Chapter 62
Return to AlbaThe passengers of the three vehicles were more relaxed and more talkative on the drive back to Alba. Finding the truffles had been an unexpected victory, even discovering that Lidia had been dispatched with a truffle-digging stick didn't dampen their spirits.
But the conversation in each truck and car followed the same course.
“What will we do with the truffles?” Paolo asked Francesco.
“I don't know. There's a fortune piled up behind us,” jabbing his thumb over his shoulder at the truck bed, “but we can't claim it for ourselves.”
They sat in silence for a moment, each apparently trying to figure out the solution.
“We can't put them back in the ground,” Paolo said, pointlessly.
Francesco looked at him with a look of disbelief.
Another moment of silence while
