Chapter 4 Change

Julian drove a Volkswagen 82 SUV to Lucas to the city. Zhou Nan watched them leave, and felt a little sorry for his beetle.

Half a month ago, he drove the Beetle to the city, but he pressed the mines planted by the guerrillas. As a result, the car was blown up, turned upside down, and almost completely scrapped.

This is the first generation of the Beetle prototype produced 38 years ago, after the outbreak of World War II, although the Beetle was still in production, it became a military vehicle, and you can't buy it if you want to.

This car was originally driven by Hoffman, and later he changed the car and gave this Beetle to Zhou Nan, who felt more sorry for this car than he felt for his own children, but now it has become scrap.

Seeing Zhou You stunned, Kelly moved a chair out and placed it in the gap between the kitchen and the woods. Because there is a row of bushes blocking the view, people at the entrance of the villa cannot see the situation.

Basking in the warm sun, the whole body became lazy, but the stinging pain on the back of the head reminded Zhou Nan that now is not an era of peace, but a war in Europe. Although it is peaceful now, next autumn the entire city will be almost wiped off the face of the earth.

Where do I go from here?

Now Zhou Nan is waiting, he is waiting to confirm that everything in his dream is real, so that he knows how to face it all. And what he remembers most is the general strike that began in April '43.

Now that the strike has begun, the Queen of the Netherlands is also promoting resistance through Radio Orange. In Zhou's memory, in about ten days, the police chief of the Dutch military government should have ordered the confiscation of all radio equipment and its accessories and parts.

If these memories can be matched, then he should also take action and fight to change his fate.

Even if he doesn't count living at the age of ninety-five and becoming an old man in his memory, Zhou Nan is also a quiet and inactive person, which is his character since he was a child, and has nothing to do with anything else.

When it comes to the history of the old Zhou family, it has always been influenced by Taoism. Zhou Nan's grandfather, who lived at the foot of Laoshan Mountain, fled from the Central Plains in history, and later became a layman in the Shangqing Palace, helping Taoist priests grow vegetables and fish.

Therefore, Zhou Dazhuang, that is, Zhou Nan's father also learned some kung fu to strengthen his body since he was a child, and became a Chinese worker in Europe during the First World War.

Zhou Dazhuang is a living bandit who has been restless all his life. His domineering also led to Zhou Nan living in his shadow since he was a child, coupled with Hoffman's ears, he was taught to abide by the rules since he was a child, and Zhou Nan's personality has been relatively quiet and introverted since he was a child.

Although Zhou Dazhuang can't get used to seeing Zhou Nan like a girl, he has no autonomy in education, after all, even he is begging for food under Hoffman.

But when he was shot by the Japanese, he left Zhou Nan a large legacy. These legacies include two boxes of Taoist scriptures that he snatched out of the Taoist temple in advance when the Japanese called, and a large number of gold and silver jewelry that he snatched back from the Japanese.

Zhou Nan has no interest in strengthening the body in these Taoist scriptures, and he has no female sparring partner in the Yellow Emperor's internal scriptures, and Zhou Nan can't understand the feng shui divination, so he has learned the so-called quiet inaction, which is actually to get by.

However, it is also because of this that he can endure so many humiliations that ordinary people can't bear in his dreams, and even live longer than everyone else, until more than seventy years later.

Of course, being able to live for such a long time also has a certain relationship with the Taoist scriptures in his hand, and in the eighty or ninety years before and after, he memorized many Taoist scriptures and was very familiar, even if he didn't cultivate, he also gained the Tao.

If he hadn't been seriously injured twice, Zhou Nan believed that he would have lived to be more than 100 years old.

The gold and silver jewelry was collected by Hoffman, and after it was sold in Shanghai, he saved it for Zhou Nan. Later, he became a military supply businessman, Hoffmann set up a canning factory and a meat factory in Hamburg, and also started an army business, all of which gave Zhou Nan a small stake.

Originally, Zhou Nan also loved literature, music, and painting. But after returning to China, he was forced to participate in the civil war and lost his left hand, unable to play the piano, and later, even the violin was smashed. However, although he lost his left hand and couldn't play the flute, he could still play a few pieces of the flute, which was also his biggest hobby in his later years.

Literature was the first to give up, not because of anything else, but after returning to China, there was no longer the opportunity to contact books. Later, literary books became reactionary ideas, and it was too late for him, a "traitor", a "rebel, or activist" to burn them, and he dared to buy them, not to mention that he had no money to buy them, let alone sell them.

Later, after the reform and opening up, he was already a 60-year-old man, and he had long lost interest in literature, and he never read other books except books on current affairs and politics.

As for painting, he never gave up, which is also his deepest specialty. As the oldest and most senior Taoist priest in the Taoist temple, his paintings are still famous, which also makes his life relatively comfortable in his later years.

Due to the income generated, the head of the Taoist temple is also his teacher and nephew, and he also divided a small courtyard for him and sent two small Taoist priests to serve him.

However, if he still has to face so many ups and downs and pain, he will never experience that kind of life again. Daozun can let him see through the heavens in a coma, which is naturally to let him seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and not to repeat that period of life.

He didn't want Hoffman to die in next year's bombing, and he didn't want to be repatriated. Even living in silence in the countryside of Europe for a lifetime is much better than facing so many changes.

It's almost noon, and the cooks in the kitchen are starting to get busy. The laundry workers also carried the laundry and bed sheets, and set up rows of laundry jungles in the open space next to the kitchen.

Most of them are German women over the age of 40, and because they have experienced a lot, there is also a bit of meat and vegetarianism between their words. There is only one man living in Zhou Nan in the kitchen, so Zhou Nan has also become the object of their ridicule.

Although Zhou Nan also lived to be ninety-five years old in his dream, he was an old virgin all his life, and at this time, he still couldn't stand their ridicule.

Whenever this happens, Kelly always stands up to defend Zhou Nan and suppresses the arrogance of a group of women. If it weren't for the fact that the image of Zhou Nan and Kelly is too different, and the age difference is too big, I'm afraid there will be some gossip.

Although Kelly's name is good, her image is too extraordinary, even in this era of material shortage, she can still maintain a weight of about two hundred and fifty pounds, which has to be said to be a rare thing.

And Zhou Nan's height of 1.8 meters, a slightly thin figure, is only one-third of her in front of Kelly, plus the difference of more than 20 years, no one would think that there will be those bad things between these two people except feelings.

Actually, there really isn't.

Zhou Nan is not without women, when he came to Europe with the Hoffman family at the age of sixteen, the Hoffmans had already mentioned to him that when their eldest daughter Vera was eighteen years old, they would hold a wedding for them.

In other words, in the first sixteen years, Hoffman raised him as a son, but since the age of sixteen, he has raised him as a son-in-law.

It's a pity that Vera grew up with Zhou Nan, and the relationship between brother and sister is far greater than the relationship between men and women, and neither of them has that meaning. and Hoffman's second daughter Claudia, and Zhou Nan is even more regarded as a younger sister.

Claudia turned 18 last year, but she declined the offer of marriage and instead studied nursing at a nursing school in Hamburg and is now a military nurse in Belgium.

In the dream, Hoffman's funeral was the last time they saw each other, and he was later imprisoned and later repatriated, without even knowing whether she was alive or dead.

In the nineties, he traveled to Germany to look for the Hoffmanns, but he searched half of Germany without any useful information.

Although Zhou Nan was an old virgin until he was ninety-five years old in his dream, he didn't have a chance to get off the single in the middle, but he gave up by himself.

In the sixties, he was driven out of the Taoist temple and went to the countryside at the foot of the mountain to farm, and there was a widow who was willing to follow him. However, although Zhou Nan was missing a hand, he couldn't look down on the rude woman who didn't know a single big word, and refused the introduction.

So much so, in the later criticism, this woman and her three children hit him to death every time, if it weren't for his generous heart and big life, he would not have survived the reform and opening up.

It's not that he hasn't had a woman in his heart, it's just that no one knows that the little girl who was like a boy at the beginning would later become a world-famous star.

Thinking of the relationship he missed, Zhou Nan's heart was dead, because at that time, the difference between them was too far. He is no longer the big brother who is worthy of dependence, he has become a rural villager, and she is no longer the little girl who can't find a direction, but has become a peerless beauty.

This incident is probably the biggest regret of his life.

However, it was in a dream, not necessarily true, even if it was true, he had a chance to change his fate, because the opportunity was right in front of him.

Looking around, she might be hiding somewhere in the forest, sneaking a peek this way. Because Zhou Nan and the house they live in now used to be her grandfather's.

It's just that now she and her mother, two brothers, and relatives have been kicked out of this house and moved into a house in the city.

Thinking of her, the expression on Zhou Nan's face became softer, and a faint smile appeared on his face. If the dream is real, he has a chance to change his fate, if the dream is fake, but this relationship is always worth cherishing.

"It's time to eat...... Kelly shouted from the corner of the kitchen, "Jonas, are you coming in to eat or are you just eating outside?" ”

Zhou Nan raised his head and said with a smile: "In the sun, in the garden, at the edge of the woods, it will make people more appetizing." ”

Kelly smiled, and the figure disappeared again, but soon reappeared. In her hand was a small simple table with two large bowls and a bread basket on it.

The square table was carefully placed in front of Zhou Nan. "Ah, I forgot to take a spoon...... "The fat Kelly ran back quickly, and the fat on her body shook frighteningly.

A large bowl with sliced grilled sausages, a large bowl with shredded mushroom broth, and a bread basket with half a cut of brown bread, already coated with cream.

In this era, this is a very hearty lunch, but for Zhou Nan, it is just an ordinary lunch.