Chapter 5: The New Year
"Brother Jonas, how do you see this tree growing?"
Zhou Nan looked at the pine tree with a height of more than five meters and a branch diameter of more than three meters, and shook his head speechlessly. "Where are you going to put such a big tree?"
Leon smiled, pointed to a fir and said, "What about that one?" ”
"It's still a bit big, it's better not to be more than two meters high, and the shape is perfect."
A gunshot rang out in the jungle to the north, and Zhou Nan and Leon looked up, knowing that Yannick was in the woods north of the farm, but they couldn't see anything.
Yannick and Manfred, Glevin was armed early in the morning and went hunting with a pack of dogs. Zhou Nan didn't kill and had no interest in hunting, but Leon didn't take him with him because he was too young, so he could only accompany Zhou Nan to cut down the Christmas tree.
Zhou Nan has no interest in Christmas, but he is in Europe and does as the locals do. Others see this time as a family day, and he doesn't celebrate, but he likes to have the opportunity to be with family and friends.
He walked around the woods at the top of the hill with Leon, reluctant to cut down a single tree, and finally chose a branch of a large pine tree. Although it was only a branch, it was a perfect pagoda shape, and even the discerning Leone could not find fault with it.
Zhou Nan first kicked two feet on the tree, and the cloud-like snow of more than 20 centimeters on the tree fell to the ground.
John, who was following them, was taken aback, and became excited, perhaps by mistake. It burrowed into the snow more than half a meter deep at once, but unfortunately, after drilling in the snow for a long time, it didn't find anything, and looked back at Zhou Nan in disappointment.
Zhou Nan leaned the ladder he carried up against the tree, and Leon said excitedly: "I'll cut it, I'll cut it." ”
Zhou Nan didn't fight with him, helped him hold the ladder, watched him climb up the ladder, pulled out the axe on his waist, and chopped it up with a bang.
The branches were not large, and they were cut down in a few strokes and fell into the thick snow.
After cutting the Christmas tree, Zhou Nan carried the ladder on his shoulder. "Let's go, go home, it's too cold."
Leon pinned the axe back to the belt he had tied around his coat, and like a victorious general, he carried the Christmas tree and descended the mountain step by step.
In the past two days, the weather has been sunny, but the temperature has been lower, the snow has not melted at all, and the surface layer has condensed into ice crystals.
This kind of weather is perfect for skiing, but there are a lot of guests at home these days. Like Mrs. Hemstra who will come to Switzerland today with her two sons, Zhou Nan can't go out, so she can only stay at home for Christmas.
In addition to Mrs. Hemstra, Glevin's daughter who married into the north also came to Zhou Nan's house as guests.
Glewin's personality is somewhat like that of his nephew Tianzhu, honest and honest, hard-working, never cheating and cheating, and has no bad intentions.
Zhou Nan gets along well with him, especially he gets along well with Kelly, and now the two families are like a family, and his daughter is a guest, so Zhou Nan naturally has to be hospitable.
They moved to Switzerland, and Audrey's first friend, Fiona, was in Lausanne to attend secondary school, and at this time she was also on vacation, and she drove her own boat every morning for the past two days to play until evening.
Etinny and Feverd, the guys, almost emptied Zhou Nan's vat with a Christmas gift and a little cheese or sausage.
So much so that when Glevin saw them now, he unconsciously stayed in the stable, lest they take away the last bit of wine that was left.
At noon, Lady Hemstra and Ian arrived, and Zhou Nan drove the boat to fetch them.
In the evening, everyone went to the church in the town for midnight mass, and Zhou Nan set up the Christmas tree at home and played with Lily alone.
It may have been that the wind blew when he sailed at noon, and he had a low-grade fever that night. However, there are a bunch of Chinese medicines in the basement of the house that Nord bought back, and most of the Chinese medicines in this era are wild and the effect is first-class.
Although Zhou Nan didn't know medical skills, he still knew some simple prescriptions. After putting Lily to sleep, he fried himself a small chaihu soup.
After drinking, I was sweating and the symptoms of the cold were much lighter.
When Audrey and the others came back, it was already more than two o'clock in the morning, and Zhou Nan didn't care about his cold at that time, and he had another conversation with Audrey in the evening.
As a result, the next day, his cold was cured, but Audrey had a fever.
It was Christmas, but poor Audrey was weak and dizzy. Zhou Nan also gave her a pair of medicines, but she didn't get any better after drinking it.
By the afternoon, instead of getting better, she had gotten worse. Zhou Nan didn't dare to believe in his three-knife medical skills anymore, so he hurriedly wrapped her tightly and sent her to Lucerne's hospital.
Audrey was sent to the hospital, and a blood test turned out to be a viral flu. Perhaps it is the difference in the physique of people in the East and the West, in Zhou Nan's opinion, it is a very simple cold, but the hospital is like a great enemy, so it has to be treated as an infectious disease to prevent and control.
Everyone in Zhou Nan's family was examined, and no one else was found to be infected, and the hospital was relieved.
Originally, Audrey was going to be quarantined, and no one was allowed to touch it except the doctors and nurses. But Zhou Nan insisted on refusing, the little girl is now a weak mess, and she can't do without Zhou Nan, if she can't see him, I'm afraid she will recover more slowly.
Zhou Nan also confessed that he caught a cold first, and then infected Audrey, and now he is fine, even if Audrey is serious, she will not infect him again.
Perhaps it was Zhou Nan's face that played a role, and the doctor finally agreed that he would stay in the hospital to take care of Audrey, but the two of them were isolated together.
On Christmas in 46, Zhou Nan and Audrey spent it in the hospital. Audrey was asleep most of the time, and Zhou Nan was writing by her bedside.
He has compiled the materialist humanitarian manuscripts, adding the manuscripts of the famous leaders of several socialist countries and the introductions he has prepared.
Now that the manuscript has been given to the Red Cross, it will be added when it is next published.
What he is writing now is based on Anne Frank's diary, in fact, he wants to write a script directly, but he doesn't know how to write a movie script, so he can only draw out a plot line according to the timeline of Anne Frank's diary to show the cruelty of war and the innocence of innocent girls.
As long as she can see Zhou Nan, Audrey has a backbone and is no longer afraid. But when she got sick, she also became more fond of being coquettish, even more squeamish than the two-year-old Lily.
Zhou Nan was not bored at all by her, but enjoyed it and enjoyed it very much.
This viral cold is almost completely defenseless in the constitution of Westerners. It took three days for the hospital to get under control, and it took nearly a week for Audrey to recover.
By the time Audrey was discharged from the hospital, it was New Year's Day of 47.
Audrey's two brothers and sister-in-law are still able to play for a few days, but Yannick has to go back to Germany. He is now in charge of a factory of more than 10,000 people, and there are so many things to worry about that he can have a week's vacation in exchange for adjusting a lot of work.
However, he returned to Germany alone, and Caroline's mother and Claudio remained in Switzerland to wait for Epiphany.
Fortunately, Audrey's physique is not easy to gain weight, and she usually deliberately controls her weight, so although she is not as thin as in her previous life, she has no breasts at all, but she is also thin.
During this period of hospitalization, several elders were there, and every day they were given various nutritious soups and water to replenish their bodies without money. had an illness, but Audrey gained six pounds, and as soon as she was discharged from the hospital, she screamed to lose weight.
Caroline and Kelly didn't talk about her, but Mrs. Hemstra didn't have the slightest concern, and scolded her well before she put out her desire to lose weight.
However, Zhou Nan looked at the movie that had already been written in his hand, and said in his heart: "If you want to play Annie well, she really needs to lose weight!" ”
This Anne began to live in a small house for two years, and then was imprisoned in a concentration camp, contracted the wind and cold, and died of only a few dozen pounds, almost skin and bones.
If Audrey wants to play this role well, she definitely needs to lose weight.
However, the three female elders are here, and Zhou Nan doesn't dare to say this at this time. They all hope that Audrey will take care of her body and give birth to a child as soon as possible.
Now if Zhou Nan dared to say that he lost weight in order to make a movie, Mrs. Hemstra and Kelly would not scold him, but Caroline's mother would definitely dare to scold him.
Anyway, if you want to make this movie, it will take at least half a year to prepare, and it's still early. When the company and preliminary preparations for the filming are decided, it is not too late to lose weight.
After Audrey's illness recovered, Zhou Nan asked Etinny to come forward and directly charter a private hotel in Leukerbad, the most famous hot spring town in Switzerland.
This private inn also has an open-air hot spring, which is a favorite activity for the Swiss on snowy days.
In addition, Leukerbad is already a famous ski resort and hunting resort, where young and old can find their favorite sport.
However, after only three days of staying, they returned home. Several elders were reluctant to spend money, and they were all a little distressed when they saw Zhou Nan spending money like flowing water.
At this time, a few guests came from England, and when they found out, they immediately urged them to go home.
The British guests were the ladies of the royal family, and because Marita was coming to Switzerland for a holiday and was going to stay at Zhou Nan's house, they came in advance to get ready.
When Marita arrived in Switzerland, she had strict procedures and attention to which room to live in, how to arrange the room, what to eat at each meal, and how to arrange going out.
The princess is going to come, and to live at Jonas Farm, which is a great honor for several women. Even Caroline was curious about a princess, and Claudio wanted to use that as an excuse to stay longer.
However, Caroline finally decided to return to Germany at the scheduled time. Life here is very good, but when Yannick is alone in Germany now, if she doesn't keep it, she doesn't know how many young and beautiful girls want to climb into his bed, she can't live at ease.
(Dizzy, the outline has been changed, and I was going to write about the German, Swiss Christmas.) Now it's also omitted. I wish everyone good health, everything, just don't get sick, it's really uncomfortable to have a cold. )