Rebirth of America, this is my time

Wow - the scenery here is so beautiful -

The clouds are lined with gold! The sky is still purple!

Oh! Thomas! Evelyn! Look over there! That little white dot is the moon, right?

The moon appears above the red clouds? - That's really cool!

Linda, wrapped in a down jacket, cheered at the dreamy scenery. Thomas, holding the camera, glanced wildly in the direction of his wife's finger, capturing the beauty described by her, and said in agreement: My dear, you are right, It's so beautiful here... At the same time, he kept waving to his daughter, Evelin, come here, let's take a photo together...

The girl shivered when she heard the call. She was a little distracted and looked confused. However, when the girl saw her father's waving gesture, she instinctively raised a smile and came over.

The beautiful girl in a snow-white coat put her head intimately on Linda's shoulder, and Thomas, who was holding his wife's waist, also raised the camera - One! Two! Three! Cheese!

With a shout, the shutter clicked.

There was a flash of light, and Polaroid's latest camera spit out a photo.

In front of the flaming cloud-like scenery, a family of three showed bright smiles.

This group photo made Linda very happy. After a while, she looked at the photo and pouted again, complaining: Why isn't Ethan here today? Didn't we agree to watch the sunrise together? It was him before He said he was coming to Haleakala! But what happened? He hid in the hotel and slept!

After complaining a few words, Linda moved her gaze to Evelin again.

Is he sick? I feel like he has been listless these past few days. If he feels uncomfortable in any way, you should ask him to see him immediately. Vacations are trivial matters, and health is the most important thing. You konw?

The sudden instruction made Evelin nod quickly, Oh - Linda - I know.

Shaking Linda's arm, he explained with a smile: Ethan is fine. It's just that he made several hours of phone calls last night, so he couldn't get up early this morning.

The phone calls lasted for several hours? Linda was confused. Is it a blessing?

The continuous questioning made Thomas put his arm around his wife's shoulders and said, Hey, Ethan has many friends now, so he has to send more Christmas greetings. This is normal.

You don't have to worry about young people's interpersonal relationships. Their ideas are different from ours. While speaking, Thomas also pulled his wife aside, Let's take another photo here. Look at how beautiful the sea of ​​clouds is. . Then he waved his hand vaguely towards his daughter.

Evelin, who got the ‘clear instructions’, breathed a sigh of relief and backed away with a smile.

Arriving at the parking lot, she got into the nanny's car. The warm air that was always on made her yawn. She wrapped herself in a windbreaker and leaned on the back seat of Da Lao, curled up and took a nap.

At this moment, the Johnson family is in Haleakala National Park on the island of Maui, Hawaii. On the occasion of Christmas 1977, they are admiring the sunrise that Mark Twain called the most beautiful scenery in the world. So it was all Ethan's idea to fly here from California.

After scolding Wenlock's investment manager, Ethan asked his secretary Steve Ballmer to contact United Airlines, charter a Boeing 747, and take his family to the center of the Pacific Ocean for vacation.

This was actually not his original plan. According to the previous plan, he was supposed to take his family to play in the snow in Canada for Christmas this year. But after he told Wenlock's people to get out, he decided Leave North America. As for the reason, it is actually very simple, because he was afraid of hearing some Apple-related news sent by Rockefeller.

Although it is very refreshing to troll people, and it is even more enjoyable to make people speechless when they are trolled with reason, but the guy he is trolling represents Rockefeller after all. When he unceremoniously asked Rockefeller's people to leave his company, That toughness can certainly make him feel invincible, but afterward...

Cough cough cough——

He admitted that he was also afraid of retaliation.

So after feeling satisfied, Ethan rubbed oil on his feet and left. After arriving in Hawaii, he did not pretend to be deaf and dumb when he wanted to know the progress of the incident. He took the initiative to communicate with his own people who were still in California. To know the will of Lawrence Rockefeller.

However, the people on Wenlock's side seemed to be dead. Faced with the conditions he proposed, they didn't even let out a fart. This situation confused him because they wanted to invest in Apple in the first place! And with the arrival of Christmas Eve and Christmas, he also understood that the entire negotiation would definitely be delayed until the end of the year. Although this kind of tug-of-war is very common in the investment industry, the longer it dragged on, the less likely Ethan would be. Don't worry, this is not a worry about the money running away, but a worry that Rockefeller will make bigger moves.

Therefore, when Christmas came, he also called many of his friends. Whether they were celebrating the festival or not, he would chat a few words. This was not to kill time or to inquire about news, but to stabilize the situation. Keep them in check. When your opponent has unlimited power, you can make all the mistakes in the confrontation, except that you can't start a fire in the backyard. If the opponents start fighting among themselves before they can exert any force, then stop fighting this war, stop the company, and go home to raise pigs!

There are many calls that Ethan can't make by himself. For example, with Principal Terman, Evelin has to make the call no matter what, and with Barbara, it's not appropriate for him to take the initiative to call. , under his tug, Evelin stayed up late with him.

At first, he thought that after making the phone call, he would watch the sunrise with his aunt and uncle, but unexpectedly, he had not slept well for several nights and he closed his eyes directly because he was too sleepy. Evelin came out on her own without wanting to call him. , and this decision to go alone also made Thomas discover the clues.

After returning to the car after watching the sunrise, while his wife was going to the bathroom, he asked his troubled daughter, Have you encountered any trouble again recently?

Ah - no - Evelin was stunned for a moment, then shook her head in denial.

It's just too late to call my friends.

This explanation made Thomas look suspicious and looked at his daughter deeply.

After a few breaths, he had made a decision, Linda wants to go to Whaling Town during the day. I will accompany her. You and Ethan can catch up on your sleep in the hotel and don't worry about us, okay?

I know that your business is very big now, and you will definitely encounter different troubles every day, but since you don't want to talk about it, then don't let Linda see it, okay?

She has lived with me all her life, and all she sees is farmland. All she knows is that our business is great and there are many congressmen to please us. She doesn't understand anything else.

So, don't let her hear something weird?

She'll be worried, hmm?

Thomas' words made Evelin stunned.

For a long time, the girl pursed her lips and laughed, then opened her arms to hug him.

Oh-Dad, I love you-

Phew - I love you too -

When the girl rubbed her cheek against her father's neck, Linda also came back after going to the bathroom.

WowWowWow, what are you two talking about here?

Linda's eyes widened, but there was a smile on her face.

Oh, Evelin said that she wanted to go snorkeling with Ethan to see turtles, and I agreed. Thomas opened his eyes and lied, Snorkeling is not suitable for us, so we will go separate ways today.

Oh - is that so?

Linda suddenly realized, You couldn't have been arguing about this all night, right? I know that Ethan guy. He always likes to bring the family together, but we can't get along with many projects. Since If you have something you want to play, then go ahead—

Be careful?

Even if you have bodyguards, you can't mess around. The power of nature is not something humans can resist!

Oh, so Thomas has discovered that we are in trouble? That afternoon, Ethan woke up and asked Evelin with a surprised look on his face why she didn't wake him up. Then he heard Evelin's report. When he discovered , when Thomas had caught something with his keen sense of smell, he immediately asked: You didn't tell Thomas that we had offended Rockefeller, did you?

“Oh Ethan, I’m not a fool—” Evelin rolled her eyes at him, and scratched her head shortly after waking up, “When you think Rockefeller is a trouble, then Thomas will definitely think that Rockefeller is incompetent. Defeated because he lived through the era when Rockefeller was sweeping the world.”

That's good, that's good... Ethan breathed a sigh of relief.

At the same time, he also rubbed his face and said, Am I acting like I'm worried lately?

... This question asked Evelin, Do you want to look at yourself in the mirror?

He took the makeup mirror handed over by the girl and took a quick look at it. Good guy, the face in the mirror made him think that he was endorsing a black man. The dark eye bags were more obvious than the white eye sockets of the future New York manufacturer. Not only that. , his thin cheeks still looked haggard, his unshaven appearance was no different from that of a homeless man on the streets of San Francisco, and his unwashed blond hair was as sticky as a bird's nest.

But even so, he still twitched the corners of his lips and laughed.

Oh - even if I am exhausted mentally and physically, I am still so handsome -

If he was a sunny and cheerful boy before, now he is a melancholy and handsome man——

... The words that made her feel good about herself made Evelin snatch the mirror away from her.

go away!

Go and clean yourself up quickly!

At the same time, he also falsely preached the imperial edict.

My dad has spoken. If you make Linda worried, he will beat you!

Although Ethan has a tough mouth, he has a soft body. If not, he would not have decisively abandoned his home and run away after scolding Wenlock's people.

He called the hotel housekeeper and asked them to provide him with room service. Then he took a bath with the help of the hotel technician and did a full-body SPA. With his hair slicked back and a black casual jacket on, he After unbuttoning the four buttons of the white shirt and revealing the inner lining...

Yeah! He's definitely more handsome than Little Plum!

Hehe~

Since his worries are a bit too much, let's take it back. After all, as the saying goes, don't tell your mother sad things, because she won't be able to sleep if she can't help.

After tidying up his appearance, he extended an invitation to Evelin.

Let's go diving~

Now?

Otherwise, if we don't go, how will we explain to Linda tonight?

Just do the whole show!

Ethan's decision made the girl very happy. You must know that Evelin is a person who wants to raise a baby dolphin at home, and their trip also paved the way for inquiries in the evening. When Linda asked the two of them during dinner, When they wondered whether they had seen any turtles, the photo with the green turtle helped them solve the problem.

Wow, did you touch it? Linda asked, looking through the photos.

No, the instructor of the snorkeling company we found said that touching them is illegal. Evelin replied with a smile, But it doesn't matter, we can just keep a few at home in the future.

Right, Dad?

Oh, okay, okay, we will build it after the first harvest next year. You ask the research institute next to you to come up with a drawing of the manor, and I will do the rest. Thomas replied cheerfully.

Although Ethan didn't know why Evelin wanted the manor so much, to be honest, the villa they owned now was indeed somewhat unsuitable for living. Not only is it difficult to arrange security on a public street, it is very easy to be followed and monitored by others. If it were not for the fact that it is close to Stanford and close to the research park, they can hire some bodyguards from the president for free, and the Palo Alto police are also there. Under the urging of the school, they patrol there every day, and the value of those two villas is almost nothing.

so……

It still needs to be built.

After Ethan cleaned up his mood and spent the holidays in peace, they stayed on Maui for three days, and then moved to Kualoa Ranch on Oahu, where they lived a leisurely pastoral life.

Although this place will be a filming mecca for Hollywood in the future, with many movies such as Jurassic Park, Fifty First Dates and Pearl Harbor having been shot here, in this era, it is still protected. Very good, there are no traces of artificial ax chiseling, it is just a virgin forest.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the owner here is called Morgan.

As the ranch of the Morgan family, no one can develop it unless they themselves want to develop it.

Sea fishing, surfing, riding horses...

It feels so good to blend into nature.

This is different from the feeling of staying on your own farm. In the former, it was the joy of a good harvest, but now, the beauty of seeing the cows and sheep in the wind and grass makes you feel relaxed.

Evelin also felt the same way.

So, before leaving, Ethan also chatted with the administrator here.

When he asked how much the estate cost, the answer was simple.

Mr. Jones, it's easy to buy this ranch for your money.

But you have to discuss this business with our boss in person.

We have no right to quote or make the final decision.

‘Tch—’ Ethan hummed in his mind.

According to his idea, after the administrator quoted the price, he said that he bought it directly, just to catch the other party off guard and indulge in the habit of forceful buying and selling.

But who knows that the other party is not fooled, which is boring.

After he returned to Palo Alto after his vacation, he received a call from Steve Jobs on his first day on the job, saying, The people at Wenlock accepted.

They all agreed? Ethan asked impatiently.

Most of them agreed, and only a few had discrepancies, Jobs said.

This fact made Ethan quickly summon Ballmer and ask him to drive him to Cupertino. When he saw Wenlock's latest offer, he was relieved that the terms drawn up by Lawrence Rockefeller himself , although they still only spent 10 million, the establishment of sales channels and the commitment to education procurement from North American universities definitely exceeded 20 million.

I think I can sign it, what about you?

I have no problem. Jobs said: The terms are much better than before, and I originally wanted to step down as CEO, as long as I can retain my position as chairman.

I just asked my dad, and he said that this clause is already a manifestation of Rockefeller's concession.

The fat guy from Woz answered more accurately.

Since all Apple shareholders unanimously agree, it is natural to bring in external accountants to review the company's accounts and bring in outside lawyers to finalize contract terms.

In the process, Ethan also discovered a problem, that is, the negotiators who arrived today were different from the previous guys. Many of them were new faces. When he asked where the previous guys had gone, they blended into the team. The two middle-aged white men smiled and said:

Mr. Jones, at your request, our boss fired them.

?

This statement stunned everyone present.

Ethan also frowned and asked doubtfully: What?

The two white men continued to laugh and said: You said before that they were not worthy of being investment managers. Our boss thought you were right, so we told them to get out.

As they spoke, they also took out three thick documents from the briefcase they carried.

Oh, by the way, this is the information you asked for, and we brought it too.

!

The confirmation that appeared again made everyone who was working open their mouths slightly.

If it weren't for Wenlock's identity that couldn't be faked, they would have suspected that these people were joking.

When these words reached Ethan's ears, the guy who had been troubled by Rockefeller for several weeks suddenly raised the corners of his mouth, nodded slightly, and said, Well, good job.

He waved his finger, signaling Ballmer to hold the document.

With his hands behind his back, he left the review conference room.

The gentle and indifferent performance earned him a gulp of swallowing saliva.

This situation made Ethan hold back his laughter. It was not until he got into the car and returned to the company that he waved his arms vigorously, Yes! Yes! Yes!

Rockefeller?

Nothing more than that!

Hahaha--