Owen Jacobs and others still want to retain him, but Abel has little interest in Qualcomm, which is still a cesspit at this time.

Before 2003, Qualcomm was really an innocent little company.

It would take two years from 2006 to 2007 for it to really take off.

That’s when the prototype of smartphones will appear.

Only then will some investors with good vision discover that Qualcomm is already in an invincible position on this track.

At that time, Qualcomm suddenly became valuable and turned from a cesspool into a gold mine that everyone wanted.

Soon, Abel left Qualcomm.

On the way to the airport, Edward told Abel something else.

That is, Laura has left Arlington and gone to Houston, Austin.

Abel remembered that the Herbert family mainly lived in Houston and Austin.

Little Laura went to Houston and Austin and should be going home.

Abel was already a little numb to this matter.

He just asked Edward to continue to send people to keep an eye on it, and he didn't bother to care about the subsequent development.

It was around eight o'clock in the evening.

Abel returned to the villa at 812 North Bedford Road in Beverly Hills.

Annie didn't come back. She flew to New York tonight.

She will be in New York and several major cities on the East Coast tomorrow to promote "The Princess Diaries".

In addition, the first-day box office of "Princess Diaries" has also been released.

With extensive coverage by the entertainment media, and Abel giving his first television interview.

And has the support of many Hollywood celebrities in the media.

The box office of "The Princess Diaries" on its first day was $15.6 million.

Abel, who owns a large media group, certainly knows that the first-day box office will be very good.

For example, last year's Fox movie "X-Men" grossed US$296 million at the global box office.

Its first-day box office was only about US$13 million.

If we follow this rule, it is estimated that the box office of Princess Diaries will not be worse than that of "X-Men".

But you know, the cost of "X-Men" is as high as $75 million.

The cost of "The Princess Diaries" was only US$30 million.

The difference is more than twice, if the box office is the same.

Fox would probably be pissed to death.

But none of this mattered to Abel.

Smith Capital In the capital market, with any fluctuation of a few points, sometimes the floating loss and floating profit figures are even more exaggerated than these.

He just glanced at it and then forgot about it.

Since Anne was not there, Anne's bodyguard naturally followed.

At night, Abel was a little hungry.

He asked Edward to go to the kitchen to make him something to eat.

Half an hour later, a tall, thin, blond girl came over carrying food.

Abel turned his head and looked at Edward, who explained softly:

"This is the niece of Jinna Korshunova. Her mother is currently the cook here. Miss Anne promised her mother that if she can do some trivial tasks here, she can receive a reward."

Abel nodded, and he also remembered what Jin Na had asked him to do before.

After confirming this, he smiled at the little girl.

The little girl looked a little shy and introverted. She didn't dare to look up at him, so she lowered her head and put the food on the table.

Abel looked at it and found that it was some roasted mutton, horse meat and the like.

It would be nice to change the taste, he thought and started to do it.

As soon as he ate it, Abel immediately felt that the meal was delicious.

"Oh, very good." Abel smiled and said to the little girl standing next to him:

"This meal is delicious. I'm very satisfied. By the way, girl, what's your name? I'm Abel Smith. You can call me Abel, or you can call me Mr. Smith."

"Sir." Edward said softly next to him, "She just came from Europe. Her English is not very good."

"Oh." Abel nodded, "Then what language does she speak? Russian?"

"It seems to be Russian and Kazakh."

"Will you?"

"Sorry, BOSS. I don't know how." Edward said, "But there is someone who can. Do you need me to ask him to come in and translate for you?"

"Forget it." Abel shook his head, "Let's wait until she learns English well."

Abel finished eating quickly and then gesticulated.

The little girl, who didn't understand much English, understood his actions and came over to take away the plates and other things.

After eating and drinking, Abel turned around and went to the study, took out his cell phone and called his grandfather.

The call was quickly answered.

"Good evening, my dear grandpa."

"Good evening, my lovely grandson."

"Okay." Abel said:

"I don't have to be so polite to you. Little Laura went to see you yesterday? I heard she left today."

"Yes."

"Well" Abel said again: "Then you have nothing to say to me?"

"No."

Abel paused and said in a dissatisfied tone:

"My dear grandfather, you were not like this two days ago. At that time, you said that you and my father would always be my backers!"

"Hahahaha~"

Alex's long laughter came from the phone receiver.

Abel was helpless, knowing that the old naughty boy wanted to play a trick on him.

He had to wait quietly.

After Alex had laughed enough, he spoke softly:

"Okay, okay. Little Laura did come to my place. She came yesterday and spent the night in the room where you stayed last night. Your grandmother prepared the bed for her, and she even used yours.

Mind you. I have to say, this is a really good shrub. Her character is so much like Herbert."

"Then what?" Abel was hesitant.

Alex said: "Then I thought she was perfect for you."

"On what basis? Just because she is a good shrub?" Abel asked.

"Little Laura is different from your grandma and mother." Alex said on the phone:

"Your grandmother and mother are good mothers, good grandmothers and good wives."

"But they can't make good matrons. You know what I mean? Children? Little Laura would make a good matron."

Hearing his grandfather's full praise of Laura Bush Lauren, Abel was a little surprised.

He knew that his grandfather had always looked down upon the people from the Shrub family because of Herbert.

If only Herbert and his son hadn't ascended to high positions and led the family to such success.

With Alex's bad temper, he probably wouldn't be willing to interact with Herbert any more.

Now Alex was so full of praise for little Laura, and Abel knew there must be a reason.

Facing his grandfather, he asked directly.

"Okay. I knew you would ask."

Alex said: "The reason why I feel this way is because little Laura said something to me."

"What words?"

"She said: 'If I marry a Smith, I hope that every fourth generation of Smiths will have a middle name of 'Lauren' in their name."
To be continued...