wild 1995

Chapter 116 Investigation
April 1995, 4, 19:10 am, London, Vauxhall, National News Agency headquarters.

Holding a cup of coffee in his left hand and a copy of the Financial Times in his right, Martin Keane walked into his office and found an oriental man in a casual suit standing inside, looking at some photos hanging on the wall.

"who are you?"

"Mr. Keen, I'm Di, from the Little Red Flower Knowledge Sharing Foundation. We communicated on the phone yesterday about holding an Internet photography exhibition. Do you remember?"

Keane suddenly realized, put down the newspaper, shook hands with Di Ye, and said, "You should talk to Campbell about the copyright of those photos. I'm just a photographer, and I'm only in charge of photography. The copyright belongs to the news agency."

"I have just spoken to Mr. Campbell and I am here to meet you. I admire Mr. Keene's photography skills, especially his talent for capturing the emotions of people, such as this picture of Princess Diana in front of the Taj Mahal. Photos of the rest..."

In February 1992, Charles and Diana visited India. Due to the crisis in their marriage, Diana went alone to visit the Taj Mahal, which symbolizes "faithful love". While resting on a bench, the accompanying dozens Reporters flocked to take pictures.

Keane, who was still unknown at the time, was also there. He took a different approach and took a photo from a distance. He used the magnificent building to set off the small individual, perfectly showing Diana's loneliness and helplessness, and aroused widespread public sympathy.

This photo made Keane famous. He stood out from dozens of reporters and became Diana's most trusted photographer. In the following years, he took many photos of daily life for Diana and the two princes. The relationship is very close. He was also invited to accompany him to Hong Kong for the first time, and he was the only media person.

Di Ye stayed in Keane's office for more than ten minutes, babbled about the positive meaning of the Internet photography exhibition, got familiar with it, and then got up to leave. Before leaving, he pointed to a building not far from the window. Building, asked: "Is that the headquarters of MI[-]?"

"No, everyone in London knows, it's just an ordinary building, there's no James Bond or Ms M in it."

"Mr. Keane, you are so humorous."

Founded in 1909, MI1994 has been in a top-secret state for a long time. It was not until the promulgation of the "Intelligence Bureau Act" in 007 that the British government recognized its existence. The building Di Ye refers to is the location of its headquarters. It was once in "[-]" It appeared many times in the "Skyfall" series of movies, and was finally blown up in "Skyfall".

After Di Ye left, Keane took a sip of his cold coffee, opened the "Financial Times", and saw a full-page advertisement, which was very monotonous. On the left was a photo of two people shaking hands, on the right It is a dry line of text: Congratulations to IMDB for joining the Xiaohonghua Knowledge Sharing Foundation!

"The copywriting is like shit, the composition is like shit."

Keane didn't know what IMDB was, and he didn't know what the Creative Commons Foundation was doing. He looked at the photo of Di Ye facing the camera and shaking hands in the advertisement, and complained: "It seems that no matter whether it is the East or the West, nouveau riche Like to show off naked."

After complaining, Keane began to read the contents of the newspaper, and saw an interview about Di Ye in Emily Baker's column, and found that this person was the inventor of WebP, and as a photojournalist and photo editor , I have been using WebP and related software every day recently, so I changed my mind and muttered: "Well, I take back what I just said. Although this guy is not good at aesthetics, he may not be an upstart."

When Keen complained, Di Ye sneezed twice on the side of the street, subconsciously looked up at the MI[-] office building, and said to himself: "Could it be that you are spying on me so soon?"

According to conspiracy theories and various gossip, Diana died in a car accident in Paris in 1997, which was caused by MI[-]. Di Ye originally planned to take a closer look at the office building to satisfy his curiosity, but now he feels that it is still far away from here. It is safer to see such a state violence institution farther away, so I waved for a taxi and walked away.

This time in London, Di Ye handed over the choice of accommodation to Xia Fangfei. As a result, she chose the Brown Hotel near Buckingham Palace. This hotel opened in 1837 and is famous for hosting many historical celebrities, including Roosevelt and Churchill. There are political figures, as well as writers such as Kipling and Agatha, and the background is not inferior to the hotel in Frankfurt.

The reason why he stayed in this kind of old-fashioned hotel was not because Di Ye had given up his internet addiction, but because there were internet cafes in London.

On September 1994, 9, Polish Eva Pascoe and several friends spent £1 to open the world’s first Internet cafe Cyberia in the West End of London. Cyberia was originally converted from a coffee shop. 2 computers, due to their popularity, opened 6 branches in just a few months, and led a group of followers, so there is no shortage of places to go online.

Di Ye found an Internet cafe called "Laurel Crown" near the Brown Hotel, and stayed there for about two hours, processing emails and collecting information about Diana at the same time, until Xia Fangfei called to find him. After surfing the Internet, I walked back to the hotel.

Xia Fangfei went to contact another person who had a close relationship with Diana in the morning, a Malaysian Chinese named Zhou Yangjie, the founder of the famous high-heeled shoes brand Jimmy Choo.

When Di Ye walked into the suite, Xia Fangfei was trying on a pair of red pointed high-heeled shoes, and said cheerfully: "Di Ye, the shoes made by this man are beautiful and comfortable, no wonder he can become Diana's queen designer."

"How many pairs did you buy?"

"Six pairs, two of which are for Xiaoya and Sister Yan. Unfortunately, time is too tight, so I can only buy finished products. I will find him to order next time I come to London."

In 1995, Zhou Yangjie was just a well-known private shoemaker in London, and he had not yet established the Jimmy Choo brand. However, Di Ye had no experience in luxury business and was not interested. He helped Xia Fangfei try on shoes while exchanging information with her, and then got They came to similar conclusions - Diana went to Hong Kong this time, either to meet her lover privately or to make money.

Diana visited Hong Kong in 1989 and 1992. The two times were very grand and invited many media reporters to accompany her, but this time she was very low-key, bringing only two bodyguards and two assistants, and besides Martin Apart from Keane, photographers from other mainstream media were not invited.

Being so low-key doesn't match Diana's usual style of acting, and it doesn't match her identity, so there must be something strange.

Xia Fangfei has collected a lot of scandals about Diana in the past few days, subverting the image of the white lotus in her heart, thinking that she is going to meet her lover privately, while Di Ye thinks that she is going to make money, because since she separated from Charles in 1992 , the economy is restricted, and the money is very tight, which is not enough to support the extravagant life.

"There's no need to travel so far for a private meeting. It's more reasonable to make money. Hong Kong is still a colony. The title of princess is very popular. If you attend a few events, you can earn millions of pounds."

"How much do you plan to pay to persuade her to build a website?"

"It can range from hundreds of thousands to tens of millions, depending on how well she cooperates."

"Dollar?"

"Sterling is fine too."

In the past few days Xia Fangfei came to Europe, she wandered around every day. She was at the end of her life, and she lay weakly on the sofa and asked Di Ye to massage her calf. When she heard this, she raised her head and asked, "Do you have that much money?"

Di Ye looked at the electronic watch, silently calculated the time difference between London and New York, and found that in just a few hours, the exchange rate of the Japanese yen will reach the historical peak, and the transaction he preset on March 3 will be automatically completed. The $13 million will turn into $5000 million, so he said: "Money is not a problem. I have made a lot of money from my investment in Hong Kong recently, and I can't give her money all at once. I will pay her in installments."

Xia Fangfei never asked about Di Ye's property, and took as much as she usually gave. Hearing this, she lay down again and continued to let him massage her. ?”

"With the cooperation of social resources, I need her to open up the upper-level social circles in Britain and the United States, and use the fastest speed to make the website famous."

"Tch, I thought you were talking about cooperation on the bed. Didn't you want to have both money and sex?"

Di Ye stroked Xia Fangfei's smooth and tender calf, and the office building of MI[-] flashed in his mind, and he argued: "Just talking, I am not interested in married women. With you and Xiaoya, I am satisfied, no toss."

"I don't believe it. A wife is not as good as a concubine, and a concubine is not as good as stealing, especially stealing a high-ranking concubine. It's very exciting, don't you think?"

"That's what you think, but I don't think so."

Di Ye has been singing and singing every night for the past few days. He has played a lot of tricks and is a little tired. Now he is in the super sage mode, his heart is as calm as water, and he has no interest in any women. While giving a serious massage, he chatted: "Fang Fei, Have you thought about what to do after graduation?"

"The last time I went to Pujiang with you to engage in 327 national debt, I thought about it. I want to be a reporter. It's fun."

"Real reporter or fake reporter?"

"Is there any difference?"

"Yes, if you're a real reporter, I'll help you find a newspaper or TV station and go to work honestly. If you're a fake reporter, after I build the website, I'll get you a special press card, and you can run around the world."

"Of course it's a fake reporter, I'm not interested in going to work honestly."

"In this case, you have to settle in Hong Kong, is that okay?"

Xia Fangfei turned over and sat up when she heard the words, and asked, "Do you often go to Hong Kong in the future?"

"I will run back and forth between Yuncheng and Hong Kong in the future, at least for the next 10 years."

"What about 10 years from now?"

"Who knows for sure in 10 years' time, maybe the two of us will break up by then."

"Nonsense, I will never break up with you!"

(End of this chapter)