After the rain, Santa Monica Beach is back to its usual hustle and bustle.

The sun, the coconut palms, the sand, the bikini, no matter how big the temperature difference between day and night is, it can't stop people from loving the beach.

Little Towne Manor.

Jerry only had a pair of checkered shorts on his body, hugged Mira's smooth and delicate waist in a blue bikini, stepped on the sunset and left the beach, and the two of them hugged each other crookedly into the villa.

Since the casting ended, Jerry and Mira have been tired of being together all day, so sweet that they are like conjoined candy people stuck together, not separated for a moment, and the other party is in their sight when they open and close their eyes.

The reason why the two are so sweet is that on the night when Jerry's casting work was settled, the internal cultivation method "Chao Yuan Guide Map", which has been practiced diligently for more than ten years, finally made a breakthrough, and the internal strength and warm current between the five organs continued to grow, gradually accumulating into a lot, and the filaments were transformed into silver threads, breaking the confinement of the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys in one fell swoop, pouring into the six internal organs, making them flow into the five internal organs.

After the growth, the heat flow rushes up to the cheek pulp point and down to the bladder bone point like a flood peak bursting the embankment, that is, it opens up the whole body veins including the 24 acupoints such as Guan Yuan and Qi Hai, so that it forms a circulation of qi and blood flowing in the front of the body.

The warm current of the silk into a thread is called "internal force or dark energy" in internal kung fu.

The secret energy opens up the whole body, which means that Jerry's internal kung fu after more than ten years of hard work has finally made great progress, and he has successfully crossed the basic threshold of "first glimpse of the door", stepped into a new level of "entering the house", and officially entered the palace of martial arts.

If in the martial arts of the rivers and lakes a hundred years ago, Jerry's current martial arts achievements are converted into second-rate masters with a name in the rivers and lakes, even if he can't worship the general, he can be regarded as the number one person, and it is more than enough to be a mountain king or a strong party.

Of course, Jerry was not interested in the name of the Mountain King at all, and what really excited him was that the eighteen years of Tongzigong had finally been completed.

Keep the clouds open and see the moon.

Just when Jerry was seven days away from his eighteenth birthday, he broke his ring a week early and actually took Mira.

Maybe it was suppressed too ruthlessly, Jerry broke the ring on the day he conquered the city all the way, which can be called the three armies of the brave champion, and before he could play much, he killed Mira and abandoned her armor, and she had no power to parry.

Fortunately, Mira tried her best to help him complete a perfect coming-of-age ceremony in the next few days, allowing him to officially enter the ranks of adults and start a tasteful adult life.

Compared with the refreshed Jerry, Mira is simply living in dire straits these days, loving and fearing him, loving him hotly, and the deeper she loves, the more afraid she is of him, and her true colors deduce the true meaning of pain and happiness.

In her words, Jerry is like a fierce and strong lion, working tirelessly every night.

Fortunately, Jerry is very sympathetic to her, knows how to stop in a long way, and is a model of a considerate and good man.

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Sweet days always go by quickly, and Jerry Towne's eighteen-year-old bar mitzvah ceremony was held at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel.

The birthday reception was hosted by the butler Paul Tang, and in addition to all the members of the Don family, many guests were invited.

Jerry later learned that more than 1,200 friends and relatives attended his birthday party that night, contributing more than $7 million to the Hilton Hotel's turnover.

This figure made Jerry ache for a while, but fortunately old Paul told him that the expenses were counted in the old man's account.

It is worth mentioning that on Jerry's birthday, his uncles, aunts, and aunts all gave him a valuable gift, as did the old man and his five grandmothers, and his cousins and cousins, as well as all the guests present, brought gifts.

When he left the hotel the next day, Paul the old butler found five gift trucks to pull the gifts to Jerry's new residence, the Cini Five apartment northeast of Beverly Hills, and drove through the two-kilometer circular bend to Sunset Boulevard leading to Hollywood.

Residence Cini 5 is a single-family seven-storey house, five floors above ground, a total of 30 rooms, a gym on the roof, a storage room, a wine cellar, a utility room and a 12-car garage on the basement floor, with a small garden in the front yard and an outdoor swimming pool in the backyard, and a dedicated driveway in and out.

If you don't compare it with Little Don's Manor in Santa Monica, Jerry's new home is still very good, no worse than the average mansion.

However, if you look at Jerry's entourage after he moved, you can see that his current financial situation is not very good, and his life is tight.

There are a total of eight bodyguards and drivers on the road, and the four maids include the Italian girl Delics and the Spanish half-race girl Lemangem, who have to follow him to live and die, as well as the two Chinese and Western chefs who have taken care of Jerry for many years, and then Jerry and Mira, and the old butler Paul.

Before moving, Paul Sr. made careful planning, cut the staff three times, and finally followed Jerry to the Sini 5 apartment with as many as 17 people.

Jerry bought the apartment because, in addition to his seventeen people, he had a team of private lawyers, a stockbroker, a financial planner (currently an accountant), and occasionally Brian, the manager, who would stay overnight, and two gardeners to maintain the garden and pool after moving in.

In addition, he had to reserve a suite for his mother, Sally Lord Don, all year round, even though she didn't come often.

If you add in the personal makeup artist and assistant that Jerry is recruiting for himself and Mira, then the apartment under Jerry's name seems to be not small, but in fact the room arrangement is already saturated.

Compared with Americans with generally loose housing conditions, this situation is quite tight and falls into the category of financial constraints.

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After moving into a new apartment, Jerry turned a new chapter in his life and truly began his independent life.

The credit card with a maximum limit of $3 million that the old man gave him officially expired in the early morning of his birthday, and the account was cancelled, and the large estate of Santa Monica, which was originally the old man's vacation villa, was now returned to its original owner.

On the day of the move, the old housekeeper Paul and the new housekeeper handed over, and the old Paul rarely faked the public and private money, and bought the three luxury cars and four business cars that Jerry and Mira had driven from the new housekeeper at a preferential price equivalent to three percent off the market price.

Aside from the acquiescence of the old man, Jerry was limited to his own belongings.

The consistent rule of the Don family is that since they have chosen not to be dominated by the family and decided to live independently, they must completely say "Bye Bye!" to their previous life.

To this end, the family has set up a professional financial management team, which is responsible for the accounting of personal assets when adult descendants leave the family, and registers them and keeps them in the family foundation.

After the old man signed it, it took effect immediately, and within 24 hours, all the bank cards and credit cards used by Jerry were deactivated, and he needed to reopen his personal account.

From now on, whether it is completely independent in life or economy, you can also ask the family for help when you can't get by, but any material support given by the family will be converted into US dollars and recorded, calculated synchronously with bank interest, and the term is the same, and it will be repaid regularly, and if it is not repaid within the time limit, it will be handled with reference to the bank's business methods, and even may receive a court summons.

This may seem strange and completely impersonal, but in fact, the management style of the large family is roughly the same as that of the group company.

The family is bigger, there are more and more relatives and friends, and the interest groups formed by blood and kinship are also getting bigger and bigger, and all aspects are involved, so it is particularly important to restrict the financial supervision and rights of the members of the lineage.

According to relevant statistics, the root cause of the decline of 90 percent of down-and-out families is the wanton profligacy and excessive power of family members.

Therefore, as early as the early 60s, the major families in the United States introduced the modern management system into the family management affairs, and after decades of continuous adjustment and improvement, the family management model has become mature, and various supervision measures and cross-management mechanisms have been very sound.

As long as the person at the helm does not make major decision-making mistakes, the family power will not be devastated, so that it can operate efficiently on a healthy track, so that the continuation of the family will last longer.

There are not many descendants of the Donn family, and there is an old man in charge, and the foundation is very solid, but compared with many old families in the United States that have existed for more than a century, there is still a big gap.

Therefore, even though the old man loves Jerry very much, for the sake of the long-term interests of the family, he has to treat Jerry equally, and strictly follow the rules to deal with Jerry's personal property settlement.

The rules must be followed, and there is a lot of favoritism in private.

For example, the maximum limit of the credit card used by Jerry is 3 million US dollars, and such a large credit card is limited to the old man in the entire family, which means that this is a privilege only for the old man.

The most interesting thing is that the old man reminded Jerry three months ago: "This manor will be repossessed at the end of the year, if you don't want to live with your mother, little Done, I think you may have to find a real estate agent to find a place to settle for you in advance." ”

Jerry was so smart that he understood the old man's meaning on the spot.

So he then transferred two million to Mira, and let old Paul buy the seven-story apartment with full funding, and other expenses are not soft, such as handling copyrights and paying ten years of script rights protection fees at a time, as well as accompanying Mila to go shopping, etc., the expenses are huge, so that in the past three months, the credit card in his hand has been almost at full capacity.

He was so used to spending so much that after Jerry moved to the Sini 5 apartment, he felt dizzy and uncomfortable when he saw the thick list handed to him by old Paul every day, because the dense numbers on the list were like cutting meat on him, and the balance on the account was shrinking significantly, and if this continued, it was estimated that he would not last until June next year, and he would become a beggar.

Even so, Jerry knew that the old housekeeper Paul had reduced his expenses to a minimum, and he could not cut the daily expenses of the entire apartment, and the basic expenses of 150,000 US dollars per month should continue to be maintained, and Mila's expenses could not be reduced, and the only one who could save expenses was himself.

In the past, three to five outfits and two dresses were ordered every month, but now they are changed to one set per month, and the dresses are temporarily stopped until further notice is needed, and the three sports cars in the garage can be regularly maintained by the bodyguards, and they usually sleep in the garage.

When he said and did, Jerry recently went to the Burbank studio by business car, and there were at least four bodyguards with him, but now he has changed to a part-time bodyguard for the driver, Hanson Scott, and if he goes out by himself, the bodyguard team will be dispatched en masse.

The eight bodyguards around Jerry are the rigid standards ordered by the old man, and the journey is more than 60 kilometers, and the bodyguard team must follow the trip, which is also a mandatory order issued by the old man.

Jerry has no objection to this, because he is a man who lives hard.

Living in the United States, a country where guns are rampant, it is necessary to maintain a high degree of vigilance at all times, even if he is physically fit and athletic, but no matter how good his kung fu is, he can be knocked down with one shot, so it is undoubtedly the safest to go out with a bodyguard, in case of a shooting, the bodyguard is his own talisman.

After a week of adaptation, Jerry and Mira finally settled into Apartment Five, and seeing that their accounts were shrinking, Jerry turned his heartache into strength and devoted himself to the work of the crew.

In addition to sleeping, Mira is inseparable from sleeping, and he spends almost all day with director James Sr., while perfecting the script of the film and participating in the pre-production of the film.

After more than a month of intense preparation, "Jerry Maguire" is finally about to start filming.

………… (To be continued)