Chapter 122 Sure enough, he is Swiss
After Pascal transferred the money to their accounts right in front of them, Ancelotti and the others' attitude towards Xiao Peng changed, starting with making coffee and distributing cigars. Knowing that Xiao Peng and his team were going to the Palermo Maritime Department to apply for maritime work registration, Ancelotti directly called an acquaintance in the Palermo Maritime Department and ensured that their case would be handled with utmost care!
This is a great thing!
The French are often said to be slow, something the French are deeply dissatisfied with. You call us slow? Look at our neighbor Italy; they're even more slow! Italy's problem is its hyper-bureaucracy, with government agencies taking months to complete even the most basic tasks. Having Ancelotti's connections would save Xiao Peng and his team a lot of time.
This is a pleasant surprise.
Just as they were chatting happily, the office door was suddenly flung open and two men walked in. They looked very similar, like twins. When they saw Xiao Peng and Pascal, they pointed at them and shouted, "Are you still human? You have such a nice ship, but you have no compassion at all! You're just watching these refugees being sent back? They deserve a better life!"
Ancelotti hurriedly introduced them, "Xiao, Pascal, this is the Hingis brothers, Bruno and Sabo. I can't tell them apart. They're the heads of the Overseas Migrants Aid Center."
Bruno and Sabo also looked angry. To be more precise, they were furious out of shame.
Originally, they planned to let Xiao Peng participate in the rescue and share the responsibility, but Xiao Peng hesitated at sea and refused to approach them. He also stayed away from them and notified the Italian Coast Guard. This time their plan went down the drain!
What's even more infuriating is that when the Italian Navy sent them to Lampedusa Island, they hoisted the sail and disappeared straight away. The speed of the ship was so fast, it was nothing like the slow speed when they first arrived!
When their ship arrived at the Lampedusa dock, they finally got a clear view of Xiao Peng's boat. Holy crap! A 55-foot sailboat! It was significantly longer than their rescue boat! And they knew what they were talking about. It was a Danish X-YACHTS worth over two million!
This is the dream boat for countless sailing enthusiasts! Famous for its speed and maneuverability!
Thinking about how Xiao Peng and the others were starting to waste time, the Hingis brothers finally came to their senses: it turned out that they had already seen through their tricks and just didn't want to get into trouble!
The two of them were so angry that they came to Xiao Peng and the others to cause trouble.
Of course, this kind of troublemaking doesn't mean you just start punching people. You have to be discerning about who you hit: hitting a poor person is fine, but what if you hit a rich person? The consequences would be disastrous!
So the two brothers came up and beat them with a moral stick. Someone, who was either Bruno or Sabo, shouted at Xiao Peng and the others, "Those are lives! Why are they risking their lives out at sea? Isn't it just to seek the right to live a happy life? You're killing their hope like this! Why are you doing this?"
Xiao Peng scratched his ear and said calmly, "Because I'm a vicious, ruthless villain. How can I show you guys that I'm a good person if I don't do this?"
The room was silent, everyone looked at each other, the Hingis brothers were dumbfounded, how to respond?
Xiao Peng said, "You are good people, right?"
"Of course!" Bruno and Sabo said in unison.
Xiao Peng snapped his fingers. "That's great! Let me introduce myself. I'm Xiao Peng, and this is Pascal. We're from Marseille, France. You know Marseille, nicknamed the 'Capital of North Africa.' There are many North African orphans there. When I got here, I happened to come across an orphanage holding an event, hoping everyone would adopt the orphans there, as there are too many to support them. We're bad guys, so it's no surprise that we didn't adopt those orphans. But since you're good people, you'd definitely adopt a few, right? Come on, I'll help you contact the person in charge of the orphanage!"
The Hingis brothers were a bit bewildered after hearing Xiao Peng's words. Normally, they were the ones who held others on the moral high ground, so why was it someone else's turn to bully them this time? This yellow man wasn't playing by the rules!
One of them coughed twice and said, "We are doing big things. There are more refugees who need our help!"
"Right!" another said, "We're at sea all day, how can we take care of the children? We can't give them the best!"
Xiao Peng shrugged and said, "Then in the final analysis, you are not going to help them, right? What's the difference between you good people and us bad people? Aren't those refugee children in the orphanage refugees? Don't they need your help? It's true that you have been working hard, delivering life jackets and food at sea. You have done a good job in this regard, but don't those children who have already arrived in Europe need help more? They dream of starting a new life, but they end up being locked up in a small orphanage. Their fate doesn't deserve this! Since you are good people working for refugees, you should stand up and set an example by adopting a few refugee children! That way you will be worthy of your identity as good people! I say, why are you doing this? You are not Swiss, are you?"
He had barely finished when one of the brothers blurted out, "How do you know we're Swiss?"
After hearing this, Xiao Peng and Pascal looked at each other and they burst into laughter. Xiao Peng laughed so hard that he was out of breath and gave a thumbs up to the Hingis brothers!
Why is he so happy?
All EU countries have different attitudes towards refugees, some support it and some oppose it. Among the countries that are most supportive of accepting refugees, Switzerland is undoubtedly one of them, which accuses other countries of not fulfilling their responsibilities and not accepting more refugees every day.
This incident also made the surrounding countries very angry, so the French TV station went to Switzerland and randomly interviewed Swiss people on the street. The question was: Do you support the EU accepting refugees?
All the interviewees said the same thing, which was that they must help refugees and at the same time criticize the refugee policies of surrounding countries, saying that they are doing too badly.
The French TV station was no pushover. At the end of the interview, they called out a North African man standing there and said, "There's a refugee here. Can you take them home?" Unsurprisingly, all the interviewees rejected the offer.
French television recently released a statistic: How many refugees has Switzerland accepted? Over all these years, it's admitted fewer than a thousand! That's a fraction of what other countries have accepted! Switzerland has since become the poster child for "all talk, no action."
And the performance of the Hingis brothers today just proved this point. How could they not laugh?
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