Four hundred and sixtieth chapters chatting after dinner
"Dumpling, let's leave here first. They will keep arguing until dinner. They will stop arguing when they are hungry." Pan looked at the two brothers who were like father and son in front of him, butting head to head and spitting at each other. He felt helpless.
He gave Hong Tao a hand.
"Are they like this every day?" Hong Tao and Wang Jian followed Pan back to the living room of the small building from the basement. Hong Tao sympathized with this beautiful woman. The two brothers were a pair of live treasures. When their temper got stronger, they would not care about the people around them at all.
There are no outsiders, let alone this lady or sister-in-law.
"Anyway, as long as we get together, not quarreling is like not eating. Especially that Schweider. He is 41 years old and is not married. He takes his brother around all day long to go fishing and hunting. Marx trusts him very much. I
I’m so annoyed! Can you believe it? It’s good
I spent several Christmases alone at home, and the two brothers went fishing in the Mediterranean!" Pan spoke of his brother-in-law with gritted teeth and hatred, but in Hong Tao's view, these two brothers had something to do with each other.
One by one, no one can judge anyone else.
"Then you help me contact the fishing competition? You must be annoyed by fishing, right?" Hong Tao felt a little strange. Normally, this Pan should hate fishing.
"I don't hate fishing. I used to go fishing with Marx. What I hate is Schweider. He took Marx away from me." Pan finally told the truth. It turned out that this woman was also a resentful woman.
No wonder she went to Africa to play on her own and hooked up with young men like Hong Tao. It turned out that her husband was occupied by his brother-in-law.
"They are very different in age, right? Are they brothers?" Hong Tao began to ask about the gossip in his heart.
"Well, brothers. It's because they are so many years apart that Marx always protects his younger brother. But he seems to have forgotten that Schweder is 41 years old and not 14 years old!" Pan continued to spit out his praise for Schweder.
resentment.
"Does Schweide not have his own home? Does he live with his brother?" Hong Tao continued to ask.
"His home is in Bremen, but he spends no more than a week at home every year. The rest of the time he basically lives here with Marx."
"Are these the ancestors of Marx? Was Marx a nobleman?" Hong Tao asked Pan, pointing to several portraits hanging on the wall.
"You don't know that the fiefdom of Marx's ancestors now belongs to Poland. When I married him, I was still a little girl, just 23 years old. At that time, I was doing a program in Oslo and met Marx. As a result, two years later
We got married after that. If I had known that there was another Schweder at that time, even if he was William II, I would not have married him!" Pan was reminded of the past by Hong Tao, but as he spoke, he turned back.
Schweder here.
"Oh, Schwede was living here when you got married? He has been living here for a long time, right?" Hong Tao seemed to be chatting casually.
"It must have been 7 years. He came here in the third year after we got married, and he never left again!" It is said that a woman's IQ will drop when she is in love. In fact, a woman's IQ is not high when she is angry.
"Hahahahaha, you should be 32 or 33 years old this year. What, you were tricked by me, right?" Hong Tao suddenly laughed. It turned out that he spent so much spitting and chatting with Pan Lai for this purpose.
"Well, you are even more annoying than Schweder. Don't let me accompany you to visit Hamburg. This is your punishment for this behavior!" Pan finally woke up and was stunned for a few seconds.
, and returned to her original appearance.
"I said, aren't you making trouble for yourself? How much have people interfered with your business? Is it okay now? The free tour guide blew it. Come with me. I still want to go to the city!" Replied
In the room on the second floor, Wang Jian began to complain about Hong Tao's unreliability.
"Don't worry. That's what she said. You should take it seriously. Go back to your room and take a shower. I'm really hungry. I don't know what to eat for dinner. By the way, put on your pants and shirt. These foreigners
Dining is more important than getting married." Hong Tao didn't care about Pan's attitude. He could tell at a glance whether he was really angry or not. After all, he had been fighting with his wife for half his life in his previous life.
Sure enough, as Pan predicted, Marx and Schweder did not appear in the living room until before dinner. At this time, the brothers seemed not to have quarreled at all. They sat on the sofa and began to chat calmly with Hong Tao and Wang Jian about fishing and
Hunting in Africa.
What I had for dinner was standard German food, which tasted much better than Pan’s, but the calories and fat were a bit high. The only meat was intestines, or a big ball of mashed potatoes mixed with butter and a pig’s trotter.
I felt a little mushy while eating.
According to the standards of Chinese food, the color is not good, the aroma is a little bit, and the taste is acceptable, which is about this level. However, it is okay to eat this kind of food for one or two meals. If I eat Hong Tao every day, I feel that my stomach will not be able to digest it.
With so much meat, I'm afraid I'll make my stomach upset.
Different from our Chinese eating habits, Germans are very quiet at the dinner table. No, not very quiet at the dinner table, but very quiet while eating. Once the food plates are removed and replaced with sweets and after-dinner drinks, then
It's time to chat. At this time, you can drink if you want to drink, smoke if you want to smoke, and it doesn't matter how loud you talk.
Through two hours of chatting after the meal, Hong Tao roughly clarified the two questions he wanted to know most. One was the general background of Marx's family.
It seems that the ancestors of the Marx brothers were German aristocrats with fiefdoms. However, with the end of World War II, their family fiefdoms were transferred to Poland. But aristocrats are aristocrats after all. Although Germany was defeated, they
The family did not go bankrupt. Instead, they regained their strength after the war, and the industry they were engaged in was news publishing. It is said that their father was a media tycoon in Hamburg and was a leading figure in the news media industry in Germany and Europe.
A tiger father and a dog son! These two brothers are completely prodigal. They have no interest in their father's business at all. Marx studied medicine, and he didn't treat people. He sat in the laboratory and studied viruses and bacteria.
The kind; and his brother, who is more than ten years younger than him, is even more outrageous. He is actually a science student and a computer engineer. Hong Tao finally understands why their father died when he was less than 60 years old. It is estimated that
It just made these two brothers so angry.
Although his father died, his inheritance was not wasted at all. It was all left to the two brothers, but it was all left in the form of real estate and stocks. As for his father's property, the two brothers did not inherit it at all.
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In fact, it cannot be said that they are from the rich generation. They have their own jobs, and they really are not just lying on the graves of their fathers, eating and waiting to die. Especially the most hateful person in Pan's eyes, Schweder, seems to be in computer software.
He is also very talented and has established his own software company.
As for Pan, Hong Tao finally got some information from Marx and Schweder. She is from Norway. She used to be a TV host or reporter. It is said that she was famous in Oslo for a while. But I don’t know.
It was a mistake. When she was 23 years old, she suddenly married Marx, an old man who was nearly 50 years old, and left her job ever since.
According to Marx, although Pan no longer works in the TV station, she is not idle. She loves investment and charity. She has made a lot of investments with Marx's money and founded 2 funds. She is having a good time.
So, she is a strong woman.
"She doesn't love investment or charity. She can't get your care and can only find other places to support her." Hong Tao silently gave Pan a position in his heart. She is really a resentful woman, but she doesn't know.
Why did she think of marrying such an old man in the first place? Could it be that she fell in love with Marx's big beard?
The second is the specific rules of this European Carp Fishing Competition.
This carp fishing competition is actually two independent events. The first competition is organized by the European Fishing Sports Federation. Participants register in teams. Each team is limited to 5 people, 4 main fishermen and one substitute fisherman.
Only 2 people can compete at the same time. The competition lasts for 72 hours. The final score is based on the weight of the carp caught by each team. Other fish are not included in the score.
The second competition is the International Carp Fishing Competition organized by the International Federation of Fishing Sports. Participants must register as a team representing the country. Each team has a maximum of 6 people and a minimum of 4 people. The duration of the competition is also 72 hours, basically
The rules are similar to the previous game.
However, this international carp fishing competition involves an issue, and that is Hong Tao's qualifications. According to the rules and regulations of the International Fishing Sports Federation, contestants must be members of national or regional fishing organizations, and must be selected by the country's fishing organization.
Only recommendations to the International Sport Fishing Federation can be made.
To put it bluntly, only members of the International Fishing Sports Federation can send people to participate in this competition, and the players sent must be members of the fishing organizations of the member countries of the Federation. In other words, Hong Tao must be a member of the China Fishing Association, and also
You must be recommended by the Fishing Association to participate in this event. Because the event is not participated in the name of a team or individual, but in the name of a country and region.
Regarding the issue of the Chinese Fishing Association, Hong Tao knew a little bit about it in his previous life. It is basically the same in nature as another organization called a non-governmental association, that organization is the Chinese Football Association. The same goes for their superior authorities, which are all under the jurisdiction of the Sports Association.
Bureau management, and they are also responsible for the same thing, rating members within the association.
People who are not involved in fishing may not know that fishing also has professional athletes, and it is divided into the same levels as other sports, such as master athletes, first-level athletes, second-level athletes, etc. Because of fishing,
In particular, the sport of competitive fishing is unfamiliar to ordinary people and is not very popular, so it has become a shady matter to rate athletes within the association.
