Hollywood Hunter

Simon did not want the news of his contact with the Hearst family to leak out. The agreed lunch was not arranged in the high-rise restaurant inside the studio, but chose a lounge in the office building in the administrative district.

The agreed time for lunch is 12 o'clock.

The mother and daughter of Patty Hirst and Lydia Hirst arrived early at 11:30. Simon did not let the mother and daughter wait too long, and arrived five minutes earlier.

Patty Hirst had clearly dressed up, wearing a black short-sleeved dress that showed her figure. This year, a woman who is exactly 40 years old, has lived in the home of the rich since she was a child. Except for the change of the year, she has not experienced the torture of any years of life. Both her appearance and body are completely at the level of a 30-year-old woman.

In the process of shaking hands and greeting, I felt the aggressive gaze of the man in front of him and unabashedly looked at him. Patty Hurst had little hatred for this young man who had crushed her family to the brink of collapse. Instead, Between the man's powerful hands, he couldn't help taking a breath, his heartbeat speeded up quietly, and his eyes didn't dare to look at each other.

When the right hand was released by the man, Patty Hirst even felt a little bit of a loss.

Simon just greeted Patty Hurst briefly, and turned to the little girl who started to draw a stick next to the woman: "Hi, Lil, do you remember me?"

In addition to the increase in height, Lydia Hirst still gave Simon the feeling that she first saw the little witch at the birthday party of Sofia’s daughter Gemma Fessy, with a petite face, short lips, and a pair of Talking green eyes.

Lydia Hirst did not have the restraints of her mother in front of Simon. Seeing the man talking to herself, completely ignoring the mother and grandfather's advance explanations, she nodded her little head, but suddenly asked a little bit: " Simon, do you want our house to die?"

Simon was a little surprised when the little girl used the word ‘Finished’, but he smiled and nodded: “The point is, first of all, your family wants to kill me first.”

Lydia's mouth slumped, her short lips began to lengthen, and she had a tendency to become a little witch. Looking at Simon, she unabashedly condemned him as if you were a big villain.

Patty Hirst didn't expect to offend Westeros just after meeting her daughter. He was taken aback for a while and quickly said: "Mr. Westeros, Diya didn't mean it, don't mind."

Simon smiled and looked at the little girl: "Lier, did you do it on purpose?"

The little girl completely ignored the mother's hint and nodded: "Yes."

Patty Hirst angrily tugged at her daughter, and reprimanded: "Diya, apologize to Mr. Westeros."

Lydia felt her mother's hardly stern expressions, and immediately showed a strong expression of grievance. She looked like weeping, but she stubbornly refused to apologize to Simon.

Simon didn't have the idea of ​​being as knowledgeable as the little girl, but just shrugged, raised his hand in a please gesture, and said, "Sit down."

The three of them sat down at the dining table. Girl A pushed a dining car in and brought some dishes to the table.

Simon noticed the curious look of Patty Hirst when he smelled the scent of food in the air, and explained with a smile: "Eat Chinese food today."

As a kind of increasing employee benefits, Daenerys Studios and Burbank’s Universal Studios have upgraded their restaurants, adding dishes from different countries, and specially invited several top chefs as the main chefs. The chef, the chef of the Chinese restaurant in Daenerys Studios, is Simon hired from across the ocean, so he can make very authentic Chinese food.

In fact, it is also Simon's selfishness.

The key reason why Simon has not cared much about what he eats for so many years is that, as a natural Asian, he has not been able to fully adapt to the Western food system.

Of course not everyone can enjoy these benefits.

Simon's originality for the employees in the Westeros system has never changed. I will give you as much as you pay.

Similarly, in the Westeros system, a person is entitled to whatever position he is in. Therefore, ordinary employees can still only enjoy ordinary dishes cooked in batches in the staff restaurant, and according to different levels, the group gives Food and beverage subsidies are also different. Higher-level management can also use a separate high-level restaurant, and further up, the group's core executives can customize their favorite dishes from the restaurant chef.

On the other hand, the medical and education benefits that the Westeros system is about to upgrade will also be hierarchical.

Simon will not cover up this too much. He is deliberately creating a sort of unfairness. If someone can't bear this kind of injustice, they must work hard to get up, or leave the Westeros system to find what they want fair.

Through continuous improvement of this hierarchical system for many years to come, Simon's ultimate goal is to create a pyramid-shaped ‘Westerosian’ system that is independent of the current social system and has a stable structure.

On the dining table in the lounge.

Very authentic Chinese food, three dishes and one soup, Kung Pao chicken familiar to Westerners, a crispy roast duck, a tomato beef, and finally a simple vegetable soup. The vegetable soup has been divided into three parts. Girl A finally put down the three-drawer siumai, and then quietly exited.

Simon waited for Girl A to leave, and smiled and asked the little girl who still had her face on the other side: "Lier, can you use chopsticks?"

Lydia was very dissatisfied with someone calling herself ‘Lil’ familiarly. Just after her mother became angry with herself, the little girl did not dare to be presumptuous. Seeing that the man on the opposite side skillfully picked up a pair of chopsticks, the little girl looked like she was struggling, but the two sticks in her hand were not at her disposal anyway, and she noticed that her mother also picked up the chopsticks in a similar manner, Lidi Ya was even more angry, put down his chopsticks depressed, stared at the two adults angrily, planning to go on a hunger strike in protest.

Patty Hirst felt that Simon Westero liked the aura of his daughter very much, so he simply no longer controlled and ate his own food with low eyebrows, unheard of her daughter's anger.

Simon felt the little girl staring like a cat, smiled, put down his chopsticks and picked up the knife and fork, and said, "Well, let's use the knife and fork. Let your mother use those two weird things."

Lydia then picked up the knife and fork, carefully tasted the food on the plate, and said unceremoniously: "Weird, it's not delicious at all."

Simon seemed to be patient: "You can try siu mai."

Although the taste is contrary to the previous meal, it must not be said that it is not delicious. It is just that after hearing Simon’s suggestion, my sister can instinctively develop a rebellious mentality. She deliberately does not move the tray of siu mai and continues to deal with the food in front of her. He had to look up and make an expression to Simon that he didn't like at all.

Only half an hour later, when the meal was over, the little girl had unknowingly wiped out the food on the plate, and in the end she did not even let the three beef siu mai in the cage.

Simon summoned Girl A to come in to clean up the tableware, and said to the little girl who was obviously still a little bit interested in her face: "If you want to eat Chinese food in the future, you can come to Los Angeles."

Lydia despised: "Mr. Westeros, our family is also very rich, and I can afford it."

Simon nodded, seeming to say casually: "It seems that in order for Lier to come to Los Angeles frequently in the future, I can only make you unable to eat Chinese food as much as possible."

Patty Hurst's heart suddenly tightened when he heard the man's words.

The 10-year-old girl, of course, is not completely ignorant of the world. Seeing Simon say this, she immediately looked over in anger.

Simon got up and said, "Let's go, go to my office and talk."

The mother and daughter had to get up and went outside the lounge. Simon motioned to Girl A to take care of Lydia for a while, only to bring Patty Hirst into his office.

About twenty minutes later, Patty Hirst walked out of the man's office and left with her daughter.

Sitting in the family car directly under the office building, when the car left the studio, Lydia asked her mother beside her abruptly, "Mom, are you sleeping with Simon Westero?"

Patty Hirst reacted from the daze and glared at her daughter: "Who taught you this?"

Lydia curled her lips, but looked up and down her mother, and said, "Then, is our family's troubles over?"

Patty Hurst trembles slightly and raises her voice to her daughter: "Don't ask about these messy things, or I will send you to the boarding school."

Lydia curled her lips disapprovingly: "If my mother can't handle that guy, I might not even be able to afford the boarding school in the future."

Patty Hurst fell silent immediately.

Can't help but recall the situation in that man's office just now.

When the two entered the office, Simon Westero just motioned to her to sit down at will, and after turning to the desk, started working directly. After waiting patiently for five or six minutes, she had to take the initiative to speak, conveying her father's wish for reconciliation. As a result, the man just glanced at her and laughed disgustingly, asking her if she wanted to reconcile with just a few words.

Then, noticing the man's gaze, remembering the other's preference for women and the harsh instructions of her father before this lunch, she only hesitated a little and took the initiative to walk towards the man.

seem.

Not too resistant inside.

He even vaguely hoped that men could be rude.

However, after she was already very active, the man didn’t do anything. Instead, he gave her a $1 coin and asked her to pass it to her father, asking what they could buy with so much money, and said they only had one chance. .

In the end she just left his office with a coin.

Leaving Malibu and returning to a mansion of the Bellaire Hirst family, Patty Hirst handed the coin to Randolph Hirst and at the same time relayed Simon's message.

What can I buy for 1 dollar?

If only literally, the members of the Hearst family, who have been so powerful for a century, are really not too clear.

However, Randolph Hirst quickly figured out Simon Westero's intention to ask his daughter to hand over the $1.

At this point in the conflict between the two sides, if the Hurst family wants to reconcile, it is impossible to just send a woman, even if a mother and daughter are sent to Simon Westeros, don't try to easily resolve it. The only feasibility is to provide sufficient substantive compensation.

Simon Westeros offered $1, just to make this compensation a deal on the surface.

As for what the Hearst family can offer to compensate Simon Westeros, apart from the media assets of the Hearst Group, there is probably nothing else that can be seen by the other party.

Obtained a result that is not a dead end, Randolph Hirst quickly returned to the East Coast, convening family members to discuss which assets of the group should be sold to Simon Westeros for $1, and the need What conditions to exchange back.

Then, the family inevitably had serious disagreements on this matter.

Given the extent to which the Hearst Group has offended Simon Westeros in the past, many members of the Hearst family know that the compensation must not be too lower than the total amount of US$370 million in the six lawsuits under the control of the Westeros system. Claim amount. However, the assets under the Hearst Group have shrunk severely in a series of storms. If a large number of assets are easily ceded to Westeros, everyone will not be reconciled.

What is even more tangled is that Westeros only gave them one opportunity to bid, leaving no room for bargaining.

This makes a group of family members hesitant.

Now, they don’t think Simon Westeros is just bluffing.

As a result, the original opportunity to break the game suddenly became overwhelming.

The outside world did not stop the attack on the Hearst Group because of the differences within the Hearst family.

Every day that followed, bad news came from the Hearst Group. So on May 11, several senior executives of the Hearst Group could not bear the external pressure, and because of the lack of backbone within the Hearst family to support the overall situation, they simply After picking up the picks, they handed in their resignation letter together.

Now the Hearst Group has been clamoring for everyone. These senior executives are aware that if they continue to stay, their careers may sink to the bottom of the sea with this broken ship, so they should not leave.

With the resignation of senior management, many middle and low-level managers and even ordinary employees of the Hearst Group have also chosen to flee, continuing to make this veteran media group worse.

On May 13, the bad news reappeared. A famous New York law firm responsible for defending the Hearst Group against the Westeros system litigation bombing also suddenly announced that it withdrew from the case it was responsible for, and lost the support of a powerful legal team. Hess The special group suddenly became passive in the litigation.

The once invincible Hearst Group has already appeared to be precarious in its dispute with the Westeros system. Since the outbreak of the Doris Fitch murder scandal in early May, it has appeared in less than half a month. The situation of falling apart.

Of course, it is not that no one is on the side of the Hearst Group.

In the beginning, I was indignantly united with the many newspaper industry unions that had been shut down by more than 1,100 employees of the three newspapers to initiate a class action against the Hearst Group. They realized that the situation of the Hearst Group was deteriorating and finally could not calm down.

You know, the entire Hearst Group is related to the jobs of more than 20,000 employees.

If the Hearst Group falls apart or even goes bankrupt, the Hearst family, which has a deep heritage, may not suddenly become a pauper. The more than 20,000 employees of the Hearst Group may lose their jobs in this accident.

Moreover, under the background of the accelerated decline of the traditional paper media industry under the pressure of the rise of the Internet industry, once these employees lose their current jobs, it will be very difficult to find new jobs of the same type.

The Hearst family has been completely discredited because of the Doris Fitch murder scandal. The newspaper industry unions dare not speak for each other in the face. However, under the coordination of several large unions, someone still submitted a request. A petition letter to the White House, hoping that Mr. President can intervene in this matter and prevent tens of thousands of families from falling into unemployment because of the Hurst family’s own loss.