Two hours later, Terry Semel arrived in East Hampton by car. The vehicle was parked on a small road one kilometer away from Eric's estate. Terry Semel took out his mobile phone and dialed Eric's It was a private call, but a woman with a soft voice answered the phone. After a while, the mobile phone was transferred to Eric. Terry Semel said that he happened to pass by East Hampton and asked if he could pay a visit.
There was nothing unusual in Eric's tone on the phone, and he agreed very enthusiastically.
After hanging up the phone, the driver in the front row looked at Terry Semel: "Mr. Semel, should we go now?"
"No, wait ten minutes before going there," Terry Semel said after putting away his mobile phone. Although both parties knew it well, they still had to look good, and being too eager would inevitably lead to a disadvantage.
The driver nodded, simply turned off the engine and waited patiently.
Terry Semel leaned on the leather seat, carefully considering how to word the next negotiation, ten minutes had passed before he knew it, the driver saw through the rearview mirror that the boss was frowning and thinking, after thinking about it, he still Did not speak to remind.
After a while, Terry Semel came back to his senses and was about to tell the driver to drive when a police car drove straight up and stopped not far away. After looking at the Mercedes-Benz number plate, he stepped forward and knocked on the window of the cab.
The driver lowered the glass window in doubt, and was about to speak, but the policeman outside the window said pleasantly, "Tony, it's you."
"Hey, Rocky," the driver greeted excitedly when he saw the policeman outside the window, turned his head and said to Terry Semel behind him, "Sorry, Mr. Semel, wait a minute, okay? Loki was my former comrade in arms."
Terry Semel waved his hand to indicate that it was okay, and the driver hurriedly opened the door and got out of the car.
Considering that the boss was waiting for him, the driver named Tony didn't exchange much greetings. After a brief chat, he returned to the cab, started the car and drove towards Eric's manor.
"What happened just now?" Terry Semel didn't forget to ask, and he also realized that the two police officers would not appear here for no reason.
Tony pointed to the undisguised camera on the light pole outside the window: "They saw us from there. Rocky said that Eric Williams donates a lot of money to the East Hampton Police Department every year."
Terry Semel glanced at the camera on the light pole outside the car window, thinking that Eric Williams really cared about the safety of his two illegitimate children. The low efficiency of American police investigations can be seen from their average annual detection rate of only about 20%. His car was only parked for more than ten minutes one kilometer away from Eric Williams' estate, and it was questioned by the police.
When the car arrived outside Eric's Manor, Terry Semel saw a tall woman in a light gray sweater and white jeans waiting at the door, sent the driver to drive away, and got out of the car alone to meet her.
"Mr. Semel, hello," Joanna smiled and shook hands with Terry Semel, explaining: "I'm really sorry, Eric is talking to someone, you may have to wait for a while. "
"Hello, Ms. Pakula," Terry Semel shook hands with Joanna with a constant smile, recognized the female voice who answered the phone not long ago, and said, "I just came here on a whim, maybe It's a bit abrupt."
Joanna shook her head and said, "Of course not, please come with me."
Terry Semel followed Joanna towards the manor, and from the corner of his eye, he looked at the woman who had become popular with "Tornado" a few years ago and then suddenly disappeared, and his thoughts turned to the two police officers who appeared just now. Thinking of the two little guys who rarely saw relevant news in the media in the past two years, Terry Semel felt that perhaps Eric Williams' attitude towards these two children was definitely not like those who treated the two children. The rich man who shuns illegitimate children, even these two little guys may become the heirs of the Williams family in the future.
Thinking of this, Terry Semel suddenly felt a little regretful, but unfortunately, the child born to Joanna Pakula was a girl, it would have been nice if it was a boy. Joanna Pakula is Jewish, and according to tradition, that child is also Jewish, and if it was a boy, the inheritance rights would definitely be greatly increased, and it would also have a greater sense of identity with the Jewish community in Hollywood in the future.
Terry Semel is very clear that he was able to get to the position of CEO of Time Warner today, which is absolutely inseparable from his Jewish ancestry. Although this position is not as easy as imagined, in the Time Warner system, many shareholders and board members support him. Apart from personal ability, another very important reason is that they have the same blood.
Following Joanna all the way into the manor villa, Terry Semel didn't have time to look at any home decorations in the villa, but he was attracted by the little girl sitting at the coffee table in the living room and flipping through a thick tome looked away.
Joanna noticed Terry Semel's gaze, led him to sit on the sofa, and said to the little girl, "Xia Xia, the guest is here, remember to say hello, this is Mr. Semel."
The little girl who was sitting quietly reading a book on a small stool by the tea table raised her head. She had the same beautiful eyes as her mother, pure and bright, soft blond hair, and a small face with a little baby fat, giving people the feeling of a doll.
The little girl looked at Terry Semel for a while, looked curiously at his rimless myopia glasses for a moment, and then said: "Hello, Mr. Semel."
Terry Semel's eyes fell on the thick tome in front of Hawaii involuntarily. At this time, he saw that it should be a book in "Encyclopedia Britannica". He was a little surprised, but It's not easy to ask, but the tone is more gentle, as if worried about disturbing something, he said: "Hello, um... Xia Xia."
Joanna smiled and explained: "Mr. Semel, this is my daughter, Hawaii Williams. Please sit down for a while, Eric will come down immediately, and I will make coffee."
Terry Semel thanked her, watched Joanna walk away, and turned her eyes between the little girl and the big tome a few times. Seeing the special focus on that little face, her mood became weird again Yes, there is a kind of personal question, is the "Encyclopedia Britannica" something that a two- or three-year-old can understand, or is he already old
After a while, Hawaiian quietly turned the page of the book in front of him, read a few paragraphs of text, and looked up to the side. His mother was not sitting in the original position, and there was a thick English dictionary beside her, and she was about to pick it up. , but realized that there was an adult beside him, so he turned his head and asked without any sense of strangeness in his tone: "What does Emperor mean?"
Terry Semel had already seen that the encyclopedia was a biology volume at this time, and Hawaii was turning to the page entry for 'Emperor Penguins'. Hearing the little girl ask himself, Terry Semel realized, The little girl should know the meaning of penguin, but she doesn't know the meaning of the word 'Emperor' in 'Euin (Emperor Penguin)'. English is different from Chinese. Chinese is a pictograph. Even if you can’t read some Chinese characters, you can definitely guess the general meaning according to the shape of the font, but English is a phonetic script. As long as you understand the reading rules, most people can read it. But understanding the meaning of a word requires professional interpretation.
Well, things finally made some sense. Although it was still a little unbelievable, Terry Semel's voice was gentle and patiently explained to the little guy in front of him: "Emperor means emperor, similar to King, King, you know ?”
Hawaii nodded, pointed to the illustration of the emperor penguin in the book with his little finger, and asked, "Have you ever seen an emperor penguin?"
"I don't have that. Emperor penguins live in the very cold Antarctic, and it is difficult for humans to survive there."
The little girl blinked and asked, "Since humans cannot survive in Antarctica, why do we know that there are emperor penguins in Antarctica?"
The surprise in Terry Semel's heart was raised to another level. This question sounds like a philosophical one, but the little guy in front of him is obviously only two or three years old.
Seeing the little girl staring at him with bright eyes, Terry Semel thought for a moment and said, "Although we can't survive in Antarctica for a long time, we can go there for a short time, and then we can find emperor penguins. "
Hawaii asked: "Go there for a short time, how can you survive?"
With a smile on his face, Terry Semel said: "We can make a lot of equipment, thick clothes, and sturdy houses, and use these things to resist the cold weather in Antarctica, so that we can live there for a short time. survived."
The little girl nodded and said, "Then why don't emperor penguins need these things?"
"Because they have adapted to the environment there after many years of evolution, but we humans have no way to adapt and can only use foreign objects."
"Why are we humans inferior to emperor penguins? Can't we...evolve?"
"No, no, little guy, you are wrong about this. We humans are the most outstanding creatures on this planet. The living environment of emperor penguins is very narrow, but we can visit any corner of the world, and even leave This planet, thousands of miles away in space. Because we have intelligence and use intelligence, we can do this, but other creatures cannot."
Hearing Terry Semel's words, Hawaii half-understood, seemed to think of something, and said: "I saw on TV that lions are also intelligent. They can... cooperate to catch prey."
Terry Semel's eyes became softer, looking at the thick book in front of the little girl, he said: "No, Xia Xia, that's not wisdom, wisdom must be something non-instinctive that can be passed down from generation to generation, lion, Creatures like tigers cannot do this."
"Oh," Hawaii nodded, and turned his gaze to the book in front of him again.
Terry Semel straightened his body, felt the figure of Joanna holding coffee beside him, and quickly got up slightly.
Joanna was listening to the conversation between the two, and then she handed over the coffee in her hand and said, "I'm so sorry, Mr. Semel, Xia Xia can be a bit annoying sometimes."
"No, of course it doesn't matter," Terry Semel said with a smile and shook his head. After only a brief exchange, Terry Semel found that his mood, which had been irritated by the group's trivial matters recently, had calmed down a lot. Terry Semel even felt that if he could have a little personal relationship with Eric, he would have the cheek to recognize Hawaii as a goddaughter. Of course, unfortunately, this kind of thinking can only be thought about, his current position But it is not allowed to have too much intersection with Eric.
Joanna sat next to him and chatted with Terry Semel for a while, and two figures, a man and a woman, walked up the stairs not far away. The man was naturally Eric, and Terry Semel quickly recognized the woman "America's Next Top Model" host Cindy Crawford.
"I'm really sorry, Terry, for making you wait so long," Eric enthusiastically stepped forward to hug Terry Semel, and introduced, "This is Miss Cindy Crawford."
"Hello, Cindy," Terry Semel shook hands with Cindy Crawford again, and complimented, "Your program is very good, and my daughter likes it very much."
"Thank you," Cindy Crawford nodded with a smile.
Knowing that several people have something to talk about, Joanna got up, put away the book in front of Hawaii, took the little girl to the backyard, and said, "Okay, Xia Xia, we agreed to only read for two hours a day. , and now the time has come."
The little girl followed her mother with some reluctance, and said, "Mom, I found a problem. I am two years old now, and I can watch it for two hours. When I was three years old, I could watch it for three hours..."
Li Semel even felt that if he could have a little personal relationship with Eric, he would have the cheek to recognize Hawaii as a goddaughter. Of course, unfortunately, this kind of thinking can only be thought about, and his current position is not Too much intersection with Eric is not allowed.
Joanna sat next to him and chatted with Terry Semel for a while, and two figures, a man and a woman, walked up the stairs not far away. The man was naturally Eric, and Terry Semel quickly recognized the woman "America's Next Top Model" host Cindy Crawford.
"I'm really sorry, Terry, for making you wait so long," Eric enthusiastically stepped forward to hug Terry Semel, and introduced, "This is Miss Cindy Crawford."
"Hello, Cindy," Terry Semel shook hands with Cindy Crawford again, and complimented, "Your program is very good, and my daughter likes it very much."
"Thank you," Cindy Crawford nodded with a smile.
Knowing that several people have something to talk about, Joanna got up, put away the book in front of Hawaii, took the little girl to the backyard, and said, "Okay, Xia Xia, we agreed to only read for two hours a day. , and now the time has come."
The little girl followed her mother with some reluctance, and said: "Mom, I found a problem. I am two years old now, and I can watch it for two hours. When I was three years old, I could watch it for three hours..." (To be continued.)