Chapter 521: Xia Xia
Eric was stunned for a moment before he realized that this was the name he had given to the little guy in Joanna's belly.
At that time, he came up with such a name because he thought of a certain sketch, which originally had some joking meaning in it.
After talking about it that day, Eric didn't mention it to the two women again, and he didn't expect Joanna to keep it in his heart, and the woman was obviously very dissatisfied with the name of the 'mess', and she couldn't help but say it until now.
Although Eric couldn't cry or laugh, he still followed Joanna's tone at this time, and said in a loud voice: "Okay, it's not called Hawaii, it's not called Hawaii, you can name the little guy whatever you like, I won't interfere." ”
Joanna smiled lightly, nodded as if she had put down a big stone in her heart, thought about it and looked at Eric and whispered, "Hawaii...... Hawaii is a bad name. ”
"yes, it's so ugly, it's all my fault, when the little one is born, you can slowly give it a nice name. Eric nodded, neither he nor the two women paid any attention to the gender of the little ones, and had only used 'it' instead.
Although Joanna does not have any sick attributes, but has been quiet and quiet, Eric subconsciously feels that she must have a baby for much longer than Virginia, Eric is ready to go without rest for a long time, but, to Eric's surprise, only a little more than four hours later, the baby's clear cry came from Joanna's side.
"Congratulations, Mr. Williams, for being a lovely little princess. "Eric had just walked out of Virginia's side when he heard the news. A nurse said to Eric.
"Thank you. Thank you," Eric thanked and opened the door and walked into Joanna's room, Joanna had been moved to Tron and looked weak, but instead of sleeping, she looked intently at the nurse who was bathing the little one in a warm bath.
After a while, the nurse washed the little one. The package was delivered to Joanna.
"Eric, this is my daughter," Joanna whispered, looking sideways at the baby's still slightly wrinkled face.
Eric crouched down on the edge of the wound and smiled, "It's our daughter." ”
"Well, our daughter," Joanna smiled faintly, reaching out her finger and lightly touching the baby's face, then carefully retracting it, a hint of hesitation flashing in her eyes. But he quickly looked up at Eric and said, "Eric." Let's call the little guy Hawaii. ”
"Ah......" Eric opened his mouth, then smiled, "Forget it, I didn't pay much attention to this name when I first came up with it, and you don't like it either." ”
"No," Joanna shook her head slightly, her tone firm, "It's Hawaii, Hawaii, Williams." ”
Eric couldn't guess the woman's thoughts, so he had to nod: "Okay, I just said that you decide the name of the little guy." ”
Joanna hummed, leaned over to the little one and whispered, and asked Eric, "Hawaii, what should I say about my nickname?"
Eric thought for a moment and said according to the pronunciation habits of his mother tongue in his previous life, "Xia Xia, what do you think?"
Joanna, hearing that Eric's pronunciation had nothing to do with the word Hawaii, asked, "Does this nickname have anything to do with Hawaii?"
Eric explains: "Of course, according to the English pronunciation, maybe the nickname should be called haha, but I prefer the pronunciation habits of another language, Xia Xia, the name has the meaning of summer, and summer represents vitality and bloom. ”
Joanna didn't ask Eric what language it was, and repeated the nickname several times before she said satisfactorily, "Xia Xia, it's good, it's called Xia Xia." By the way, what's going on with Vicky?"
"With so many doctors here, it's going to be fine, but you know, most women tend to take a little longer to give birth for the first time," Eric said.
Joanna nodded: "Well, then you better go over there and watch her." ”
Eric didn't refuse, he was also worried about the other side in his heart, got up and said, "I'll ask someone to get you something to eat, and then go to bed early." ”
"I know, you should hurry over. ”
Eric quickly moved to another room, and Virginia was a little sad at this time, she had thought that her child would be Eric's eldest son or eldest daughter, but she didn't expect to become a younger brother or sister in a blink of an eye. Because twelve hours had passed, and the baby was likely to be in unknowable danger due to lack of oxygen, the doctors were already preparing for a caesarean section, and Virginia had no objection at this time.
However, perhaps feeling that his mother was about to be knifed, the little guy who had not been moving finally planned to come out, and the doctors briefly discussed it and canceled the operation plan.
More than two hours later, a chubby boy came into the world crying.
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Because the two little guys were born at the same time, there was too much noise, and although several confidentiality contracts were added afterwards, some information was inevitably revealed. However, because there are no photos and the parties involved to testify in person, only some gossip tabloids attract the attention of gossip lovers with specious headlines such as the birth of an illegitimate child of a Hollywood director, and the more credible large media do not rashly send out the news, and most ordinary people who see this news even just regard it as another Hollywood gossip chasing after the wind.
However, the lack of sensitivity of ordinary people does not mean that the media will also be slow to react, and in just a few days, East Hampton, which was originally somewhat deserted, gradually gathered reporters from North America and even Europe, and easily found the small estate that Eric bought to squat.
The small manor had long been empty, and these people squatted for several days, but of course they found nothing.
Eric had changed his residence with the two women again, but this time, it was a farmstead borrowed by Eric, and the owner of the farm was Spielberg, who had just won the Oscar for Best Director.
Rosewood Farm is the Spielberg family's summer retreat. Normally, though, he still lives in Los Angeles. Two little ones have just been born. Not suitable for long journeys. Buying or renting another place to live was not something that could be done in a short period of time, and Eric happened to know that Spielberg had a estate in East Hampton and called him. Hearing Eric's reasoning, Spielberg happily lent the farm to Eric.
The two little ones have been born for seven days, and the two well-prepared mothers have arranged everything in an orderly manner, plus there are several nannies guarding them, Eric basically can't intervene, and the day before yesterday Eric enthusiastically changed his son's diaper. The little guy didn't know how to do it, and he cried inexplicably, so Eric was blasted out of the baby room by Virginia and ordered to not approach her baby bump.
Of course, this ban was just a joke, but the two mothers no longer asked Eric to help with anything, Eric suddenly became the most idle person in the manor, before the birth of the child, Eric was not in the mood to do anything else, and now that the two little ones were born, Eric was relieved. Started his own work.
In addition to the working papers that came from Los Angeles as usual, Eric began to work on the setting of "Breaking Bad". Furthermore. Another thing also came from Chris's side, the beta version of Hotmail was finally launched, Eric used it personally for the first time, although he was dragged a little hot by the guy named Steve Mitnick, but after using this email service, Eric is very satisfied, because of various conditions, many websites will have some cards now, and many times there are problems such as loading difficulties, but these problems are basically not seen on Hotmail, and all the functions of the mailbox are smooth. After the trial, Eric immediately began to take the initiative to spread this method of communication to the people around him, and the management of Firefly was the fastest to accept this online mailbox tool, and Katzenberg and others now send a few emails to Eric every day to discuss problems.
At the same time, the Hotmail tool has also been promoted through the eye-catching interface connection on the Yahoo homepage, Yahoo and IE have now covered more than 90% of Internet users, therefore, Hotmail in just three days after the launch, realized the convenience of this communication tool, coupled with the free feature of Hotmail mailbox, the number of registered users has exceeded one million, fortunately, Hotmail is well prepared, and there is no downtime caused by excessive server load, however, according to the current rate of user expansion, maybe within a month, Hotmail coverage may be on par with Yahoo and IE.
Chris was originally a little worried about the operational prospects of the three companies, after all, if the continuous free strategy, if it is always not profitable, no one can continue to operate the company for a long time, not to mention that with the explosion of the number of users, the operating costs will continue to increase, and even Eric will not be able to withstand the consumption of only input but not output in the future.
However, watching Hotmail's bloated user base shrink, Chris quickly relaxed. Even if the number of Hotmail users only reaches 10 million in the future, then with advertising emails and other operations, you can make a good profit. What's more, with tens of millions of users, it will definitely be able to continue to develop other profitable Internet profit methods.
At the same time as Hotmail, there is also a new official version of IE, which has been a beta version of the test, and the launch of the official version of IE also marks the complete maturity of the browser's technology, and it is almost impossible for other computer companies to surpass IE's technical advantages in a short period of time.
Sitting by the empty swimming pool, Eric crossed his legs a little, and a laptop was on the round table, thinking about these things, his fingers kept tapping on the keyboard, and from time to time he picked up the coffee next to him and took a few sips, looking leisurely and comfortable. The baby is born, and both Virginia and Joanna suggest that Eric can return to Los Angeles as soon as possible if he is busy and does not have to be there to accompany them. However, Eric himself was in no hurry to return to Los Angeles. When he was in Los Angeles, he was busy all day without touching the ground, and now he has been away from Los Angeles for more than half a month, and it seems that there is no sign of chaos over there.
The laptop beeped softly, and Eric expertly opened the browser and logged into his mailbox.
Although Hotmail does not have a dedicated client yet, it is possible to install a plugin in IE that prompts you to send and receive email messages.
The people who know Eric's private email address, except for a few women and more familiar friends, are the executives of Firefly Pictures, although only executives above the department head level can get Eric's private email address, but the number of these people is still quite a lot, although Eric seems to tell him not to send himself an email if there is nothing too important, but he can still receive a lot of information every day, and there are even people who make small reports to Eric, which makes Eric cry and laugh.
It's a work email from Jerry Bruckheimer, and it's less than two months away from the release of Jurassic Park, and the film is in its final intensive promotional period. The promotion and distribution of the film was mainly carried out by the distribution department of Firefly and Jerry Bruckheimer, the producer.
Eric was reading the file when Joanna walked over with a pot of coffee and a smile on her face.
"I think you're running out of coffee and brewing a new one for you," Joanna raised her hand, stepped over a few data cables on the ground, walked over to Eric's side, and filled Eric's coffee cup, Joanna pulled a chair over and sat down next to Eric.
"Did Naxia sleep?" asked Eric casually.
"Yes, snooze little one," Joanna said with a happy look on her face, casually glancing at Eric's laptop screen, inadvertently noticing some sentences, and her eyes couldn't help but blink.
Eric didn't hide his meaning, pointing to the content of the email on the screen: "Yesterday at a promotional event in Seattle, a reporter from a newspaper asked me on the spot if I didn't participate in the promotion of "Jurassic Park", it was Jerry who led the team, he wanted to change the topic away, but then another reporter was even more daring to ask me if I had an illegitimate child, heh, these people are getting bolder. ”
Jerry Bruckheimer on the email simply recounted the episode that happened in Seattle yesterday, but he also expressed his concern in the email, "Jurassic Park" is about to be released, and many people in the circle are more or less aware of Eric's child, Bruckheimer is worried that in the early stage of the movie's release, someone will make a fuss about it. (To be continued......)