Chapter 1480 Flushing
More than ten minutes later, Colana Park in Flushing Grassland arrived. .
This is New York's second largest garden park, second only to Manhattan Island Central Park. The first United Nations General Assembly in history was held here. The 1964 World Expo was also held here. The landmark building is an extremely huge stainless steel ball with a globe-shaped shape. Many people are walking in the park. A huge Alaska on the side of the road was cut off by the owner and staring at the car where Han Xuan was in. It seemed to be attracted by something. Then, the child walking the dog was pulled away, and he didn't know who was walking away.
Speaking of Flushing, we have to talk about the famous Chinatown in the area. Nowadays, there are a large number of Chinese people living in this area. In addition, there are also many yellow people coming from Southeast Asian countries. They jointly formed and operated them to form a business district with Asian characteristics. You can see many Thai restaurants, Chinese restaurants and Japanese restaurants on the street. At this time, most of the people who took to the streets were Asian faces.
The number of settled Chinese people in New York is not as high as that in California, and Chinatown is not as good as Los Angeles. The famous tourist attractions in San Francisco are famous. Most of the residents have low living standards, low education, insufficient ability, and poor language skills. Many people cannot find suitable jobs and can only do some physical work.
Some Chinese have been living in the United States for hundreds of years and are still living in the traditional way. It is difficult for people from other ethnic groups to integrate into it, so they are isolated. For example, the Han Xuan family is full of various Chinese customs. The ancestors of their family came to the United States as early as the end of the Qing Dynasty, and their habits have not changed much.
The address written by Old Patton to Han Xuan is located in an alley on 34th Street in Flushing. The surrounding streets and alleys are horizontal. After asking the local people, they found the specific location successfully. The car drove forward, Gabriel looked around and looked for what the flower shop owner called "Donald Duck Dry Cleaner". He arrived smoothly in a few minutes, parked the car and walked down.
It is approaching noon, and New York is a big city with a large number of vehicles and populations. The heat island effect is quite serious. The temperature is similar to that of the snow-capped mountain pasture area, but it feels hotter. The wind is blocked by tall buildings, and the sound of cars and the noise of people makes people feel irritable.
Han Xuan held Anya's hand, and the bodyguards were around. Many strangers gathered around. Some people even cleverly took out blueberry n95 and n97 phones to take photos. The pixels of the photos they took were very bad, but it is enough to put them on the Internet now. As long as the super big brown bear is also taken in, everyone will know that it is Han Xuan, who can take advantage of a hot spot to attract fans and make friends on the Internet envious.
Because I will be watched like this when I go out on the street, many celebrities do not like to show up in public and cannot walk freely on the street, which makes them lack a lot of fun, which is one of the troubles of becoming famous...
"We should have been with Winnie before and took that Mercedes-Benz business car. Now it's hard to visit her house directly. It's likely that it will cause trouble to Patton's ex-wife. After I've been there, there will definitely be gossip reporters going to find her to find out the situation."
With regretful tone, Han Xuan said to Anya in a low voice, tilted his head and looked around. There were about forty or fifty people following him, his eyes as if he was looking at a magical animal, with a smile on his face.
Anya nodded and asked him, "I feel this way, and it's annoying to be disturbed by the reporters. I believe that Old Patton would not want something like that to happen. What should we do now?"
"Flushing Chinatown is not far from here. You can go there first, eat something before coming over. I just planned to wait until I visited her and not waste time..."
Anya naturally won’t raise objections. She likes shopping and walking the streets the most, especially when she is with Han Xuan. If you add delicious food, it would be even better.
The two of them strolled on the streets and enjoyed the street scenery along the way. The hot sun was blocked by the tall buildings. The temperature was quite comfortable at this time, at least it was much better than in Egypt. They usually had few opportunities to go shopping like this. They walked very slowly and were in a good mood when they talked and laughed.
As Chinatown approaches Chinatown, more and more shops with Chinese signs hanging on the roadside. Among the local foreign residents, the number of Chinese accounts is three-fifths, such as Chaoshan Casserole, Qingdao Hotel, Fongzhou Driving School, Tongrentang, Huizhou Tea Store, etc., which are printed into Han Xuan's eyes. The traditional Chinese sign "Huamei Bank" is particularly conspicuous.
As the scale continues to grow in recent years, the bank's signature and logo have undergone a major change last year. The background color is changed to bright yellow, just like the one used by the ancient royal family, with light white hollow patterns, like printed silk fabrics, with black text on it.
Many Han companies like to use dragon patterns, and it is no exception. There are two black dragons with face-to-face beads under the bank name. It is hard to imagine that this kind of Chinese signature is actually a British.
When Han Xuan learned about this news, he was so amazed that he could only say that for the design fee of 500,000 US dollars, the designer also tried his best and probably learned a lot of Eastern culture.
Spring Festival, red envelopes, Chinese food and other elements with Chinese cultural style have been very popular in the United States in recent times.
Sony Columbia Film Company recently even announced that it would make a movie called "Journey to the West". The plot has been changed to be different, and the stills have already come out. Tang Monk, with big breasts, buttocks, slim waist, and long-legged blond hair, the handsome monk Sha Monk, and the gods and Buddhas will be moved when they watch it, which is very in line with the taste of Americans.
It can be seen from this that Chinese culture cannot influence the West, but lacks the opportunity to integrate into the West. This is related to the country's politics and economic strength.
People stare at the celebrity Han Xuan, and will be influenced by some of his actions. For example, at the end of the year, the bonuses of the Snow Mountain Group were all put in red envelopes and sent to employees, and the red envelopes and money were quietly equated. Later, other Americans also fell in love with this act of putting money in red paper bags to give people. Compared with traditional envelopes, it is more distinctive.
More than a hundred years ago, China, as the world's most powerful country, had culture influenced the whole world. Foreign merchants traveled across the ocean and needed to learn Chinese when they came to purchase supplies. Otherwise, they would stand on the street and hold money and would not be treated as vulgar and should not be taught.
Tea ceremony, thoughts, art and other aspects have been spread all over the world. Exquisite handmade artworks are collected by foreigners as treasures. They are only taken out to show off during gatherings. They proudly say that it comes from the East. People all know which country it refers to. But now it has indeed declined and it takes a long time to recover...
After receiving the news that they were shopping here, the reporters quickly followed and took some street scene photos for Han Xuan and Anya. He was in a good mood today and posed in a very cooperative manner.
When I was tired, I found a place to rest for a while. At noon, I ate a bowl of knife-cut noodles, and then went to buy some wood carving crafts for decoration. In the large handmade decoration store, I also encountered a one hundred and eight arhat tea table carved on a whole piece of chicken wing wood.
Chicken wenge wood is a relatively beautiful type among mahogany. It should be good to put it under the grape trellis for tea. Han Xuan bought it for more than 40,000 US dollars. The boss will be responsible for contacting the transportation company and sending it to the snow mountain ranch. It does not necessarily have to be expensive. This thing can be bought if you see it.
Flushing’s old Chinatown and Western architecture are integrated, and they are not as distinctive as Los Angeles. A few years ago, Han Xuan invested in a project to help the rectification and demolition of Chinatown in Los Angeles. Until now, the old houses around the commercial street have been basically demolished.
The new house is mainly made of wooden structures, with eaves and walls with folk customs. The commercial area of the Chinatown is more than twice the size of the original one. In the design and planning, it will become a local tourist attraction, allowing foreigners to feel the authentic Chinese ancient city style without going abroad.
Han Xuan and his grandfather gave enough benefits to the demolition households. People were quite reasonable and knew that they were thinking about themselves and did not cause trouble.
A very small number of nerd households who want to get high-priced demolition compensation were also solved by local gangs. This is a major event related to the future lives of hundreds of thousands of Chinese in Los Angeles, and they are not allowed to be fooled.
Chinese people like to save money and have a lot of money in hand. This time, many people take out the money to buy properties. Even if they invest hundreds of millions of dollars in funds, this pair of grandparents and grandchildren will make a profit.
In addition to the houses distributed to local residents, there will be many shops and apartments left, which will be run by the company they jointly opened, and try their best to build the old Chinatown into a unique area in the city of Los Angeles.
The Star Investment people on Wall Street received an order and found two more Masala SUVs while the boss was shopping and parked at the back door of Huamei Bank.
Han Xuan entered through the bank gate, then came out from the back door, quickly got into the car, came to the building where Old Patton's ex-wife lived, and hurried in with Anya.
The door number is written very clearly. I walked upstairs directly. There were many small advertisements posted on the wall. The wooden handrails had decayed. It seemed that no one had cleaned the corridor for a long time. There was an apple core that was randomly discarded in the corner, which was moldy.
In this era, there were so many Asian communities, which were generally not high-end. When I came outside room 4-2, Han Xuan reached out to click the doorbell.
Chapter completed!