Chapter 16: Another Year
"Sulz, Lange, I need you to go to Megan, the day after tomorrow, Meghan's Strasse community will vote on Jonas Hoffmann's residency on Monday, and I hope you can convince a few to vote against. Only then will Jonas be forced to leave Meghan and possibly come and settle with us. ”
Sulz said with some embarrassment: "Mr. Entlebuch, it seems that we are a little immoral in doing this, is Jonas Hoffmann really worth it?" ”
"Maybe it's worth it, maybe it's not worth it, no one knows about it. But if our town wants to outgrow other places in terms of tourism, we have to do everything we can. ”
"I get it, I'm going to do my best to do it, I just hope this Jonas really deserves it."
Of course, Zhou Nan didn't know that Entlebuhe would play tricks behind his back, and at this time, he was still very grateful for Entlebuhe's invitation. In the evening, he told Audrey and Kelly about Entlerbher's invitation, and the mood of the two women improved considerably. With a clear way out, their mood is much lighter.
"Kelly, Megan's side, there are no extra farms for sale, but Weggis has them. If you do move to Weggis, you can marry Mr. Bucher and run a farm, and as for his farm, leave it to his son. ”
"But Jonas, didn't you say you can't raise cattle?"
"You can raise horses, sheep, and even pigs! I've always wanted to have a horse farm, so that Audrey and I can ride horses on our own farm. ”
Audrey smiled and said, "Jonas, this kind of life is simply beautiful. When I saw some of my classmates riding horses to school, I was so envious of them! ”
In this era, there are almost no Europeans who do not like pastures, and as soon as this topic is mentioned, the two women are full of longing, and the topic can never be stopped.
It was Zhou Nan who took the initiative to end the topic. "Don't talk about that, tomorrow is the Spring Festival, and I have to make a few lanterns to light up."
Audrey immediately took a handful of red rope and said in a coquettish voice: "Stephanie won't come over today, you taught me to weave this Chinese knot, it was too difficult, I still couldn't master the skills inside." ”
Stephanie didn't come today, I'm afraid Audrey was worried that Zhou Nan was in a bad mood, so she didn't let her come. Although this little girl can't help Zhou Nan now, she also silently supports Zhou Nan in her own way.
This made Zhou Nan's mood much better.
He now has the woman he loves, and Yannick may not have had an accident with them, so what is there to complain about in his life now?
After dinner, Zhou Nan worked seriously in front of the fireplace. He first split the prepared bamboo into strips with a bamboo knife, scraped off the burrs, and tied them one by one with thin wire.
After the shelves of the main body were tied, they were breaded from the outside with the red cloth they bought, and then a circle of tassels was connected in series at the opening below. In this way, a simple lantern is formed.
Of course, there would be no candles inside the lantern, which would be more laborious, so he pulled a wire and put a small bulb in it, and the outside of the bulb was coated with red ink.
After a busy night, he made a total of eight lanterns, two large and six small. The two largest ones are almost a meter in diameter, and they are ready to be hung at the gate of the yard. Six small ones, two ready to be closed in the doorway of the house, and four hung in the corners of the eaves on the second and third floors, respectively.
Audrey waited for Zhou Nan to make the lantern and hang it at the gate, and when she saw the lantern lit up, she went to sleep satisfied. Although she didn't understand Chinese customs, she thought it was fun.
The next day was the Chinese New Year's Eve, and in the morning, Zhou Nan went to Lucerne and bought back a pair of pork feet that almost no one ate, and a pork chop without a little fat. In the morning, Zhou Nan wrote more than a dozen couplets in a row, boiled a little rice porridge as a paste, and pasted a pair on almost every door.
Today is Friday, Audrey still has to go to school, Kelly has to work, and Zhou Nan simply coped with it at noon. In the afternoon, I started cooking, chopping dumpling filling, and preparing the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
Audrey and Kelly haven't returned yet, and Brandett is back in the door. His family has a large population and a lot of labor, and the work is done by several sons, and he usually likes to run around.
He originally wanted to play chess with Zhou Nan, but when he saw the lantern at the door and saw that Zhou Nan had prepared so many dishes, he immediately hugged a braised pig's trotter that Zhou Nan gave him and gnawed it.
While gnawing, he scolded Thomas for being a politician.
With Entlerbuch's invitation, Zhou Nan's resentment towards Thomas faded a lot. He was not an indifferent person who liked to calculate, and during the struggle, so many people beat him to death, and finally forgot about it as time passed.
People like Thomas, such things, he will definitely encounter a lot in the future. If he wants to change himself into no longer bullied, then he has to change himself, in addition to being famous, he also has to integrate into the system.
Only when there are more allies in interests, he will never be bullied again.
What's more, he wants to leave himself now, because there is a mayor here who doesn't like him, and it can't be better than Weggis's side. The mayor of Entlebuch over there likes himself very much, and he can get some care there.
Audrey and Stephanie were out of school, and as soon as they entered the door, they ran into the kitchen without putting their bags in it, and screamed excitedly when they saw so many good things to eat.
She took a pig's trotter and another for Stephanie. Under her bewitchment, Stephanie bit down like poison. But then, her brow furrowed, and she gnawed with relish.
Then she said proudly, "Jonas's craftsmanship is the best, and any food can be turned into a delicacy in his hands." Mr. Brandett, is Fiona back today? ”
"It's a holiday tomorrow, and she should be back tomorrow afternoon. Jonas, it's time for me to go back. Thank you for the trotters. ”
"Please wait a minute......" Zhou Nan called out to him, picked up more than twenty dumplings for him, and put them on a plate. This is a must-eat food for our festival, and we call it dumplings. After you go back, put it in boiling water, cook it for a few more minutes, and when the dumplings float up, add a little cold water, boil again, and you can scoop them up and eat them. ”
"Oh my God, it's too difficult for me."
Zhou Nan shook his head helplessly. "Audrey, write it down with a pen and give it to Mr. Brandett, and let him do it for Mrs. Brandett when he returns."
Quite a few Europeans are incredibly stupid when it comes to math and cooking. Go to buy meat, two Swiss francs and five raw dings, if Zhou Nan gives five Swiss francs and five raw dings, they will give five raw dings to Zhou Nan, and then look for half a day and find back two Swiss francs and ninety-five raw dings.
As for cooking, since Audrey almost roasted her own hands once, Zhou Nan strictly forbade her to enter the kitchen.
Kelly also returned, and specially brought a simple-looking Glewin to celebrate the holiday together. Glewin brought a box of cheese from home, which is the most famous specialty in Switzerland, but unfortunately, Zhou Nan couldn't get used to the sour smell.
As for the famous cheese fondue in Switzerland, Zhou Nan feels like cooking durian, stinky tofu, and stinky socks together, which is unacceptable.
Although it was the first time to be a guest, Glewin was not restrained at all, and in front of Zhou Nan and Audrey, the two juniors, he really had no need to be restrained.
Because of the Chinese New Year, Zhou Nan prepared a lot of dishes, not to mention that there were only five of them, even ten people were enough to eat.
Even John and Ollie are blessed today, with all kinds of big bones, chicken bones, and two dogs fed.
After dinner, Zhou Nan also used red paper to write couplets and wrapped three red envelopes, two large ones for Audrey and Kelly, and one small one for Stephanie.
This made Stephanie extremely happy, not only mixed a delicious meal today, but also got a red envelope.
Glewin was also very sincere, constantly asking about Chinese customs and asking him if he should also give red envelopes to everyone.
For the next day's vote, he asked Zhou Nan not to have the slightest worry, he proudly showed his muscles, saying that if anyone dared to vote against, he would do it.
However, Zhou Nan didn't believe his words at all, because he was not originally from the Strass community, and even he himself did not have the right to vote.
After Stephanie and Glewin left, Audrey helped Kelly start putting away the dishes. Zhou Nan didn't let them wash the dishes, telling them that according to the customs of their hometown, they couldn't wash the dishes for this meal tonight, and they would wait until the next day to wash them together after eating.
Kelly and the others have not experienced the customs of the New Year, they are all very curious, and they all pestered Zhou Nan to tell them more about Chinese customs. From the Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Zhou Nan has been talking about the Spring Festival.
"It turns out that your Chinese festivals are all about eating......
Zhou Nan was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help laughing, as if this was indeed the case. Every festival will have different attention and different food, which is really not comparable to foreign festivals.
"Jonas, my stomach is too full, it hurts."
This is a code, the little girl is starting to be coquettish again. Kelly pursed her lips and smiled, "Leave me the radio, and you guys go to rest." Tomorrow Audrey doesn't have to go to school, she can get up a little later. ”
Now they still go to work and school as usual on Saturdays, but because they have to face the community vote the next day, all three of them have to participate.
This can also be seen in Thomas's scheming. Because according to the general arrangement, the voting will be chosen on Sunday. Because on Sunday morning, everybody goes to church. It is customary to vote after the service is over. But it was arranged on Saturday, and the personnel couldn't be gathered together at the beginning, and Zhou Nan didn't have a chance to do public relations even if he wanted to.
However, Zhou Nan is now resigned to fate, and if there are more than ten percent of the votes against it, then he will move to Weggis without hesitation.
Knowing that Zhou Nan's mood is not good, today is another festival, and Audrey also has the intention to coax Zhou Nan. nested in Zhou Nan's arms, not shouting that her stomach hurts, she asked Zhou Nan to help her rub her stomach, and she kept deliberately teasing Zhou Nan.
If it weren't for the fact that her qi refining technique hadn't yet started, Zhou Nan really couldn't help it. However, he didn't let her go easily, and the two of them took out the hand-drawn book of Dong Xuanzi 36 and let her follow it to learn a few tricks.
Seeing that she was shy and anxious, but squirmed and squirmed to study under his compulsion, Zhou Nan was so comfortable that she almost flew up.