129, Marlena admits defeat, family and education
At night, the shining stars pierce through the thin clouds, like a light veil in the form of starlight spots, draped over the body of the moon goddess.
In the room, Russell was lying on the bed, his hands naturally on his abdomen.
When you close your eyes, you can hear the sound of Aunt Chai's sleeping breathing in the living room.
It's been 39 days since he's returned, and the red blood has been at full the mark the other day, and tonight is the time Russell has chosen to enter the dungeon.
"Use the Fusion Fruit."
You used the Fusion Fruit. 】
[Hint: The Heavens have fused the dungeon world "Beautiful Legend of Sicily" in the fruit, you will enter the "Sicily" dungeon first, and the time of the dungeon will be stopped due to your use of the paused fruit, and it will be released naturally after you enter...... Please be patient and wait for the 'New Dungeon World' to be accessed. 】
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In an instant, the shining stars fell from the sky, pulling the slender beams like raindrops, contributing the last touch of luster.
In the darkness, the towering giant tree shook its branches wildly, and a dazzling beam of light flashed strangely from its body, hitting Russell's heart standing in the darkness.
The scorching warmth enveloped the whole body in the next moment......
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December 25, 1943, Christmas Day.
Late at night, sea view room.
Moonlight shone into the second bedroom, and Russell sat on the couch by the window, maintaining the position he had left.
He crossed his right hand on the back of the couch and held a mint-flavored cigarette in his left hand.
And the room was filled with the familiar smell of tobacco.
He slowly opened his eyes, noticed the remaining half of the cigarette in his hand, and naturally raised his arm to taste it.
Call-
The smoke rises and dissipates in the air.
Russell got up and threw the cigarette butt into the ashtray to extinguish it, then looked out the window.
Outside, all the familiar scenery came into view, and he quickly blended in with it, without any sense of strangeness at all.
He went to the bathroom to wash up, then returned to his room and saw Malena, who was sleeping soundly.
She was still so charming, lying on her side on the bed, covered with a goose-down quilt, her white arms and shoulders exposed, and a thin black strap hanging from her shoulders, which was a new nightdress designed and sewn by Marlena herself.
In the crib next to the bed, little Victorio opened his eyes and put his fingers in his mouth, but when he didn't eat, he began to cry.
Russell was standing on the ground and picked him up from his crib, and his body was tossed and turned to try to lull him to sleep.
But when a child is hungry, he can't be quiet at all.
Marlena woke up just as Vittorio was crying, and quickly turned to go down to the ground to feed the child.
But when he turned around, he saw a dark figure standing on the ground, and he was startled.
"Ahh My dear... Corleone, you..."
Marlena was a little surprised, she originally thought that Russell, who had tossed for half a night, would be very tired, but she didn't expect to react so quickly after hearing the child crying.
"Scared by me?"
Marlena turned on the light, looked up at Russell holding the child, and immediately felt that he was very familiar and made rapid progress.
Because a few days ago, Russell didn't even grasp the posture of how to hold a child, but now he is very familiar with the road.
"Why, I'm not that timid. I'm just surprised at your reaction...... Before you go to sleep, you're going to break me. ”
Hearing this, Russell stepped forward and sat on the edge of the bed, and Marlena took the child from his arms, and then lifted the nightdress to cook and feed the child on the spot.
Russell looked straight at him and said with a smile: "Then will you continue to toss later?" ”
Hearing this, Marlena looked up and trembled, and said in horror: "But... We've been..."
Russell stretched his neck forward, "Don't care so much, whenever I see your face, I can't help the movement in my heart." ”
"Dear ......"
When Marlena heard the love words coming out of his mouth, she immediately felt a little dizzy, and her eyes became confused.
She sat on the bed with little Victorio in her arms, Russell with her hands on the mattress, moved her head forward, and then the two of them quenched their thirst wantonly in the dim light.
Click-
Spit dripping on the duvet cover......
After a few moments, Victoria quieted down, and Russell put him in his crib.
Marlena sat barefoot on the edge of the bed, her legs swaying back and forth, watching Russell's skillful movements, she was very happy, she felt that Russell must have practiced how to put the child to sleep and hold the child these days.
It's heart-wrenching to look at this skillful skill.
Marlena wiped the saliva from the corner of her mouth and asked, "Honey, have you practiced how to hold a child these days?" Look at your movements as if you've practiced them many times. To be honest, if it weren't for the pediatric nurse at the hospital who taught me how to hold him, I wouldn't have known how to learn so much. ”
Russell rubbed his hands and said, "Don't worry about it so much, I want to hug you now." ”
"My dear...... You're too anxious, Victoria isn't asleep. ”
"Let's go to the next room."
With that, Russell leaned down and put his hands through her knees and back, and picked up Marlena from the bedside.
"Ah, that's... Let's be quiet. ”
Marlena put her arms around his neck, and under the reflection of the dim light, she could vaguely see her shameful face, which was still so embarrassing and unbearable, so that Russell was worried about it after seeing it, and he couldn't wait to pity it immediately.
Although he and Marlena have children and become old husbands and wives, they still love her very much in Russell's heart, and whenever they see her, they can't help but have the most primitive reaction.
After the two came to the next door, they both used their whole body solutions.
Marlena didn't smell strangeness in him, but a familiar smell, like the storm before the wee hours of the morning, only this time it turned into a super hurricane.
It's menacing and unstoppable.
Eventually, Marlena had to throw in the towel.
Then the two returned to the master bedroom and smiled at Victoria's sleeping appearance.
It's as if no third person knows their secrets.
Two hours later,
The sky turned gray, and it didn't take long for the early sun to slowly rise into the sky.
A warm golden sun shone into the room and hit the walls.
Marlena rubbed her sleepy eyes and got up, and carefully got out of bed to pick up Victoria, she didn't want to disturb Russell, because he had been so hard and tired these days.
She carried Victoria to the next door, but as soon as she reached the door, she blushed, and the thought of Russell's tactics last night made her feel very ashamed.
It was a departure from the usual normal exchanges, which Russell told her called 'The Delicate Arc of the Revolver'.
She shook her head slightly and stopped thinking about it, but hurriedly changed the child's diaper pad and fed her a full meal.
When he returned to the master bedroom, Russell was leaning against the head of the bed and looking at her with a smile.
"Your dear...... You have to rest more, otherwise your body won't be able to stand it. ”
Russell lifted the quilt, pointed and said, "I want to rest too, but he doesn't allow it." ”
Marlena bit her lower lip and struggled for a moment to make a decision.
She put the baby in the crib and walked over to Russell.
"Marlena, maybe you should wear a pair of glass stockings."
"I ...... Is it okay for skin tones? ”
"Of course, I like it very much, especially when you wear it."
Marlena blinked, walked to the cloakroom, and when she returned, she had already changed into a buttoned glass thread.
"Honey, Sivena will wake up later."
"It's okay, she's from here, and she'll definitely understand."
"Okay."
Marlena lowered her head.
True love is desperate, but in the end, loving feelings will also become family affection under the tempering of time.
Seeing Marlena, Russell had a feeling of being lost and regained, and the love, which was already close to family affection, burst out again, and was even more fierce than before.
And Marlena felt it, and she shouted, "We're going to have another child." ”
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In the morning, it was past nine o'clock.
Sivina came apologetically, followed by the rough man Oriatu.
Yesterday, Oriyatu rushed home overnight to spend Christmas Eve with Silvina, which shows that Sicilian men are very family-oriented.
"Sivina, I understand very well, I don't need to explain."
Sylvina nodded, and Oriyatu next to her looked at Mr. Corleone sitting on the sofa, scratching his head a little embarrassed.
"Godfather, I have discussed with Sylvina to send our children from the town of Kleento to school in Catania."
Their child had been at Sivina's parents' home and was being cared for by her own brother.
Because the child was very young a few years ago, and Oriyatu's identity was very sensitive, it was no joke if he was caught by Mussolini's people.
"It's not just me and Civina who mean to send our children to school in Catania, but Felisto and Nivino, as well as our subordinates. But there are so many children......"
So the people of Oriyatu couldn't make their own decisions, so they could only ask the godfather and wait for the godfather's arrangement.
A few years ago, because of the war, the children were also in school, but they didn't learn anything at all. Moreover, the educational resources in the town are very expensive, and the source of students is not concentrated enough.
Russell crossed his legs and lit a cigar and asked, "How many children?" ”
"In the towns near Catania there are about 800 children of different ages, and in Palermo and Messina there are even more, about 3,000 children."
Hearing this, Russell nodded and said: "Children are the future of Sicily, and education must be taken seriously. You and Nevino are going to do it, to build or acquire schools in the main cities of Messina, Palermo, Catania, Realmonte, etc., and to open a university in Palermo that belongs to the Sicilians......"
"Okay."
"Professional things have to be done by professionals, you don't know anything about education, so go to Rome or other countries to dig up educational resources, understand?"
"Understood!"
Oriatu nodded heavily.
At present, Russell's business is mainly oil and tobacco, transportation, supplemented by wine and shipping, trade, and construction.
However, in two more years the war will be over.
He holds a lot of land in Sicily, and development is imminent.
"How's the airport going?"
"The two main airports are being renovated and will be completed in two months. And in Tripoli, Ankos met a French engineer who was able to reassemble the disassembled plane as if it had not been opened. ”
Russell was satisfied, his subordinates knew what they had to do, and he didn't have to say a lot of words.
"Ask the engineer to change the plane to a passenger plane, change the exterior livery, and tell Chris to get an air freight paper, and we're going to set up an airline."
"Okay."
Before the end of the war, airlines must establish a prototype, if you wait until the end of the war to do aviation, then Italy will take out some transport planes and directly change to private enterprises, and there are ready-made channels, how can other private airlines compete?
Now that the airspace is controlled by the Allies, although the private sector cannot set sail, it can build the infrastructure, such as the airport, the surrounding configuration, transport aircraft, ground crew, flight attendants, etc......
Russell is not afraid of the airline being robbed, and whoever dares to come to Sicily to snatch his things is really impatient.
Tourism in Sicily is also very popular in the future because of the good environment and beautiful scenery.
Therefore, he also has plans to turn the land near the coast into a resort or resort estate, and the land close to the inland into a hospital or farm...... The land in the city is developed for real estate.
These days, Russell and Marlena's relationship continues to heat up, and neither can do without the other.
Whenever Marlena designs a new dress, she wears it on her body for Russell to admire and evaluate.
During this period, Russell mentioned to her about opening a garment factory, but Marlena still said in the same tone as before, saying that she should think again.
After entering 1944, due to the reason of doing things with Marlena every day, I only felt that time flew by.
January 11th.
Russell saw Roosevelt's news in the newspapers, and he convened a conference on operations in the Pacific.
This means that the United States and Britain will transfer the main battlefield to the Pacific Ocean, but at this time, the German army is still stubbornly resisting in Europe, and there is no intention of surrendering at all.
I have to say that the scientific and technological level of the German army is indeed very powerful, not only with black technology aircraft, but also with the world's only surface-to-surface missile, with a maximum range of 240 kilometers! It's just that the accuracy is a bit low, but even if the accuracy is low, it's enough for the Allies to drink a pot.
In June, the German army launched the V-1 surface-to-surface missile at the British mainland, a total of 15,000 launches, although only a third of the missiles hit the United Kingdom, but also caused more than 5,000 deaths in the United Kingdom.
There are also air-launched anti-ship missiles, which are also the world's first anti-ship missiles put into actual combat, with a maximum range of 18.5 kilometers, using radio command guidance, almost more than 3,000 of them have been manufactured, and dozens of Allied ships of various types have been sunk in actual combat in 43 years.
In addition, there are many world's first anti-aircraft missiles and air-to-air missiles that are being developed and manufactured...... None of them were put into actual combat.
When the Germans surrendered, they destroyed all research materials and drawings.
Then again, on the third day after Roosevelt's Pacific Conference, the Soviets sounded the horn of counterattack in Leningrad and Novgorod.
Leningrad has been besieged for more than 700 days, and the Soviet army has long been very aggrieved by this oppressive atmosphere, and has been holding back, when the horn of counterattack sounds, the Soviet army fights bravely, and it is bound to destroy the German army.
At the same time, the Allies, recuperating in Italy, also attacked the German army in Rome.
The European theater was hot, and the Pacific theater was not idle, and the U.S. military launched Operation Hail on February 16.
The location was the Truk Lagoon, where the U.S. military shelled the Japanese army for three days in a row with superior firepower, known as the 'Japanese version of Pearl Harbor', and the attack annihilated more than 60 ships and 275 aircraft.
The bottom of the Truk Lagoon was almost filled.
It has become the world's largest ship graveyard!
In the 21st century, it has become a paradise for diving enthusiasts, some people have recorded the roar of ghosts underwater, and some people have captured white phantoms on cameras.
On April 13, the Soviets regained the Kerch Peninsula.
On the same day, a major event also happened in Russell's house.
This forced him and Malena to calm down.