Chapter 58: Boredom

"Jonas, there are a lot of things going on at the bank today, and I have a party at noon, so I won't come back for dinner. The grass in the yard needs to be cut, and the vineyard needs to be pruned......"

Jonas, who was sitting at the dinner table, said helplessly, "Grandma, wouldn't it be good to ask someone to do these things?"

"But aren't you idle now? What else do you have to do besides learning to drive?"

"Okay, I'll leave the mowing to me, but I'll have someone do the grape pruning. ”

Hannah responded, but said, "But the vegetables in the vegetable garden are too high to eat, and there are only five or six people in the family in total, so they can't eat them all." If you have nothing to do, you can take the food and give it to your neighbors, or you can go to the riverside market and set up a stall. ”

Jonasden was speechless, and although it had been half a year, he had not yet become accustomed to the two different ideologies of the East and the West.

In the case of the Jonas family, Hannah is the chairman of the bank, but she still buys and cooks her own food, does her own laundry, grows her own vegetables, and does her own cleaning.

He can accept these things, but a chairman, on weekends, actually went to the market to sell vegetables, which is a bit subverting his thinking.

You must know that selling vegetables in Switzerland is not just a matter of harvesting vegetables from the vegetable garden and selling them.

No matter what kind of food, it must be washed and neatly organized, which often makes Jonas feel that the price is higher than the price of food.

Of course, Hannah didn't sell vegetables at all to see how much money she sold, but she didn't want to waste them.

But a chairman with a net worth of hundreds of millions of dollars, who works hard to pick vegetables from the vegetable garden, then washes and manages, and may not be able to sell them for half a day, why bother?

However, this is the Swiss attitude to life.

Hannah's car is still a three-year-old "new car", and the Philip couple of the Hoffmann family, who are the richest people in Switzerland, their car is just a Volkswagen of several thousand Swiss francs, which has been driven for more than ten years, and there is no intention of changing it until now.

Of all the people, only Yannick is not as "stingy" as others, and has an American style of "generosity" and "publicity", which is also more in line with Jonas's attitude to life.

But he's an outlier.

When she doesn't go far away, Hannah usually drives by herself and doesn't need a driver. After she drove to work, the house became lively.

Morsa, the cleaner, began to clean up the house, and Shah, the handyman, took the family's two horses out for a walk.

Both of them are from Austria, because the economic level of Austria is half that of Switzerland, and the Swiss hire workers and the domestic servants are basically Austrians.

There are people from other countries, but there are very few. Because even a cleaner and a farmer in Switzerland need to be certified.

The exams are basically in German, and if you don't know German, it is difficult to get a certificate, and you can't do anything without a certificate.

Of course, in the French-speaking area in the southeast, there are also some French and Italians in the Italian-speaking region in the south.

However, the German-speaking region accounts for 70 percent of the population, the French-speaking region accounts for only 20 percent, and the Italian-speaking region accounts for only 6 percent, and the gap between supply and demand is very large.

Hannah is gone, the two bodyguards will be much more relieved, they are a little scared of Hannah, Hannah is at home, they stay in their own small building, rarely come to the main house.

But Jonas likes to talk to them, and when Hannah is not at home, they often come to the main house to talk to Jonas.

"Jonas, are you going out today?"

"I have a weeding task......"

Plov smiled: "The two of us can help, here, our idle bones are rusty." ”

Jonas immediately rejoiced. "Okay, I'll go change my clothes, you guys check the lawn mower and refuel the lawn mower. ”

Separated from his status as a middle school student, Jonas suddenly finds himself abandoned.

In the first few days of vacation, there were still invitations from classmates who had not left Switzerland, but in the past few days, the classmates have gone home, and he has become bored.

Kostler and Dinah's relationship was blessed by both parents, and as soon as the holidays were over, the two of them received financial support from their families, saying that they were going to travel around the world, but actually went to the Caribbean island to bask in the sun.

They also called out to Jonas, but Jonas refused their invitation because he was unwilling to be a light bulb.

He signed up for a driving school because he had not yet reached the age of eighteen, and now the state motor vehicle management center has accepted his application, but he is still asked to wait for news before he can learn to drive.

Although the KPA accepted his application for military service, it would not allow him to enter the barracks until July.

The military service system in Switzerland is different from other countries, except for the initial basic training phase, which is two weeks at a time per year.

The unified training of recruits is once a month, and after signing up, they must wait for the unified arrangement for service.

So during this time, he couldn't leave Switzerland, but he had nothing to do.

When he was in school, he still thought every day that he would accompany his grandmother after graduation, but the key was that his grandmother didn't need him to accompany him.

Yannick's main focus now is abroad, and the domestic banking affairs cannot be abandoned, which is managed by Osberg, the managing director.

But many times, Hannah, the chairman, also has a lot of business to deal with. Every morning, she spent at least two hours in her office at Hoffmann Bank's headquarters on the banks of Reuss.

Occasionally, when there is a lot of trouble, like today, I don't even come back for lunch.

Knowing this, he should have agreed to Churchill's invitation to go to England for a while when he graduated.

Even if Churchill's arrangement of British beauties did not suit his liking, Theresa could continue to linger.

Although Macridge lived in Villa Rosa, not far away, Jonas did not dare to go to the door casually, which was now heavily defended, and Hannah told him many times that he should not harass Macridge if he was fine.

She wasn't worried that he would be involved, and he wouldn't attract the attention of all countries as a young man. But if it is noticed by various countries, it will not have a good impact on him.

Jonas felt that he had become Ye Gong in Ye Gong Haolong, and he obviously admired each other very much, but at this time, he was a little weak-hearted.

But this can't be blamed on Jonas, it's really that Macridge has become an international hot spot now, and the influence is too great.

Since March, the Armenian media have been exposing in the newspapers the illegal activities of the company founded by Macridge, accusing him of using various deceptive methods to trade oil with Persia from '79 to '82, making more than $10 billion in profits and evading $9 billion in taxes.

However, the newspapers of Britain, Castile Lucia and other countries were all on the side of Macridge against the overlord Armenia.

Including Armenia's hardcore junior brother, the Jewish state, avenged Macridge, believing that Armenia was using politics to influence the economy.

European countries are willing to provide protection to Macridge and issue their own passports to Macridge.

In May, Castile, the Jewish State, Switzerland, and Bolivia in South America all declared Macridge an honorary national.

Today, Villa Rosa is protected by agents of Britain's MI6, the Mossad of the Jewish State, and the KGB of Lucia.

Three of the world's four major spy organizations are on the side of Macridge and work together to deal with the CIA clamoring to take action against Macridge.

At this time, Jonas was really a little scared to get involved, it was so scary!

Although he came from the next generation and had a psychological advantage in the face of anyone, he did not dare to get involved in such a big matter.

Although Macridge has always lived a leisurely life, Armenia has no way to deal with him, but he does not have Macridge's ability, and his small body cannot withstand the ravages of the storm.

Or obediently when his students are safe.

By the time he had changed his clothes and came down, Plov and Kalisler were already working on the lawn with their lawn mowers.

The lawn of Jonas is divided into four large areas according to the topography of the two hills, the top of the hill on the east side is woods, and the southeast side of the hill is two acres of vineyards, separated from the woods, and the area to the west and north is two lawns.

On the side of the main house, the entrance of the main house is the garden, several lawns are small, and the east side of the hill of the main house is a large lawn, the north of the lawn is parallel to the main house is the vegetable garden, and in the north of the vegetable garden is a small lawn.

The four lawns are planted mainly with ryegrass, but with alfalfa and other nutritious grasses. It adds up to almost ten acres of land, five or six thousand square meters.

These grasses are cut almost every 20 days to a month, and can be cut more than six or seven times a year.

There is a lawn mower, and mowing is actually a light job, but drying grass and baling grass is dirty and tiring work.

Jonas likes to mow the grass and just drive the lawn mower back and forth.

But when it comes time to dry the grass and bale the grass, it is almost the same as cutting wheat, and it is very tiring.

In the past, he and Kostler had to work hard several times a year for their pocket money, but now his pocket money has increased significantly, and his personal fund account will soon be available again, without the temptation of profit, and there is no passion for mowing the lawn.

But what can you do if you don't find something to do?

After more than 30 years, Switzerland is still very boring, and there is nothing to do in the city except for a few casinos, shopping malls, and cinemas.

He is not old enough to enter the casino, men have little interest in shopping malls, and movies cannot be watched every day.

Karaoke is available, but it's all associated with dance halls and casinos.

He went to a karaoke hall with Kostler and Dinah, and the eight-channel sound made people feel like singing at all, so it was better to sing by themselves at home!

Ross College has a relatively early holiday, and most of the other schools do not have a holiday, Kostler and they go out to play, and Jonas can only stay at home and work.

The lawn of ten acres of land had not been cut by noon. Jonas let the two bodyguards continue their work, and he himself went into the kitchen to prepare a stew to treat them.

As soon as the dishes were prepared, Yannick actually returned. "Jonas, are you making lunch? make more, there are guests at noon. ”

"Why did this busy man come home at this time......" Jonas was a little puzzled, and poked his head out of the kitchen, and saw a pretty figure in the small living room, looking at a painting on the wall with his back to him, and his fiery red hair was particularly conspicuous.