America's Road to Wealth

April 20, 2001.

On this day, it is also the grain rain in the twenty-four solar terms on China's side.

In the Chinese lunar calendar, it is March 27th.

That night, there was no trace of the moon in the sky.

The night was low and the sky was full of stars. Corresponding to it is the bustling lights in the steel jungle on land, and the splendor of Los Angeles is not lost to the starry sky in the sky.

Beverly Hills, 812 North Bedford Road.

In the villa, there is about a thousand square meters of front courtyard garden.

Under the dim landscape lights, Abel and little Laura sat on the wooden stool that he sat on a few days ago and destroyed an ant kingdom by the way.

"Laura."

"Call me Lauren from now on." Little Laura said softly, "Everyone calls me Lauren. Whoever calls my aunt, her name is also Laura."

"No." Abel smiled and said, "That's why I'm going to call you Laura."

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"Because if that's the case. Of all your closest people, I'm the only one who calls you Laura."

Little Laura froze for a moment, then laughed, her eyes were like crescent moons, filling the gap in the sky where there was no moon.

"Laura Lauren Smith." After she finished laughing, she looked at Abel seriously:

"Are you serious? There's no way to joke about this kind of thing, and something big will happen."

Abel sighed softly, and he put his whole body on the seat.

"I'm serious. I've thought it through. I think you're a good fit, Laura."

Abel first looked at the starry sky, and then looked down at little Laura who was sitting in a ladylike posture.

"And don't you think the name Laura Lauren Smith is beautiful?"

"Where is the beauty? Aren't they all names?"

"Beauty is in this name, with my last name."

Little Laura smiled sweetly again.

In fact, she has never heard such a level of earthy love talk.

First, I was young.

Secondly, who would dare to say such things casually to the young lady of the Shu family?

When her grandfather CLA Director Bai Dang and Bai House lived in vain?

"Let's get up and walk." Abel suggested.

"Okay." Little Laura agreed very simply.

Two people got up from the wooden stools and strolled in the front courtyard garden.

With the help of the street lamp in the garden, Abel once again carefully looked at the beauty of the shrub family in front of him.

Miss Laura Bush Lauren was tall and lithe.

She walks sometimes dignified and stable, sometimes lively and frivolous, it is completely according to her heart.

Her neck was slightly longer, which gave her a lovely look of contempt and insolence.

It is also possible to give different meaning to her smile or silent words.

At the delicate age of sixteen, she has both the childishness of a girl and the charm of a girl.

The slightly developed figure made her bid farewell to the childish youthfulness.

Her skin is fair, her lips are bright red, her forehead is as white as ice, and her voice is very clear and sweet.

Her blonde hair was as smooth as silk and combed into wavy curls.

Her blue eyes and arched eyebrows gave her face, even when she smiled, a haughty look.

Fortunately, she never showed such an attitude when facing Abel.

"Are you looking at me?"

Little Laura's crisp voice interrupted Abel's scrutiny of her.

"Yes, I'm looking at you." Abel admitted frankly and generously.

"Am I good-looking?" Little Laura was more direct.

"It looks good." Abel also accompanied her directly.

Little Laura smiled sweetly again, she seemed to be especially fond of laughing today.

It also seems particularly easy to laugh.

Suddenly, under a sycamore tree.

Little Laura grabbed Abel's skirt, and Abel looked down at her.

I saw her stretch out her hand, on her right wrist.

She took off a bracelet that didn't look like it matched her wrist at all, and was also of a more masculine style.

"This is a pair of bracelets I bought at a flea market in Houston when I was twelve years old. There are two in total, one for women and one for men."

She said: "I present this man's bracelet to you now, and by the way wish dear Mr. Smith a very happy birthday!"

What she said earlier was okay, but what she said later made Abel startled.

Happy birthday?

The memory instantly told him that April 20th every year is indeed Abel Smith's birthday.

Just because he is a reborn person, he has always regarded June 15, the birthday of the Huaxia youth, subconsciously as his own birthday.

So much so that he never paid much attention to the birthday of the original Abel Smith.

"Oh oh~ That's right." Abel pretended to suddenly realize, "Today is my birthday!"

In fact, the birthday of his identity has never been announced to the outside world.

Even the media does not have his exact birthday, only records about his birth date.

This is not a secret, but it is just a means to conceal that the Smith family is also considered a prominent family in the local area.

This is a spring-like cover-up of the Smith family by the relevant departments of the United States.

It’s not easy for those who are curious about Smith to go to Tarrant County and find out that the so-called inspirational young Smith was already a wealthy family in the local area before going to New York, right?

After a few years, Smith's limelight gradually faded.

This kind of thing can be exposed.

But now, when this lighthouse is still building this new lamp bead.

This kind of "insignificant" trivial matter, naturally someone helped him cover it up.

This is like when Buffett was created as a new lamp bead, when the media praised him wildly.

Those media will never specifically mark that Buffett has a congressman father.

Because of this father, Buffett was taken to the New York Stock Exchange when he was only eight years old, and was received by Goldman Sachs board members.

The same reason.

America needs Abe Smith as a new light bulb right now.

Of course, it would deliberately hide the existence of Smith Farm.

To conceal the family's help to him, to highlight his own personal ability.

They will say that Alexander is just an ordinary farmer, and it will not be reported too much that this gentleman is now the county governor of Tarrant County.

They'd say Emily was just an ordinary farmer's woman who was very good at pulling wool. Not to mention that she has a three-time congressman dad in Kansas and an older brother who is a current Kansas congressman.

Those media will not even report on Alex Smith, who used to be a colleague and partner in a baseball team with the current commander-in-chief.

The so-called spring and autumn brushwork is also played very well by Americans.

But honestly, Abel really forgot the original Abel Smith's birthday.

It has been almost two years since he was reborn.

At this time last year, Abel had almost just met Annie and Jessica.

Later in June, he and them had established a relationship.

He celebrated his birthday before his rebirth in June.

So Annie and Jessica both thought his birthday was in June.

Others didn't have any information about him, and all they knew was that his birthday was in April.

Abel himself subconsciously forgot.

He didn't expect little Laura to remember, and even ran over to celebrate his birthday with him in person.

Abel realized that little Laura should have known her birthday from her relatives.

Under the sycamore tree, after a few seconds of stunned.

Abel smiled and took the expectant little Laura, and handed him the beautiful bracelet with both hands.

The bracelet looks simple. On it are some irregular small round blocks that are made of platinum or silver, with holes drilled in the middle, and then woven with a light blue thread of unknown material.

Abel noticed that each of those irregular small circles was engraved with small words.

He observed carefully, and the text on it seemed to be more than English.

Seeing his observation, little Laura said briskly beside him:

"There seem to be eleven languages ​​on it, including English, Russian, French, Spanish, Latin, Chinese, Japanese, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, and Swedish"

"Each circle is a kind of text, and the content of the text is consistent, all of which are "May you have a happy love"!"

Little Laura smiled sweetly: "I was young at the time, but I thought it was very beautiful. I bought them, they are a pair, you see!"

She raised her left wrist, with a bracelet that was exactly the same as the one in Abel's hand, but the size was a little smaller.

Under the shadow of the sycamore tree, she smiled and shook the bracelet on her hand to Abel: "Isn't it beautiful?"

"It's very beautiful." Abel said with a smile, "But I don't know how to wear it. Please help me."

Abel held out his right hand, holding the other strand of her bracelet.

Little Laura looked down at his hands and said softly, "I need to help with such a simple matter."

After she finished speaking, she reached out, took the larger bracelet, and began to put it on Abel's hand.

It's just that her breathing was a little short, and she seemed to be very nervous. She helped Abel carry it a few times before getting it in.

In the end, it was Abel who cooperated, and she successfully helped Abel put on the bracelet.

"Oh, the light is too dark." Little Laura concealed.

"You look so nervous," Abel said with a smile.

"No." Little Laura raised her head and looked at Abel. She wanted to prove that she was not very nervous.

But what responded to her was the condescending Abel, who bent down oppressively.

Little Laura: "Huh?!!!! Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow."

In Beverly Hills, under the plane trees.

Bush and Smith, began the first contact between the two sides.

Two hours later.

Beverly Hills, 812 North Bedford Road.

In a large suite next to the master bedroom of the villa.

The beautiful crystal chandelier above the head casts light and shadow onto the wooden floor, forming various mysterious patterns.

Abel looked at little Laura lying on the bed, and he sighed helplessly.

".It turns out that you have a cold and a fever. You didn't treat it properly, so you came to me."

Little Laura is having a fever now.

She had a cold while in Texas.

It has been checked over there, and it is a common cold caused by the cold of the body.

When I came to Abel's side, I had already taken medicine and had a drip, and I was much better.

So Abel didn't notice it at first.

Later, the two of them were in the garden of the front courtyard, Qingqing me after so long.

Through physical contact, Abel sensed that she was hyperthermic.

At first, he thought it was because little Laura hadn't had this kind of experience before, but because her body temperature was raised due to nervousness and shyness.

Then he realized something was really wrong.

No matter how shy you are, it's impossible to raise your body temperature to thirty-seven or eight degrees?

After he questioned, he found out that she still had a cold.

This left Abel speechless for a while.

I don't know if it will be contagious. If it is contagious, he must have been infected.

He could only call a private doctor right away, examine and prescribe medicine for little Laura, and also take a look for himself by the way.

His own tests came back fine, nothing wrong.

In fact, little Laura is fine, just the common cold.

Then after blowing the dew outside for too long, it flared up again.

"It's okay, I'm fine..."

Little Laura, who was blushing because of a cold or for other reasons, replied sweetly.

Since tonight's episode, the smile on her face seems indelible, "Abel, I'm fine"

Abel sighed helplessly.

"Okay, you take a rest first, and someone will bring the medicine later. After you take the medicine, remember to go to bed early."

"No, don't." Little Laura immediately rejected Abel's proposal, "Abel, sit on the bed, I want you by my side"

Abel hesitated for a while, and finally listened to her—after all, she was a new girlfriend, and even a future fiancée.

You can't be the opposite of everything from the start.

As soon as Abel sat on the head of the bed, little Laura turned sideways and put his arms around his waist.

"Abel, do you think we will be together forever?"

During the two hours in the garden of the front courtyard just now, the two of them said everything that should be said and should not be said.

The result of this is that the relationship between the two has been officially confirmed.

No longer around Christmas last year, just a kind of egging on by the grown-ups of the two families.

"Of course, together."

Abel repeatedly agreed in a coaxing tone.

He felt that little Laura in her fever state was completely different from her normal gentleness and shrewdness.

Under normal circumstances, she is very reserved in everything she does, and her methods are just right.

Even Abel couldn't help admiring it.

Little Laura looked more like what she should be at her age when she was in a fever state.

Kind of childish.

Abel stretched out his hand to stroke her blonde hair, "Take a rest first, when you had a fever just now. You were sweating all over your body, and you looked a little scary."

"It doesn't matter, I have a cold and a fever. In addition, sweating is good for cooling the body, which can make me recover faster. Even the family doctor and your personal doctor said so. The current mental state is very serious. Well, I don't think I need a break."

Little Laura shook her head slightly, "I don't want to sleep yet, I hope you will accompany me by my side."

"Okay, okay..." Abel sighed resignedly, letting the smiling little Laura hug him.

"We've finally reached this point, aren't you happy? Do you feel like you've lost your freedom?"

After a moment of silence, Little Laura suddenly asked in a low voice.

"No." Even if he thought he would, Abel certainly couldn't admit it. "I'm happy too."

"Your heartbeat tells me you're lying. You're not having fun," whispered little Laura.

Then, she got up gently, knelt on Simmons, looked at Abel, and then stretched out her hand to hug Abel tightly.

"I know you're a playboy."

"But it doesn't matter."

"My grandmother said that the older generation of Smith and Shrubs was an anomaly."

"For our younger generation, your possibility is more normal."

"The Sun King of France has only one queen, but he has recorded more than one hundred female courtiers, and five or six of them have left their names in history."

"Washington and Adams can both give birth to mixed-race offspring with black female slaves"

"These are really small things."

"In fact, I can tolerate all of these, and I can understand them. As long as they don't invade my space."

"I just want you to confirm one thing."

She looked at Abel seriously, her eyes could be said to be unprecedentedly serious and serious.

"What's the matter?" Abel even lowered his voice a lot. He was curious about what little Laura, who could even tolerate these things, wanted to confirm in the end.

"We'll be together from now on, and we'll get married, and we'll have kids, and we'll be happy forever. Abel, right?"

Her tone was full of certainty, as if she couldn't do otherwise.

Abel took a deep breath.

Then he said.

"right."

"Great!" Little Laura cheered a little.

Then, I don't know who started to move first, but the two of them kissed again like normal couples.

But the result of doing so was that the cooling medicine and cold medicine she had just taken were in vain.

Because of the emotional agitation and not having a good rest, it burned up again.

This time Abel would not indulge her.

Let the private female doctor come in and have a look at her again, take the medicine again, and use physical means such as applying ice to cool her down, and then lower her temperature again.

Regardless of her soft protests, Abel asked his female bodyguard captain Donnie to watch her, just to ask her to sleep well.

Maybe at this time, this evening was a night of emotional excitement.

Little Laura had another thrilling experience she had never had before.

Coupled with the reason for the cold and fever, the body is indeed tired.

Little Laura was hard on her mouth, but within a few minutes, Abel, who had left his room, received a message that she had fallen asleep.

Abel sighed silently, turned and went back to the study

He took out his cell phone and called Texas again.

Instead of calling Alex this time, he called his father directly.

"Hello? Abel?"

"It's me. Father, I have established a relationship with Laura, that is, Laura Bush Lauren."

"Oh?" Alexander over there obviously paused: "Aren't you very resistant?"

"I think we're a good fit."

"I respect your choice. Son, do what you think is right." Alexander said.

"I will, father. You can tell my grandpa, grandma, and mother about the other matter."

"Why don't you tell it yourself?"

"There is no need to make more calls for things that can be solved with one phone call."

"That's right. Besides. Happy birthday, son."

The eldest daughter was sick and did not go to the toddler. I took her to the hospital in the morning and came back at noon, so the update was late.

The current weather in Guangdong is really unfriendly to those with children. It gets cold and hot for a while, hey