how i bought the whole world

Brandon whispered in my ear, "Does Andy mean to promote custard?"

I shook my head at him, "The cost is too high. Do you think that Andy's previous company didn't make much money? No, he just used all that money to make robots. Don't look at the custard. It looks small, but the cost It should have reached 30 to [-] U.S. dollars, of which their master computer should be worth more than [-] U.S. dollars. And Andy’s intention is not to make money, he just likes this research.”

Brandon stared at the custard with only half of his body left, "You reminded me, I will send the bill to the FBI, such as the stained carpet, wallpaper and your office, and the damaged cream Dong, I will ask Mr. Robin about the cost of the custard later, and they will have to pay for these losses."

"Naturally, my dear." I replied with a smile, and secretly shook his hand when no one was prepared.Brandon scratched my palm in response, and in short, the two of us separated as if nothing had happened.

Not long after, Detective Jones appeared at the gate of WF with a stiff face. It took him no more than 10 or [-] minutes to come. This is not surprising. For the past two weeks, Jones and his men have been in a monitoring vehicle facing the street. He secretly monitored us. There are two reasons for him to do this. One is to try to find the weakness of WF Group, and the other is to respond to Peggy and Evans at any time.Hence Paige.As soon as Evans was attacked by the custard, they heard what happened remotely.

In fact, Jones concealed it very well. If no one around me reminded him, his actions might really be able to hide it from the world, but who told me that the bodyguards around me were from the Blackwater Company?Everyone in the Blackwater Company is a special soldier after leaving the army. They are not vegetarians. They discovered the whereabouts of the car as early as the first day Jones stayed in the street. It's just that I, the boss, pretended not to know. To be honest, I was also amazed by my own endurance, and I acquiesced to their actions without doing anything.

I was waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity for them to take the initiative to show up, and now the opportunity finally came.

After Jones entered the door, he first searched for his subordinates with his eyes. After he saw Evans and confirmed that the other party was not injured, he was in the mood to talk to us. Evans' original name was Peggy.Cardiff is Jones' powerful general. Her original mission was to sneak into the group and secretly take pictures of the accounts of WF Group to find out hidden property and possible illegal activities. Candidly photographed documents and was caught by us on the spot.

To Evans, there was nothing wrong with her own behavior, which can be seen from the fact that she was still righteous when she entered the conference room, but to me, her behavior was quite despicable. If anyone Everyone can casually invade other people's privacy, so is there any law in this society?I wonder if these detectives have watched too many TV series, so they will act similar to crimes-Americans have always liked to promote their heroism, which can be seen from their large number of film and television works, for Therefore, they often do mindless things, but I really hate people who deprive others of their rights under the banner of justice.

"Are you going to have a good talk with me, Agent Jones?" I asked. "We can sit down and talk calmly, and then we can clear up our misunderstanding, so you and I can be better, don't you think?"

"Let my men go first." Jones stared at me.

"Of course, agent, we are not villains." I made a gesture, and Chris came up to ask people away. Peggy dodged his outstretched hand with a vicious look on her face. Now she finally I understand that all this is a trap. Chris is the bait I arranged for her. She thought she was so charming that she could seduce my lawyer.Chris didn't blush at all. Peggy's motive for approaching him was obviously not pure. He only took the initiative to express ambiguity, and the other party foolishly took the hook. Who is cleaner than whom?

After watching the people leave, Jones said, "I want Peggy's surveillance video, the original version."

I smiled, "I understand, but it depends on your sincerity."

"What do you want, Field?" he asked.

"Nothing, I just ask you to stop chasing me, Agent Jones, I'm not a stepping stone on your way up." I said, "If you don't trouble me in the future and tell me who the whistleblower is , I will return the sneak shot record of your subordinates to you. Of course, the original version is impossible. I always need some self-defense props, but it is useless to keep things with me. I can guarantee that I will not disclose her ins. .”

I didn't explain whether I had done tax evasion. For Jones, even if I explained him, he could choose not to believe it, so it's better to threaten directly.

"Peggy's video can't be kept, what if you ask me to do other things in the future."

"You are not as important as you think, Agent Jones." I said, I didn't intend to completely tear myself apart with Jones, after all, he is an FBI and belongs to the US federal government, so I don't really need to compete with state agencies.

"I do not believe."

I shrugged my shoulders, "You can insist on your idea, and then continue to investigate me and find evidence of my crime. And I will call the police immediately, and let Miss Evans face prosecution and the possibility of being disqualified as an agent. Law enforcement and vandalism are more serious crimes."

"You!" Jones spit out a word angrily.

However, he was secretly angry, but there was nothing he could do about it. Jones wasn't that bad a person, and he couldn't do anything to bring me down at the expense of his subordinates. He was silent for a long time, and finally agreed to my deal, but at the same time Jones also said, He didn't know who the whistleblower was. He only had a phone call recording and a USB flash drive, which was said to be my black account information.

Then he handed all these materials to me.

The U-disk is an ordinary U-disk with nothing but a forged document, but the phone recording has given us a lot of gains. After checking at the beginning, the phone recording has been processed by a voice changer. Specifically, who can’t hear it? came out, however we quickly found a dedicated technical back-up who cracked the camouflage of the color changer and restored the recording to its original tone, and when we listened to the restored recording again, we were sure it was Reeves.

Brandon thinks we should immediately expose all the scandals about Reeves to the media.

I stopped him, "No, Brandon, we can't do anything about this matter. After all, Reeves is also the deputy CEO of Amazon. Amazon has already dealt with him once to appease us. Amazon can tolerate it once or twice, but It won't always like us talking dirty about Reeves."

Brandon looked at me. "Is that the way to go? That's not your character, Boss."

"Of course not." I shook my head. "We certainly won't let it go like this, but I have an idea, what if we hand over this kind of face-slapping to Jones? Reeves' income account is unknown, isn't it just Is it the job of Detective Jones, it just so happens that he also wants to be promoted, let them go dog-eat-dog."

……

One day in mid-August, Reeves was formally arrested by the FBI police on corruption charges.

The news reports on him are overwhelming, from his life to the life of his parents. Reeves was originally born and wealthy, but he relied on his own intelligence to pass the entrance examination to Stanford University, the most famous university in the United States. After that, during the school, Reeves also got Vinson, president of Kroger, a well-known American retailer company.Browning's discerning eye became one of its middle managers after graduation, but he jumped to Amazon at the age of 38 and started working for Amazon's founder Jeff.Bezos was not well-known at the beginning, and he only did some ordinary manager’s work, but Reeves is very good at hugging the boss’s thigh. When Bezos proposed corporate transformation measures, he also proposed several reform measures. It fit Bezos' psychology, so he was appreciated by Bezos.At that time, Bezos and Reagan were fighting inside Amazon. Reagan's unruly behavior made Bezos very embarrassed. At this time, he thought of Reeves who was loyal to him, so he sent him to suppress Reagan's power. With the support of Bezos, Reeves has had a smooth sailing life since then.

So, what gave him so much power?Is it money bribery, scheming, or illegal transactions?A large number of newspapers and media reported wildly while speculating.Was he the only one who benefited from it?Could he be a scapegoat for someone else?

In fact, such speculation is possible. Corruption charges are only part of the charges involved in Reeves. At the same time, there are multiple charges of adultery, tax evasion, and smuggling waiting. These charges do not seem to be accomplished by one person. , At the same time, the newspapers are still questioning Amazon's inaction, because Amazon's global transaction convenience has led to the existence of people like Reeves, but they have not given a corresponding review system, making people wonder whether there are loopholes in their management of customers .

In this way, Amazon became desperate to restore its reputation, and at this time Jones also relied on this case to obtain a senior agent, which was his wish.

……

At the end of August, it happened to be Tiffany’s 70th birthday. Since I came to Boston, I have not been in contact with him as often as before. I only talk on the phone once in a few months to tell about each other’s recent developments and so on.I have always felt guilty for ignoring this teacher. After all, Tiffany supported me a lot in the early days. In order to make up for my guilt, I deliberately set aside time early for this birthday. Not only did I carefully prepare his favorite Red wine as a birthday gift, and I plan to make a special trip back to New York to celebrate him. Of course, I hope that Brandon will go with me on that day. I want to introduce his other identity to Tiffany.

Brandon began to hesitate, he hesitated, "In what capacity should I go, your secretary?"

"Of course it's my boyfriend." I smiled. "Although Tiffany has never met you, he has always known you. He appreciates what you do."

"Won't your teacher be mad at you for having a boyfriend?"

"Tiffany is not such a pedantic person." I said, "Don't look at Tiffany on the surface, but he is the most soft-hearted. Even if he can accept people like Joshua Smith, why can't he accept us? We didn't do anything harmful. And Evelyn, she had long hoped that Chris and I could take our lover there, and now Chris is impossible, so let us make up for her regret."

But Brandon was not happy when he heard this. On the contrary, he became very silent. After a few seconds, he looked up, "I'm sorry William, I'm not ready yet. I can go with you, but not after Lover's identity."

I was a little dazed for a while.

I didn't expect Brandon to say that, we didn't hide our behavior from Chris, so I always thought he didn't mind letting Chris' family know that we were together.

"...Oh." I said a little disappointed.But he quickly cheered up, "It's okay Brandon, you can go as my friend if you don't like it, Alfonso used to go to Tiffany's house with me, Tiffany won't mind. "

Brandon smiled uneasily, "I'm really sorry." He repeated again, and then took the initiative to step forward, buried his face in my chest, and stretched out his arms to hug me, "Are you going to be angry with me?"

"Of course not. Brandon, I won't be angry with you for anything you do." I put my arms around his waist and kissed his temples as if comforting. At this moment, I noticed that Brandon was not very happy. Langdon seldom shows weakness like this. Even now that we are in our own home, he usually shows more restraint. I think something must have happened to him to make him feel uneasy.

Thinking of it this way, I couldn't help but feel a little worried, and couldn't help whispering in his ear, "What's the matter, dear, what happened to you?"

Brandon closed his eyes, "Indeed, I'm in a rather soft mood, and I don't know how to tell you for a while."

"Tell me." I said softly.

"William, you know my brother Carter. Last week, Carter came back from Paris. He came back to ask us to borrow money. His boyfriend Danny has kidney failure and needs money for a kidney transplant. Carter wants to save money. He, who has spent all his savings, is now short of more than [-] dollars to perform surgery on Danny. He came home to ask us for help when he had nowhere to go. I lent him the money, but my parents knew about it. The thing was very angry, they had a fight with him, dad said he was a betrayer, he deserved to be punished by God, Carter was very angry, he loved Danny very much, he didn't like the fact that his parents didn't even give a patient a sympathy, and then yesterday , my parents published in the newspaper announcing that they had separated from the family with Carter."

Brandon's family is very devout Catholics, in the Catholic transaction, homosexuality is not allowed.It is conceivable that Brandon's elder brother Carter encountered a wall when he came to ask his parents to borrow money. This made Brandon feel very bad. He thought of the situation he might encounter in the future.

"Honey." I looked at him reproachfully, "You didn't even tell me about this."

"You are already busy enough, I don't want to disturb you." Brandon pursed his lower lips, "And the group has been doing a lot of good things recently, Reeves was sued, Amazon also suffered damage to its reputation, and your teacher also Birthday, I see that you are very happy to prepare these things every day, and you don't want my family affairs to affect your mood."

"No matter how good things are, they are not as important as you." I said.