Chapter 64: The Lotus Festival

"Soaring Sky!" As soon as Lin Shuhan entered the door, he shouted at the top of his voice. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 InfoToday she didn't stay at school from morning to late afternoon like she had done a few days ago, then after eating outside, she came home and rushed into her bedroom.

It was just noon at this time, and she just wanted to come back and ask Teng Xiaotian, what is this legendary lotus festival, and what is the fun of going, otherwise why did Zheng Haoyu, the black-bellied man, remind herself three times and twice.

And it stands to reason that when Lin Shuhan was still Chen Xiao, she was also a government worker, and she was single, and she had heard of any big events and gatherings in W City, even if she didn't go to them. But more than ten years ago, there was indeed a lotus festival, and it was very lively. But in recent years, it has not been held again, and there seems to be no place in W City where there are still large lotuses.

Lin Shuhan prefers lotus flowers, speaking of which, this can be traced back to when Chen Xiao was only a teenager. At that time, W City was even more prosperous than it is now.

Don't look at it as a third-tier city, but many first-line singers can be invited to sing every once in a while, whether it is a traditional festival or a local festival, it is very lively. At that time, it seemed that it was easier to find a job than now, regardless of inflation, high wages, low housing prices, and many recreational activities, so Chen Xiao's impression of the city when she was a student was excellent.

Those who are a little older know that the thriving scene of W City back then was inseparable from the famous Lin Jinrong at that time.

Legend has it that Lin Jinrong was once just a gangster, and when his character was so bad that he couldn't get along, he was turned away when he asked his relatives to borrow 200 yuan. Later, he moved to Z City and became a junior brother in the gang. In the course of a drug transaction, the two groups of people had a gang fight, which was about the so-called "black eats black", and countless casualties were killed and injured for a while. It is said that in the chaos, Lin Jinrong grabbed a suitcase and fled alone, but later opened it and found that it was one million in cash.

In the 90s, Lin Jinrong relied on this million cash, with his smart mind, enclosing land, building buildings, selling houses, opening private banks, collecting savings at high interest rates, borrowing and lending, undertaking municipal projects, developing high-tech industries, monopolizing the entertainment industry, and almost all the industries that make money have Lin Jinrong's figure.

At that time, there were no so-called private banks, so they could only exist in the form of underground banks. But Chen Xiao still remembers that at that time, the people around him kept their money in Lin Jinrong's Sihai Money Bank, and the monthly interest rate could reach 8%.

Compared with the complicated procedures and strict requirements of state-owned bank loans, it is much easier to borrow money from Sihai Qianzhuang, although the interest rate is as high as 1/2, but the procedures are simple, and the loan can be made at any time, which solves the urgent needs of many small business owners.

Moreover, Sihai Bank can also handle the housing loan business, as long as the purchase is the real estate development company under the Jinrong Group, you can apply for a loan of about 5% at a monthly interest rate of 4-6%. Many people pinch their fingers, deposit their money in the Bank of the Four Seas to get interest, apply for a housing loan, and the interest obtained from the deposit pays the interest required for the loan, and there is still a lot.

As a result, whenever the house of Jinrong Group is opened, there is a situation of queuing overnight. Even so, the housing prices at that time were real, and everyone only hated not being able to buy a house, but they were not afraid that they could not afford to buy a house.

Speaking of which, Chen Xiao's younger brother's current old house, which is used as a wedding room, was also developed and built by Jinrong Group back then, and his parents took turns queuing for three days and three nights to buy it.

In just three or five years since he appeared in the public eye, Lin Jinrong has jumped from an unknown little person to the richest man in W City. And public speculation that Mr. Lam's personal wealth may far exceed official statistics.

Because everyone rumored that Lin Jinrong was not only engaged in serious accidents, but also had a large number of smuggling, drug trafficking, organization **** and other businesses, and the funds obtained were turned into gold, turned into gold nuggets, and sank into the lotus pond of the annex.

In addition to the so-called gold nuggets, the matter of Lin Jinrong's illegal business seems to be confirmed for a while after the entire Jinrong Group was connected with a major criminal case.

But it was also during that period of time, when the case was solved, everything calmed down, the economy continued to decline, popularity gradually cooled, employment pressure increased, housing prices rose rapidly, and people began to miss the days when Lin Jinrong was there.

In the past, there was only Lin Jinrong as a wealthy man in the city, and everyone else was almost at the same level, so there was no feeling that there was a big gap between the rich and the poor. But now in W City, many ordinary people are still living at the material level of more than ten years ago, but there are more and more bosses with assets of more than one billion, and the polarization is becoming more and more serious.

The wealthy spend a lot of money to prop up the city's bustling cloak, and ordinary people still struggle to make a living every day, unable to climb the high housing prices and keep up with the skyrocketing prices.

Lin Jinrong is most talked about not for his legendary experience of getting rich, but for his deep love for his wife.

Because Lin Jinrong's wife likes lotus flowers, every summer, the city will hold a week-long lotus festival. At that time, lotus lanterns were hung on both sides of every street, and the lotus pond that covered an area of several hundred acres and was specially built by Lin Jinrong for his wife was also open to the public, and there was an endless stream of tourists to enjoy the flowers.

At that time, Chen Xiao would also go on a cruise to enjoy the flowers every summer vacation, so he had a special love for lotuses. And during that period, all shopping malls and supermarkets under Jinrong Group will carry out substantial promotions and make profits.

Later, there were rumors that Lin Jinrong's wife's birthday was around that time period. Because Chen Xiao was only a student at that time, he had no intuitive feelings about love, and now when he thinks back to the gossip in the market, he feels that he can marry such a man and live a legendary life, even if it is only a few years, his life is complete.

shouted a few times, and found that Teng Xiaotian was not at home, Lin Shuhan turned on the computer and typed the word "Zheng Haoyu" in the Baidu search bar. When Lin Shuhan was still Chen Xiao, Chen Xiao liked to type in the names of the people he knew in Baidu when he had nothing to do, and then see what would come out, sometimes the results would be very interesting.

It's just that my name is too ordinary, and I search a lot, and there's nothing fun about it. The first page of Baidu search results is that in 2009, Zheng Haoyu, the sophomore (7) class of Shusheng Middle School, won the gold medal of the 7th National Middle School Physics Competition. Keep scrolling down, the relevance is getting smaller and smaller, and all kinds of messy and even advertising information have appeared.

Suddenly, Lin Shuhan was attracted by a post in a forum, which probably means that Zheng Haoyu got extra points in the college entrance examination because he won the piano competition because his father, the chairman of the Rising Sun Construction Group, was operating behind his back.

Lin Shuhan first saw Zheng Haoyu on the bus, and the reason why she took the bus at that time was because she suddenly switched, she didn't know anything, and no one was her driver. Later, with Jin Chengwu, she was also very suitable for the days of special car pick-up. So she never thought that Zheng Haoyu would have any deep background.

I can't imagine a rich kid riding the bus to and from class all day. Although Lin Shuhan also guessed that Zheng Haoyu may have good family conditions, and may even have a father who is an official, but if Zheng Qianbin is his father, then this father can fight.

"No wonder." Lin Shuhan muttered. She suddenly thought that there was a rumor that the Rising Sun Construction Group bought Lin Jinrong's courtyard with a lotus pond at a price of 200 million. It's really a rich person who is different from a rich person. Such a stingy family, no wonder they would give birth to such a black-bellied child.

"What a wonder." A warm, magnetic voice rang in my ears. Lin Shuhan was taken aback. Suddenly remembered that time by the small pond of the school, I also heard a voice in my ear and suddenly turned around, so I suffered a loss, and immediately moved a lot to the side, and then turned around and found that it was Teng Xiaotian.

"Why did you suddenly stand behind someone?"

"Am I so terrible? So far from me? Teng Xiaotian had actually stood behind Lin Shuhan for a long time, watching her flip through the search page, but she was too focused to find it.

"I'm afraid you'll be crooked again."

"Hey, it's been said that many times that night was just an accident, and it won't happen in the future." Teng Xiaotian took a few steps back and sat on the edge of Lin Shuhan's bed.

"Who knows, men think with their lower bodies." Lin Shuhan looked Teng Xiaotian up and down with disdain.

"Hey, Lin Shuhan, if I think with my lower body, can you still sit here now? I've been very restrained, and you'll certainly not find a man more restrained than me. Teng Xiaotian was a little angry.

"Okay, okay, I'm kidding you, don't be so up-to-date, or let's ask the magic mirror, the magic mirror, the magic mirror, who is the most tolerant man in the world? It's a roaring sky! Lin Shuhan pinched his nose and said.

Teng Xiaotian almost got angry with internal injuries, but he couldn't get angry.