When he came to the town, Jiang Hao parked his car in front of a painting shop.

He is a painter, at least he is a painter now, and a painter has to do what a painter should do, so he needs to buy some painting tools.

Jiang Hao has absorbed all the knowledge and abilities of this movie character, and he can also draw now, as for the level of this guy, art cannot be measured by common sense, anyway, he thinks so.

What classicism, impressionism, and fauvism, Jiang Hao doesn't care about those.

Just come to a pretending faction.

Walk into the shop and start picking out tools, canvases, frames, paints, brushes, palettes, oil knives, turpentine...... In short, there was a lot of mess, and the boss was already smiling happily, as long as Jiang Hao clicked something, he would take it down immediately.

In the past, there were often painters in the town to collect style, but unfortunately the war broke out, and now few painters come, and the business of the painting shop is very busy.

Finally chosen, the boss settled the account, and it cost more than 700 lira, I have to say that painting is really a very expensive thing.

It is no wonder that some painters could not even afford canvas and oil paints when they were poor.

"Twenty percent off, delivered to Federer's house by the sea." Jiang Hao said.

The boss said with a bitter face: "Eighty percent off is less, I can give you nine or eight percent discount." ”

Jiang Hao stood up, looked at the boss and said, "If you agree, I'll pay the bill, if you don't agree with me, leave immediately, you choose." ”

It's too difficult to meet a big customer, and the boss twisted his neck and struggled for a long time, "Okay, it's eight folds, I hope you will come to me next time to purchase." ”

Jiang Hao smiled and said, "I'm going to live here for a long time, so it's indispensable to come over." ”

The boss was happy all of a sudden, and it was very beneficial for his business to be able to catch a long-term customer.

"If you need it, you can call me and I'll send it to you directly."

After paying the bill, Jiang Hao did not go home directly, but walked leisurely to the square open-air coffee bar and sat down, this is the most central area of the town, but also the most prosperous street, the government, the police, law firms, employment agencies, notary offices, restaurants, theaters, clothing stores, all on this street.

So it's the liveliest place, with a lot of people coming and going.

Jiang Hao ordered a cup of coffee, raised his hand to look at the time, at 10 o'clock in the morning, picked up a newspaper casually and looked at it, although these newspapers were a little empty, but he had the understanding of this era in later generations, and some of the contents could still be seen.

For example, food control, such as inflation.

Nowadays, the whole of Italy is under wartime food control, and each person can only buy a limited amount of food and clothing every day, and the variety is limited, bread, butter, milk, some vegetables and fish, that's all.

There was no filling of stomachs and no starvation, and most of the remaining supplies were sent to the front.

If you want to eat good things, such as chocolate, beef, ham, sausages, cheese, etc., sorry, the government stores do not sell them, and if you want cigarettes and alcohol, it is even more difficult to buy them, unless you have a way to buy them.

Of course, there is nothing at all, and many farmers and businessmen still have stocks in their hands, but they are reluctant to sell them to the government, because the prices offered by the government are too low, so the black market is very rampant nowadays.

If you want to buy good things, you can go to the black market, where it can be said that everything is available, and there are even food and supplies flowing from the army, but the price is expensive.

After the defeat of France, the French people lived in an extremely difficult state, they were always hungry, and they couldn't buy food with money, because those things were looted by the German army.

Just as Jiang Hao was looking at the newspaper and checking the information in his mind, suddenly there was a slight commotion in front of him, Jiang Hao raised his eyes, and found that everyone's eyes were all focused on the person in front of him.

A woman.

A woman in a short skirt, stockings, and high heels walked up,

It's Malena.

And only she can cause such an effect.

Wherever Marlena goes, a man will take off his hat and say hello, "Hello beautiful Marlena." ”

"Marlena, you're so beautiful today."

"Marlena, could I please have a cup of coffee?"

Marlena kept her head slightly down, her eyes looking at the ground, ignoring anyone, her high heels stepping on the stone slab, making a clattering sound, very crisp.

There were a few coffee-drinking women behind Jiang Hao, and when they saw Marlena's appearance, the women immediately changed the topic: "I heard that she is a seamstress, but she is very obscene." ”

"Look at it, how coquettish, she dresses like this just to attract men's attention."

"Her man has gone to war, and she is afraid that she will not be left alone."

"She must have done something dirty behind her back, don't worry, she will definitely be exposed in the future."

"I don't think she's as good as the Earl's mistress, at least she's above board."

The women's mouths are very poisonous, and their voices are not small, for fear that others will not hear them, they keep saying all kinds of slanderous words, Jiang Hao feels uncomfortable when he hears it, I really don't know what kind of mental torture Marlena endured.

He wanted to tear the shrews out of their mouths, but that didn't help.

The most vicious thing about wicked women is always their hearts blackened by jealousy, and they will continue to slander and abuse until the things they don't like disappear.

This is called "mob politics".

It didn't take long for Marlena to come out of the job search office, there was no smile on her face, it should be that there was no news of a job yet, which is also normal, it would have been difficult to find a job now, let alone a woman.

Seeing Marlena leave disappointed, the women danced one by one, and someone said, "She has been looking for a job for many days, but it seems that she hasn't found a job." ”

Another woman said: "Last month the government issued a notice that the government had stopped paying public office allowances for the war effort, and Marlena had been living on her husband's allowance and now she didn't have even the last bit of income, so she had to come out and look for a job. ”

A woman next to her said in a disgusted tone: "Look, no one in the town will hire him, and if a man dares to hire Marlena, their wife will fight with him from morning till night, and there will be no peace." ”

The women burst into laughter.

Jiang Hao turned his head to look at this woman, among this group of people, she spoke the most viciously, and the words she said were like knives cutting people's hearts.

These women are jealous and hateful, and when they feel that Marlena is not doing well, they feel very comfortable in their hearts.

They set Marlena as a group enemy, Marlena became the antithesis of all the women in the town, imaginary enemies, they always suspected that their man would cheat on Marlena, and in their hearts, Marlena has been defined as a slut.

They laugh at Malena together, which strengthens their sense of identity.

They are animals of a group, and they are not alone.

Jiang Hao picked up a piece of sticky note paper from the table, took out a pen from his body, and wrote in fancy Italian:

"Beautiful lady, your charm makes me fall for me, the smell of your body intoxicates me, your perfect carcass makes me want to stop, I miss you every day, I look forward to your coming again, and I am entangled with you!"

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