One Thousand and Twenty-Six: A Life Without Shame
"Okay, give me the key for safekeeping, if I don't speak, you won't be allowed to leave!" Although Han Yan is also in her early 30s, her expression is still like a little girl, and she digs people with her eyes at every turn.
"No problem, I won't leave if anyone called me before the summer, now I'm a person with a secretary, and I have something for them to do!" Hong Tao waved his hand heroically, saying very nicely, but he didn't believe it himself.
There are 2 places in the swallow's residence, one far and one near, one large and one small, one old and one new, one quiet and one noisy. This was not deliberately chosen, it was unintentional. When she and Lada first arrived here, they chose the office location of Xueyan Investment and Xueyan Fund in an office building on the north side of Birkley Square in the new city, and bought an apartment next to it by the way, for the simple reason that it is close to Lake Zurich, and Hong Tao likes water.
When Radha reported to Hong Tao about her life with Yanzi, Hong Tao called and severely criticized Han Yan, especially her miser culture that she had cultivated since childhood. Then she was strictly ordered to buy a big house, the more expensive, bigger, and more luxurious, the better, so Han Yan wandered around for more than half a month, and finally bought a lakeside manor on the outskirts of the city, and gritted her teeth and paid more than 3 million Swiss francs, equivalent to nearly 3.5 million US dollars. Counting her original apartment, she spent nearly 5 million just to buy a house, and she was so distressed that she called Han Xue several times to complain to her sister about Hong Tao's behavior.
Hong Tao was also a little surprised when he heard this price, this Nima is more expensive than a house in Los Angeles! Could it be that Han Yan bought himself an ancient castle? It was not until he came here that Hong Tao understood that the house here was indeed expensive. But it makes sense. Because whether it is an apartment or a manor, a nuclear shelter will be given for free! The law stipulates that as long as you build a house. You have to have this thing.
Hong Tao didn't go to see the nuclear shelter in the apartment, which had already let Rada and Singh go to live, but the nuclear shelter in the manor really surprised Hong Tao. It can't be said to be the same as the underground space under the Toronto house, but it's pretty much the same. The area is the size of a basketball court, and it is divided into two floors, and the gate that connects with the outside world is poured with 30 centimeters of cement, and there are two layers of lead plates inside. The shelter also has ventilation and power generation equipment. These are all designated by the government to be equipped, and people will come to inspect them every year, and as for toilets, showers, etc., they are also complete.
Swallow said that such facilities are available all over the city, and it should be said that they are available all over the country, and that although Switzerland is a permanently neutral country, it has never relaxed its attitude towards war, and the rule that nuclear shelters must be built to build houses has been enforced for decades. Shelters in public places are funded by the state, and shelters where private people live have to pay for themselves, which is why housing prices are so expensive. It is equivalent to buying a ground building with a set of underground facilities.
At present, this underground shelter has become the storage room and wine cellar of the manor, and Han Yan has basically not come back to live in it, so it remains the same, and even the four servants are still the original candidates. It's just that Han Yan will pay the salary instead. A gardener, a handyman, two maids, but there was still a cook, and it turned out that the one was retired.
This manor is exactly the same as the European manor that Hong Tao had in mind. The huge garden is larger than Toronto's, at least 3 acres. The iron fence gate and stone wall are already a little mottled and covered with vines. Some are blooming. The main building of the manor is a four-story building with a spire tower, mostly made of stone, which looks a little rough from the outside, but the carvings and inlays are very artistic.
Although it is already spring, there is still a fireplace in the huge living room, which does not seem very warm, and if you catch up with the cloudy day, even if the floor-to-ceiling windows are large, it will feel a little eerie. No wonder the swallow is reluctant to come back to live on her own, it is too deserted and too quiet, and if the servants do not move, there is almost no sound in the house, and it is unaccustomed to being quiet.
"Isn't it too big, there are 15 rooms in total, there is an attic on the top floor, and there is a small tower over there, and the first time I came, I almost got lost in it. Han Yan was complaining about Hong Tao's indiscriminate buying behavior.
"Big, not big! If you have fewer suspects, you can hire a few more servants, drivers and cooks, and you can't drive your own car anymore in your current status, that's not safe! Besides, if we have children in two years, we won't all have to live here, and if you have a few more children, you will be popular, and there is no family planning here. Let's go, say that you will be born, go upstairs and give birth to a child!" Hong Tao doesn't like it here, but he doesn't hate it either, he hasn't lived in this kind of purely European aristocratic style house much, try it, maybe you can get used to it if you live and live.
"@@%......#......#" Han Yan was stopped by Hong Tao and hugged her, she couldn't struggle at all, she didn't want to struggle, she just lay on Hong Tao's shoulder, and said a few words in German to the two middle-aged women with big shoulders and round waists in the living room.
"Do you know German? They don't know English?" Hong Tao realized an important problem.
"Well, you can understand simple words, but you have to use German to communicate properly, you can't...... Hehehehe...... "Han Yan is very proud, she is finally more than Hong Tao."
"You can call me one in German in a while, and I'll learn it too! Which is our master bedroom?" Hong Tao really doesn't know German, this is fine, and he doesn't plan to learn it for the time being.
"Stinky rascal!The master bedroom is on the third floor, I asked them to drive to buy dinner, let's finish the meal first......" Han Yan knew what Hong Tao was talking about, and two blushes appeared on her face, but it couldn't be too obvious, so she had to find a reason to object.
"What kind of meal, I'll eat you first! Let them come to the bedroom for dinner in a while, we will eat in bed, I'll eat a bite of you, take a bite of food!" Hehehehe......" Hong Tao didn't wait for dinner, he felt that Han Yan didn't really have to wait for dinner, her breath had betrayed her.
Hong Mouse's life in Switzerland began on this night, and Xue Yan's investment was completely thrown to Rada and Singh, and he and Yanzi relived how the European aristocracy was extravagant in this big house with a history of more than 70 years. Every morning, sit at the large oak table and eat a breakfast prepared by the French-Italian chef from the French-speaking Quarter, then ride a rented horse and walk along the woods behind the estate on the mountain trails until noon. If you want to come back to eat your own food, you should tell the chef in advance, and if you want to go to the city to eat a restaurant, you can drive into the city. The afternoon is a warm and lingering time, tossing until the evening, and then changing into a dress, or going to see a show, or going to some charity drinking parties, eating, drinking, chatting, and jumping back. As for whether to toss or not, it all depends on whether the swallow still has a body, anyway, Hong Tao is always ready.
Time has passed in a blink of an eye, the weather outside is not so cold, choose a sunny day, Hong Tao will also go to rent a sailboat, take the swallow to the lake, along the lake Zurich slowly drift south, along the way to see the beautiful scenery, just drop anchor and go ashore to play, a circle down is several days, by the way can also teach the swallow how to drive a sailboat. Hong Tao hopes that all the women around him can have the same hobbies as him, so that they can play happily together in the future.
Han Yan's personality is completely different from Han Xue, she never asks for anything, she just accompanies you silently, she is happy when you are happy, she is sad when you are sad, except for being more tight about money, I can't feel that she has any special preferences. When she is at home, she is like a gentle little wife, helping you clean up a qiē thing she thinks should be cleaned up, from ** to socks, she doesn't have to be taken care of by the maid, she washes it all by hand. When you get outside, she silently holds your arm and stands beside you, she agrees to whatever you say, and she is not reluctant to play at all.
Generally speaking, she is a little woman with a small jasper type and a very gentle personality, if Hong Tao does not forcibly arrange her in the position of president, she is still the girl who blushed with Hong Tao in the beauty salon except for one more piece and one less piece when she pays her salary, and the rest of the time is quiet. Even after studying in the United States for several years and working in Saigong, she still hasn't changed a single bit, at most, her external form has changed, but in essence, she is still her.
But don't let her illusion be deceived, these are her ordinary appearances, once she and Hong Tao start hand-to-hand combat, they will immediately become another person. I don't know if it's the first taste of the forbidden fruit or other reasons, the swallow is very strong about the affairs of men and women, and there is a fiery heart hidden under the gentle smile. In the first week, Hong Tao almost couldn't bear it, so scared that Hong Tao pondered for several days, always wondering if he was tossing too happily in Ukraine, which caused his physical condition to decline. For this reason, he secretly called Radha back to verify it, until he heard her melodious singing voice again, and then he was relieved.
Horseback riding among the flowers in the mountains, boating on the clear water of the lake, playing football with students on the green grass, picnicking in the woods, jogging in the streets at dusk, fishing in the early morning mist...... This is basically Hong Tao's daily life in the two months he has been in Switzerland, slow and leisurely. Of course, he and Han Yan also stepped on almost every possible place with the footprints of love, at this point, Yanzi was much bolder than her sister, and she didn't need to be coerced and intimidated by Hong Tao at all, she preferred this kind of exciting way. The overall evaluation is that she is a standard sullen type, gentle and virtuous, quiet and weak appearance, and there is a throbbing heart hidden deep underneath. (To be continued......)