The Pentium Era - South to North

Jin Lili and the others drove for more than seven hours. The highway from Haikou to Sanya had just been built. They were blocked by construction sites from time to time along the way. They could not drive fast. Fortunately, there were almost no cars on this road. When they arrived in Sanya, they drove directly Let's go to Chen Ming's hotel first. The hotel is in Dadonghai, close to the highway, so it's not difficult to find.

Mr. Xia and Chen Ming made an appointment to meet at the construction site. When they arrived at the gate of the Naval Yulin Base, Mr. Xia called Chen Ming. Chen Ming said that he had arrived at the construction site, so hurry up.

When they arrived at the construction site, they could not see Chen Ming.

From the outside, it seems that the main project of the hotel has been completed, but the project has obviously been suspended for a long time, and even the scaffolding outside has been dismantled. The construction company must be building scaffolding for other projects and is unwilling to add new ones, and this project, in a short time There was no hope of starting the project again, so the moso bamboo and bamboo pieces used for the scaffolding were dismantled to other places.

Mr. Xia called Chen Ming's elder brother and asked him where you were. We arrived at the construction site.

Chen Ming said that I was waiting there before you arrived, so I left beforehand. You go in and take a look first. Oh, I'm sorry, Lao Xia, my big brother is running out of battery. I'll call you later.

Mr. Xia hung up the phone, was stunned for a while, and then told Lao Bao and Jin Lili that we wouldn't wait for him anymore and we would go around on our own.

In March in Sanya, the temperature is over 30 degrees Celsius. Although it is already past four o'clock in the afternoon, the sun is still blazing.

The entire construction site was surrounded by a wall as high as one person. Only an iron gate not far away was closed. Lao Bao backed the car to the gate. The three people got out of the car. Jin Lili held an umbrella. The president and Lao Bao both wore sun hats. Through the iron gate, they saw that in the open space at the construction site, the grass was as tall as a person.

Near the gate, there was a house built with bamboo slats. There was a large vegetable patch beside the house. In the open space in front of the house, there was a clump of alfalfa and a few chickens hatching in the shade. Jin Lili said: "There are people inside. "

Mr. Xia grabbed the iron grille and shook the iron door. After a while, an old man walked out of the small house, holding a cattail leaf fan in his hand. He stood at the door of the small house and looked alertly. Watching them.

"Uncle, open the door." Jin Lili called.

The old man raised his cattail leaf fan and waved it twice to signal them to go away, then turned around and returned to the house.

Mr. Xia told Lao Bao to go to the car to get a pack of cigarettes, and Lao Bao turned around and left.

Mr. Xia grabbed the iron fence and continued to shake it. The old man walked to the door again, a little sullenly. Jin Lili said, "Uncle, Chen Ming asked us to come here. Please open the door."

"There's no one here," the old man said.

"We know there is no one." Jin Lili said, "We are not here to see anyone, we are here to see the house. We made an appointment with Chen Ming, and he asked us to come."

The old man finally left his house and walked towards the door.

"Who did you say asked you to come?" the old man asked.

"Chen Ming, Mr. Chen." Jin Lili said.

"Which Mr. Chen?"

"The owner of this hotel."

"That person? I haven't seen that person for more than half a year, and my son is also looking for him." The old man said.

"Uncle, who is your son?" Mr. Xia asked.

"The person who built this house, the person you are talking about, owed money to my son and disappeared. There is no other way. My son asked me to guard this broken house here."

"That's not right. Didn't Mr. Chen say he was here in front of me?" Jin Lili asked strangely.

"If he gets here, I will hold him tight until my son comes. How can I let him go?" the old man said angrily.

Jin Lili wanted to say something more, but Mr. Xia touched her, and Jin Lili shut up. Mr. Xia already understood what was going on.

Old Bao came back and handed the cigarette in his hand to Mr. Xia. Mr. Xia handed the cigarette to the old man through the iron fence. The old man did not accept it and shrank back. Mr. Xia said: "Uncle, please open the door, and we will go in and take a look." Look at this house, we are planning to buy this house, if this house is sold, won’t your son have the money?”

"That's right, uncle, let's take a look and leave." Jin Lili said, wiping the sweat from her forehead with her hands.

When the old man heard what they said and saw that they were driving a car again and had kind faces, they didn't look like bad people. He took off the key from his waist, opened the iron gate and let them in. Mr. Xia took the package The cigarette was handed to the old man, but the old man refused. Mr. Xia forced it on him and he accepted it.

Mr. Xia pointed inside and said to the old man, "Let's take a look."

The old man smiled and said, there is nothing valuable, you can just look at it.

He walked back to the small house, took a stool and sat at the door of the small house. The three of them, Mr. Xia, braved the scorching sun and walked towards the door of the hotel along a vaguely distinguishable path in the grass.

They stood on the concrete platform at the entrance of the hotel, turned around and looked outside, with a panoramic view of the blue-green sea. To their left, there were two hotels that had opened, but it was obvious that the business was not very good. The parking lot at the door , there were only a few sparse cars, and there was no airport in Sanya at that time. People who came to Sanya had to go to Haicheng first, and then take a bus or drive there.

To their right, there are three hotels. Like Chen Ming's hotel, they are also in unfinished condition.

Where the hotel extends to the beach, there is a fence separated by moso bamboo pieces. The fence should have been the swimming pool, but now it is a big pit.

Mr. Xia looked at the endless sea and couldn't help but sigh, this place is a good place, but he doesn't know what will happen to Sanya in the future?

"It's difficult to see now," Lao Bao said. "Not many people come to Sanya. I asked several hotels and the occupancy rate is quite poor. The annual average is less than 30%."

"Isn't it said that Yalong Bay will be developed?" Mr. Xia asked.

"Who knows, it was said that it was going to be developed, but then nothing happened again. The Yalong Bay Development Company didn't accomplish anything, but they kept changing people." Lao Bao said.

"No wonder Chen Ming can't handle it," Jin Lili said.

"There is no other way, we have to bite the bullet and go for it." Mr. Xia's heart was already half cold when he saw the scene in front of him. He felt that if he wanted to open a hotel in Sanya, he would definitely lose money. Fortunately, he still had a way out.

Their investors are companies with Chinese prefixes in Beijing. The main reason why Mr. Xia was able to impress them to continue investing this time is that Mr. Xia told them that it is still below freezing in Beijing and they have to wear coats and cotton trousers, but the sun is already shining brightly in Sanya. , just wear shorts, T-shirt and slippers.

After the hotel is completed, it can not only be used for winter training of enterprises, but also arrange for employees to take turns to go to the south to recuperate and eat seafood.

Several leaders of the investor had never been to Sanya. Mr. Xia pointed it to them on the map, and they realized where Sanya was. They also felt that training and recuperation were indispensable for their company, and they visited Sanya every year. It's a huge expense. If you have such a base in the south, you can keep the wealth from going to other people's fields.

For Mr. Xia and others, even if there is no customer source, even the investors themselves, they can guarantee the basic housing rate.

What's more, their main purpose is not to rely on the profit of the hotel, but to constantly fish for money during the construction process. In the process, they can line their own pockets. If it doesn't work after it is completed, they will throw the hotel to They are.

They climbed the stairs and took a look upstairs. The hotel was not small in size, with more than two hundred rooms and an area of ​​thirty-five acres.

After the investors paid out the money, they were eager to come to Sanya. Mr. Xia kept reassuring him that before the project was under the name of their Bada Company, he certainly could not let them fly to Hainan and meet Chen Ming directly. .

Mr. Xia roughly discussed an intention with Chen Ming yesterday, but judging from the actual situation today, the situation here is much more complicated than what Chen Ming told himself yesterday afternoon.

"This Chen Ming seems to have been Wang Xiaoer for a long time." Lao Bao said.

Mr. Xia sighed and said: "There is no other way now. We can only swallow the shit. Otherwise, when the investors arrive, what will we show them? By the way, we will be in Sanya these two days. You two, you need to find out all the details here, it seems that this guy Chen Ming is dishonest."

Both Lao Bao and Jin Lili agreed.

They returned to the gate, and the old man asked them: "Look, will you buy it?"

Mr. Xia said to him: "We still need to discuss it. By the way, how much money does this place owe your son?"

"More than two million," the old man said. "For more than half a year, my son was killed by them. He was hiding in Tibet and was being collected for debt every day."

"Do you know your son's phone number?" Mr. Xia asked.

"I don't know. I know what his phone number is for. There is no phone here. In two or three days, he will come and bring me some meat or something." The old man said.

The three people walked out and reached the door. Mr. Xia stepped back again. He saw an empty work shed across the road. He asked the old man: "That land also belongs to this hotel?"

"Yes, they are planning to build dormitories for their hotel there." The old man and Mr. Xia said.