Chapter 253 Ski Town Hotel
On the plane back home, Hua Mengmeng briefly mentioned that she had secretly and unilaterally watched her scumbag father. Lin Ruoyan did not comfort her. She felt that after this incident, Hua Mengmeng would grow stronger and take full control of her own destiny.
After returning to China, Lin Ruoyan received the recovered 30 million yuan and a 10 million yuan reward. It was said that it was because Lao Xu and his team destroyed the underground auction and got a lot of "funds" that had no owner.
Many people who participated in underground auctions used money from unknown sources. Once the money was spent, who would dare to claim it from the national security department? Naturally, it was used as case funds and rewards.
For a patriotic businessman like Lin Ruoyan who directly invested money to support the company at a critical moment, it was natural to give her a share of the good things. If she had waited for the system to allocate funds at that time, the opportunity to participate in the auction would probably have been lost.
Lu Fangyuan has been rescued and is currently receiving treatment at a military hospital. He has endured numerous tortures and was injected with addictive drugs, leaving him unrecognizable and mentally deranged. With at least a year of treatment remaining, his physical condition is unlikely to recover. It will then be determined whether he can retire and undergo a lifelong recuperation or be transferred to a secondary position.
Lin Ruoyan donated the 10 million to schools in several impoverished counties in Hebei Province. This time, she also brought Wang Min with her, doing charity work herself and supporting Wang Min. Wang Min was of course happy to do so, and he also donated 10 million.
Wang Min's career roots lay in Hebei Province. XX New Town, south of Beijing, had become a favorite destination for his superiors thanks to its model group and the subsequent opening of a planning exhibition hall. Whenever there were provincial events, they would set up a branch venue at the new hotel in XX New Town, arranging visits for provincial dignitaries and prominent businesspeople.
After all, there were few such large-scale projects in that era. Building the clubhouse into a town center and planning an exhibition hall was something that ordinary developers could not do.
In addition to displaying the appearance of the future town, the planning exhibition hall also shows the logic of introducing a large number of industries, so that businessmen who have come here want to set up a factory or office here, which in turn has stimulated the housing needs of a group of families.
The villas in the model group have been sold out. If there is any housing demand in the future, it will be the villas, high-rise buildings and other products that Wang Min has started to develop.
Seeing that Wang Min was getting better, Lin Ruoyan worried less and turned her attention to the progress of the ski town in Chongl County.
The scientific vegetable growing experimental base has become a research and study base for the county and prefecture-level city. Not only do people from universities and relevant provincial departments come to visit and engage in practice and team building, but Li Li has also invited a number of food processing companies to build factories around the experimental base.
Wang Min built a small-town hotel at the foot of the mountain. The overall planning, overseen by Lin's Real Estate Design Department, drew inspiration from Nordic house designs and incorporated the first phase of the ski resort. The hotel's completion coincided with the snow season, and the promotional video looked like it had been filmed in Northern Europe. Through deliberate promotion and targeted advertising, residents of Beijing and surrounding major cities can fully experience the wonders of high-end skiing abroad, accessible in just three or four hours without leaving the country.
The scale of this hotel is also very large. In addition to regular leisure and vacation, it also has a full range of functions such as conference training and reception. The hot spring is not real, and advanced technology is used to achieve the effect of geothermal pump artificial hot spring.
Wild tourists and ski enthusiasts who watched the beautiful snow scene promotional video came to the new venue to experience it one after another. The registered members of Hua Mengmeng's hotel alliance also received related advertising push and regarded this place as the best place to experience high-end skiing sports in foreign countries in winter.
While this hotel isn't as well-designed and well-constructed as the one in XX New Town—a reflection of Lin's Real Estate's design and engineering departments—the overall theme is quite novel, featuring skiing, a relatively rare sport in China. This increasingly popular branch of winter sports, once only available abroad, is now accessible right here at home.
In addition to the hotel's good profitability, the surrounding land that Lin Ruoyan had acquired at the time was also targeted by people who were interested in developing ski resorts and hotels. The prices they asked for were getting higher and higher, and they were just waiting for her to nod and pick a land that they liked.
The land was originally acquired cheaply, less than 100,000 yuan per mu, and she made a good profit by reselling it for 300,000 or 400,000 yuan per mu. Besides the wasteland near the mountain, people were also asking for prices on plots of land around the county's main roads and near the future high-speed rail station.
By this time, the county's leaders had come to their senses. Economic development still required traffic. Vegetable farming and food processing could generate substantial revenue, and the hotel industry and skiing were also promising. Many people in China genuinely drove three to five hours to this remote area to spend days at the ski resort.
Hotels, meals, and travel expenses all contribute to income, especially during the five or six months of snow. While locals used to stay home during the winter with nothing to do, many farmers now help out at ski resorts and hotels. Even picking up trash or shoveling snow is physically demanding work that requires no education.
There are also those strong but uneducated young men who are brave enough to borrow money to sign up for skiing lessons. After a quarter of learning, they can also become ski sparring partners. I heard that in the summer, when there is no snow, this place can be turned into a grass skiing venue, which still attracts customers.
Compared to the sweltering heat of Beijing and southern Hebei Province, Chongl County is a natural summer retreat. This means seven or eight months of the year are considered peak tourist season, while the remaining months are spent growing vegetables, a form of agricultural tourism. This has significantly boosted incomes, making people's lives more fulfilling.
Young people from several impoverished mountain villages in the surrounding counties, who once headed for prefecture-level cities, now seek opportunities in Chongl County. After a few years of work, they can afford to rent or buy a house in the county town and settle down, which is much better than living in a mountain village. Crucially, Chongl County offers numerous job opportunities, from growing vegetables, serving dishes, to cleaning—anyone with experience in farming can do it, and no educational requirements are required.
After this model was established, Li Li's original wish was largely fulfilled. Wang Min was more focused on the hotel business, and the two of them were quite famous in the province.
Not long after, the two got another project opportunity. Remembering Lin Ruoyan's kindness, they joined hands again to visit Lin Ruoyan at the Siheyuan.
Lin Ruoyan rarely goes to the office now. When she goes there, the employees are as excited as if they have been injected with chicken blood. She is afraid that they are working too hard, so she can only go less often and let Qin Shuang keep an eye on the stall. He can discuss important matters with her later.
She has now evolved into more of a full-time mother, taking her children to and from school every day. After all, the children are in the lower grades and finish school early. The school has some tutoring classes after school, but Lin Mengxi does not have to attend them. She only chose some junior high school experimental classes and innovation projects to follow.
Two days a week, he would go home at 3 p.m., and Lin Ruoyan would pick him up from school. After he came back, she would urge him to exercise, have fun, and not be obsessed with studying.
Just after she had settled her son with his new martial arts instructor, Wang Min and Li Li arrived. She chatted with them over tea in the main hall of the courtyard, taking the opportunity to introduce her luxury housing project in Singapore, which was about to go on sale, and cordially invited the two owners to visit Singapore to view it.
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