Chapter 755: Lost
Eric listened to Joanna's account of what had happened that day, flipping through the cassette in his hand.
Although the name is "Penguin World", the back of the box is marked with a series of video sources, and there are more than 20 various movies or documentaries. As the CEO of a major media conglomerate, Terry Semel wants to do this by just a few words of instruction, but even so, the tape took a lot of thought.
Eric looked at it for a while, and he understood something in his heart. He glanced up at Joanna, who was standing quietly beside him, and just in time to notice the look on the woman's face carefully examining him.
Seeing Eric just looking over, Joanna's eyes flickered, and she was a little uneasy: "Why don't I return this cassette to him?" ”
Joanna's expression not only made Eric confirm the guess in his heart, but also made him understand some more things.
At the end of the day, this is a very sensitive topic in the United States, race.
Joanna was Jewish, and Hawaii was also Jewish, according to Jewish custom of motherhood.
Although the Jewish presence in the United States and the world seems to be very strong for various reasons, those who know more about the truth know that the Jews have been a people who have been strongly excluded and discriminated against for centuries.
As for the claim that Jews control the United States, it is even more absurd, take the economic crisis that swept the world in 2008 in the original time and space, if the Jews really controlled the American economy, then the old investment banks such as Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns under the control of the Jews would not have ended up in collapse one after another. Countless times in history the Jews have caused economic crises and wars, and they have been basically scapegoats.
Centuries of exclusion and persecution have given Jews a strong sense of solidarity, almost instinctive.
Jews, on the other hand, are very intellectual, and Terry Semel was undoubtedly impressed by Hawaii's unusual intelligence a few days ago, and the little one's Jewish ancestry made Terry Semel instinctively feel close. Coupled with the identity of Eric's daughter, this is today's small gift.
Fireflies and Time Warner have a competitive relationship after all, and Terry Semel can't do it for any benefit, but more just to get a good relationship.
Eric even thought that in recent years, whether it is a holiday or the birthday of the little ones, in addition to close friends, the Firefly Group and even some other well-connected company executives in Hollywood will specially send gifts to the two little ones, probably for this reason, and it is probably possible to imagine that the gifts in Hawaii must be more generous without verification. Although the shareholders of the Big Seven have changed hands over the years, and many have left Jewish control, most of the executives of Hollywood studios are still Jewish, like fireflies, and all but Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Robert Iger are Jews of the Big Three.
Eric pondered these things in his heart, and inadvertently saw Joanna who was still waiting for his answer, and as he was silent, the apprehension and inferiority on the woman's face became more and more obvious, huh...... Wait, low self-esteem?
Remembering that when she once talked to Elizabeth about Jews, she said that her family was not Jewish, and she still had that little look full of superiority on her face, Eric sighed in his heart, hey, what a mess this is.
Throwing the tape aside, Eric reached out and hugged Joanna, kissed the woman on the cheek, and said softly: "After all these years of getting along, you should know, I don't care about race or bloodline at all, Xia Xia and Kevin are my children, and they can't be changed no matter what, so don't think about these messy things in the future." ”
Joanna leaned on Eric's shoulder and hummed lowly, then whispered, "So, the tape?" ”
"Take the time to show Xia Xia, and don't forget to call Terry Semel to say thank you, it's always someone else's kindness." Eric thought for a moment and added, "There is no need to refuse similar kindness in the future, in general, the identity and closeness of the clan will not be harmful to you or Xia Xia." ”
"I see," Joanna leaned on Eric for a moment, let go of the burden in her heart, gently pushed Eric away, helped him straighten his collar, and said, "Let's go down to eat, they may have to wait." ”
"Don't worry, there's one more thing," Eric grabbed Joanna and told him what had just happened to Virginia: "So, in two days I want to take Vicky to Buffett's party, well, although I don't mind taking the two of you with me, I have to take care of the feelings of those old men who can only watch and can't eat, so I will take you with me next time I have the chance." ”
Joanna was amused by the pun in Eric's words, slapped him lightly on the shoulder, shook her head, and said, "It's okay, I'm really not interested in these things, you just take Vicky there." ”
"I think we're pretty much alike, and I'm not really interested, but it's never always possible to put it all off," Eric and Joanna joked as they left the room and headed downstairs together.
Despite some hiccups, the Halloween dinner was still held in a lively atmosphere.
After dinner, Eric was dragged by the women and forcibly fiddled with the Halloween style, he and Emma's three little guys were exactly the same, and they were simply excessive, they were just two beautiful antennae that emitted faint fluorescence on their heads, the men's were sky blue, the girl's was pink, and there was no doubt that it was in COS that he was immersed in the shape of "Men in Black".
By this time it was already dark, but the streets of Southampton were already lit up with lights, with children begging for candy and a Halloween parade in the city centre.
Eric stood in the changing room, watching over the three puzzled little ones, Drew, Virginia, and Eva were putting on all sorts of grotesque dresses with the help of the twins, and Joanna was downstairs dealing with the children who came to the door to ask for candy.
Looking at Virginia, who dressed herself as a Bloody Mary, Eric asked, "Joanna is going to stay at home, and the three of you are going to the Halloween parade, can I take the three of them with me?" ”
Virginia painted her red lips and said in a strange voice, "This is a good opportunity for you to bond with the little one." ”
"I'm worried about the safety of the little guy, it's very chaotic on the street, which of you will accompany me, at least two people, right?"
Drew, who was wearing Harley Quinn ornaments on his head, stretched out his hand and pointed at the twins: "Then let Natasha accompany you?" ”
"Ah, they?"
Eva was also beside her and said, "Oh, Eric, you're really verbose, we can finally have some fun for a while." ”
Virginia also impatiently began to chase people: "Yes, get out, get out, I have to change my clothes." ”
With that, Eric was blasted out of the door, along with a pair of twins with pink fluorescent tentacles stuffed in their hands, and they had prepared enough props.
Although they had already been asked for candy once last year, Emma obviously didn't remember it, and the two little ones were even more puzzled, not knowing what Dad was going to do with them, it seemed to be terrible.
Downstairs, Joanna was holding a box full of candy, smiling and handing out candy to the little ones outside the door who were yelling for trick-or-treating.
After a wave of mischief, Joanna moved the door out of the way, signaling for Eric to leave with the children.
Eric carefully touched the pair of soft things on his head, and said to Joanna, "It always feels a little strange?" ”
Joanna leaned over to help Emma tidy up her beautiful little dress, and said to Eric with a smile, "Why do you feel strange, didn't you celebrate Halloween before?" ”
Eric thinks that the women are suspected of colluding tonight, but it is usually the mother who takes the children out to ask for candy from door to door, and he is a big man with three small points, what is the matter?
It seems that because of the actions of the group of children just now, Emma also began to be eager to try, pulling the corner of Eric's clothes and screaming to go out.
"Okay, okay, let's go," Eric didn't think too much about it, took Emma's little hand, and asked Emma to pull Kevin and Hawaii, and quietly Natasha sisters behind her, and walked out together.
This is a neighbourhood in the south of Southampton, and outside of your estate, the streets are lit up with jack-o'-lanterns and groups of children under the watchful eye of adults.
Although it has been more than a year since the release of "Men in Black", the dress of sky blue tentacles is still very popular, and children with fluorescent antennae on their heads can be seen everywhere on the street, but adults in this kind of dress are very rare, and the twins are actually a little shy, and they did not put on the antennae that Dreuser gave them when they left, so the sky blue antennae on Eric's head are particularly eye-catching, after all, compared with the movie, his 'reduction' is simply too high.
At first, he was a little timid, but after a few strings, the three little guys were bold and skillfully shouted 'trick-or-treating', but they begged for a lot of candy, and even Hawaii rarely showed a small appearance with great interest, as if they were thinking about why they shouted a certain sentence, someone would give them candy This is a very strange thing, and along the way, they don't forget to point to the Halloween costumes of passers-by around and ask questions.
Eric didn't know the rules of Halloween, and since he was becoming more and more skilled at picking up candy, he took the three little ones and walked over one by one, and when they reached the end of the street, they changed to another street, and before they knew it, they turned around for a long time. When the three three, three and six people suddenly found themselves on the edge of a strange lake, Eric realized a very profound problem.
They're lost......
Stopping Kevin, who wanted to stuff his little mouth with the wrapper, Eric hugged his son, who had long been reluctant to walk on his own, and looked at the twins beside him: "Do you know where this is?" ”
Sister Natasha pulled a little guy by herself, and only shook her head when she heard the words: "Master, we don't know either." ”
"Okay, what about the phone?"
One of the twins dug into his pockets and handed Eric the phone he was carrying.
Eric dialed the family number, and Joanna heard that Eric had gone missing with the three little ones, even with her quiet and reserved personality, she laughed happily, but she still asked about their surroundings and said that she would come and pick them up as soon as possible.
Hanging up the phone, Eric handed the phone back to Natasha, looked around, and led the three little ones towards the bench under the street lamp by the lake.
Holding Kevin and sitting down on the bench, Eric casually motioned for Sister Natasha to be next to him, and then bowed his head and counted the spoils in the small bamboo basket with his son in his arms.
After talking to the little one for a while, a gust of night wind blew and a faint fragrance wafted in the cold air, Eric raised his head and looked at the Natasha sisters sitting on either side.
Because he had been following Drew all the time, Eric suddenly found that he was actually quite unfamiliar with the sisters, and he was curious, and asked casually, "I still don't know, how old are you this year?" ”
The sisters looked at Eric at the same time, their expressions a little puzzled, but they quickly made sure that Eric was talking to them, and the girl sitting to Eric's left replied, "Master, we are twenty-one years old. ”
"Oh, what a coincidence, that's as big as Drew," Eric nodded, smiling, "I thought you were supposed to be my age." ”
Sister Natasha didn't know what Eric meant by this, but carefully held the child in her arms and bowed her head slightly.
Eric remembered another question and asked, "By the way, what about your parents?" ”
The girl on the left, still on the left, replied, "They're in Iowa, and the boss bought a farm there." ”
Eric nodded, thinking that this was a good arrangement, and asked, "Homesick?" ”
This time, the twins had the same puzzled expressions.
Eric was even more puzzled, but still explained: "I mean, I want to go back to ......" After thinking about it, Eric didn't know where the twins were, so he had to use his previous name and said, "Do you want to go back to the Soviet Union?" ”
After saying this, Eric saw that the girl on the left had a slightly pale face, and shook his head eagerly: "No, I don't want to." ”
Eric knew that the collapse of the Soviet Union had a profound impact on them, but he didn't realize that this fear was so deep, sighed in his heart, and asked, "What about the future, what are your plans for the future?" ”
The girl's face on the left turned obviously red, she glanced at Eric carefully, and said softly, "What the boss says, let's do it." (To be continued.) )