Chapter 70 Coffee
The party welcoming the mainland delegation is scheduled for two days. The reason why it is so tight is that the Olympic Games will be opened three days later. After the opening, the mainland delegation will not allow athletes to participate in such activities.
Jester also agreed to Qin Shuyao and went to the venue with her one day in advance.
He also learned Qin Shuyao's identity from his grandfather, and then Jester was indeed a little surprised. Although he had expected it, after all, those who could study abroad in this era were not only academic masters, but also powerful people.
Although he did not feel the arrogance of the mainland's powerful people from Qin Shuyao.
But just thinking about it again, Jester also understood that it is not the era when the mainland can be called G2 together with the United States in thirty years later. The mainland is still an era when it has just been reopened and has not yet shared the dividends of industrial construction. In order to introduce foreign capital, the commander did not hesitate to visit Konosuke Matsushita in person and asked the Japanese god of management for the development of the company.
You should know that the commander is a great leader and a generation of heroes who deposed the prince and reincarnated himself. No matter how high his achievements Matsushita Konosuke has achieved, he is just an entrepreneur.
The current mainland powers and nobles are not worth mentioning in the whole world. When they come to the United States, they see the prosperity and advancement of the United States. Compared with the backwardness and poverty of the mainland, they cannot have any pride in their hearts.
Nowadays, Jester still remembers the photo he saw before he was reborn.
In that photo, an admiral came to the United States in the early 1980s. On the deck of the aircraft carrier, he looked at the US helicopter with his feet raised his eyes. In addition to longing, the rest was still longing. This admiral was later called the father of Chinese aircraft carrier by many netizens. After having his first aircraft carrier in the mainland, the Military Commission set its hull number No. 016. I don’t know whether this Military Commission was intentional or unintentional. The birth year of this admiral, known as the father of Chinese aircraft carrier, was 1916.
In addition, Qin Shuyao is not the kind of young lady character, and Jester has not been with her for a long time, so it is normal for Jester to not feel it.
Every time he comes to Los Angeles, he has to stay in a hotel. Jester has lived in enough, and he has a little idea of buying a house in Los Angeles. After all, he must have come here often after that.
The house doesn't need to be too big. It's just an apartment. It's best to be in the city, so it's convenient to do things like this. As for the price, Jester didn't care much about it. After all, an apartment, even in a place like Los Angeles, is not too outrageous as long as it's not a badass to go to Beverly Hills.
However, it is not the time to consider this.
Before Jester came, he received a call from Qin Shuyao, asking him to go to school to pick her up because Grandpa Jester's hotel is still a long way from Southern California University.
In the cool Ferrari, Jester came to the place Qin Shuyao said, which was a cafe near Southern California University. In front of this cafe, Qin Shuyao stood there with several other international students.
As for why you don’t wait in front of the school gate, well, because USC is an open university and there is no school gate.
Except for Qin Shuyao, the other people saw a sports car that they had never heard of, and was parked in front of them, and all the people showed a look of surprise on their faces.
At the same time, there is also a kind of alertness. This kind of alertness is very familiar to Jester. It is a natural alertness of creatures that are not their own kind.
After seeing these five people, Jester became distressed.
He then realized that Qin Shuyao asked him to pick him up not only, but her and her four classmates. They were all going to prepare for this welcome party with her. The problem was that it was impossible for his supercar to drive six people.
"Why don't you explain it clearly on your phone?" Jester said angrily at Qin Shuyao.
Qin Shuyao also realized that she seemed to have forgotten to explain the matter clearly before, so she stuck out her tongue and apologized in a low voice: "I forgot."
When Jester responded, he could only sigh helplessly.
I looked at the sight of the taxi nearby, so I could only get off the car and go to the cafe, ask the waiter at the cafe to borrow a phone number, and dial Carly.
However, the call was a female voice that Jester was not familiar with, and seemed to be Carly's secretary. She told Jester that the company's CEO Ms. Carly had set off yesterday to attend Portland, Oregon to attend the flagship store of a popular game distribution company that had just been prepared to open, and was not in the company.
Then Jester remembered that he did receive a call from Carly a few days ago, asking if he had time to attend the ribbon-cutting opening ceremony of a new flagship store with her. After all, when the first flagship store opened in Los Angeles, Jester failed to participate because of something, and the second one had to attend.
However, at that time, Jester was busy rushing to "City of Fierce Battle" and preparing to build "GAME" magazine. He really couldn't find time, so he declined.
Then, Jester, who was not very determined, asked again: "Is Adam Edgar?"
This time he received a positive reply from the female voice on the phone. Adam Edgar was accompanying a customer to experience the game at the Los Angeles flagship store. At this time, Jester remembered that he didn't know the phone number of his distribution company in the Los Angeles flagship store. After asking the female voice on the phone, Jester called his Los Angeles flagship store again.
After briefly explaining his identity, the clerk in the flagship store notified Adam Edgar. Jester only waited for less than a minute, and Adam Edgar's voice came from the other end of the phone.
His voice was a little excited, and he said to Jester over the phone: "Even if you don't call and wait for a while, I'll call you. I just met a big customer, from the UK. They wanted to cooperate with us to release our games in Europe. However, we have given Sega the European agency rights to Sega, so I wanted to politely refuse, but their supervisor said that this would not prevent her. She wanted to cooperate with us, not those four games."
"She?" Jester also heard that Adam Edgar used the third person to use the female lady, so he asked curiously.
Originally, Adam Edgar wanted to explain in detail, but Jester didn't have time to listen to his long-term introduction now. He only learned that the one he wanted to work with was a young woman with a British title, which seemed to have a good origin.
But Jester doesn't have time to care about these things now.
Jester explained the situation to Adam Edgar on the phone and asked him to send a car to pick up a few people near Nancalifornia to a hotel.
After hearing Adam Edgar's agreed reply, Jester hung up the phone and thanked the waiter who lent him the phone again. He also ordered six cups of Blue Mountain coffee, and gave the waiter a little tip to express his gratitude.
The life of mainland students in this era is actually very difficult. The only little foreign exchange needs to be used, and they also need to work during the holidays to supplement their daily life. However, this is a drop in the bucket. It can be seen from the powerful and powerful people like Qin Shuyao who are reluctant to spend money to buy a book they like.
In his last life, Jester read Chen Chong's memories of her life when she was studying in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, and also had some understanding of their hardships.
Basically, these international students don’t have any spare money to drink coffee.
Except for Qin Shuyao and Jester, it was the first time they met, especially these international students from the mainland. When facing Jester, they were still a little restrained. To be precise, they were alienated or alert.
In this regard, Jester could only introduce himself with a smile.
"Li Jie, English name Jester Lee."
But the failure to receive a formal response from these four people also made Qin Shuyao a little embarrassed. After all, she called Jester.
However, Jester didn't care much about this. He took the initiative to say hello because he saw the kindness of the Chinese people. As for whether they appreciate it or not, it doesn't matter.
These international students are obviously wary of Jester. After all, these people have experienced that era of class struggle. From Jester's clothes and the car they drive, it can be seen that the person in front of them who is younger than themselves is a capitalist.
Capitalists are all evil and they are going to be defeated. This is the education they received since childhood.
Facing the coffee that Jester called them, the four international students, including two men and two women, were obviously not sure what to do with it.
On one hand, he wanted to refuse righteously, but on the other hand, he wanted to taste the taste of Blue Mountain coffee that he had only heard of, Jester clearly saw the unobvious struggle in their eyes.
Especially the youngest man showed the most obvious performance. Jester was also a little confused at the beginning, why this international student who had never been masked looked at him with the look that seemed to be looking at the enemy. His eyes were very different from the other three, and the other three were just a normal look of alertness.
When he saw him looking at Qin Shuyao, Jester knew it.
It turns out that I am a rival to love.
However, after a careful observation, Jester found that Qin Shuyao did not seem to have any special expressions to this international student whom he did not know his name, and was no different from the other three. Apart from the look of looking at Qin Shuyao, the international student had no other specific expressions, except for the admiration that he wanted to hide as much as possible.
Just a secret love. Jester made his own judgment on this.
Facing the Blue Mountain Coffee, Qin Shuyao is nothing. Her identity is special. Her grandfather is a founding father and belongs to the privileged class in the mainland. Some things that are difficult to see in China are rare for her, but they have not been exposed to them.
For example, Blue Mountain Coffee, a few years ago, when the Japanese delegation came to China, it gave a lot of gifts, but in fact, her grandfather was the one who received the gift.
But when she saw that none of her four friends had drunk, it was inconvenient for her to drink.
She could only look at Jester in awkwardly, and then look at her friends in awkwardly, not knowing what to say.
She even complained about Jester's performance of wealth in front of her friends.
In fact, Jester didn't have this idea at all. He just wanted to have a cup of coffee while waiting for the car sent by Adam Edgar, but so many people here can't drink it alone, right?
In the end, he might not have withstood the inner pain, or he might have saved the awkward meeting. A oldest international student, about 30, took the initiative to pick up a coffee cup full of coffee and smiled at Jester.
At the same time, he also said thank you.
Jester also nodded with a smile.
The other three saw someone drinking first, so they no longer had such a difficult choice in their expressions. Almost at the same time, the three of them also brought up the coffee.
Chapter completed!