On the morning of January 2, 1997, several cars drove into Highland Park.

"Brother, don't be so nervous, APLUS doesn't know how to speak."

Al leaned on the steering wheel and smiled at DeLay beside him, "On the contrary, it was you, who said that you would hold a wedding with me last year?" ”

"I'm so busy that I don't have time to sleep every day."

Delai smiled wryly, "I often call me at three o'clock in the middle of the night to report that the server is down, and I have to get up immediately...... When the website is launched this year, I will be able to hire more people after the listing, and I will have free time to prepare for the wedding. He said.

"Seriously, you might as well continue to put the singer in the A+ record before, this time we switched from Sony Columbia Records to Universal, as long as the artists during the contract period have received a signing fee of varying amounts, I have a bastard who has no second special plan haha."

Al is very sincere, "Money is not picked, and nothing is chosen." ”

"Forget it, it's not appropriate." Delay smiled, he didn't care much about that little windfall anymore.

The two men got down outside the villa, Al threw the car keys to the car boy, DeLay gestured to his personal lawyer in the back car, and the two walked through the door together.

"Hey, Al, Delay, he's having a meeting in the study, please wait a minute, just take a walk, it should be fine over there."

Xue Linfen knew the relationship between the two and Song Ya, so she went to get busy without saying hello outside.

"OK, I'll go to the studio with DeLay for a while."

Al used to be a person who couldn't get rid of Song Ya's bunk, and when he entered Highland Park, he almost followed his own house, "You won't forget how to play the piano, will you?" He teased Dillay as he climbed the stairs, "How about I test you?" ”

"Just kidding, I used to be a super rock newcomer who was favored by SBK." Delay touched his already small beer belly, with a bit of self-deprecating boasting.

"Hah!"

“I got you，I got you on my mind……”

As soon as the brothers walked outside the recording room on the top floor, they heard a woman's singing voice coming from inside, her voice was very sweet, but after singing a short paragraph, there was not a single word in tune, which was also very powerful.

Fortunately, the singing stopped abruptly, probably interrupted by the conversation between the two.

The door was not closed, and when I went in, I knew each other, Mira was holding the guitar and bowing her head and laughing wildly, so it was Charlis who sang just now, and Delay thought of Xue Linfen who was a hostess downstairs, and Halle who was teasing little Robb in the hall......

Four top beauties with different styles are happy, which is really envied by real names!

"I'm sorry, Mira, Charis, you go on. ”

"I don't sing, I don't sing, I don't have all five notes." Charlise is a little self-aware.

"It's been a lot of progress." Mira said.

Is this a big improvement? How bad was that singing before......

"What are you singing? IS APLUS WRITTEN? Al grinned and flipped through Mira's sheet music.

"Yes."

The four of them played music in the studio for a while, until Xue Linfen came to inform.

"What's wrong with you? Didn't sleep well? ”

Delai called his lawyer into the study and saw Song Ya sitting at the table in a daze with a depressed face, and her eyelids couldn't seem to be raised.

"It's too tiring to rehearse the symphony, alas! I have to put on a show in the evening......"

Song Ya yawned and waved her hand, "Let's get down to business, it just so happens that Alicia is also there." ”

"Oh, hello, Mrs. Flock, Ms. Sloane." Delay greeted two serious and cold professional female elites in the study.

"Delay, uh, I'm sorry Argus didn't make ......"

As she shook hands, Alicia again apologized, "My law firm has merged with a local Silicon Valley law firm and I believe I can win the appeal." ”

"You can't afford to lose that one."

DeLay has a lot of opinions about the services of this woman's law firm, but ...... No way, who called her the governor's wife? The heaviest words in front of you can only be emphasized so much, and the tone is not too rushed.

"I know, never." Alicia solemnly assured.

"Sit down, let's get down to business." Ms. Sloan spread several papers on the table.

When the day finally came, DeLay looked at the documents that would allow him to officially get 15 percent of the shares of A+ Audio, tried to restrain his mood, gave his personal lawyer a look, and asked as he began to review the contract text, "Doesn't Goodman have to be there?" ”

"No, he drew up the contract two years earlier, and it has been stored in my safe, you see, it's all dust."

After Song Ya finished speaking, her mouth opened and she yawned loudly, "Sit down, don't stand." ”

"That's right, I brought it to you."

Delay took out some of the newspapers he had collected in his personal lawyer's briefcase, threw them to Song Ya, and walked to the window where the window was wide open and the Chicago cold wind poured in, and calmed down by looking at the scenery.

"What? Oh. ”

Song Ya picked it up and glanced at it a few times, some local Chicago morning newspapers, the common thing is that they all published their own Baba Yetu related news last night.

'The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, in collaboration with APLUS, has dedicated a glorious hymn to all of us in the Lord's Prayer in Swahili......

'May God be with us!' Catholics APLUS writes a new gospel ......'

This is basically the kind of content, because these newspapers are missionary publications issued by various missionary orders, and their influence is very low, and they are basically not newsworthy.

Last night's performance was a success, but because of the niche nature of PBS's classical music program, the speed and breadth of the spread were not good, except for A+CN who later posted a news report to help himself brag about it, which former New York Mayor Dingkins excitedly mentioned in his inner-city radio talk program, and the old man admired it because the station itself has an evangelical background.

Speaking of Protestantism, there are really many churches, for example, the church that my body has been going to since I was a child belongs to the Baptist African American school, the vice president of Dow and their choir are all from Lutheranism, the church of Old Barn belongs to another Lutheran federation, and Dinkins also belongs to Lutheranism, but there is a denomination in which African Americans are the majority. Sometimes they compete fiercely for believers, sometimes they face pressure from other, more alienated religious competitors, and sometimes they cooperate sincerely, and they are in a mess.

Fortunately, everyone has a very high opinion of their own Baba yetu......

Because it is indeed too correct, at present, whether in Africa or North Africa, a certain religion has a lot of attraction to the black community, so for the basic church, no matter how big or small, the Gospel symphony chant composed by the great singers of mixed American race and sung in the historic East African Swahili language is very conducive to their defense or offense, and in the battle for the 'flock' in peacetime, every cultural advantage is very valuable.

Over the years, Song Ya has clearly realized that in the United States, if there is no ethnic or religious background, people may tattoo Japanese characters or Chinese on their bodies out of the psychology of tasting freshness, showing off their personality or vassal elegance, and hang some Chinese calligraphy works in the room as decoration, but few people take the initiative to tattoo Middle Eastern letters and philosophies on their bodies, or hang some Middle Eastern calligraphy, even if it is actually Hafez's Persian poem praising fine wine.

They are all heterogeneous civilizations, and the Chinese book Ah San is still too far away from their hearts, and the religious threat is relatively insufficient, so that it is often used in Europe and the United States in history as an allegorical background for placing beautiful imaginations, or as a perfect topic for decorating exotic customs.

The other opponent is the thousand-year-old enemy of the religious field......

In short, this time the conservatives will definitely not find fault with themselves, and they have to think of their own good.

Taking advantage of the time when Delai's lawyer was reviewing the contract, Song Ya was thinking crankily.

"No problem." After a long time, the lawyer said.

Of course, no problem, after yawning for the third time, Song Ya signed casually, then exchanged signatures with Delay, and finally handed it to Alicia for confirmation.

Delay's expression was calm, but he was trying to suppress the excitement in his heart, and it was easy to see, "Is the listing going well?" He asked.

"It's okay, it should still be the same group of people as Netscape, KPCB, Morgan Stanley, Coopers......" DeLay replied: "The main risk is the lawsuit with the whole music website." ”

"My law firm will do its best." Alicia had no choice but to reassure.

After chatting for a while about the listing of the American music website, "Do you eat here at noon?" Xue Linfen appeared at the door of the study.

"I've got something to do."

Only Alicia refused, and she hurriedly quit after getting the contract.

"On the fiveth, are you coming with Peter for the groundbreaking ceremony?" Song Ya asked her back.

"No, I don't like that kind of occasion." She dropped a sentence and left.

"By the way, I invited Jared Leto Five to be a guest, is it okay to show up at the groundbreaking ceremony?"

Xue Linfen took the opportunity to propose, "It has been less than a month since the Apu Truth Festival opened on Pleventine's birthday, and he needs to be exposed." ”

"Free? That's no problem, come on, the more people, the better. ”

This is a good thing, Leto is considered popular, and when the time comes, plus himself and other singers who have signed new A+ records, all entertainment news will definitely report one.

After lunch, Dillay, who finally let go of his heart, also said goodbye and left, he wanted to rush back to Silicon Valley to keep an eye on the company, and other executives such as Yeremov also updated their equity awards at the end of last year, but there will be no more situations where they will give 5% or 15% when they open their mouths, and Song Ya was not very mature at that time.

"What does the general manager of Littleman Press say about our educational film project?"

In the afternoon, Sloan was the only one left in the study, but he was unable to earn twenty dollars, so he continued to handle official business.

"He's not old-fashioned, he's very interested, but I'd like to talk to you about it in person."

Sloan looked at him with a smile and said, "Is it because you have been thinking about those things all day long in your head?" HMM, APLUS? ”

"Professional, Ms. Sloan, who swears that you don't talk about that topic outside of trading?"

Song Ya fought back.

"Okay, okay, the general manager of Littleman Press thinks you're too tight on your schedule to lobby the education departments of the states, they're not big publishers, they have a certain channel but it's hard to get a breakthrough in a short period of time, unless it's ......" Sloan winked playfully.

"Unless there's a demonstration effect in one state, right?"

The two thought of going together, and they both laughed sympathetically, who else could be the breakthrough, Peter Flock, who was 'resolute', "Let the general manager of Littleman Publishing House No. 5 also come to the groundbreaking ceremony, and I will introduce our governor to him." ”

"By the way, what did you and David Geffen talk about in the evening besides talking about the little Bronfman naming the Symphony Center?"

Sloan asked.

"It's nothing, it's just small talk."

Song Ya shook his head, "Why should I, a Chinese, listen to Jews showing off history......

"What?" He complained about the latter sentence in Chinese, and Sloane didn't understand it.

"No, didn't I write a gospel song, David Geffen and Barenboy are both Jewish......"

Song Ya said.

"With Baba Yetu's hair, coupled with David Geffen's previous statement, your current political spectrum can be outlined very clearly by the outside world."

Sloan reminded: "A progressive with a Protestant background, in addition to believing in God, the difference between you and the conservatives in the United States is that you support the ban on guns, at least you have publicly expressed your support for a conditional gun ban, support for women's rights and all kinds of equal rights, these are actually not a big problem for conservatives, you are still young, this kind of thinking may be so-called 'corrected' in the future, then the last point of disagreement is only whether to support abortion, if you publicly express your support, then you will still offend them." ”

"Do you really want to pass one level at a time?" Song Ya continued to complain.

"Do you support it?" Sloan asked.

"Of course." Song Ya asked rhetorically: "Needless to say, right?" Shouldn't all those who support women's rights support women's right to choose freely? ”

"At least in the United States, there is a difference. Regardless of religion, it is very important to complete the confinement of women, because religion has a natural drive to expand its adherents, so they do not like abortion. Because most men are rebellious in their youth and are not so close to religious life due to the pressure of life, having a domesticated and loyal mother in the family will be one of the major reasons why they will recall the so-called good qualities of their mother's kindness, patience, and piety when they reach middle age or old age, and then go back to religion to find spiritual solace. ”

Sloan said: "The liberation of women's freedom is not easy to come by, don't look at some moderate conservative ideas now disguise themselves very well, but they are already fighting back, they will not let women go, and when they gain the advantage again, things will change much faster than imagined, do you think it will develop from 51 percent to 52 percent?" No, it's quite possible to jump straight from fifty-one percent to ninety percent. ”

“OK，OK。”

A long speech made Song Ya's eyelids almost droop, "I agree with you, but I need to take a good rest now, there is a performance in the evening, go out, go out......" He waved his hand to drive people away, and people lay down on the sofa.

"Come on, just go and stand there and wave a little stick for more than three minutes, how tired can you be?" Sloane's oratory appetite was not satisfied, and he rolled his eyes and complained.

"If you don't understand art, don't make random comments, okay?"

"Wow, great artist."

"Juicer!"

“……”

"I'm going to raise the price!"