Although Megan is not a mountainous area, it is also a remnant of the mountain range, and the terrain is undulating, and the slopes of more than ten meters high and relatively flat hills make the terrain here very complicated.

The town is about four hundred meters from the lake, about twenty or thirty meters above the lake, and the further you go to the lake, the lower the terrain. But because of the presence of small hills, it is not the kind of flat slope. It can't be said to be a scene in ten steps, but as long as you take a hundred steps, the surrounding scenery will change dramatically.

Because it is a wonderful vantage point in the Alps, and because it is located right on the outskirts of the mountains, unlike the mountainous areas, the weather is unpredictable and sunny, so it has been a traditional wealthy area in Switzerland since ancient times.

Most of the houses here are farms or manors with a large area, and more than a dozen ancient castles add a strong historical and cultural atmosphere here.

In particular, the houses located by the lake rarely cover an area of less than 10,000 square meters, and one of the ancient castles even covers an area of nearly 100,000 square meters. It is said that it takes twenty workers to maintain the castle in normal times.

Because of the arrival of the war, the owner of the castle has fled to the United States, leaving only two janitors to guard the place, which also makes the place look very decayed.

Although the appearance of this ancient castle is very beautiful and fascinates everyone, if Zhou Nan is allowed to live in it, he will not live there. In there, you don't even need a set to make a ghost movie!

Keoser was a very conscientious worker, and she took Zhou Nan and them to see more than a dozen vacant and sold houses in two days, without a single complaint.

It took two whole days, Zhou Nan and their team looked at more than a dozen houses, and finally chose a house located in Megan's only middle school, directly east of the lake.

The house is located directly below the town's only middle school, 300 meters from the middle school and 500 meters from the lake from the supply transfer train station that Megan had just built.

The area of this house is not too large, only more than 6,700, less than 7,000 square meters. Of course, the area of ten acres is not small, but most of the area of the lakeside villas is about 10,000 square meters, and this house is a little smaller.

Although it covers an area of 10 acres, the only building is a small three-story building. This small building is no different from a Swiss house, with a masonry structure on the first floor, a mixed structure on the second floor, and an all-timber structure on the third floor.

The exterior walls and roof of the house are dark red pine bark color, and the area of each floor is 1780 square meters, not to mention three people, even 30 people can be squeezed.

The ten acres are a trapezoidal shape, with a slightly narrower width towards the lake, and a small pier in the town is demarcated, and the road leading to the small pier is the only entrance and exit to the house.

The confines of the house are enclosed by wooden railings and two rows of decades or even centuries-old trees, and the extent of the house cannot be seen in any direction except from the lake.

The house is located on the edge of the lake, facing the lake to the east and a hill to the west. However, the hill belongs to another neighbor's land, and their house is built directly on top of the hill in order to have a direct view of the lake.

Although their terrain was twenty or thirty meters higher than the house that Zhou Nan fancied, they couldn't see any corner of the house because of the big trees.

To the south of the house, there is also an old castle, but this old castle has long been converted into a hotel, and a wall-like wall has been piled with mountain stones, so that the house cannot be directly reached from the south and west.

The only road is a winding path down from the town, which originally ran east-west, but after passing through the railway tunnel, it became parallel to the shore of the lake after about seventy or eighty meters. There are two households on the east side of the road near the lake, and two families on the west side of the road, and at the end of this winding road is the pier between the house they fancied and the castle hotel.

There are only four families living here in an area of more than 30,000 square meters, two of which are about the same size as Zhou Nan's favorite house, but they are all located on a hill, at least 20 meters away from the two households by the lake, and are separated by a road.

On the north side of the house that Zhou Nan fancies, the house of that family occupies the largest area. From the only way in, it became north-south, and down the hillside, more than two hundred meters was the range of their home.

In other words, if Zhou Nan bought this house, there would only be three direct neighbors. He mainly maintains the relationship between the three families, and then makes a better impression on the rest of the community, so that he can live here permanently.

Switzerland is an extremely conservative country, they are not xenophobic, but they are outrageously conservative. Especially in rural areas, all outsiders have a one-year observation period. If more than 1 in 10 people in the same neighborhood don't like you, you have no choice but to move out.

So in the Swiss countryside, there is no such thing as property speculation, because even if you buy a house here, you may not be able to live here. After a year, the local residents will vote on whether to accept you, and if two out of 10 people vote against it, you will have to sell the house at the original price or at a low price.

The price of the house is relatively not high, because the area belongs to the attached land, and the price of the house is mainly counted. The house is just three floors of less than two hundred square meters and has been built for almost forty years. There is also a two-room wooden house, which is mainly for chickens and pigs.

The total price of the house is 68,000 Swiss francs, and now the Swiss franc has not appreciated, unlike the exchange rate with the US dollar in later generations, which is almost one to one, and now one US dollar is worth more than four Swiss francs. In other words, the total price of this house with a total area of 6,800 square meters is only 16,000 US dollars.

The money is deposited into a designated account by the government, and the deal is only successful after a year's vote by the residents.

However, with the deed of purchase of the house, all other naturalization procedures can begin. For example, apply for identity documents for the three of them, handle food distribution certificates, go through admission procedures for Audrey, and go through various exam procedures for Kelly.

Switzerland is a small country with very little arable land. So from the nineteenth century onwards, they adopted intensive farming. All farmers, you can't just farm your own land if you have your own land, you have to go to the government department to test your skills.

Whether it's raising sheep, cattle, or growing corn, potatoes, or wheat, you need to prove to the government that you have the skills to do so, and you have to pass the government's assessment. And in the process of breeding and planting, if you have any violations, you will be notified and criticized, and if you exceed three times, your breeding and planting qualifications will be cancelled.

However, the state will not waste the land, nor will it let you be idle, in this case, your land will be planted or cultivated by others, and then you will need to take other skills and go to work.

If you can't do the work well, then there are still service jobs waiting for you, cleaning, helping the neighbors mow the grass, pruning the pruning you should always be able to.

This country is like a sophisticated machine, everyone is a part of it, especially in this time of war, the state will not allow an idler.

Keoser really let Zhou Nan see why Dyniere said that government workers are waiters, and for a whole week, she almost served Zhou Nan and a few of them.

From the time she bought the house and started to go through the procedures, except for the time when she needed to come forward in person, Zhou Nan and them needed to come forward, and at other times, she prepared all the work well.

For example, Audrey wants to go to the middle school in the town, how many teachers are in the school, what are the specialties of each teacher, which direction you want to develop, and you need to learn from those teachers, there are complete information provided.

What kind of work Kelly is good at, what basic exams are required for these jobs, what documents are required, where each training class is located, and which day to open the class, also provides Kelly with a full range of information.

Then, there is the contact form about some of the services in the town and the city. Where is the bakery, where is the dairy, where are the bicycle repairs, where are the haircuts, where are the winters, where are the dry firewood to be bought, all these are sorted out by the government staff.

So much so that there was a thick stack of information that Keoser handed over to Zhou Nan, and they all needed to be familiar with it.

What's more, their system doesn't require a lot of staff, because every detail is formed into a system, and everyone follows the procedure, and Keoser can complete almost all the work alone.

So that's a great point to learn from.

As newcomers to the city, Keoser also took them to the town government to go through various formalities, and introduced them to the town's civil servants.

The town also sent a civil servant to help them get acquainted with the local situation, and made a profile of the three of them, and also took three photos and posted them on the town's bulletin board so that the townspeople could know them.

Audrey and Kelly didn't attract much attention, but Zhou Nan was the first Oriental in this town, and it still aroused a lot of interest.

Especially in Zhou Nan's identity introduction, he is introduced as a Taoist believer and a person with artistic expertise. So when they tidy up the house, some neighbors often come to visit and take a look at Zhou Nan himself.

Taoism is not very famous in the West, but the Tao Te Ching is very famous. Originally, most Westerners regarded the Tao Te Ching as a philosophical book, but now I know that the Tao Te Ching is a famous Taoist classic.

When he was not busy, Zhou Nan also tried his best to meet the requests of these curious people and played a bamboo flute for them. After all, whether they can stay in this town or not, the opinions of these people are very important.

It took half a month to buy kitchen utensils, farm tools, all kinds of furniture at home, bedding, and this new home finally looks like a little bit.

Kelly doesn't like to climb stairs, and she lives alone in the only bedroom on the first floor. The original owner of this house also had two elderly people in his family, and the bedroom on the first floor was no worse than the master bedroom upstairs.

Zhou Nan and Audrey live on the second floor, but they don't live in one room yet, but live in different rooms separately, after all, they are not married yet. Of course, the main reason is that Audrey is still very shy.

The home is finally in shape, and Yannick is returning to Germany. His visa was only a month long, and now that three weeks have passed, it's time to go.