Chapter 63: The Trajectory of Life
Negotiations in the factory are still going on, and Yannick has organized a group around Zhou Nan's design to conduct practical demonstrations on the direction of development given by Zhou Nan.
The British wanted to be actively involved in the development of these two seemingly "promising" models, and Porscher was also interested in this "perfect" design 911 model, and seemed to have found the direction of Porsche's future direction.
Although the current consumption level in Germany is much lower than that of other countries, Volkswagen's Beetle is currently mainly exported, and sales are good, and Volkswagen is optimizing its processes to expand production capacity.
However, the disturbances in the Volkswagen factory did not seem to have anything to do with Zhou Nan, and he took Audrey on a day in Wolfsburg, visiting the royal palace and the beautiful scenery on both sides of the canal.
Audrey, moistened by love, re-showed her smile and put everyone at ease. Zhou Nan was afraid that she would be immersed in this role and become melancholy. Now it seems that she has not been seriously affected by Anne.
The blues of adolescence, the influence of Anne, did have a certain effect on Audrey's spirit. But she has known Zhou Nan since she was eleven years old, and she has established a relationship with Zhou Nan at the age of fourteen, and her growth has been influenced by Zhou Nan too much.
Zhou Nan gave her a carefree life and let her grow in the direction he wanted, which had a much greater impact than anyone else.
Seeing that Audrey didn't have much of a problem, Zhou Nan relieved Audrey to send Audrey to the Belsen concentration camp.
In the camp, the main actors were already in place, the preparations were almost complete, and filming began in an orderly manner.
This time, some indoor scenes were filmed first. Including Anne's hesitation and helplessness when she was first sent to this concentration camp, her stolen bottle of Coty perfume, the collision between her innocent mind and the ruthless Nazis.
Zhou Nan's presence also affected Audrey's play, when he was around, Audrey always showed helplessness and easy to laugh, and the result was that he was kicked out of the set by Audrey with a small fist.
Three thousand extras were already in place, and the starving locals didn't have to wear makeup at all, and they were just as thin as those who had been imprisoned in the concentration camps.
And they're mostly a backdrop, and almost none of them will have close-ups. In this movie, the main shot is on Audrey's body.
Fedward and the others drove from Wolfsburg to Celle in a truck, and to Zhou Nan's surprise, Caroline also came with Kelly, and she wanted to accompany Kelly back to Hamburg, and by the way, also see their home in Hamburg.
The Hoffmann family was originally a middle-class family in Shernefeld, a western suburb of Hamburg, and had already fallen into the middle of the family during the First World War, so after the First World War, the elder Hoffmann took the newlywed Yannick and them to the Far East to start an export business of hardware tools on Green Island.
Because of his participation in the urban construction and water conservancy project construction of Green Island, his family's situation slowly improved again. They built a small building on Taiping Road in Green Island and became a well-known German merchant on Green Island.
Zhou Nan's father, Zhou Dazhuang, met the family when they first arrived on Green Island, because Zhou Dazhuang worked as a Chinese laborer and could speak a little broken French, and he was also hired as a helper for the Hoffman family.
Zhou Nan was born in the blue villa at No. 13 Taiping Road, at that time, Yannick and Caroline had no children, and they had always been very fond of Zhou Nan.
When Zhou Nan was two years old, his mother died. Since then, he has almost been left to Caroline by the unreliable Zhou Dazhuang.
Yannick and the others later became acquainted with General Falkenhausen, a big man at the time, because of General Falkenhausen's prestige in the Far East government at that time, and the Hoffmanns' business was getting better and better, they didn't even think about returning to Germany.
But in '37, war broke out. Green Island was captured by the Japanese, and Zhou Dazhuang was killed by the Japanese. Zhou Nan, who was only 16 years old, followed the Hoffmann family from Green Island to Puhai, and then followed General Falkenhausen to Germany with the Hoffmann family.
The house on Green Island was entrusted to old Hoffmann's friend, the famous designer Bilauha, and never returned.
If Zhou Nan's memory was not wrong, Biloha would have died this year. He later returned to Green Island in 49, because he could not get the owner documents of the No. 13 small building, and the small building was also nationalized, so he could only return to the old house at the foot of the old mountain to live.
His biological grandfather fled from the Central Plains, and after coming to Green Island, he planted vegetables for the Taoist temple. His father, Zhou Dazhuang, had two brothers, and he followed that uncle to farm for a living.
He was missing a hand and couldn't do a lot of work, because he knew the master, he went up the mountain to become a Taoist priest.
The ups and downs of the following decades are like a dream in Zhou Nan's heart. He did suffer a lot personally. But because I have been abroad, I know how poor and low my country is.
Seeing that his country is thriving day by day, and his nation is standing tall in the world again, Zhou Nan's heart is more relieved than hateful.
Only a strong country can have a stable home.
The car followed Route 7 all the way to the almost razed Hamburg, which is now a transshipment port for the British. Truckloads of grain and supplies were brought in by large ships that carried away all kinds of industrial goods and raw materials.
Although the reconstruction of the city is underway, the progress is very slow, and the original city is full of tents and shacks.
Many residents have adapted to local conditions, erecting wooden planks on crumbling ruins to form a home. This kind of devastated war scars make people's hearts heavy to watch.
Zhou Nan, who was sitting in the back car, could clearly see that Caroline and Kelly didn't dare to look out at all. Even Zhou Nan couldn't bear to look at the hands of the dirty children outside the car window.
He does have the ability to help some people, but there are so many people who need help that no one can do anything.
Only by changing the current political environment as soon as possible and promoting overall development can people's lives be improved. But now, Britain, the United States, France, and the Soviet Union all only want to punish and exploit Germany, not develop Germany.
The convoy left Hamburg and went to the countryside, where things were much better, because there was less bombing. But because there are no seeds and tools, much of the land is still in ruins.
After returning to Germany from the Far East, Yannick bought back the original Hoffmann family's farm. The farm is not large, only two hectares, but because some of the ancestors of the Hoffman family are buried in it, Yannick pays special attention to it.
However, after buying it back, Yannick did not want to be a farmer. He buried Hoffmann's ashes, gave the farm to someone else to plant, and bought a plot of land in Branknitz near the Elbe to build a new home.
Blanknitz means romantic in German and can be understood as Baisha Island, which is also a well-known affluent area of Hamburg. It is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with beautiful scenery and is facing the slowly flowing Elbe River, so the transportation is convenient.
After becoming a military supply merchant, he built two canneries in Blanknitz and signed supply agreements with many farmers in Schenefield, making him well-known in his hometown.
Kelly's husband Janssen took refuge in Yannick at this time, but unfortunately, his life was not good, and he was hit by a stray bullet in Belgium, leaving Kelly alone.
Kelly has been with Zhou Nan for almost ten years, and after getting along for so long, Zhou Nan has long treated her as his own family.
She wanted to go home this time, even if Popler and the British didn't approve of it, but Zhou Nan still insisted on coming with her.
He wants to show that he values Kelly in front of her relatives, and he wants to tell her relatives that Kelly is doing well now.
Of course, just looking at Kelly's size, I know that there are not many people who can be better than her in terms of weight alone.
In this regard, Kelly is also helpless. She is easy to gain weight, plus her skeleton is large, the thinnest time is also two hundred pounds, now life is stable, happy mood, although work every day, exercise, but still weigh more than two hundred and fifty pounds.
The convoy drove into Hoffman's farm, where the current family lived in Hoffman's former neighbors, and the farm was planted for their family.
Zhou Nan saw that the spring wheat on the farm was growing well, five or six people were working in the field, and a few children saw the convoy and ran over quickly.
Caroline had already come back once before and told Zhou Nan: "The Kemps family is not having a good time now, and if it weren't for our help, they wouldn't even be able to afford seeds." Now there is no supply of oil, and the land is all planted by hand, and the family cultivates these two hectares of land, and they are exhausted and do not produce much. ”
At present, pesticides have not been popularized, and there are more weeds than food, and the output of food is indeed not high. Germany has been mechanized for a long time, and now it has returned to the agricultural period, and the average person can't stand it.
Putting down the tail plate of the truck, Zhou Nan helped Kelly get out of the car and asked, "Kelly, do you want to go back to your house now, or wait a while?" ”
Kelly couldn't contain her excitement for a long time, looked at the Kemps family who were walking this way and said, "I'll say hello to Kemps and them, and I'll go home and have a look." ”
"Okay, then I'll accompany you."
Zhou Nan got into the truck and took down the gifts he had prepared for the Kemps family, which were not anything of value, but some food. In this day and age, there is no more expensive gift than food.
Several children were excited to see the flour and cooking oil brought down from the car, as well as some sweets and chocolates.
Kemps, who was already in his sixties, was dressed in rags and wore a straw hat, and when he saw Zhou Nan, he excitedly exclaimed, "Jonas, it's you back!" Oh my God, I just listened to your news on the radio! You're a real big guy now! ”