Chapter 10: Fiction
Vera came to Zhou Nan with Lily in her arms, put her on the ground, squatted down beside her, and asked, "Lily, do you remember what your mother taught you?" ”
Lily answered with a milky voice, looked at the others around her, counted her fingers a little embarrassedly, and nodded.
Vera patted her on the back and said, "Then you go......"
Lily looked at Zhou Nan, who was smiling, then at Audrey, hesitated, and came to Audrey, whom she liked more, first.
She knelt in front of Audrey with a plop, and almost fell to the ground because of the thick clothes she was wearing. She propped her hands on the floor, and her little head tapped three times before she said in an unskilled Chinese, "Towns,...... Happy New Year, aunt. ”
Thorn is the title of aunt and aunt of the academy in German, she obviously did not change her tone at once, first said it in German, found that she said it wrong, and then changed it to Chinese.
Audrey immediately smiled and took out a red envelope from her pocket and stuffed it into her hand. "Happy New Year, Lily."
After getting a red envelope, Lily immediately laughed happily, looked back at her mother, and climbed two steps on her knees to come to Zhou Nan.
The little head nodded three times again, and this time she did not call Eugen, but shouted directly in Chinese: "Uncle, Happy New Year." ”
Zhou Nan also took out the red envelope from his pocket, pulled her up, and stuffed the red and white into her pocket. "Happy New Year, Lily."
She raised her head and kissed Zhou Nan's face, reached out and touched the two red envelopes, and happily ran back to Vera's side, about to open the two red envelopes.
Audrey's red envelope contains a jade pendant of a little monkey, which is Lily's zodiac sign. Of course, since it is a New Year's money, there is also a 100 Swiss franc bill stuffed in it to express its meaning.
Zhou Nan's red envelope also contained a hundred Swiss francs, and a small sachet. This sachet is a handicraft bought in Paris, and it contains wormwood, realgar and sandalwood powder, as well as dried gardenia and dried jasmine pollen, specially blended by Zhou Nan.
Therefore, this sachet not only tastes fragrant, but also prevents the infestation of poisonous insects and has the function of poisoning and warding off evil spirits.
Lily hung the sachet on her chest and picked it up from time to time to smell it, obviously loving it very much.
The other women were still curious about why the younger generation of the Chinese custom would kowtow to the elders, but when they smelled the aroma of this sachet, they were immediately conquered.
Zhou Nan promised more than a dozen sachets, which made them all satisfied, and their attention shifted to the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
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In Switzerland, Zhounan's social circle is not wide, and the small number of Chinese in Switzerland is almost negligible. Zhou Nan can still see some Chinese in other countries, but in Switzerland, because it is not a country of immigrants, he has only seen in the archives that there are less than 100 Chinese living in various parts of Switzerland, but he has not seen a single one.
There is no custom of celebrating the Spring Festival here, so naturally no one comes to pay New Year's greetings. Zhou Nan drank wine with a helper for two days, even if it was past this Spring Festival.
Since the third year of junior high school, he has entered the state of work again, in addition to asking about the preparations for the forum, he is writing books at home.
Anne Frank Diary is an ignorant girl in two years, all the feelings of the world, in terms of content, there is nothing too worth remembering.
The significance of this diary lies mainly in the universal values represented behind it.
Zhou Nan wants to sort out a more cruel but warm main line of contrast, which is really simple compared to academic works.
The most delayed thing is the speed of his creation.
He is now familiar with the typewriter of this era, and can write about 10,000 words a day, and during this time, he has written 200,000 words one after another, and the whole book is about to be completed.
After printing out the manuscript, Zhou Nan called Otto Frank in Basel.
After receiving a call from Zhou Nan, he rushed to Zhou Nan's farm that night and finished reading the book all night.
Early the next morning, Zhou Nan saw him with red and swollen eyes, although he didn't sleep all night, he could see that his mental state was very good, and he was a little scared.
After exchanging views on the content of the manuscript, he raised a little different opinion.
"Mr. Zhou, I have to say that your macro perspective and analysis of human nature give this book a profound meaning, but it seems to show a little less about Anne's personal feelings. At the beginning, she once had a vague love for Peter, who had taken refuge with her. ”
Zhou Nan is very aware of Otto's feelings for his daughter, and he wants to show a complete impression of his daughter to everyone, even if many of them are his own reverie.
The original diary of Anne Frank will be made into a youth romance film, in addition to political correctness, I am afraid that most of his reasons.
However, the reason for calling him over is to listen to him and then convince him.
"Mr. Frank, the love of Anne and Peter, is a hazy love, which she never shows. Although these occupy a lot of space in her diary, they do not have much resonance to show the cruelty of war and the annihilation of human nature. People were interested in Anne, first because she was a victim of the Nazis, and secondly because of the persecution suffered by the race she represented. It is only when this aspect of this interest is aroused that the other stories about her will attract more people. ”
He explained: "I don't have an opinion on your book, Mr. Zhou, I just feel that these contents can be added a little ......."
Zhou Nan did not refuse directly, but said tactfully: "Mr. Frank, I can understand a father's nostalgia for his daughter, but you can't impose this kind of feeling of yours on others, right?" Moreover, my book will be published together with Anne's diary, and her diary has expressed a lot of yearning for love, and I don't think this kind of love should be written by someone else's pen. Do you have any other comments besides these? ”
"No, it's more than I expected...... Except that the performance in love seems to be a little less. ”
Zhou Nan was also a little speechless, and reminded him again: "Mr. Frank, my main purpose in writing this book is to remake it into a movie, so that more people will know that there was once a lovely girl like Anne in this world. But in order to warn the world, many of the plots that are not in the diary...... Anne was captured, imprisoned in a concentration camp, persecuted, and left us, all of which will be shown in the film. Her hazy love, including her love for the world, will be in stark contrast to what happened to her. These are important, but even more important are the revelations to the world. We can't confuse our own purpose, and if we cut out a lot of more meaningful scenes because of the hazy love that never showed, do you think that would help expand Anne's influence? ”
He actually knew that Zhou Nan's opinion was correct, but a father's feelings for his daughter were not something that Zhou Nan could convince with a few words.
He wanted the world to see a complete daughter, but Zhou Nan thought more, just wanted to use Anne as a model to warn the world.
In terms of purpose, they are the same, but in terms of feelings, he can't accept that his daughter is one-sided.
It is impossible for Zhou Nan to write about her immature love with the mentality of a little girl, his purpose is more utilitarian, that is, to show a stronger humanistic thought through Anne.
Therefore, the first contact, the two people did not finalize it. Otto decided to go back and think again, and then let the others look at it and give some advice.
This is the first time that what Zhou Nan wrote has been denied, which made him a little depressed. However, he believes that he is doing the right thing because his approach is more neutral, fair, and thoughtful.
Marita didn't expect that what Zhou Nan wrote would be denied by an ordinary person, and she also had some curiosity, so she asked Zhou Nan for a manuscript and read it.
This look was a little out of control, so much so that the trip to go out that day was canceled. In the evening, Audrey came back from school and took her out of the room, her eyes red and swollen from crying.
Not only her, but even Mrs. Katekin and several maids had traces of crying on their faces, and it was obvious that Zhou Nan's book shocked them.
"Jonas, why did you write such a sad book, and it hurts me to see Anne's story. It's you, the one who hurt us all crying today. ”
"This is reality, not a story, and there are still countless tragedies unfolding over the years, including now."
This chick has been in Switzerland for half a month. She originally planned to stay for half a month, but when she heard that Zhou Nan would hold a lantern festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, she wanted to play until that day and then go back.
Zhou Nan doesn't care, she just lives in her own house, he can't spend a lot of money, and she still has some rare seafood and high-end ingredients to enjoy every day.
But her entourage and the Swiss police have a lot of headaches, she is wandering around Switzerland, and it will be a waste of manpower to protect her.
Audrey comforted her and said, "If you don't like such a tragedy, you don't want to look at it, look at your eyes, they are all swollen." ”
She said coquettishly: "I'm curious, who knew that he would write a book as an academic scholar, which is still a tragedy." Don't you think that lowers your style, Jonas? ”
Audrey explained: "It's all because of me, and Jonas wanted to make a movie based on it and make me the heroine. ”
Except for Lady Hemstra, who knew a little about it, everyone else had heard of it for the first time, and they all seemed very surprised.
If Mrs. Hemstra had encountered such a thing before, she would have publicized it a long time ago. But now, Zhou Nan has become famous and is in a high position. Audrey also hopes to inherit her grandfather's title, and she is not so enthusiastic about Audrey as an actor, after all, a noble girl is still a little self-defeating as an actor.
If this film weren't for the fact that this film is a Dutch story, the positioning of the story itself would be more meaningful. It's Audrey herself who wants to act, and I'm afraid she won't agree to Audrey to be an actor.