Walking into Caroline's room, Rachel finally stopped pretending to be a lady, and breathed a long sigh of relief, and threw herself on the big bed in the girl's bedroom. She was only glad that she was wearing a long skirt today, and if it was the wide sweater and washed jeans that she used to wear, she would probably be uncomfortable to die sitting next to a room of serious or pretending to be serious aristocratic men and women.

Caroline didn't care about Rachel's appearance of lying on her bed, but was a little envious of her freewheeling, the girl moved the small stool next to the dresser, and lay on the edge of the bed with her chin on her chin to look at Rachel: "Rachel, are you still hungry, I just saw that you only ate a little, you don't usually eat so little." ”

Rachel rolled over, lay on her side facing Caroline, and reached out to pinch the girl's face: "You little trouble, I want to hurry back to London now." ”

Caroline's expression immediately became a little apprehensive: "Is it that our family is not doing well enough?"

"Of course not," Rachel quickly denied, "I just feel like we're not from the same world, I'd better stay in my world and be more free." ”

Caroline froze for a moment when she heard Rachel's words, her long eyelashes blinked a few times, and a layer of mist appeared in her bright eyes, and crystal tears fell with a snap. Seeing this, Rachel immediately panicked, quickly sat up and leaned over, and asked, "What's wrong, Caroline, don't cry, I just ......"

Caroline looked like a wounded kitten again, leaning into Rachel's arms, perhaps because she was at home, but the girl didn't cry out loud, and sobbed and said, "No...... No, Rachel, it's just. It's just that when he rejected me yesterday, he said the same thing, and I just don't understand what happened. ”

Rachel gently stroked the girl's back, and Caroline cried at the airport for a while, after returning to the manor. It seemed that she had returned to her previous carefree state, and Rachel at first thought that she had recovered from being rejected by Eric Williams, but she did not expect that the girl had just hidden her thoughts in her heart, and she hid it so shallowly that she could not withstand the slightest touch.

"Caroline, don't cry, tell me what happened yesterday, you are so stupid, you must have misunderstood. I'll help you break it down. ”

The girl didn't hide it this time, and told Rachel about what happened yesterday in fits and starts.

"We went yesterday to Berlin's Museum Island and the Brandenburg Gate...... I asked him about the movie for you, and he said it was "Titanic", and then told me about the plot of the movie...... He said that Jack and Rose were not originally from the same world, and that it was better to make a good memory than to be together for a long time...... Then, he asked me to go back to my life...... And also. And the woman...... She's beautiful, prettier than me......"

Caroline stumbled. Rachel straightened the girl's somewhat messy bangs and said, "I think Eric Williams thinks you're too simple and not suitable for the Hollywood environment, so he rejected you." You know, Hollywood is very chaotic. ”

"But I think Eric ......"

"Well, even if he's barely a gentleman. That's why he didn't continue to lie to you, a silly girl, so, forget about him, maybe you can go back to Cambridge early and stop thinking about him. Just like he was a passerby in your life, do you remember when we were freshmen and we went to see Eric Williams's "Seventeen Again," and I think there's a line that says it well: When girls are young, they always have to go through a few bastards......"

Caroline immediately interrupted Rachel, "He's not a jerk. ”

Rachel smiled, "I know, he's a badass. ”

Caroline's cheeks flushed with Rachel's somewhat teasing tone, "But, Rachel, I'm ...... I just like him. ”

"Who hasn't liked a man, in fact, I secretly liked Marlon Brando, but he's a bad old man now. ”

"You know that what we like is different. ”

"There's no difference in the book, so you might as well try to forget about it, maybe you can go back to Cambridge early, like many times, get into the books and pull out a few books, and before you know it, time will pass, maybe you will wake up one day and forget about him, and then you may feel how stupid your reaction is today. ”

Caroline silently listened to Rachel's words and said, "Rachel, I don't want to go to school anymore." ”

"Why, isn't your father no longer stopping you from continuing your graduate studies?"

"It's nothing to do with Dad, I just want to ...... I want to be like you, go out to work, I don't want to be a little girl who doesn't know anything anymore. ”

Rachel couldn't help but pinch the girl's face again: "I think it's better to forget it." ”

Caroline could hear that Rachel didn't seem to have any expectations for her decision, and she twitched her nose and said unconvinced: "I can definitely do well, I'll go out tomorrow to find a job." ”

"Then you have to get your parents' consent first, I think they will probably confine you to the house when they hear your decision," Rachel said, Caroline is a little girl who has been carefully cared for in an ivory tower by her parents and several older brothers since she was a child, and she has not had much contact with outside people and things since she was a child, and if such a simple little girl is pushed into society, it is no different from throwing a little sheep into the wolves.

Rachel believed he could see this, and Caroline's family must have understood. The last time the girl ran away from home for her studies in Cambridge, she was barely within the tolerance range of the Wilson family, but if Caroline said what she had just decided, there was a ninety percent chance that she would be forcibly grounded by the earl's family, and she knew that a noble girl like Caroline would generally choose to marry a noble or wealthy child with the same family background, and then be a housewife quietly like Mrs. Wilson, which was the safest life trajectory for her.

Caroline also seemed to understand the family's possible reaction, and suddenly felt a little lost, grabbed Rachel's arm tightly, and suddenly said, "Rachel, will you stay with me today?"

"No, you're twenty-two years old. Not two-year-old," Rachel quickly refused.

"But if you're not here, my father and mother will ask me about ...... I don't even know what to say about Eric. ”

Rachel looked at Caroline's pitiful little face, and suddenly his heart softened: "Okay. But I'll be sure to leave tomorrow morning. ”

"Then will you take me with you?"

"Even if I wanted to, you wouldn't be able to leave. ”

"I can hide in the trunk, I've seen episodes like this in books. ”

Rachel couldn't help but laugh again: "Then I will be wanted by the London police on charges of abducting and trafficking girls." ”

……

"Eric, this is Nokia's financial statistics in recent years, and this is a list of some of Nokia's current shareholders, the most important of which is the National Bank of Finland, and some German and French capital, right. I also found out today that Nokia's current CEO, Yoma Ollilah, is not in Finland, but should be in New York, and has been there for a month for Nokia's financing. ”

In the hotel where Eric is staying in the center of Berlin, his suite has been turned into a makeshift office. There are a lot of documents that have been collected in the last few days scattered around.

After seeing Nokia's latest 1011 mobile phone from Claudia, Eric quickly began to use Allen's details about the company.

Nokia is a very old business in Finland. Initially started as a papermaker, it gradually began to get involved in rubber, fiber optic cables, telecommunications, television sets and other industries, and in the 80s, it was one of the most diversified giants in Finland. Of course, this 'Big Mac' is only for Finland, a small Nordic country with a population of only 5 million.

In the late eighties, because there were too many areas involved. Nokia began to decline rapidly, and in 1988, Nokia's CEO Kali Keramo committed suicide by swallowing a gun under the pressure of Nokia's business failure, and Nokia's stall became worse and worse. In just a few years, several leaders have changed.

The current CEO of Nokia, Yoma Ollila, was originally the president of Nokia's mobile phone division, and after being appointed as the leader of Nokia, he began to bet all of Nokia's chips on the mobile phone division, and in recent years, many of Nokia's businesses have been divested.

Nokia has now successfully launched a GSM mobile phone, the 1011, which Eric saw with Claudia the other day. Eric knew that the GSM network was the dominant mobile network communication system for more than a decade, so Yoma Ollilah was not wrong in choosing the direction of his efforts.

However, because of the collapse of the Soviet Union a few years ago, the Soviet economy obviously collapsed, and Finland, as a Nordic country close to the Soviet Union, joined the Warsaw Pact camp under the coercion of the Soviet Union a few years ago, and therefore, the economic collapse of the Soviet Union, without exception, affected Finland, the 'pond fish', Finland has fallen into economic stagnation for several years, although Nokia 1011 has received a good market response, but Nokia is still in trouble because of not getting enough development funds.

From the information in front of him, Eric also found that in 1991, the year before Yoma Ollira took office, Nokia also tried to sell the mobile phone division to Ericsson in neighboring Sweden, but Ericsson rejected it with an almost mocking attitude, which can also be seen that the entire European capital market despises Nokia.

Speaking of which, in the process of reading the information, Eric found another very interesting thing, among the world's three leading mobile phone giants in the nineties, in addition to Motorola of the United States, the other two appeared in several small countries in Northern Europe, Nokia belongs to Finland, and Ericsson is a Swedish company.

After a closer look, Eric quickly discovered the reason, Finland and Sweden, these small Nordic countries, because of their small number of people, and the territory is mostly mountainous and hilly, making the development of wired telephone communication methods in these small Nordic countries extremely expensive, which also makes these Nordic countries pay more attention to the development of wireless communications. As early as 1981, when many people were still very new to mobile phones, Finland had already set up a nationwide mobile phone network. Because of the focus on mobile communication technology, mobile phone giants such as Ericsson and Nokia have been created.

"I've had a few phone calls with Chris, by the way, did you send this information back to New York?"

"Yes, for every piece of information that I sort out, I will send it back to New York separately," Alan nodded, and suddenly said: " Eric, I think, if you are interested in mobile phone companies, maybe you can try to invest in Sweden's Ericsson, or invest in the local Motorola, in my opinion, the current Nokia does not have much investment meaning, Yoma Ollila is precisely because he can't find investors in Europe, so he has to go to the United States, and from the fact that he has been in the United States for more than a month without any news, federal investors do not seem to be too eager for Nokia. ”

Eric flipped through Nokia's financial information in recent years, and said without raising his head: "The Motorola and Ericsson you said are both up-and-coming companies, such companies are not short of lay investors like us, we are now intervening in it, and we can't get too many benefits, and Nokia is different, we are now investing in Nokia, for this troubled company, it is completely a charcoal in the snow, oh, you should understand it." ”

Alan resisted the urge to roll his eyes and nodded: "Of course I know, but since other investors are very optimistic about this company, I think it's ......."

Alan didn't say any more, but Eric didn't mind and answered, "You think that a layman like me must have no reason to meddle in, right?"

Alan smiled awkwardly, but nodded slightly.

Claudia has been working as Eric's temporary secretary these days, and she does it with relish, and the girl really likes the way Eric looks when he is working.

Listening to the conversation between the two people, Claudia couldn't help but say: "Alan, in fact, I don't think what you said is completely correct, I just happened to use Nokia's latest mobile phone product, or when I went back to Europe, a good friend recommended it to me, she said that this mobile phone is of very good quality, in this case, Nokia must have its investment value." (To be continued......)