There are no direct flights to Lanai, so they need to take an inter-island flight from Honolulu International Airport on Oahu or take a boat from Maui, and Zhang Ran chose to fly.

After more than 30 minutes of flight, the plane landed at Lanai Airport.

After getting off the plane, Zhang Ran turned his head to look and found that the airport was very small, like a train station.

However, Zhang Jingchu woke up with a full of shock, from Los Angeles, where the weather has been gloomy recently, to sunny Hawaii, it was like going to another world, and the whole person was in a clear mood. Zhang Jingchu closed her eyes, opened her arms, and said with a face full of enjoyment: "The weather is so good, the sunshine is so good!"

Zhang Ran also smiled: "At this time, you should recite a poem, the life and death of the country is not right!

Zhang Jingchu couldn't help but say, "What kind of poem are you calling?"

At this moment, a middle-aged man greeted him and greeted him respectfully: "Hello, Mr. Zhang, I'm Joseph, the tour guide of the Four Seasons Resort, and I'm welcome to Lanai." Please go this way!"

Zhang Ran and the others heard that Joseph was a tour guide, so they followed him out of the airport and got on the bus waiting outside the airport.

After the car started, Joseph enthusiastically introduced the attractions and history of Lanai to Zhang Ran.

Until the 16th century, Lanai was uninhabited and mysterious. Legend has it that this was originally the garden of the gods, but the garden of the gods was scorched due to a dispute between the priests. In 1922, James Dole bought Lanai and began growing tropical fruits. Among them, pineapples are the most, and the area of pineapple orchards once reached 19,000 acres in its heyday. Lanai has also become the world's most important pineapple grower and exporter. For most of the 20th century, Lanai was known as "Pineapple Island."

However, after 1980, Lanai's pineapple farms lost out to the cheap labor of pineapple farms in other countries around the world, and Dole began to move pineapple cultivation to more affordable Southeast Asia. In 1985, billionaire David Murdoch bought Lanai from the company's mismanaged Dole and became the new owner of the island for tourism development.

After explaining the history of Lanai, Joseph spoke eloquently about the wedding that made Lanai famous all the world: "Bill chartered all the cars, helicopters and 250 rooms at Four Seasons Resort for a million-dollar wedding on the 12th hole of the Four Seasons Resort's golf course. At the time, Bill was wearing a pair of black wide-legged pants and a white evening jacket, and Melinda's wedding dress was over $10,000, designed by Victoria Glenn in Seattle. There were at least six billionaires on the wedding list, a gold cordon was fenced off to keep it private, and Melinda was pleasantly surprised to find that a jewelry store on the island was open for her all morning. ”

Zhang Jingchu came to Lanai this time, and she was most concerned about whether this island was suitable as a wedding venue. Now hearing Joseph talk about Bill Gates' wedding, she can't help but ask, "Are there many people who get married on the island?"

Joseph nodded again and again: "There are many, many people come to the island every year to get married, Hulopoe Beach, Polyhua Beach, resorts, etc., there are too many places suitable for marriage." After Bill got married on Lanai, he gave Murdoch a new inspiration to organize a billionaire wedding, which is a hot spot for the island's economy. ”

Zhang Ran had been looking out the window, and he noticed that many houses on the side of the road were hung with slogans such as "Lanai no windmills" and "Murdoch is a hateful businessman". Zhang Ran was a little curious, pointed to those slogans and asked, "What's going on with these slogans?"

Joseph looked a little embarrassed, but explained: "When Murdoch took over Lanai and shifted the focus of economic development to tourism, Murdoch showed an extraordinary vision and did well. But the economic crisis of '08 cost him a lot of money, and with it, the island's population declined, shops closed, and the maintenance of the community plummeted, and the island's economy nearly collapsed. Murdoch plans to build a wind farm on Lanai and sell the electricity to Oahu, Hawaii's main island, to generate revenue for Lanai. However, this move was strongly opposed by the islanders, who put up various slogans in protest. ”

Zhang Ran suddenly remembered that Lanai Island was bought by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison at a high price in the previous life, which should have been a matter of the past two years, as if it cost 560 million US dollars, it should be David Murdoch who can't continue to operate, so he sold it, and couldn't help asking: "What is Murdoch going to do?"

Joseph sighed slightly, and said helplessly: "I heard that Mr. Murdoch lost interest in Lanai after the economic recovery plan was blocked, and planned to sell it, I don't know if it's true." ”

Zhang Ran said in his heart, it is true, the buyer is Larry Ellison of Oracle.

Soon after, Zhang Ran and his team settled into the Four Seasons Resort in Hulopoe Bay, where the rooms were placed in different positions facing the sea along the scattered mountains, and the entire wall was covered with floor-to-ceiling glass sliding doors. When Zhang Jingchu opened the wardrobe and was about to hang her clothes, she found a small bag of local dried flowers tied to the hanger, exuding a faint fragrance, no wonder there was a faint fragrance of flowers in the room.

After hanging up her clothes, Zhang Jingchu came to the glass window, stretched her waist, looked at the garden downstairs, and looked at the blue sea in the distance, felt warm in her heart, and said comfortably: "The scenery here is really beautiful, the blue sea and blue sky, I feel that the world is very wide, if you don't draw the curtains at night, you should be able to see a large number of stars!"

Zhang Ran walked behind Zhang Jingchu, hugged her waist, and whispered in her ear: "Yes, if you like to watch the stars, we will go to the beach to see the stars that night!"

Zhang Jingchu turned her head and said with a smile: "Okay, but let's go to the beach now!"

Zhang Ran knew that she wanted to see if the beach was suitable as a wedding location, and chuckled: "I'm already your person, I definitely can't run away, you're in such a hurry!"

"Lai Pi!" Zhang Jing glanced at Zhang Ran at the beginning, and said seriously, "Set the location, so that you can make arrangements early!"

When Zhang Ran saw her say this, he said, "Okay, then let's go and have a look!"

Because she was going to the beach, Zhang Ran changed into a Hawaiian-style plaid short-sleeved shirt with a pair of large pants and a pair of flip-flops on her feet, and Zhang Jingchu changed into a one-piece swimsuit and put on a bohemian dress over it.

Coming out of the room, Zhang Ran knocked on the assistant's door, called them, and came to the hotel shop together. Zhang Ran bought a straw hat for each of them, and then walked towards Hulop Beach together. After walking for about five minutes, you will arrive at Hulop Beach.

It's off-season, and Lanai itself is a private island, so tourists are relatively scarce, so the whole beach is also very empty, only three or two kittens, and a few windsurfers are surfing in the sea.

Zhang Ran told the assistants to play by themselves, and he and Zhang Jingchu took off their shoes and put them in their hands, and began to stroll on the beach, enjoying the sea breeze.

Zhang Jingchu's long skirt is just up to the ankles, and the corners of the skirt dance with the wind in the sea breeze, which looks very smart, looking like a bohemian girl dancing on the beach from a distance.

The water of this beach is very clear, it is cool and silky when it spreads over the surface of the feet, like the gentle touch of a lover, it is very comfortable, and the sand is also fine and soft, walking barefoot on the beach, the feeling is very wonderful, like stepping on a white stall, the soft place, the fine sand overflows from the fingers, itchy and crispy.

Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu walked hand in hand, neither spoke to each other, just walked quietly, walking on the quiet beach, letting the clear water lap their legs from time to time, and behind them were two lines of shallow footprints.

As they passed, the waves rolled ashore, and the footprints faded until they disappeared altogether.

Walking on the silent beach, enjoying the sun and the sea breeze, Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu were quiet in their hearts, and the whole mood was completely relaxed.

After strolling for a while, Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu came to a sun umbrella with two beach chairs, sat on the chair and spoke softly. Hulopoe Beach is very beautiful, but in Zhang Jingchu's opinion, it is not as good as she imagined, she thinks that the beach should be whiter, the sea water should be bluer, and the place where she hopes to get married is a particularly dreamy place.

Zhang Ran heard Zhang Jingchu say this, so he said: "Hawaii lacks everything and there is no shortage of beaches, and you will definitely be able to find a suitable one." ”

At this moment, Zhang Jingchu seemed to have discovered something, and nodded at Zhang Ran, signaling behind Zhang Ran.

Zhang Ran turned his head and saw that on the sun lounger next to him, there was a young girl, about twenty years old. The girl wore a red bikini with a square scarf tied around her waist, her long black hair was slightly messy in the sea breeze, and her bright red lips were particularly seductive in the sun. The girl's eyes were large, and at the moment she was looking at herself with an excited and tangled gaze, as if she wanted to say hello, but she was a little hesitant.

Zhang Ran saw the girl's eyes looking at him, knew that he was recognized, smiled at the girl, and said gently: "Hello!"

Seeing Zhang Ran greeting her, the girl was full of surprise, and hurriedly replied in Chinese: "Hello!"

Zhang Ran was stunned, the girl spoke Chinese well, and the words were quite standard, so she asked in Chinese: "Can you speak Chinese?"

Seeing Zhang Ran's face full of shock, the girl chuckled: "Yes, my father is from Modu, and my mother is American." I've lived in Peking and Modu. Almost two years, oh, actually a year and a half, and only returned to the United States at the beginning of this year. ”

Only then did Zhang Ran know that the girl was of mixed race, but the girl was more Westernized and tanned, and if she didn't say it herself, Zhang Ran thought she was Latino! Zhang Ran's impression of ABC was actually not very good, and most of the ABC he met in the first few years of his arrival in the United States were very strange, and it was rare to see a person who had a good impression of China and only a handful of people who had a good impression of the mainland. In order to gain the recognition of white people, they especially like to speak ill of China, and want to gain the recognition of white masters by belittling China and their own race.

In fact, this kind of person is the most ridiculous, if you don't even look down on your own race, who will really look down on you!

However, with the development of China's economy in recent years, the Chinese who have emigrated overseas are now more culturally confident, and the vast majority of them insist on speaking Chinese with their children at home.

The girl in front of you is obviously not the kind of ABC that you say is Chinese, as if you have suffered a lot of insults, which makes Zhang Ran have a good impression of the girl, so he smiled and said: "Meet me, I am Zhang Ran, this is my wife Zhang Jingchu!"

When Zhang Jingchu heard that the girl was Chinese, she greeted with a smile: "Hello!"

"Hello!" The girl nodded at Zhang Jingchu with a smile, then looked at Zhang Ran, and said with a bright smile, "I know you, my brother and brother adore you very much, and my father also said that you are a hero of the Chinese! Oh, I forgot to introduce myself, I am Wang Keying!"