Chapter 175 Spring Festival Tour
During the Spring Festival, high-speed rail tickets in Jinan City were unsurprisingly hard to get, and even the prices of air tickets to the city next to Jinan City increased a lot.
Xia Qingqing had no choice but to buy a high-speed rail ticket to the next city, and then take a bus from the next city to Jinan City.
She works and lives in the capital, and did not go home for the Chinese New Year just to have time to go to the park and play the new project "Book Tour". It can be said that she really loves the park.
After nearly two days of travel, she finally arrived in Jinan City. Fortunately, she managed to grab a room in the hot spring resort and booked it for seven days. After arriving at the park, she didn't have time to go out for fun and went straight to the hot spring resort to sleep.
I don’t know why, but the bed in the hot spring resort was very comfortable to sleep on. Xia Qingqing, who was very particular about her bed, fell asleep soon after lying down. When she woke up, she felt refreshed, and all the fatigue from the journey had disappeared.
She packed her luggage, changed into new clothes, put the clothes she wore during the trip into the dirty clothes basket, called to buy the hot spring center's laundry service, and then went out for her trip feeling refreshed.
To welcome the Spring Festival, the park was decorated with bright red balloons, couplets, red blessing characters, and decorative firecrackers. The staff also donned their New Year costumes, creating a vibrant and festive atmosphere. The overhead speakers played either fireworks or popular New Year songs like "Happy New Year" and "Good Luck Comes."
The city has been developing and changing rapidly in recent years, and Xia Qingqing hasn't felt such a strong sense of the New Year atmosphere in a long time. As she and a group of unfamiliar tourists squeezed in front of the Dwarf Elf Restaurant to line up for New Year's gifts and listened to the New Year greetings in various accents, she couldn't help but smile.
"Happy New Year!"
"Haha, Happy New Year to you too!"
"Let me ask, I know about rice cakes, but what does this orange mean?"
"Oh, in our dialect, the word 'ju' (orange) sounds the same as the word 'ji' (auspicious), so giving out oranges means good luck in the new year."
"Is that so? Then I don't want rice cakes. I'll have oranges instead!"
"Rice cakes are pretty good too! We're a family of several people, so we got some rice cakes and oranges and tried them together."
"This orange is locally grown in Jinan City. It's very sweet. If you like it, you can buy some at the tourist center!"
"The rice cakes are delicious too! They taste like they were hand-made."
Xia Qingqing also received a portion of oranges. She peeled them open excitedly and found they were sour. The local tourists laughed and said that they would only become sweet after the Chinese New Year.
Xia Qingqing uttered a few "ohs," but that didn't dampen her spirits. She put the oranges in her backpack and headed excitedly to the Sky Aquarium. She had been back in the capital for work after the last Frost Descendant Demon event, and she'd been craving the Sky Aquarium online for ages. This time, she finally got to enjoy it to her heart's content.
Enter the waiting area, take the Sky Dragon Car, shoot bubbles with a prop gun, go to the Sky Cloud Island and create objects with bubbles with a group of tourists from all over the world, jump into the oceanarium and dive...
Xia Qingqing had so much fun that she met her former teammates Ma Xiaoxiao, Zhang Hua and others. They built big fish mounts and played bumper cars in the aquarium, having so much fun that they were grinning.
After playing for a long time, the group was tired and climbed up to the Cloud Island to rest.
"It's amazing! My clothes are not wet at all." Xia Qingqing said in amazement as she touched her clothes.
Ma Xiaoxiao: "Compared to this, isn't it more magical to be able to breathe inside it?"
That’s right! Xia Qingqing nodded.
They summoned the little cloud that sold snacks and drinks, bought some snacks and drinks to fill their stomachs, and experienced the joy of a picnic on the clouds. Just after finishing their meal, they met An Shilian.
Apart from fighting monsters, An Shilian has been studying the ticket booking patterns of the theme park app with members of the Special Operations Department.
They discovered that the park app was largely unfair, with the average person only able to book tickets for one or two days a week. This discouraged those who planned to make a living from the park. Ideally, they could earn 500 yuan a day selling a Level 1 item, which would translate to 15,000 yuan in a 30-day month—better than most jobs. However, in reality, they could only come once or twice a week, making it a decent part-time job.
Therefore, the park's prop recycling system did not have much impact on people's real lives, and the city operated as usual.
However, the park's app clearly supports those from poor backgrounds, with the average poor person booking four tickets per week. The app uses a sophisticated calculation method. Among the samples they found, many poor people earned thousands of yuan a month by buying props at the park, significantly improving their lives.
The Special Operations Department also discovered that the Paradise APP also tends to support students who are not from poor families but are poor themselves. It just doesn't seem obvious. Some of them just think they are lucky, while others apply specifically.
Third, tickets for the park app can be pre-deposited. For example, if people live far away, have fewer holidays, and cannot visit the park frequently, if they purchase tickets in advance and pre-deposit one ticket per week, they can withdraw the tickets all at once during the long holidays.
Xia Qingqing obviously falls into the third category.
Seeing Ma Xiaoxiao and Xia Qingqing, An Shilian smiled and said to them, "Ma Xiaoxiao quit his job to come to the park. Xia Qingqing, what about you? Do you want to come to the park more often?"
Xia Qingqing nodded and said, "The park is so fun, who wouldn't want to come often? It would be great if I could work nearby. If I can't book a suitable flight to the park, it will take three or four days to go there and back, which is really a hassle."
An Shilian asked, "Have you ever thought about finding a job near the park?"
Before Xia Qingqing could answer, Ma Xiaoxiao shook her head and said, "It's hard to find a job near the park! I quit my job six months ago, and I've only found one paying a few thousand yuan. Furthermore, more and more people have been coming to Jin'an City for job hunting in recent months, but the corresponding supporting facilities and jobs can't be immediately provided."
An Shilian said, "I can solve your problem." Under the gaze of the two, An Shilian said, "Our company is near the park. We are looking for people who are above level 8 on the park's merit ranking list on a permanent basis. There is no limit on the number of people. The benefits and salary are excellent. You should consider it. However, you must sign a confidentiality agreement after joining."
The two originally thought that An Shilian was joking, but after careful inquiry, they found out that it was a real job opportunity, and it was in a government unit. They were both shocked and looked at each other.
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Liu Meilan rushed and finally arrived in Jinan City with her daughter on New Year's Eve.
The traffic in Jinan during the Spring Festival was more congested than she had expected. Taxi drivers were used to it and even suggested that if she was in a hurry, she could get off the car and take a motorcycle on the roadside. Locals could take her to take a shortcut and arrive early. However, Liu Meilan had an almost blind daughter with her and felt that this method was unsafe, so she did not accept the advice and was stuck in traffic for almost two hours.
It was already evening when we arrived at the Fantasy Park.
The entrance of Fantasy Park was much smaller than she had expected, and even at this time there were still many people queuing to enter the park.
Liu Meilan booked tickets for herself and her daughter on the APP in advance. Now they can enter the park by just scanning the QR code.
Her daughter Liu Zhenzhen, holding her cane in one hand and tightly grasping the corner of her clothes with the other, suddenly said to her, "Mom, there is a blind path here."
Liu Meilan was stunned for a moment, then looked back a few more times and realized that the blind path on the sidewalk outside extended all the way into the park. A staff member was shouting, "Please move the stalls outside inward; they're blocking the blind path."
She walked in with her daughter and observed carefully, only then did she realize that there was a conspicuous blind path leading to every place in the park. There was also a sign not far away, advising tourists to watch the road when walking and not to linger on the blind path.
Before entering the park, Liu Meilan had already developed a better impression of it because of this.
Liu Zhenzhen blinked and suddenly said, "Mom, there's a glowing object flying around."
When Liu Meilan took a look, she discovered that there was a glowing elf flying around her daughter. The scene was extremely dreamy. She was surprised and regretful that her daughter could not see it.
Holding her daughter's hand tightly, she said, "It's the elves from the paradise, flying around you!"
My daughter's mouth dropped open in excitement as she asked, "Is it really an elf? Is it the kind of elf with wings and a little skirt that my classmates talked about?"
Liu Meilan responded: "Yes, yes."
She took her daughter's hand to touch it, and the elf stayed on the little girl's hand for a moment. The girl carefully stretched out her finger and touched it. She felt the wings flapping in her palm and her eyes curved in surprise.
The elf didn't stay for too long. Liu Meilan saw that her daughter's face was a little regretful but still happy, so she took her to continue walking inside.
Not only are there blind paths, there are also passages specially designed for special groups of people in the park. The probability of her seeing disabled people in the park is much higher than in other places. When entering the dwarf restaurant, there is a very gentle ramp in the middle of the restaurant steps for wheelchairs to go up and down.
Liu Meilan has learned some about this issue because she has to take care of a special child.
She knows society still pays too little attention to these people with disabilities. It's common to see blind paths being occupied, interrupted, or even veered into green belts during urban construction. Public transportation lacks services for people with disabilities. Many public places have stairs but no wheelchair ramps, and there are no dedicated blind paths in public places.
Various problems have made it more difficult for special groups to travel, forcing them to either stay at home or rely on others when they go out, which has dealt a blow to their self-esteem and ability to live independently.
This is the case in public places, not to mention entertainment venues. Therefore, when Liu Meilan saw that the Dwarf Restaurant also had blind paths and handles to facilitate the movement of special people, she felt indescribably moved.
The restaurant provides voice service on the table, and also explains which dishes are convenient for the blind. Liu Meilan watched her daughter order and eat by herself, feeling happy, but her eyes were inexplicably red.
Even entertainment venues like theme parks can provide comprehensive services. She believes that in the future, special groups like her daughter will have a better life. Perhaps in the future, even if her daughter's eyes cannot be restored, she will be able to let her live alone without worry.
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On January 22, the first day of the Lunar New Year and the first day of the Spring Festival, the "Book Travel" project in Fantasy Park opened!
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