasons that could not be refused", but relied on his terrible persuasion to get the grocery store owners to agree.

As his business expanded, he inevitably had competitors. Several olive oil wholesalers in Brooklyn refused to work with him. As a result, their olive oil warehouses were burned and their trucks loaded with olive oil were dumped.

A tea-green lake formed on the cobblestone road. A hot-headed Milanese actually called the police in the United States, breaking the thousand-year-old rule of silence. Before the police could make any progress in the case, he disappeared from the world.

, leaving behind a wife and three children who loved him deeply.

Compared with the remote south, northern Italians are more fashionable and modern, and the south is more dreamy and romantic. However, this is only a relative term. The pace of life in small towns in the Alps such as Elaine and Milan and Turin is still slower.

Much more, and there are no traces of modernization. It is still as primitive as it was in the Middle Ages. Most of the residents living in the town are elderly, and none of them can speak English.

Fortunately, there are many clubs for mountaineering enthusiasts here. The town is located in a hiking resort from Durin to the Alps. It is also a famous black truffle producing area, and there are many English-speaking guides.

The town is built on the mountain. At first glance, it looks like a rural area in southern France. There is a small tea-green lake on the edge of the town. Not far away are the towering snow-capped mountains. In the summer, the hills will be covered with meadows.

Everything in the town is so vibrant that it's hard to believe that there is the entrance to hell in the mountains behind the town.

The most popular drink in the town is a golden edelweiss beer, but drinking it early in the morning seems inappropriate, so after checking into the hotel and putting down the luggage, Pomona held Severus's arm.

With his hand, he dragged the painting box and went to "sketching".

"Run slower!"

Pomona warned as Felix played on the grass.

"We're really in Italy!" Felix yelled excitedly. "It's so amazing! Oh!"

"This place is a madhouse." Severus complained dissatisfiedly. "Why do Italians like exaggerated gestures so much?"

Pomona was convinced.

Italians seem to think that jumping in line is not a big deal. There is a delicious layer of pancake in the town, and many people line up to buy it. The line is loose and casual. Pomona originally planned to buy a few to eat during the picnic, but she was

Those who jumped in line were persuaded to leave.

People in Bern don't have to jump in line, because bears are as rare as humans, and they probably look like mental patients to the Swiss - there are no bears in the bear park, so why are they going there so early in the morning?

Swiss people don't like to greet others proactively, while Italians chatter non-stop.

It seems that an Alpine mountain blocks more than just clouds.

"There are a few farmhouses outside the town. Let's go there to try our luck." Pomona pointed to the few small wooden houses standing alone in the wild. They are different from the wooden houses that the Swiss live in in the summer. They seem to be lived in all year round.

Yes, there is a fence around the wooden house, and a lot of livestock and poultry are kept inside.

"I don't think they would know anything."

"You have to ask to know." Pomona carefully avoided a puddle of cow dung. "Hell, people in XZ will pick up cow dung and use it as firewood!"

"I won't eat food cooked with cow dung!" he warned fiercely, "and dragon dung."

Pomona looked at him and shook her head.

What a pampered city boy.

When they approached one of the farmhouses, their shepherd dog suddenly started barking.

At first, Pomona thought it was a white dog, but when she got closer, she realized it was an albino dog.

For example, the eyes of humans, rabbits, and rodents with albinism will turn pink. Normal hare eyes are black. The white rabbits with pink eyes actually have albinism. Dogs with albinism will change their eye color.

It is blue and the nose is pink.

Dogs with white hair and black eyes or noses are sometimes confused as albinos. True albino dogs are very rare. It barked at them hostilely, and soon a little boy came out of the house with a shovel.

"Hi! Hello!" Pomona waved to him friendly.

"What do you want?" the boy asked in English.

"Do you raise this dog?" Pomona asked.

"That's right." The boy said suspiciously.

"Your sheepdog seems to have albinism."

"I know that, we raised it on purpose."

"Did you raise it to defend against pig monsters?"

The little boy's eyes suddenly widened.

"how do you know!"

Pomona shrugged at Severus, "See, I said, try your luck."
Chapter completed!