Dr. de helped the poor and planted European blueberries to the West Sichuan Plateau for 15 years.

Hogel Panai and his Chengdu wife Gan Wenqing.

Hogel Panay has bred blueberries suitable for growing on the plateau.

Hogel Panay is a "clone" of high-quality plant varieties.

Side A: life

"stupid cute" doctor and wife "the cutest height difference"

In 1997, Hogel Panay was 37. That year, he made an appointment with several Japanese experts to visit Sichuan. This is his first visit to Sichuan.

When the plane landed steadily and walked out of the airport, he saw a girl with long hair. The girl was stunned for a few seconds and then greeted him. She had come to pick her up at the airport. Hogel Panai did not know at that time that the girl named Yu Wenqing was temporarily brought to the rescue. Her classmate needed a Japanese interpreter at that time, and Yu Wenqing, a native of Leshan, had just returned from eight years of study and work in Japan. Yu Wenqing went to the airport. But when he saw the tall German Hogel Panay, he thought he had picked up the wrong person.

Before the Japanese expert's plane arrived, Yu Wenqing, as the host, showed the German guest around. Then they went to Wenshu Academy. Walking into the gate and walking not far inside, they came to a beautiful covered bridge and a small pavilion. At this time, there were many people sitting on both sides of the covered bridge, chatting.

Suddenly, an old man came forward, said hello to Hogel Panay in English, and then accosted him:

"are you two a couple?" The old man said. "No, we just met." Gan Wenqing was a little embarrassed and smiled.

"does this gentleman live in your house?" The old man continued to tease. "Old man, we just met." …… The old man's words really came true later. Six months later, the big European man married the cute girl from Sichuan, 1.88 meters and 1.53 meters, and they had the most popular "cutest height difference". In their hearts, the strange old man is the one who leads the strings. In that small pavilion at that time, they went to the pavilion many times and always wanted to meet the old man again and tell him that his inadvertent words had now come true.

"I believe it's fate!" Gan Wenqing said that after living abroad for many years, she didn't know any Germans. Now, they have two lovely daughters, both of whom are studying in Chengdu. However, as the two often work outside, they do not spend much time with their daughters.

The family mainly speaks German and English at home, because Hogel Panay still can't speak Chinese. Unlike her husband, Gan Wenqing has a gift for language. She is proficient in Chinese, English and Japanese, and speaks German very fluently after marrying Hogel Panay. She is not only his wife, but also his working partner and communicator in China.

The "stereotyped" doctor does not turn on his cell phone.

Hogel Panay often says that he is a "fiery ear". Except for work-related matters, everything has to go back to consult the family's "leader"-Gan Wenqing.

In fact, Hogel Panay did not let his wife worry less, he is "lack of roots" in many other things in daily life, this kind of "cute" often makes Gan Wenqing laugh or cry.

Last week, they drove to school to pick up their daughter. Gan Wenqing asked her husband to help his daughter with her luggage and waited in the car. Hogel Panay got out of the car in a panic. After a long time, the daughter called her mother and complained, "is Dad lost again?" Although Hogel Panay has a strong sense of direction in the wild, he always gets lost in the city.

"Why don't you bring your cell phone? your daughter can't even find you!" Gan Wenqing complained about her husband.

"I brought it." Looking innocent, Hogel Panay took his cell phone out of his pocket and found that he had forgotten to turn it on.

Gan Wenqing said that the husband rejected the mobile phone in his heart, and even if he brought his own old flip phone, he always turned it off, and even now he would not use it to reply to text messages. He thinks the phone is for finding people, and only turns it on when he needs to find someone else. As soon as the matter was over, he turned off his cell phone again.

Hogel Panay's jeans pocket was so bulging that Gan Wen Qing said with a smile that it was his treasure bag. The wife pointed to the trouser pocket, Hogel Panet smiled tacitly, stood up and obediently took out one thing at a time: an old flip phone, a box of hand cream, a set of keys, a wallet, a small camera, a pair of rubber gloves. He stuffed so many things into his trouser pocket.

The strangest thing should be rubber gloves. Few people carry rubber gloves with them. Hogel Panay's hands have been corroded and sensitive. Even on the side of the road, whenever Hogel Panay comes across something he is interested in, he will immediately put on gloves and study it.

The most precious object is the camera. He bought it from Japan last week and carefully protected it with a shell. He often uses a camera because of the need of his work. He looked at the reporter's camera lens and could identify the model immediately as an "expert".

The "rigorous" doctor should also use cups when cooking.

Stephanie, a 12-year-old daughter, wants to be a food critic when she grows up because she thinks her father's cooking style is particularly chef-like.

Every year on Christmas Eve, Hogel Panay, who has been motionless for more than a decade, will cook two dishes for his daughter: Paella and chocolate pudding. He would let his wife leave the kitchen, carefully grind the chocolate into powder, beat the whipped cream, and then take out a measuring cup to accurately measure the amount of ingredients needed. The whole process is like doing an experiment.

Germans are known for their rigour, and German scientists are even more rigorous. "my last name is Panay, my name is Hogel, and you can call me Dr. Panay." In order to avoid making a mistake, he wrote down his English name in the book with a pen and marked his last name and first name in Chinese. When doing the experiment, if it is the equipment he believes, he will use it even if it is expensive. Other equipment dealers say that it is useless to talk about it. He must refine any experimental data to one millimeter or one micron before he is satisfied.

Gan Wenqing is used to her husband's "rigor". Once, she made black tea for her husband and casually poured the water into a kettle to heat it. Hogel Panay came over quietly, looked at the kettle, and poured out all the water. Then he took out a new cup, accurately measured the amount of water needed, and then poured it into the kettle to reheat it.

Is such a serious scientist, only one disadvantage-love to be late. Often at the last minute, he dawdles in the lab. Come on, come on-Gan Wenqing once again urged her husband: "We agreed to leave at 4: 45, but I didn't go out until 5 o'clock." Last week, they were almost late for a party at the German Consulate General. In daily life parties, it is common for him to be ten or twenty minutes late.

Side B: work

Love in Sichuan changed his life.

During his 15-year stay, it is self-evident that Hogel Panay loves Sichuan. If nothing happens, he will live here all the time.

Love changed Hogel Panay's life. He often said that if he hadn't met Gan Wenqing, he might have gone back to Germany. If it were not for his family in Sichuan, he could not have lived here for so long. Now, after 20 years of helping each other, he is inseparable from this place. Sichuan is full of his memories. When his daughter caught a cold and had a runny nose when she was a child, he carried a bag of toilet paper in his pocket and ran behind his daughter to wipe her nose.