20 years of restarting life

Chapter 4035 Elena

The villa complex is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Ontario, south of Waterloo and Toronto. Niagara Falls is just over 50 kilometers east along the southern shore of the lake.

To get to Toronto, you need to drive 30 kilometers west and then north along the lakeside highway, bypassing Hamilton at the western corner of Lake Ontario, and then drive more than 60 kilometers northeast along the northern shore of the lake.

The scenery along the way is beautiful, with a lake on the right and woodlands, fields, and mountain ranges, cities, and villages to the north.

The old woman was very talkative. She said that when she was young, she was a beautiful woman. She studied dentistry at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine and was a member of the school's cheerleading team. Many boys pursued her, and many of them were very outstanding.

She was traveling in Waterloo during her university years when she encountered robbers. Her husband, Ike, who was then a police academy student, stepped in to help her, and she fell in love with him from then on.

She said her daughter was a graduate of the University of Toronto's medical school with a combined bachelor's and master's degree. She got pregnant and gave birth to Severia during her freshman year. Her son-in-law went to work in a hospital after graduating with his bachelor's degree to earn money to support the family and children. Her daughter was also a member of the school's cheerleading team. The same thing happened in her granddaughter's generation. The only improvement was that her granddaughter is now the captain of the school's cheerleading team.

"However, she is short and only 1.71 meters tall. Otherwise, she could be a supermodel. I used to hope that my daughter would not study medicine, but she wouldn't listen. Later, my daughter and I both suggested that Severia should not study medicine, but she still wouldn't listen. Three generations of our family have suffered from being short. I am less than 1.7 meters tall. Elena and Severia are very similar in height and appearance. Sometimes you can't tell them apart if you don't look closely."

When talking about his daughter and granddaughter, the old man was in high spirits and talked non-stop: "Even if Severia becomes a doctor in the future, Elena and I will resolutely not allow her to marry a doctor. Basilo is a gynecologist and proctologist. He has had a serious mental illness for many years but is unwilling to admit it. He and Elena have not had marital relations for at least twenty years. If Elena hadn't slept with him and given birth to Severia during her college entrance exam break, I would suspect that my daughter would have been a virgin for life."

"With such a good relationship, how could they choose to have such a loveless (sexless) marriage for so many years?"

Zhao Chang'an also admired Elena. As a beautiful woman with top-notch professional skills, education, and appearance, she was able to endure so many years of loveless marriage. Of course, it was also possible that this Brazilian was a cyclical being, and that Elena had a lover outside or that they were of the same orientation.

“We have a very good relationship. Our kinship is even closer than that between me and her. In the years since I retired, every time I and I go there, she impatiently tells us to leave, saying that I talk too much with her hospital staff and patients.”

Alexandra said with a touch of sadness, "Actually, I wasn't like this before, but ever since I retired, I always feel like talking to people. Ike couldn't stand the neighbors' complaints, so he insisted on working here, saying that there was no one here, and he could talk to the fish in the lake, the birds in the trees, the squirrels in the forest, and the clouds in the sky all day long."

Zhao Chang'an laughed when he heard this. Qi Peng had previously mentioned that he had recruited a retired couple as doormen. The man was a veteran police officer who had worked his entire life in Waterloo, and the woman was an attending physician at the city's largest private hospital.

At the time, Zhao Chang'an still felt it was a bit surreal, considering that the salary he offered wasn't high, and it was only for one person.

In retrospect, everything that seems illogical has its own inherent rationale for operation.

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Zhao Chang'an took Alexandra to the hospital her daughter owned, and then went straight to the BlackBerry store on Bay Street. It was not yet eight o'clock in the morning, and there was still more than an hour before the store opened.

However, when the car was traveling on King Street and was still two or three hundred meters away from Bay Street, it saw that both sides of the road were full of parked cars, and there were even Toronto Police Service officers in red-striped peaked caps directing the parking of vehicles.

Because the parking lot was full, the local police only allowed motorcycles and bicycles to park there, and drove the cars without parking spaces back to the road.

Although Zhao Chang'an hadn't been to Bay Street often, this was the first time he'd seen something like this. Just as he was getting a little confused, a local policeman quickly walked over and asked Zhao Chang'an, "Are you going to the BlackBerry store?"

"Correct."

At this point, Zhao Chang'an still didn't understand the situation.

"Today, vehicles are prohibited from entering Bay Street in the BlackBerry section. There are no spaces here, and even fewer spaces ahead. Cars can't get through. You have to back up and find a place to park further away. Today, as long as you don't park your car across the middle of the road, you won't get a ticket."

"what's the situation?"

Zhao Chang'an, somewhat bewildered, asked the middle-aged local policeman in front of him.

“There are tens of thousands of people stuck in traffic on Bay Street in front of BlackBerry right now, most of them young people like you. What use is Push Mail to young people like you? That's a function only businessmen and politicians use.” “Tens of thousands?”

Zhao Chang'an was utterly astonished, and felt a little dizzy listening to it.

"I don't know what BlackBerry was thinking, choosing to launch the BlackBerry 6230+ on a weekend. Did they think there wouldn't be enough people and it wouldn't be lively enough? It's not even 9:30 yet, the opening time, and the college students from the Bay Street universities haven't arrived yet. When tens of thousands of people are blocking the BlackBerry store, I don't know how they're going to open the door!"

The local police officer in front of him had no idea that the young man he had stopped was the chairman of BlackBerry, otherwise he would have definitely said a few more words to him, complaining about how much trouble BlackBerry's reckless behavior had caused to them, the innocent local police officers in Toronto's Bay Street neighborhood.

Zhao Chang'an took a chartered flight to Toronto on Thursday morning. Due to the time difference between the two places, he arrived in Toronto on Thursday afternoon, Canadian time.

I picked up a client on Friday, stayed at a lakeside villa on Saturday, and today is the weekend.

Bay Street is home to the University of Toronto and the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD), and is home to 90% of Canada's high-tech and financial company headquarters, earning it the nickname "Toronto's Wall Street."

This place is a hub for young, fashionable, highly educated, and wealthy individuals. And it's Sunday. Just thinking about it makes Zhao Chang'an's scalp tingle.

He quickly reversed the car, drove west for two or three hundred meters, found an empty space on the side of the road, and stopped to call Qi Xidong.

"Mr. Zhao, where are you?"

The call was answered almost instantly, with Qi Xidong's suppressed breathing coming through the phone, and the surrounding noise gradually subsiding.

"I'm on King's Road, Bay Street is closed to traffic. I just parked my car, how do I get there? What's it like over there?"

Zhao Chang'an's heart was racing at this moment, and he could only pray that Qi Xidong had anticipated this and had countermeasures in place.

"This is troublesome!"

Qi Xidong sighed anxiously on the other end: "There are huge crowds of people. They're just waiting for us to open the door at 9:30 so they can rush in."

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Zhao Chang'an entered the store's first-floor lobby through the back door. Inside, in a nearly 300-square-meter lobby, were a dozen male and female shop assistants with strange and complicated expressions. Outside the glass doors and windows, there was a dark mass of people and faces that were almost pressed against the thick glass.

His eyes were filled with longing, madness, impatience, and worry.

Is the glass alright?

Zhao Chang'an asked the store manager.

"It's okay, it's laminated explosion-proof glass."

The male manager was also covered in sweat, constantly wiping his face with napkins.

"Given the current situation, I suggest you cancel today's starting lineup, otherwise it could easily lead to stampedes or other incidents."

Frattika, the patrol captain of the Bay Street Precinct in Toronto, said to Zhao Chang'an with a serious expression, "This is not a small matter. You can open a few temporary stores in other neighborhoods in Toronto, but avoid weekends to disperse the crowds and prevent this from happening again."