Chapter 17. Official opening

     It was dawn, and Gao Zhenhai, who was sleeping soundly, was pushed by his bedside: “Didn’t you say that we should go to the island early today? Hurry up and get up, or you will be late?”

     Gao Zhenhai got up in a daze and looked at his phone: “It’s only five o’clock!”

     His wife said again: “Then go and see if Bao’er is awake, change Bao’er’s diaper and make milk powder!”

     Gao Zhenhai: “…”

     Is this your ultimate goal? !

     He got up, walked around to the other side of the bed, and glanced at his daughter sleeping in the crib. The pink child tilted her head, bit her thumb, and slept soundly.

     In fact, he didn’t really want to resign from Yuhai Park at first. After all, he had worked for a long time, and although he was not rich, his life was still stable. But the salary offered by Xingzhou Island was one thousand yuan higher, and his daughter was not yet one year old, it was time to spend money. For this thousand yuan, he finally decided to resign and go to Xingzhou Island.

     Xingzhou Island has just been developed. If he works hard, he might even be able to become a captain in the future.

     Thinking of this, Gao Zhenhai prepared to wash up first, but before he left, his daughter woke up and started howling. He had a headache because of the howling, so he quickly took his daughter out to change diapers and make milk powder.

     Around 6:30, Gao Zhenhai’s wife got up. She looked at her husband sleeping on the sofa and letting her daughter sleep on his chest, and turned to the kitchen to make breakfast.

     A little after 7 o’clock, Gao Zhenhai, dressed neatly, left home and drove his electric donkey to the dock. He saw Lin Qiang sitting on the pier eating breakfast and greeted him, “Aqiang, why are you here so early?”

     “I’m afraid I’ll be late. Have you eaten? Do you want to share one?” Lin Qiang raised the steamed bun in his hand.

     “I ate before I went out.” Gao Zhenhai waited with him.

     After the official operation of Xingzhou Island, their working hours were half an hour earlier and their working hours were half an hour later. For this reason, the ferry that was temporarily idle was also used as a staff ship, and the ferry was sent to the island at 8 o’clock every morning.

     Of course, this half-hour commuting time is not included.

     If you don’t want to get up early, you can also apply to live in the staff dormitory. But many employees have families, and in order to take care of their families, they did not apply.

     However, starting today, there will also be safety officers or security guards on night shift on the island. Now there are two safety officers and two security guards, four people take turns on night shift, and the shift schedule is temporarily arranged by Lin Qiang.

     Several figures came to the dock one after another. These are Gao Zhenhai and Lin Qiang’s new colleagues. Although they have only known each other for a short time, after three days of closed-island exchanges, the relationship is not so unfamiliar.

     Soon, the ferry came over. Everyone got on board and heard the helmsman complain: “After driving the new ferry for a few days, I feel a little uncomfortable driving this ferry again.”

     “The new ship is easy to drive, but the old ship has been with you for so many years. How can you forget the old one? You are playing two games at the same time!” Gao Zhenhai said with a smile.

     The helmsman cursed: “Damn, you idiot, why are you talking about this!”

Gao Zhenhai asked again: “Where are Lao Du and Gao Lao?”

     Gao Lao is another crew member who can also drive passenger ships.

     “With the new ship!”

     “Why don’t you see the boss?” The ticket seller looked around and found that Li Yaolin was missing.

     “She stayed on the island last night, right?”

     Everyone chatted, and 20 minutes later, the ferry stopped at the Xingzhou Island Pier.

     Li Yaolin was indeed on the island. When they arrived, she was wearing work clothes and putting up posters on the bulletin board.

     There are three sets of work uniforms for the staff of Xingzhou Island, one set is a beige shirt and trousers worn by the ticket seller, one set is a T-shirt and beach pants worn by the lifeguard, and the other set is a black security uniform.

     Li Yaolin is now wearing the beige shirt and trousers set.

     “Boss, have you had breakfast?” Lin Qiang and others came forward to help.

     “Yes, I took a bag of quick-frozen dumplings from the refrigerator and cooked them. Have you eaten?” Li Yaolin asked.

     Everyone: “…”

     They suspected that the island owner opened a convenience store just to make it easier to solve his three meals a day. They replied in unison: “We came here after eating.”

    After putting up the posters, Li Yaolin took out ten red envelopes from her pocket and said: “That’s good. This year is the first day for everyone to officially take up their posts. I don’t have much to say. I will give everyone a red envelope for opening the door. I hope you will do a good job.”

     It is a custom in Lingnan Province to give a red envelope for opening the door on the first day of work in enterprises and factories. Although Li Yaolin was reluctant to eat even a 15-yuan pork leg rice, she was still very happy to give benefits to employees.

     Seeing the red envelopes, everyone was shocked and a bright smile instantly appeared on their faces: “Thank you, boss! The boss’s business is booming and customers are coming in droves!”

……

     At 9:15, the first ship departing from Baoren Port slowly docked at the pier. More than 20 anglers and a dozen tourists with light luggage got off the ship.

     Compared to the leisure of tourists, the figures of anglers seemed a little hurried. They went straight to the ticket office, looked around and didn’t see anyone inside, so they shouted: “No one is selling tickets?”

     The ticket seller standing next to them was a little confused and said: “It’s free today, and the official ticket sales will start tomorrow.”

     The anglers said “Oh” and said: “I saw the promotion and thought the ticket sales started today.”

     “Today is the 100th anniversary of the establishment of D. You can enter the island for free! If you need to enter the island later, you can buy tickets at the ticket window or at the self-service ticket machine.” The ticket seller introduced the automatic ticket machine beside her.

     Angler Lao Li asked: “Don’t you have any monthly tickets here?”

     It’s so troublesome to buy tickets every time. They would rather spend 600 yuan to buy a monthly ticket.

     Although some anglers will not want to come here again after the fee starts, the fish here are too tempting for them. During the three days when Xingzhou Island was closed, they went to other fish rafts to fish, and finally found that it was still the most fun to fish on the island.

     The boat ticket and entrance fee to the island are only 70 yuan, – the boat ticket price has been reduced from 60 yuan to 50 yuan, and the entrance fee to Xingzhou Island is only 20 yuan. – The cost of bait is generally several dozen yuan.

     If you are unlucky, you can sell the fish you catch for 300 to 400 yuan a day, making a net profit of 100 to 200 yuan. If you are lucky, you can sell it for more than 500 yuan, which means you can make a net profit of more than 300 yuan a day.

     Not to mention those who are extremely lucky, they can even catch red grouper, yellow croaker, etc., which can be said to be a month’s meal.

     The fish rack costs 50 yuan, but the fish catch is not even half of what you get here.

     How to choose, anglers have a steelyard in their hearts!

     The ticket seller smiled and replied: “No monthly ticket has been launched yet!”

     “Without a monthly ticket, it is okay to allow overnight stays, right?” Lao Li said again.

     One thing he was more dissatisfied with was that after the official operation, Xingzhou Island temporarily did not allow tourists to stay overnight on the island, even for camping. One of the reasons is that the employees on the island are off work at night, and the personal safety of campers cannot be guaranteed.

     “Once the island’s protective measures are improved, the restrictions on overnight stays will naturally be lifted.”

     Anglers: “…”

     Forget it, let’s hurry up and grab a fishing spot. If we go too late, there may be no good fishing spots.

     While the employees were receiving tourists, Li Yaolin also received an unexpected guest.

     “Mr. Li, congratulations! Good luck on the opening!” After Fang Xinhua got off the passenger ship, he kept looking at this refreshing island.

     It must be said that this new island owner really made him see a different future for Xingzhou Island.

     The former island owner who had worked with him had painted a lot of big cakes for him. He invested in Qianlai Tourism and waited for Xingzhou Island to develop and make a fortune from boat tickets!

     The result? After only two years of development, that guy couldn’t hold on and ran away! The development progress on the island was almost zero, unlike now, where everything can be seen from the infrastructure to be progressing steadily and orderly.

     Li Yaolin went up to him and said, “Mr. Fang, thank you. It’s my honor that you can come.”

     She had met Fang Xinhua when she invested in Qianlai Tourism, but she did not invite anyone or any media to attend the ceremony when Xingzhou Island officially opened. If someone she knew saw the news, she didn’t know how to explain how she had gone from being a poor man with nothing to the owner of an island with a market value of 300 million.

     Unexpectedly, Fang Xinhua came uninvited and asked someone to bring two opening flower baskets.

     After the two exchanged a few pleasantries, Fang Xinhua suddenly asked, “Why don’t you see Mr. Yu?”

     Mr. Yu? Mr. Yu? Or which Yu?

     Li Yaolin pondered for a while, wondering if the other party was asking about the little mermaid?

     After all, it was the little mermaid who negotiated the route with Fang Xinhua.

     She had never asked the little mermaid how she negotiated with the other party, but she didn’t expect it to be able to transform into a human form, and judging from the name, the little mermaid was actually a male fish? Isn’t it said that mermaids actually have no gender?

Li Yaolin wanted to take out her phone to summon the little mermaid, but now was obviously not a good time to leave the guests and play with the phone, so she was vague and changed the subject: “It’s busy with other things. Why don’t I take Mr. Fang for a walk?”

     “Okay, I haven’t been here since Mr. Li took over and redeveloped it! I heard it’s beautiful…” Before Fang Xinhua finished speaking, he saw a group of seagulls flying in front of him.

     The publicity staff who accompanied him to collect publicity news hurriedly took pictures and took pictures of the two of them with the seagulls.

Seeing that he paused, Li Yaolin thought he was scared by the seagulls, so she explained: “I don’t know why there are more seagulls and sea eagles recently, and they are not afraid of people.”

     Fang Xinhua didn’t say anything, because he glanced at the coast and found that the water here was clear and blue, and the visibility was much higher than a few years ago.

     Damn it, when did the environment here become so beautiful? !

     Fang Xinhua couldn’t help asking, “How many meters is the visibility of the sea water here now?”

     Li Yaolin looked at the basic information of the island and the sea area on the APP and said, “The clearest place is at least ten meters.”

     “It was only six meters before.” Fang Xinhua blurted out.

     Li Yaolin smiled and said, “This shows that our pollution control is effective.”

     As a businessman, Fang Xinhua thought not of environmental protection, but of business opportunities. The former island owner mentioned to him that this is a good place to develop a diving base. It’s a pity that the other party went bankrupt before the diving project was developed. Can he now contract a place and develop it into a diving base?

     He thought that he had to go back and find someone to study whether it was worth opening a diving base here, so he didn’t speak rashly, for fear that Li Yaolin would notice his idea and leave him alone.

 

 

 

 

 

---

The Author has something to say :

Employee: Island owner, you just opened a convenience store to solve your own three meals a day right?

Island owner: Don’t you ever think about wonderful life sitting behind the cashier with the air conditioner blowing and getting whatever you want?

Employee: …