Chapter 852 The Old Lady Selling Gooseberries
Norderney was originally a little-known tourist island. There is a chain of islands in the Heligoland Bay. There are many places like Norderney. Norderney has no competitive advantage compared with other islands.
But since Xiao Peng and his crew arrived, the island's popularity has soared, with a large influx of tourists. This has brought a lot of income to the residents of Norderney Island. Now, Xiao Peng's status on Norderney Island is incredibly high! Including the crew on their ship, he is a respected figure wherever he goes.
There are also a large number of Chinese tourists here, so Asian faces are really common here. Some smart Chinese people come here directly to start small businesses. Xiao Peng ate authentic candied haws here.
"I swear to God! I really didn't like eating this when I was in China!" Xiao Peng said to Tildy beside him, "But now, when I eat candied haws, I feel so happy."
Tiltie said, "Oh my God, how could you not want to eat something this delicious? The sour and sweet taste is so good! It's a pity that Abby went back to France. I really should have sent some to her."
Abby returned to her old hospital in France and resumed her job.
Xiao Peng felt that she didn't need to go back. According to him, the three of them didn't need to work at all. However, Marin and the other two disagreed. Marin was busy filming, and Abby also had to go back to work. Even Tildy was holding a computer and wearing headphones every day, insisting on making a song like "Freaks" that would make people explode in the first second.
Many girls saw the life of a wealthy wife who didn't work and spent her money freely as she pleased, a life they despised. Especially Malin. Did she like making movies? Xiao Peng could easily invest in her and find any celebrity to co-star with her.
This kind of situation is very common in China.
Just like the actress nicknamed "The Flower of Fortune," who dropped out of dance school to enter the entertainment industry, her debut was a peak: music videos were directed by the best directors, and EPs were produced by the most successful musicians. Although no one knows who her financial backers are, she has starred with various movie stars, even landing a Hollywood blockbuster, playing the second female lead in the "Monster Universe" IP "King Kong"! Even Hollywood awarded her the unprecedented "Hollywood International Award," which will never be repeated.
Why is this so? Ultimately, the entertainment industry is a place where capital has the final say.
Xiao Peng now has so much money he's too lazy to count it, and wants to invest in some big production for Ma Lin. But when Ma Lin finds out, she's furious and in tears, saying Xiao Peng is "insulting her." Xiao Peng doesn't know what to say.
It can be said that this is the difference between pastoral women's boxing and real women's boxing.
Abby brought Alfred back to France, and Xiao Peng's house also needed someone to take care of it.
Xiao Peng suddenly remembered a joke: When a young couple got married, their dream was to live in a mansion and spend their free time on the balcony with their dog, basking in the sun and drinking coffee. After years of hard work, they finally bought a mansion and a dog, but they couldn't stop working hard, so they ended up having to be his nanny, who would spend every day on the balcony with the dog, basking in the sun and drinking coffee.
The result of a lifetime of hard work is that the nanny lives the life that the young couple wants. Thinking about it, this is really a bit of black humor.
And Tilti is also going back.
Her memory has been restored, or it is possible that she did not lose her memory at all and was just trying to escape. No one can figure this out, but the result is that she has turned back into Tilti.
Although Xiao Peng never mentioned anything, there were some things that Tilti still had to face, such as her family.
Hulmerson-Someret contacted Xiao Peng and said that he hoped Tilti would go back, and Tilti agreed. Before going back, he and Xiao Peng spent some time alone on the island.
However, this world of two people is often disturbed.
"Mr. Xiao! I have some gooseberries that I grew myself. Would you like to try some? I grew them myself." An old lady next to him greeted Xiao Peng with a plastic bowl filled with fruits that looked like big cherries.
Xiao Peng said after hearing this, "Just call me Xiao. I really can't stand you calling me that. What do you call gooseberries here? In our country, they're called 'lantern fruits'. I think they should be called currants, right? But ours is yellow, and here they're more like cherries. How much is one?"
This gooseberry was a common wild fruit in Xiao Peng's hometown when he was little. It looked quite interesting: the fruit had a skin on the outside and the fruit inside, resembling a lantern, hence the name "lantern gooseberry." Back then, it was a common wild fruit, rarely seen except by children. Now, however, it's been dubbed "Colombian Dragon Fruit" and commands a high price.
This fruit is not very popular in China, but it is really popular in Germany. Germans like to eat jam, and gooseberries are a very good raw material for making jam. In addition, it is also a fruit they like to eat.
"It's free!" the old lady said, "Mr. Xiao, look!"
She pointed to the wall behind her, where there was a whiteboard with a message written in marker: Chinese tourists can taste the gooseberries grown by themselves for free.
You can tell she put a lot of effort into it, as the words written on it are in Chinese characters.
Xiao Peng laughed and said, "You're spending too much, aren't you?"
The old lady smiled and said, "We know how to be grateful. Thanks to your publicity, our business has improved. We now have three times as many tourists as we did during the same period last year! Although Johannes has done a good job, it all comes down to your influence on our island. Just ask who on the island doesn't like you?"
Xiao Peng laughed and said, "Bach-Hoffmann definitely doesn't like me."
He was talking about the former alderman of Norderney, who had driven him to bankruptcy and imprisonment.
The old lady frowned upon hearing this. "Don't mention that name! It's a disgrace to us! Look at what he's brought us after being our alderman for so long. We've seen more changes here in less than a year than we did in the past twenty! Xiao, you have property here too, so don't leave! We'll be better off with you here! Oh, and we can elect you as alderman!"
Xiao Peng was very upset: "I'm not German, how could they choose me?"
"Then just act like a German!" the old lady squinted her eyes and said, "We all like you very much! Come, try some of my organic gooseberries that I grow myself with your beautiful girlfriend."
After she finished speaking, she stuffed the bowl of gooseberries into Xiao Peng's hands and said, "By the way, can you teach us a way? What should we do if we encounter tourists pretending to be Chinese?"
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