Chapter 134: The Old Past

Every year, the Pebble Beach Auto Show is a time when students from several colleges and universities in northern California compete with each other, because the auto show has a public welfare nature, and there are a lot of rich people who come, so students scramble to grab these rare places, in the name of charity, close to the top people who are difficult to meet on weekdays, and want to fight for a good future for themselves.

Thomas, a recent college graduate, is one of them.

He is 27 years old and graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, not as well-known as Stanford and Caltech, but he does have a master's degree.

After studying public administration for many years, he can't look down on small companies, big companies don't look down on him, high or low, he interviewed for twenty or thirty times at the graduation job fair, but he couldn't meet his favorite job, and the other students have been working for almost half a year, and he hasn't done a day's work.

This time, at the suggestion of his roommate, he came to the Pebble Beach Car Show, and the legend that some golf boys succeeded by this shortcut was widely spread on the trail, and Thomas wanted to try his luck.

A few days ago, he took care of a well-known rich man in California, and promoted himself for a long time, the rich man had begun to be a little interested in himself, but he accidentally encountered an unexpected situation, drove away in a smoke, and couldn't see anyone, and he hasn't been able to find him yet.

Thomas lost his mind and complained to himself, "Damn the storm, I curse you......"

"Sir? Mr? ”

The boy called him several times, and Thomas slowly came back to his senses, and said in a daze, "I'm sorry, is there anything I can do to help you?" ”

"Yes, it's our first time here, and we want someone to help introduce us." Han Xuan said politely.

Thomas looked up at a few people behind Han Xuan, dressed like a few people, but unfortunately it is Chinese, as long as the clothes borrowed from the store do not tear the label, they can be returned, who knows where they come from, this is the United States, the United States at the top of the pyramid controlled by white people..

Thinking about Thomas, he began to take a little contempt, he is not one of those hairy boys who just got out of college, and when he saw a seemingly rich man, he pounced, and life had long since wiped out his ideals and innocence.

In this country, whites have a hundred times more chances of success than Chinese, and it is better to look for new prey when there is time.

"You can ask him to help you, I have other things to do." Pointing casually to the young man standing next to him, Thomas spoke lightly.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw an old man coming over, hurriedly greeted him, stretched out his hand from afar, and called out cordially: "Mr. Jeremia! Here, do you remember me? Thomas, Thomas who helped you set up the exhibition last time! ”

Han Xuan thought that he had seen a star, so he was so excited, looked in the direction where Thomas was speaking, and unexpectedly found that the one named Jeremiah was an old man.

Han Xuan had also seen him from a low-flying helicopter, the one on the dock just now, the tall girl in the old man's arms, no worse than the model, standing next to Jeremia, a head taller than him, this was the result of her deliberately not wearing high heels.

He was whispering something as if he had no bones leaning on the old man, and the collar of his shirt was open to his navel, and the breeze brought by passers-by seemed to be able to lift the thin layer of fabric.

A man's seventh sense is sometimes no worse than his sixth sense, Han Xuan suddenly felt a chill, quickly turned around, and sure enough, he found that Anya was staring at him, Anya turned her eyes away as if she was looking at a billboard in the distance.

Old Man Han's face stiffened when he heard Thomas say the name.

Realizing that it was really the person he had thought of, he snorted heavily, ignoring the outsiders and said, "Despicable fellow, why haven't you gone to see God yet!" ”

This is already directly cursing him to die.

Jeremiah, with a gray beard, a sunhat on his head, beach pants and short sleeves, had just been angry at the docks and was waving Thomas away.

Hearing the old man's words, he immediately glared at him, and saw that the old man Han was here, playing with the taste: "It turned out to be you, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

"By the way, thank you for the money, otherwise my company wouldn't have grown so fast, haha!"

Han Xuan hadn't seen his grandfather's face so ugly, and he didn't know why, but he was also quite unhappy with Jeremiah.

Old Jeremiah put his arms around the girl and showed off to her loudly: "Do you know the SOS Group? It's his company, I sued him in court in the early '80s, and this Mr. Han generously paid me $7 million, otherwise you wouldn't be so comfortable. ”

After speaking, he twisted the girl's face and looked at Old Man Han with mockery in his eyes.

The old man was even more angry, and scratched Jeremia: "You will pay the price!" ”

Han Xuan didn't know why, he was pulled by his grandfather, went to the office building where the organizer was located, and stood at the door, the old man took a few deep breaths, finally returned to his usual appearance, turned his head and said to them: "I'll go to register, take the number plate and come out, sorry, I lost my temper just now." ”

Lady Cecilia shook her hand and said, "It's okay, everyone will have people they don't like, won't they?" ”

"Yes!" The boy's grandfather smiled back, rubbed Han Xuan's head, and said, "Take Anya there to eat something, there are many people at noon, and you may not be busy......"

When he entered the door, Han Xuan looked at his grandfather.

Guo Muzhou seemed to be prepared, and said: "At that time, SOS was still in its infancy, far from being as large as it is now, and once ordered a batch of home appliances from Monroe Trading Company, by the way, it was Jeremaier's company. ”

"At that time, the sales of household appliances were very hot, and your grandfather took a large amount of money to expand the store, hoping to take a ride to make some money, and contacted Jeremiah through a middleman, and he had the sales rights of several electrical appliance brands."

Guo Muzhou thought of the things that made him uncomfortable, and exhaled slightly, at that time, the two families had just made a marriage, so he understood it very clearly, and paused to continue to tell.

"After paying the deposit, Monroe Trading did send the first batch of goods, which were temporarily arranged in a warehouse halfway, but they caught fire that night, and burned to death two security guards sent by SOS to escort the shipment."

"Your grandfather thinks that the goods have not been handed over, and he does not have to bear any responsibility, and is willing to compensate each security guard's family with 200,000 US dollars, and the money has not depreciated as much as it has now in 80 years, and it is considered benevolent and righteous."

"And then?"

Anya listened attentively, unconsciously said this sentence, and hurriedly covered her mouth afterwards, what she did just now was too rude.

Guo Muzhou shook his head with a smile and said that it didn't matter: "Seeing that he was unwilling to pay the final payment, the Monroe Trading Company filed a lawsuit in the federal court in Los Angeles, and it should have been able to win the lawsuit, but Jeremiah insisted that it was your grandfather who let the security guards live in the warehouse and stay overnight guards." ”

"I also bought off their family, saying that your grandfather once called and instructed two security guards to lock the door at night, and then the matter became serious."

"The majority of the jury stood on Jerry Maier's side, demanding not only that your grandfather pay compensation for the loss of goods, but also that he pay $1.5 million in pensions to the families of the two dead employees, and such an unfair trial was passed in the federal court in Los Angeles, and the original verdict was upheld on appeal again......"