roccoschili Chapter 473 London Trip (28) Butterfly
Chapter 473 London Trip (28) Butterfly
a new day.
Tuesday, April 1978, 11.
London.
Four Seasons Hotel Park Lane, on the street in front of the hotel.
Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, the son of the fifth Duke of Westminster, got out of the car, stood on the street, and looked down at his watch.
After about 10 minutes.
Two black Mercedes-Benz cars stopped not far from him.
Kanesz Rothschild and Peter F. Wallenberg Jr. got out of the car and waved to Gerard who was waiting for them.
"Hey~ why didn't you go in and wait for us?"
Jellal curled his lips at "Shameless" Karnes, turned to little Peter with a smile.
"Hi~Long time no see, Peter!"
"Hahaha~ Yes! How about you come in?" Little Peter hugged Jellal very affectionately. Both of them tacitly ignored Kanes and walked into the hotel door with a smile.
Karnes raised his eyebrows, smiled casually, and followed the two of them into the hotel.
. . .
"Clang~clang~clang~"
The door to the room was opened. Elena, wearing casual home clothes, smiled at Jellal and said, "Good morning, gentlemen, please come in!"
"Morning~Elena!"
"Hello, beautiful lady!"
"Wow~ Elena, why are you so beautiful after not seeing me for two days?"
Elena responded with a smile to Kanes's "compliment": "Today I will be your female companion, of course she must be more beautiful!"
"Hahaha~ It's settled?!"
"Of course!"
"Okay! Today we..." Kanes ignored Jellal and Little Peter, casually said hello to David and a few ladies in the living room, and then took Elena aside to chat.
. . .
in the living room.
Gerald introduced little Peter and David to each other.
David asked the two of them to sit down, looked at little Peter a few times, and smiled at Jellal: "I'm so sorry! I was sick yesterday, and we were chatting at lunch..."
"OK! I accept the apology~"
"But why did that guy Isadore Sharp run back to Canada?"
"Did you... chat again?"
David smiled and shrugged: "It's not me~ It's Polly, Livlin, Elena and the others."
"Oh?"
Jellal looked at Polly and Livlin who were sitting next to David, and asked curiously: "What did you talk to him about?"
"Cooperate~"
"Um...then what?"
"He said he would go back and discuss it with his partners and would give us an answer as soon as possible."
Jellal made a big-eyed expression and looked at David. .
David spread his hands with an innocent expression and said: "I slept from yesterday afternoon until this morning...I don't know anything~"
"They haven't had time to tell me yet~"
"Ah~ Well... Maggie, come and tell us the whole process of last night~"
Maggie, the little secretary, raised her hand to adjust her glasses and nodded: "Okay~"
"When we had dinner last night..."
. . .
ten minutes later.
Maggie finished.
David suppressed his laughter, kissed Polly on the face, and praised: "You are awesome!"
"Haha~ Yeah!" Polly held David's arm tightly and responded sweetly.
Jellal frowned, ignoring the intimacy between the two of them, and asked Maggie.
"What happened next? Did you still contact him?"
"No~"
"Well...thank you, Maggie!"
"..." Maggie smiled and nodded, moving towards the door of the room.
"Clang clang clang~"
When Maggie walked to the door, there happened to be a knock on the door~
She opened the door and Cui Yingying came in carrying a tray.
"Uh... guys, I'm going to take some medicine first and wait until I take it!" David looked at the "Golden Lotus" who came to deliver the medicine to him. .
Pooh!
Looking at Cui Yingying who came to deliver medicine to him, she pinched her nose and smiled bitterly: "Today... will it still be two bowls?"
"Um.."
"What about that night?"
"Too!"
"No need, right? I feel better already..."
Cui Yingying placed the tray in front of him, squatted down, picked up a bowl, blew on it gently a few times, and handed it to David.
"Today is slightly different from yesterday~"
"Yesterday was for you..."
"Okay! You don't need to say anything!"
David took the warm soup bowl, licked his lips, glanced at the somewhat surprised Jellal and Little Peter, and smiled bitterly at them.
"Soon... that'll be good~"
"Um...we're not in a hurry~" Jellal shrugged his nose and became somewhat interested in the medicine bowl that smelled strongly of medicine. .
"Whoo~"
David closed his eyes, raised his neck, drank the first bowl of medicine, and let out a sigh of relief.
I took the second bowl and felt a bitter taste coming out of my stomach~
"Hi~hoo~his~hoo~"
David took the second bowl of soup as if facing an enemy, adjusted his breathing, closed his eyes, and did it again~
In the room, except for the smell of medicine.
Everyone looked at the "bitter" expression on David's face and couldn't help but swallow their saliva~
David's facial features wrinkled together, he put the bowl down, grabbed Cui Yingying's hand, and said sadly in Chinese.
"Yingying, if I keep applying it like this...will my nose bleed?"
Cui Yingying's face turned red, she gave him a nice look, lowered her head and said: "It's your own body... It's not okay if you don't exercise some restraint~"
"Well... what you said makes sense, I'm speechless~"
"Pfft~hahaha~"
Although no one could understand what the two of them were talking about, Livlin, who thought she understood David's "gangster" qualities best, couldn't help but laugh out loud. .
"Hahaha~"
Afterwards, everyone burst into good-natured laughter.
Cui Yingying quickly put away the medicine bowl with a blushing face and left in a hurry~
Karnes, who had a "hot chat" with Elena just now, asked David with great curiosity.
"What you drank just now was... medicine?"
"Yes~"
"Wow~ I thought..."
"Tch~ You think you're bullshit!"
"Come here and sit down! Don't keep pestering my Elena!"
"yours?"
"That's right!"
Kanes looked at Elena with disbelief~
Elena spread her hands with a bright smile and said: "Now is the time when his hands and feet are weak~"
"Did you wear white gloves?"
"It's a sure win~!"
"Uh... Duel? Forget it~"
"It's not my character to take advantage of others' danger!"
"Hahahaha~"
Karnes sat in Toby's original seat amidst the laughter of several people.
David smiled at the girls and said, "Let's talk, you go change clothes~!"
"Good~"
. . .
After Polly, Livlin and the other girls left.
Karnes glanced at little Peter who remained quiet, took out a folded document from his pocket and handed it to David.
"Copyright application for "AsLongAsYouLoveMe"!"
"We finished singing in a bar in Oxford City that night, and I helped you apply for the copyright the next day~"
"It may take some time until it's all completed~ Grab this document and someone will contact you then!"
David took the file, opened it, glanced at it, and said with a surprised smile: "Thanks, man!"
"Haha~ I watched your video on Wall Street~"
"You're such a kid..."
"Lilith cried so much that her nose became runny...hahaha~"
"Hey~ are you paying attention to the important point?"
"Why not?"
"fxxx!"
"Hahaha~"
The two teased each other and joked a bit, and Carnes pointed at little Peter and laughed.
"Don't look at his silly look. He actually played in a band and is a master of musical instruments!"
"Oh?"
"Can you praise others!?"
"Hahaha~"
David looked at his new friend, Little Peter, and asked, "Do you also like music?"
Little Peter, who has dark brown hair and looks very introverted from the outside, smiled.
"When I was in school, if I didn't know how to play music, the girls wouldn't even look at me..."
"Hahaha~"
David, Gerald, Carnes and little Peter all laughed.
Jellal then smiled and said, "Don't be fooled by his honest appearance!"
"When he was 15 years old, he was riding the family's carriage to go to school in a small town..."
"This guy has never doubted why his family didn't buy a few cars for him..."
"carriage?"
Little Peter smiled helplessly: "Yes~"
"When I was a child, I grew up in a small town. We rarely saw cars, and all the neighbors had horse-drawn carriages."
"Uh... awesome!"
David really didn't think he could use those words at this moment. .Come to express my surprise~
"Hahaha~"
. . .
After joking for a while, Jellal glanced at his watch, glanced at little Peter, and said.
"Let's talk about business first~"
"David, all the plans you mentioned, Carnes and Little Peter have discussed~"
"He still has some questions he wants to ask you!"
"it is good!"
David extended his hand to Little Peter, and Little Peter also put away his smile, pondered for a few seconds, and asked: "When I talked about this investment with Kanes, I was already very tempted and wanted to join. ~"
"But there is another issue that I care about the most, time!"
"Or, you can say... cycle!?"
"When do you think it will start and when will it end?"
David smiled bitterly, glanced across the faces of Jellal and Canes, thought silently for a moment, and spoke slowly.
"Actually, forecasting is itself based on existing market information."
"Whoo~"
"Let me put it this way~"
"The international gold market we face is a relatively independent world composed of people~"
“Everyone is likely to make some decisions that affect the overall direction of the market!”
"The impact of these decisions will be continuously amplified by unfathomable and complex factors, eventually triggering a storm that sweeps everyone in the market."
"And what's even more troublesome is... it's just a relatively independent world~"
"In addition to people being able to enter this world, flies, mice, ants, and cockroaches will also have their own ways to break in~"
"So, to understand the intricate factors involved, we need an extremely large information network and the analysis, sorting, calculation, etc. of countless professionals..."
David stopped, followed his thoughts, and continued: "There is a well-known mathematician and meteorologist in the United States, Edward Norton Lorenz."
"The chaos theory he proposed in 1963 is considered by many professional scholars to be one of the greatest discoveries of this century after the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics."
"Quantum mechanics questions the physical causal law of the microscopic world; while chaos theory immediately denies the deterministic causal law including the Laplace formula of the macroscopic world."
"Later, many researchers have widely applied chaos theory to various fields~"
"For example: business cycle research and prediction, animal population dynamics, fluid movement, semiconductor current, planetary orbital movement, etc."
"The Seagull Effect, which Lorenz first proposed based on chaos theory, can be explained more appropriately. What I just said~"
"The Seagull Effect refers to the fact that in a chaotic system, small changes in the initial conditions may cause long-term and huge chain reactions in the future."
(In 1979, Edward Norton Lorenz asked the crowd at a speech at the Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington: "Can a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil cause a tornado in Texas?" Hence the name of the butterfly effect. )
"Then we might as well now... compare the international gold futures market to a huge trading system in a state of chaos~"
"You, me, us!"
"We people...if we were all just little butterflies~"
"The four of us butterflies have reached a cooperation here today and flapped their wings a few times. Will it cause a hurricane that sweeps the world one day in the future?"
"What is the probability of this?"
"What if, it's only one in [-] chances~"
"Will it also bring us a... catastrophe?"
"Hehe~"
David smiled bitterly and spread his hands to the three people who were lost in thought: "I'm sorry~ I personally don't like seagulls very much~"
"So, I prefer to call it... the butterfly effect."
David paused and reiterated: "You said, our four butterflies were in London today and just flapped our wings a few times... Will it trigger an unprecedented tornado in New York?"
"Hehe~"
"Little Peter, it is because of these unpredictable and irresistible factors that I dare not boast to you anymore..."
"After I gained more and more useful knowledge, my courage... became smaller again!"
. . .
There was silence in the living room.
David's "Butterfly Effect" theory made Gerald, Carnes and Little Peter fall into silence and thinking.
chain reaction!
The three of them have more or less considered this~
But no one has thought more systematically and comprehensively about whether they should be that one. .The first butterfly to flap its wings~
Karnes, who had the most active mind, quickly thought of David's unfinished words and asked.
"You mean, let us... postpone the entry time?!"
"That's right!!"
David gave him a thumbs up, took a deep breath, and smiled: "Any crisis or opportunity has a tipping point that is ignored by people!"
"So when the starting gun goes off, those of us who have been paying attention to it don't need to be the first to rush in."
"The market in a chaotic state will automatically give us a signal to enter!"
"What about?" Jellal asked.
"Hehe~"
David looked at little Peter, held back the "surprising words" he was about to blurt out, and asked.
"What about you?"
"Are you satisfied with my answer?"
Little Peter nodded slightly, tapped his knees with his fingers, and said with a smile: "You are far more cautious than I thought."
"I...join!"
"Wow~ Hahaha!"
"Ok!"
"Hahaha~"
. . .
The addition of Little Peter has brought the overall strength of this small group of four to a new level~
Jellal, who had been silent just now, asked David after several people stopped laughing.
"I'll start raising funds tomorrow~ Before you go back to New York, please leave us some contact information."
"If there are any changes, we can contact you in time~"
"no problem!"
"I'll ask my secretary Maggie to contact everyone who can contact me later..."
Karnes scratched his ears with his fingers, looked at David curiously and asked, "You weren't kidding last time, were you?"
"Are you just going to invest that much money in this plan?"
David was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "That's why I said that plans can never keep up with changes~"
"Don't worry~"
"After I return to New York this time, I will be able to raise at least [-] million yuan within three months."
“[-] million??”
Kanes asked even more doubtfully: "Where did you get so much money?"
David spread his hands, smiled and didn't answer.
Little Peter on the other side asked keenly: "Three months?"
"You mean..."
"That's right!"
David silently calculated the time, nodded to little Peter and said, "Within three months!"
"This is the limit of my ability~"
"Ok!"
"Three months then!"
Little Peter glanced at Jellal who lowered his head and said with a smile: "Within three months, I will find a way to raise... [-] million pounds!"
"Kanes, what about you?"
"I.."
"My wallet is not as rich as yours~"
"...8000 million pounds is also the limit of my ability~"
"Hmm~ Where's Jellal?"
"How much money can you get?"
Jellal shook his head with a bitter look on his face: "What the hell...compared to you, am I the poorest one?"
"Hahaha~"
"Stop talking nonsense and talk quickly~"
"Well... Deborah and I can raise up to 5000 million pounds together."
"Tsk, tsk~ OK!"
Carnes looked sideways at Jellal, sneered twice, and looked at David.
"I am in Xiangjiang, you are in the United States, Gerard and little Peter are in London?"
"it is good!"
"ok~"
"After Thanksgiving, I will go to Xiangjiang~ I will let you know my contact information then!"
"Oh~ that's right!"
"Guys, let's... give this plan a name?"
David had an awkward smile on his face: "You...get up~"
"Yeah~ Just call...Operation Butterfly!"
"Hahaha~"
"Ahem~ Little Peter, can I find you a female companion later?"
"..good!"
"Find me one too~ I want Elena!"
"Hehe~"
"Jeral, what about you?"
"I.."
"fxxxyou! David!"
"Hahaha~"
----
London.
Western suburbs, about 40 kilometers.
Windsor Castle, located in the Royal Borough of Windsor-Maidenhead, Berkshire, is the family castle of the British royal family Windsor and the largest inhabited castle in the world today.
The history of this granite complex can be traced back to the time of William I the Conqueror.
Originally built by William I the Conqueror, the castle was intended to protect ships and the royal family on the Thames.
Since the 12th century, it has been the royal palace of England.
In 1936, King Edward VIII of England proposed to Mrs. Simpson, an American who had been divorced twice. He voluntarily gave up his throne, was demoted from king of a country to Duke of Windsor, and left England with his new wife.
It was not until 1972 that the coffin of the Duke of Windsor returned to Windsor. .
. . .
Outside Windsor Castle.
A small convoy of six cars slowly stopped on the edge of the grass not far from the gate of Windsor Castle.
David got out of the car and put the twenty pound note into his trouser pocket.
The Queen's face is printed on the banknotes. .
After David looked at it carefully, he let out a sigh of relief~
Fortunately, it wasn't the look of the queen in the "Queen" movie he had seen in his previous life. .
What is the name of the British actress who plays the Queen?
Helen Dyron?Mirren Galen?
Emm. .
David shook these strange thoughts away from his mind and said to Jellal with a smile.
"You have to take good care of Livlin!"
"Of course!"
Jellal looked at Livlin beside him, holding his arm, and smiled very gentlemanly.
"Beautiful lady, shall we go in together?"
"Okay~" Livlin, who was wearing a luxurious dress today, returned to her appearance as an intellectual lady, and said with a soft smile.
David winked at the two of them and turned to look at little Peter and Toby.
"Man, please take care of Toby for me!"
"I will!"
Little Peter nodded gentlemanly to Miss Toby, who had a stunning figure next to him, and put up his left arm for him to hold. He followed Gerald and walked onto the lawn path.
The pair of Carnes and Elena came to David with smiles.
"Man, you are the first one to come to Windsor Castle for a banquet with three female companions!"
"Hahaha~ There is a first time for everything~"
"Cut~"
Karnes curled his lips in disdain at David's "stinky fart" and pulled Elena to follow in the footsteps of Little Peter and the others.
David looked at Polly, Cui Yingying, and Maggie who were also dressed beside him, and smiled.
"Ladies, who of you will walk with me first?"
"Together!" Polly held Maggie's hand domineeringly, and held David's arm with the other.
"Cui Yingying, don't be stunned~"
"...Oh~"
Cui Yingying looked at the smiling David and held his arm awkwardly.
David didn't care what she was thinking, he stretched out his hand and gently hugged her waist, smiling.
"Let's go~ I'll take you all to Queen Elizabeth's house!"
"Hahaha~ let's go!"
Cui Yingying's tight back slowly relaxed amidst the laughter that kept moving forward.
She tilted her head slightly, taking the opportunity to look at the surrounding scenery, and glanced at David's side face a few times, trying to record this scene deeply in her mind.
Windsor Castle!
It is a place that only appears in every Xiangjiang person’s chat~
Without David, it would be impossible for Cui Yingying to live her whole life. .
. . .
Follow the footsteps of the people in front.
David, Polly, Maggie and Cui Yingying were walking on this wide lawn path.
Jellal and Livlin, who were walking at the front, stopped and waited for David to catch up before walking together.
Jellal pointed to a place in the castle far ahead and introduced: "Windsor Castle has gone through nearly a thousand years of history~"
"From the Norman conquerors to Henry VIII, from Queen Victoria to the present day, every member of the royal family regards Windsor Castle as the center of their power~"
"The tall tower in front is St. George's Church."
"Opposite St. George's Church, there are more than 300 people serving the royal family."
"Look...over there~"
"That turret is Queen Elizabeth's favorite private residence every day~"
"It includes the Royal Kindergarten, the Queen's private library, dining room and bedrooms, etc."
"ok~"
David and the others looked up into the distance, looking at the granite structure turret in the distance, secretly speechless.
Corner tower?
Haha~ Then it’s just a building, so cool~
Livlin, who was following Jellal, asked curiously as she looked at the windsor castle that was getting closer and closer and covering a huge area.
"Jelal, how big is it inside?"
"Um...I don't know either~"
"But it's said to have a thousand rooms in it!"
"If the Queen and her family all live here, there will be more than 1000 people inside the entire castle, including service staff + security personnel, etc.~"
"Wow ~ 1000 people?"
"...Okay! I give up~"
"What are you giving up?"
Livlin winked at David and smiled at Jellal: "I don't want to have a thousand rooms in my home!"
"I'll get lost!"
"Uh...hahahaha~"
David gave her a thumbs up for her "wittiness" and laughed.
. . .
When everyone arrived at a gatehouse of the castle, little Peter took a pen from the door attendant and signed his name.
Then he handed the pen to David.
"You come too, please leave your name on the guest list~"
David took the pen, glanced at the smiling service staff, and wrote several of his names on the guests' signature book.
10 minute later.
David stood on the lawn inside the castle, looked around in a wide circle, and sighed to the people around him.
"This place... is really big~"
"Hehe~"
"What's the big deal?"
"Isn't it a place for people to live?"
"Haha~ Kanes, you are so smart!"
"Hahaha~"
Jellal also glanced around, and finally stopped at the gatehouse where a few people just walked in, and whispered to a few people.
"Guys, there are a lot of female guests today~"
"Nonsense! Charles is 30 years old and still single~"
"Can he celebrate his birthday without those girls who dream of marrying into the royal family?"
"Haha~ So!"
"You should watch the ladies around you and don't let that guy..."
"hey-hey!"
David, Kanes, and Jellal laughed in unison~
Little Peter couldn't help but look at Toby beside him: "Are they... okay?"
"Haha~ If you get along with them for a long time, you will become like this stupid~"
"Forehead.."
"Hahaha~"
. . .
Everyone followed the waiter's guidance and walked into the main building where today's birthday party was held.
David stopped at the door and looked left and right. In the eight-meter-wide corridor, there were many small tables for four people.
There are many oil paintings and decorations hanging on the walls on both sides of the corridor, showing the history and grandeur of this place everywhere.
Some service staff, holding trays in their hands, shuttled around the small tables in the corridor, bringing drinks and small desserts to some people who sat down to rest and chat.
Jellal led Livlin, waved to David, and said with a smile: "You guys come with me~"
"I'll take you to visit first and come back to rest later~"
"Ok!"
"Little Peter, Carnes, are you going?"
"No~ you go ahead!"
"No~ It's boring!"
"Hehe~"
. . .
Jellal and Livlin walked slowly in front, stopping from time to time to visit the exquisite works of art in the castle corridor~
After half an hour.
After Jellal led a few people to tour the first floor, he stood in front of the main banquet hall, pointed to the place where people gathered in the distance, and said with a smile.
"In the middle of that group of people, Charles should be..."
David raised his head slightly, looked over from a distance, and smacked his lips: "Is this the banquet hall where foreign leaders are entertained?"
"Haha~ The focus of your attention is still so... novel~"
"Hahaha~"
The two joked for a while and walked into the banquet hall.
Jellal glanced around the crowd, and was surprised to see a few familiar faces, and introduced them to David.
"Look over there~"
"That middle-aged man is Earl Spencer~"
"The two girls beside him are sisters Sarah and Diana~"
"Oh~ Also. Let me take a look~ That's...Catherine?"
"Haha~ Why is she willing to come here?"
David looked at Earl Spencer and the others. Two of the three girls looked familiar to him~
He was the first to recognize Diana’s beautiful face that looked slightly green and full of youthfulness~
What about the other one?
"Jeral, the one you're talking about...Catherine?"
"What's her full name?"
"Oh~ Her name is Catherine Matilda Swinton, and she is Diana's classmate."
"..Thanks!"
David nodded suddenly, thinking of her instantly. .Why does it look familiar?
She is Tilda Swinton!
It has silently protected the earth for 500 years. .Ancient Master!