[Titanic] True Love Is Eternal

"Carl, you know how much we put into this ship. This is the maiden voyage of the Titanic, and it can't be slowed down. I need it to be the largest, most luxurious, and fastest cruise ship in the world. Offset the impact of the damage to the Olympic." Ismay seemed to start to smoke, he hissed twice before continuing, "I really can't understand, this will not do you any good, and you are not buying Cunard In stock, the Titanic was owned by the White Star Line."

Then there was the sound of the wine cabinet being opened, and at the same time Carl spoke, he said: "You are right, but before the telegram arrives, I also have the right to ask you, just like you asked the captain in the Palm Tree Restaurant, Speed ​​up the boat."

"The speeding up of the ship is good for us. This is not the Olympic, it will hit the ice directly." Ismay angrily reprimanded in a low voice, pacing back and forth impatiently. "How crazy are you, you know that there will be an engagement after you disembark, and everyone knows that your fiancée is Ruth Butek. And now, your old lover... is she really your old lover? Well, I don't learn those women's tongues. Even though you may have had a good time together before, I know those things, and I was young."

I stretched out my hand to press my neck, and the burning of the bruise on it finally subsided.Tilting my head sourly, I looked at the closed deck door, and a green ornamental plant blocked my gaze.Ismay’s stormy memoir reads from an open window, “Of course it was a beautiful woman, and you loved her, which of course sounded wonderful. But you’re not a teenager anymore, you I can't abandon everything about myself for her. I'm a good friend with your father, as your elder, seeing you being so irrational makes me... well, disappointed."

"Disappointed?" Carl repeated his words casually. He should have taken out the wine he wanted from the wine cabinet, and the next step was to open the wine bottle familiarly and look for the wine glass.

"I'm so disappointed. This makes me afraid to do business with you in the future. Although it's rash to say so, in your capacity, you can't find any woman, so why do you make yourself like this?" Ismay said. Slowing down, he sincerely hoped that Karl would turn his prodigal son back and kick me, a wild woman of unknown origin, away quickly.

"This is my business, don't keep bringing the topic up to this." Carl dismissed Ismay's kindness in displeasure, and walked to the deck window, blocking Ismay's figure.The sunlight streamed up from my chair and poured in the window, illuminating the watch chain on Carl's body, and he looked down just enough to look at me.I lay with my head up, and he leaned against the window and lowered his head, a gentle smile spread from the corner of his mouth, which was more eye-catching than the light on the watch chain.

"Anyway, I can't slow down the Titanic. It's not about money, but about resources." Ismay was still circling, and he seemed to come to the table to pour himself a glass of wine. I heard the clink of the bottle sound.

"Resources are money." The smile on the corner of Carl's mouth disappeared, and he turned to Ismay and said, "I don't believe that you let the ship keep speeding up for the sake of national honor or the vanity of workers. Yes, The Titanic is the largest cruise ship ever built. But this record will soon be broken. Both Cunard Company and the German Hamburg Company have placed orders, and several [-]-ton cruise ships will face the White Star Company. "

"That's why I have to fight against them. Since the White Star Line was merged into IMM, the government has fully supported Cunard Line. Their company can receive a large amount of government subsidies every year. Now the international market is where the United States, Britain and Germany compete with each other. Competition, trying to suppress each other. We are already standing in the best time, why should I back down, once I back down, the White Star Company may be swallowed up on the Atlantic route. This is not why I joined the international shipping company In my original intention, what I want is market resources that will not fall down.”

Ismay raised her voice, her tone full of fighting spirit and anger.

This kind of dissatisfaction infected Karl, his face slowly became gloomy, deep and indifferent beside the light green curtains.

Then I saw him take a sip of wine in a leisurely manner, the red on his face made him look barely warm.He returned to the automatic mocking tone, "Do you have enough money to fight against them? Even if you join imm, it will not be able to solve the current financial difficulties of the White Star Company. Even if the Titanic can finally be NO. The arrival of 16 in New York is not going to turn into a panacea for your company right away."

"Do you have a better way? If the Titanic doesn't set sail on time, I will go bankrupt. If something goes wrong during the voyage, and the insurance company refuses to pay, then it will be bankruptcy within bankruptcy." Ismay said heavily Hitting the wine glass on the table, he didn't look like the kind elder who had kindly persuaded Karl at the beginning. For him, Karl's words pierced into his heart like a fishbone, causing him to jump in pain.

"It sounds like you're in a bad situation." Carl gloated. Of course, he tried his best to suppress the harsh superiority brought by his kind of rich man, trying to turn the sarcasm in his tone into sympathy.

"Because of the anti-monopoly law and the agreement between the British and American governments, we are in a very difficult situation. Originally, imm could monopolize the entire Atlantic route with the investment of the American group, but now the British government fully supports Cunard, and White Star is also British. , it sounds like one really favors the other.”

"Cunard is not merged into IMM. The Titanic can only be regarded as an American cruise ship. The British government will only subsidize you if there is something wrong." Carl shook his glass, finally turned around, and pressed the curtain to face the guests in the room.

"Anyway, it's a stupid suggestion to slow down. And this proposal is from our deadly enemy. If the benefits you promised from the stock were not large enough to make me commit a crime, do you think your old lover will be fine? Don't Forget, she's not a passenger on the Titanic." Ismay's voice was gloomy, and he could almost see the ferocity on the businessman's face. "A commercial spy, a woman who can know the content of our top-level meeting, who is her boss? You dare to do this for her, and you plan to be her accomplice when you don't know anything about it .”

"I bought a ticket for her." Carl didn't care what Ismay said, he was angry that I didn't have a ticket. "It's still in the upper class." Listening to his voice, this sentence is the key point.

"The name on the ticket is Emily Hockley. Unless you can have your wedding on the boat right now, there is no such person." Ismay does not recognize the name "Emily", so the ticket has Only useful after marriage.

"I don't want to hold a wedding on this broken ship. I don't want anything." Carl said disgustedly, and the topic was far away from the beginning.

"What? The Titanic is the most luxurious. Do you want to find another ship comparable to it and hold a wedding?"

You... are off topic.

My hands on my neck were already on my eyes, and I really didn't dare to rush in to bring back the topic of slowing down.

"Even if I'm going to get married right now, can you make me a wedding dress immediately?" Karl asked very dissatisfied.

"Whatever wedding dress you want, all you need is a priest." Ismay countered bluntly.

I really want them both to get married.

"Anyway, your situation is bad enough, even if the Titanic arrived in New York on NO.

"Number 16 must arrive at night, otherwise the newspaper will have nothing to do with it." Ismay almost growled, as if he had had enough of Carl's unreasonable troubles.

"I know you are waiting for this ship to return your funds and seize the market. But the Titanic is already under construction, and the Olympic is still waiting for repairs. In a short time, there is no way to let your three ships Cruise ships are coming out to occupy resources." Carl left the window, he said seductively, Ismay said, "You have to understand, you don't have 15 pounds of government support per year. If I hadn't invested in White Star Shipping at the right time, the Titanic would have Still lying in the shipyard, no, I think the shipyard workers don't want to see their hard-working cruise ship become the victim of a conspiracy."

"So you must slow down the boat. It's not good for you. I said, you shouldn't do anything that's not good for you." Ismay was so angry at Carl's attitude that he trembled. He poured himself another drink, wanting to use alcohol To suppress my excitement, I knocked down the wine glass with too much strength, and I heard a bang.

"I'm an adult, sir. I can decide my own affairs, whether it's good or not." Carl said angrily, and he went back to the window again, leaning against the curtains, and looked at me with lowered eyes.

I put a finger to my lips to signal him not to annoy Ismay too much.But I don't know what Carl thought, his face turned redder, and he quickly turned his face away from me.

"It's too childish. You're joking about White Star Line. If you have an important reason to slow down the ship, even if it's for the sake of helping White Star Line at the right time, I will consider it. But you have no important reason at all, just Because of a woman, in order to please a woman, you don't care how absurd her reasons are. The property my father left me is not something you use to chase women, you are too absurd. "

Ismay finally couldn't bear the breath anymore, his voice rose, he took a quick breath, and then managed to stop the panting.

"I said, don't change the topic to this. No matter what the reason, I have the ability to talk to you about the speed of the ship." Carl's tone also became impatient, and he seemed to be late to Ismay. I'm very angry if I don't get into the topic, and I always pull the topic of me as a backlog.

"I won't slow down the ship. I don't want to ruin the White Star Line." Ismay didn't back down at all, and almost kicked Carl off the cruise ship.

"I don't think you are destroying your own shipping route. Anyway, if the Colossus cannot be completed on schedule, the Titanic will soon be crushed by the Yingde Company." The attitude to do business with people.

"You won't be a shareholder of White Star Company soon, and it's not your turn to worry about such things." Ismay seemed to be thinking about the stocks she just acquired, and her voice barely calmed down.

"I still have $300 million lying in the bank." Carl suddenly lowered his voice, so low that I could just hear it.

After hearing this, Ismay was speechless for a few seconds, probably wondering if he heard too much.And then he went on, "Sounds good, you could play Rockefeller in the ring someday."

"He is my goal, but I don't agree with his attitude towards life. I make money and spend money, and I don't take donations as a big deal. I don't do things that are not beneficial." Carl said realistically, "Of course he has a very good saying, we don't have to live by luck, we have to rely on planning luck to get rich."

"You've lost your mind with this plan." Ismay snorted unceremoniously. "And it doesn't sound like slowing down is doing you any good at all."

"I can give you an investment, as long as the ship slows down today, one day is enough."

Ismay remained silent. He seemed to be considering whether it would be better to slow down or invest.Then he said: "I think you should think about it. It is not a good businessman's job to use such a big investment to please women."

"This amount of money is enough for the Titanic and the Olympic to quickly appear on the Atlantic route. You have to be clear, this is not the money that the Titanic can easily make by speeding up." Carl turned his back, he smiled confidently explain.Money is the devil, and he is the enabler of the devil.

"It's crazy, you just gave me the White Star stock." Ismay muttered unbelievably, "but now you want to tell me that you want to invest in White Star Company again, which is equivalent to giving away the stock." The stock will be bought back at a high price."

"Not now." Carl doesn't have the habit of being slaughtered without complaint. He is used to bargaining. "These can't be discussed until we get off the boat, but we can make a verbal agreement first. As long as you slow down, we can start talking in the restaurant tomorrow." Discuss the investment details here, and sign the contract after disembarking the ship.”

"Sounds really crazy." Ismay paused for a while, and then there was the sound of swallowing something, as if he drank the whole glass of wine, and he immediately agreed loudly after finishing, "We've made a deal."

It doesn't matter if the boat speeds up or slows down as long as it's good for him.Once again, my eyes were opened to how greedy these businessmen are.

"But why does it have to be NO.14? Is this date very commemorative? Then you can slow down the ship as much as you want, but I can't make it stop." Ismay pouted, the taste of the wine made him feel very uncomfortable Aftertaste, and then he started to walk out quickly, "I'll go back and think about it first, you come to my room later, we will discuss these issues. Also, I really think you should be more restrained, or let alone 300 million, just 3000 million will also be ruined by your old lover. Well, I don’t learn the tongue of those women.”

The door was slammed shut, and the room fell silent.

I lowered my eyelids and heard their conversation clearly, only to realize later that the agreement to slow down was really reached.This kind of plan, which has been fumbling for a long time and thought it was impossible to succeed, was successfully completed in front of my eyes.

The result of the relief is that the throat hurts even more. This broken ship finally has a chance to be saved.

I raised my head and looked at the window of the room, but Karl did not appear by the window, only the lonely curtain was still stuck to the window with its pressed lines.I pressed the towel around my neck with my hand, and found that my face was covered with sweat, and I sat up slowly, and the sun on the deck dazzled me.

The deck door opened quickly, and Carl walked steadily out of the room, but the flush on his face didn't fade, making him look a lot like a homeless alcoholic.When he came to me, I could still smell the alcohol on his body, his expression was stiff, but his tone was very relaxed, "I slowed down the boat, that's the right thing to do, of course, if you don't have enough on hand Don’t learn this way when it comes to funds, otherwise it will be a mess.”

It sounded like he was going to teach me how to do business, but unfortunately his facial expressions were not up to par and his speech was not humorous enough.

I figured that even if I had enough capital, I could turn any good business into a mess with my non-business mind.

The longer the throat was bruised, the more I couldn't make a sound, so I had to stretch out my hand, hold his palm lightly, and slowly spell on his hand, "The Titanic will sink at two o'clock in the morning on NO.15."

Carl squatted down and watched my fingers slide across his palm carefully. He read a sentence in a strange and silent manner, and easily spelled out the words I wrote.Then he said strangely: "Will it sink?"

I nodded, but he didn't say anything. He shook his head after a while, "I don't believe it."

That's right, no normal person would believe such nonsense.Then I spelled on his palm stroke by stroke, "Thank you." A man who can think that I am a commercial spy and is willing to go crazy for me, I don't think it will be possible to find a man in the first 100 years or the next 100 years, even if he is I myself can't love someone so crazy.

Carl saw my spelling, and pressed my fingers into his own without any hesitation. "You think you're going to dismiss me with a thank you. I'm not so easy to fool."

He looked at me after he finished speaking, and there was a kind of eager desire in his eyes, as if he wanted me to do something quickly.After contemplating for a long time, I finally nodded, slowly spread out his palm again, and then stretched out my fingers, the shadow of the fingers was printed by the sun, and the fingertips spelled very carefully and attentively in the palm, "If you If I go bankrupt in the future, I will support you." This oath stayed in his hand without any trace, but it was as meaningful and profound as it was engraved in my heart.

Even if you are not bankrupt, I want to support you.

Without any literary talent and gorgeous rhetoric, this is the promise I prepared for myself and my lover since I was a child.

Carl read the promise I wrote clearly, and his expression was as embarrassed as stepping on dog shit.He opened his mouth, wanting to say something unpleasant, but finally he sighed in defeat.When I was about to write something on his hand, he had already leaned over and left a warm kiss on my lips.

"Send me like this from now on." He said bitterly, the blush on his face was clearly visible.