Hollywood Hunter

Darwin in northern Australia.

It was the afternoon of January 13th. A train drove into the parking lot of the Diamond Beach Casino Hotel in the south of the city. Many passersby couldn't help but stop and watch.

This is a fleet that has obviously gone through a long journey, with a total of 11 vehicles. In addition to 8 off-road vehicles, there are also a tanker truck and two container trucks.

The bodies of 11 cars were all stained with dirt, and several of the off-road vehicles had obvious bumps.

Those with similar experiences will probably understand that this train team should have just crossed the Australian continent. Both local and overseas travel enthusiasts in Australia like to have such an experience.

However, compared to other travelers, this train fleet can obviously only be described by the word "trench".

Not to mention which team of top off-road vehicles, how many people travel with tank trucks and containers directly?

Simon pushed the door and walked down a Mercedes-Benz G460, wearing a simple T-shirt and jeans, and a pair of platform boots on his feet.

For a whole week, he traveled through the mountains, rivers, canyons, and Gobi deserts of the Australian mainland. Coupled with the previous trip to the Antarctic, Simon’s complexion became darker, and his body was full of strong masculinity. temperament.

Probably everyone has the idea of ​​traveling around the world.

Simon is no exception.

There was no such capital in the previous life. Now, given the opportunity, it is of course necessary to realize some of the previous dreams.

Driving an off-road vehicle through the endless Australian red sandstone Gobi, this kind of freely vertical and horizontal feeling between heaven and earth is really exciting. After Christmas, it lasted more than half a month from Melbourne to Antarctica and traversed the entire Australian continent. The passion that belongs to twenty-year-olds returned on this trip.

Simon also made up his mind to make a similar trip every few years.

Seeing Simon get off the car, the hotel manager greeted him enthusiastically, and the people in several other cars crowded here.

A total of 31 people in a one-week trip.

However, there are actually only six masters, namely Simon and Janet, the fourth son of Johnston’s David Johnston and his girlfriend Leslie Whittaker, the fifth son of Patrick Johnston and him. His girlfriend Sarah Keston, the others are entourage like bodyguard drivers.

Since the conditions are sufficient, of course we must give ourselves the best protection.

The natural environment in inland Australia is still very harsh.

Simon also didn't feel that the fun of traveling with him would be reduced.

This time in Australia, the first thing Simon experienced was a formal engagement ceremony. As a result of Raymond Johnston's insistence, the old man is a very traditional person in his bones.

After Christmas is a trip to the South Pole, only Simon and Janet are two.

Of course, if it's not a follower.

New Year's Day is spent on a cruise ship in Antarctica, which feels like a honeymoon.

Returning from Antarctica, he started this trip across the Australian continent.

Compared to the two-person world of the Antarctic trip, this time I brought the four and five of the Johnston family and their respective girlfriends.

David Johnston has no interest in traveling and claims that there is still a paper to do. After this reason was put forward, the whole family agreed to take him by force. Patrick Johnston wanted to keep up during Simon and Janet's trip to the South Pole, but was rejected. Naturally, he would not miss it this time.

Everyone was greeting each other. Janet turned from the co-pilot and raised the satellite phone in her hand and said to Simon: "Mom said she has already started preparing dinner. Let us go back to the house for dinner."

Patrick Johnston was whispering something in his girlfriend's ear, and immediately said: "Why go back so early? Sister, let's go to Bali, it's very close here, only two hours Able to?"

Janet gave her brother a white look, and said, "You have been dangling for half a year, Pat, this time I go back. Dad will arrange work for you."

Patrick Johnston is actually three years older than Simon and has been studying at the University of Birmingham before.

However, compared with David Johnston, a top student in Cambridge, Patrick has achieved nothing in his studies. From the beginning of enrollment, he has not been able to get a degree after six years of mixed experience. In addition, he was forced by the school last year. After he retired, he spent more than half a year idle in London before being forcibly called home by the old man at the end of the year.

Janet was indifferent to Patrick’s request and said with an index finger dangling: "An hour’s time, take a shower and change clothes, and then we go home. If you don’t go back, you can only stay here and drink sea water. Dad will Your credit card stopped."

After Janet finished speaking, she ignored her brother's protest and walked towards the hotel building under the guidance of the manager holding Simon's arm.

Darwin Airport is near this hotel. More than an hour later, a group of people boarded Simon's Boeing 767 at the airport. The fleet left here will be handled by others.

After the plane lifted off smoothly, Patrick began to wander around the cabin restlessly, and then quickly returned to a small living room in the center of the cabin, where everyone gathered.

Leaning up behind Janet and Leslie and glanced at the office building decoration plans the two women were discussing, Patrick came to Simon who was chatting with David, sat down on the arm of the sofa and said to Simon: "Man, No, let me go to Hollywood. You can arrange any job for me. It's better to pick up girls more conveniently."

Before Simon could speak, Sarah Keston, who was sitting cross-legged on the side sofa and playing the handheld game console, looked up at Patrick and said, "I can hear you."

Patrick is not to be outdone: "Sara, shall we break up?"

"Talk to your father and my father, jerk, do you think I want to be your girlfriend?"

"We are all grown-ups, Sarah, you should have the courage to resist your father's arrangements."

"Sorry, I don't have the guts."

Sarah Keston finished speaking, and simply ignored Patrick and continued to play with her own console.

Simon listened to the conversation between the two with interest, and glanced at the very punk girl in a large black sleeveless T-shirt next to her.

Sarah Keston comes from the Keston family who also runs a mining business in Western Australia. The Keystone family and the Johnston family are family friends. Sarah Keyston’s father Louis Keyton and Raymond Johnston are very iron friends. It is said that they carried guns and went to the window together. So there is a cliché story like a baby kiss.

However, according to Janet, the two families do not actually mean arranged marriages in the conversation between Patrick and Sara, and they are very casual.

It’s just that Patrick and Sarah have been displeased with each other since they were young. They fought when they were young, grew up bickering, and occasionally had a cold war for a period of time, but they never separated. Later, they went to the University of Birmingham to go to school together, and spent 6 years together. We were expelled from the school for failing to get a degree together, which counts as a strange pair of happy friends.

Through this time of getting along, Simon felt that this dark-haired girl who likes to wear heavy eyeshadows and somewhat taciturn has a Shakespearean quote "alldevilsarehere" tattooed on her right arm. It is obvious in her relationship with Patrick. The party in control.

Patrick asked for a bit of fun from his girlfriend, and in a blink of an eye, he forgot what he had just asked, and asked Simon: "Man, what's the password for the front cabin, let me see?"

Simon lifted his chin to Janet: "Ask your sister."

Patrick looked over.

Janet said casually: "123456."

Patrick jumped up immediately, not forgetting his girlfriend: "Sarah, do you want to come together?"

Sarah Keston didn't look up: "Don't go."

Patrick ran out indifferently, and quickly came back, hurtingly asking his old sister: "Are you sure it is 123456?"

Janet gave him a blank look: "That's the bedroom for Simon and I. Why are you going in?"

Patrick stretched out his hand exaggeratedly: "Occupying one-third of the cabin of the cabin, do you play tennis in it?"

Janet simply ignored her brother, took up a page of the office design draft and showed it to Simon, and said, "How about this one?

Daenerys Studios in Los Angeles has begun renovation work.

Some time ago, Leslie Whittaker deliberately or unconsciously tested whether she could give herself a chance to practice design, and encouraged her boyfriend to help out.

Leslie Whitaker majored in architectural design in Cambridge, mainly for daughters to inherit her father's business. Because Leslie Whittaker’s father opened an architectural design company in London. The scale is not large, but not small. It is probably the kind that cannot undertake the design work of the entire Daenerys Studios but is responsible for a district of the administrative district. It is more than enough.

Of course, Daenerys Studios has been constructed, and only the subsequent interior decoration needs to be designed.

Leslie Whittaker hopes to get this kind of job.

Although majoring in architectural design, Leslie Whittaker prefers interior design. After graduation, she plans to join the interior design department of her father's company, so she has always been academically biased towards this field.

Originally, Leslie wanted to be in charge of the interior design of the Shell Villa at Dume Point Manor. If she could accumulate the experience of designing a residence for the richest man in North America during her schooling period, it would certainly be of great benefit to her future work after joining.

Simon and Janet wanted to plan the interior design of Baker’s Villa by themselves, and they were not good at rejecting David, who was rare to speak to them. They finally handed over the design of an office building in Daenerys Studios to Leslie. , Simon’s office is in this building.

Although Leslie will graduate next year, it is not enough to complete the design of an office building alone. Simon simply asks Los Angeles to sign a formal contract with Leslie’s Whitt Design Company. Slee can seek assistance from the formal department of her father's company, and Whitaker Design can be considered as entering the North American market.

Simon just took a look at the artwork, smiled and shook his head, and said, "Replace the red sofa, and the rest will be fine."

Leslie Whittaker didn't know why, and said, "This is a dark burgundy, Simon. I think this color matches the overall design style of your office."

Simon swept around and asked, "Don't you know what the red sofa means?"

Janet looked at each other.

Sara Keston, who was playing on the handheld, suddenly said: "A potential rule created in the era of Hollywood studios. When an actress enters the audition room and sees the red sofa, she will undress herself and wait for the director or producer to arrive. , And then they can get the role."

Janet's eyes widened unexpectedly: "Really?"

Simon nodded.

Leslie Whittaker quickly retracted the manuscript and said, "Then I will do it again."

Patrick walked over and squeezed down beside Simon and sat down, put his hand on his shoulder and asked enviously: "Even if it's not red, the actress should be happy to undress in front of you, right?"

Simon didn't answer, but raised his hand and flicked the paw on his shoulder.

Patrick withdrew his hand painfully and complained to Janet: "Sister, your man beats me."

Janet said casually: "You can call back."

Patrick glanced at the back of Simon's hand and gestured for a moment. He didn't dare to start, and continued to talk to Simon: "Man, did you really break the legs of five people?"

With Patrick's question, besides Janet, the others in the room seemed to have their ears pricked.

Simon just shook his head and said, "It's too long, I forgot."

"Hey, you are better than me..." Patrick stopped in the middle of speaking, and then he thought of something in a blink of an eye, and said: "Or, let's go out to play at night. The Parker's house opened another venue on the South Bank. I heard it was very exciting. "

Simon was noncommittal and said, "Ask your sister."

“I’ve got a lot of tan this time. I’m going to have a SPA in the evening, and Leslie and Sara will also come,” Janet said, and said to Simon: “You and Pat will go and take David too. ."

David Johnston immediately shook his head: "I'm not going."

Patrick also shook his head and refused: "I don't want to take David, in case he talks to you about fluid physics on the spot."

The journey from Melbourne to Darwin took a week, but it only took four hours to fly back to Melbourne from Darwin.

In the evening, everyone returned to Johnston's mansion on the outskirts of Melbourne.

Because it was Saturday, Anthony Johnston and Norman Johnston brought their families here for dinner, and Veronica Johnston also rushed over.

There was still some time for dinner, and everyone exchanged a few words, and Simon and Janet went back to their room in the mansion for a short rest.

Changed to a more homely light pink dress, Janet came out of the cloakroom and watched Simon lying on the big bed with her eyes closed, so she leaned over and lay on him, propped on the man’s chest, and said: "Dad and mom will definitely talk about the wedding at night. What about things?"

Simon stretched his arm around Janet's waist and said, "I will go back to work for a while next week, and start preparing here. More than a month should be enough."

Janet nudged her body up and pressed her face against Simon's face and said, "If you feel too rushed, we can postpone it for a while."

Simon smiled and said, "I also want to be before your birthday. After March, it feels different."

"Hmm, bite you."

Opening her mouth to grind her teeth on the man’s neck, Janet raised her face again and said, “Actually, I found one thing.”

"Ok?"

"I think you have slowly become a part of the Johnston family."

"Why do you say that?"

"intuition."

"Is this feeling too good about yourself?"

"Hmph, then you say it yourself?"

"I refuse to answer this question."

Simon said, but he also paid attention to this problem.

No one likes to be alone forever.

Over the years, the deep-rooted sense of alienation between Simon and the world has not disappeared.

However, maybe it was Janet's relationship, maybe, and Veronica's sake, Simon unknowingly gradually began to develop a potential sense of identity with the Johnston family. It is precisely because of this instinctive sense of identity that Simon has no resistance to the upcoming marriage.

It's just that this sense of identity was not even clearly noticed by Simon himself, but it was felt by Janet.

The hands around the woman's waist tightened, and both of them stopped talking.

It was not known how long it took until Leslie Whittaker knocked on the door to remind them that dinner was ready, and the two came to the restaurant arm in arm.

A large family gathered, and dinner seemed very lively.

Raymond Johnston really mentioned the wedding, and he also chose a date, March 3, which is Saturday, exactly one and a half months from now, enough for preliminary preparations.

Simon and Janet had no objections, and everyone began to talk about details.

Dinner ends at more than eight o'clock.

Janet couldn't wait to take a few other women to the SPA, saying that she didn't want her complexion to recover when she got married.

Anthony Johnston was still about to talk to Simon about Cersei Capital, who had just completed the settlement during this period, and Simon was left by Patrick Leigh.

At more than nine o'clock, from the suburban mansion to the south bank of the Yarra River, arrived at the venue Patrick said on the plane, which turned out to be a fighting arena just opened by the Parker family near Crown Casino.

Simon and Janet played in various nightclubs of the Crown Casino last time. It should be Patrick who said hello in advance. This time, James Pike, the heir of the Parker family, came to accompany the two in person.

Compared to the middle-aged man who later discussed marriage with Mariah Carey and fought Miranda Kerr and his friends in public, James Parker is only a stunned young man in his early twenties this year, and the Parker family is still in control In the hands of his father Kelly Parker.

Looking at the appearance of James Pike and Patrick crossing shoulders and shoulders, the two are obviously familiar, and the dude's attributes should be similar.

The match on the ring is free fighting.

James Parker skillfully recruited a group of girls, chose the best viewing position in the audience, and asked Simon if he wanted to bet.

Now that he is here, Simon simply observes the two players and symbolically fills in a check for $10,000 to bet on one of them.

Afterwards, watching the fighters fighting **** the ring and listening to the cheers from hundreds of people around them from time to time, everyone quickly blended into this fiery atmosphere.

After a few games, Patrick suddenly approached Simon and urged: "Man, do you want to go up and play?"