Although they have only been separated for a month, Caroline is distressed when she sees Zhou Nan lose a lot of weight.

She thought that the ingredients at night were not very rich, so she asked the maid to buy a few catties of pork bones and came back to make soup for Zhou Nan.

Zhou Nan originally wanted to stop it, but after thinking about it, he simply followed her wishes.

This time, Zhou Nan brought back a lot of high-grade bird's nests from Nanhua, and at this time, of course, he took them out obediently to make her happy.

However, at this time, she was not taken seriously, because she chatted with the general's wife for a while.

I heard the general's wife talk about the three daughters-in-law, one died, two left, and the two children are now lonely. began to cry with the general's wife, distressed for the two children who had no father and their mother was gone.

The rise of the Hoffman family is inseparable from the help of the general, and this help is not the kind of conditional exchange of interests, but the general's appreciation of Yannick.

This accumulation of affection is a deep affection between the two families. Therefore, Caroline did not dislike the general and his wife, but genuinely respected.

"You can live here with confidence, and tomorrow I'll help Jira and Boidra connect with the school. No matter what the general will experience in the future, this will always be your home. ”

The old lady was obviously mentally prepared, and said with a light sigh: "Our bank accounts are all sealed, even if they are not sealed, the current mark has depreciated and is worthless." Originally, my mother's family had an ancestral house in Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate, and we had planned to go back there. ”

"Don't say that again, Yannick has always treated the general as his own father, and he can't make you suffer. Now the conditions of our family are better...... it is for the sake of our two children, and it is better to stay in Wolfsburg. ”

The old lady sighed softly and acquiesced in the matter.

Caroline digressed and asked, "Nassau?" Was it the birthplace of that Nassau dynasty? An ancient family that has produced multiple royal families? ”

The old lady smiled and nodded. "It's a pity that it's long gone, and Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, is more famous than our town is now."

Seeing Zhou Nan fidgeting, Caroline glared at him and said, "Okay, don't let you chat with us women here, go and chat with the general, dinner will have to wait for a while." ”

From the small prison to this splendid villa, the two children were a little unaccustomed, leaning closely to their grandmother's side, looking at the unfamiliar environment with some restraint.

However, the kind Caroline prepared a beautiful room for them, so that their little faces were full of satisfied smiles.

Leon, who went to school, came back and was very happy to see Zhou Nan, and took Zhou Nan to see a four-wheeled power car he had assembled himself.

The engine of this powercar is that of an old motorcycle, much like that of a beach bike. Because Caroline didn't allow him to ride a motorcycle, he thought of modifying the quad bike.

Yannick was very supportive of his hobby and built him a tuning workshop in the garage for him to toss around.

It's a pity that Zhou Nan has no interest in machinery, although he thinks his design is very crude, but he still praises him, which makes him very proud.

No matter how bad he is, after all, it is his hobby, which is much stronger than when he goes out to fight and pick up girls.

At dinner, Zhou Nan met several colleagues in his studio. Their interest in other aspects of the achievements of Zhou Nan, a big celebrity, far exceeded his ability in car exterior design, and a group of people became fans in front of him.

However, the fact that they were able to be selected by Yannick and arranged to belong to Zhou Nan's studio shows that everyone is still capable.

The next day, Zhou Nan was in a workshop of the Volkswagen factory and saw their capabilities.

The most conspicuous building of the Volkswagen factory is the power generation and casting hall with four large chimneys. It not only supplies the electricity needed by the public, but also undertakes the casting, die-casting and forging of steel.

The last time I visited, it was only half used here, and the original tank die-casting workshop was not yet used. However, this time, it has been converted into a workshop for auto parts.

Trains came in from the factory's dedicated railway, loaded with new Beetles, and then transported to other areas.

At present, the production capacity of the Volkswagen plant has increased from more than 300 vehicles per day to more than 500 vehicles, and in the future, the saturation production capacity here will reach more than 2,000 vehicles per day. Net starter

Zhou Nan's studio is arranged in a supporting warehouse in the northeast of the four large chimneys, occupying a warehouse of seven or eight hundred square meters.

However, the working environment here is not very good, because between the warehouse and the canal, this is the original coal transfer center in Germany, although the storage of coal has been greatly reduced, but as soon as the wind blows, the coal ash is floating everywhere.

Although Zhou Nan has not been here yet, his design draft has been poured and molded by their group of people, and a total of six car models of two models have been hand-made with foaming agent, wooden boards, and iron sheets.

Now, all that remains of these models is the final dimensions and articulations, and the architecture needs to be finalized. Only after all these things have been determined, and then after demonstration and testing, can the trial production begin.

The shape design of the car is a completely different concept from the clothing, and the design of the clothes, as long as there are drawings, you can draw the scoop according to the gourd.

But the design of the car is much more complex.

The main business capabilities of automotive designers are reflected in the ability of 2D and 3D modeling, plus the ability to have a very wide knowledge base and the ability to predict trends.

However, these are only necessary skills and knowledge, not design skills. Design is an ideological work that requires the integration of all of the above and the expression of skills.

Moreover, design skills require a longer period of practice.

In addition to these, designers also need courses in ergonomics, mechanical principles, material technology and other courses to help reserve relevant knowledge.

Seeing the preparations they made, Zhou Nan knew that he had taken out some sketches, which meant that he could help the public, which was really a bit taken for granted.

If it weren't for Yannick's 100% belief in Zhou Nan, if it weren't for the fact that he was also a major shareholder of Volkswagen. His sketches were just sensationalist concepts that could not be adopted at all.

A car, from concept to physical object, is like a child from birth to college graduation, there are many procedures that need to be processed.

Because of Yannick's trust in Zhou Nan, he can take his design as the ultimate goal and trace the source purposefully.

To give a very simple example, the design of the shell, where the engine is mounted, how to connect, the direct connection between the bumper and the fenders, the design of the chassis, and even the size of the wheels, the installation position of the shock absorbers, etc., all require the joint efforts of many people to complete.

Zhou Nan didn't understand these things at all, and all he could do was to draw a gourd according to his memory of the design of some cars in later generations.

For example, the current steering wheel is an iron ring, which is extremely simple, and Zhou Nan can draw a more beautiful steering wheel.

The design of the dashboard in this era is also very simple, and Zhou Nan can draw a beautiful dashboard.

Even including the seats, Zhou Nan can draw all kinds of styles that are more beautiful than they are now.

As for the architecture, cohesion, and process design inside, it can only be completed by others.

For three whole days, Zhou Nan has been busy in the warehouse with these designers, and every line, every angle, and every connection of the body needs to be finalized.

And the drawings he drew became Yannick's most important technical secret. Many things that Zhou Nan doesn't know why they actually contain the technological development law of the entire industrial technology upgrading.

For example, an inconspicuous bulge in the hood and an inconspicuous groove in the bumper may involve huge wind resistance. Many seemingly inconspicuous things contain rules that are difficult to break.

The importance of conforming to the development of the times, the development of trends, and the development of technology for a factory is not clear to Zhou Nan, but now Yannick is very clear.

As long as a large factory does not take detours and no longer wastes a lot of money on irrelevant technologies, the development of this enterprise will definitely be faster than any peers.

If it weren't for the fact that Zhou Nan was too famous now, there were many other aspects of the more important things. Yannick couldn't wait for him to systematically learn all aspects of car design techniques, so that Zhou Nan could understand how important these things he understood.

Zhou Nan couldn't find the direction at the beginning, and it took three days to finally let these technicians in the design room keep up with his ideas and achieve initial results.

But on October 10, an explosive piece of news forced him to prepare to leave Wolfsburg.

On the morning of 10 October, Gobenheim, then president of the Swedish Academy of Letters, announced in Stockholm that the winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature was Zhou Nan, a 25-year-old Chinese scholar of Chinese origin in Switzerland.

In fact, when he read out the award-winning comments, Zhou Nan's name had not yet been pronounced, and the whole world already knew that it was Zhou Nan who won the award.

Zhou Nan's award-winning comments were: "He used his rich but imaginative thoughts and brilliant artistic skills to create the most serious and lively historical masterpiece in the world." His greatness lies in his noble style, his compassionate humanity, and his charming personal charisma. The perfect blend of Eastern and Western cultures has been achieved in him, and it also allows all readers to gain profound knowledge in a relaxed reading. ”

When I heard the news of Zhou Nan's award on the radio, a telegram of congratulations was transmitted. Caroline cried excitedly, for more than 40 years, the Nobel Prize has become the highest award in Europe, Caroline is sincerely happy for Zhou Nan.