On the Silver Road, a country bumpkin who had just arrived couldn't wait to hook up with a colleague he had just met, while on the other side of the Diamond Road, the Campino family's birthday dinner was still being held in a lively manner.
The violin band was playing in the lobby, and Mike greeted the guests who came to chat with a smile on his face.
This kind of thing has been happening all afternoon.
Mike had just returned home and before he had a chance to take a good rest, he was forced to face the attentiveness of the guests, which made him quite exhausted now.
Not only that, maybe because he has been away from home for too long, everyone has forgotten his eating habits, and the entire banquet table is full of fish heads and seafood.
As long as Mike smells the faint fishy smell, he wants to help passersby retching.
He has been allergic to marine food since he was a child. In the past few years of joining the army, the food on the ship did not improve his "resilience". As long as fish and seafood appeared on the menu in the canteen one day, he would quietly sneak back to the dormitory and open his own collection.
canned beef with soy sauce.
Oh, by the way, this sauce can’t be caviar.
I originally wanted to ask my father for permission to run away first, but at this most exciting moment, Ma Long disappeared.
Mike wandered around the hall for a long time without finding his father, but he saw his sister Yusha carrying a plate and being chased around by the housekeeper.
He wanted to stop Yusha and ask, but his brother Fit suddenly came to him and asked Mike to go upstairs first with a serious face.
Mike didn't know what happened, but looking at his brother's expression, it was obviously not a good thing.
Sure enough, after the two brothers went upstairs, they saw their father in a separate room.
At this time, Malone was sitting in front of the fireplace with a serious face, smoking his pipe.
Another brother, Hagrid, was also there. He and Malone were sitting opposite each other. They seemed to be communicating, but they were very excited. His open mouth just closed, and Mike didn't hear what was said in front of him.
"I brought Mike."
As soon as Feit led Mike in, he closed the door behind his back. There were only four of them, father and son, in the whole room.
The fire in the fireplace was very warm and spread on Malone's wrinkled facial skin. He huddled in his chair and looked almost ten years older than during the day.
"Come! Come and sit next to me, boys."
Malone gave up the soft sofa to his sons, and Mike and Fit didn't refuse, sitting on one side each.
"Our family now has a new choice, maybe we should listen to everyone's opinions."
Malone blew out a puff of smoke and raised his chin at Hagrid.
Hagrid understood what his father meant and hurriedly explained to Mike: "It's like this. The people from the cigar club came over today to introduce a business to us."
As he spoke, he placed a bottle of white powder in front of everyone.
Mike picked it up and looked at it carefully, then removed the cork and smelled it again. Suddenly his eyes popped out and he quickly put the cork back in.
"Happy honey!"
His reaction was slightly violent, which made Hagrid startled.
However, Ma Long nodded with satisfaction: "I have already said that Mike would not agree."
Mike understood and immediately asked Hagrid: "Is the business of talking about cigars smuggling contraband?"
His tone made Hagrid even more embarrassed, but the other party only paused and said the reason he had already thought of: "I know you may not like it, but it is indeed very profitable."
Mike knows the scope of his family's business.
What the Cigar Club values must be the Cambino family’s control over the terminal transportation lines.
Their family owns a loading and unloading company, two freight companies, four large warehouses and a separate repair dock there, and runs the fish market on the pier...
In the underground society of Renekton Port, the Cambino family must be the most influential group.
This is why the gangsters at the dock were so frightened when they mentioned the Cambino family that they all gave way to them.
They had engaged in smuggling before, but it was all to avoid customs and help both parties save tariffs. As a middleman, Malone took a lot of money out of these businesses.
Of course, there are also people in the management agency of the terminal who accept bribes to help them cover up their tracks.
But no matter how hard they try to make money, the Cambino family has never smuggled goods prohibited by government regulations.
This joyful nectar is one of them.
Mike has never used this thing, but he knows what it is.
This is a compounded medicine that makes people unable to extricate themselves. On the surface, it looks similar to talcum powder. The method of use is also to apply it on the skin. However, if this thing is applied to the private parts, it will give people an extremely strong pain.
Exciting.
That kind of excitement is even dozens of times stronger than the love between a man and a woman. It can completely make people go blank, lose their mind, become hysterical, and become crazy!
People who have used it once will definitely become so addicted that they will go bankrupt to buy more joyful honey.
And the damage to the human body caused by such strong stimulation is also obvious.
Most people's life span will be shortened by twenty to thirty years, or even more.
The first place where this ointment was developed was in the Western Continent, but they sold the medicine to the Red Land, which not only poisoned the Sarcens there, but also earned a lot of gold and silver.
But later, the Red Earth and the Western Continent began to trade with each other, the population moved and settled, and the geographical barriers between each other were gradually loosened. So those treacherous guys who were traders from the north and the south not only began to produce happy honey in the Red Earth, but also brought it back
It was resold back to the Western Continent, causing many people in both places to fall into addiction. It can be said that they shot themselves in the foot.
In the end, most countries in the Western Continent banned the production and sale of such things.
Because of this lesson, Secred banned the production and sale of joyful honey from the beginning.
Although there is no guarantee that those in the underground society will not act recklessly, once they are discovered by the government, they will be severely punished.
This thing is indeed very profitable, so the cigar club wants to cooperate with the Campino family.
"Mike, maybe the years you served in the Navy made you forget your last name. We are the Cambino family, and smuggling is a normal thing, isn't it? Fit, tell me, I believe you will support me.
"Hagrid is still lobbying.
"I always listen to my father's arrangements." Feite replied calmly.
Mike was still wearing the dark blue navy uniform, and his image was so majestic that he even lightly knocked on the table, startling the brothers in front of him.
"Hagrid, we can't do this."
"Are you scared? It doesn't matter, brother, I have already figured out how to avoid the eyes and ears of the police and customs. We mixed it with talcum powder, then reported it to the customs internal line, and loaded and unloaded the goods at night while it was dark, and at dawn
It can be shipped to the recipient before... By the way, we can drive the ship to the dock and pretend to repair it, but actually..."
"Okay, my child..." Malone interrupted Hagrid's excitement, "If we cross the red line, then my friends at the customs will no longer be my friends. Do you understand this?
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Seeing that both his father and Mike were opposed to it, Hagrid felt a little depressed. At this moment, Mike suddenly asked: "The production of happy honey is prohibited in the Sai country. Where did the people at the Cigar Club get the supply from?"
When Hagrid heard Mike ask this question, his expression suddenly changed, his eyes kept flickering, and finally hesitantly said: "Yes...it came from the sea. There should be a secret workshop on a certain island."
"Hagrid, do you know what you are doing?" Mike stood up and grabbed a handful of his hair in annoyance, "The people in the cigar club must have colluded with pirates. I fought hard with those devils at sea. You
But secretly you want to cooperate with these guys?"
Hagrid was a little panicked after hearing this: "Wait! They didn't say they were pirates."
"Who else but a pirate would secretly make joyful nectar on the island?"
Mike kept shaking his head.
"Okay!" Ma Long waved his hand and told his sons to stop arguing. "Our family needs harmony. Don't ruin the harmony for a bunch of outsiders."
As he spoke, he asked Feite next to him to add some tobacco for himself.
"I have already refused the cigar party about this matter... Don't look at me like this, Hagrid. In fact, they have already talked with me before looking for you."
"The reason why I didn't mention this is to see your reaction and judgment. After all, you are my eldest son, and I hope you will become the next head of the Cambino family."
"Your shortcoming is that you are easily dazzled by the benefits that are coming your way. I hope you can calm down and think about it carefully."
"This move of the Cigar Club is very illogical. From what I know about Charlie Rossiter, he doesn't seem like the kind of person who would risk selling contraband. I'm afraid there is something wrong behind this. I have to arrange for someone to keep an eye on them and see.
What exactly do they want to do?"
As soon as Ma Long finished speaking, there was a knock on the closed door.
The voice was very soft, and Feite carefully opened a gap and found their sister Yusha standing outside the door.
Yusha put the plate full of food that she had collected into the crack of the door, and smiled at Mike without any scruples.
"I remember you can't eat seafood. These are just steaks and vegetables I brought. Don't worry, there is absolutely no caviar!"