Donald told Lai about some of the Thompson's future developments over the phone, and the Carlston Hotel closed the day after Lai Xiaohu returned. And this order was given by Thompson himself, and from this time on, as a new generation of rulers, Thompson has replaced his father.

A few months later, the Thompsons finally sold Carlston.

It's just that the price is really as low as Lai Xiaohu thought before, very low.

It's only $200 million. It took Thompson Sr. more than $600 million to build the hotel, but now it's only a little over a year and its value has fallen to $200 million.

But it's the highest price they can sell.

While the Thompsons had plenty of time to consider a move to Carlston, they were unable to find a higher bidder.

There is a theory in business that the higher the degree of specialization of a fixed asset, the more the price will be depreciated when it is sold.

Your degree of specialization limits your possible buyers, and the fewer buyers, the less competition there will be, and the lower the natural price will be.

And Carlston's situation is actually worse than this, under normal circumstances, if Carlston is sold to a person who also wants to continue to operate Carlston as a hotel, the Thompson family will definitely not sell without a price of four or five billion. In this way, although they are also losing, at least they will not lose so much.

But now, if someone wants to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy Carlston and continue to operate it as a hotel, then this person must come out of a mental hospital.

Opposite Carlston is the Marvel Hotel, and you said that you also drove the hotel to the opposite side of the Brilliance Hotel, isn't this obviously looking for death?

So now because of the existence of the Meihua Hotel, all the buyers who are favorable to the Thompson family will not appear at once. And Lai Xiaohu definitely couldn't buy Carlston by himself, and he had nothing to do there.

As a result, Carlston will no longer be able to operate other businesses that do not conflict with the Majestic Hotel.

As it is now, the man who bought Carlston was going to turn it into a department store. It is also a department store specializing in those international high-end brands.

In fact, he was able to have this idea completely with the help of the light of the Meihua Hotel, and now the popularity of the Meihua Hotel is naturally needless to say. And more importantly, the people living in the Meihua Hotel are all wealthy people.

With so many rich people gathered together, naturally you can't eat and sleep all day, sleep and eat, you can't go out shopping or something?

"Now, you don't have to go far, just opposite the Meihua Hotel, all the high-end brands in the world are here, you can choose at will.

But none of this has anything to do with Lai Xiaohu, because he was already in Jincheng at that time.

The two people who came to pick up the airport were Ivanka and Zhang Ying.

Since it was already night, the three of them didn't stay outside for too long, but after going back, Lai Xiaohu had to lie on the ground and sleep on the floor.

Although Zhang Ying has now recognized Lai Xiaohu to continue to lie in her room, she wants to climb into her and Ivanka's bed. That's not that simple.

Despite this, Lai Xiaohu has never been discouraged. Because he has also been waiting for a miracle to happen.

What Lai Xiaohu didn't expect was. The miracle I had been waiting for came out that night.

It's still the same as before, after coming back, after Lai Xiaohu ate a little bit of the lean porridge specially prepared for him by Zhang Ying, the three of them fell asleep without even any pre-bedtime exercise.

Zhang Ying and Ivanka were lying on the bed, while Lai Xiaohu continued to lie on the ground and sleep on the floor.

This night, Lai Xiaohu fell asleep quite quickly, and it didn't take long for him to fall into his dream, and the same was true for Zhang Ying and Ivanka on the bed.

But wait until the middle of the night. Suddenly, Lai Xiaohu felt that something was wrong. When he was asleep, he actually dreamed, and he dreamed that there was a flood in his home, and he and Zhang Ying and others were all drowned.

Lai Xiaohu, who was asleep, struggled for a while, and then suddenly woke up. Then he felt a burst of coldness under him, and Lai Xiaohu woke up.

Touching the ground, it was also cold. Although it is already deep winter, Zhang Ying uses floor heating here, so if you lie on the ground, it should be more gentle. But why is it so cold tonight? Even lying under the covers made me feel shivering.

Rubbing his cold feet, Lai Xiaohu put on his coat and stood up and turned on the light, everything was normal in the room, but Lai Xiaohu could feel a burst of coldness from the air.

Turning his head to look at Zhang Ying and Ivanka, presumably Zhang Ying and Ivanka must have also felt cold, otherwise the two who had slept separately would not have unknowingly hugged someone?

I guess something went wrong, Lai Xiaohu thought to himself. But it's only two o'clock in the morning, and even if there is anything, we will have to wait until tomorrow.

But let Lai Xiaohu lie on the ground again, he won't do it. Lying on the ground without heating is a real death.

looked at Zhang Ying and Ivanka, who were hugging each other to warm each other, and Lai Xiaohu instantly thought about it. Anyway, two people hugging each other are also warm, so will it be warmer soon with the addition of three of them?

Thinking of this, Lai Xiaohu immediately rolled up his quilt and put it on the bed, fortunately, Zhang Ying's bed was big enough, so that the three of them would not feel crowded when they lay down.

For the sake of conservatism, Lai Xiaohu still lay on Ivanka's side, and then slowly got into Ivanka's futon and put his quilt on top of the three of them.

Feeling the warmth from the other party, Lai Xiaohu seemed to be bathed in the spring breeze, and this time it didn't take long for him to fall asleep again.

"Ah......h

But in the early morning, Lai Xiaohu was woken up by such a scream, rubbing his eyes, and Lai Xiaohu saw that it was Zhang Ying and Ivanka who were screaming.

Looking at Lai Xiaohu, who was lying with the two of her, Zhang Ying immediately yelled with an angry face, "Lai Xiaohu." You'll have to give me an explanation. ”

"Yes, Xiaohu, you have to give me an explanation." Ivanka also learned from Zhang Ying's words and said, you must know that Lai Xiaohu slept with her in her arms last night.

"This?" Before speaking, Lai Xiaohu immediately wrapped himself in the quilt and ran under the bed, first to a safe distance.

"Well, I was too cold last night, so just,"

After Lai Xiaohu finished speaking, Zhang Ying and Ivanka suddenly felt a chill. Just now, I was only angry with Lai Xiaohu, and I didn't care.

Now that Lai Xiaohu said this, the two of them also rushed to the air, and it seemed that the air was filled with cold air, not to mention that their little feet were almost frozen and unconscious. You must know that in the past, because of the heating, both of them were covered with a thin quilt, but now it is suddenly so cold at night. It's no wonder that the two of them are not cold.

It was determined that what Lai Xiaohu said was true, and the two had no time to blame Lai Xiaohu. "What's going on?"

Then I got out of bed and touched the same cold heating pipe. Zhang Ying said angrily, "Hmph, I only paid the heating bill yesterday, and they dared to turn off the heating for me at night, I must go to them." ”

But Zhang Ying didn't have to go to the property owner, because it didn't take long. The property began to notify door to door, and in the second half of last night, the gas supply pipe in the community collapsed, so the heating of the entire community was stopped in the second half of the night.

"But don't worry, we'll fix it before noon." I looked at the three of them in amazement, two women and one man. The people of the property company said with great certainty before leaving.

Now, the three of them don't say anything, hurry up and put on their clothes and go to the company, the heating in the community is out of order, so the company's heating will not have problems, right?

When they arrived at the company and felt the softness inside, the three of them quickly took off their thick coats.

"Hmph, don't think that your business is over like this," Seeing Lai Xiaohu with a smug face, Zhang Ying said angrily, "Start washing dishes for a week from today." ”

"Yes." A salute, Lai Xiaohu said without any opinion. As long as I can lie with you every day, let alone a week, I will admit it for the rest of my life, Lai Xiaohu thought in his heart.

Lai Xiaohu, who returned to Jincheng, began to be busy with another thing again, and the great cause of mineral water has not yet begun. So after coming back, Lai Xiaohu has to keep thinking about this matter.

At the same time, in addition to the idea, Lai Xiaohu also had to act as a teacher for Ivanka on the one hand, and go to Hezhuang to see his own planting base on the other.

Because it is a vegetable greenhouse, basically the vegetables in it are not affected by the season, so now some of the vegetables in the planting base built by Lai Xiaohu for those vegetable sellers in Jincheng have begun to mature.

Although it is not possible to start providing vegetables to everyone before the Chinese New Year so that they can return to normal trading, at least some of them can start supplying vegetables first.

At the same time, Lai Xiaohu did not forget to continue to increase the planting area here, and the promise that Lai Xiaohu made to several other villages was quickly fulfilled, because now basically all the farmland including Hezhuang and several surrounding villages has been contracted under Lai Xiaohu's name.

And since the current things in the Los Angeles planting base have been completely done, Lai Xiaohu does not need to condense the second-level crystal nucleus and the first-level crystal nucleus at the same time as before.

Now that he is fully condensing the first-level crystal nucleus, the speed is naturally much faster. At present, the entire Hezhuang as the center, with more than 4,000 acres of farmland in circumference, has been contracted by Lai Xiaohu.

It can be said unceremoniously that in the entire town, Lai Xiaohu is also the first big contractor. Now more than one-third of the farmland in the entire town has been in Lai Xiaohu's hands.

December 25th, the world's annual Christmas. Although Lai Xiaohu has never had this festival before, he has to have it this year. Because Ivanka, an American who celebrates Christmas every year, is by Lai Xiaohu's side.

Lai Xiaohu doesn't know how Christmas is celebrated in the West, and it is also difficult to spend Christmas like Americans in China, because you can't buy a lot of things here.

Therefore, Lai Xiaohu can only give Ivanka the way the Chinese spend Christmas, and before Christmas, on Christmas Eve, prepare a carefully selected apple for Ivanka to wish her a safe year. Then when Christmas came, Lai Xiaohu gave her and herself a day of vacation, and took her to play all day in the streets and alleys of Jincheng.

Although there is no Christmas holiday in China, Ivanka is very good at giving herself a holiday, and from Christmas to New Year, she does not study Chinese with Lai Xiaohu for several days.

On the night of New Year's Day, the company left work early again, and today is the New Year of the Gregorian calendar, so naturally everyone needs to get together and celebrate.

This time, Lai Xiaohu went to the hotel to go down one floor, and he invited all the people in the company, Ivanka, Yang Ling, Li Momo and others.

At this moment, everyone can put down their work and each other's duties, and have a happy night.

Originally, Ivanka planned to go back to the United States after New Year's Day, after all, she didn't go back to accompany her father at Christmas, but when Lai Xiaohu asked her again on the first day of the new year, she said she wouldn't go back.

Lai Xiaohu didn't know why, and looked at Zhang Ying, who told Lai Xiaohu that Ivanka wanted to stay in China to experience the Chinese New Year.

Well, Lai Xiaohu was really speechless this time, and seeing that Zhang Ying seemed to have agreed, he was really speechless.

On the New Year, Lai Xiaohu will definitely go back to his hometown with Zhang Ying, and if Ivanka doesn't leave, he will definitely follow the two. After all, you can't leave Ivanka alone in Jincheng on New Year's Day, right?

But if Ivanka is also brought back to her hometown, how should they explain when they face Dong Cuiyun and Zhang Xiuying?

Zhang Ying is actually very helpless, the last time she asked Ivanka to come to China, she said it herself, but this time when Ivanka herself said that she wanted to experience the Chinese New Year in China, Zhang Ying really couldn't say that you should go back.

Ivanka's reason is legitimate enough, and the relationship between the two is so close, Zhang Ying can't even satisfy each other's wishes, right?

So this time Zhang Ying's head was not confused, but although she had the heart to refuse, she couldn't say it. And her silence naturally became the default in Ivanka's eyes.

"Hey, it's good that it's still a while before the New Year." Lai Xiaohu thought so in his heart.

It's really a while before the Spring Festival, so Lai Xiaohu still has time to do the preliminary work of the mineral water industry that he thinks. (To be continued.) )