Chapter 463: After-dinner chat
"Dumplings, let's get out of here first, they'll be noisy until dinner, and they'll stop arguing when they're hungry." Pan looked at the two brothers in front of him, who were like father and son, spitting at each other head to head, and helplessly pulled Hong Tao.
"They do this every day?" Hong Tao and Wang Jian followed Pan from the basement back to the living room of the small building, Hong Tao was very sympathetic to this beauty, these two brothers are a pair of living treasures, and they will not care about whether there are outsiders around them at all, let alone this lady or sister-in-law.
"Anyway, as long as you get together, not quarreling is the same as not eating, especially that Schweide, he is 41 years old, he is not married, he drags his brother around fishing and hunting all day long, and Marx trusts him very much, I am annoyed to death! Can you believe that? I spent several Christmases alone at home, and the two brothers went fishing in the Mediterranean! Pan talked about his little brother-in-law, gritting his teeth with hatred, but in Hong Tao's opinion, one of the two brothers is counted as one, half a catty and eight taels, and no one can say anyone.
"Then you're still helping me contact the fishing tournament? You should be annoyed with fishing, right? Hong Tao felt a little strange, it is said that this Pan should hate fishing.
"I'm not bothered with fishing, I used to go fishing with Marx, and what I hated was Schweed, who snatched Marx away from me." Pan finally told the truth, it turned out that this was also a resentful woman, no wonder she went to Africa to play by herself, and hooked up with a young man like Hong Tao everywhere, it turned out that her husband let his brother-in-law occupy it.
"There's a lot of age difference between them, right? Is it a brother? Hong Tao began to ask the gossip in his heart.
"Well, my brother, it is because of the age difference between my brothers that Marx protects his younger brother everywhere, but he seems to have forgotten that Schweide is 41 years old instead of 14 years old!" Pan continued to vent his resentment towards Schweed.
"Doesn't Schweeder have a home of his own? He lives with his brother? Hong Tao continued to ask.
"His home is in Bremen. However, he spends no more than a week at home a year, and most of the rest of the time he lives here with Marx. ”
"Are these Marx's ancestors? Marx was an aristocrat? Hong Tao asked Pan, pointing to several portraits of people hanging on the wall.
"You don't know what to say, Marx's ancestral fief now belongs to Poland, when I first married him, I was still a little girl, just 23 years old, when I was doing a show in Oslo, I met Marx, and we got married 2 years later, if I knew that there was a Schweed. Even if he were Wilhelm II, I wouldn't marry him! Pan was reminded of the past by Hong Tao, but as he spoke, he turned back to Schweide.
"Oh, Schweed lived here when you got married? He's been living there for a long time, hasn't he? Hong Tao seems to be chatting with no one.
"It must have been seven years, and he came in the third year after we got married. And never left! "It is said that a woman's IQ should decline when she is in love, but in fact, when a woman is angry, her IQ is not high.
"Haha You should be 32 or 33 years old this year. How's it going, I've got it, right? Hong Tao suddenly laughed, it turned out that he spent so much foam to accompany Pan Lai to chat about family life, and the purpose was not here.
"Well, you're more annoying than Schweed, you don't want me to accompany you on a tour of Hamburg. This is punishment for such behavior! Pan came to her senses then, and after a few seconds, she was back to her original appearance.
"I said, aren't you making yourself awkward, how much trouble is it for you? Okay, right? Free tour guide blown. You accompany me, I still want to go around the city! Back in the room on the second floor, Wang Jian began to complain about Hong Tao's unreliability.
"Don't worry, she just said that, you take it seriously, hurry back to your room to take a shower, I'm really a little hungry, I don't know what to eat for dinner, by the way, put on your pants and shirts, these foreigners are more particular about eating than getting married." Hong Tao didn't care about Pan's attitude, he could tell at a glance whether he was really angry or false, after all, he had struggled with his wife for half his life in his previous life.
Sure enough, as Pan predicted, Marx and Schweide did not appear in the living room until before dinner, when the brothers did not seem to have quarreled at all, and sat on the sofa and began to talk calmly with Hong Tao and Wang Jian about fishing and hunting in Africa.
For dinner, I ate standard German food, which tasted much better than Pan's cooking, but the calories and fat were a bit high, except for the meat and intestines, or a large ball of mashed potatoes mixed with cream and a pig's trotters, which was a bit mushy.
If you are according to the standards of Chinese food, the color is not good, the fragrance is a little bit, and the taste is passable, and it is at this level. But it's okay to eat one or two meals of this kind of thing, if you eat it every day, Hong Tao feels that his stomach really can't digest so much meat, I'm afraid he will have a stomach.
Unlike our Chinese eating habits, Germans are very quiet at the dinner table, no, not at the dinner table, but very quiet during eating, once the meal plate is removed, replaced with sweets and after-dinner wine, then it is time to chat, at this time you drink if you want to drink, smoke if you want to smoke, it doesn't matter how loud you talk.
Through the two-hour chatter after the meal, Hong Tao roughly figured out the two questions he wanted to know the most, one was the general background of Marx's family.
The ancestors of the Marx brothers seem to be a nobleman in Germany, and they still have fiefs, but with the end of World War II, their fiefs were all assigned to Poland. However, the aristocracy is an aristocrat after all, although Germany was defeated, but their family did not go bankrupt, but recovered after the war, and engaged in the industry of journalism and publishing, it is said that their father was a media king in Hamburg, even in Germany and Europe The news media industry is also the number one person.
Tiger father and many dogs! The two brothers are all losers, they have no interest in their father's business, Marx studied medicine, and it is not the kind that treats people, but the kind that sits in the laboratory and studies viruses and bacteria; And his younger brother, who is more than ten years younger than him, is even more outrageous, he is actually a science student, a computer engineer, Hong Tao finally understood why their father died when he was less than 60 years old, it is estimated that the brothers were angry to death.
Although the father is dead, the father's inheritance has not been ruined at all, and it has been left to the two brothers, but it is all left in the form of real estate and stocks, and as for his father's property, the brothers have not inherited it at all.
In fact, it can't be said that people are rich N generations, they have their own jobs, and they are really not the masters who lie on their fathers' graves and wait for death. Especially the most hated Schweide in Pan's eyes, it seems that he is still very talented in computer software, and has set up his own software company.
As for that Pan, Hong Tao finally got a little content out of the mouths of Marx and Schweed, she is Norwegian, she used to be a TV host or reporter or something, and it is said that she was popular in Oslo for a while. However, I don't know if the tendon was wrong, she suddenly married Marx, an old man who was nearly 50 years old, at the age of 23, and left her job ever since.
Listening to Marx, although Pan no longer works in the TV station, she is not idle, she is more passionate about investment and charity, has made a lot of investments with Marx's money, and has also founded 2 funds, which is a strong woman.
"She doesn't love investment and charity, she can't get your attention, so she can only find other sustenance." Hong Tao silently gave Pan a position in his heart, this is really a resentful woman, but I don't know how she thought of marrying such an old man in the first place, could it be that she fell in love with Marx's beard?
The second is the specific rules of this European Carp Fishing Competition.
The first is organized by the European Federation of Sport Fishing, and the participants are registered as teams, with a limit of 5 players per team, with 4 main anglers and one substitute angler. Only 2 people can play at the same time, and the game time is 72 hours, and the final result is based on the weight of carp caught by each team, and other fish are not included in the score.
The second tournament is an international carp fishing competition organized by the International Federation of Sport Fishing, where participants must register as teams representing their countries, with a maximum of 6 players and a minimum of 4 players per team. The duration of the match is also 72 hours, and the basic rules are similar to the previous game.
According to the rules and regulations of the International Federation of Sport Fishing, the contestants must be members of a national or regional fishing organization, and the fishing organization of this country recommends them to the International Federation of Sport Fishing.
To put it bluntly, this tournament can only be sent by member countries of the International Federation of Sport Fishing, and the players sent must be members of the federation's member fishing organizations. In other words, Hong Tao must be a member of the China Fishing Association, and he must be recommended by the Fishing Association to participate in this event. This is because the tournament is not played in the name of teams or individuals, but in the name of countries and regions.
Regarding the issue of the China Fishing Association, Hong Tao still knew a little bit in his previous life, and it is basically the same in nature as another organization under the guise of a non-governmental association, and that organization is the Chinese Football Association. Their higher authorities are the same, they are all under the control of the Sports Bureau, and they are all responsible for the same thing, rating the members of the association.
People who are not exposed to fishing may not know that fishing also has professional athletes, and it is divided into the same level as other sports, such as athletes, first-class athletes, second-class athletes, and so on. Because fishing, especially competitive fishing, is very new to ordinary people and is not very popular, it has become a big shady thing to rate athletes in the association. (To be continued......)