Mr. Consultant

If you really love me, please tell me sincerely; if you think I am too easy to give in, then I will pile up my anger, pretend to be stubborn, and refuse your kindness, so that you can love me. Plead tactfully, otherwise I will never refuse you anyway. --"Romeo and Juliet"

Giuseppe lay on the bed for half a month, during which he had to pick up the reports and ledgers again because he had nothing to do, and completed a jaw-dropping amount of work.He has also suggested to Xavier countless times that he should go back to his office in the Brownstone Building to recuperate, but that young master is no longer the young master he was a few months ago.In his long struggle with the advisor, Xavier had finally learned how to completely ignore his orders.

So Giuseppe became helplessly depressed, and complained about his situation with the attending doctor every day, but the doctor accepted Xavier's benefits and would only let the consultant lie in bed as if he had a cassette.Therefore, Giuseppe completely lost confidence in the situation at hand, and after a moment of uneasy conscience, he finally decided that joking with the young doctor was his only pleasure in life.Some of those young doctors are quite to his liking, although he is almost a round older than others, but it doesn't matter, he still likes that little bastard who is only 24 years old this year!

Thinking of this, Giuseppe even felt a little strangely relieved.He thought, anyway, Xavier would not fall in love with him, fell in love with him, a 36-year-old middle-aged uncle, so he could embrace this dark love, and then take it into the grave smoothly.After all, confession was a daunting conundrum for a consultant like him who equated love with sex.He didn't want to admit his feelings for Xavier, and he didn't understand why, but he just felt that the words "I love you" seemed to be the devil's spell.

Of course, what he didn't know was that the young master was still wholeheartedly waiting for his devil's spell.But in short, thanks to Giuseppe's gentle mask or the voluptuous look in his eyes from time to time, the consultant was very successful in the hospital.Within a week, everyone from the staff to the patients knew that there lived a handsome and unknown big man around the corner on the first floor.

And this rather ridiculous and dramatic incident undoubtedly reached the ears of the young master.He was patrolling the bookkeeping office at that time, heard the recent situation of the hospital from Luca, and then almost rushed to the nearby telephone booth to ask the director to arrange for Giuseppe to be discharged from the hospital as soon as possible.Although he has never mentioned it to anyone, the consultant is still his consultant, not someone else's, but his own.Even if Giuseppe didn't admit it, he acquiesced in his heart and couldn't listen to the opinions of the other party.

Although Xavier's attitude towards this is almost resolute, he has no desire to announce this matter.Undoubtedly, Xavier certainly hoped that Giuseppe would agree with him, and of course he hoped that he could keep the consultant as his own and never see anyone else again.But just before he did that headline-grabbing folly, he had the good fortune to hear what happened to Giovanni, the hapless second-in-command who fell in love with Giuseppe.Xavier didn't want to be the second Giovanni, although he had absolute confidence in the fact that the consultant would not betray Barone.But he was not sure whether Giuseppe would play some kind of hysterical style, and then suddenly hand in a concise and neatly written resignation letter on a certain day of the month.

Xavier was terrified by this, and by now there were only a handful of things that could make him terrified, but he still couldn't take Giuseppe's issue lightly.He once prepared two manuscripts for his presentation to the jury.In one of them, the young master declared quite grandiosely that when Mara shot Giuseppe, his life was also greatly threatened.Therefore, he had to act for self-protection. Although the result made this behavior look like impulsive killing, he really didn't mean anything extra.And in the other, he expounded in considerable detail his love for Giuseppe, this stubborn and stupid love, and attributed all the reasons to the protection of his lover and the anger from the heart.

As far as Xavier's own opinion is concerned, he quite hopes to adopt the latter. After all, some words have been hidden in his heart for a long time, so long that he is afraid that the feelings in those words will soon expire.But when he thought about it carefully, with Giuseppe's thoughtful personality, wouldn't there be a few trustworthy cronies among these seemingly fair jury members?Besides, wouldn't Giuseppe have judges who were acquainted with him, and bailiffs who were friendly to him?

Thinking of this, Xavier reluctantly tore up the manuscript in his heart. Unfortunately, he has not been able to mention his feelings to anyone so far.Of course, he could have said these things to Sandra, but the poor woman seemed to have finally found the true love of her destiny, and she was in no mood to deal with the relationship between Xavier and the consultant, that one idiot and another idiot .

All in all, the young master had to do his best in the end, pretending to be a pitiful person, trying to win the sympathy of the jury.He claimed that he was just an innocent driver and a law-abiding citizen who accidentally pulled the trigger because of excessive fright. He had no intention of killing Mara, let alone revenge.He explained to the jury that everything happened for a reason, not an unforgivable crime or atrocity.I don't know whether his acting skills comparable to the academy awards played a role, or whether Giuseppe asked someone to arrange a relationship in advance. In any case, in the end, the young master was successfully exonerated and avoided the bad luck of being prosecuted.

This is undeniably good.Of course, it would have been better if there hadn't been Gustavo, the vicious-looking second-in-command, who laughed and recounted his confession all the way, and then dug into the reasons why Xavier was so thick-skinned.

And Gustavo, the second-in-command, seemed to be something of a marvel himself.Maybe his appearance and personality are completely different, or maybe he was too restrained in front of that consultant before, unwilling to reveal his kind and humorous nature.However, now he fully understands Giuseppe's intentions and approves of his approach from the bottom of his heart, that's why he is so relaxed, telling Xavier some jokes that only middle-aged uncles can understand.

Xavier couldn't adapt to this at all, let alone the situation where the bearded man hugged his shoulder and laughed heartily.However, these are indifferent, although it is a bit too much to say, but Giuseppe's injury also brought some inexplicable benefits.In addition to the friendliness shown by Gustavo, Maldini's adviser, a grizzled old man named Salvatore, visited the Brownstone immediately after the adviser was released from the hospital.

Xavier didn't have a good impression of anyone who was a family consultant, let alone Maldini's consultant, the baton of their enemies.But the young master no longer showed the disgust in his heart. He just received Salvatore kindly, told him that Giuseppe needed to rest, and declined the consultant to meet with the consultant. Mr. Request.After all, the so-called meeting of colleagues should be extremely jealous.

Salvatore had no choice but to tremble, and asked the young master to tell that Mara had left their family for a long time, and this incident had nothing to do with Maldini, let alone any of theirs. malicious.Although Xavier is also aware of Don Gilardino's power, he can't understand why Maldini is so afraid of having a dispute with Barone.Although he had heard from Giuseppe that Don Gilardino might help them with some things, this kind of verbal promise was quite trivial in the eyes of the Mafia.

Xavier is keenly aware that Maldini may have some troubles, some troubles that started a long time ago and have not been resolved until now.Therefore, he settled down and decided that he was a little overwhelmed, and had a cliché with Salvatore, an old man with decades more seniority than him.Fortunately, Salvatore should have underestimated Xavier's ability, and did not realize how earth-shaking changes had taken place in this young master.He casually mentioned the northern coast in his quick conversation, but that was enough for Xavier to deduce some important issues.

This has to be mentioned, which is a bit too much to say, the third benefit of Giuseppe's injury, at least for Xavier.This young master can finally take over everything in the Brownstone Building, and without any guilt, he considers himself the master of Barone.Although he can't subdue the old antiques in the "big garden" in a short time, he knows that this day will not be far away.

And now, because of an unintentional remark from Salvatore, he had an extremely bold idea.He hoped to talk to the drug dealers on the northern coast, discuss their mutual interests, and then try to poach them all from Maldini's hands to expand Barone's small drug business in the south.However, considering the old feud between Xavier and these drug dealers, and considering the two thugs that Giuseppe killed, this cooperation is undoubtedly dangerous.However, Xavier judged by a little communication with the leader that this is a negotiable object, and this is also a negotiable transaction.

And all of the above led to the situation where Xavier, this unexpected young master, was being pointed at the head with a gun in the coffee shop.Standing beside him was Luka, the poor baby-faced assistant whose face was pale from fright at this moment.Of course, if possible, Xavier would also like to bring Cesare to this occasion, not this office clerk who has never even seen a dead person.Unfortunately, Cesare looked more of a hooligan than he did, which made him doubtful about negotiating, a situation that required etiquette.

The leader of the northern drug dealers is named Shane, and yes, Xavier finally knows his name.He is a stocky, rough-faced middle-aged man.His clothes were quite simple, even slovenly, but under the white-washed shirt, there was a power that could not be underestimated.He is the most cunning and cruel leader on the entire Michigan coast. He controls the drug trade in Chicago and affects the supply of surrounding maps.

Sean himself is actually quite low-key and not pushy.He has been living inside the Mafia, and would rather pay them a commission than face the investigation and tracking of the Drug Enforcement Administration alone.This will cause him to lose a small, almost invisible profit, but at the same time, it will make his business last for a long time.

And such a gentleman that everyone feared, because he was offended by Xavier's ignorant speech, immediately drew a gun from his belt, and wanted to teach him a lesson that he should have learned at the lakeside.Sean thought the young man was crazy.Christ, God knows how much self-control it took him to forget about the two missing thugs, to talk himself out of fighting the prick named Giuseppe!But now, this little young master, who didn't know what to do, came to provoke him personally, and wanted him to cooperate with that shit Barone!

This is simply a shame.

"Listen, Italian, I don't know where you got this idea. But you'd better give it up immediately, you know, the Irish are not so easy to talk to." Sean said in heavily accented English, Wielding the gun, he signaled to Xavier to get as far away as possible before he fired.

But the young master just looked at him fixedly, and raised a pair of honey brown eyes, a pair of quite indifferent, even gentle honey brown eyes.He smiled softly, it seemed that what Sean put in front of him was not a deadly gun, but some kind of wonderful gift.Xavier was fairly calm, putting on a modest, not exaggerated Italian accent, which he thought would make him appear more genuine and more befitting of a Mafia member.He said:

"Sir, forgive me for expressing some stupid opinions. Because in my opinion, apart from my hysterical lover, only interests are the most important things in this world."

After Xavier finished speaking, he quietly looked at Sean's expression.He noticed that the corners of the leader's mouth relaxed and his brows relaxed slightly, so he realized that his judgment was not wrong.He knew Sean was a smart man, after all, a fool who only had untimely revenge in his eyes would not be able to obtain this status no matter what.And, after all, Xavier himself suffered from it.So he paused, and explained in an orderly way:

"We also have some channels of our own, where we can learn some trivial news, and even know some wise decisions of yours. However, everything about profits, commissions, and cooperation requires you to put down your arrogance and build a relationship with each other. Trust and peace."

Sean was silent, staring into Xavier's eyes.After a while, he slowly lowered his arms, put the safety on the gun, and put it on the corner of the table.

"Xavier, young master of Barone, if I had known that you were such a bold and careful person, I would have shot your head off by the lake."

After he finished speaking, he smiled creepily again,

"Okay, let me hear your price tag."

The author has something to say:

A new volume has begun, and the epilogue "Romeo and Juliet" is eye-catching. Although this sentence should be said by Juliet, it seems that Xavier's mood (dangerous speech