Chapter 39: A Strange Family
On the streets of Los Angeles after school, Alice didn't know that an uninvited guest was waiting for her, so at this time, she was standing in front of a phone booth with her sister's little hand. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"Hey, Bossak, how's it going?"
Dressed in a blue striped shirt as usual, the hem of which was casually exposed over the denim trousers, and her white feet tucked into beige low-heeled sandals, Alice made contact with Stanford as she turned the keychain she pulled out of a passerby's pocket.
"According to the design drawings you provided, the prototype is halfway completed, and although it is still a little far from the experiment, the efficacy should not be much worse than your one. But in terms of circuit typography, Santi would love to design a simpler one, what do you think?"
Since the new company was registered in the Posacks' home, almost everything fell to them, and all Alice needed to do was provide a copy of the router design drawings, and even the processing of the product was handled by two adults.
No way, it's really her age here, and no one can ask too much for a twelve-year-old child to transfer to live in the San Jose area, and then go to a private house to play a game of handicraft workshop in his spare time?
Don't talk about the police, once anyone finds out about this situation, as long as he knows a little about the law, he will not hesitate to call the police!
What happened to the shareholders?
She's still a kid!
Praising the excellence of the legislative protection of minors in the United States, Alice can lazily enjoy life, sit back and enjoy it, and even have time to write a book!
"What do I think?"
Alice said absentmindedly as Hannah stared at the beautiful vanity case in the window: "If Santi can really design a better circuit board, of course I welcome it with both hands, who wouldn't want to make the company's products better?
"But in terms of cost, Alice, you have to know that the funds needed to develop products are very ......."
As if he was afraid that his wife would hear it, Bosack's voice suddenly lowered: "...... At present, Santi has spent 2,000 yuan, but I don't think she has made any progress at all, and if it continues like this, I'm afraid that the product hasn't been made yet, and our start-up capital will be consumed more than half. Alice, if the company needs your family to provide funds one day, how much will you probably be able to come up with?"
Alice sighed silently.
"A few thousand to one or two thousand is no problem, but this is a measure of last resort, I said Uncle Leon, that's your wife, can't you persuade me? Don't tell me you're afraid of your wife!"
After a long conversation, when Alice finally hung up the phone, she was extremely frustrated to find that she almost didn't have enough coins in her pocket!
God knows, she just wanted to ask about Bosak's progress, but who knew that she had wasted a bunch of gossip on "helping her husband persuade his wife". The current situation is a bit surprising, and it is clear that Santi intends to compete with herself technically.
However, Alice knows very well that although Santi must be very talented, under the premise of overall lack of experience, it is absolutely a fool's dream for her to surpass the level of her own design drawings in a short period of time.
After making the call, Alice was dragged into the store by Hannah, and the makeup box in the window was beautifully styled, which firmly attracted her sister's energy. By the time Alice finally arrived at the door, it was already about seven o'clock in the night.
"I'm back!"
Then, when she took Hannah by the hand and walked into the house, she was stunned without surprise.
A man and a woman got up from the sofa, the man was about forty years old, slightly bowed, but in good spirits, and a suit was obviously a high-end brand. The woman was around twenty-five or sixteen years old, wearing a neat black suit, and her face was very cold, giving people a kind of momentum like no one should enter.
"May I ask who you ......?"
If it weren't for seeing her mother in the living room, Alice would have almost thought that the FBI or S.H.I.E.L.D. had come to the door!
What is S.H.I.E.L.D.?
"Alice, it's a pleasure to meet you, I'm the senior editor of Bantam Press, Aurore Brown, and this is my secretary, Lyanna. ”
At the same time, seeing that the main protagonist finally made a grand appearance, Brown was almost crying.
When he learned that "Jurassic Park" was actually done by a twelve-year-old girl, Brown didn't know how to express his surprise at all.
God, what is the concept of a twelve-year-old girl, it's not that she can't write a novel, but it's nothing more than a fantasy children's adventure story, or Snow White or something like that!
But the depth of "Jurassic Park" far exceeds this standard. No, it should be said that it is already a science fiction work in the real literary category!
Well, twelve is twelve, and after the initial surprise, Brown reluctantly accepted the reality.
The problem is, I thought that the school would end before four o'clock, and I would be able to meet this amazing girl at five o'clock at the latest, but who knows, when the younger brother named Oscar came home, he said that his sister had taken her sister shopping?
Brown's first thought was, how could this family be so good?
However, Sophie, who is a mother, has no intention of talking to them much, and Brown can't even do it if she wants to know the mysterious Alice beforehand. At the same time, Sophie is too indifferent to their arrival, which makes Brown immediately realize that Alice is definitely a talented and talented girl.
In this way, when no one cared about it, only pots and pots of black tea kept coming to fill his stomach, Brown simply looked at the manuscript again.
It's just that at this time, in the face of that dense line of text, where can he still have the ability to read it? But the secretary Lyanna ignored him, and just held a hardcover palm book and read it with relish, only tormenting him to the point that he had the urge to dance disco!
stayed up until half past seven, and when he saw the belated Alice finally make a grand appearance, Brown was really excited to cry!
"It's amazing!"
So immediately after introducing himself, Brown yelled, "Alice, you're a genius girl! How did you come up with such a brilliant idea!? God, use cloning technology to make dinosaurs, build a dinosaur park on an uninhabited island, and then call it out of control! And make the Tyrannosaurus rex run out! And let the velociraptor breed from eight to nearly forty! My ...... Oops!"
Lyanna jumped in the head, making the excited Brown instantly quiet down.
Alice: "...... Thank you. ”
Lyanna: "You're welcome. ”
In the eerie silence, the three of them sat down, Hannah found a sofa leg to sit down playfully, and Sophie came to the living room with another pot of black tea: "Alice, Dad needs to work overtime tonight, and he won't be back until about nine o'clock, so you can talk to Brown directly, and Mom is listening." ”
Alice took the black tea, a touch of black and red tea leaves still floating on the water, and she blew lightly, causing a ripple.
From the very beginning, Alice showed an extremely calm posture. Brown has seen many authors, not to mention that he is a veteran of the bantam company, but when a new writer sees even an ordinary editor come to the door in person, who is not sincerely frightened and ecstatic?
However, at this moment, especially after waiting for so long, seeing that Alice still has the energy to blow tea in front of him, Brown does not feel inappropriate at all.
Because, in the previous 24 hours at most, he had read the manuscript three times in its entirety.
"Let me ask a question first......
Alice saw her manuscript at first glance, Jurassic Park, and as a member of the Reader's library of the world's top best-selling novels, this book definitely has an extraordinary place in the literary world, just like its film adaptation.
So, just like making up windows98 and throwing it to Bill Gates at this time, she is so calm now that she almost lifts Erlang's legs.
“…… Why didn't you two hang up the phone and fly straight from New York to Los Angeles?"
Brown blinked, feeling a little choked: "I thought you knew......"
Before he could finish speaking, Lyanna, who was beside him, spoke: "I asked about this after we arrived at your home, and your mother said that the whole family happened to be absent during the time when the publishing house hung up the phone at home. What Mr. Brown meant was that he thought you knew about the fact that we hung up and you didn't, not that we were coming. ”
Alice: "...... Well, thank you. ”
Lyanna: "You're welcome. ”
Hannah sat on the armrest of the couch, looked at Lyanna with a playful face, then at Brown with a winkling eye, and grinned, "So uncle, when will my sister's book be published?"
Brown looked around the living room.
Sophie has been very calm since their visit, and she is still very calm when her daughter arrives home, and the pot of black tea is very warm. Then they just washed the dishes, washed the dishes, did the housework, and didn't talk, just hung them here, and they could only be left to dry.
Oscar, who had come home before, said "oh" after learning that his sister had written an amazing science fiction novel, and ran out of the house with a soccer ball in his hand.
Alice herself was startled when she first entered the house, but after knowing her identity, she immediately calmed down.
And now, her sister is saying directly, "When will it be published?"
And then, who else could there be?
Yes, my father hasn't appeared yet.
And then, who else?
Grandparents, maternal grandparents?
Brown struggled to wipe the sweat from his forehead.
This Alice, this family......
How do you feel like you're in a haunted house?