Walking into Caroline's room, Rachel finally didn't have to pretend to be a lady anymore. She let out a long sigh of relief, and flung herself down on the big bed in the girl's bedroom. She was only thankful that she was wearing a long skirt today. If it was the loose sweater and washed jeans that she often wore in the past, sitting next to a room full of serious or pretending to be serious noble men and women, she would probably be uncomfortable to death.
Caroline didn't care about Rachel lying carelessly on her bed, but rather envied her for doing whatever she wanted. The girl moved the small stool next to the dressing table, lay on the edge of the bed and looked at Rachel with her chin resting on her hands: "Rachel , are you still hungry, I just saw that you only ate a little, you don't usually eat so little."
Rachel turned over and lay on her side facing Caroline, reached out and pinched the girl's face: "You little trouble, I want to go back to London right now."
Caroline's expression immediately became a little apprehensive: "Could it be that our family is not doing well enough?"
"Of course not," Rachel quickly denied, "I just feel like we are not in the same world. I'd rather stay in my world to be more free."
Caroline was stunned for a moment when she heard Rachel's words, she blinked her long eyelashes a few times, a layer of mist appeared in her bright eyes, and crystal tears fell down with a click★, Come on. Seeing this situation, Rachel immediately panicked, sat up and leaned over quickly, and asked, "What's the matter, Caroline, don't cry, I just..."
Caroline showed the look of the injured kitten again, leaning against Rachel's arms, perhaps because she was at home, the girl didn't cry out, and said sobbingly: "No... no, Rachel Er, it’s just. It’s just that he said the same thing when he rejected me yesterday, I just don’t understand what’s going on. "
Rachel gently stroked the girl's back, and Caroline cried for a while at the airport, after returning to the manor. It seems that she has returned to her previous carefree state. At first, Rachel thought she had recovered from being rejected by Eric Williams. Unexpectedly, the girl just hid her thoughts in her heart, and she also hid them. It's so shallow that it can't stand the touch at all.
"Caroline, don't cry, tell me what happened yesterday, you are so stupid, you must have misunderstood it. Let me analyze it for you."
The girl didn't hide anything this time, and told Rachel intermittently what happened yesterday.
"We went to the Museum Island in Berlin yesterday, and the Brandenburg Gate... I asked him about the movie for you, and he said it was Titanic, and he told me the story of the movie... He said that Jack and Rose is not a person of the world, and is more suitable for leaving a good memory than being together for a long time... Then, he let me go back to my life... And. And that woman... She's beautiful, prettier than me..."
Caroline stuttered to the end. Rachel helped the girl straighten her messy bangs, and said, "I think Eric Williams rejected you because he thought you were too simple and not suitable for the Hollywood environment. You know, Hollywood But it's very confusing."
"But I think Eric..."
"Well, even if he's barely a gentleman. That's why he didn't continue to lie to you silly girl, so forget about him, maybe you can go back to Cambridge early and stop thinking about him. Just treat him as a part of your life A passer-by, do you still remember that we saw Eric Williams' "Return to Seventeen" in our freshman year? I think there is a line that is very good: girls are young Sometimes, you always have to experience a few bastards... "
Caroline immediately interrupted Rachel: "He's not an asshole."
Rachel smiled: "I know, he's a badass."
Caroline's cheeks were flushed by Rachel's teasing tone: "But, Rachel, I just... I just like him."
"Who hasn't liked someone. In fact, I secretly liked Marlon Brando. It's a pity that he is a bad old man now."
"You clearly know that what we say about liking is different."
"There is no difference in the book, so, you should try to forget about it, maybe you can go back to Cambridge in advance, like many times, get into the library and take out a few books, and the time will pass without knowing it , maybe you will forget about him when you wake up one day, and then you may feel how stupid your reaction is today."
Caroline silently listened to Rachel's words, and said, "Rachel, I don't want to go to school anymore."
"Why, hasn't your father stopped preventing you from continuing to graduate school?"
"It has nothing to do with Dad, I just want... I want to be like you, go out to work, and I don't want to be a little girl who doesn't know anything anymore."
Rachel couldn't help pinching the girl's face again: "I think it's better to forget it."
Caroline could hear that Rachel didn't seem to have any expectations for her decision. She sniffled her nose and said in disbelief, "I'm sure I can do well. I'll go out to look for a job tomorrow."
"Then you have to get your parents' consent first. I think they will ground you at home when they hear your decision," Rachel said. She takes good care of the little girl in the ivory tower, and has never had much contact with outside people and things since she was a child. If such a simple little girl is pushed into the society, it is nothing like throwing a little sheep into the pack of wolves. the difference.
Rachel believed she could see it, and Caroline's family must have seen it too. The last time the girl ran away from home for her studies in Cambridge, she was barely within the tolerance of the Wilson family, but if Caroline told her decision just now, there was a 90% chance that she would be forcibly grounded by the earl's family. She knew that a noble girl like Caroline would usually choose to marry a noble or wealthy son of a similar family background, and then quietly be a housewife like Mrs. Wilson. This is the safest thing for her life trajectory.
Caroline also seemed to understand the possible reaction of the family, she was a little disappointed, she held Rachel's arm tightly, and suddenly said: "Rachel, can you stay with me today?"
"No, you're twenty-two years old. Not two," Rachel quickly refused.
"However, if you're not here, my parents will definitely ask me about...about Eric, and I don't know how to answer them."
Rachel looked at Caroline's pitiful little face, and suddenly softened her heart: "Okay. But I will definitely leave tomorrow morning."
"Then you take me away with you, okay?"
"Even if I want to, you can't go."
"I can hide in the trunk, I've read about it in books."
Rachel couldn't help laughing again: "Then I will be wanted by the London police for kidnapping and trafficking young girls."
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"Eric, this is the statistics of Nokia's financial status in recent years. Also, this is a list of some of Nokia's current shareholders, the most important one is the National Bank of Finland, and there are also some German and French capitals. By the way I also inquired about the news today that the current CEO of Nokia, Jorma Ollila, is not in Finland. He should be in New York. It is said that he has been there for a month for the financing of Nokia. For details, I will call When I went to the country, I was sent to inquire about it.”
In the hotel where Erik stayed in the center of Berlin, his suite has been turned into a temporary office. There are many documents collected in recent days lying around.
After seeing the latest Nokia 1011 mobile phone from Claudia, Eric quickly followed Allen to collect detailed information about the company.
Nokia is an old company with a very long history in Finland. At first, it started with paper making, and then gradually began to get involved in rubber, optical cable, telecommunications, television and other industries. In the 1980s, it was one of the top diversified giant companies in Finland. Of course, this 'Big Mac' is only for Finland, a small Nordic country with a population of only five million.
In the late 1980s, because too many fields were involved. The group's business fell into chaos, and Nokia began to decline rapidly. In 1988, the then Nokia CEO Kali Kailamo committed suicide by swallowing a gun under the pressure of Nokia's business failure, and Nokia's situation became more and more bad. Several leaders have changed in just a few years.
The current CEO of Nokia, Joma Ollila, was originally the president of Nokia's mobile phone department. After being appointed as the leader of Nokia, he began to bet all of Nokia's chips on the mobile phone department, and in recent years, Nokia Many businesses have been spun off.
Nokia has successfully launched a gsm mobile phone 1011, which is the mobile phone that Eric saw at Claudia's a few days ago. Eric knew that the gsm network was the main mobile phone network communication standard for more than ten years, so the direction of effort chosen by Jorma Ollila was not wrong.
However, because of the disintegration of the Soviet Union a few years ago, the Soviet Union's economy obviously collapsed, and Finland, as a Nordic country next to the Soviet Union, joined the Warsaw Pact camp under the coercion of the Soviet Union a few years ago, and therefore, the Soviet Union's economic collapse, without exception It has affected Finland, the 'fish in the pond'. Finland has been in a state of economic stagnation for several years. Although Nokia 1011 has received a good market response, Nokia is still in a state of inadequacy due to insufficient development funds. in trouble.
From the information in front of him, Eric also discovered that in 1991, the year before Jorma Ollila took office, Nokia also attempted to sell its mobile phone division to Ericsson in neighboring Sweden, but was rejected. Ericsson refused with an almost mocking attitude, from which it can be seen that the entire European capital market despises Nokia.
Speaking of which, in the process of reading the materials, Eric discovered another very interesting thing. Among the three leading mobile phone giants in the world in the 1990s, except for Motorola in the United States, the other two appeared in several Nordic countries. Among the small countries, Nokia belongs to Finland, while Ericsson is a Swedish company.
After careful study, Eric also quickly discovered the reason. Small Nordic countries such as Finland and Sweden have a small population, and most of the territory is mountainous and hilly. The cost of developing wired telephone communication in these small Nordic countries is extremely expensive, which also creates These Nordic countries pay more attention to the development of wireless communication. As early as 1981, when citizens of many countries were even very unfamiliar with mobile phones, Finland had already built a nationwide mobile phone network. Because of the emphasis on mobile communication technology, mobile phone giants such as Ericsson and Nokia have been created.
"I've had a few phone calls with Chris, by the way, did you send the information back to New York?"
"Yes, every time I sort out a piece of information, I will send it back to New York separately," Allen nodded, and suddenly said: "Eric, I think if you are interested in mobile phone companies, maybe you can Try to invest in Sweden's Ericsson, or invest in the local Motorola. In my opinion, the current Nokia does not make much sense to invest. Jorma Ollila had to go far because he could not find investors in Europe. He went to the United States, and judging from the fact that he has stayed in the United States for more than a month without any news, it seems that federal investors are not too enthusiastic about Nokia."
Eric flipped through Nokia's financial information in recent years, and said without raising his head: "The Motorola and Ericsson you mentioned are companies that have already emerged. Such companies do not lack lay investors like us. We are now stepping in." If you go in, you can't get too many benefits, but Nokia is different, we are investing in Nokia now, for this troubled company, it is completely a timely help, oh, you should understand it.”
Resisting the urge to roll his eyes, Allen nodded and said, "Of course I know, but since other investors are very unfavorable about this company, I think..."
Allen didn't go on talking, but Eric answered without hesitation: "You think, as a layman like me, there must be no reason to intervene, right?"
Allen smiled awkwardly, but nodded slightly.
Claudia has been acting as Eric's temporary secretary these days, but she does it with great interest, and the girl also likes Eric's appearance when he is working.
Listening to the conversation between the two, Claudia couldn't help but said: "Alan, I don't think what you said is completely correct. I just used the latest Nokia mobile phone product, and it was when I returned to Europe. , a good friend recommended it to me, and she said that the quality of this mobile phone is very good, in this case, Nokia must have its investment value.” (To be continued..)