Hearing Eric's answer, Elizabeth glared at her lightly: "You... you are really unmannered."
"What does this have to do with manners?" Eric opened a can of beer and sat down on the sofa: "Should I follow your words and say that I like this book, and then I will chat with you about the book?" The philosophy of life conveyed in the book, we had a good time talking, and we hate seeing each other too late?"
"Shouldn't it be like this under normal circumstances?" Elizabeth raised her head and asked naturally.
Eric smiled slightly: "When you were in school, you must have encountered this kind of thing often, right?"
Elizabeth nodded honestly.
Julia, who was holding the fruit juice cautiously, couldn't help laughing out loud. She started to enter the society after graduating from high school. Although she didn't have Elizabeth's high IQ and high education, her knowledge in interpersonal communication was better than that of being protected since she was a child. The very good Elizabeth is much stronger, and she understands certain things after a little thought. Eric also laughed. Facing Elizabeth's puzzled eyes, he explained: "As the second lady of the News Group, if a man wants to approach you, it is definitely impossible for a man to get close to you. It can only be done from the spiritual level. So Hey, silly girl, most of the time when you encounter this kind of thing, it's because men want to pick you up."
Elizabeth was still ℃, and it was the first time someone pointed out this point. Thinking that she had indeed felt excited because of this kind of thing, she couldn't help opening her mouth slightly, looking dumbfounded.
Eric took a sip of beer, leaned on the sofa and said with emotion: "Speaking of which, I often used such a low-cost method of picking up girls in my previous life."
"Ah... Bah!" Although Elizabeth understood that what Eric said was probably true. Still unwillingly spat at Eric: "You think all men are as dirty as you."
"For most men, becoming the son-in-law of the Murdoch family can save yourself thirty years of struggle, so what if it's dirty?"
Elizabeth retorted unconvinced: "These... these are just your guesses."
"Do you think you know?" Eric didn't mean to bicker with the girl: "By the way, what's the matter for coming to me so late?"
Hearing this question, Julia straightened her waist slightly, as she always did when she was nervous. Elizabeth said generously, "Since you're in Venice, let's go play together. How about tomorrow?"
Eric thought about his schedule. Nodded: "No problem, I just happen to be free tomorrow."
Elizabeth originally thought that it would take a lot of rhetoric to invite Eric, but she did not expect the other party to agree so easily. It is already late at night in Venice, and it is not appropriate for two women to stay in a big man's room for too long. After a few words, Julia got up and left with Julia, who had never said a few words.
The next day, Andrei Smirnov, the chairman of the jury who learned of Eric's arrival, invited Eric to have breakfast early in the morning. Although he needed the help of a translator to communicate, he did. The two still chatted happily. After chatting in the restaurant of the boutique hotel until after nine o'clock, Andrei Smirnov had to reluctantly leave due to work reasons.
Take Allen to the agreed pier. Only then did Eric realize that Julia and Elizabeth had been waiting for a long time.
As soon as Eric appeared, Elizabeth complained dissatisfiedly: "Hey, Eric, you are so unpunctual that you let two girls wait for you for so long?"
"I still have things to do, how can you two be so leisurely?" Eric explained, and asked Allen to rent a boat. They are going to the main island of Venice today.
After finding a speedboat, Elizabeth took Julia into the cabin, but drove away Allen, who was acting as a translator, on the grounds that she could speak Italian. After taking a speedboat to the main island, the three of them changed to a gondola and wandered along the Grand Canal.
The morning sun shone warmly on the person. Eric, who was dressed in casual clothes, leaned on the chair in the gondola, looked at the surrounding building mirrors with relish, and raised the camera on his chest to take a few photos from time to time. Elizabeth, who was sitting on the other side, chatted loudly in Italian with the fifty-something ferryman named Loviso standing at the bow, and the two laughed heartily at the same time from time to time.
"Hey, Julia, why haven't you spoken, are you uncomfortable?" Eric pressed the shutter a few times towards an arch bridge, only to realize that the girl sitting beside him was quiet all the time.
This gondola has only one seat, so three people are squeezed together. Eric is on the right, Elizabeth is on the left, and Julia is in the middle. Both girls are slender. Rick is not fat, so three people sat in the original two-person seat, and it didn't look too crowded.
Julia raised her head, faced Eric's concerned gaze, and quickly said, "No, it's not."
"Oh," Eric thought for a while, and didn't know what to say for a while. Just as he was about to raise the camera and continue taking pictures, the girl spoke first, with a low voice: "Eric, when are you going back to Los Angeles?"
"September 5, the day after tomorrow."
The girl raised her head, looked at Eric, and asked curiously, "Why are you in such a hurry, why don't you stay in Venice for a few more days?"
Eric raised his camera, captured a silhouette of a seabird skimming the water, and explained casually: "I want to rest for a while, but I have to shoot two movies in the next two months or so. Time very tight."
The girl nodded, then lowered her head slightly.
"By the way, Julia, when are you going to go back?"
Julia hesitated for a moment before saying: "Originally, Liz said that she would take me to Australia to see. Their family has a lot of pastures there, but I don't plan to go."
"It's time to go back. "Steel Magnolia" is scheduled for November. It's almost time for you to cooperate with the promotion. In addition, you also need to choose a script for next year's movie."
Julia looked at Eric with complicated eyes, and after a while, she uttered a word: "You..."
Eric lowered his head and took out the finished film from the camera and put it away, replaced it with a new film, looked up at Julia's expression, and quickly understood what the girl was thinking, and said with a smile: "Your next year's I won’t interfere with movies, you can also try to choose yourself, of course, it’s best to listen to Kapoor’s opinions.”
This year, two blockbuster movies have been designated for the girl, which has brought Julia to a peak in a short period of time. Although Eric can let the girl continue to maintain this peak, but according to Julia's character that is not too calm now, Eric thinks it is better to let the girl experience some ups and downs.
Moreover, he will not make movies as hard as this year next year. If he continues to make movies frantically, they will always be sold well. The giants who have been divided up too much profit can't bear it, and buy the possibility of killing him. Sex is not without, he plans to focus on a layout that is crucial to his future film career next year.
When Eric interfered arbitrarily in her movie selection, Julia always thought about how to escape from this guy's control, but now, suddenly hearing that Eric no longer cares about her, Julia had instead A sense of emptiness.
"Hey, look quickly, the Bridge of Sighs is here." When the two were thinking about each other, Elizabeth on the other side suddenly shouted in English.
Eric looked up and looked in the direction Elizabeth pointed. In a narrow water alley, there was a fully enclosed white stone arch bridge like an attic. The boatman named Loviso waved his oars with a smile and rowed the gondola into the water lane.
"The Bridge of Sighs, what a beautiful name. Julia, do you know the legend about the Bridge of Sighs?" Elizabeth sighed like a literary young man, before turning to ask Julia next to her.
Julia shook her head in a daze. She really didn't know. Now it's not like the era of extremely developed information ten or twenty years later, where you can find everything by clicking on the webpage and typing a few words.
Seeing Julia shaking her head, Elizabeth waved her little hand triumphantly and explained: "Look, the two buildings connected by this kind of arch bridge, this is the Venice Doge's Palace, and this is the prison for serious criminals. After being tried in the Governor's Mansion, the prisoners who were escorted to the prison here rarely came out alive, so the prisoners who passed this kind of bridge would always sigh regretfully, hence the name "Bridge of Sighs."
Eric took a few photos, put down the camera and said with a smile: "Hearing what you said, I think it is more appropriate to change the name of this bridge to the Gate of Hell. If this bridge has life, it will pass through so many criminals. The blessing of sighing over and over again, my heart must be filled with all kinds of violent emotions, in the movie, it is the kind of typical big villain who feels that the whole world is sorry for him, who is anti-human and anti-society and does all kinds of evil.”
Elizabeth's enthusiastic movements stagnated for a moment, and she actually felt that Eric's words were quite reasonable, but the girl quickly rolled her eyes at Eric: "Hey, don't you always spoil the scenery like this, okay?"
"I'm just telling the truth."
Elizabeth turned her head angrily, intending to ignore this nasty guy, and took Julia's arm and whispered.
The gondola slowly drifted under the Bridge of Sighs, and the boatman standing at the stern raised his voice slightly and said a few words in Italian to the three of them.
Both Eric and Julia looked at Elizabeth inexplicably, the girl raised her chin with a little pride, and then translated: "Mr. Loviso said that if couples kiss under the Bridge of Sighs, they can get Everlasting love."
When Julia heard this, she glanced sideways at Eric, but after just a glance, she lowered her eyes guiltily. But Elizabeth couldn't help standing up slightly, her eyes wandering between Eric and Julia, looking eager to try.
Seeing Elizabeth's appearance, Eric put his hands on his chest in a funny way, and said righteously: "Don't even think about it, I will never kiss you."
"Fuck off, I won't kiss you even if this bridge collapses, rascal." Elizabeth retorted with her hands on her hips unwilling to be outdone. Hugging the unsuspecting Julia, he leaned over and kissed the girl's red lips. (To be continued..)