King of Hollywood

Volume 1 Foundation Laying] Chapter 240 Winning the jackpot?

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Chapter 240 Winning the jackpot?

"Are you okay?" A hand appeared above him in a trance, Adrian blinked, and finally recovered, grabbed the hand and stood up with strength.

"Thank you." He patted the dust off his body and said to the person who helped him. The other person was a middle-aged man in his forties, slightly fat, dressed very casually, typical of Canadians.

"Do you need to see a doctor? You seem to have fallen hard." The other party seemed very enthusiastic.

"No, no, it's just a sudden... I was bumped, but I didn't actually get hurt." Adrian straightened his clothes. Fortunately, it's not raining now, otherwise he would be in a lot of embarrassment now.

"Who are those people? I was knocked down suddenly, and I didn't see clearly at all." He immediately asked again.

"A group of young people with excess energy, who have nothing to do all day, just know how to skateboard in the small town," the middle-aged man suddenly became angry, obviously dissatisfied with this situation for a long time, "the police don't care Without them, every time I bumped into someone, I ran away without doing anything, what a shame.”

Skateboarding? Hearing this word, Adrian raised his eyebrows involuntarily, and then smiled: "It's okay, I'm not hurt anyway, thank you."

"You're welcome, the law and order in Napanee is still very good, those young people are just too energetic, I hope you can have fun. In addition, if necessary, you can go to the Winnipeg Hospital, which is on Kingston Road At the end, it may not be the best hospital in the town, but it is definitely the most efficient hospital." The middle-aged man is still very enthusiastic, and he still has some vision.

"Okay, I will." Adrian nodded, and when the other party walked away, he moved his body and sighed, and walked towards his car.

In less than two steps, he stopped again. On the side of the street, a skateboard was lying there obliquely and quietly. After carefully recalling it, Adrian picked it up immediately. It was completely black and decorated with some green or blue huā patterns. It was quite impactful, and the quality was good, so the price should be high. Thinking back to the body that had hit him before, he turned it over to examine it carefully, then laughed, and on the bottom of the skateboard, next to the front wheel, was written the owner's name.

"Well, I came all the way here to meet you, and you gave me such a gift, which is really ingenious." Adrian laughed.

"Today is really unlucky for those idiots, how could I play with them?" The girl complained to her friend as she walked, her cheeks were puffed up, she seemed very unhappy, and she occasionally gritted her teeth Emoji, "If you let me know who proposed to slip away, I will definitely punch him hard"

She was wearing a black sleeveless vest, showing two white and tender arms with wrist guards, her short and medium brown hair was casually scattered, and underneath was a long féi long kù, the kù feet were rolled up, and the ankles were lù On the outside, with a pair of black and white sneakers, Qing's vitality can be seen at a glance, and at the same time, it gives people a different kind of appeal.

"Why? Because you slipped away too?" Her friend, another girl, teased with a smile.

The girl's face suddenly became a little ugly, and at the same time she was a little frustrated: "Damn it, I didn't think about it that much at the time, I've played on that street countless times, but I've never bumped into anyone... I was very scared, and I had no idea for a while...Fortunately, according to the person who ran back to peek, the person who was hit was fine...or it would be a big trouble..."

Speaking of this, she became even more frustrated, frowning, and the corners of her mouth almost touched the ground: "Oh, my skateboard was also left there, and it was said that it was taken away by that man, damn it, I spent 50 I bought it in dollars, but I saved it for almost half a year, which is too bad, too bad”

Seeing that she was showing signs of going crazy, her friend quickly stopped, grabbed her by the shoulders and shook vigorously: "Okay, it's just a skateboard, if you are not willing, you can go to someone to apologize, and then come back Well."

Rolling her eyes, the girl let out a long sigh, and then suddenly realized something and grabbed her friend's arm and shook it: "Hey, Alice, have you noticed that the man over there seems to have been watching us for a long time."

"Is there?" Her friend turned her head to take a look. Indeed, not far ahead, a Mercedes-Benz was parked on the side of the street, and a man between twenty and thirty stood in front of the car. He looked at them with interest.

The girl named Alice couldn't help becoming vigilant, and after thinking about it, she comforted her: "It's okay, we're already home, let's go back quickly."

"En." The young girl nodded, and the two of them quickly walked forward.

When passing by the man, she still couldn't help feeling a little nervous. For some reason, she always felt that the guy looked familiar. Because of this, she couldn't help but looked up at the other person when she passed by. The man's smile became wider, and his eyes seemed to be on her. It was very playful, and there were some... malicious? This couldn't help but make the young girl get a layer of goosebumps, and her steps immediately became bigger.

At this moment, the other party said: "Are you leaving just like that, Avril? I thought you would apologize to me."

The young girl was startled, and turned around abruptly to look at the other party with uncertain eyes: "You... who are you? Why do you... know my name?"

The other party smiled and did not speak, but turned around and took out something from the open car window. It was long and black, with green and blue huā patterns. wheel. The young girl was a little dazed at first, but when she saw the thing, she immediately showed a terrified expression, and finally screamed, Sa Tuǐ rushed all the way to the door of her house, opened the door and hid in, even ignoring her friends.

How... how... the girl leaned on the door and panted heavily. Well, he seems to have written his name on the bottom of the skateboard, but...but how would he know that he lives here.

"What's going on, Ivy?" Mom asked, poking her head out of the back room, and there was a loud noise when she closed the door just now.

"No...it's okay, Mom, nothing happened, I just left in a hurry." Avril said quickly.

"Liar sister must have done something bad again, otherwise she wouldn't be in such a panic." At this time, the younger sister came down from the stairs bouncing and gave her a big grimace.

"Shut up, Michelle." Avril immediately waved her fist threateningly. Before she could put her hand down, there was a knock on the door behind her. The young girl was shocked again, her complexion became ugly again.

"Who is knocking on the door?" Mom poked her head out again.

"Hmm... this... that..." Avril Lavigne, who was at the door, hesitated and couldn't speak.

"It must be my sister who was found at the door after causing trouble." Michelle, who sat down on the stairs, smiled and looked at her sister gloating.

Avril doesn't have time to argue with her sister, she's thinking about what to do now, if mom and dad know that she went skateboarding and bumped into someone, then I'm afraid I won't be able to touch skateboards for the whole summer vacation, let alone have a relationship with Parker. They played together. At this moment, the knocking on the door suddenly stopped, and the young girl breathed a sigh of relief, maybe the other party saw that she didn't open the door so what happened. Even though she knew that the possibility of this was very low, she still couldn't help but think about it.

But this idea just came up, the sound of the key opening the door came from behind the door, and the girl's face turned pale a lot. She remembered that her father and brother had also gone out when she came out in the afternoon. Could it be...

She jumped away, looking at the door in fear, the door opened with a click, and then her father's laughter came in: "Come in, Mr. Cowell."

"Thank you, Mr. Lavigne, just call me Adrian." The man before walked in with her father, and the skateboard was in his hand. After looking around, he quickly found that standing next to him was a little nervous. Avril Lavigne, and then another malicious smile—at least in the eyes of girls.

"Judy, this is Mr. Adrian Cowell from the United States; Adrian, this is my wife, Judy, Judy Lavigne." The father began to introduce the mother, probably because the older brother followed Behind them, they have already been introduced, so the throne of God Seal jumped directly to Avril Lavigne.

"This is my second daughter. She is really naughty sometimes, and weird ideas often pop up in her head," John Lavigne said, looking at his daughter, "Tell me honestly, Ivy, you just now What do you want to do?"

Avril, who was already extremely nervous, couldn't help but stare blankly at her father, not knowing what he was talking about.

"I think she might want to scare me," Adrian stepped in. "She is indeed a cute, energetic, and eccentric child."

"Oh, don't be deceived by her appearance, Adrian, you must know that she likes to skateboard very much, as long as she takes it with her when she goes out, she will never let it leave her side. Since she even lost this, she is obviously going to A big prank." The father scolded his daughter mercilessly.

"Dad, how can you talk like that?" Avril Lavigne protested reflexively, and then realized what she was looking at Adrian.

The other party smiled slightly, handed the skateboard in front of her, and blinked narrowly. Avril Lavigne, who fully understood it, felt ecstasy in her heart, and immediately hugged the lost and recovered skateboard into her arms. If she was not at home, she might have jumped up and cheered. But she didn't forget to give Adrian a grateful look, and the other's smile changed from "bad intentions" to "kind and kind".

After John Lavigne introduced the younger daughter, he called Adrian to sit down. After a catastrophe was resolved invisible, Avril Lavigne, who could have left, stayed. She was both curious and fortunate. She was curious why this man named Adrian would come to her home. Fortunately, he seemed to be compatible with My father knew him, and if it were someone else, he wouldn't hide it for her even if he didn't ask for guilt.

Interestingly, the elder brother Matthew and younger sister Michelle did not leave either, especially Michelle, who seemed to regret that she did not do anything out of the ordinary, and laughed provocatively and said a few words from time to time. Avril Lavigne didn't bother to pay attention to her, although she knew that her sister was not malicious but just a little mischievous, but she would be reprimanded by her parents for doing the same outrageous things, but her sister did it much more lightly. Even though she knew that her sister was still young, it was inevitable that she would feel depressed, not to mention...

"So, what do you want to come here to find me, Adrian?" On the sofa, after a few pleasantries, John began to get down to business.

"Hmm... how do you say this?" Adrian tapped his head with his fingers, "It's really not easy to completely straighten out the clues, so let's start from the simplest place."

He paused, organized his words, and then he opened his mouth again: "Although I live in Los Angeles, I often travel to Canada. I have also been to Napanee a few times. The scenery here is very beautiful. I remember it is probably I was here again a little over a year ago and I heard a girl singing while passing the Bowland Fairgrounds, I wasn't sure if it was Garth Brooks' "The ge" or the South Xiao jī's "u Were ne", although a little immature, is very infectious. Then a few months ago, it should be April, when I came here to talk about it again, I heard the same thing in the bazaar The singing voice, I remember it very clearly this time, is Shania Twain's "t a ld on me", although it is still a little immature, it has made considerable progress compared to more than a year ago."

Avril Lavigne, who was checking the skateboard, stopped what she was doing at this moment, and raised her head to look at the man sitting on the sofa in surprise, not only her, but also her mother, brother, and sister. And the father sitting opposite him raised his eyebrows slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't make a sound.

Adrian smiled slightly: "I have a record company. You know, both singers and actors need potential, so there are so many scouts looking for talents all over the world. Although I am not a scout, I am not good at specific music production. I know it very well, but I still have some vision in this regard. So when I went to Canada for vacation again a few days ago, I suddenly thought that if I could find this girl and train her, she might become an outstanding singer. Definitely, that's why I came to Napanee today, it's a small town, it's very easy to find out who is singing in the bazaar, not to mention your daughter is so famous."

He spread his hands, and then looked at Avril Lavigne who was sitting in the corner with her skateboard in her arms, while the young girl opened her eyes wide and was speechless.

"Wow!" Michelle yelled first, her mouth was wide open, and she moved around Adrian and her sister in disbelief, "This is unbelievable, my sister can sing so well ?"

"Yes, yes, they have never applauded those people in the market." Avril Lavigne instinctively rolled her eyes and refuted her sister.

"That's because they don't live in our house," Michelle grimaced, "Every time you sleep, you have to knock on the wall by me or my brother to stop you."

Matthew immediately coughed twice and looked away, not wanting to be involved in the "war" between the two younger sisters.

"Okay, children, be quiet." John greeted, and then looked at Adrian with some hesitation, "You mean, you want to sign Avril, don't you, Adrian?"

"Yes, John, you have also been a country singer, and you should know how important systematic training is to a singer, and the earlier this training is, the better." Adrian shrugged, "My RUN record I have always been unique in cultivating young singers, if you and Avril agree, I can arrange a professional to conduct a systematic test and evaluation on your daughter as soon as possible."

"RUN record?" John remained calm.

"Yes, it was called MU Records at first, but it was changed to the current name after acquiring several small record companies for merger, so it is not well-known." Adrian smiled slightly.

John was silent and did not answer, he turned his head to look at his daughter. Avril, who had already clenched her fists, immediately showed a begging look, she bit her lip and tried her best to control her emotions, otherwise her body would have been trembling with excitement. Ever since she started singing and begged her parents to buy musical instruments and equipment, she has always dreamed of this day: becoming an outstanding singer, making the whole world like her, and letting the whole world listen to her songs.

Now, the opportunity finally came, and she really couldn't think of a reason to refuse it. Obviously, because of the man's previous protection for her, she directly ignored the possibility of a liar by directing her to the throne.

"Wait, are you talking about RUN records?" Matthew suddenly opened his mouth at this moment, with an excited expression, as if he had thought of something.

"Yes, of course." Adrian nodded affirmatively.

"The RUN record that came out with Britney Spears at the beginning of the year?" Matthew asked.

"Yes." Adrian continued to nod, with a flat expression, as if he didn't care about the company's launch of such a singer who had aroused great repercussions and was loved by countless teenagers.

"Wow!" Matthew, who has always seemed very stable among the three children, immediately jumped up and screamed strangely, "It's a RUN record, it's a RUN record, it's incredible, it's incredible."

He was jumping and screaming excitedly. He didn't seem to care about his parents and two younger sisters. He grabbed Adrian: "Can I get a Britney's autograph? Can I meet her?"

He's not yet 20 anyway, and that's the age group Britney is appealing to teenagers, though Michelle, who also seems to like Britney's songs, is surprisingly on board. Avril looked at Adrian in a complicated way, clenched her fists tightly, and her thoughts were a little húnluàn. You know, when her brother and sister waved Britney's CD and told her that this is a good song, she always Is to lift the chin: "I will surpass her in the future"

"Okay, be quiet, children, can I talk about this later?" John finally spoke again after thinking for a while, and looked at Adrian again after Matthew and Michelle closed their mouths: "I want to know, are you the Adrian Cowell who is known as the miracle director?"

Another exclamation sounded.