Janet said as a matter of course: "I didn't want to give myself a Chinese name, I just suddenly felt that Jenny was very suitable for this name." ”

The two women were standing opposite each other on either side of the long table full of things, and Janet said this, smiling and turning to Jennifer, who was still confused, and began to bite her ears with the female assistant.

Simon vaguely heard Janet explain that Jennifer should watch him after returning to the United States ahead of schedule, don't stick to women, don't work too hard, and look like a wife telling the girl to go through the room, very into the play. Jennifer still didn't know what was going on, but listened to Janet's advice, her face was slightly red, and she always felt that something was wrong.

The phone rings on the coffee table.

Simon reached out and Anthony Johnston called, and lunch was ready at the mansion.

Leaving Melbourne in the afternoon, everyone is sure to have a meal together.

Both girls heard Simon and Anthony's call, and Janet took the opportunity to take Jennifer's arm and said, "I haven't invited you to my house yet, just together." ”

Jennifer glanced at Simon, shook her head with a smile and said, "You two go over, I'll sort these out, and I'll wait for someone to pick up my luggage at the airport." ”

If it was just a work relationship, going to Johnston's house for lunch might not be fine, but with her relationship with Simon, everyone would be uncomfortable going to eat together. Jennifer didn't want to embarrass Simon, and like last month's Easter, she preferred to keep Simon a little sorry for herself.

The Johnston House is a bit livelier today than it was when Simon first came to Australia.

After that lunch, Veronica didn't deliberately hide from Simon again, and she also showed up today. Janet's younger brother, David Johnston, happened to be returning from England with his girlfriend in the morning, and with Anthony Johnston and Norman Johnston, everyone filled the long tables in the mansion restaurant.

Simon has not seen until now, only Raymond Johnston's youngest son, Patrick.

David Johnston, 26, a tall, lanky man like Raymond, wears rimless glasses and has a polite appearance, and is currently pursuing a PhD in fluid mechanics at Cambridge University. David's girlfriend's name is Leslie Wheatrt, who is his younger sister in Cambridge, a brown-haired girl with a very good appearance and temperament, who introduces herself as a bachelor's degree in architectural design and a minor in art history, and should not be more than 22 years old.

As Janet said at the beginning, David Johnston really has a bit of a nerdy vibe.

At the dinner table, Simon asked about his professional research direction, and David explained how to use the principles of fluid mechanics to measure the trajectory of oil layers buried thousands of meters underground, and Raymond Johnston frowned when he heard a series of technical terms.

Because David brought his girlfriend back for the first time, everyone else pretended to listen with dignity, but the old man had no scruples, and quickly interrupted: "What's the use of learning this, there is no oil field at home for you to study." ”

David Johnston was visibly frightened of his father, and immediately became dumbfounded when he heard this.

The atmosphere in the restaurant became a little awkward.

Janet leaned over and squinted her eyes towards David's side.

Simon would understand that the old man was not satisfied with the girlfriend David brought back, so he would react like this.

Although Raymond Johnston has always had a good attitude towards Simon since the first meeting, Simon has long known from the words of Anthony and Janet and his behavior in front of Raymond that the old man is not a good person to get along with.

Noticing the unnaturalness on Leslie Wheatett's face beside David, Simon realizes that this is also a very observant girl.

Remembering that he caused this embarrassment, he took the initiative to ease it and said: "In fact, fluid mechanics is still very widely used, and movie special effects can also be used." With fluid simulation, we only need to use CG animation to achieve realistic effects such as flowing water and fire, which can avoid many expensive live-action scenes. ”

Raymond turned his head to look over, softened his tone, and said, "You contact Tony more when you return to Los Angeles, and don't let Jenny mess around alone." ”

Simon naturally understood what Raymond was referring to, and nodded with a smile: "I will, and besides, Jenny is actually more suitable to run that fund than me." ”

Raymond glanced at Janet and said, "I know her temperament better than you, and she will definitely get into trouble if no one looks at her." ”

Janet, who was carefully slicing a small lamb chop, wrinkled her nose in dissatisfaction, but did not talk back to her old man at this time.

After a few interruptions, the embarrassment just now was resolved, and the atmosphere in the restaurant was enlivened again.

Simon readily agreed to Norman Johnston's 8-year-old son, Victor, to give him a batmobile, only to tell him not to actually drive on the road, it was too dangerous. Asked a few questions by his father in confusion, the little guy accidentally said that it was Anthony's eldest son Brandon who wanted it, but he was embarrassed to open up to Simon.

Anthony got married very early, according to Janet, his eldest brother had to marry his son halfway through college, and he had a total of one son and two daughters over the years, 16-year-old Sylvia and 9-year-old Chloe were both at this time, and Simon's eldest son, Brandon, who was the same age, appeared a few times these days, but did not come to lunch today.

At this point, everyone understands why.

Raymond heard that the eldest grandson was so 'plaything', and he couldn't help but grab the eldest son and reprimand him a few words, but it was obviously not as serious as when he had just interrupted David.

After lunch, he stayed in the mansion until four o'clock in the afternoon, when Simon said goodbye and left, and Anthony and Janet sent Simon to the Melbourne airport in the western suburbs, where a Boeing 767 was already waiting on the runway.

In addition to Simon and Jennifer, the last group of the "Batman" crew left in Melbourne will also return this time, and the film's work in Australia is basically over. The staff of the Australian branch will settle the tax refund with the Victorian government, and the $5 million or so Simon does not plan to withdraw back to North America, but plans to invest directly in Australian films, such as Jackson's "Crazy Fat Baby Variety Show".

Next to the airport runway, about to separate, Janet hugged Simon tightly and kept thinking: "I will help you take care of Cersei's capital, and I promise not to lose money." When I miss you, I'll go back to Los Angeles, and you have to think about me all the time, and it's better if you can suddenly come to see me, girls love surprises......"

Simon hugged Janet and listened patiently, nodding from time to time.

After a few minutes, Janet stopped, leaned over and pasted Simon's face, Simon thought she was going to let go of herself, but heard Janet suddenly bite his ear and whisper, "Does my aunt smell good?"

It's really biting my ears.

Simon suddenly heard Janet's words, felt two rows of teeth rubbing against his earlobe, and his back was a little cold, worried that the woman would bite off a piece of his ear, so he nodded calmly and smiled: "Yes, don't you like it too?"

Seeing that Simon didn't quibble, Janet let go of her little white teeth, and still whispered in his ear: "Little bastard, you think I can't see it, my aunt is very uncomfortable in front of you, women are always sensitive to certain things, she doesn't like you." ”

"This," Simon said with a few gentle strokes on the woman's small waist in an attempt to distract her, "I'm sorry. ”

"Hmph," Janet said, twisting her waist a few times, unmoved, "I warned you a long, long time ago, little bastard." Therefore, it is enough to smell and smell, and absolutely no other thoughts can be moved. ”

Simon felt a cold sweat come out, shook his head and said, "I swear to God, absolutely not." ”

Janet still pinched Simon's waist unwillingly, finally let go of him, took a step back, still smiling, as if the conversation just now had never happened, raised her hand and waved at her, and said, "Get on the plane, everyone is in a hurry." ”

Simon watched Janet step back, took two steps forward to grab the woman again, and kissed her, and Janet naturally began to respond.

The two were obsessed with each other for a few more minutes, and then they parted again, and Janet's face turned red and fluttered, and she knew that she couldn't delay any longer, so she pushed Simon towards the gangway, and then turned back to Anthony, and the brother and sister stood together on the runway to watch Simon board the Boeing 767 and the plane glide into the clouds.

In the lounge in the front compartment of the fuselage.

The plane flew smoothly, Jennifer in the window seat unbuckled her seat belt, got up and came to Simon's side, noticed the fine beads of sweat on his forehead, and said with concern: "Are you okay?"

Simon was still thinking about what had just happened.

He always thought that he and Veronica were well disguised, but he didn't expect to be seen by Janet a long time ago, but fortunately, Janet just misunderstood.

Hearing Jennifer's concern, Simon retracted his mind, unbuckled his seat belt, patted his leg with a smile, and said to the female assistant, "Come on." ”

Jennifer glared at him lightly, and when she saw Simon stretching out her hand to pull herself, she sat down, but her face couldn't help but be a little red, and her body was stiff, worried that someone would come suddenly. The little head turned around, and finally found a topic that distracted him, and said, "That, what does 'attack' mean?"

"A classic from the East, the attacker is the personal maid of the male protagonist," Simon said, lowering the partition in front of his seat, taking a pencil from the side, and writing two lines in block letters in the margins of a document, "A very meaningful name." ”

Jennifer waited for Simon to finish writing and looked carefully, she didn't know these two poems, but she could appreciate the beauty of the Chinese font: "These words are so beautiful, how to read them?"

"The flowers are warm and the days are warm, and the magpies are happy through the trees," Simon read slowly, explaining: "This is a poem about the scene." The small village on the outskirts had just experienced a cold rain in early spring, and the poet woke up early in the morning, and the sky was bright, and the sun had not yet risen. Walking through the countryside, the rich fragrance of flowers means that the weather is about to warm, and the magpie chirping from among the treetops seems to tell the poet that today will be a sunny day. ”

Jennifer leaned against Simon, rubbing her fingers over the pencil line, and said, "Can just these fourteen words express so much of what you say?"

Simon nodded: "Yes, that's what characterizes the classical culture of that country. ”

"It seems that I also have time to learn some Chinese, otherwise I won't understand anything in front of you and Jenny." ”

"I'll teach you. ”

"Do you have time?"

"Time is squeezed out, so let's get started now. ”

"Huh. ”

The two chatted in a low voice, Jennifer finally got used to the situation where she was sitting on Simon's lap, but the door of the lounge was forced, and the female assistant suddenly got up like a rabbit to dodge.

It turned out that the stewardess came to greet Simon and eagerly asked him if he needed anything.

Simon felt the stewardess Chi Liu's eyes, just asked the other party to bring a pot of coffee, and sent her away. Jennifer returned to her seat with a smile on her lips, but she didn't respond to Simon's call to the eyes, bowing her head and pretending to be serious about sorting out the papers.

Simon had no choice but to open the document that had just been written by himself.

This is Ella Deutchman's report on the release of "The Sid Sisters", and Deutschman is still directly responsible to Simon personally, whether it is the release of Gordoor's films or the public relations of the awards season just past, Deutchman will regularly summarize the work report to Simon.

Today is Saturday, April 29th.

Gordoor Pictures' third film released this year, "The Sisters of Sid", was released on April 22, compared with "Metropolitans" and "Sisters", "The Sisters of Sid" was released on a small scale, and Deutchman only promoted it in New York, where the audience of literary films is relatively wide, and arranged 35 opening screens.

Although the film was as publicized as much as possible, and "The Sisters of Sid" also received unanimous praise from the media, in its first week of release, this literary film focusing on school bullying only recovered $260,000 at the box office, with an average of only about $7,500 per museum.

Compared with the single-theater box office of some other blockbuster films that cost $60,000 or $70,000 during small-scale test screenings, the small-scale release of "The Sisters of Sid" on 35 screens has not even exceeded 10,000 in theaters, and there is no need for this film to increase its distribution scale.

According to the current pace of release, the film will probably get a million dollars at the box office, compared to the production cost of $3 million, it will definitely be a loss. It will also be the second loss-making film released by Daenerys Entertainment this year.

Ella Deutchman analyzed in the report that the main reason for the failure of "The Sid Sisters" is that the subject matter and audience deviate too much, the protagonist of this film is high school students, and the target audience is also teenagers, but teenagers obviously don't like literary films. It is easier for college students and above to accept literary films, but they will not pay attention to this type of literary films.

"The Sid Sisters" will fail in the end.

The film is a legacy project of New World Entertainment, and Deutchman has done his best, and the box office failure is naturally not the responsibility of the distribution team. In the report, Deutchman also concluded that the company should try to avoid making this type of film in the future.