Chapter 628: The Koukou Family in Vaduz
A country without a coastline is called a landlocked country, and even if the country has a naval commander, it is still landlocked, such as Mongolia. If a country's neighbours are all landlocked, then the country is called doubly landlocked.
There are two such countries in the world, one is Uzbekistan in Asia and one is in Europe, Liechtenstein.
Liechtenstein is the sixth smallest pocket country in the world, with a land area of 160 square kilometers equivalent to a large city in China. It is also one of the most scenic and wealthy countries in the world, with a population of less than 40,000 but a per capita income of nearly $2 million, making everyone a millionaire.
Liechtenstein is nestled in the Alpine mountains of Zhōng Yāng, surrounded by two countries, Switzerland and Austria, and the whole country is like a large forest park, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and along the valleys and slopes of many classic and classical buildings.
Although the country does not share a border with Germany, its official language is German, and it has close relations with its eastern neighbor, Austria, but has declared permanent dependence on its western neighbor, Switzerland, and all Liechtenstein nationals automatically have Swiss nationality. After retaining a certain degree of autonomy in diplomacy, it was basically up to Switzerland to decide, and the country only had Jǐng and no army.
One hundred and sixty years ago, during the Austro-Prussian War, Liechtenstein organized the largest army of 80 men in the country's history in order to help Austria, which was deeply attached to the country, but the war ended as soon as the army was assembled. During the First World War, Liechtenstein organized an army of 16 people, led by members of the royal family, to join the side of the Central Powers of Austria-Hungary.
After the end of World War I, Liechtenstein, like Switzerland, declared itself a permanent neutral country.
De jure speaking, despite being a constitutional monarchy, Liechtenstein is in fact a private fief of the Liechtenstein family. The House of Liechtenstein is one of the oldest nobles in Europe, having served as an assistant to the Habsburg Empire. The current head of state of the Principality of Liechtenstein is Hans Adam II, Grand Duke of Liechtenstein.
Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein, is like a magnificent stamp falling on the upper reaches of the Rhine, quiet and elegant, not only the scenery is beautiful, but there have been no criminal cases for many years, and even small public security cases such as brawls and thefts are rare, most of the quarrels alarm Jǐng to come and check, it turns out that tourists who come here have quarrels with each other.
Vaduz is one of the world's most famous tourist destinations, and tourists who come here end up in reluctance to leave this beautiful valley town, and the citizens of Vaduz rarely move to other countries, if you can't satisfy your dream of paradise, there will be no place on earth where you are happy to live.
The family has lived in Vaduz for more than 100 years.
Zhuo Yang is speeding down the mountain highway in a car to celebrate Christmas.
Milan is about 180 kilometres from Vaduz, a two-hour drive on a high-grade road in good condition and sparsely trafficked. It can take three hours or more to swallow up the road, as the scenery along the way will make you slow down and revel in the beauty.
The rain seems to have stopped, a little bit, falling in the world, in the surrounding green hills, as if this thin rain is also green, softly sprinkled from the sky, quietly spreading the unknown light green, like a faint gouache. In the distance, the main peak of the ridge is covered with snow, which is the glittering beauty of the Alps.
Zhuo Yang packed up his things early in the morning from the shore of Lake Como and set off, and even the party after the team game last night just showed up and rushed back home, and every routine piano practice was also hastily over. He wants to raise Jīng and appear at the Kokou family with the best jīng god face, and Zhuo Yang attaches great importance to meeting his parents this time.
More than two months ago, Kou Kou told her parents about her love, which is completely nothing to hide, true love has always dared to face the world. She is nineteen years old, and although her parents inevitably feel a faint sense of loss after hearing about it at first glance, they are still happy to hear their daughter meet love. It's just that it turned out to be Zhuo Yang, which surprised the two of them a little.
With the consent of her parents, Chloe invited her sweetheart to spend Christmas with Vaduz. Kou has no siblings, she is the only child in the family, and she is undoubtedly the jewel of the palm. Father Frank Joseph is the heir to the Joseph family, which in the broader sense includes siblings Midel and Geofflin, as well as their mother Ophelia. In the narrow sense of the word, the Joseph family is actually only three people now: Kou Ko and her parents. But it is precisely because of this that these descendants of the Joseph family who have the blood of the common ancestor are now regarded as family members.
Although the Joseph family was not very prosperous, it was passed down from male to male for several generations. But after a hundred years of reproduction, the successive generations of female members of the family and their descendants are now distributed in many parts of Europe, and the Joseph family is very cohesive because of the suffering experience of the ancestors and the legacy of the ancestors, and the family members help each other very united.
Today, the family of three lives in an elegant jīngchi estate on the banks of the Vaduz River, which is considered the ancestral home of the Joseph family. Every few years, all the members of the family make an appointment to return and bring their husbands and children together, sometimes even in the castle of the Liechtenstein Palace.
But this year is not the Joseph family's agreed reunion, and Zhuo Yang is the only guest of the Koko's family this Christmas.
The scenery along the way is picturesque, but Zhuo Yang is not in the mood to appreciate it, he is eager to meet Kou Ko as soon as possible, and he is also very anxious to meet Ko Ko's parents. The prospective son-in-law came to visit the future father-in-law and mother-in-law for the first time, and Rao was a big heart when he saw a big scene again, and it was normal to be a little nervous.
When a beautiful medieval-style town flashes out of the valley, Zhuo Yang can be sure that this is Vaduz without looking at the road signs, because it is so beautiful and peaceful. Tiny cities are scattered at the bottom of the Rhine, and she is visible as far as the eye can see.
The drizzle had stopped, and a rainbow hung high over the entrance to the town. Below the rainbow, a smile awaits him.
Wrapped in thick winter clothes, Coco looks like a pink bear, and even the round grunting little electric bicycle she uses to travel is also pink. In the valley where the winter is clear, the coke is a warm flower.
After the intoxicated deep kiss, Zhuo Yang held Coco's cool face with distressed hands. "What a cute little electric car, it's what you call Mr. Oleander, right?" Coco likes to give her things strange names, and this small pink car Zhuo Yang has long admired the big name.
"yes, isn't it good?"
"Hahahaha, let me take control of Mr. Oleander, okay? You come to drive. ”
"Hee-hee-hee-hee, another day, Mom and Dad are still waiting. Let's go, I'll show you the way. ”
In fact, it is not far away, and the small town that can be seen from here is actually a village. A few minutes later, Zhuo Yang followed Kou to her home. One after the other, she drove directly into the courtyard, and Coco jumped into the three-story white sè palace-style building.
"Mom and Dad, Zhuo Yang is here."
By the time he had parked the car and got out, Kou was already waiting with her parents under the wide porch. Zhuo Yang didn't dare to slack off at all, and hurriedly walked a few steps to the front and greeted him with a standard chest bow.
"It's a great honor to come here! Hello, Your Excellency the Archduke of Austria. ”