America 1982

Tommy was skeptical about whether his father-in-law would really pimp Warner and convince himself to let Warner take advantage of him and hold shares in his production company as Sean said. He still had some feelings for his father-in-law. What is known is that although the two of them are aware of some of the other's little nastiness in life, they still regard each other as family members who are trustworthy and cannot be completely separated.

Just when Tommy was full of tender fantasies about his father-in-law, he received a call from the other party, asking him to go to New York to attend a cocktail party organized by him and introduce him to a long-time friend in the film industry.

Compared with the enthusiastic upper class parties in California, the upper class in New York is much more conservative, always wearing a splendid and polite coat. Tommy has always disliked living in New York because of this. Think about it, his father-in-law introduced him to A good friend wanted to meet his son-in-law, and he wanted to have a serious dinner party. The venue was chosen to be a place where even a prostitute would have to wear a brand name to get in.

There is no need for these hypocritical etiquettes in California. Look at Jason, when he first introduced a Korean girl to Tommy, it was on a sunny and crowded beach, and everyone had a candid meeting relying on a blanket.

At the members-only Morgan Private Club in New York, Julian Farrell hugged Tommy and then introduced him to the middle-aged man next to him: "Herbert Siegel, Chairman and CEO of Clark Industries .”

Tommy turned his attention to the man. He was tall and had short brown hair. He was dressed much more casually than Julian in suits and ties. He had a black silk shirt that looked like an ordinary worker could afford it, but in fact it was Wearing high-end customized overalls, wearing a silver necklace around his neck, and holding a cigar in his mouth.

Both his title and his attire make this middle-aged man, who is almost the same age as his father-in-law, look less like a film industry tycoon and more like a practitioner in a traditional industrial industry.

"Otilia's fiancé, or boyfriend, this bastard hasn't proposed to my baby daughter yet." Julian patted his son-in-law on the back and introduced Tommy to him.

The man named Herbert took off the cigar from his mouth: "So, the heart of that little angel Otilia was taken away by this little bastard of SSD? As a member of the Order of the Phoenix, how can you tolerate SSD? Asshole became your family member, I knew it, Julian, remember what I said when you pursued your wife in college, that was definitely a conspiracy of SSD, your wife was an undercover agent of SSD who broke into the Order of the Phoenix, otherwise ...With your face that is uglier than a burnt pizza, it is completely impossible to pick up their most beautiful girl. Now the truth is here, SSD has completely penetrated into the families of Order of the Phoenix alumni."

"I will convey this sentence later to your brother-in-law, Herbert, who is twenty-two years younger than you. When you married the sister of a current SSD student four years ago, I sincerely sent you my blessing." Julian said with a smile.

Herbert stretched out his hand and shook Tommy: "Hello, boy, your father-in-law's introduction is not accurate enough. I am indeed the chairman of Clark Industries, but I also have another identity, the vice chairman of the board of directors of Warner Corporation, and the largest shareholder of Warner Corporation." The shareholders, uh, also include CNN Group, and I also hold those two titles."

Tommy had heard of Clark Industries before from his father-in-law. This is a very diversified listed company with amazing revenue but little reputation. Its business scope covers everything from car interiors to shipbuilding to wine brewing. Then to medical supplies, as well as oil, natural gas, insulation materials and even television business and software development. In short, you can see this company in any industry that can make money.

This company holds a number of innovative technology patents for shipbuilding, which has also allowed Julian's Sealine Shipbuilding to continue to cooperate with each other in patent licensing.

"Hello, Mr. Siegel, Tommy, Tommy Hawke, a small character who is learning how to do business from his father-in-law." Tommy shook hands with the other person and said politely and humbly.

The three people walked into the restaurant that had been prepared. The waiter helped the three people pull out the dining chairs. Herbert said as he sat down: "In my opinion, Julian is definitely not as good as you. If you insist on following him, Learn how to do business around you, the advice I can give you is, don’t waste time, just donate two-thirds of your assets, and then you will achieve as good a business achievement as your father-in-law.”

Tommy glanced at his father-in-law, who was tipping the waiter and sending them away. Herbert's words obviously meant that his father-in-law had told him about his approximate assets, which meant that Herbert West in front of him The relationship between Geer and Julian could not be summed up by simply saying "good friends". His father-in-law was not an honest man like his father who wanted to brag to all the neighbors about how rich his son was.

"Mr. Siegel doesn't seem to be as close to you as you told me." After Tommy sat down firmly, he arranged his napkin and asked his father-in-law: "I can tell that he is humiliating you. Just say a word from you." Well, my father-in-law, my bodyguard Mr. Page is right outside the door."

Julian sighed proudly with a warm expression and looked at Herbert: "My dear boy Tommy, you move me."

"So, you will let your bodyguard come in and beat me up to vent your anger on your father-in-law?" Herbert threw two cigars in front of him to Tommy and Julian and asked with a smile.

"Yes."

"No."

Julian said yes and Tommy said no.

Julian looked at Tommy in confusion: "I thought our father-in-law and son-in-law already had a good understanding and a tacit understanding."

"What I mean is that Mr. Page carries at least four or five electric shock devices on his body. He can give one to each of you, and then you two proud sons of the Order of the Phoenix can have a fair showdown here. I am a white man. Outsiders from the Robe Club are responsible for applauding and serving as referees. I will not show favoritism, nor will I blow a black whistle. After all, any member of the Order of the Phoenix who falls is worthy of celebration for the White Robe Club." Tommy took the opponent and threw it over. cigar, looked at his father-in-law Julian, and said with a sincere and expectant look.

After hearing what Tommy said, Herbert leaned back in his chair and stared at Julian: "This is the good son-in-law you chose, huh? Brother, which eye did you use to help your daughter choose a boyfriend? He is It’s heartwarming, but it’s normal, a rotten person like you only deserves a bastard like Tommy as a son-in-law.”

"Julian is a good man." Hearing Herbert say that his father-in-law was a bad man, although he knew that their relationship must be close enough, as a future son-in-law, Tommy still had to correct him thoughtfully in this situation.

Herbert picked up the dinner wine and took a sip: "Good guy? No, he is just a bad guy. Don't be deceived by the gentlemanly demeanor this bastard is showing at the moment. Julian, tell your dear son-in-law Tommy, are you a Bad person? What did you do to me before?"

"It's nothing, just some common pranks played by adolescent boys." Julian said calmly.

Then he tried to introduce the club's signature food to his son-in-law Tommy, hoping to divert the conversation.

"Common pranks? Are you saying that the nickname Shetland Dog that I have had for four years as an undergraduate is just a common prank?" Herbert obviously didn't want the topic to end here. He took a few puffs of his cigar fiercely. Turning to Tommy:

"I made a beautiful girlfriend during my freshman semester, and she also got a cute Shetland. I was the first among our batch of freshmen to find a girlfriend in college, and then your father-in-law was jealous of me. He fucking teamed up with a few rookies at the same time to do something that made my girlfriend leave me and gave me a nickname that will always be on the alumni roster of the Order of the Phoenix, Shetland Dog."

"I'm listening, sir." Tommy said seriously with a very serious expression on his face: "I'm jealous of you. This is a very serious accusation."

Julian looked at Tommy speechlessly, who was waiting to hear the gossip: "When did you have such a strong curiosity?"

"After my father-in-law was equally curious about my personal life," Tommy muttered under his breath.

Herbert bit his cigar and leaned back in his chair to recall, with resentment in his voice that could not be eliminated even after more than twenty years:

"The tragedy happened thirty minutes before my first date night with my girlfriend. My beautiful girlfriend had already taken a shower, changed into the underwear carefully prepared for me, and was waiting for me in the dormitory to have a romantic dream together. I was walking triumphantly on the way to the meeting, and I carried two boxes of condoms with me. Damn it, when I was less than a hundred meters away from my girlfriend’s dormitory, these ugly bastards who couldn’t pick up girls kidnapped me. Got me."

"Wow." Tommy succeeded in an instant, and the expression on his face instantly changed from serious to eager for knowledge.

Herbert picked up the glass and took a sip to relieve the urge to jump up and kill Julian, and continued: "Guess where those hairs come from, my girlfriend's cute Shetland dog, they bastards tied it up before That poor dog had a bikini cut out of it, you know? Picture that, a Shetland in a bikini."

Tommy held up the wine glass with both hands, lowered the rim of the glass very low, and signaled to his father-in-law: "I am very impressed with you, father-in-law. Compared with you, the way I used to play tricks on my SSD brothers in college was like a child's life." Every family is harmless.”

As expected, my father-in-law is not a good person. I was a little hasty before. I shaved off the hair of my brother’s girlfriend’s dog and thoughtfully prepared a fur condom for my brother. How could he be a normal person who came up with such a method?

If it was Tommy who came up with this method at Stanford and used it on Jason, Tommy guarantees that within thirty years, Stanford SSD will spread the word about himself, the best adult product designer at Stanford, and Jason, the best adult product designer at Stanford. The campus legend of a male model for adult products.

"Because of them, I broke two records of Cornell University's Order of the Phoenix, the fastest to get a girlfriend and the fastest to break up with my girlfriend. I can't forget it to this day. My lovely girlfriend saw me underneath. That Shetland fur condom expression." Herbert ended the memory with an unbearable expression:

"By the way, your father-in-law's nickname in the Cornell Order of the Phoenix is ​​fucking 'Pest'!"

"You framed me first and sent a photo of a man's club in my name to the girl I like. I just punished you a little." Julian retorted with disdain.

Herbert immediately corrected him: "After I found out that I sent it by mistake, I immediately wrote an apology letter to the girl in your name. Okay, a very sincere apology!"

"Of course I haven't forgotten. In your fucking apology letter, you wrote sincerely to the biology girl: Dear Sally, I'm very, very sorry. I made a mistake. That club is not mine, this one is. Then I attached a photo of my head to the letter! The photo also says that Julian Farrell is a throat fish." Tommy's father-in-law said in an unhappy tone.

Tommy's thirst for knowledge made him couldn't help but raise his hands: "Two biology professors, please forgive me for my lack of understanding of biology, so what does throat fish mean?"

Julian rolled his eyes at the curious Tommy unhappily and said nothing, but Herbert was just the opposite. He seemed to be waiting for Tommy to ask this question. At this time, he said happily: "Because the reproductive organs of animals like the throat fish are long." On the head! Child! Hahahahaha~~"

"The atmosphere has reached this point, so do you need me to call Mr. Page to come in and help you provide weapons?" Tommy looked at the two middle-aged men who were criticizing each other and asked with concern.

At the same time, he also understood why his father-in-law always liked to come to such secret clubs to gather with friends. After all, on a California beach with many tourists, two American billionaires could not expose each other's scandals.

After telling his joke, which was equivalent to telling his son-in-law about his relationship with him, Julian helped Tommy prepare the dishes himself and said: "The Siegel family and the Farrell family have a deep relationship since my father. I mean, he and I tortured each other and made fools of each other, but still stood up for each other when the other needed help, so you could totally respect Herbert as another me."

"So, now I'm going to hire a team of Pinkerton detectives to keep an eye on Mr. Siegel and threaten him with respect if I find him fooling around? If Mr. Siegel doesn't obey, I will reveal the situation to His brother-in-law who is 22 years younger than him and came from SSD?" Tommy gave Julian a knowing look and teased with a smile.

When Herbert heard Tommy's words, he showed a surprised expression: "Wow, you and your son-in-law really love each other. Congratulations, pest, you have found a son-in-law that suits you."

"Herbert never participated in the day-to-day management of Warner. He was more focused on Clark Industries' business. However, he has been a friend of Warner's chairman Steve Ross and director Turner for many years. He invested in holding shares in Warner and CNN because When Murdoch landed in the United States, he wanted to take over Warner Bros., and he stepped forward to help his friends through the difficulties. Turner's CNN has been in some difficulties recently, and the news channel has suffered serious losses. It only relies on movies, reality shows, sports, documentaries and other channels to sustain itself. , but now, in addition to paid movie channels and paid sports channels, Fox is preparing to seize the market share of paid reality shows." Julian said to Tommy:

"The most important thing is that Herbert helped me. If your free TV network does not compete with the CNN paid reality show channel, can you consider helping it?"

Tommy slowly exhaled a puff of smoke: "My father-in-law is of Jewish descent. He has always taught me not to ask how much you have to pay, but to always figure out what you can gain first. So, what can my father-in-law and I gain?"

"When did I teach you this sentence? I didn't." Julian thought for a moment and said in confusion.

"No, you do." Tommy looked at Herbert: "I'm not a greedy person, but if we don't talk about gains in this kind of thing, it will seem unreal, and both of us will feel uneasy."

"I feel that the Jewish blood in your body is much deeper than that of your father-in-law." Herbert stared at Tommy for a long time and said with a smile: "So, what is the price?"

"trust."

Herbert glanced at Julian and found that Julian was nodding to his son-in-law with satisfaction. He looked at Tommy who was waiting for a reply, and after thinking for a moment, he said:

"You still learned something from your father-in-law, and I will pass your words on to them."

"Righteous," Tommy said suddenly to Herbert.

Herbert looked at Tommy in confusion: "What?"

"My nickname in the Stanford White Coat Club is Tommy the Righteous." Tommy smiled at Herbert and said:

“People are not willing to believe in vermin, but they are willing to believe in the righteous.”

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