Chapter Ninety-Seven: Boss
The atmosphere at Wilson's house was a little weird.
An obese middle-aged man was lying on the floor fainting, his right arm swinging next to him.
Louis Wilson, who had just recovered from his extreme emotional state, was at the dinner table, confused as he filled out a questionnaire about the working environment of taxi drivers.
Although O'Connor's unexpected visit completely disrupts Belle's disguise plans, she insists that Louis have to fill out a questionnaire before she can talk about the rest of the story. She spent hours making up this questionnaire.
The questionnaire focused on the health of the driver group, and from these questions, the prostate health of many taxi drivers is not optimistic.
"How the hell do I remember how many times a day I go to the toilet!" Louis cursed under his breath.
Wilson Sr. was a little at a loss, and he wanted to entertain Belle and Peter with something to drink, but when he opened the fridge, he found that there was only milk besides beer, which was obviously not suitable for entertaining.
After hesitating for a moment, he still took out two bottles of beer and placed them in front of the two young men.
"You're both 21 years old, aren't you?"
The two men said in unison, "yes", "no".
Belle sighed and said to Peter, "His way of asking you to answer 'yes' is that you don't have to be so realistic. β
He suddenly let out an "oh", then opened his backpack, took out two bottles of sparkling water from it, handed one to Belle, and said to old Wilson with an embarrassed face, "You're welcome, we brought our own." β
Old Wilson didn't speak, he had never been good at sociability, and he didn't know what to do in the face of these two strange things.
He simply got up again, wanting to see his son. However, when passing by Peter's side, he still reminded him in a low voice, "If you want to chase this girl, you can unscrew it the next time you hand her bottled water." β
With that, he ignored the discussion between Peter and Belle about whether it was sexist to help a girl open a drink bottle, and walked up to his son lightly and looked at the questionnaire that didn't make sense at all.
"Actually, you don't have to fill it in seriously, that girl is just making trouble."
"I know," Louis said bitterly, "but she promised a job, a job of my dreams!" I want to prove to her that I can do it at any cost. β
"Son, listen to me, you can see that she is not an ordinary person, even Captain America can't do what she just did, do you really think about it, do you want to work for such a person? What she wants to do, you can do at all costs, and you may not be able to do it. β
"I don't care, even if it is death, it is much better than living and suffering now."
Louis ignored his dad and continued to fill out the questionnaire.
Old Louis shook his head and sighed, and went back to the drawing-room, where he wanted to have a good talk with Belle.
He sat across from Belle and Peter, hesitating, not knowing how to speak.
At this time, Peter was always very considerate, he saw the old Wilson's entanglement, and pushed the beer just in front of Wilson.
"Thank you." Wilson Sr. took a sip of his beer and said, "I can't lose Louis, he's my only relative." β
"I know," Belle said, "but you don't have a choice, do you?" β
"I regret it now," said Wilson Sr., "that I should have prevented him from joining the army." β
Belle said, "Really? I don't think so. Your son is a great soldier, and he is also very well adapted to life on the battlefield. To have the opportunity to do something that I am very good at and that I don't dislike is, to some extent, I am very lucky. β
"You call this lucky?" Wilson Sr. asked, "Look at him?" What lucky person has to sleep in a hole in the ground to avoid nightmares? What lucky person has to pin his head to the waistband of his trousers to get by? β
"As long as you can sleep soundly, what's wrong with sleeping in a hole in the ground?" Belle asked rhetorically, "As long as you can live a stable life, what's the point of pinning your head to the waistband of your pants?" You see so many homeless people on the street, sleeping in a place that is not as good as a hole in the ground, and they want to pin their heads to the waistband of their trousers, but they don't even have a belt. β
Old Wilson was speechless when he asked these few words, and he also scared Peter on the side enough. He secretly made up his mind that he would never quarrel with Belle, her ability to talk nonsense was really strong.
"PTSD is not a big deal, I can cure him with my fingers," Belle continued, her words renewing hope for Wilson Sr., "but his biggest problem is that he wants fairness, justice, and defending his dignity and rights." I can do these things for him, but I can't do them for him. Do you understand? β
Of course, he understands that as a father, he only hates himself for being incompetent and not being able to do these things for his son. But even if he could, he could do it, and only Louis himself could help him get out of his current predicament.
"In three days, my lawyer will come with the contract, and you can use these few days to think about it. Of course, if you need a lawyer to help you read the contract, I can help you too. If all goes well, I hope that next Monday, Louis can drive up to my building and pick me up. We still have something to do, so we won't bother. β
Belle got up to leave, but before leaving, she remembered and shouted at Louis, "Have you finished filling out the questionnaire?" β
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"Hey, I think you're a little too much today."
Back in the car, Peter finally couldn't help it.
"Why are you putting so much pressure on them, a father who cares about his son, a veteran, are good people worthy of respect."
Belle fiddled with her phone absentmindedly and said without raising her head: "If you know that I intend to pay him, you will find that my respect is real." β
"You know I don't mean that," said Peter, "I mean to say that you shouldn't say that Louis is happy now." He didn't want that. β
Belle didn't plan to reason with Peter, as she couldn't tell Peter exactly what she wanted to do with Louis. On the surface, it is indeed her fault, but it is not her character to admit her mistake when she is wrong.
So she intends to make the good boy Peter feel the cruelty and evil of the world.
"The first time you came to my new home, you didn't go well, do you remember?"
knew that Belle was deliberately reversing the topic, but what she said did make Peter feel aggrieved for several days, and he was really impressed.
"So, you must remember the doorman who stopped you from entering that day?"
"Alas, how could you not remember, if you answered the phone a minute later, he would have directly called someone to call me out."
"Then did I tell you that after the last incident, that person was fired?"
"What? How so? Peter asked, "Is it not his fault?" β
Belle asked rhetorically, "It's not his fault that he's rude to my guests, is it my fault?" β
"Almost," Peter's desire to survive was not very high at this time, "you told me to go, and you didn't say hello to them, and you had to take a shower when I came, and no one answered the phone." β
"Yo, am I wrong?"
"No, no, I mean, you live alone in that 8,000-square-foot (imperial unit, about 800 square meters) house, and you don't even have someone to help you, how inappropriate, if you have a housekeeper or something, can't you ......"
"What if you can't? When Hydra comes to blow up my house again, it will blow up and kill the servants together? β
"I didn't mean that!" Peter felt that he was at a loss for words now, but he didn't know which sentence began to be completely suppressed, "I mean, at least usually, someone can help you answer the phone, cook a meal, clean up or something, and save you too much to do." β
Belle didn't speak this time, but stared at Peter to see when he himself would realize that what he said was outrageous.
The answer is a second.
It quickly occurred to him that no matter how big the house was, Belle could be spotless in an instant with a single thought.
With a phone call, the restaurant on the 12th floor caters to the building's residents can deliver everything from a three-Michelin-starred restaurant to a roadside stall.
As for her phone, at the moment, no one can touch it except herself and Hernan Γlvarez.
He thought about it carefully, analyzed it, and then realized a very cruel reality: although in Peter's opinion, Belle's life was already very luxurious, but from the perspective of Belle's own economic ability and status, she has actually maintained a minimalist lifestyle.
As a wealthy man worthy of being called a trench, not only did her family have no housekeepers and servants, but she never looked for even part-time workers.
Since running a desperate housewife, she often goes to formal occasions such as celebrity dinners, but she doesn't have a dedicated hairstylist, makeup artist, stylist, and image consultant, all of which rely on "snapping her fingers" to solve her own problems.
She also has no assistants, secretaries or anything like that, and relies on an eccentric man who wears sunglasses at all times to take care of most of her affairs.
Fortunately, she also has a good lawyer, and Pepper Potz has recommended a very reliable financial advisor, plus the agent Dan that almost everyone has forgotten.
This is really the most minimalist rich man in the world.
Belle didn't tell Peter, the main reason she lived like this was because she was just a dick at heart, and she was completely unsuitable for the unexpected operations of the rich world.
In order to prevaricate Peter, the reason she gave was the extreme importance of privacy and security.
That's a good reason, and they're really important to her.
On the top floor of the nation's tallest residential building on Manhattan Island, the United Nations Tower-level security guarded by a top security company, wants to attack such a place unless there is another 911.
The minimalism of the personnel can ensure that her private information will not be excessively circulated to the greatest extent. If something goes wrong, you can quickly find the person responsible.
Both security and privacy are guaranteed.
But Peter wasn't very convinced. He always felt that Belle was hiding something from him.
Now that he heard about it, Peter came to his own conclusion: Belle was not willing to show off her extravagant lifestyle in front of her.
Peter Parker was a poor man who was always worried about money. But he is not the kind of person who will tell Bai Fumei to ask for support. Once Belle's lifestyle causes too much stimulation to Peter, he will never be able to extricate himself from the rich country, but will inevitably withdraw from it, or disappear from Belle's life completely.
Thinking of this, Peter was slightly depressed. He said faintly: "Can you think of a way to let that person come back again, don't cause people to lose their jobs because of me." It's normal for him to stop me, I don't look like your friend no matter how I look at it. β
Belle didn't seem to feel his emotional change, but complained about him: "It's really not like it, but life is full of accidents." β
Peter asked, "What does this have to do with the fact that you are tormenting Wilson so much today?" β
Belle replied, "I do the same thing as our housekeeper team there. In order to maintain their own image, the housekeeping team will fire people who have made even the slightest mistake. What I did was to show that I was his employer, not his psychiatrist. I'll help him solve the problem, provided he completes the task I have assigned. β
She paused, appreciating Peter's slightly shocked look for a moment before continuing, "Who made me the boss?" β