I’m in Hollywood

As night fell, the surrounding wilderness shrouded in darkness became more and more cold, but the villa of the owner of the farmhouse was brightly lit, and the atmosphere was warm and lively.

The food prepared for the whole day was sent to the restaurant one after another. When the women brought a freshly roasted turkey to the table, everyone began to enter the restaurant.

The villa's main dining room, usually rarely used, was finally full today.

Geoffrey smiled and sat in the first place, looking at the large and small people lined up on both sides of the long dining table with a contented face. Looking at the three little guys, Emma, ​​Hawaii, and Kevin, the old man couldn't help but make up his mind, and took the time to urge his son to have more children as soon as possible.

Emma is always the most likable little guy in the crowd. When everyone was seated, she immediately found the most important person in the restaurant, looked at Jeffrey with big eyes, and said crisply: Grandpa Jeffrey, Shall we pray?

Of course, Jeffrey nodded with a smile, if it wasn't for Emma sitting a little far away, he would have wanted to reach out and touch the little girl's head.

Thanksgiving is not a religious holiday. Therefore, although men and women in the restaurant have different beliefs, it does not prevent everyone from putting their hands together, praying before meals, and giving thanks for everything that needs gratitude.

After praying, Jeffrey picked up the knife and distributed the turkey meat to everyone in person.

After dividing the turkey, Jeffrey noticed that Eric had put several pieces of roasted venison on his plate, and smiled and pushed the large porcelain plate full of roasted venison on the dining table in front of Eric, Only then did he look at Joanna who was sitting next to Eric: So, I heard from Eric this afternoon that Xia Xia dropped out after only one month in school?

Joanna nodded, carefully poured a glass of juice for the daughter beside her, and replied, Yes, at first we put Xia Xia in the first grade, but the teacher said that Xia Xia always behaved very uneasy in class, completely uneasy. She couldn't concentrate, and later tried to let her stay with the third grade children, still the same. I consulted an education expert, and they said that it was because Xia Xia was too smart to be with her peers. Forced In this case, the child will even suffer from anxiety over time, so I have to temporarily withdraw her from school.

Smartness is a good thing, Jeffrey said. However, it's not good for children to stay out of contact with their peers for a long time, and they will become unsocial in the future.

When there are group activities in the school, I always take Xia Xia there, Joanna replied, but her expression was still a little distressed: It's just that the effect is not very good, Xia Xia is not at all interested in what children like to do.

Joan, you don't need to worry so much. Geniuses always have to be a little different. I hope my Daniel can be as smart as Xia Xia, Emily said suddenly across the table, and turned as if she didn't hear it at all. The adults talked about their Hawaiian looks like a wolf grandmother: Xia Xia, how about marrying our Daniel in the future?

The little girl was originally immersed in her own world, her eyes wandered from time to time on the things she was interested in in the restaurant, and quickly practiced an interesting theory in her mind.

Colorless, transparent, crystals, cylinders, containers, silicates, no fixed melting point... This one is very simple.

Male, director, rich, 265 billion, activist investor, playboy, English, actor, Chinese, high school student, orphan, screenwriter, 28 years old, cleanliness, lack of aggression, conservative character, writer, mature, family friendly, strong sense of responsibility ... very patiently collected a hundred keywords,

The little girl suddenly discovered that her father had too many contradictory elements, which was completely illogical.

But, um, it seems like it can be taken apart, split into two people, or three people?

It seems that is not quite right.

The little girl was thinking seriously, and her interest was getting stronger and stronger. She didn't intend to answer Aunt Emily's boring question. However, noticing that my mother looked at me gently, I had to cheer up, but shook my head rudely and refused: No.

Why not? Emily was not discouraged at all, she turned to Eric and said, Your father has already agreed.

Eric shook his head with a smile and said, It only takes Daniel to impress my family Xia Xia. I don't intend to interfere with my daughter's relationship.

Hearing Eric's words, Emily suddenly looked contemptuous and said, This is the most obvious lie I've heard so much.

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then, Chris, Joanna, and Drew who could understand the subtext of Emily's words couldn't help laughing. Even the usually quiet twins lowered their heads to cover their faces. smile.

Although he was confused, Jeffrey also laughed along with everyone. Daniel, who was just one year old and was being looked after by Emily, heard the laughter around him, and also joined in the fun and screamed. The atmosphere in the restaurant suddenly changed. A bit more lively.

Only Eric touched his nose helplessly. It seemed that the 'stain on life' of jealous-daddy could not be erased in this life.

After Jeffrey laughed, he noticed the embarrassment on Eric's face, saw that the venison on his plate was almost eaten, and he took a few pieces and put them on Eric's plate, and took the initiative to help change the subject: The wild venison is really good, if you like it, we can go and catch a few more tomorrow for you to bring back, the wild deer around have been a bit flooded in recent years, and they often go to the farm in groups to nibble on the crops.

Eric nodded with a smile, but did not refuse.

In fact, he wanted to make a few bottles of deer blood wine, but thinking of everyone's possible reactions, he could only give up. Venison is also good.

After a lively dinner, it was still early, because it was the country, and it was impossible to go out and participate in various Thanksgiving activities like in the city.

So Jeffrey suggested that everyone watch a movie together. Although he has retired for several years, there is naturally no shortage of private screening rooms in Jeffrey's villa, but there are not enough seats. There are only eight, but it also happens to make everyone squeeze more closely. A few, plus a few makeshift chairs, all huddled together.

Jeffrey searched for the movie copies he collected, but he came up with the first Home Alone directed by Eric himself. This movie is a bond that everyone can gather together. Watching, everyone seems to be full of interest, but also with a faint memory.

It was lively until late at night, when everyone rested.

Eric unexpectedly woke up a little early in the morning, and it should have been late, but Virginia beside him still hugged him quietly. Although I was used to sleeping with three people in East Hamp, but since I was a guest at Jeffrey's house, I naturally couldn't be too blatant.

With the faint morning light coming in from the curtains, he measured the charming sleeping face of the woman next to him. I don't know if it was because he ate too much venison last night. Eric became more and more interested, so he probed and kissed him.

Virginia responded to the man's kiss unconsciously, until Eric couldn't help sliding down, holding the soft lump on the woman's chest and taking a bite, Virginia woke up and stretched out his hand with a smile. Pushing Eric away, looking at the alarm clock on the bedside, the woman sat up and said, It's already eight o'clock, it's time to prepare breakfast.

Eric wanted to drag Virginia back to the bed and said, Joan must have woken up, we won't say anything later.

I don't want to be laughed at, Virginia rolled her eyes at Eric, reached out and took the bra and started putting it on her body. The woman was well satisfied last night, and she didn't have much desire at this time, just looked at Ai Rick put his arms around his waist and looked like a little boy begging for candy, Virginia softened, but quickly found another reason, saying: I'm going to call Kevin to get up, children often It’s not good to sleep in late, you won’t be able to change it when you grow up.”

Eric reluctantly let go of the woman and lay back on the bed, saying, Kevin will doubt whether he is your own when he grows up.

Virginia quickly got dressed, got out of bed, took a headband and simply tied her hair up, bowed her head and kissed the emotional little man's face, smiling: As long as it's your own, it's fine. I consider myself a stepmother.

Go away, go away, Eric waved in disgust, I must tell my son that he must never eat the apple you gave him.

Hehe, Virginia smiled and said, How about I let Drew come over to accompany you?

Forget it, Eric stretched hard, sat up suddenly, and said, I got up too.

Eric and Virginia walked out of the bedroom together. The villa seemed very quiet. Joanna, Emily and the twins were all up and busy in the kitchen. Joanna and the twins were okay, Emily was obviously a pair The appearance of a hard-working daughter-in-law without enough sleep.

The old man's sleep was originally relatively small, but Jeffrey drank a few more glasses of wine last night, and he didn't get up at this time either.

After saying good morning, Virginia went to call the little guys to get up, and Eric walked out of the villa alone.

Today's fog is very thick, and when you look around, it has become blurry more than ten meters away. Perhaps because of the fog, the temperature was not so low, but the country house surrounded by fog suddenly gave people a feeling of being on an isolated island.

This kind of weather is definitely not suitable for going out for a run. Eric is standing in the open courtyard and simply stretches his body. The three pit bulls that Jeffrey raised have accepted Eric's group of people in the past two days. He walked out of the villa, got out of the kennel one after another, and turned around excitedly, obviously wanting to be taken out for a walk.

The atmosphere is really suitable for a horror movie.

With Chris' voice behind him, Eric turned around and said, Yeah, but it's just because we've lived in the city for too long, which is the case in most of the countryside.

In addition to several major urban agglomerations along the coast, the population density in other parts of North America is actually very low. Many inland towns are larger in scale and often have only one or two thousand people, and villages and towns composed of seven or eight families can be found everywhere.

Chris smiled, sat down with Eric on the open-air bench in the courtyard garden, and said, I received an email from Boston last night that they have negotiated settlement terms with several major record companies. , we basically don’t have to pay any price, we just need to strengthen the shielding and filtering of pirated music resources.”

Before the IPO, several major record companies relied on Yahoo's upcoming listing and urgently need to resolve litigation disputes, and put forward a series of harsh conditions to Yahoo for the infringement lawsuit of Internet pirated music, which eventually led Yahoo to give up the idea of ​​reconciling with major record companies before listing. .

After the success of Yahoo's IPO, the major record companies immediately lost their confidence. The other party also knows that after Yahoo loses its restraint, if this kind of wrangling lawsuit goes on, the possibility that they want to take advantage is very low.

Moreover, if we can't reach an agreement with Yahoo to suppress Internet pirated music as soon as possible, the longer this matter drags on, the more unfavorable it will be for the record industry, so the attitude will be softened immediately. The two sides quickly reached a settlement agreement.

Although the suppression of Internet pirated music will affect the sales of fireflyer, the mp3 player of Firefly Electronics, it is also in the fundamental interests of the entire industry, including Firefly Electronics. If the record industry goes into complete decline due to piracy, and record companies lose the incentive to produce original music, the market for portable players will undoubtedly shrink dramatically.

Therefore, several major record companies took the initiative to lower their profile and propose reconciliation, and Yahoo also showed a very positive attitude.

However, Eric couldn't help laughing when he heard Chris's words: Last night? Emily didn't kick you out of the bedroom?

After everyone watched the movie last night, it was already more than ten o'clock, and it was lively for a while, and it was past eleven o'clock when they left. Although Eric himself often worked late into the night, on such a special day, it was really hard for him to imagine Chris checking his emails after eleven o'clock.

Chris spread his hands and said, Emily has no reason to kick me out of the bedroom, because she was also holding a laptop at the time.

Okay, Eric laughed and said, Speaking of which, I haven't seen the samples of this Victoria's Secret show. How's the editing progress?

The first two Victoria's Secret shows, because of the continuous compression of the time difference between the big show and the TV broadcast, inevitably caused a decline in the quality of the TV broadcast version of the big show. In order to make up for this, ltd once again relaxed the production time of the TV version for this year's Victoria's Secret show, and the specific broadcast time is scheduled for the beginning of next month.

Chris shook his head and said, I don't know about this. You can ask Emily later.

Eric and Chris chatted for a while, and Joanna came out of the villa and greeted the two to prepare for breakfast. The two got up together and returned to the villa.

While enjoying a brief break from work in rural Maryland, everyone had to leave on Sunday morning after only three days at Jeffrey's farm.

The private jet took off from Frederick City's airport and landed at Eric's private airport on Long Island. Chris and Emily rushed to Manhattan directly with their son. Eric first sent the women and children back to East Hampton, and after a long period of lingering, they returned to Los Angeles with the girl.