"Hello, Mrs. Hoffman. Hello, little Jonas, welcome to today's party, and I hope you have a great evening. ”

"Angela, you're welcome. Is Siegfried okay?"

"He's getting old, and everything depends on God's arrangement. ”

The two women hugged intimately, and Angela looked at Jonas and smiled, "Little Yonas, Dinah and a group of young people are on the second floor, I don't think you will want to stay with us." ”

Jonas hugged her lightly, smiled and said, "Aunt Angela, you are still so beautiful, and the years have not left the slightest trace on your face." ”

Angela laughed happily and jokingly said, "I'm still waiting for Jonas to marry me......"

Jonas looked at a bearded man on the other side of the room and smiled, "Then Uncle Fili is probably going to entertain me with a shotgun." ”

Angela Rosengart, when Jonas was young, always thought she was the most beautiful woman in the world. Even now, Angela, born in 1932, is fifty years old and still an elegant woman.

When he was a child, the ignorant Jonas once said that he would marry Angela when he was older, and this joke has been a regular topic between the two families.

Angela's husband, Fili, sees Hannah and Jonas at the door and pushes a wheelchair over to her.

Above the wheelchair, sat an old man who was already in his last years, who was Angela's father, Siegfried.

Siegfried was the most successful art dealer at the beginning of the century, and he became popular with countless masters, the most famous of whom was Picasso.

From the moment Picasso left Spain, he began a collaboration with Siegfried that lasted more than half a century. Siegfried used various means to make Picasso a master of a generation, making Picasso the most famous painter of the 20th century.

Picasso remained under Siegfried's name until his death, and most of his works were sold to the world through Siegfried.

Angela was also the goddess of Picasso, with Angela as a model, and Picasso created six oil paintings, as well as many drawings and pen drawings.

To this day, Angela still has at least more than 300 works by Picasso.

The Rosengart family was a very low-key family, and almost no one knew about them in Switzerland in the past.

But it was only five years ago that the Rosengart father and daughter became known when they donated eight of Picasso's masterpieces to the city of Lucerne to commemorate the city's 800th anniversary.

Hannah is only a dozen years older than Angela, and Angela is almost ten years older than Yannick, because of the relationship between the two families, Jonas is called Aunt Angela,

Facing Siegfried, Hannah bent down and gave him a gentle hug. "Siegfried, return to cold Switzerland from the warm Canary Islands, and hope it won't make your body miserable. ”

Siegfried looked calm and smiled: "Although the physical torture is painful for me, it can also make me feel existent. If one day, my body is completely unconscious, that's the real pain. ”

Fili waited for them to finish the salute before nodding slightly and asking, "Aunt Hannah, Yannick is not at home again?"

"Yesterday's plane went to Australia. For him, the challenges of his career are always more important than his family. Although she was a little dissatisfied, Hannah's expression was tinged with pride.

Fili smiled and said, "Yannick is also the most successful of us, and his ability has always been the envy of us. ”

Jonas waited for them to finish their greetings before he said, "Grandpa Siegfried, I wish you good health in the New Year." Uncle Fili, Aunt Angela, I'm going to play with Dinah. ”

Several people smiled and nodded, and Angela said, "Jonas, Palle is also here, don't contradict her again." ”

Jonas laughed, "I'll let her." ”

Pahler Liszt was also one of Jonas's childhood playmates, but because she went to Paris to attend school in middle school, the relationship was not close to Kostler and Dinah.

Of course, the Liszt family was not a descendant of the great musician Liszt, but, like the Hoffmanns, they were a family of bankers.

Perhaps because both of them opened banks, Jonas and Parler did not get along since they were children, and the two fought from childhood to adulthood, and when they grew up, they also liked to quarrel when they met.

But the current Jonas is certainly not the same as before, this kind of child-like bickering, he has no interest in the slightest.

Walking through the living room, Jonas kept nodding from the guests in the living room until he came to the spiral staircase.

The Rosengart family's gallery has been open for more than 100 years and has produced a large number of world-class painters. The family's living room is also furnished like a museum.

The walls around the living room, including the staircase, are hung with many authentic works of the master. Including Picasso, Paul Klee, Cézanne, Chagall, Kandinsky, Matisse, Miró, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, etc.

Many museums borrow famous paintings from their families when they hold exhibitions.

In the small living room on the second floor, about seventeen or eighteen young people, some drinking, some drinking, gathered together by age and gender.

When Jonas came up, he didn't attract any special attention from the others, and those who saw him simply said hello or even nodded casually.

Most of these are friends who have known each other since childhood, and there is no need to be polite at all. This is not a business reception, where familiar people eat, dance, and chat together.

People you don't know, it's hard to fit into their circle.

The Swiss are not xenophobic, but they are conservative. If you want to integrate into any circle, it takes a lot of time and energy, and you may not get a good result in the end.

It is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, with snow-capped mountains, grasslands, forests, lakes, glaciers, and gardens.

Since the sixties, Switzerland has enacted legislation that all private windowsills that can be seen in public must have flowers, and all land in Switzerland must not be exposed to the earth.

That is, you can't see dirt anywhere except the construction site. Even on both sides of the road, evergreen grass with well-developed roots is planted.

Such a beautiful garden country, because to preserve the pristine tranquility, also developed a very strict management system.

The street lights in the city can only have one color, all the houses must be planned consistently, and the noise of the city is strictly limited.

This has also earned Switzerland the international reputation of "good mountains, good waters, good boring".

The self-discipline of the Swiss is already ingrained in their bones, such as garbage sorting, if the recyclable garbage is thrown into the trash can together with the non-recyclable tired garbage, the fine will punish the person with liver tremor, and it will also affect the credit rating nationwide.

So, the young people in Switzerland, just like the old people, exercise, eat, dance, and then they are gone......

Soft drugs, narcotics, which are popular among young people in other Western European countries, have a very small market in Switzerland.

Kostler was playing chess with a young man named Geisar, who was two years older than them and was now in his second year of college.

Dinah was sitting around with a group of girls with a box of cigarettes in between, and seven or eight girls were trying to smoke.

Dinah has two older brothers, the eldest brother is married and is an adult who doesn't play with the children. The second brother, Sheffield, was still in university and chatted with a few older youths.

Jonas greeted the friends in attendance, and finally came to Dinah. "Hi Dinah, Hi Paller, Hi Josephany......" everyone said hello without missing a beat. "What does a cigarette smell like?"

"Hi Jonas...... Happy New Year. Several girls also responded to him one by one.

Only Parler pursed his lips and put out the end of his cigarette in the ashtray. "Jonas, there is no princess here, how can I attract you here?"

This is to make fun of Jonas's two girlfriends are princesses, if Jonas used to be Jonas, he would definitely quarrel with Parler, but now, he will only treat her as an immature little sister.

He smiled, but before he could speak, Dinah helped him and said, "Don't say that about Jonas, Jonas is dating Christina and Stephanie, not because they are princesses. ”

Parler shrugged. "I knew you were going to ...... him"

Dinah smiled, opened her mouth and sighed at Jonas and asked, "Does it smell of smoke?"

Jonas feigned disgust and said, "It stinks. ”

Instead of making a fuss like ordinary girls, Dinah hurriedly brushed her teeth, but deliberately put her arms around Jonas's neck and continued to pat at him. "It's going to stink you. ”

Jonas writhed his head and cried for help. "Sheffield, Kostler, come and help me put this madwoman in the stable. ”

The crowd laughed, and only Paller said with a poisonous tongue: "A middle horse like you should be locked up in the stable." Princess Christina, Princess Stephanie...... Jonas, is it that the princess in bed makes you feel particularly conquered?"

Jonas laughed, "Paler, I'd only think you're jealous of your tone. Is it because I didn't get coaxed into bed that you're accusing me of jealousy?"

"Cut, as if I'm very rare for your little Tintin, I'm tired of playing with it when I'm nine years old. ”

A bunch of girls laughed a little shyly, while a bunch of boys laughed.

Jonas blushed a little, because this was his dark history with Kostler, when the two of them asked Dinah and Parler to take off their pants and study it because of five Swiss francs.

Now, you can't wash it if you want to.

Europe is actually not open, the United States from the Beat Generation in the fifties and sixties, to the hippies, yuppies era, preaching star liberation, but Europe has been suppressed.

It was also from the 80s that the repressed European youth became more blue than the blue, not only more liberated than the United States, but also many of the repressed natures became more ghostly after being liberalized.

Of course, compared to other countries, Switzerland, which has always been conservative, is still relatively feudal.

Jonas could only put the pot on the back of the French. "Parle, although you went to school in France, you are still Swiss. Don't learn from their prodigal spirit. ”