America's King of Poetry

Chapter 3 The Goat's Horn

When Arthur walked out of the restaurant named 'Luciano', it was already mid-month, at 1 o'clock in the morning.

He didn't want to sleep in that miserable little warehouse in the kitchen, he wanted to go home.His family lived in an apartment building in Little Italy that had been inherited from his father and where the Luciano ancestors lived when they came to New York.

Later, it prospered, and the family moved to the wealthy area of ​​Long Island, where Arthur Jr. grew up.

After Luther's accidental death, the family lost their financial support, so they could only sell the property and move back to Little Italy, where they lived in the ancestral house.

Five years ago, his mother, Chen Wenjing, passed away due to illness, leaving Arthur alone. At that time, Arthur was only 18 years old. He graduated from high school and could not go to university. He had to go to his uncle's restaurant to learn to be a cook.

Tony has always prevented Arthur from getting involved in the family business. It is called protection in the name of protection, but it is actually plundering his brother's inheritance.

Arthur's mind is not very bright, and there is no one to help him, so he can only hang around in the back kitchen, spending time on weekdays by picking up girls and gambling.

His mind is empty, and he has only inherited his father's recklessness and passion, but not shrewdness.Because of her skin color, her mother has always been cautious and tried to survive in the cracks. She gave Arthur enough care, but lacked education and training.

Influenced by his mother, the reckless Arthur has a gentle side when facing women. He started talking about his girlfriend in middle school. He is just 23 years old this year, and his girlfriend has changed to a rugby team.

When he came out of the restaurant, Yu Peng took a photo of his new body through the glass window of the restaurant by the light on the side of the road. He is really a handsome mixed race guy.

Because of his oriental ancestry, the nose is not as exaggerated as the big one, and the eye sockets are not as deep as sunken, which neutralizes the three-dimensionality of the Italians and the softness of the Chinese, which is a bit like Keanu Reeves.

He was born with a big frame, and his figure is well-proportioned and powerful at a young age. Even if his life is a bit unruly, the good genes left to him by his father still make him strong and tall.

Therefore, even though Masino and the others knew that he was an ignorant bastard, when they saw his good skin, they would think in their hearts, "Maybe this kid can do it?"

From ancient times to the present, from China to foreign countries, the point of looking at faces has always been unchangeable.

Yu Peng—oh no, Arthur followed his memory and walked towards home, and he was almost there after turning a few streets.The Little Italy area in the early morning is very quiet, the street lights are dim, and Arthur is walking slowly on the curb. The streets here have a history of hundreds of years. Since the 19th century, many Italian immigrants have come here to live here, and they have lived here for generations.

Many movies have been filmed here, especially those with the background of Italian gangs. Yu Peng has seen many of them - "The Godfather", "Once Upon a Time in America", "Mean Streets", "Raging Bull"...

Coming here in person... To be honest, I didn't feel much, because Yu Peng traveled abroad to New York and visited Little Italy before, but that was more than 20 years later. 20 years later and now, not much has changed.

Arthur sorted out the memories and information in his mind while walking. First of all, Yu Peng felt a little inconceivable about the consciousness and memory of this body: this person's mind seems to be really empty, because he has no thoughts.

Everyone should have ideas, even an illiterate who has never read a book will have his own views on the world.

But it turns out that in Arthur's memory, there are only "pictures and feelings", that is to say, his life is like a camera plus a sensor, recording everything he experiences without any processing, and naturally he has no thoughts.

His reactions to events and people do not come from consciousness, it seems to be just an instinct.Anyway, Yu Peng thinks so after analyzing it. He can't find Arthur's self-awareness. Maybe his consciousness has been wiped out because of his time travel?

I don't know, Yu Peng is also wearing it for the first time. He has no experience, and he didn't give personal guidance before wearing it.

Of course, Yu Peng vaguely felt as if he had a dream, and someone was talking to him, but he couldn't remember what it was.

"It's fine if you're not conscious, but if you're conscious, I might still be affected. It's OK to collect your memories. Anyway, I feel that apart from picking up girls, your past 20 years have been pretty miserable." Yu Peng thought to himself.

Thinking about Arthur's experience, Yu Peng feels a little sympathetic, but thinking about how many people in their 20s have never even had a girl, I'm afraid it's even more sad.

The second thing to think about, of course, is to assassinate Abramo.

In the store just now, Tony Luciano told Arthur the general content of the plan, and said that after this mission, Arthur would be able to officially participate in the family business, and would no longer be a helper, but a respectable little boss.

If it was the original Arthur, he might have believed it, but if it was Yu Peng?I believe you ghost.

Yu Peng also came here in his 20s. He joined an insurance company after graduating because of his low education. After two years of hard work, he went to sell silver—no, he sold precious metals and silver.

Later, Yu Peng felt that this was not the way to continue. In fact, his grades in middle school were quite good, but after watching "Young and Dangerous" and other Jianghu movies, he felt that studying was useless.

After a few years of hard work in society, I realized that studying is useful, so I decided not to fool around anymore. I relied on my savings to take the college entrance examination, and then took the civil service examination. In the end, he really got admitted—a teacher at the local party school, and took a public management position!

After that, life got on the right track, buying a house, getting married, having children, living a happy life, who knew that when I woke up, I became a black second generation?He is still a black second generation with no power, no power and no money.

Thinking about it is really emotional. A young man who watched "Young and Dangerous" and refused to study hard, after entering the society, he was cheated and abducted to engage in finance and start a business.

What does this mean?This shows that capitalism turns people into ghosts, while socialism and the party turn ghosts back into people.

But now it’s good, I’ve come to the capitalism’s stronghold all of a sudden, do I want me to break through American imperialism from within, and let the red light shine on the land of America?

Yu Peng felt that he didn't have the ability to do so, so let's survive first. There is a saying, Gou... Gou Quan's life is in troubled times.Judging from the memory of this body, his uncle Tony Luciano is not a light-hearted lamp. It seems that the death of his father Luther Luciano has something to do with him.

As for how to deal with the assassination of Abramo, Arthur has no idea yet.Tony told him that Casey would look for him tomorrow and tell him the specific implementation plan.

Just thinking about it, Arthur lingered and walked to the door of his house, a four-story apartment building, standing on the first floor of the steps, Yu Peng thought that there was another trouble to face, and that was Arthur's girlfriend.

This Arthur can't do anything else, he is really good at picking up girls, he doesn't say anything about it, and he lives with his girlfriend at a young age.Since his mother passed away, this should be the eighth one, changing one every 7.5 months on average.

The current girlfriend is a hot-tempered Italian beauty, who is still young, and will get angry and jealous because of Arthur flirting with other women, and make a scene if something goes wrong. As time goes by, Arthur doesn't want to go back, and would rather sleep in the kitchen warehouse.

But Arthur didn't bother to find other women. From this point of view, Arthur was pretty good. Although he changed his girlfriends frequently, he didn't step on the same boat when he was with each girlfriend.

This is not in line with the tradition of Italian gang men at all. No wonder Tony and others look down on Arthur, thinking that he is a boy trapped by women.

Arthur thought to himself, as long as the girlfriend changes quickly, the title of scumbag will not catch up with me.

Arthur went up to the third floor, took out the key to open the door, but found that the door was locked.

"Fxxk, why do women like to lock the door behind them, can you lock it for a lifetime? Open the door! Gina! Open the door!"

The door was locked, and Arthur could only knock on the door vigorously. He didn't have a mobile phone with him, so he couldn't call Gina.

After knocking for a while, Gina didn't answer the door, but woke up the neighbor next door.A fat man came out with his coat on and yelled at Arthur, asking him what he was arguing about so late.

Arthur responded with a string of swear words, and the two quarreled in the corridor, when the door of their house opened, and a girl with chestnut curly hair pulled Arthur into the room. She was Arthur's girlfriend Gina.

"Fxxk you! Fxxk you!" Arthur didn't forget to curse outside when he entered the room. In fact, he wasn't angry in his heart, he was just cursing for fun, and by the way, maintain Arthur's personality, because he is usually such a rude person.

Yu Peng, who is a teacher at the party school, is quite elegant, so he doesn't speak fragrant words. Now he is going to do as the Romans do, and he is closer to Arthur in terms of words and deeds.

After entering the house, Gina glared at Arthur angrily, "Where have you been? Where have you been? Did you hang out with other women again? Why did you come home so late?"

Arthur glanced at Gina, oh, she was wearing tight-fitting pajamas, and under the warm light, the two headlights were particularly dazzling.However, her face is cute and delicate, with the childishness of a girl.Through the light, you can see some fine fluff on the face without makeup. This is something that girls who are a little older will not have, because cosmetics and skin care products have already corroded these traces of girls.

Gina is just 17 years old and still in high school. Her parents divorced very early. Her mother went to Los Angeles, and she followed her father.The father worked as a stevedore on the dock, remarried and had a daughter and a son, and ignored Gina.After Gina ran away from home, she met Arthur on a motorcycle at night under the Brooklyn Bridge. The two fell in love at first sight, and Gina got on Arthur's motorcycle and went home with him.

Gina was beautiful, with long, wavy hair and a full figure like her mother.But also because of her beauty, a dock worker couldn't satisfy her mother at all. Her mother eloped with a man who claimed to be a Hollywood director, and a year later a court summons for divorce was sent to her family.

Gina lacks family care, plus her first love, so she is particularly sensitive and insecure.After the initial passion, she was often jealous because of Arthur, and went to the restaurant where he worked to check the guards. At night, Arthur was not allowed to go out. The desire to control was so strong that Arthur didn't want to go home.

Arthur looked at the girl's puffy appearance and puffy figure, and felt a little flustered for a while, thinking that this kid is really lucky.If Yu Peng, who is the same age, crosses over to Arthur, then no matter what, he must first find a way to communicate with her in a simple way.

But now Yu Peng is different, this is a soul with experience, seeing Gina, he can't help but think of the person he liked when he was young, the feeling of worrying about gains and losses, ridiculous and cute.

One day when you really lose him, you will understand that when you pin your emotional hopes and your emotions on another person, then you are not far from disappointment and loss.

Since then, he has grown up, and he will never care about a person like that again, but he still often misses the care he once had. The feeling is not beautiful, but it is very deep.

So, Arthur stepped forward and hugged Gina hard, and immediately felt a sense of fullness and warmth in his chest, which must be the feeling of love. He said, "I haven't gone anywhere, I've always been here, in front of you, beside you."

The 17-year-old girl was easy to coax, a hug and a simple sentence made her let go of all her grievances, and hugged Arthur even harder.She wanted to kiss him, but Arthur refused, and put his fingers on Gina's lips, "Go to bed early, and I will send you to school tomorrow morning."

Arthur was afraid that he would not be able to control himself after the kiss. He had more important things to do.

Gina blinked obediently, then stuck out her tongue to touch Arthur's finger, and then bit her mouth lightly, making Arthur almost uncontrollably move out his Italian cannon.

Fortunately, Gina was so sleepy that she didn't bother to go back to her room to sleep. Arthur sat on the sofa in the living room to cool himself off.

At this time, he took out the four playing cards from his pocket, a 2 of hearts, a 3 of spades, a 6 of clubs, and a J of diamonds.

That strong feeling struck again, these cards had a great relationship with my coming to this time and space and my body.

He held the cards in his hand and looked at them one by one. The 2 of Hearts was particularly conspicuous in front of his eyes. Those two hearts... no, hearts, there were originally two hearts on the card, but in Arthur's eyes, the shape was changing, subtly changing, and it became——

two corners.

Goat horns.

(End of this chapter)