The Pentium Era - South to North

Early the next morning, Zhang Chen and the others were going to visit the botanical garden. Xiangnan and Xiangbei, their children, were not interested in mountain climbing. Sun Xiangyang and Zhang Xiangbei said, "I want to see the warships. Zhang Xiangbei, didn't you say?" You want to take me to the warship.

Zhou Ruoyi and Zheng Xinyin told Xiang Nan that they wanted to go diving to see the corals and colorful fish on the seabed.

Cao Minfang was going to accompany Zhang Chen to the construction site today. She found a young man from the hotel's public relations department and asked him to play with a few children in the past few days and pay attention to safety.

Cao Minfang said to the children, either this way, go to the base to see the warships in the morning, and let this brother take you to go diving in the afternoon, okay?

Although Zhou Ruoyi and Zheng Xinyin think that warships are not interesting, they think about the word "warship". They have been familiar with it since childhood, but they are so unfamiliar with this thing. They have never seen a real warship before, let alone Went to the warship.

Everyone agreed to Cao Minfang's arrangement. Cao Minfang called Xiao Ding. Xiao Ding was out doing research today. He told them to wait in the lobby of the hotel. After ten minutes, a jeep arrived. The people who came were Cao Minfang and Zhang. Chen Du knew him. He was a comrade of Xiao Ding who was still at the base and an old subordinate of Lao Tan. He received a call from Xiao Ding and came to take Xiang Nan and Xiang Bei to the base.

Earlier, Cao Minfang said that he would go to the base in the morning, while Xiang Nan was on the side with a gray face and did not dare to speak. At this time, Xiang Nan asked the person who came: "Uncle, will the warships go to sea today?"

The other party said: "I won't go out today."

Only then did Xiang Nan let out a long breath, and her expression returned to normal. Zhang Chen looked amused, knowing that she was scared the last time she went out to sea, and her face turned green that day.

The children had all left, and Zhang Chen and the others were getting ready to set off. Cao Minfang looked at He Hongmei and Xiaofang, both of whom were still wearing island clothes and slippers. Cao Minfang asked them to change into jeans and travel shoes, and told them that there were no hikes on the mountain. Good to go.

She didn't know where she found a woodchopping knife. Zhang Chen saw it and felt that this knife was indeed needed. He relied on it when driving up the mountain.

They passed the end of the world, and there was a fork in the road ahead. He Hongmei kept saying, "I seem to have been on this road before." Cao Minfang said, "You are right. When you go to Nanshan during the Spring Festival, you will take this road." He Hongmei looked at Zhang Chen and said, If the Botanical Garden is right on this road, why didn't you tell me when you went to Nanshan?

But she didn't say anything. In turn, Zhang Chen explained that it was still a wasteland at that time, and even the roads had not been built.

He Hongmei does not ring.

The car drove forward for a while, and they saw a giant advertisement for the Sanya World Tropical Botanical Garden in the distance. The advertisement was double-sided and could be seen by people walking back and forth on this road.

Below the billboard is the three-way intersection. Now, there is a wide four-lane cement road extending inward. Not far from it, there is a large parking lot of more than 1,000 square meters, two-thirds of the parking lot. It was obtained by digging mountains and building ridges.

When it was time to build a parking lot, Zhang Chen realized how important it was for Xiao Ding to dedicate the entire mountain to them, otherwise there would be no place for the road and parking lot.

Although the parking lot is large, because coconut trees, betel nut trees, jackfruit and oil palms are regularly distributed inside, with high, medium and low levels, the parking spaces on the ground are not reduced at all, but the entire parking lot is covered with greenery. Yes, as their car turned in from the sunshine, they felt their eyes darken, and a piece of shade rushed towards them.

The ground of the parking lot is not a solid cement floor, but is made up of dark green cement square tiles with hollows in the middle. Clusters of green grass come out of the hollowed out parts of the cement square tiles.

He Hongmei sighed: "This is really the most beautiful and well-designed parking lot I have ever seen."

Zhang Chen said with a smile: "We are a botanical garden here. It would be a great irony if the parking lot of the botanical garden was a bare concrete floor."

At the end of the parking lot, near the dug stone, there is a row of unique two-story brick and wood houses. Their tropical botanical garden preparation office is located here, and the administrative offices of the botanical garden will be located here in the future.

As for the planned administrative office area located in the botanical garden, after it is completed, it will be directly converted into the hotel's reception hall and functional area. This is the idea that Mr. Han gave them to borrow.

The row of buildings next to the parking lot were approved as temporary buildings by the Preparatory Office, but they are actually permanent buildings that can last forever. Mr. Han and Zhang Chen said that since it is a botanical garden, you will plant new plants every year. , so you can continue to prepare for the days when it is not completely completed.

They walked towards the preparation office. Zhang Chen saw a person in front of the preparation office, with his back facing them. This person was wearing a hat like that worn by Li women, and a pair of plastic sandals on his feet. Wearing a pair of jeans with the trousers rolled up, the left foot is high and the right foot is low, and the upper body is wearing an old man's shirt.

This man was gesticulating with two people. From the back view, Zhang Chen immediately saw that it was Jacques.

"Jacques!" Zhang Chen shouted.

The man turned around, and it turned out to be Jacques. However, Zhang Chen was still surprised. He saw that Jacques' face was dark and did not look like a white man at all. If his high nose bridge and brown eyes hadn't betrayed him, he would have It looks like a migrant worker on a construction site.

"This Jacques, Canadians have become Africans." Zhang Chen couldn't help but muttered with a smile.

"When the parking lot was being built, the sun was so strong that he was on site staring at the floor tiles. The seams that the workers spliced ​​were larger, or the patterns were misaligned. There was a color difference between two adjacent floor tiles. He had to ask people to rework them. The workers scolded him, saying that the requirements for laying the floor tiles in the parking lot were higher than those for the bathroom tiles," Cao Minfang said.

Jacques turned around and saw that it was Zhang Chen calling him. He immediately came over with an angry look on his face and complained to Zhang Chen.

Jacques comes from Quebec, the French-speaking area of ​​Canada, but he can still speak a few words in English that Xiaofang can understand, and Xiaofang can also speak a few words in French. In this way, Zhang Chen can finally communicate with him through Xiaofang. Instead of using sign language plus semaphore like he and Lao Tan did.

Xiaofang and Zhang Chen said that Jacques said that the workers here are not good and cannot be compared with those in Taohuayuan. They are not dedicated to their work and only know how to do everything. They don't know that in this project, not even a grain of sand is allowed to be careless.

Zhang Chen could only smile bitterly after hearing this. He had no way to tell Jacques whether the workers in Taohuayuan were workers from Liu Ligan's own construction company or were selected by Lao Wan himself. The workers here were all from other construction companies. There will be a big difference between people in other construction companies and people in your own company.

Just like before, they had no time to produce their own clothes and had to send out the clothes for production. The workmanship of the outsourced clothes was always different from their own, which made them nervous.

He had no way to tell Jacques, you are right, the workers here are so-so, not only the workers, but also the construction companies, the entire island. Ten years have passed since the Hainan real estate bubble, and Hainan Island is still in a state of decline and half-dead. of.

The average house price in Hangcheng is more than 10,000, while the house in Haicheng is still 1,000 or 2,000, and the salary of construction workers in Hangcheng is already twice as high as that in Haicheng. In a place like this, if you want him to not be careless, no.

Either give money or give freedom. You can't give low wages and expect them to produce high-quality work. As time goes by, you just give high wages. There are no workers with good skills in this place. Zhang Chen himself is also worried about this. I have a headache. I have gone through the renovation of Renmin Road several times and it is still not satisfactory.

Zhang Chen and Xiaofang said, I don't know how to comfort him, Xiaofang, you can just make up a few words to comfort him.

He didn't know what Xiaofang said to him. They said a few words, and Jacques laughed, and the anger on his face disappeared.

Zhang Chen was confused and asked Xiaofang: "What did you say to him?"

"Don't you want to comfort him?" Xiaofang asked.

"Comforted?"

"Comforted." Xiaofang nodded.

"Are you angry?"

"It went well."

"Okay." Zhang Chen smiled, "You have the potential to be an instructor."

They walked into the preparatory office. Zhang Chen led He Hongmei and Xiaofang to see the sand table model of the entire tropical botanical garden. They both exclaimed how beautiful it was when they saw it. Xiaofang pointed to the group of transparent buildings in the sea and asked Zhang Chen:

"Brother-in-law, what is here?"

"Sea Life Aquarium."

Zhang Chen told them: "This place will not only be a tropical botanical garden, but also a bird park and a marine life museum. Divers have already explored it below. The water here is very deep, the water quality is very good, and the coral reefs below are very beautiful."

"After this marine life museum is completed, in addition to cultivating a large number of marine life, the biggest feature is that there will be a transparent undersea tunnel. People walking in the tunnel can see the corals and fish outside."

"Is this entire group of buildings made of glass?" He Hongmei asked.

Zhang Chen said yes, they are all made of glass. In addition to the marine life museum, this is a restaurant on the sea, a leisure area for tourists, and a small concert hall.

"I'm looking forward to eating here." Xiaofang said.

"Okay, it's best to have spicy hot pot." He Hongmei said in Chongqing dialect, and both of them laughed.

After reading the sand table model and preparing to go up the mountain, Zhang Chen and Cao Minfang said that it was tiring to climb up and down, so you don't need to go. Rest here and hold a meeting with the people in the preparation office when I come down.

Cao Minfang said yes.

On the way up the mountain, Zhang Chen discovered that although the road was still difficult to walk, it was very different from the original. Someone had reopened the road, so there was no need to walk a while before stopping and standing there to find the way.

Think about it, experts, engineers, prospectors, Jacques and Jason from the design company, how many people have gone up the mountain, even if there is no road, they will find a way.

This time, it only took them more than half an hour to reach the top of the mountain. Standing on the top of the mountain and looking down, Xiaofang said:

"Brother-in-law, you are right, this is really a dream-like place."

Zhang Chen told them his future plans. The entire hotel will be composed of two hundred wooden villas of various sizes hidden in the tropical plants of the entire mountain. Here, on the top of this mountain, I will build a building with four sides. A ventilated villa, this villa was not built for guests, but for myself.

I can stay here looking at the sea and painting all day long, and looking at the stars and the moon all night long.

When Zhang Chen was talking, both He Hongmei and Xiaofang were silent. After a while, Xiaofang sighed and said, "That's great!"

"I don't like it very much." He Hongmei said.

Zhang Chen was stunned for a moment and asked: "Why?"

"This place is so unreal, it will isolate you from the whole world." He Hongmei said, "After all the workers below moved out of our villa, it was very quiet at night. As a result, I often suffered from insomnia. In the past, the workers would When I work overtime, I listen to the clicking sound of the sewing machine below, and I fall asleep quickly, deeply."

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