The Goddess Shines on America

When Leonard Oliver walked into the living room of this house, he immediately uttered his first exclamation: "It's really different from what I imagined, Alice, do you know what I'm talking about?"

Behind her, photographer Carlie was busy moving equipment to the entrance.

"Oh, I would like to hear more about it."

The living room had already been cleaned, and through the bright windows, Alice could directly see the interview car parked on the street. Of course, this is a magazine interview after all, not a TV media interview, so the guy named Carle didn't just move in with a video camera stupidly, but was preparing conventional equipment such as visors and cameras.

"It's no different from an ordinary family!"

Leonor was wearing a red Chanel suit, which she had specially prepared for today, and even owed a $5,000 loan for it. Not only the clothes, but the strong smell of Chanel No. 5 perfume even made Oscar-Wang standing on the stairs frown, but now it seems that he is obviously out of tune with the surrounding environment.

"I thought that if a teenager is as successful as you are, even if you don't buy a mansion in Beverly Hills, you should live in a very gorgeous house. It's like... like we just entered Vinton On the street, the No. 7 house I saw was the same!"

As she said that, Leonard also looked at the sofa in the living room with great interest. She could tell at a glance that this was definitely not a high-end product worth tens of thousands, but just a common item in the furniture section of Wal-Mart.

"Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you."

Alice sat on the sofa first, and said to Oscar who was watching the excitement not far away: "Man, pour a cup of tea for the beautiful reporter?"

Oscar nodded honestly: "Wait. Oh, Miss Oliver, what brand do you want?"

"Nestlé is fine, thank you."

Leonard nodded to the boy, and at the same time, Alice's parents were also ready at their respective positions, which were actually by her daughter's side.

Seeing this, Leonard put on his classic Louis Vuitton bag with one hand, and asked expectantly: "Then Mr. and Mrs. Wang, and Alice, since everyone is here, let's start the interview. ?"

As early as this morning, James wore a sweater of fine texture and sprayed some cologne on his body as a courtesy, looking extremely energetic. Seeing Leonard's gaze at her husband, Sophie even felt a little apprehensive, and immediately said: "Of course, no problem, Miss Oliver, let's start now."

"Fortune" magazine, which belongs to Time Inc. under the Time Warner Group, belongs to the same enterprise as "Time" and "Celebrity", and its headquarters are located in the "Time-Life Building" on Sixth Avenue in New York. It can be said that this is almost a "famous magazine building", and "Fortune" occupies the fifteenth and sixteenth floors of the building. The upper floor is the editorial department, and the lower floor is mainly the business department.

For a magazine that only publishes an issue every other week, the team size of 150 people in the editorial department and 150 people in the operation department can be said to be quite large. At least what Alice knows is that there is a very senior editor named Carol Rumes, a 60-year-old lady who writes all the important financial articles of "Fortune" herself. start writing.

Although not so arrogant that Ms. Lumes must interview her, the current situation still makes Alice a little puzzled: "Wait a minute, Miss Oliver, please allow me to ask a question first."

When Oscar honestly brought the tea to Leonard, she said, "Why did Fortune plan to use my living room as the interview location? It's because I have many companies, so it's not easy to choose a representative one." Office?"

Alice's subtext is undoubtedly why she was not invited to the "Time-Life" building. After all, for most people, traveling to that building for an interview is a very important part of their career achievements .

"Ah, because many readers want to get to know you more...in depth."

Leonard may have understood Alice's subtext, or maybe he just followed the topic: "Because for most readers, your achievements are of course worthy of curiosity, but your age is even more curious."

"It makes sense."

After muttering for a while, Alice nodded and said, "Then please start."

"Okay, then let me ask first, Alice, this is also a question that many people in the world are very curious about, that is, why are you... so talented?"

The question got everyone in the room laughing, and photographer Cale snapped the shutter just right to capture Alice's toothy grin first.

"Actually, related topics have been asked on "The Tonight Show" and "Time" earlier, which are IQ and learning speed, as well as the ability to understand by analogy and analyze in depth."

This topic is indeed a bit of a cliché, so Leonard didn't even record it, and then asked: "Except for the film director and best-selling author, your identity is known to the outside world as a shareholder of Microsoft, the developer of Windows 1.0, Cisco The founder of Internet hardware products such as routers and switches. These two identities were announced at the press conference after Microsoft’s listing, so what I want to ask now is, before that, did you still have Have you achieved anything?"

This question was indeed on the point, and James and Sophie nodded in satisfaction. Indeed, when a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl suddenly reveals her amazing achievements to the public, many people will indeed wonder what else she has done before.

Alice thought for a while, and said: "The first thing to note is that when I developed the router, I was only twelve years old after all. So, those nerds who hope that I have been a Bond girl before that, I'm afraid you will be disappointed. "

These words were spoken lightly.

Then, there was a moment of silence.

"...Pfft ha ha ha ha!"

The photographer Carle was the first to burst out laughing, Leonor looked astonished, Sophie kept pursing her lips, and James' whole body softened. But at this moment, a red-haired figure just walked into the entrance, and asked in a daze, "What's the matter? The interview has started? What are you laughing at?"

Sophie kept laughing, turned around and waved: "Hannah, Hannah, come here."

"I said Alice, it's a very formal interview, can you stop talking nonsense?"

"What~?"

Alice gave Oscar a blank look, and when Hannah obediently sat on the armrest of the sofa, Leonard finally came to his senses, first wrote down the comment "humorous" in his notebook, and said with a smile: "Say That's right, what Alice said is right, Bond girls are indeed beyond the reach of ordinary elementary school girls. Then, Alice...?"

"It's just stock trading."

She then replied solemnly: "For example, Apple's stock, we bought 20,000 US dollars of shares on the day it went public, and the amount of money is now worth millions."

"so smart!?"

Leonard was amazed for a moment, but he was not in a hurry to write anything, but asked: "So this is your suggestion? However, things like stock trading often require a lot of capital, and Mr. Wang and Ms. Wang allow you to use it. So much money?"

James and Sophie smiled slightly, and Alice replied calmly: "Well, it depends on my family composition."

Leonard immediately made preparations for serious recording.

"My father is a professor of history at UCLA, and it was when I first married my mother. Is it okay to have an annual salary of 100,000?"

"Then, hehe, Sophie is amazing. She is a practicing lawyer with a Ph.D. from the Law Department of Harvard University. She also has the certificates of Chartered Certified Accountant and American Certified Public Accountant. When I first met my dad, she was a serious person. What about single nobles with an annual salary of half a million dollars!"

"Oh, it's true, Dad, why did you chase your mother back in the first place? If it's only two years, teach Oscar a few tricks?"

"Ah hello!?"

"Oh, okay, okay~"

Well, what I said, not mentioning Oscar and Hannah's reaction, anyway, it made the couple shy for a while. Look, James looked at Sophie with a silly smile, and Sophie quickly turned her head aside, just like a boy or girl returning to puberty. Click, click, cameraman Kale seized the opportunity, and another set of precious historical moments was born.

"It turns out that it is like this, it seems that it is really not simple."

Of course Leonard was even more surprised, but curiosity and wonder naturally emerged even more, just like she did when she first entered the house, she began to look at the layout of the room.

"Then I'm even more curious. I'm afraid this question will be left to Mr. Wang and Mrs. Wang. Since you were typical successful people when you got married, why do you still live in...such an ordinary house?"

There is no doubt that Wenton Street in Culver City is a typical middle-class residential area, that is, it gathers the middle and lower middle classes. Residents like lawyers and doctors who have just started their jobs and have a stable annual salary of more than 100,000 yuan may not be able to make up a single-handed count in a mile radius.

"Probably because I am Chinese, and Sophie agrees with my lifestyle."

James said flatly: "We Chinese have an old saying, that is, don't show off your wealth. Like some so-called 'authentic Americans', they receive a monthly salary of 5,000 yuan, but rely on a pile of debt to buy a 400,000 yuan Lamborghini It’s not our way of life to have fun.”

"Of course a mansion will be very comfortable, but it also has to match the status and practical needs. My three children are just starting middle school now, and if they get a little rich, they will enjoy it. Miss Oliver, I think this is for the children. , isn’t it a good influence?”