Chapter 121: A Song to Daddy
Across the emir, Hannah asked, "Jonas, what do you think of what Ursula just said?"
Hearing this, Yankel and Jacob, who were sitting at the table, both turned their eyes.
Jonas pondered for a moment, then organized his words and said, "On the surface, Aunt Ursula's statement seems to be very peaceful, but from a business, political and emotional perspective, it clearly expresses the attitude of their team. There's just one more thing I haven't figured out right now......"
"What's the matter?"
"If it's just such a statement, it doesn't seem necessary to make us say it at all. β
Hannah was silent for a moment and said, "You'll know tomorrow." β
Jonasden knew that they must have acted in other ways than this seemingly peaceful statement.
He didn't like the feeling of being kept in the dark, but he also knew that no one would tell him everything when he wasn't proving his abilities.
His gaze swept among the group of Yannick's subordinates, and he did not find Bennett, whom he had seen in France, and he felt a sense of sympathy in his heart.
Although Bennett is highly valued by Yannick, he is afraid that he will be ostracized by his colleagues because he is too young.
In this way, he is a little more pitiful than himself.
The dinner went on quickly, and in less than an hour, the whole audience was cleared, and all the reporters were "invited" out of the hotel, and it became a large social venue.
Philip Hoffman, Jacob, and Yankel entertained the guests, and Jonas was sent by Hannah to the barber shop across the street from the church to get a haircut.
On weekdays, Jonas Haircuts invite the barber to his home, but tonight there are too many people in the family, and it is inconvenient for the barber to go over.
And the custom here is that he, as a son, will send Yannick to be buried tomorrow, and he needs a haircut before he can see him off.
Nicole's task today is to accompany Catherine, and at this time, she and Jonas are temporarily separated and send Catherine home to rest first.
Jonas left the hotel in a steteen car. In the car, because Plov sat in the back seat with Jonas, the shy Balm did not dare to say a word, and quietly sat with him for a ride.
When the car arrived at the barbershop, she said encouragingly, "Jonas, you're the strongest, aren't you?"
Jonas smiled and nodded, I'm afraid I won't have time to entertain you tomorrow, so I'll say sorry first. You remember helping me take notes at school, I'm afraid I don't have much time to go to class lately. β
They should get off and drive to another hotel in the town, the Platz Hotel is full of big people, there are not enough rooms, they are arranged in another hotel.
It's not that the guests are divided into three, six, nine, and so on, but that the hierarchy already exists. If you arrange for an ordinary student to live with a prince, this is the real faux pas, Hu Lai.
Calls had already been made here at the barbershop, and Hammer, the barber, had not yet left work and was waiting for Jonas.
He is almost sixty years old this year, and he has been a barber in the town for almost forty years, and he charges low fees to the people of the town, but if he is not a small town, the minimum fee is two or three times.
Jonas entered the barbershop, nodded silently, helped Jonas tie his hood, and helped him cut his hair.
Plov picked up a newspaper, sat down at the door, and began to read it.
Jonas saw in the mirror that the back cover of the newspaper had Yannick's picture on it.
Before the hair was cut, a car stopped in front of the barbershop, and Neuer, who was only wearing a thick skirt as a student, got out of the car.
Her father, DeHertz, also got out of the car and lit a cigarette at the back door, but did not come in.
"Brother Jonas. She pushed the door and poked her head in and shouted, as if feeling the warmth of the room, before jumping in.
Hammer stopped what he was doing, and with a kind smile on his face, motioned for Jonas to speak to Neuer first.
"Neuer, I'm sorry I wasn't able to speak to you today. β
Neuer shook his head and said, "Brother Jonas, can you not treat me like a child?"
Jonas restrained the smile on his face and said solemnly, "Of course. Although inside, you have always been a little angel. β
She pouted slightly, and said seriously, "I want to be by your side tomorrow, can I?"
Jonas understood what she meant, and she was officially buried tomorrow, and she stayed by Jonas's side, which suddenly complicated her identity.
Jonas hesitated, he never considered Neuer to marry, on the one hand, she was still young, and Jonas only felt like a sister to her.
In addition, if she is asked to stand by his side tomorrow, it will almost determine the status of his future fiancΓ©e.
Neuer said: "Nicole is not for you, she wants to be a star, she likes the glamorous life, she is not the same kind of person as us." β
Jonas asked, "What's your father's opinion?"
She glanced out and said, "Dad said he wouldn't interfere with our affairs. β
Jonas didn't think DeHertz was willing to let his thirteen-year-old daughter near him right now, and he said this more to test Jonas.
So, Jonas decided not to hesitate any longer. "Neuer, you are the same age as Helen, and I have loved you as Helen since I was a child. However, this is not love. β
"But I don't want a woman like Nicole to take your place. She's not one of our kind at all, and she won't love you all the time like I do. β
Jonas thought for a moment and said, "Neuer, I can promise you that you won't marry until you're eighteen, but I can't give you any other promises at your age. β
"But......," she said, a little melancholy, rubbing her toes against the ground. "That's five years to go. β
"Yes, at that time you were only an adult, so you could have an independent and mature mind. β
She looked up, tears glinting in her eyes. "Jonas, I love you and I hate you. β
Dehertz, who was outside, noticed that his daughter was crying, threw away the cigarette butt and pushed the door in. "Honey, you go first. β
Neuer, who had always been a well-behaved and lovely child, hesitated, looked at Jonas again, and walked out with her head bowed.
Without waiting for Deherz to ask, Jonas told him about his conversation with Neuer. After hearing this, Deherz sighed and said, "Jonas, you are also like my child, I have only one request for you. β
"Uncle Venus, I will never have the heart to hurt her. Even if she is made to cry today, it is for her good. β
He nodded and asked, "It's a man's promise, right?"
"Yes!"
He sighed and said, "When you are both mature, you will realize that love is not the whole of life. β
After getting his haircut, Jonas went to the church and sat down for a while before preparing to return to his ancestral home.
Today Yankel was scheduled to keep vigil, and Hannah arranged this way, apparently not wanting to quarrel again because of him.
The family meeting was scheduled for tomorrow evening, and in front of Yannick's coffin, Yankel did not talk to Jonas about the family business again.
The car returned to the main house, and the wine, which had been fermented for a month, had already begun to taste, and the smell of wine was permeating the whole house.
No one slept, including Joseph and the other children. More than twenty people from the two families, as well as Catherine, Emile, and Nicole, were all in the hall on the second floor to prepare the white roses for tomorrow's funeral.
One by one, they bowed their heads and pruned the roses with scissors, and they didn't seem to say anything to each other, and Raken and AndrΓ© were watching the TV in front of the television, but the sound of the TV was almost none.
"Jonas, go and add some more wood to the fireplace, it's not warm enough. β
Heating has already begun in Switzerland, and the temperature in the room is not about 20 degrees. Jonas glanced at the emaciated grandmother, said nothing, turned to the bottom of the stairs on the first floor and hugged the chopped pine segments.
The fire in the fireplace was blazing, and Hannah said, "Go and take a bath, your clothes are ready for you." After washing, go to bed early, and tomorrow will be busy. Helen, it's time for you and your brothers to go to sleep, so don't be playful today. β
As soon as she said this, the second and third aunts of Jonas got up and prepared to arrange for the children to sleep.
Seeing that Nicole was with Catherine and not moving, Emile volunteered, "Jonas, I'll help you." β
Jonas said goodnight to his grandmother and Villaoma and the family, and returned to the third floor.
The second and third aunts took their children into the guest room and began to urge them to take a bath and sleep.
Jonas slumped on the couch. "Mom, I don't want to sleep yet, if you're sleepy, go to sleep first. β
"I'm not sleepy, I told Catherine just now that the two of us will sleep in your father's room together tonight. β
"What is this?" Jonas sighed and shook his head, getting up and sitting down at the piano.
He promised Yannick that morning that he would write a song for his wedding, but now, the wedding will not happen.
He remembered that he owed Yannick a song, and tonight, he was going to get it ready.
During the day today, he had already thought about it, and the song borrowed from the pure piano music of "See Seducing Again" without a rap part.
The rap part of the song was removed and it was still a complete song, and Brother Broken Eyebrows later released a pure piano version.
But the lyrics obviously can't be written in the original lyrics, and Jonas had to compose a father's song based on German rhymes.
Although he did not have outstanding musical talent, it was not difficult to write songs by simply borrowing lyrics from later generations.
For the lyrics of this song, he borrowed a lot of the lyrics of the original chopsticks brothers' song "Father", changed old to death, and added the lyrics of the original "see to lure again", and completed the song in more than an hour.
It's just that this song is completely different from the interpretation of later generations, because his voice is too far from Brother Broken Eyebrows.
Brother Broken Eyebrow has a sharp treble and a tactful and smooth bass, while his treble is rough, but the bass can't be kept smooth because of a natural vocal cord defect, a bit of Luo Dayou's dumb gourd voice.
But in this way, the sadness and grief of this song are interpreted more touching.
When Jonas finished performing the song in its entirety to the revised score, he found almost everyone standing behind him.
Everyone, including himself, burst into tears.