Let me briefly explain the setting, otherwise it's indeed too obscure. This work primarily adopts the background setting of The Godfather: Brooklyn, New York in 1947, with the five major American Mafia families fighting overtly and covertly, and the fruit stand serving as a front for drug trafficking.
Huaqiang: A member of the Corleone family, an Italian-American. The Corleone family opposes the drug business; Huaqiang's purpose in buying the melon is to smash the drug den set up by the Barzini family at the melon stand. He speaks English because he is in the United States, and English is his daily language.
Brother Hao: The head of the Barzini family's drug den. On the surface, he is a fruit stand owner, but in reality, he uses melons to hide and traffic white powder. Transactions rely on the secret code of guaranteeing ripeness: if the buyer asks, "Is it guaranteed ripe?" and the vendor replies, "Ripe through and through," it means the goods are ready for handover. That's why he initially thought Huaqiang was a buyer. He speaks Italian with his subordinates as an encrypted communication to prevent their loud plotting from being understood by passersby.
The white chunks in the melon: Heroin bricks wrapped in wax paper. Huaqiang splits the melon open to inspect the goods, not to see if the melon is ripe, but to see if the drugs are there. If they are, he makes his move. With the goods present, the person must be eliminated. This is a family anti-drug reckoning operation.
The "Compare" shouted by the firefighter at the end is the Italian word for "comrade/brother," implying that the fire department has been infiltrated by the Corleone family. The infiltration of the municipal system was standard operating procedure for the New York Mafia in that era, which is why he appeared so quickly—he was also part of the plan.
Next installment: The Godfather of the Tattaglia family, Tiger Tattaglia, upon hearing of Barzini's elimination, hosts a banquet to invite Huaqiang Corleone, hoping to recruit him into the partnership. To find out what happens next, tune in next time.iOS link


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