LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 829: Maritime practice
Chapter 829 Maritime practice
Once when delivering fish, Ali Sandro once went to a luxurious hotel, which was near the Ritoyal Bridge.
The decoration inside is very luxurious, just like the boudoir of a sociable flower, the walls are covered with brocade, heavy silk curtains, thick luxurious carpets, and the terrace can enjoy the scenery of the Ritual Bridge, and the magnificence of the inside can be Satisfied Louis XIV.
In fact, he is not very enthusiastic about these. What he sees is that rich people can do nothing and wander around with beautiful girls.
The minimum legal drinking age in Italy is 16, but this rule has been almost ineffective.
Sometimes he would go to the bar of Cannaregio with the football team to drink Abbey Ale. The decoration here is very retro. The beer is packed in oak barrels. Tourists in fancy clothes will come to the bar to "experience" A handful of the life of the locals.
The people in the team made fun of them while observing whether there were any girls who were alone looking for opportunities to chat.
He remembers Aunt Alicia, his mother Juliata always compares with her. Juliata is not as beautiful as Alicia and does not have so many dreams. She married Fernando, a very ordinary gondola boatman.
Alicia’s first husband was a photojournalist, but he was not well-known, and mainly made a living by giving guides to others.
With a camera, everyone seems to be an artist. Every tourist wants to use the lens to capture the perfect Venice scenery.
A good tour guide can take tourists to secret corners that are rarely known. Monica’s charge of 100 euros a day is considered a small amount. If he meets a good customer, he can earn 600 euros in half a day. There is absolutely no problem in feeding a family. .
But one day he disappeared. Maybe he was leaving by train from Santa Lucia, or on a certain cruise ship. In short, he disappeared. Alicia cried for a long time, pouring her sorrows through wine, completely ignoring her two daughters.
At the time Julieta was pregnant, Monica and Raoula were taken to Uncle Fabio’s house.
Later, I heard that she was getting along with a captain.
Fernando is a boatman, but he doesn't like sailors, especially from Britain and the United States.
Sailors generally have the habit of getting drunk. After returning to the port, their first destination is the tavern.
The degeneration of the crew is worthy of sympathy, because they generally work in harsh environments and have just graduated from school and entered the sea. Their minds generally cherish the beauty and romance of the sea, yearning for the various scenery of the port cities and the world. The local customs.
But dreams often have a huge gap with reality. In school, they can't appreciate the long-term loneliness of life on the ship and the panic and fear caused by bad sea conditions.
In the posters of crew recruitment by travel companies, the crew often wear bright and neat seaman uniforms and shiny leather shoes, and smile kindly while standing on a clean and luxurious ship.
The reality is that in addition to the 8-hour watch, the crew has to stay in the small cabin and rest for the remaining 16 hours, and immediately go to work if there is an emergency.
Tourists are sightseeing, and their rooms are much better than the crew. Some young crew members who come out of the impoverished mountainous areas in the interior usually abandon the sea after working for a few years.
Less risks on land, stable work and rest, the most important thing is that there is no sense of loneliness wandering. British and American sailors love to drink and often get drunk. This habit has been in British merchant ships long ago.
There is a "British Sandbar" in Istanbul, and every time a British merchant ship collides with it.
The captain and senior crew only cared about the interests of themselves and their employers, and ignored the lives and lives of the crew and other merchant ships. This kind of reckless neglect caused them to bump into it again and again, without telling others or setting up warnings when they hit them. Now they will no longer hit the sandbar, not because they have learned the lesson, but because the navigation system has improved.
Venice is a port city and a trade center. There are many kinds of gossip. Sooner or later, Alicia and a "captain" will have problems dating.
Later, as everyone expected, the "captain" was not the captain at all, but an ordinary crew member, and he was also married, he could not afford Alicia's support, and advised her not to take Veronica born to.
Alicia finally "realized", she did not find anyone to remarry, and raised three daughters alone. She is getting old very quickly, it is hard to imagine that Juliet is actually older. Her mother always warns Ali Sandro not to be an irresponsible man, but everyone is like this.
If he doesn’t talk to girls like everyone else, others will think he’s weird, even gay. There’s nothing worse than being **** in a football team.
Later, he met the strange British tourist.
It’s strange that she is still full of curiosity about the sea, thinking that being a sailor can really conquer the stars and the sea, but Ali Sandro thinks she has mind-reading skills and knows what he is thinking.
He wants to make a fortune and live a different life. It is not impossible to be a shipwreck hunter.
He wants to change a bit. Venice used to be a small fishing village, but now it is really about to become a fishing village.
He wants to get rid of this unchanging life.
He told his father what he thought, Fernando not only told Ali Sandro that "punting does not require a high degree of education, you can choose a different way of living", but also told him a few things.
A shipwreck is not just a shipwreck, there is also a famine that did not sink the ship.
Maybe the ice blocked the route, maybe it hit a rock and broke a hole and just washed away the supplies. The sailors didn’t face a situation-draw lots, draw the person with the shortest lot as food, and draw the first place. The second one was responsible as executioner.
This is a maritime practice. At the beginning, everyone will endure as much as possible. When they endure the limit, they have to face this problem.
This kind of lottery is fair, including black slaves who are treated as commodities. If they only eat black slaves and not the crew, then the black slaves will rebel.
Even if the deceased were drawn by white crew members and the executioners were black slaves, no one could reverse their relationship.
Generally, the captain will play the role of peacemaker and ask everyone to bear with him for a few days, and everything will get better.
The chief mate is responsible for being the villain. He and the crew are not as lucky as the captain. In the maritime law tradition, there is an important saying "The captain and the ship coexist and die", which means that if the captain cannot evacuate all the crew and passengers, the captain himself will sink with the ship. Beyond going down, the captain often becomes the last person to be rescued.
The captain is not just the highest commander on the ship. At the beginning of the world maritime trade, the shipowner and the shipowner were the same person, and the shipowner was often the captain himself. They hired others or let their servants follow the ship and transport the goods to Sold at other ports.
If there is no captain and the crew sells the goods privately, they will be hanged as pirates. In order to punish the pirates, the British will hang the pirates for a long time.
In order to save himself and others a little trouble, the captain will live to the end. He does not need to draw the life and death visa. The crew can completely ignore him and steer the ship in the direction that they feel most hopeful of being rescued instead of the scheduled delivery port. .
After landing, the "captain" is no longer the captain. When faced with such extreme situations, people will change from people to animals in order to survive, and some people refuse to eat people, and finally starve to death.
Then that person will become someone else’s food, at least this will save one draw.
"Sometimes people don’t have to face this choice. You know that St. Mark’s bones were shipped underneath the pork. There is a rule in the Saracen doctrine that this canon can be used when life is threatened. Don’t follow, people understand how difficult it is to make such a choice.” Fernando said, “but you should also understand that the first immigrants to the New World were not only Puritans, but also criminals, including robbers and female infanticides. They thought they were hiding. After the gallows of the human world, you can continue to do evil in the New World, but I never thought that I would be buried in the sea. God would not give up the hunt for some unforgivable people."
"Because they are sinners, did they kill the Indians who helped them?" Ali Sandro asked.
"I don't know. I know some prisoners. They learned how to grow vegetables in prison. Now they are still growing. Don't worry that they have a record. No one will not hire them." Fernando said, "To those who truly repent. It is tolerant. Some theologians imagine God as a father who will go crazy and punish him at any time, but I think he is a loving father."
"He didn't do well enough." Ali Sandro said, "He still spared some sinners."
"It's not his fault. God can't enforce justice. People can. British judges, like British captains, made some decisions recklessly for vested interests. This is very similar to their usual style, asking that one person to make use of the value in the end. Squeeze it dry."
"Vampire!" Ali Sandro said angrily.
"British people are like vampires. They only **** blood." Fernando poured a glass of wine to Ali Sandro. When he died of thirst, there was only a bowl of water. Half of them could barely support them to get out of that hell. The Americans would swallow the bowl of water and let the one who didn’t get the water try to find water, but he didn’t expect it. The person who hadn't drank water died of thirst when he was talking, and no one listened to anything he said."
"Like the captain who was thrown aside by the crew." Ali Sandro said excitedly.
"I would also like to say that he is a lonely person. No matter how he asks for help, no one responds." Fernando put down the bottle. "Even God gave up Cain, but this'Cain' didn't use a stone to kill Abel, and He died of thirst."
At the time of the Great Depression, so many people in the United States poured milk without eating enough. Ali Sandro felt that his father’s metaphor was very appropriate.
This kind of person who has drunk enough water to "inspire" the person who is dying of thirst is simply unrealistic. Anyway, he just talks nonsense and does not understand the difficulties of others. If there are so many water sources in the desert, is it still called a desert? ? You drank the only bowl of water, how can others live?
I don’t feel thirsty after drinking, I can talk endlessly, but the audience is dead.
Maybe he is still cheering and rejoicing, now that there is food and water, and then drags the corpse to continue trekking in the desert.
It looks like a perfect person.
Ali Sandro sits on the steps in front of the San Marco Church, watching the passing tourists, trying to find a way to identify Americans.
God put a mark on Cain so that no one would kill him when they met him, but Ali Sandro did not find anything special about these people after looking for him for a long time, so he gave up.
At this time, his mobile phone rang, and the LCD display showed a message from Monica: I am finished at the DFS by the Ritoyal Bridge and come to pick me up.
Ali Sandro glanced back, did not see the British wizard and Gianluca, so he patted his **** and left.
Actually, not every wealthy person has a smooth date. It is too hard for Gianluca to chase Monica, and he can't bear to make trouble again.
It's just that that night in Padua, when Gianluca wanted to knock on Monica's door, the wizard caught him.
He took them to the fireplace in the living room and taught them to use a kind of "floo net". When the green flame rose, it seemed like a devil appeared.
He took them to Gianluca’s home on the island, and then asked Gianluca to buy a house in France and Germany.
It does not need to be large, but it must have a fireplace. Those houses will be used as safe houses in the future, just like they are spies of secret organizations.
He has indeed lived a different life, and he feels lucky when he is happy. His parents and Uncle Fabio did not abandon Alicia. Without Monica, he would not run into them.
When a young man hurriedly walked across the water-filled Piazza San Marco, in the Sistine Chapel in Rome in the distance, cardinals in red were discussing about the resignation of the pope and the election of the pope while he is alive. About the new pope.
The election of the new pope adopts closed ballots and democratic elections, which is different from the drawing of lots by the Governor of Venice, and it is also different from drawing lots of life and death on a ship.
In fact, cannibalism is just a way of living, just like humans eat animals, no one thinks that there is a problem, until one suddenly jumps out and says that cannibalism is too cruel, humans have the difference between good and evil, and then have pain and conscience .
Learning correct knowledge can enhance the ability to distinguish right from wrong; learning wrong knowledge can reduce the ability to distinguish right from wrong.
But the more you can distinguish, the more distress, instead of being confused and happy all the time.
When there is light, there is darkness. The forbidden fruit is full of years of wisdom. Even without Adam and Eve, there will be other animals who can’t help but bite with curiosity. Then they will provoke something. What kind of trouble?
(End of this chapter)