Long island, Southampton country style waterfront manor.
It's Tuesday morning.
Bryce Levison rarely gets up early. When she goes downstairs, she first meets a little girl in the living room near the restaurant who is being looked after by the waitress. She holds the child and comes next door. Sure enough, she sees the two people hugging together.
To be exact, grace krepp snuggled in Simon's arms like a little girl, hugging the man's neck and asking for a kiss.
It increased the strength of some high-heeled shoes. Seeing that only men left, grace ignored it completely. Bryce immediately turned her big eyes, turned to little John in her arms, and said, "baby, look at your mother, remember, you're just an accident. Oh, my poor little John, how about your Godmother as your mother?"
John westero, who is more than one year old, is obviously not bewitched by his godmother, and it is impossible to think that there is anything wrong with the attitude of being too intimate between his parents. When he sees his mother, he immediately reaches out his little hand: "Mom, mom."
Grace just heard the sound of high heels. She thought it was just Bryce who came in alone and found someone still holding the child. She got up from the man's arms. Her face was ruddy and there was no embarrassment. She dialed some scattered hair in front of her forehead, stepped forward and took the child from Bryce. She said, "why did you get up so early?"
It's less than 7:30 a.m. and it's winter. With Bryce's superior nature, last night was the "last" absurd consumption. It's really surprising to get up.
Bryce gave the child to grace and said, "get up and catch the traitor."
Grace simply ignored her, turned around and sat down next to the man again. She also taught the child to say hello to Simon: "baby, say good morning, Dad."
The little guy was obedient and shouted.
Bryce then came to the table and sat down. When she saw that the three people next to her looked like a family of three, she suddenly felt a little sour. While touching the summoning crystal ball on the table, she said again with teasing: "shouldn't I be here?"
Simon glanced at the woman and finally said, "it's obvious."
Bryce patted on the table, but in the twinkling of an eye, she smiled again and said proudly, "I won't go."
Simon stopped talking to her. After breakfast, he turned around and interacted with the mother and son next to him for a while. He got up with grace and planned to go to work in the city.
Bryce had just explained the waitress's breakfast. When she saw them get up, she hesitated a little and followed them. She also took the initiative to take the child from grace. However, after grace let go of the child, she held the man and leaned close to him. She was angry.
Hopeless woman!
When they came to the door of the villa, Simon put on the windbreaker handed by the waitress and said to Bryce, who was only wearing a close fitting sweater, "don't come out. It's cold outside."
Seeing that Simon was about to leave, Bryce was no longer sour. She gave a soft 'um' sound. When she saw the man leaning over, she took the initiative to come forward and kiss him, and quickly taught the child: "baby, say goodbye to mom and dad."
A little girl doesn't have ordinary children who don't give up or cry when they see their parents leave. She skillfully let her mother kiss her and wave her hand to say goodbye to her father.
Say goodbye like this and they go out.
Get on the customized Black Hawk of Weijia on the lawn, wait for the helicopter to take off, in the cabin with excellent sound insulation, and grace, who instinctively leans next to Simon again, talks about some business: "At the board meeting of the Bank of New York Mellon a few days ago, the issue of special low interest loans to Africa was reluctantly approved by six to five. Of course, I listened to your arrangement and voted in favour. However, everyone thought that the project was crazy. Whether the money was invested in Asia, Latin America or Eastern Europe, it was safer than Africa. There was a war over there?"
Simon felt that the women around him were rubbing intimately and smelling the good smell of women. In his hand, he was looking through a copy of today's New York Times. He smelled and said: "in fact, like South Korea, it is also an opportunity to copy the bottom for Africa."
Grace bent her mouth and put her chin on the man's shoulder. She looked at the newspaper in front of Simon and said, "the problem is, is this a loan or a low interest loan in the nature of assistance, not an investment? It's good that the Bank of New York Mellon can recover the principal and interest in the future. Even if you say bottom reading, the bank won't get any benefits?"
Simon turned a page of his newspaper and said patiently, "through this loan plan, the Bank of New York Mellon can be authorized to carry out business in Angola and other countries, which is the biggest benefit. Do you know what the biggest problem of European and American countries for Africa is?"
Grace cooperatively made a puzzled voice: "huh?"
Simon said, "both despise and short-sighted."
In fact, grace is not interested in these issues. In the board seat of the Bank of Mellon in New York, she will do whatever men say. Just casually, seeing that men say so, she doesn't mean to continue, so she doesn't pursue it. She just said, "I read the newspaper. It's very fierce in Africa?"
Simon nodded: "millions of people will not die this time. They can't stop."
Grace's arm around Simon's arm tightened: "in that case, you must not go there."
Simon smiled: "I thought you would say let me step in, like Rwanda in 1994."
Grace shook her head: "not to mention this. I can probably think that there must be many forces behind the scenes. In order to compete for interests, you may unknowingly make enemies."
"The problem is..." Simon said, "I've been involved, and I'm trying to get my share."
Grace thought for a moment and said, "well, don't be soft hearted."
Simon put his arms around the woman's slender waist: "am I a soft hearted person?"
Grace leaned closer, felt a sense of dryness and heat, and said, "I don't know. You are a very complex person, sometimes good and sometimes bad."
Simon jumped over the topic of Africa and asked with a smile, "do you like my good side or bad side?"
"Bad."
Simon was surprised: "Oh?"
"Bad boys won't be bullied."
Simon smiled: "very special angle."
Grace leaned over, gently kissed the man on the cheek with shallow stubble, then retracted some contentedly, put her head back on the man's shoulder, continued to read the newspaper together, and wisely stopped talking about Africa. Instead, she said, "last time, Emma treston, you lost me so long. Do you want to see her this time?"
Simon didn't remember for a moment: "huh?"
Grace couldn't help bending her mouth: "the young mother you met in the tunnel nightclub, her little girl is also very beautiful," the woman said, squeezing her chest towards the man's arm: "besides, it's very big here, and... In short, you must like it."
Simon remembered and said with a smile, "there should be no time this time. Just watch it for me. If she can't wait, just let her go."
Grace said softly, but she couldn't help whispering, "you really make me feel gentle and cold."
Simon didn't know how to answer for a moment, so he didn't answer at all.
Nearly 100 kilometers from Southampton to Manhattan, the Black Hawk flew straight for less than 15 minutes and arrived soon.
When she was about to land on the apron on the side of the East River, grace motioned to the towering westero building not far away and said, "I have received the invitation. The housewarming party on Saturday. In addition, are you going to spend Thanksgiving on the east coast next week?"
It has been confirmed in advance that the family will officially check in the Westeros building on Friday.
Simon listened to Grace's question, understood what a woman meant, and said, "I'm sure I'll spend more time on the east coast in the future."
Grace nodded slightly: "I saw in the newspaper a few days ago that you might re register your permanent address?"
"There is no such plan," Simon shook his head and half joked. "Moreover, even if he moved here, as a super capitalist who can make rules instead of just using them, New York can't receive much tax from me."
"Oh, I like your tone very much."
They said, the helicopter stopped, got up, got off the helicopter and got on the same car again.
Simon first sent grace to elite headquarters, refused the woman's invitation to sit up and rushed to Westeros headquarters in Rockefeller Center.
With the official opening of Westeros building, many enterprises have settled in one after another, but Simon has no idea of moving the headquarters of Westeros company into it. However, Simon has no plan to prevent AOL from moving its headquarters into Westeros building.
In fact, it is not to worry about the 9 / 11 incident that may happen again in three years, but not to want the enterprises related to Westeros system to pile up too much.
Or pile up in your own building.
This gives people the feeling that it is like putting eggs in a basket. Even if the 9 / 11 incident happens again, it will not affect the Westeros building. If it is too concentrated and too conspicuous, it is inevitable that something else will happen in the future.
Of course, it's best to disperse some.
Simon is very busy these days.
It is determined that we will live in Australia for a period of time next month. This period will be the end of the year. We will begin to summarize all aspects of work in the past year and plan for the next year.
After arriving at the Rockefeller Center, just after 8 a.m., James Leibold also arrived early. The two sides soon entered the working state. After all, the issues to be discussed are far from just money, but also involve the political and economic aspects of the world.
As for the morning arrangement, Celia Miller, Simon's head of private military affairs, will also participate. The topic happens to be related to the African affairs that grace talked about casually on the helicopter.
At present, the main business target is central Africa.
North Africa is the traditional territory of the French, and it is not easy to intervene because of oil and other resources and geographical problems.
South Africa is a local snake.
Even if South Africa under Mandela, especially at the financial level, has opened its doors to the West in recent years, just as it has opened its doors to other countries at the immigration level, the strength of this local overlord cannot be underestimated for the time being.
Therefore, the more appropriate business goal is China and Africa.
The volatile situation, rich resources and the weakening of traditional forces, including the former suzerainty, are the prerequisites for the easy entry of Westeros system.
Then, to put it bluntly, Simon's fundamental strategy is to cut a little Hu before China is about to rise.
In addition to plundering cheap resources, the West generally despises Africa, especially after the end of the colonial era and the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
Two generations. Simon certainly doesn't think so.
Moreover, compared with China, which is limited to national policy and can only spend money carefully and continuously for influence for decades, Simon can get twice the result with half the effort by relying on the United States.
In order to achieve this goal, in addition to the Westeros system itself, Simon also brought in other western capital for interest binding, such as guiding the Bank of New York Mellon to provide low interest loans to Central Africa. In this way, once there is a demand, in order to avoid interest damage, everyone will naturally come together, and do not have to come forward in person and directly affect national machines such as the United States, Powerful and effective.
After working during the day, I had a dinner with Raymond Smith, the head of Verizon, in the evening, and also discussed some layout of the company next year.
After dinner, it was more than eight o'clock in the evening.
After saying goodbye to Raymond Smith, Simon rushed to the Empire Hotel on the upper west side.
There is a party in the film and television circle here, hosted in the name of DHO.
With the opening of the Thanksgiving file, the TV winter break has officially come. When other TV stations have relaxed their TV business development, DHO has formulated a set of anti seasonal marketing plan early, and plans to launch a marketing offensive and attract users during the TV off-season of the winter break.
This party is to publicize the off-season marketing that danilis has launched by pushing the toll cable network.
Simon arrived at a banquet hall in the Empire Hotel. The party had already started. The process of taking photos on the platform and even accepting interviews had nothing to do with Simon and entered quietly.
Of course, it will soon become the focus of guests' attention.
He entertained skillfully, and Simon soon found his girlfriend, Alexandra Martinis, the princess of the Golden Rose cave. However, with Simon's wide range of women, Martinis is obviously not the only one on the scene.
If you only talk about what you've slept, it's more.
While taking an Italian woman with Robert De Niro, who lives in New York, to discuss each other's next film project, Simon saw the little servant girl who surprised him a little.
An oriental girl was dressed in a red one shoulder dress that made her look more mature. She wore her hair and took a waitress with her. She should be an interpreter. She shuttled between the crowd with a slightly restrained and hard-working appearance, which attracted people's attention.
The little servant girl just chatted with Ang Lee for a while and was lucky to get the contact information of the other party. She just put away her business card with some joy and was about to start other entertainment. When she turned around, she saw a man glancing at herself not far away. She was stunned. It was like a mouse going out to steal food and just ran into a big cat eyeing.