old dream

Chapter 79 Cooperation
The injury on Giovanni's leg is basically not serious, but he still spends time lazily on the hotel bed, citing the inconvenience of his legs and feet.In addition to enjoying the care of a private doctor and a babysitter.

According to his sophistry, the more relaxed you are at ordinary times, the tighter you can collapse at critical times.

Anyway, Alessio paid the money, and Colin would not think there was anything wrong with this statement.

but.

"That's the way it is, but you should at least put on your trousers."

Colin always felt that there was a strange smell in the room.After all, it was still late summer, and a middle-aged man wandered around the room wearing only a pair of baggy underwear all day long.What's more, it seems that every time I come here, I see the same one.

The picture was so dirty that even the temporary nanny with a thick waist couldn't stand it, and he was always muttering and cursing.

"God is so hot, what can I do?"

Giovanni said nonchalantly with the cigarette holder in his mouth. He was leaning on the head of the bed, holding a lot of horse tickets in his hand, facing the Bice in the newspaper, and he proved it one by one.

The thick nanny was wiping his body with a wet towel. It seemed that this was not the first time that Giovanni had enjoyed this kind of service. Without the reminder from the thick woman, he raised his underarms and turned his back in coordination.Some of the loose skin was covered with scars, but his eyes and fingers didn't stop for a moment.

From a distance, Colin saw Giovanni holding a local newspaper in Stade.

He didn't want to get too close to the bed, and after walking around in the guest room, he sat down on the chair by the window and asked casually:

"Baraine's race ticket? How's your luck?"

"Don't worry."

As if he really thought that Colin was very concerned about this matter, Giovanni said slowly and gnashed his teeth:

"Luck, the more anxious you are, the more it will work against you—"

Looks like a big loss, Colin thought.

Giovanni checked the results of the last game.

"What the hell are you kidding?! Didn't hit any! Fuck!"

Giovanni cursed, smashed the whole horse coupons with one hand, turned his body sideways, picked up the tomato juice on the bedside table, and gulped.

The man drank so much that the corners of his bright red mouth looked like he had just vomited blood.

Passing the empty glass to the babysitter, Giovanni asked Colin in complete confusion.

"Didn't it mean that a group of people with clean hands and feet have been replaced? The racetrack?"

"There is news like this every year, haven't you heard of it before?"

It's like the manager has been cheating so that the racecourse can't make money. The boss Barain fired him after he found out that he was losing money.

Or Balain felt that there were too many people who lost money, so he was going to deliberately let people win in certain games, so as not to look too abnormal in the statistics of the newspaper.

Rumors such as these circulate among the crowd every once in a while.

"But in fact, those people have always worked, and they have never changed. It's a pity that there are always some people who think they can take advantage."

As Colin spoke, he worried that the tomato juice would splash on him.

Giovanni said:

"It was my first time betting on horses in Stade. I didn't pay attention to these things before. After all, I knew that there was something wrong with the horse ranch in Balain."

"I will buy it this time only because I heard the gossip that the manager has changed."

"...Then how much did you bet?"

"Five hundred oli... or seven hundred."

A lot of money.Just because of an unreliable news, it was thrown out in vain.

It's all about losing, and I'm still furious.

If he hadn't confronted him before, Colin would never have thought that this person who was lying on the bed was a reliable guy.

"I never planned to make money in that poor place. To me, buying horse tickets is just a way to spend money." Giovanni said:
"If everyone's clean hands and feet depend on luck, then even if I lose money, at least I can buy back the excitement."

Giovanni quickly recovered his indifferent look:

"What's the result? He manipulated the winning or losing for the sake of profit? Wouldn't he think it's too boring to win the money?"

"...It's really meaningless."

But is it fun to lose?

Colin couldn't understand Giovanni's hedonism, so he chose to skip the topic altogether.He said sternly:
"Let's get down to business...it's the situation on Julio's side."

"Julio?" Giovanni seemed to be wondering what could be wrong with Julia:
"That trash won't even write a statement?"

"She tore up the statement and planned to come forward in person."

"Oh?"

Giovanni seemed a little surprised and raised his eyebrows.

……

Julio knows almost nothing about the situation inside Capello, and Colin must find a guide.

Arecio is definitely not considered, so only Giovanni is left.

What are the risks of telling Giovanni about Giulio's personal appearance?Colin has been thinking about this since Julio made his proposal.

Julieo's safety is vaguely the key to one of Aresio's plans.But because of the gap between the Lantern Keeper and Fang, Arecio would never tell Giovanni all this in detail.

Or even if he told him, Giovanni might not be very concerned.

Judging from his previous performance, Giovanni really doesn't care much about Julio's life and death.

"Will you tell Arecio about this?" Colin said:

"I'm afraid he'd rather Julio be protected in that apartment all day long."

Julio's safety is the bottom line that Arecio has always emphasized in that negotiation, and in his eyes, it trumps everything else.

"I know." Giovanni put his pipe aside, put one leg up and rested his elbow on his knee:

"Then do you think it would be better for Julio to come forward?" Colin asked.

Giovanni smiled playfully:

"Good? No? Maybe she finally wants to understand something, but that waste is far from being a good patriarch. Is she alive or dead, and what does it have to do with me?"

"What I'm most curious about now is why you took such a risk."

After all, Zhu Liou is just a cover, it doesn't matter if she doesn't show up.

Long before the conversation started, the nanny hurried away as if she couldn't stand Giovanni.There was no one else in the room at this time.

Colin took a slight breath and said quickly in a low voice:

"Luka just wants to weaken Capello, but I'm going to integrate Capello in the name of Julio. If all goes well... maybe it can be restored to what it was like in the Nevio era."

And that would be entirely my power.

"..."

Hearing his plan, Giovanni didn't follow Colin's words to think about what they would have, but remembered the scene where Luca saved Colin's life from his hands in the old factory building.

He asked a little strangely:
"Are you ready to betray Luca? Why?"

"Of course it's for power and money. Are there other reasons?"

Colin was expressionless, and he couldn't tell the real reason.

Giovanni was silent for a moment, then smiled and said:

"Really not."

(End of this chapter)