Chapter 1 A New Beginning
Du Qiu's prediction was correct. Since November 9, he has entered an extremely busy state. He is either holding meetings or on the way to the meeting. Even after following the visiting group to South Korea on November 13, he is not at ease. The daily international long-distance telephone charges are in units of "thousands".
Once people get busy, time passes very quickly. Du Qiu told Secretary Lu that he would go back in 10 days, but when he finished all the work and returned to Yuncheng, it was already the evening of December 22, which was close to the end of 1995.
"My brother, get up, it's 8 o'clock."
"Sister, you're so annoying, let me sleep for a while."
Since "a reunion with Du Qiu", this is the first time Du Chunhua has seen him so lazy in bed in the morning. He couldn't help but smile and said, "Didn't you always brag about your energy and never tired? Why can't you stand it after just one month of busyness?"
"What is a month, a month and a half!" Du Qiu rolled over with a quilt and said nonsense: "And I am busy with major issues related to national economy and people's livelihood. I shoulder the expectations of countless people, trembling and walking on thin ice. One month is equivalent to others being busy for ten years. Besides, even a perpetual motion machine needs to rest and maintain for a few days every once in a while."
"Okay, okay, keep sleeping." Du Chunhua gently patted the quilt and said, "I want to send Jinyan to the Youth Palace to take martial arts class. There are soup dumplings you like in the kitchen. I will get hot after I get up later."
"Then I'd better get up. Xiaolongbao is not delicious if it's cold or hot."
Du Qiu just enjoyed the comfort and leisurely atmosphere of the home. In fact, he had no sleepiness. He quickly got up and took out a gray turtleneck and a black wool trench coat from the closet.
Seeing that the clothes were more business-oriented, Du Chunhua asked, "You came back last night, and today is Saturday again. Do you still have to go to work in the company?"
"I fooled a few talents from the capital. Today I took them to visit Lianyuan Hotel and experience the living and living environment of Yuncheng. If I am satisfied, I can dig it up."
"Lianyuan Hotel has not been repaired yet, right?"
"No, but these people won't be able to join the company until June and July next year, and they will definitely be able to do it by that time."
At this time, Lin Jinyan ran in with a plastic golden cudgel and urged Du Chunhua to go to the Youth Palace quickly. Du Qiu picked him up and was about to kiss him, but he didn't expect that this guy used the golden cudgel to push the left and right blocking him, saying disgusted: "Uncle, you didn't brush your teeth, so I don't want you to kiss you!"
You damn little devil...
Who cares about kissing himself...
Du Qiu used a pillow as a weapon and teased herself for a while, and then was rushed to wash up by her biological mother. Before she left, she reminded her: "Brother, I've driven away that BMW. The car Dawei bought for you was parked in the newly built garage at the entrance of the community, and the keys were in the box on the shoe cabinet."
"knew."
After having breakfast alone at home, Du Qiu called Bai Jie and confirmed that she was already in Lianyuan Hotel. So she found two strings of car keys from the debris box on the shoe cabinet, walked to the entrance of the community, and found a temporary garage built with a light steel movable house near the guard room.
There are three newly purchased cars parked in the garage, one is a Porsche 911 Carrera for daily pretentiousness, one is a Jaguar xj v12 for business travel, and the other is a second-hand Toyota ae86 for satisfying feelings. Ae86 is purely for collection, Du Qiu is not going to drive out. After enjoying and tangling between Porsche and Jaguar for a while, he finally chose the Porsche 911 because it has a specially customized racing painting, and the white body is sprayed with smooth red, blue, yellow and green color strips, which are flowing and ostentatious, and have a fatal attraction to anyone who loves cars.
Lianyuan Hotel is not far from Jingui Garden, only a seven or eight minutes drive away. However, the ancients said it well, "I will not return home if I am rich and noble, like walking in brocade clothes at night, Du Qiu cannot avoid the customs. In order to satisfy his vanity, he deliberately circled the Yangtze River Road in the city center and ran nearly twice the distance.
"Look at that sports car, it's so beautiful!"
"It must be Du Qiu's return. No one in Yuncheng can afford such a sports car except him."
"Who said that all Snapdragon executives have millions of shares, and they can definitely afford it."
"This car is not useful. Even if those executives can afford it, they are reluctant to spend such indifferences. Only Du Qiu is rich and buys a luxury car worth millions of dollars as toys."
"If I had such awesome car, the girls in Quanyun City would like to grab whoever they wanted..."
"Stop dreaming, your monthly salary may not be enough for someone else's day of gasoline. Hurry up and work for me!"
Amid the envious and jealous gazes and discussions of the melon-eating people along the way, Du Qiu drove to a low-rise building surrounded by walls and trees. After walking around for half a circle, he found the entrance. The entrance was very narrow, only three or four people could beside each other. However, it was very distinctive. It was a raised-eaves door building with a very classic Chinese architecture. There was a plaque with four big words "Lianyuan Hotel" hanging in the middle, and a stone lion was squatting on each side of the left and right.
Seeing that Bai Jie had arrived, Du Qiu stood under the plaque in a goose yellow down jacket waiting for him, so he parked the Porsche next to the stone lion, and reluctantly released the steering wheel, got out of the car and asked, "Have you arranged it all?"
Bai Jie knew that he didn't like red tape, so she did not have any polite greetings. She talked about business directly and introduced: "After the arrangement, I have decorated a model house in Building 2 and Building 5. The house in Building 5 is about 80 square meters, two bedrooms and one living room, suitable for couples without children; the house in Building 9 is about 110 square meters, three bedrooms and one living room, suitable for families with children."
"When will Bai Yuquan and the others come?"
"I just called Manager Bai and he said he was already on the way and could arrive in up to 5 minutes."
After Du Qiu recruited Bai Jie as a private business assistant, her first job was to acquire a hotel in Yuncheng or purchase a commercial building as a whole. As a temporary dormitory for senior Snapdragon employees, it increased the company's attractiveness in social recruitment, because most of the talents recruited by the society have already started family and it is impossible to squeeze into the dormitory of Sanjiang University like fresh graduates. Building a house cannot be completed overnight. The high-end residential area in the Botanical Garden will take at least three or four years to deliver it, so there is a temporary resettlement place.
Bai Jie has been a manager in a five-star hotel for many years and has a very good vision. After some investigation, she quickly selected Lianyuan Hotel. This was originally the private residence of a big landlord's family in the late Qing Dynasty. After the big landlord died, the two sons broke up and broke up. Later, after mediation by experts, they reconciled. However, the two were seriously injured and had no money to restore the house to one another. So they dug a large pond in the middle and planted lotus flowers. They named it the Lotus Garden on the grounds that brothers were harmonious and blood was connected. It was a famous folk allusion in Yuncheng.
During the Anti-Japanese War, the main building of Helian Garden was destroyed by plane bombing, and only some rockery and veranda remained. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang built more than a dozen small buildings of reinforced concrete on the original site, as dormitories for provincial government officials. After liberation, it was transformed into a municipal government guesthouse. In the 1960s and 1970s, it was the designated residence of officials who came to Yuncheng for investigation or temporary positions.
In 1990, a businessman with background contracted a guesthouse and renamed it Lianyuan Hotel. Because of its beautiful environment and excellent location, the business was once very prosperous. However, the good times did not last long. In 1993, the businessman's backstage collapsed and he followed him in. Due to the complex case, the involvement was widespread, and the interests of many parties were entangled, the hotel was forcibly closed down by the court.
Because it is a dormitory, it is a hotel in name. In fact, the house structure is similar to that of ordinary houses. After renovation and renovation, it is no worse than the newly built commercial houses in the 1990s. It is very attractive to high-end talents. Moreover, it is located in a prosperous area in the city, with excellent location, and complete supporting facilities around it. Schools and hospitals are the best in the province, and the potential for land appreciation in the future is also very great. Therefore, after listening to Bai Jie's suggestion, Du Qiu immediately decided to buy it.
After the Internet Conference, Du Qiu was very popular in the political and business circles of Yuncheng City, and was willing to spend money. Bai Jie used his resources to quickly settle the interests of all parties. Not only did she successfully acquire the ownership of the hotel, but she also completed the approval procedures for future reconstruction and expansion.
"The four words "Lianyuan Hotel" on the plaque are so ugly. Who wrote them?"
"Written by the former director of the Provincial Department of Finance, the hotel closed after he collapsed, so the plaque was hung on it and not dealt with." Bai Jie flattered without any trace and suggested: "Why do I remove it and Mr. Du rewrite one?"
"If I dare to write inscriptions in public places, my dad must break my hand." Du Qiu smiled, looked up at the gatehouse for a moment and said, "This place used to be called Helian Garden. There should be a stone-carved garden name on the gatehouse. Demolition of the plaque and use the original old name, which makes it more historical."
"OK."
"These two things should be made by the contractor before, right?" Du Qiu kicked the stone lion on the left side of the gatehouse and said, "If you put them here inappropriately, move them away."
"I'll have someone come to move later." Bai Jie really knew the place and said, "There were originally a couplets hanging on both sides. It is said that they were written by Yu Youren, a famous calligrapher of the Republic of China. Unfortunately, it was taken away in the 1970s and their whereabouts are still unknown."
"Is that so a pity."
The two were chatting, and at this time the cell phone in Du Qiuyi's pocket rang. He took it out and just pressed the answer button when he heard Lu Zijian shouting: "Du Qiu, have you returned to Yuncheng? I just saw the Porsche that Lin Dawei bought for you on the Yangtze River Road!"
Lu Zijian is the husband of Tan Jingyun, the head teacher of Du Qiu's childhood, and is an avid car fan. He works in Sanjiang Provincial Construction Investment Company and his family has a military background. When Bai Jie acquired Lianyuan Hotel, she borrowed some of his resources. Therefore, Du Qiu was very kind and said with a smile: "I just came back last night. I will be at Lianyuan Hotel. Do you want to come here?"
"Don't move there, I'll go there right away."
As soon as Lu Zijian's phone was hung up, a bus with a Snapdragon logo on the body turned in from the intersection. After the parking was stopped, more than a dozen people got off one after another, including men and women, elderly and young. It was Du Qiu who fooled the people from the capital to visit Yuncheng and their families.
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Chapter completed!