Darwin city in northern Australia.

It was the afternoon of January 13, and a motorcade drove into the parking lot of the Diamond Beach Casino Hotel on the seaside in the south of the city. Many passers-by couldn't help but stop and watch.

This is a convoy that has obviously traveled a long distance, with a total of 11 vehicles. In addition to 8 off-road vehicles, there is also a tanker truck and two container trucks.

The bodies of the 11 vehicles were all covered in dust, and several of the off-road vehicles had obvious impact marks.

People who have had similar experiences will probably understand when they see this situation that this fleet must have just crossed the Australian continent. Both local and overseas travel enthusiasts like to have such an experience in Australia.

However, compared to other travelers, this fleet can only be described with the word "trench".

Not to mention the fleet of top-notch off-road vehicles, how many people travel directly with tankers and containers?

Simon opened the door and stepped out of a Mercedes-Benz G460, wearing a simple T-shirt and jeans, with a pair of thick-soled boots on his feet.

After spending a whole week traveling through the mountains, rivers, canyons, and Gobi deserts of the Australian continent, coupled with the previous trip to Antarctica, and a series of cold snow, ice, frost, wind, and sun, Simon's skin tone became darker, and he exuded a strong sense of masculinity.

temperament.

Probably everyone has the idea of ​​traveling around the world.

Simon is no exception.

In my previous life, I didn’t have such capital. Now, since I have the opportunity, of course I have to realize some of my previous dreams.

Driving an off-road vehicle through the endless Australian red sandstone Gobi desert, this feeling of freedom between heaven and earth is really exciting. After Christmas, it lasted for more than half a month from Melbourne to Antarctica and across the entire Australian continent.

The excitement that a twenty-year-old should have returned to me during this trip.

Simon also made up his mind to take a similar trip every few years in the future.

Seeing Simon get out of the car, the hotel manager greeted him warmly, and people in several other cars also gathered around.

There were a total of 31 people in the group for a one-week trip.

However, there are actually only six owners, namely Simon and Janet, the fourth child of the Johnston family, David Johnston and his girlfriend Leslie Whickert, and the fifth child, Patrick Johnston and his girlfriend.

His girlfriend is Sarah Kidson, and the others are bodyguards, drivers and other attendants.

Since the conditions are sufficient, of course you must give yourself the best protection.

The natural environment in the Australian outback is still very harsh.

Simon didn't feel at all that the pleasure of traveling would be reduced by having more followers.

When he came to Australia this time, the first thing Simon experienced was a formal engagement ceremony. It was the result of Raymond Johnston's insistence. The old man was a very traditional person at heart.

After Christmas there was a trip to Antarctica, just Simon and Janet.

Of course, if you don't count the followers.

New Year's Day was spent on a cruise in Antarctica, which felt like a mini honeymoon.

Returning from Antarctica, we started our journey across the Australian continent again.

Compared with the two-person trip to Antarctica, this time we brought the fourth and fifth children of the Johnston family and their respective girlfriends.

David Johnston had no interest in traveling and claimed that he still had a thesis to do. After this reason was raised, the family unanimously agreed to take him with them by force. Patrick Johnston thought during Simon and Janet's trip to Antarctica.

I followed him, only to be rejected, so of course I won’t miss it this time.

While everyone was greeting each other, Janet turned around from the passenger side, raised the satellite phone in her hand and said to Simon and others: "Mom said she has already started preparing dinner, and she wants us to go back to the mansion for dinner tonight."

Patrick Johnston was whispering something into his girlfriend's ear. Hearing this, he immediately said: "Why are you going back so early? Sister, why don't we go to Bali? It's very close to here, only two hours away."

Can you get there?"

Janet rolled her eyes at her brother and said, "You have been wandering around for half a year, Pat. When you go back this time, dad will arrange a job for you."

Patrick Johnston is actually three years older than Simon and had been studying at the University of Birmingham in the UK.

However, compared with David Johnston, a top student at Cambridge, Patrick has accomplished nothing academically. After enrolling in school, he still failed to get a degree after 6 years of studying. In addition, he was forced to study by the school last year due to his bad records.

He retired and then idled in London for more than half a year before being forcibly called home by the old man at the end of the year.

Janet was indifferent to Patrick's request, wagging her index finger and said: "In one hour, take a shower and change clothes, and then we go home. If you don't go back, you will have to stay here to drink sea water, and dad will

Your credit card is suspended."

After speaking, Janet ignored her brother's protest, held Simon's arm and walked towards the hotel building under the guidance of the manager.

Darwin Airport is near this hotel. More than an hour later, the group boarded Simon's Boeing 767 at the airport. Others would handle the convoy left here.

After the plane took off smoothly, Patrick began to wander around the cabin restlessly, and then quickly returned to a small living room in the center of the cabin, where everyone gathered.

He got behind Janet and Leslie and took a look at the office building decoration design drawings that the two women were discussing. Patrick came to Simon who was chatting with David, sat down on the arm of the sofa and said to Simon: "Man, what do you want?

Why don't I go to Hollywood? You can arrange any job for me, it'd be easier to pick up girls."

Before Simon could speak, Sarah Kisson, who was sitting cross-legged on the single sofa next to him and playing a handheld game console, looked up at Patrick and said, "I can hear you."

Not to be outdone, Patrick said: "Sarah, how about we break up?"

"Talk to your dad and my dad, asshole, do you think I want to be your girlfriend?"

"We are all adults, Sarah, you should have the courage to resist your father's arrangements."

"Sorry, I don't have the courage."

After Sarah Kisson finished speaking, she simply ignored Patrick and continued to play her game console with her head down.

Simon listened to the conversation between the two with great interest, and glanced at the girl next to him who was wearing a large black sleeveless T-shirt and looked very punk.

Sarah Keyston comes from the Keystone family, which also runs the mining business in Western Australia. The Keyston family and the Johnston family are family friends. Sarah Keyston's fathers, Louis Keyston and Raymond John,

Stone is a very close friend. It is said that they carried guns together and went to the same school together, so there are cliché stories like baby kiss.

However, according to Janet, the two families actually did not mean an arranged marriage like the conversation between Patrick and Sarah, and it was very casual.

It's just that Patrick and Sarah have always disliked each other since they were little. They fought when they were young, bickered when they grew up, and occasionally had cold wars for a while, but they never separated. Later, they went to the University of Birmingham together and hung out together for 6 years. Last year, they broke up again.

They both failed to get a degree and were expelled from school, making them a very strange pair of happy enemies.

Through this period of getting along, Simon felt that this dark-haired girl who likes to wear heavy eye shadow, is somewhat taciturn, and has a Shakespeare quote "all devils are here" tattooed on her right arm.

The center is obviously the one in control.

Patrick asked for help from his girlfriend, and in a blink of an eye he forgot what he had just asked for, and asked Simon again: "Man, what is the code for the front cabin, let me go and see?"

Simon raised his chin towards Janet: "Ask your sister."

Patrick looked over.

Janet said casually: "123456."

Patrick jumped up immediately, not forgetting his girlfriend: "Sarah, do you want to come with us?"

Sarah Keystone didn't even raise her head: "No."

Patrick ran out indifferently, and soon ran back, and asked his sister very hurt: "Are you sure it is 123456?"

Janet rolled her eyes at him: "That's Simon and I's bedroom, why did you go in there?"

Patrick stretched out his hand and gestured exaggeratedly: "The bedroom occupies one-third of the cabin. Do you play tennis in it?"

Janet simply ignored her brother, picked up a page of office design draft and showed it to Simon, saying: "How about this one?

Renovation work has begun on Daenerys Studios in Los Angeles.

Some time ago, Leslie Whickert intentionally or unintentionally explored whether she could give herself a chance to practice design, and even encouraged her boyfriend to help negotiate the project.

Leslie Whitaker majored in architectural design at Cambridge, mainly because she wanted to inherit her father's business. Because Leslie Whitaker's father opened an architectural design company in London. It was not large, but it was not big.

Small, probably the kind that cannot undertake the design work of the entire Daenerys Studios, but is more than enough to be responsible for an area of ​​​​the administrative district.

Of course, the construction of Daenerys Cinema has been completed, and only the subsequent interior decoration still needs to be designed.

It's the kind of job Leslie Whitaker hopes for.

Although she majored in architectural design, Leslie Whitt preferred interior design. After graduation, she planned to join the interior design department of her father's company, so she has always been biased towards this field in her studies.

Originally, Leslie wanted to be responsible for the interior design of the Shell Villa in Cape Dume Manor. If she could accumulate such experience in designing a residence for the richest man in North America while she was studying, it would definitely be of great benefit to her future work after joining the company.

Simon and Janet wanted to plan the interior design of Baker Villa by themselves, but they could not refuse David, who rarely spoke to them. Finally, they gave Leslie the design work of an office building in Daenerys Studios.

, Simon's office is in this building.

Although Leslie will graduate next year, she is not enough to complete the design of an office building alone. Simon simply asked Los Angeles to sign a formal contract with Leslie's Whitaker Design Company, so that Leslie

Sili was able to seek assistance from the formal department of her father's company, and Whitaker Design Company had entered the North American market.

Simon just looked at the drawing, shook his head with a smile, and said: "Replace the red sofa, and everything else will be fine."

Leslie Whickert didn't know why and said: "This is a darker burgundy color. Simon, I think this color matches the overall design style of your office very well."

Simon glanced around and asked, "Don't you know what the red sofa means?"

Janet and the others all looked at each other.

Sarah Kidson, who was playing on a handheld device, suddenly said: "There is an underlying rule that emerged in the era of Hollywood studios. When an actress enters the audition room and sees the red sofa, she will strip naked and wait for the director or producer to arrive.

, then they can get the role."

Janet's eyes widened in surprise: "Really?"
To be continued...