Chapter 132: In the Hospital (Thanks to the Leader Feiyan)
The godfather was sitting on the back seat with his right hand clutching his chest. Shen Long thought that he might have suffered a heart attack from fright, so he asked while driving, "What's wrong with you?"
"Fredo, I'm fine!" The godfather said angrily, "You did a good job just now, if it wasn't for you, I might have been shot!"
"Then why..." Let me just say, the godfather was also killed out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. Understand why the godfather is going to the hospital.
"This assassination was very unexpected. I didn't receive any suspicious clues before. With Sollozzo's ability, there is no way to do it, even with the Tataglia family!" Just at that moment, The godfather has thought so much, "There must be other forces hiding behind, and there must be traitors in the family, and maybe it's not just Paul!"
"Are you planning to pretend to be injured and hospitalized, so that they can relax their vigilance, so as to reveal their flaws?" Shen Long figured it out, but this reason brought him even more doubts, "Although this can confuse the enemy, it is also easy to get rid of the enemy's wounds." It caused unrest within the family and created more opportunities for Sollozzo and the others."
The godfather has always been the pillar of the Corleone family. If he falls, the family will be in turmoil. Many people who were steadfast in the godfather may also consider other opportunities. In the original book, Tessio did just that.
"Fredo, being able to see so many things shows that you have really improved. Sonny can't think of so much." Maybe Mike can too, the godfather didn't say this sentence.
He sighed and continued, "Fredo, I am fifty-three years old this year. As a gang leader, this age is old enough! How many people can live to my age? I am How many more years can I run the Corleone family? Now is the time to think about the future."
"It's better to take advantage of this opportunity to expose those people with other thoughts than to expose these talents after I really die; disposing of them may reduce the strength of the Corleone family in a short period of time, But in the long run, it is more conducive to the growth of the new generation." The godfather said such a terrible plan in a calm tone.
This plan is not only prepared for Sollozzo, Tattaglia and other families hiding behind them, but also for those restless people in the family, who can react in such a short time and formulate such a plan. Obviously, this plan was not just considered by the godfather. This plan must have been planned in his mind for a long time.
American gangsters usually go through a big war every ten years and reshuffle their cards. It has been twelve years since the Corleone family defeated the Maranzano family in 1933 to become the overlord of New York and established a position in the country. It's time for a new war.
"Fredo,
Don't tell anyone the truth about this except Sonny, Mike, and Hagen for a while, not even Clemanser! "The godfather warned, he now suspects Clemansha instead of Tessio, who told Pauly to be Clemanza's subordinate, "No, Sonny don't say it for now, he is a person who can't hide secrets . "
"Is that good?" Shen Long asked hesitantly. This sentence was not just a secret. At such a critical juncture, if even Santino didn't know the truth of the matter, it meant that he had already been excluded. Candidates for heirs are gone.
"This matter cannot be hidden from Sonny, it may create unnecessary differences within the family, and this is far more important than defeating Sollozzo and Tattaglia." Shen Long insisted, he knew that the godfather is a person who values family At this time, maintaining the unity within the family will undoubtedly win his favor.
"Well, there can't be any more people." After speaking, the godfather closed his eyes and began to sort out the plan.
After a while, the car stopped at the entrance of the hospital, and Shen Long helped the godfather to find the doctor with an Italian accent. The doctor immediately drove the others out, and performed surgery and bandages on the godfather alone, as if he really It's like being shot, and facing Shen Long outside the operating room, saying that the godfather is not completely out of danger yet.
Shen Long could probably guess that this person should be the same as Bonasera, Nazolin and others, who have received the favor of the godfather, and now it is time for him to return the favor.
In a single ward of the hospital, the godfather was lying there quietly, his face pale as if he had really lost too much blood. Shen Long was outside anxiously making phone calls one after another, looking at the ward from time to time, strictly forbidding anyone Suspicious people go in.
Tom Hagen's lawyer was downstairs, and Sollozzo and his men were waiting outside, planning to take him away as soon as he came out, so that he could bring news to the new heir of the Corleone family.
Before that, he had already dealt with Luca Brasi. He ordered people to keep Luca's body armor, and he was going to pack a fish and send it to the Corleone family. In the Sicilian tradition, this implied that Luca It means to have entered the sea and sleep with the fish.
Shen Long didn't understand this method of killing his father and negotiating with his son to do business, but for American gangsters, profit is the most important thing, Sollozzo also believes that in the face of millions of profits every year , Santino will definitely temporarily put the hatred aside.
But before Tom Hagen came down, he saw several Corleone masters get out of the car in a hurry, picked Tom up and sped away.
In the house of the Corleone family, Santino kept answering and calling the phone. He let go of half of the people in his hands, searching for Sollozzo's whereabouts on the street; He will immediately lead someone to solve Sollozzo himself after hearing the news.
Clemenceth and Tessio rushed to the hospital with their men, and on the way they quickly considered how this would affect them.
In the headquarters of other families in New York, this matter was also discussed. Half an hour after the godfather was assassinated, all influential families knew the news.
The patriarch of the Tattaglia family, Philip Tattaglia, cursed loudly. He didn't expect that the foolproof method would fail. After a while, the phone in the secret room rang. He answered it and listened for a while, then hung up the phone and called Bruno- Tattaglia called over, "Tell Mike Robles that the Tattaglia family will send him a lot of money, and he only needs to do a little thing."
They still did not give up the idea of killing the godfather.