[Titanic] Where Your Heart Goes

Karl lowered his head and stared at the patterns on the floor in great disappointment, and finally waved his hands to express that he didn't want to discuss this issue anymore: "Abner, no matter how many women I have before, send them a gift to inform them, this is the end of my relationship with them That's it."

Abner laughed out loud, he patted Carl on the shoulder sympathetically, until now he thought that Carl was hurt too badly by Miss Bucket: "Carl, if you want to realize this dream perfectly, Then I can't do it, and you'd better go to Mr. Laforger, who, as an excellent steward, has always been proficient in it."

"Oh, come on, Abner, Lai Fujie is better at handling me since I was a child than dealing with women, but what else can I do now? I can only send myself to be punished by this old man who is similar to my father Repair it, and he can only come back to help if he is satisfied. Is there such a miserable employer in all of New York?"

Looking at Carl's wry smile, Abner said bluntly: "Carl, do you really want to cut off all ties with all women? They brought you a lot of benefits back then. You just broke off the engagement once." , it's not that I won't marry a wife in this life, there is really no need to be so harsh on myself."

"Be harsh on yourself? Oh, no, Abner, I think I need to tell you something in advance, are you mentally prepared?" Carl's serious expression made Abner laugh instead.

"Is there anything more shocking than the Morgan consortium being suppressed by Congress? Tell me, it doesn't make me feel any pressure."

"Well, I like men." Carl finished calmly, and Abner had already dyed a very trendy shirt for himself with coffee.

"...Ka, Karl, what did you just say? I haven't had enough rest recently, and my ears are not working well."

"Old classmate, I like a man, his name is Jack Dawson, and we have already lived together."

"Fuck!" Abner yelled, he walked back and forth in the office like a violent lion, and finally calmed down half an hour later, he looked at Carl's serious expression seriously, "You raised a Men? Carl, you have never liked men, aren't you proud that you have never fallen into the vices of high society? Could it be that Miss Bucket has hit you so hard?"

Carl pushed Abner's palm away from his collar, and he explained helplessly: "The reason why I got engaged with Miss Bucket is because she is my rival in love. Also, I think you don't mind my sexuality." ?”

Abner straightly brushed his well-combed back hair out of order, and he sat back in the chair dejectedly, with a very weak voice: "Well, your sexuality is not unacceptable, I still can't understand how you suddenly After my 30th birthday, I found out that I like men."

"It's God's guidance."

"Enough is enough, you only think of the merciful Lord when you do something unruly and need a reason. If I were God, I would definitely curse you to go to hell after death."

Listening to the complaints of his old classmates, Carl raised his eyebrows and smiled: "If there is money to be made in hell, I don't mind."

"Okay, let's talk about serious things. I'm not interested in your private life. Anyway, I have a wife, and I won't have any other emotional exchanges with you in this life." Abner interrupted Carl's nonsense, he He took out a thick stack of materials from the drawer and handed it to Carl, "This is the physicist and chemist I am most satisfied with, but biologists are not interested in your proposal. A few college students in school, I think they all came for the experimental fund you provided, Carl."

As a result, Carl read the information quietly. It took more than an hour for Karl to read all the information. He pinched the bridge of his nose and pondered whether the amount of experimental funds he provided was indeed too large. Why did he feel that he saw two worlds? famous name.

"Dr. Langmuir and Dr. Waxman are willing to move their laboratories to Tennessee. Abner, you know, I haven't started building there yet, it's a big project." Carl's words made people Abner was a little dazed.

Abner still had a copy of the same document in his hand. After looking through it for a long time, he let out a laugh: "Carl, I can understand that you said that Dr. Langmuir is worth looking forward to, but that Waxman hasn't graduated from college yet. He's just a student of the Agricultural College, I really can't understand how much you expect from him."

...That is the founder of Enzyme Utilization!Carl roared in his heart, and he immediately took out Waxman's information and slapped it on the desktop: "Contact them immediately and go to Tennessee, and tie their future with our company. I want all his future inventions to be marked. My name. Sign all his future patent rights into our hands, immediately."

Abner still couldn't understand Karl's excitement, but the person who paid was the boss, and Karl's investment hadn't gone wrong all along—even if he made a mistake this time, the lost money would have little impact on their company.Carl has already frown and asked again with the information file.

"Abner, why is Dr. Langmuir short of money? Hasn't he just recently developed a high-vacuum electric tube and put it into use?" Carl didn't memorize this matter, and he remembered it clearly Chu clearly showed this, which instead made Carl curious. The creators whose inventions can be put into use should not lack funds.

"GM is currently competing with Ford for supremacy in the auto industry. GM has separated the design and engineering of the bodywork. There is always some friction between practicality and aesthetics."

After listening to Abner's explanation, Carl nodded. The question that suddenly came to his mind was—this should be the era when Ford first declined, right?This idea gave Carl a lot of room for imagination. He looked at the inherited memory with empty eyes, and found the contradiction between Ford and his son. Carl put away his dazed expression and laughed.

"Abner, you should contact Mr. Edsel Ford, the successor of Ford Motor Company, and his assistant Mr. Ernest Kanzler in private, remember to contact them separately, and say that our company intends to create a new brand car factory , we pay money, they cooperate with their brains, and promise them 20.00% of the shares of the automobile factory." Karl is determined to win this, but Abner is not optimistic about Karl's decision.

"You want to dig out the heir to Ford Motor? He will inherit the Ford Motor family business sooner or later, and he will not give up all that to help you."

Carl waved his hand indifferently: "He will change his mind sooner or later. It has been many years since Ford Motor produced the Model T car. They have never developed a new research and development product. The decline of Ford is obvious to all. Mr. High Society The ladies don't want to use the same car as the poor, they have long wanted to change the taste. Moreover, old Mr. Ford's temper is getting more and more eccentric, and the conflict between him and his son who is trying to reform has long been unable to reconcile. Taking a step back, what does it matter if Mr. Edsel doesn't want to join us? His assistant is not Mr. Ford's son, which man would give up his career to accommodate an old man with a weird temper?"

"Well, I will try my best, but don't have too much hope." Abner accepted Carl's statement and decided to give it a try. Carl's idea is very ideal. Dr. Langmuir from General Motors Cooperating with Mr. Edsel from Ford can only get one result. They will compete with each other in their abilities and never let the other get ahead.

"Seriously, Carl, what are you planning to expand the company into?"

"Establish Tennessee, which has superior geographical conditions but no influence, as my private territory." Carl said this without any guilt, pointing to the hanging map of the United States and said: "Agriculture, animal husbandry, commerce, industry , transportation, scientific research and schools, and finally national parks, we can turn this scorched land into a Garden of Eden."

"Carl, are you crazy? You should know that this is very unrealistic. Agriculture and pasture need clean land and water resources, but industry will definitely destroy the natural environment on which industry depends." Abner told Carl This idea is not optimistic at all, Karl has been smiling complacently.

"That's why I support the development of science and technology. If there are any microorganisms that can turn agricultural waste into gas and power supply for industrial production, and industrial waste can be transformed into fertilizer for agricultural use, in the end, whether it is industrial or Agricultural products are turned into commodities and sent to all parts of the United States through our own transportation industry? It’s ideal, right.” Carl can only smile like a child when designing the future, and his old classmate Abner still doesn’t believe it This idea will one day be realized, so he hit Carl's enthusiasm again.

Carl could only stop mentioning these things temporarily when he heard the frustrated words. After all, it can’t be done overnight, and it’s time for him to go home to see Jack. Carl clapped his hands and said that it’s over: “You continue to work, I’m going home .”

"I'll let you know when the Macy's share acquisition is completed. You can relax as you please recently. You can rest assured that I, a coolie, are in the company." Abner waved his hand, and Carl left the office. I couldn't help turning to the gallery on the side, and Calhoun bought home several famous paintings that would be worth a lot in the future - they were just ordinary paintings now.

Just treat it as a token of love, and Carl found that he had never bought anything memorable for Jack—although it doesn’t have to be priceless, but it needs to be something memorable, right?Thinking of the joy in Jack's eyes when he received the painting, Carl's mood from the shock just now rose a lot, and he returned home with his chest upright.

The old housekeeper Lai Fujie's face was not very good, and a man who should not have appeared in the house—Mr. Henry.Looking at the same rigid facial muscles of his father and the old housekeeper, Karl was sure that some conflict must have erupted between them.Carl pretended to be surprised on purpose. He came to Mr. Henry and stood still, and asked in a somewhat exaggerated tone: "Father, why are you here?"

"Marry! Carl, you can't lose to Miss Bukett. Mrs. DeWitt has really found another golden mountain and started to go crazy now. She actually came to the house to show off in person and sent me invitations! My son of a Pittsburgh tycoon, Can't you marry a woman who is younger, more beautiful, elegant, wise, and beautiful than her daughter?!" Mr. Henry stopped playing riddles with his son after speaking, and he took Carl's palm to emphasize, "I I don't care if you raise a man at home, I don't care how many men you raise, but I absolutely can't let the rumors about you spread in the upper class for the next few years as a joke."

"Father, I appreciate your enlightenment, but I'm sorry, I cannot accept your proposal. Jack will be the only choice in my life."

Carl's serious expression was just a joke to Mr. Henry, wouldn't he not know how flamboyant his son was before?Not to mention the United States, even the whole of Europe is full of women Karl has had and mistresses who are supporting.It is absolutely impossible for Mr. Henry to believe that he will love someone wholeheartedly. After all, the girl who was said to be married before was also thrown out of the room naked by him without any scruples?

His old Henry's son was just as disrespectful as he was.

"Carl, how long can you love him? How long will you be faithful to him?"

"For the rest of my life, as long as he is still loyal to me, then I will keep my promise."

"What if he's dead?" Mr. Henry's expression was gloomy. Carl knew that his father was not playing tricks. It is definitely not difficult to kill one or two people in the chaotic America.

"Father, you only have one son."

Hearing that Carl's words could be interpreted in many ways, Mr. Henry smiled. He stroked his neatly trimmed beard and said, "Carl, are you threatening me with your identity, or are you threatening me with your life?"

Carl showed the same smile as Mr. Henry: "Father, it's not different, is it?"

"No difference? Hahaha, this is the funniest joke I've ever heard, Carl, you don't think that I was a jade before I met your mother, so you don't have a competitor for status now, do you? As long as I say a word, You will lose the inheritance rights of the Pittsburgh Steel Company, and you will be completely in debt of [-] million U.S. dollars." When Mr. Henry said this, he showed a smug smile, and Carl smiled more sincerely with a flash of his eyes.

"Oh? That's great. Introduce the famous lady you fancy to the product of your extramarital affair. It can just help them increase their social status, right?"

Mr. Henry became furious all of a sudden. He tugged at Carl's collar and said, "It seems that you really love your little blond boy. Then see how long you can keep your relationship with him! Love will fade one day , Wait until you become a pauper and see whether it is your father who takes you in or your little lover."

"Father, there will never be such a day." Carl said confidently.

Mr. Henry left without saying a word.Compared with "will not bear [-] million debts", Mr. Henry is more willing to believe that what Carl prayed is "Jack will not leave him", but he is not sure about his son's thoughts.Seeing Mr. Henry's sharpness and inscrutability in the face of outsiders disappear without a trace, Karl sighed. When facing himself, Mr. Henry was just an old father.

From the time Mr. Henry talked about the illegitimate child, Carl knew that Mr. Henry must have never left such a thing. Men like them would never show their cards, and what they could say to threaten their opponents was all lies.

"Carl, I'm leaving New York after Rose's wedding." Jack's voice came from behind Carl. Carl nodded without saying anything against him. The two of them were sitting in the living room, and the whole atmosphere instantly became oppressive.