Chapter 9. A family of three

     Li Yaolin put away the agreement and said, “The island is not officially operational yet. The working hours are determined by the first and last ferry times. When there are more people in the future, we will arrange shifts. You can live on the shore or on the island, but there are no staff dormitories yet, so you can only live in the lounge.”

     Since the working hours are determined by the first and last ferry times, they naturally have to go home to live.

     Li Yaolin said again, “By the way, I don’t have much experience, so I don’t know what these life-saving equipments are needed. Can you please make a list for me? I’ll go to purchase them.”

     Gao Zhenhai nodded, “Sure, I’ll make a list now.”

     Lin Qiang was a little confused, “Are there no other staff on the island?”

     Why is Li Yaolin responsible for both personnel work and procurement?

     Li Yaolin smiled awkwardly, “Xingzhou Island is still in the development stage, and there are few people.”

     Her current situation can be described in one word, poor!

     Lin Qiang paused and glanced at the contract. He always felt that he had seen this signature somewhere before.

     After getting the list written by Gao Zhenhai, Li Yaolin left first.

     Lin Qiang looked up the company on the Internet based on the seal name of “Poseidon Holiday Tourism Development Co., Ltd.” on the contract, and was shocked.

     Fuck, the boss of this company (the island owner) is called Li Yaolin!

     Is it the same name?

     After all, the Li Yaolin they knew was just a student who looked like she hadn’t entered society yet.

     With such a young face, would anyone believe that she was the boss of a company?

     “Zhenhai, do you know the name of the island owner?”

     Gao Zhenhai shook his head: “I don’t know, why ask this?”

     Lin Qiang was speechless: “You don’t know the name of the island owner, so why did you come for an interview?”

     Gao Zhenhai thought he was strange: “The job was introduced by an acquaintance. He said the salary was high and there was a lot of room for promotion. He asked me to try, so I came. The island owner is a big boss, and there should be no chance to meet him on weekdays. Why should I know his name? Besides, don’t you know the name of the island owner?”

     Lin Qiang: “…”

     He forgot that such a remote town is different from big cities. Many people find jobs through relatives, friends and acquaintances. The interview process is not complicated. It is not like big cities and big companies. You have to ask the other party why they want to interview before recruiting.

     Lifeguards like Gao Zhenhai who have worked in Yuhai Park have enough confidence that they can pass the interview, so they don’t bother to study the company background.

     Before Gao Zhenhai called him, he did some research online, but because there was too little information and he trusted his friend, he did not dig deeper into the company’s background, which led to such a mistake!

     He said, “The island owner is Li Yaolin.”

     Gao Zhenhai nodded, “It sounds familiar.”

     Suddenly, his mind flashed back to Li Yaolin’s self-introduction when he first met her: “My name is Li Yaolin, Muzi Li, Yao of Yaochi, Lin of Shulin, you can just call me Miss Li.”

     Gao Zhenhai: “…”

     Fuck, that girl is actually their boss? !

     Is she some rich second-generation who came out to start a business?

     After the shock, they quickly calmed down and tacitly chose to keep the matter secret. Even when they met their acquaintance Lao Du on the ferry, they had no desire to reveal it.

     Li Yaolin didn’t know what the two new employees had in mind. She bought two sets of water life-saving equipment online according to the list written by Gao Zhenhai and placed them in the lounge on the island. After a week of 168 hours of cleaning, the cleaning team successfully completed the task, and the system automatically transferred more than 80,000 yuan from Li Yaolin’s account as wages.

     Looking at the dwindling savings, Li Yaolin decided to tighten her belt.

     With the arrival of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, Li Yaolin saw hope of completing the task again.

     After the fermentation of public opinion from all sides in recent days, more and more citizens of Youshi have become interested in going to the island.

     Zhang Mei is one of them.

     She is from Youshi and has lived in Youshi since she was a child. The farthest place she has been to is Yangshi, the capital of Lingnan Province. She likes to travel, but due to economic conditions during her student days, she has never been to tourist attractions outside the province, and can only visit tourist attractions in Youshi and its surrounding areas.

     After graduating from college, I thought I had a job and the conditions to travel far away, but I accidentally got married with a baby. After marriage, life is either going to work or going home to take care of the baby. Let alone going out of the province, even places farther away in the city cannot be taken away – it is too troublesome and tiring to take the child out.

     It was not until her child was two years old that she could take advantage of the weekend to visit nearby attractions with her husband and child.

     Unfortunately, there are too few attractions in Youshi, and they are not very special. Many attractions are just like farmhouses, and you can only walk around the beach.

     The water in Yuhai Park does not look very clean, and there are often jellyfish corpses floating up. She doesn’t even dare to let her child go into the water. All she can do is accompany her child to dig sand on the beach.

     Last week, she saw a clean beach in a friend’s circle of friends, so she curiously asked about it and found that the other party went to the Taipa Island!

     Zhang Mei was a little confused: “When did Taipa Island become so beautiful? I remember that our company went there for team building last year. There was not only a lot of garbage, but also a bad smell and the sand was very painful. It would be better to go to Yuhai Park!”

     A friend said: “I didn’t see any garbage or smell any bad smell when I came. I heard that the island will continue to be developed, so the sanitation on the island has been cleaned up. The beach here is clean and beautiful. Look at the sand, it’s very white, right? Such white sand is so rare. Look at the sea water, it’s clear and blue, it’s really beautiful!”

     She became more and more excited as she talked, feeling like she had discovered some treasure.

     Zhang Mei was already tempted. After finding out that there is no entrance fee here now, and only a round-trip boat ticket costs 60 yuan, she decided to go there with her husband and children during the Dragon Boat Festival.

     Driving to Baoren Port Pier, Zhang Mei held her child’s hand, and her husband carried a backpack full of toys, clothes, snacks, and a box of water to buy tickets.

     There were already more than 40 people on the ferry, and Zhang Mei felt more at ease, thinking that since so many people came to play, the place should not be as dirty and messy as she imagined.

     Before the ferry docked, she found that a row of guardrails had been added around the pier, and the end of the guardrail was the entrance to the island, which looked like a serious tourist attraction.

     The ticket office at the entrance was not open yet, but there were already foreign vendors sitting in the shade, selling water, drinks and cooked food they brought from the other side.

     Some naughty children used the gate at the entrance as a playground and played the Qin King around the pillar with other children.

     After passing the entrance, the road on the left was blocked by railings, with a notice hanging on it saying that it was an undeveloped area and entry was prohibited. On the right was everyone’s destination – white sand beach and sea fishing grounds!

     I don’t know if it was Zhang Mei’s illusion. She remembered that before landing on the island, it was so dark that it looked like it was going to rain. But after landing, the sun was shining brightly, but not too scorching that people couldn’t open their eyes.

     Blue sea, blue sky, sunny beach, isn’t this the standard for an ocean holiday? !

     Look at this blue sea, clean beach, and soft sand. How long has it been since she last saw them?

     Oh, she had never seen them before!

     She had been to an island near Yang City and a coastal resort in another neighboring city, Ichikawa City, but the beaches in these two places could not give her such a shocking feeling!

     At this time, her daughter exclaimed: “Wow, Mom, there are so many birds!”

     Zhang Mei looked up and saw a group of seagulls flying over the sea. They either stopped at the reefs with few people or looked for food on the sea, which gradually brought life to this originally slightly desolate island.

     Zhang Mei took out her phone and took a lot of photos. Her husband stepped out of the water, holding an umbrella in one hand and holding the child’s hand in the other, looking at her helplessly.

    After she finished taking photos, the family of three headed straight for the white beach.