Chapter 22: The Three Brothers
"Open the door!" Andy came to the door of the three brothers' caravan and knocked on the door, which attracted some attention, after all, the store had been unoccupied for some time.
"Open the door!" He knocked for a moment, and there was a voice behind the door.
"What for?" A somewhat gruff voice came, sounding restless and impatient.
"Pabloto, I'll come and ask you, what's going on?" Andy shouted, Mark on the side cautiously observed the surroundings, at this moment has gathered some people to watch the excitement, I am afraid that there are also spies secretly sent by the Crimson Caravan to monitor, and the peers are the biggest enemies.
"Nothing! Tell him to keep waiting! The rude voice didn't reply angrily, but Andy was clearly not going to rest on his laurels.
"I'll say it againβwhat-what-situation!" Andy's tone accentuated, and the voice behind the door was silent for a while, and finally opened the door.
A face with gray hair, deep-set eyebrows, high brow bones, and deep nasolabial folds poking out from behind the door, he looked very ugly, especially after noticing the onlookers outside.
"You want to know? Then come in. The man bared his teeth and beckoned to Andy, as if with a hint of intimidation, but Andy ignored it and slammed the door open and walked into the house.
The three of them entered the house and were led into a room led by the gray-haired and gloomy man, and in the storefront sat several caravan guards wearing heavy metal armor and armed with guns, and the expressions on their faces were as ugly as the gloomy man.
As soon as they entered, the people behind Andy and Mark closed the door of the room, and there were five or six people sitting or standing in the room, among which there were two men in black suits in the middle with faces that looked seven or eight points similar to the man who opened the door, obviously related by blood.
"Anyway, who are you? Sent by the Crimson Caravan? What kind of tricks are you going to play with us? The gray-haired man couldn't help but burst out of his forehead at this moment, he turned his back to Andy and Mark and took out a finger tiger from the drawer of the cabinet next to him, and put on his weapon while gritting his teeth, and the other guards also approached with unkind faces.
Andy turned a blind eye to this performance.
"I already said it when I entered the door, and Pablo asked me to come and ask you what is going on with your three brothers' caravan? His shop has been out of stock for a long time, and I can't say anything about it. β
"Let's make things clear, Pablo has no business because you don't supply, and he has to make another plan if he continues like this." The other two men who looked a little similar to the gray-haired man looked at this scene with different expressions, the youngest short man with the most lush hair seemed to be a little overwhelmed on his face, while the other middle-aged man who was about the same height as Andy looked at the gray-haired man wearing his fingers and looked stunned, as if he felt inappropriate about the way the gray hair was handled.
"What's the situation? Then let me tell you, you clown sent by the Crimson Caravan, it is..."The gray-haired man suddenly punched Andy in the face in the middle of his words, and the shiny metal knuckle reflected a silver dazzling light under the light of the electric lamp, and as soon as he saw the boss move, the guards around him who were fully armed couldn't bear it, and they beckoned to Andy or Mark with sticks and fists in their hands.
The flash of the finger was fleeting, because the gray hair was punched upside down by Andy in the next second, knocking down the desk behind him and crushing the other two similar-looking men to the ground together.
Mark nimbly dodged one of the guard's left hooks and another's flailing stick, and with one grappler he controlled one of the guards who were too close, holding him firmly to act as a meat shield, and then slammed down the other two guards with one arm and threw them out together, and the three of them rolled into the corner of the wall in unison.
In the blink of an eye, the six members of the caravan of the three brothers in the room were all lying on the ground and moaning. There was an immediate sound of kicking outside the door, but the door had already been locked by those guards before, and Andy didn't bother to bother with it.
"Bastard! What are you doing? You will be sent to Black Canyon Jail by the police on charges of violent assault! The youngest man in a black suit was hit in the thigh by the table, and he inhaled cold air in pain, and when he saw Andy and the two of them beating his own people into a piece, he was a little speechless at the moment.
Andy scoffed.
"Fool, don't say it's your people who do it first, Sheriff Ralph told me a long time ago that he doesn't like a few of you, if you want to go to the police, see who will be judged as a violent attack in the end, and who will be judged as justified defense?" The young man was immediately speechless, for he knew exactly what the answer was.
At this time, the tallest man in a black suit hurriedly crawled out from under the gray hair that he couldn't get up from because of Andy's head-on punch, and looked at the terrible scene in front of him with a helpless face.
He watched as Andy gestured to stop the conflict.
"Wait a minute, I apologize for my eldest brother's impulsiveness just now, his temper has not been very good.... It's true that we are at fault, Pablo is one of the few big customers we have in Hoover Dam City, and it was wrong for us not to fulfill our contract to supply him for so long, but there is a reason for that. β....................... Ten minutes later, Andy, Mark, and the three similar-looking brothers were in a room on the second floor and sat down.
After their introduction, the three men in black suits were the so-called
The "three brothers", they are the gray-haired eldest Guido Giordano, the tallest second Enzordano, and the youngest Sanzoni Giordano, the three brothers are brothers as their faces indicate.
At this time, the second Enzo was carefully examining the tokens that Andy brought.
"That's right, it's all true.... Big brother, you misunderstood, it looks like he shouldn't be from the Crimson Caravan. Guido, whose face was bandaged, apologized to Andy with difficulty, and Andy generously said that it didn't matter, after all, he wasn't the one who was beaten so much that he couldn't get up.
Enzo returned the token to Andy, his hands folded under his chin and frowned.
"I... Where do I start, actually, if you want to listen, I can tell you from beginning to end. Andy motioned for the other party to make it clear, which is also a good way to quickly get closer.
So Enzo began to tell their story slowly.
"The three brothers, like most of the other Hoover Dam residents, came here from New California during the Eastward Expansion Movement, and frankly we came here because we couldn't get along in our hometown. I'm sure you've inquired too, and the three of us... We were born into a poor family in New California, and there was no way for the three of us to be fed and clothed. Later, when we grew up and entered society, we found that no matter what we did, we could not cross the class we were in, we could only get a negligible salary to work in those factories and workshops, and those tycoons had endless bottle caps for nothing. β
"After a long time, we couldn't take it anymore, so we ..... Well, we joined an underground gang back then, and every now and then the three of us would help out with the show, collect debts, or do something that didn't make sense. I know you might despise us when you hear this, but we really didn't have a better choice at that time, and doing all the dirty work made us have our first pot of gold very quickly. β
"But we were later sold, and the gang boss forced us to go to jail for him after a vote, and luckily NcR's conviction for theft was not shot because of lack of evidence, but that also made us suffer in prison for a long time. When we got out of prison, we found out that we had been marginalized by society, we had become known ex-convicts, we couldn't find any regular work, even the local gangsters didn't want to accept us anymore, and even started to stalk and spy on us, because the previous boss held us black. Enzo stretched out his hands, saying that if they stayed in New California any longer, they would only starve to death or be killed.
"At that time, I came up with the idea, we still have a batch of hidden goods, and we have the initial capital after realizing it. At that time, because of the Eastward Expansion Movement, many people of all kinds like us who couldn't get along in New California passed the extremely lenient review and became the first batch of Eastern pioneers. β
"We soon set up our own caravan company, and although the Crimson Caravan has always been unshakable, we believe that things are different in the East, and after giving Dodge a gift, we arrived at Hoover Dam in a military caravan with no problems. We just want to start over, we are sincere in doing things in the east, and we just hope that fate will give us another chance. Andy listened quietly, believing that the turning point was coming soon.
"But... When we got to the Hoover Dam, we found out that something was wrong, and those guys still looked down on us because of our past, and even if we were the fairest and most elaborate caravan in the entire Hoover Dam, and could provide the best quality and cheap goods, we couldn't get big orders, because people like Dodge and Ralph didn't trust us from the bottom of their hearts, and even if we didn't do anything bad after we came here, the Crimson Caravan was even more of a hindrance, and they played all kinds of disgusting tricks to mention. Enzo's sadness came from it, but Andy didn't believe it all, and it was a siege when he entered the door inexplicably, and his actions were more convincing than words.
"We're in a desperate situation right now, and the situation has gotten worse for the last six months, as the Brotherhood of Steel has been attacking our caravans, using something that makes them transparent, and almost every time we send out a team. In contrast, the Crimson Caravans have not only found a source of weapons to solidify their position, but their expatriate teams have been barely affected by the Brotherhood of Steel, as if those guys were selectively attacking. β
"So, that's why we haven't delivered." Enzo looked at Andy and blinked, and suddenly made an offer.
"If you don't mind, I think you're very capable of fighting, and I believe you're also very capable of doing things, so we might be able to work together...."