Chapter 724 (1/2)
Talking about all kinds of topics, after lunch, grace followed Simon for a walk in the exaggerated mountain manor, arm in arm.
I had the feeling of first love.
Inexplicable guilty.
My daughter happens to be in love.
However, who cares so much.
”So, don't you really need to go to work in the afternoon?”
”There were some arrangements, but they were put off temporarily.”
”For me.”
”Moved?”
”Isn't that good?”
”There's nothing bad about it. The westero system is an increasingly large machine. One of the goals I hope to achieve is that this machine can run on its own for a long time even if it leaves me completely. Otherwise, in a few more years, even if I split myself into several pieces, I will not be able to get busy at all. ”
“……”
”What's the matter?”
Grace glanced slightly at the little man beside her with a smile on her lips. ”I wonder if you would be at a loss if this machine doesn't need your control at all?”
”Of course not,” Simon Blaise said with a smile. ”I'm the owner of this machine, not the operators who are worried about losing their jobs, so the more automatic the machine, the better. If one day this machine is completely out of my control, I can't stand it. I even have the right to break it up and sell scrap iron. ”
Power never comes out of thin air.
Simon's current source of power is the huge business machine of westero system. The more westero system expands, the more powerful Simon will be.
As for the control of this business machine, Simon is a good decentralization man. However, decentralization is only temporary, not permanent.
Maybe the head of state of a country will be overhead, but Simon is very unlikely to encounter such a situation. Because the leaders of most countries in the world, at least nominally, are elected and appointed by the people. Simon is the real owner of the westero system, which supports his own source of power.
The boss of other large enterprises will hand over the company to the management, because the mature enterprise team can not be achieved overnight, nor can it be replaced in a short time, so it may be occupied by the Hatoyama, and it is often a great loss of vitality to want to regain power.
Simon has no such scruples.
On the one hand, Simon's family background is deep enough that no management of any westrow system subsidiary has the strength to challenge him, and he is not afraid of the injury of one or two companies. On the other hand, the most indispensable part of the westero system is the talent pool, including senior professional managers who can be independent. Therefore, no one below Simon can not be replaced.
Unconsciously, at the end of the lawn of the manor, there was a steep slope surrounded by shrubs and iron nets outside the neat dwarf pine fence, and behind it was the brilliant afternoon sun.
Unable to move on, grace didn't turn around. She sat down on the lawn, felt the grass's softness in the sun, and lay down comfortably.
Simon sat down next to grace, touched with one hand, and was held down by the woman. He didn't retract or make any unnecessary moves.
Grace turned around, put her head on the man's lap, continued to hold the man's big hand, looked up and asked softly, ”when are you leaving?”
Simon raised his left wrist and looked at his watch. ”We'll be back in Los Angeles at five. We have three hours left.”
”Enough.”
”So easy to satisfy?”
”Is it OK not to be satisfied?”
”No way.”
”Oh,” said grace, touching Simon's handsome face and feeling the light stubble in her palm, ”I can't understand you.”
”That's good. It's said that mystery is the most attractive trait for women.”
”Very skilled.”
”Yes,” Simon's voice suddenly murmured, ”it's been tens of thousands of years.”
Grace's pale blue eyes, which are common in northern Europe, flashed: ”ah?”
”Did I say anything?”
Grace said, ”you said it. It's been tens of thousands of years.”
”You heard me wrong.”
”No
”Well, actually I'm trying to make a mystery. You know, if a little boy wants to cheat his elder sister, he can't do it without some means.”
The woman said, ”well, make up a story for me.”
Simon hesitated for a moment and said slowly: ”a long time ago, it was a complete famine. There was no country, no nation, and even no perfect language system. Because of hunger, a primitive man secretly went to a lake outside the cave to catch fish in rainy days. Unfortunately, he fell into the water. By coincidence, a flash of lightning struck down hundreds of millions of people The volt voltage makes the primitive human body change suddenly. From then on, he no longer grew old, always looked like a young man, and began to wander in the world like a ghost. He witnessed the fusion of tribes, the formation of a country, countless primitive and cruel cold war, the preaching of Jesus, the birth of Buddha, the whip of the Mongolian God, and the arrival of the era of great navigation And witnessed two world wars that destroyed the sky and the earth. In order to avoid his immortality being discovered, every ten to twenty years, at most thirty years, he will use his accumulated strength in the secular world to find a substitute, change his name, or even change his appearance, and start his life again. This time, his name is Simon westero. ”After listening carefully to the man's narration, Grace's blue eyes blinked for a moment and finally showed a smile: ”it's a good story.”
”Believe it or not?”
”I don't believe it.”
Simon asked with a smile, ”why?”
Grace reached out again and gently stroked Simon's face, saying, ”if you are really an ancient human who has lived for tens of thousands of years, you will not let yourself be known by the world as you are now, but try to hide yourself as much as possible.”
”You are wrong. In fact, there was a lifetime when my name was Alexander III. I led my own army through Europe.”
“……”
”Later, because I was interested in physics, I temporarily found myself the identity of Isaac Newton, and then you must know everything that happened. When he wanted to get away, he could only be replaced by a fool who was interested in alchemy, and he never made any achievements in his later years. ”
“……”
”More recently, I feel that human beings have been ignorant for too long, so they made steam engines. Since then, human civilization began to explode exponentially. That time, my name was James Watt
“……”
Simon held the woman's face in his hand, and his voice became secluded again, with some remote vicissitudes: ”little girl, do you want to know who I was before Simon westero?”
Grace's light blue eyes blinked quickly, as if struggling to protect her collapsing outlook on life.