Chapter 41: Registration
The Mingyue of the Song Dynasty http://www./0_1/ The latest work of Xiangnan Xiaoxiaosheng! The sunlight shines in from the window, and the windowsill is full of colorful flowers, including a rare pot of yellow roses. This pot of blooming roses also attracted Zhou Nan's eyes, and when he was bored, he carefully admired the pot of flowers.
John lay docilely at Zhou Nan's feet, enjoying Zhou Nan's palm touching, as if he was asleep.
Kelly was a little nervous, afraid that the application would not be passed this time. However, with Father Buffanener's guarantee, if it could not be passed, there were also Ingelberg willing to accept them, so the nervousness was limited.
Only Audrey was like a criticized student sitting in front of the teacher, staring at the Madame Digner from time to time, and dodging away like a deer.
Zhou Nan felt a little funny, but she had experienced too little. She held her hand and signaled her to see the flowers on the balcony. The beautiful flowers could relieve the tension. Audrey looked at the flowers, then looked at Zhou Nan's face, giving him a sweet smile.
Madame Digner finally raised her head from the information in her hand. In fact, she had been secretly observing Zhou Nan. She had rarely seen Eastern men. In her impression, she thought they would be as vulgar as advertised in the media.
But the young oriental man, or boy in front of him, was full of indifference and elegance, and had no braids. Perhaps this was related to him being an artist and being very wealthy.
"Mr. Jonas Hoffman, I have read your profile in detail and read Mr. Sesquena's comments to you. To be honest, talents like you have always been very popular among all walks of life in Switzerland. However, there are some places here that we need to verify in person, and some unclear areas still need your answers."
Zhou Nan nodded and said, "This is what it should be, and I have an obligation to satisfy any of your questions."
When she didn't laugh, Madame Digner looked a little serious, but when she smiled, she looked a little scary. However, her attitude was very sincere, which made Zhou Nan not feel any malice or repulsion.
Compared to the cold and somewhat repulsive old man, her attitude is already very good.
She sorted out the information, divided it into two parts and held it in her hands, then stood up and said, "We need to discuss your application. It takes about an hour, so it is not enough to hold a hearing in the morning. You can stroll around the streets, and there are several restaurants open near the railway station, where you can have lunch. Then at 1:30 pm, a hearing will be held for you. Please prepare it. In addition to asking you some questions, we will also listen to your music level with your own ears. This is related to whether your application can be approved, so please be careful."
"Thank you, madam. This arrangement is very reasonable, and I will prepare it carefully." Zhou Nan stood up and saluted her slightly and said, "I wish you a wonderful day."
Audrey and Kelly nodded to her crampedly, followed Zhou Nan out of the city hall building in her sight.
Although it is August, the temperature in Lucerne is only over twenty years, no more than twenty-five degrees, which is very pleasant. I bought a few breads at the train station, each of them drank another bowl of vegetable soup, and after lunch, they took a walk to the lake in Lucerne.
There were many white geese swimming in the lakes in later generations, but in this era, there was no one. The war caused almost no tourists and no cruise ships to start, only the birds that flew occasionally, splashing layers of ripples on the lake surface.
After spending a pleasant noon by the lake, Zhou Nan and the others came to the city hall again.
In Europe, Germany and Switzerland are countries that pay great attention to the concept of time. It is wrong not to say that you are late for a booking time.
This has been clearly stated in the Swiss registration documents. During this period, the three of them have also learned about the customs and customs of Switzerland in detail. Zhou Nan believes that no matter how rare the questions they ask, he can answer them.
This time, the old man guarding the gate took them to a reception room at the entrance of the stairs on the second floor without even asking Zhou Nan and the others, and asked them to sit down in front of a long table.
At 1:30, a large group of people came in from outside the door, which surprised Zhou Nan and the two women and stood up.
Madame Digner asked Zhou Nan and the others to sit down again, and focused on introducing two men in their fifties and sixties and a woman in her early thirties sitting at the table.
The two men are Lucerne's Speaker Hartmann, and the other is Werner of the Ministry of National Defense and Civil Defense Sports. He is a federal official, not counting local officials in Lucerne. In Lucerne, most of the officials are local officials in state or municipalities, and there are no more than thirty federal officials.
This is still a big state. For example, the Upper Walden Peninsula belongs to Ingelburg, there are only five federal officials in the entire state, which makes people wonder what role the state can play in managing a province with five officials.
Another woman's surname is Korser, she is a staff member of the state's Interior Department, belongs to Digneer's colleague, and is also the specific undertaker of Zhou Nan's re-registration. If Zhou Nan succeeds in re-registration, she will have to deal with her.
As for the other large group of people, most of them are women, ranging from teenage girls to white-haired old ladies in their seventies or eighties. They are representatives of citizens.
The hearing was chaired by Digne, who first introduced everyone's responsibilities. Speaker Hartmann belonged to the state government and came with only one ear, but his opinion had the right to veto.
Werner is an official representing the federal government and will mainly ask Zhou Nan about military service.
As for the group of public opinion representatives, they voted to accept Zhou Nan and the others by observing Zhou Nan and the others to register, which was a bit like a court jury.
First, Werner asked Zhou Nan about his willingness to serve in the military, including whether he had any diseases, whether he had any special demands during his service, and what his personal expertise were.
Of course, Zhou Nan was in good health. The only injury on his body was the explosion he suffered in the Netherlands two months ago, and it did not affect his health. So in this regard, he had no problems, and he wisely did not mention any personal opinions and obeyed the arrangements.
In terms of expertise, Zhou Nan has good physical fitness. Although he has never been a soldier now, he has worked as a soldier in his other life, went to the battlefield, and received shooting training in the German military camp.
What attracted Werner's attention was John at Zhou Nan's feet. When he heard that John had received training and could cooperate with Zhou Nan's instructions to search and prevent tasks, his expression was even more satisfied.
Next was Korser's question. She had been asking about almost all her life experiences when she came to Switzerland since Zhou Nan was born. Especially at some turning points, she paid more attention and recorded them all in her notebook.
Like Zhou Nan owns 20% of the shares in the Hoffman family, she asked in detail. Of course, Zhou Nan would not say that the money was sold by his father who killed the Japanese and exchanged for the antiques he stolen, but that they were left in the Taoist temple where his father had been.
This kind of inquiry was much more detailed than Sesconer asked at the time, and even the experience of his meeting with Audrey was very interested, which also made the public opinion representatives very interested. No matter which country, women, no matter how old they are, they all seem to be the same gossip.
Regarding the transfer of Yannik's military supply business and the investment in Bayer Pharmaceuticals, the other party also asked in detail, and even the mentality of transfer should be asked clearly.
Finally, she asked in detail where Zhou Nan wanted to live in Lucerne, what requirements were for housing, what requirements were for the surrounding environment, and what plans were for the future.
Zhou Nan also clearly answered this point, hoping that there would be a small farm so that Kelly would not be idle and not too far from middle school, so that Audrey would continue to go to school.
As for himself, after serving in the military, he should mainly make a living by writing and music.
Next, the public opinion representatives began to ask, and their questions were rather strange. They asked Zhou Nan if he minded his neighbors raising cats? What are his hobbies? What is his belief? When he heard that it was Taoism, he asked about some of the main ideas of Taoism.
There are many questions, and some people ask him if he can swim, ski, or exercise? Why do he like girls like Audrey? Some people even ask him weirdly if he eats dog meat? Why only one dog is raised, what should John's partner do?
Fortunately, these questions are not difficult to answer, so Zhou Nan also patiently answered them one by one.
Later, they began to ask Audrey and Kelly some questions, but Swiss women have relatively low status and can only be regarded as vassals of men. It was not until decades later that women had the right to vote and be elected. Because these women considered themselves vassals, the questions they asked Audrey and Kelly were relatively simple, and they did not treat them as independent individuals at all.
Zhou Nan suspected that if it weren't for the war, I'm afraid that all those who attended the hearing today might have been men. I heard that men's thoughts are relatively conservative and xenophobic. If men come, they may not have faced them so easily.
After asking Audrey and the others, he entered the stage of testing. Zhou Nan's manuscripts were not written much, and most people were not interested in those manuscripts. Only Speaker Hartman was interested and asked in detail about his creative ideas and the next direction of the book.
When he heard Zhou Nan say he wanted to write a big picture of human history analysis, his calm face was full of surprise. However, he still maintained restraint and did not directly comment on Zhou Nan, a young man, who was a little unaware of the vastness of the world.
After entering the most popular musical stage, a group of women were excited. Zhou Nan also knew that before the book was finished, the part that could truly show his "talent" was playing the bamboo flute. His playing level would directly affect whether his application could be approved, so he was calm and prepared to express himself well.
Chapter completed!