Chapter 140: The Watchmaker's Bedtime Story

At 4:04 a.m. Beijing time, it was just past dinner time in Switzerland.

ended the call with Jiang Shiyu, and still had no sleepiness to buy and buy a message to Jin Ran:

[Boss, I decided not to go to Switzerland, thank you for thinking about recommending me to the Geneva Watch School. 】

After Jin Ran and Maimaimai determined the time of "clearing the wasteland", they told her that they would give him an exact answer before today.

After seeing the documents in the safe, I forgot about it.

The message sent to Jin Ran at this time is the final decision given by Mai Mai Mai.

I asked where I wanted to go to kindergarten with Lego, but the little guy didn't particularly clearly want to go to kindergarten in Switzerland.

Among the new Lego buyers, the number one is The Willcocks Nursery School, which can be classmates with the little princess.

As for schools in Switzerland, buying Lego doesn't say anything definite.

If you have to study abroad with Lego, the UK is a better choice than Switzerland.

In the UK, there is at least one British mom who buys Lego.

When I went to Switzerland, I didn't have the confidence to be able to buy Lego on my own.

Jin Ran had already sent the remaining money from the sale of the Vacheron Constantin mask master to Maimaimai a day ago.

After deducting the part of the property fee paid by the studio's account, there are still nearly two million left.

This money is not a lot, but it is enough to support the life of Maimaimai and Lego in Switzerland for a few years.

Jin Ran didn't know why Maimaimai chose to reject his proposal, so after receiving the news, he called back directly.

"Can you tell me the reason for your refusal?" Jin Ran's voice was like melting snow in the Alps, cool and sweet.

"The reason, if watchmaking is to be regarded as a major, it is an engineering major, physics, chemistry, and mechanics, these are all basic skills. As an art student, I don't think I have that ability. You introduced me in, and if I can't even graduate, won't I lose your face?"

Maimaimaimai decided not to let his troublesome essence attribute directly poison the independent non-genetic inheritors and genius watchmakers.

Maimaimai has obtained a certificate of intermediate watch repair skills, but her level of repairing clocks and watches is more than one grade behind Jin Ran and Lu Yiyang.

Most of the clock maintenance is a small project, and if you really want to develop in the field of watchmaking, it is estimated that you have not even mastered the most basic filing, drilling, grinding and cutting processes.

There is nothing else to buy, buy, buy, buy, and there is still self-knowledge.

"That's not the reason you messaged me at 4 a.m. Isn't it because I'm kind enough to do bad things and put pressure on you, right?" Jin Ran didn't think that buying and buying gave a real reason.

"What good intentions do you mean, and what bad things do you mean?" asked Mai Mai Mai very directly.

"The thing about the Master of Masks. Jin Ran asked with a little confusion.

"Isn't that a very simple good thing, how did it become a bad thing?"

"Well, yes, you're right, it's a simple good thing...... You are still sending a message, are you not asleep or have already woken up, didn't you say that I have a good voice before?Do you want me to tell you a bedtime story?" Jin Ran did not change the topic very naturally.

"Bedtime stories, you coaxed you to buy Lego once, and you became addicted? I'm not a three-year-old, what kind of bedtime stories do you listen to, and besides, I think you have the best voice when you tell the history of clocks. "I found that my boss's thinking suddenly jumped a little.

"Then I will tell you about the history of Swiss watches, discuss why Geneva has become the core of world watchmaking, and then think about what is worth learning from Chinese watchmakers, do you want to listen?" Jin Ran asked Mai Mai Mai's opinion.

Maimaimai wanted to refuse in his heart, but when Jin Ran's clear and magnetic voice asked the three words "Do you want to listen", the two words "don't" that Maimaimai had reached the most, couldn't say anything.

The last words of the purchase and purchase became a question: "Then what if I fall asleep?"

"That means that my story is not exciting enough, just like you fall asleep watching a movie, most of it is the fault of the movie, don't you say?" Jin Ran's every sentence ends with a question, and the best way to make communication smooth is to ask more questions and state less.

In this way, there will be comings and goings, and it will not become an embarrassment that one person finishes talking and the other person doesn't know how to pick it up at all.

"Perhaps. Boss, you're so nice to me, I'm a little unaccustomed. You know that I have admired your voice for a long time, and if you do this again, are you not afraid that I will fall in love with your voice?"

"Don't be afraid, you fall in love with my voice, but not with me, what's there to be afraid of? Those radio hosts with good voices, there are thousands of voice-controlled fans who are not afraid, what am I afraid of?" Jin Ran asked another question, and it was the one who was right.

"It's okay, maybe if you listen to a lot of nice sounds, you won't feel it anymore. Boss, don't worry, even if I fall in love with your voice, I won't let myself fall in love with you. I'm a troublemaker, and I'll take the initiative to stay away from everyone. "Buy, buy, buy, buy is probably a lack of sleep, and the words before and after the words do not match.

"Do you think you're a little weird?"

"What's strange?"

"I now have a feeling of being rejected for confession. But when I think about it, I've grown so big that I never seem to have confessed to anyone else. Regardless of the male or female. Jin Ran finally didn't end his words with any more questions.

"Men and women, you mean you like men?"

"Love is inherently genderless, and I haven't met the person I like, so I don't know if it's going to be a man or a woman. I didn't say I like men, I mean, anything is possible until you meet someone you like. Jin Ran's words were a bit deviant.

"If you let the old man hear this, you should directly break at least one leg. The corners of his mouth rose slightly.

The boss's thoughts are really something that a small employee like her can't quite understand.

"If you can get my grandfather to come back into this world and beat me and break my legs a few times, I don't have a problem. Jin Ran does not refute the argument of buying, buying, buying.

"Uh...... Otherwise, if you tell a story, if I can't turn my head, I'll think too much. After thinking about it a lot, you will feel that you have something in your words, a meaning outside the words, a sound outside the words, or something. "I don't know if Jin Ran said a few random legs, whether he refers to two or three.

"Do you want to think too much, what do you think too much, do you want to share it, and I'll see if you think too much?"

"Uh...... Didn't you say that you have the feeling of being rejected for confession? "Mai Mai Mai will never admit what he just thought too much.

She chose to divert the topic: "You obviously don't like me, and you don't want to confess to me, but I said passionately that I want to take the initiative to stay away and keep my distance or something, I just think too much." I always think that everyone likes their paranoia is a disease and needs to be cured. ”

Jin Ran just said that she broke her leg, but she thought about it so much, this inner activity, buying and buying, she felt that she didn't feel like a serious girl at all.

"I didn't seem to say I didn't like you, did I?" Jin Ran's question was filled with retrospective thoughts.

"That'...... Do you like me? Don't, don't, stay away from me. ”

The boss of Maimai found himself a boyfriend so wantonly, and as a result, Maimaimai became what it is now.

I don't want a creature similar to a boyfriend to appear around me at all.

"You're trying to stun me, aren't you? I didn't say I liked you, I didn't say I didn't like you. I haven't even thought about whether I like you or not, and if you have to force me to think about it, I don't mind thinking about it in two days when I have time. ”

Jin Ran expressed his opinion lightly.

"Boss, aren't you going to tell a story? You must be very busy these days, you have time to sleep, eat, go out and play, what are you doing? What do you think about such boring things? What do you owe me to the story?"

She had no idea what she was talking about.

In other words, it is usual, whether it is buying the boss or buying, it is not like this.

Jin Ran didn't have any knowledge in this matter, and started to tell the story from a good start, but it was not the kind of story that he imagined.

[Where should I start my story, this is also the first time I have told the story of Swiss watches, and I have no experience. Let's start with geography and history. 】

[There is also compulsory education in Switzerland, and after finishing secondary school, I feel that there is not much difference between people who go to ordinary universities and people who go to apprenticeship schools. 】

[The apprenticeship system has a long history in Switzerland, and compared with ordinary universities, apprenticeship schools can combine theory and practice, which is more practical and can better cultivate and inherit the spirit of craftsmanship. 】

[It is a bit similar to the difference between ordinary universities and vocational universities in China, but vocational schools in Switzerland are not worse than undergraduates, and they are not easier to get into than undergraduates. 】

[Before the First Industrial Revolution, because watchmaking machinery had not yet been introduced, Swiss clocks were all made by hand, and in the 19th century, Swiss watchmaking processes and processes began to become more and more complex. 】

[It is difficult for ordinary small workshops to complete the inheritance of watchmaking skills independently, and at the unanimous request of the watchmaker, in 1824, the first apprentice watchmaking school was born in Geneva, Switzerland. 】

[It is the Geneva school that I am going to recommend you to attend, and people outside the watch industry often mention this school, and they often add the words watchmaking or clocks in front of the school. 】

"Boss, don't you want to talk about geography and history? Do you know what it means to be a scumbag? You have to rely on the art exam to get into a decent university. "I wasn't going to go to Geneva to learn watchmaking.

At the end of the day, she couldn't find a reason why she had to go.

After listening to the protests, Jin Ran didn't talk about the Geneva school, but began to seriously talk about the geography of Swiss watches:

[There are three watchmaking meccas in Switzerland. 】

The first is the western Swiss city of Neuchâtel. 】

Located on the northwestern shore of Lake Neuchâtel, this city is a famous medieval watch city and one of the world's watch industry centers. 】

Neuchâtel is a beautiful cultural city, with a 12th-century Gothic church and a beautiful Lake Neuchâtel. 】

[There is the University of Neuchâtel, the Art Exhibition Hall, the Faculty of Physics, and the Library, making it a very suitable city to live in. 】

[Neuchâtel is the center of the Swiss watchmaking industry, and many famous watch brands have movement factories located here, such as Piaget, Bulgari, Panerai, and Perrelet, you must have heard of them. 】

[As a medieval ancient city, Neuchâtel, the most famous and praised by the world, should be regarded as an observatory. 】

[Neuchâtel is a chronometer-certified location, with a transcendent position in the Swiss watchmaking industry, marking the highest achievement of Swiss watchmaking]

[Even today, the atomic clock of the Neuchâtel Observatory is still the most accurate time-keeping device in the world. 】

[You should know that the chronometer we usually talk about has nothing to do with the observatory, but is related to the accuracy of the clock, and the clock authority certification called the observatory, right?]

Jin Ran didn't react when he saw Maimaimai, and began to interact by asking questions again.

"Well, I know, the observatory certifies me, but I don't know that place is called Neuchâtel. And I'm not too interested in chronometers. Maimaimai used her answer to prove that she hadn't gone on a date with Zhou Gong at any time.

[Then I'll talk about one that you will definitely be interested in - Jaquet Droz.] 】

"Is it the Jaquet Droz who was given the name by Emperor Qianlong?" Maimaimai was really stimulated by Jin Ran's words, antique clocks are the favorites of Bumaimai, watches or something, at most it is an incidental hobby.

[It's that Jaquet Droz, as soon as you came up, you said that the emperor gave the name, have you seen the collection from Jaquet Droz in the Forbidden City?]

"Well, at the Forbidden City Museum in Beijing, there was a clock in the shape of a birdcage on display, which I thought was quite interesting, so I paid special attention to Jaquet Droz, who was also a deviant at that time. "When you buy and buy things you like, your memory will be better than usual.

[What made Emperor Qianlong give the name Jaquet Droz was a bronze gilt flower flower branch bird cage bell, and the more vivid name was the bell of the song bird through the beam. 】

[It was because Qianlong Ye liked the bronze gilt flower branch bird cage clock that he gave Jaquet Droz a name with the most royal temperament of the Qing Dynasty, and it has been used to this day. 】

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