Chapter 356

Simon and Jennifer left Melbourne on July 11 and arrived at a forested Lake in central Tasmania, just in the middle of Simon's private estate.

Because the nearest roads are all 30 kilometers away, you can only take a helicopter to get there.

The female assistant totally took out her own pocket to build three wooden houses for Simon, the two of them and other entourage to live in. In addition, she also built a helicopter apron. It costs a lot to transport building materials. Naturally, there is no water and electricity in the forest, so she can only rely on generators and natural water, and can only use satellite phones for communication.

Originally, it was a very closed living environment. When the snow covered everything, the surroundings were completely isolated from the world.

Suddenly out of busy work came here, Simon's first feeling is not comfortable, but anxiety, a strong sense of out of control. Fortunately, Simon has a special experience different from anyone else in the world, which is equivalent to the accumulation of more than ten sections of his life, and makes him adapt quickly.

Female assistants are able to switch freely between powerful women in the workplace and small women at home.

I came here with only a few books and a picture folder.

During the day, Simon taught himself how to draw. He skated on the frozen lake in front of the hut, dressed in a girl's white down jacket and looked like an elf skillfully.

In the evening, we cuddle together by the fireplace and read to Simon in a quiet voice. Proust's "reminiscence of the past" is a very thick book.

Or Yeats' poetry.

*……

*I'm going to get up and go to innisbury.

*Build a hut out of soil and branches.

*I want nine rows of cloud bean rack and a bee nest.

*Listen to the bees singing in the woods and live alone in the secluded place.

*Then I will have peace.

*……

After reading it, I also suggested that we should give a name to the lake in front of us, or just call it innisbury lake.

Simon refused.

In the small expression of resentment that the female assistant rarely made, she said that it should be called Jennie lake.

The female assistant's resentment did not dissipate, and asked which Jennie.

Simon insisted that it was Jennie in front of her, of course.

I also brought a Chinese version of a dream of Red Mansions.

Janet's original joke has never been forgotten. She wants to know the story of the attack and let Simon tell it to her in person.

Then I fell in love with the romantic atmosphere in the Grand View Garden.

Even if there was a strong curiosity in his eyes occasionally, he never asked why Simon knew such a difficult language.

Just keep asking all kinds of questions.

He also tried to learn to recite a poem from the book.

No inflexible pronunciation, very standard tone.

*Full of ridiculous words,

* a bitter tear.

*The author is crazy,

* who understands the flavor.

Finally, I can't help but ask Simon, is there really Sansheng stone?

Simon said no.

It's just a story.

Obviously dissatisfied with the answer, the corners of his mouth pursed again.

Simon comforted, and the little emotion disappeared.

He was very satisfied with the ending of the attack and threatened to find a good man to marry if Simon didn't like her one day.

There was a threat in Simon's eyes as he said this.

Dare to threaten.

So he was "cleaned up" severely.

I'm very obedient every time.

I found some things and complained that Janet told her a lot of dirty little details, but they didn't.

Simon said with a smile that it could be.

Then.

It's true.

Calm down and continue to read Simon the book "reminiscence of time".

Simon has been very patient to listen, inadvertently, still in the hands of the dream of Red Mansions page blank space to hear a sentence: always strive to keep a sky outside your life.

Smell the smell of food and open your eyes lazily.

This is the bedroom. There is no food around. It's just the sticky smell of the man coming in from the kitchen.

Or can't help sniffing, but lazy to move.

The room was warm. Simon was wearing only a sweater and khaki trousers. She opened her eyes and came to kiss her.

Turning to avoid: "I haven't brushed my teeth yet."

Simon did not let her go. He gave her a kiss on her pretty face and then put it on her white neck. Not satisfied, he pulled down the quilt and put it back.

Under the quilt is a perfect body enough to make men crazy.

It doesn't matter.

Soft jade and warm fragrance.

Feel Simon greedy bite up, finally very powerless to push the man's head, with a smile: "good itch ah."

Simon raised his head, put his hand in and said, "get up now, or shall I sleep with you for a while?"Hold the man's strange hand: "I want to get up, you go out first."

"I'll help you dress."

"No, I can wear it myself."

"That's not good. We have to help."

Said in the female assistant Jiao laughter action, the last two people put on clothes again.

Breakfast also had to be redone.

It's already cold.

Yes, it's ten o'clock in the morning.

It was July 17, and I stayed here for a full week. Although occasionally only Janet would make one or two harassment calls, it's hard to say if I stay.

It's a fine day.

She packed her bags and stood outside. The female assistant was obviously reluctant to part with her. She was also worried about whether her cabin would be damaged and occupied by outsiders. Until Simon promised to arrange special nursing staff, she was relieved.

Taking advantage of the midday sun just in time, boarded the helicopter parked nearby.

As the helicopter roars into the sky, the small lake becomes smaller and smaller in the field of vision, just like everyone's inner heart will gradually fade away the long-term memory.

The rented Bell Helicopter had insufficient endurance and could only return to Melbourne by boat on the northern shore of Tasmania. It was already more than four o'clock in the afternoon when it returned to the villa on the outskirts of Melbourne.

I made some phone calls to people close to me. I was going to have another night off and start work tomorrow. Anthony Johnston called and asked Simon to go to the mansion for a party. It turns out that today is Norman Johnston's birthday and all his family will be here.

After living out with Jennifer for a week, Simon didn't believe that the johnstons didn't know. He felt guilty and didn't refuse.

More guilty female assistant dare not go together.

I came to the mansion in the evening.

A lot of people were invited to the party. It was very lively.

Except for Patrick Johnston's wink at Simon, there was no special reaction to Simon's whereabouts in the past week.

The party lasted until late into the night. When all the guests left, Simon wanted to leave, but the old man kept him. Although the words meant that there was no place for you to live at home, Simon understood that the old man had some opinions about what he had done in the previous week.

Nature can only stay.

Back in Melbourne, you can't lie in and wake up on time at seven the next day.

Leaving the bedroom, walking through the corridor and going to the stairway, Veronica Johnston just opened the door and walked out. When she saw Simon, she immediately settled down. She subconsciously raised her hand, but quickly put it down.

Simon stops and frowns at Veronica's subconscious defense.

Seeing Simon frown, Veronica raised her hand uneasily. She seemed to want to explain, but she just blurted out "I..." I can't go on.

Simon saw that she did not speak any more, and went on to the stairs.

Veronica stares at Simon's figure disappearing at the top of the stairs before walking out of the room.

After breakfast, Simon and Anthony Johnston went to the headquarters of Johnston holdings in Melbourne.

After the operation in Japan last year, although cersei capital's headquarters moved to New York, a team remained here. In order to reduce the outside penetration of cersei capital's operation details, the team in Melbourne also participated in the operation of the crude oil market.

In fact, cersei capital has established a number of very large and complex crude oil futures portfolios through different accounts in various crude oil futures markets such as New York and London. Recently, cersei capital has also begun to directly participate in spot trading. Except for Janet and Simon, few people, even within cersei capital, know the specific position data of the company.

Cersei capital began to establish long positions in late June, when the international crude oil price was still above $14.

In less than a month recently, the international crude oil price has dropped to $13, which is the lowest in Simon's memory.

If we do not calculate the short income of two-way positions, we only calculate the recent long position. In less than one month, cersei's book loss has exceeded $1.6 billion.

Moreover, as cersei capital continues to increase its long position and reduce its short position, if the international crude oil price does not rebound as expected, but falls to US $10 a barrel as many institutions predict, cersei capital will not only spit out all the profits made by short positions in the early stage, but also lose the principal.

In Simon's memory, international crude oil prices began to rise after the breakdown of negotiations between Iraq and Kuwait on oil production control at the end of July, and directly doubled after the outbreak of the war on August 2.

Now, the negotiations between Iraq and Kuwait are still going on. According to the news from the Middle East, the first stage of the negotiations will not come to fruition until next week. Either Kuwait will compromise and reduce crude oil production, or the negotiations will break down and things will go unpredictable.Simon didn't think that war could be avoided because of his presence.

In fact, the internal causes of this war are more complicated than most people think. It involves not only the interests of European and American oil groups, but also the situation in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, which is still turbulent at this time.

However, as a precaution, cersei capital's operation is relatively conservative. As of mid July, it has established a long position of less than US $15 billion and reserved enough funds to maintain cersei capital's leverage ratio within five times.

According to the plan, after closing all short positions next week, cersei capital will hold more than US $5 billion in principal, but the total size of bulls will still be cautiously maintained within us $25 billion.

After spending a day at Johnston holdings headquarters discussing cersei's next move, Simon's energy turned back to movies.

"Batman: The Dark Knight" shooting is still going well, don't need Simon to worry too much.

North America.

It has been more than three weeks since Simon left on June 24.

In recent weeks, several new films have been released in the North American summer program, such as "die hard 2", "Ninja Turtle" and "thunder ambition".

Further on, ghost love, which was released on June 1, still maintained a strong box office curve under the pressure of many new films.

As of July 19, seven weeks after its release, the cumulative box office of ghost has reached $115.06 million.

Moreover, in the seventh week of its release, the box office of this tearful love movie is still above 10 million US dollars, reaching 11.07 million US dollars. It is expected that the total box office in North America will break through 200 million US dollars and become the first film with a total box office of 200 million US dollars in North America in 1990.

In comparison, the total box office of "full memory" released in the same period in North America in the seventh week of its release reached $106.41 million, which was successfully broken through $100 million. However, the box office in a single week has fallen to $4.77 million, and it is expected that only about $10 million will remain in the box office potential.

"Sleeping with the enemy" is the first movie in Denise Entertainment's 10 Movie plans that Simon pays more attention to. After the box office of $27.62 million in the first week, the box office of the next week fell by 33%, and then closed at $18.53 million.

The decline of more than 30% is slightly disappointing.

Fortunately, in the following three weeks, the decline of "sleeping with the enemy" was within 30%, 21%, 17% and 23% respectively, and it continued to close US $14.61 million, US $12.13 million and US $9.37 million.

In five weeks, "sleeping with the enemy" has grossed $82.26 million.

Although the box office in a single week fell into tens of millions of dollars, there is no doubt that the film's box office in North America will exceed 100 million dollars.

In addition, the production budget of Ninja Turtle, released on July 6, has increased to 20 million US dollars compared with the 8 million US dollars B-level film in the original space-time, and the quality is better than the original. In addition to the golden time such as the summer program and the publicity investment of Denise entertainment, the box office of the first week of the film reached $39.78 million, far exceeding the data of the first week of ghost and sleeping with the enemy.

Only in the week from July 6 to July 12, according to the step by step accounting rules signed by Denise entertainment and the cinema, the ninja turtle has recovered all the production and publicity costs.

However, "Ninja Turtle" largely depends on the popularity of animation and games in recent years. The quality of the film itself is far below the phenomenal level. The high opening of the first week inevitably means a sharp drop in the box office of the next week.

July 13 to July 19.

In the second week of release, the box office of Ninja Turtle fell 43% to close at $22.67 million.

In two weeks, it earned 62.45 million US dollars, and the box office curve is actually similar to that of "full memory", which started at the same time as "ghost".

Of course, the difference is that the production cost of "Ninja Turtle" is less than one third of Schwarzenegger's starring "full memory". The North American box office of "full memory" can only barely recover the production cost. Ninja turtle has already begun to generate huge profits through its release in the second week.

Because of the excellent market performance of Ninja Turtle, danelis entertainment soon announced the project of the sequel.

The box office of Ninja tortoise in the original space-time is not as good as one another, because in addition to the popularity of its own IP, it is difficult for this series to maintain too high attraction for the audience. The audience's entrance to watch the first one is largely due to the popularity accumulated by the series of animations and games.

However, Simon didn't stop the sequel from setting up this time, as he did in the "over the air innocence" series.

Mainly because of the cost.

Compared with the two best-selling series of "flying over innocence" and "lethal weapon", even if ninja turtle develops a sequel, its production cost will not exceed that of the first song, and there will be no big names like Mel Gibson demanding a high profit share of the project.

As long as the sequel doesn't mess up, it's easy to recover the cost and make profits.