(a)

"Patton, sometimes I really envy you, you can always do what you like......" After a long time, Heidi gently raised her head in Chen Zhuo's arms, looked into Chen Zhuo's eyes, and said faintly.

Chen Zhuo gently rubbed Heidi's little face with his hand, and asked, "Heidi, you said last night that your future was changed, what happened......

In an instant, tears fell from Heidi's eyes again, and Chen Zhuo's chest was already soaked.

Holding Chen Zhuo tightly, Heidi buried her face in Chen Zhuo's arms and said, "Patton, ...... in the future." I may never be able to see you again......"

Forehead...... Is it that serious? Chen Zhuo's heart also seemed to be pulled by something at this moment.

Holding Chen Zhuo tightly, as if he couldn't catch it anymore as soon as he let go, Heidi began to tell while shedding tears.

(b)

The Albrecht family, like Germany today, was re-established from the ashes of World War II.

Heidi's account is more detailed, the two founders of the Aldi Group whose father was a coal miner in the Ruhr region, who later suffered from lung disease and struggled to make ends meet, and they are currently running a bakery in the workers' district of their city of Essen, the younger son Otai is an apprentice in his current shop after graduating from high school, and the eldest son Karl is sent to work as a partner in a well-known dessert shop in Essen.

After the war, the brothers were lucky to return to their hometown, fortunately, their mother's small shop is still there, although it is still maintained, in 1948, the brothers officially took over their mother's small shop, and all the shops in that era had a point system, that is, customers accumulated a few points for each purchase, and got a discount at the end of the year. But the Albrecht thought that Weishenme didn't give the discount to the customer right away. That is: to sell cheaply.

With this in mind, the two soon expanded their food store, and by 1950 the brothers had formed a small chain of 13 stores in Essen, and since then they have expanded rapidly with the weapon of "quality standards" and "cheapness", and by 1960 Aldi had 300 branches in Germany.

From this time on, the Aldi Group gradually changed the food supermarket into a comprehensive supermarket, and at this time, the brothers also handed over the management to Dieter, a doctor of economics. Brandes, especially after the kidnapping in the '70s, the two brothers lived in seclusion, focusing on the business and family legacy.

(c)

This is not only the case in the business operations of the Aldi Group, but also in the management of the Albrecht family, which was established by the two brothers, and there are also strict standards, systems, and procedures, so to speak, that their descendants are arranged to have a destiny from birth, and they are not allowed to change it without permission.

In this empire that has created business miracles, it has developed from the entrepreneurial stage of the two brothers to the third and fourth generations of descendants to preside over the operation and management, in the old Chinese saying that "the rich are not more than three generations", basically after the third generation, it can still grow steadily and continuously, it is already "from the rich to the noble", in a certain sense has become a "noble". The European proverb says, "A thousand millionaires can be made overnight, but it takes three generations to make a nobleman", which is what it means.

According to the rules set by the two brothers, the descendants of the elder brother Carl will be arranged into the "Procurement Supervision Committee" to supervise the product procurement process, and the descendants of the younger brother Outai will be arranged into the "Expansion Supervision Committee" to supervise the branch site selection process, all of which only supervise whether the procedures are reasonable and do not directly interfere with specific affairs, and the specific affairs are implemented by the professional team in accordance with the procedures and systems.

The Aldi Foundation, the highest authority of the family, appoints a "prince" from among the descendants of the supreme authority of the family to be the legal heir of the entire family with the power over the strategic direction of the group......

The motto of the Albrecht family pointed out that Rome was not built in a day, nor was it built in a generation, and many things in this shijie require the efforts of several generations, and the descendants born in this family need to carry forward the family and the estate, which is the mission and the will of God.

These...... Chen Zhuo was silent, in his motherland, there is no family, they have all been destroyed, and they have been destroyed more than once, the 5000-year-old civilization is now full of losers and "rich second generations", whether it can be passed on to three generations is not necessarily, a certain family in Hong Kong has been "divided" by the third generation and there is no "development" at all.

As for the inheritance...... No, the genes inherited and precipitated have disappeared in the rounds of demolitions, and the whole society is full of mercenary and quick success, just like the emotion of a certain dynasty in history when it reaches a certain stage, always saying that etiquette and music have collapsed.

(iv)

The Albrecht family does not rise and fall, the elder brother Karl has two sons, the younger brother Otai has a son, the second generation in accordance with the family procedures and regulations, respectively in the "Procurement Supervision Committee" and the "Expansion Supervision Committee" inaugurated, retired after the age of 60, after the death of the shares will be divided equally among the children, the current Albrecht family The first and second generations have all retired, and the youngest of the second generation of the family is Heidi's grandfather, who is also 63 years old this year.

In the third generation, that is, Heidi's father and uncle, Carl's branch has two sons and one daughter in the third generation, and Otai's branch is still a single passer, only Heidi's father is still an only son.

In the fourth generation, that is, Heidi's generation, the fourth generation of Carl's branch has three sons and two daughters, and Heidi's father is still only Heidi's only daughter.

In Heidi's generation, according to the family regulations, there are two inheritance procedures, one is that Heidi's father chooses a fourth-generation man of the Albrecht family from Karl's branch to become the "heir" of the Otei branch, and he inherits and inherits it, and the other is that Heidi must marry a man in the fourth generation of Karl's branch, and their descendants inherit Otei's career and xiangxia continuation, so as to ensure the "purity" of the bloodline. and to avoid the loss of control of the family's wealth due to marital problems when the offspring is passed on as an only daughter......

As early as 10 years ago, the Albrecht family had discussed this issue many times, because Heidi was only 12 years old at the time, too far away from the marriage time, so it has been unresolved, Heidi's father was about 40 years old at the time, and it is very likely that there will be another man, so there is no final conclusion, so the "heir" has not been chosen.

This is what Heidi just knew. This is the price of inheritance, obedience and rebellion, in fact, are both a trade-off......

Chen Zhuo listened quietly.

(5)

The will of the great-grandfather specified that if Heidi still had no brother at the time of Heidi's grandfather's death, the fourth generation of the family would be inherited by Heidi, and Heidi's inheritance was carried out in a second way, choosing a man from her brother Karl's great-grandson, who was also the fourth generation, to marry Heidi......

When the will was announced, Heidi's entire family was present, and Heidi had no right to refute the content of the will, because it was a common thing for the whole family, Carl's three great-grandchildren were older than Heidi, and it was not yet determined who would eventually marry Heidi, but Heidi's side had to prepare first......

Heidi made clear the "moves" on her side and expressed her opposition, preferring not to have the fourth generation of the family...... But the objection is invalid, because Heidi is not only a matter of fourth-generation inheritance, she is also the two most powerful elders of the family, Otai, the "prince" of the richest man in Germany.

In other words, after Heidi officially marries according to the family procedure, she will officially become the head of the family's highest authority, the "Aldi Foundation".

After Otai's death and until Heidi's marriage, the position will be entrusted to a "committee of execution" of lawyers and the second generation of the Albrecht family, according to their agreement, Heidi's wedding should take place within the current year, so that the wishes of the head of the family can be fulfilled as soon as possible......

This is the price of inheritance, obedience and rebellion, in fact, are both a trade-off......

It's easy to say, it's always the way to point out and preach to others, but when this kind of trade-off is put on oneself and on the people related to oneself, who can really understand that feeling!

(f)

Chen Zhuo basically understood, which is why Heidi said sorry at the beginning of yesterday's phone call, because before that call, Heidi had already made the decision to say goodbye.

This relationship ended quietly before it had time to start.