Chapter Thirty-Six: When Business Is Conducted
“CQ,CQ,CQ! This is the fishing boat Ottiria, calling Tony from Missouri. ”
With a starry sky clearly visible overhead, a silvery last quarter moon reflected in the black and blue sea, Tommy Hawke sails his fishing boat into the open sea near the Gulf of Maine, following the channel Tony left behind.
Melonie was not sleepy at this time, staring nervously at the microphone on Tommy Hawk's bridge, after all, the business had reached the most dangerous moment in her opinion.
After the fishing boat sailed into the Gulf of Maine, Tommy Hawk had called several times but had not been able to get a response, which made Meloni's spirit even more nervous.
“CQ,CQ,CQ! What the hell is the Otilea, Tommy? Aren't you the D.T.F. of Mr. Côte Wadman in Cairo? I'm Tony, my coordinates are Gulf of Maine 43.423312, -66.534485, and you'd better remember to turn on your searchlights and don't crash into the back of this boat's ass. Finally, Tony's voice rang out over the radio station with the sizzling of electricity.
Melonie breathed a sigh of relief next to her and sat back down.
"Roger, Captain Tony, latest instructions, hit your ass." Tommy Hawk said with a smile after receiving Tony's radio response.
"You haven't told you what the hell the Otilia is?" Tony asked curiously on the radio.
"My instructor, she gave me some gifts that were very dear to me personally, and in gratitude to her, I decided to temporarily put Mr. Waldman's ship in her name...... Famous ......" Tommy was originally smiling and teasing Tony on the radio, but then the whole person was stunned, and when he spoke again, his voice had become as calm as before the storm was coming:
"You shouldn't have known I drove Mr. Waldman's D.T.F., Tony."
"I guess...... I've seen that boat on the docks. Tony paused over there, then smiled and said, "Down to Fuck, right?" Well, brother, save some power on your own boat, see you later. ”
After saying that, Tony hurriedly ended the call, Tommy Hawk's face slowly appeared hard, his hands grabbed his hair hard, took two steps back and kicked the console fiercely: "Fuck! Fcuk! I should have guessed that he would tell Daddy about it! Last time he said he couldn't answer me right away, he needs to think about it! As soon as I got back to the apartment, I called! Fuck! According to his character, it shouldn't be like that! He told Daddy about that time! It must be this...... NO……”
Melonie was frightened by Tommy Hawke's sudden frenzy and took two steps back: "Tommy, what's wrong with you?" Calm down, OK? If you kick the rudder, we'll ......."
"Wait, wait, when I was on my way to the docks to look for a part-time job, my dad went to see Mr. Wadman, and I didn't know about the business at the time." Tommy tried to calm down from his initial anger at Tony's promise to keep it a secret, and kept talking to himself, trying to piece it all together: "Mr. Wadman decided to lend me this D.T.F. ...... this morning."
Although it was unclear what Tommy Hawk was angry about, Melonie still decided to speak up and reassure: "Tommy, no matter what happens, you have to trust that Hawk will not hurt you, and he will never do that. ”
"He's causing this now, and it's likely that something unforeseen will happen." Tommy turned his head to look at Meloni, and said with a sharp look in his eyes, "And that unpredictable consequence is likely to hurt me." ”
"For example?"
"For example, when I need to submit my family situation when applying to college, I might have to write that I have a stupid criminal father who is a drunkard and professes to love his family and is on vacation in prison! And then those universities will worry that I will inherit my father's ambition in college! Print PASS to my application! Tommy Hawke whispered in an almost growl.
Melonie heard Tommy's words, her eyes widened, and she said sternly: "If he really does the cigarette business too, I believe it is also because he loves this family, Tommy Hawke!" Treat your father with due respect! ”
"Damn the Italian family view, huh?" Seeing Meloni's expression, Tommy Hawk smiled mockingly, then turned around, turned on the radio, and continued to drive towards the established position, I don't know if it was for Tony on the other side of the station, or for Meloni, or just talking to himself:
"That guy wants to get money and bring his daughter home, so he can persuade me to drop out of school and take my hard-earned money, he never thinks about me, and I make money, not selfishly to earn tuition, I just want to help him bring Bethea back, I can do this kind of thing, but Tony told him...... If I could tell him, of course I would say it myself, because I knew that fellow, for the sake of Bécia, he could not resist the temptation of money, and that he would die of greed, like Hugh Spader. ”
This time, there was no response on the radio, and neither did Meloni.
At 2:27 a.m., Tommy Hawke finally saw the ...... that had come to pick up the cargo The fishing boat is more dilapidated than her own, Melonie nervously grabbed a harpoon and looked towards the fishing boat that was getting closer and closer, after all, according to the movie, there will always be people who want to eat black when the two sides are trading.
Four men came out of the fishing boat, two men and two women, all of them Italian-speaking compatriots, and Tony was the only man left who was over sixty years old, with white hair, and the two women were his wife, and it was his daughter who was throwing the rope at him.
"There are no smart machines here, only manual handling, Aunt Meloni." Tommy Hawk moored the fishing boat next to the other fishing boat, laid out the plank, and said coldly to Melonie, who was standing on the deck with a harpoon, "Let go of that harpoon, before the other party takes you for an idiot." ”
This accident seems to have made him completely disappointed with everyone in this family.
Tony smiled and greeted Tommy, who stared at his brother, "What about Daddy's people?" Tell me that while I'm still your brother. ”
"It's not what you think, brother, discourage." Tony pulls out a cigarette and hands Tommy one, then puts his arm around Tommy's shoulders and walks towards the bow of the boat.
At this time, Melonie also threw away the somewhat embarrassed harpoon and greeted the Italians on the other boat, and then the four of them began to cooperate in carrying cigarettes.
"Daddy and I have been preparing for this kind of business for a long time, before you talk to me, we have planned it, but not as meticulous as you, he heard this way when he was helping to repair speedboats in the dockyard to make money, but we couldn't find that kind of speedboat, so we had to use fishing boats, so we found Mr. Wadman, and on the day you first went to Mr. Wadman for a part-time job, Dad was so frightened when he met you that he didn't dare to look you in the eye, lest you see what he was hiding from you." Tony put his arm around Tommy's shoulders and whispered.
Tommy said irritably: "Where's the principal?" At least 100 boxes, and my dad mortgaged the house? If something happens and the house is taken away, don't even think about Becia being able to ......"
"Calm down, brother, there is no mortgage on the property, I made this suggestion, my father vetoed it, he thinks that the house should be left to you and Bethea, so that he and I really have a problem, you will not be homeless, and Bethea will not want to see the result of even her home being taken away by the bank in the end." Seeing that his brother was about to get excited again, Tony immediately explained, "However, I don't know where he found the money, maybe it was borrowed from Ruby, or someone else?" ”
Tommy Hawk sighed, "So he and Mr. Wadman had been doing this kind of business before tonight?" ”