Chapter 1477: The Tallest Building of the Century

More than ten minutes later, Flushing Prairie Corona Park arrived.

This is the second largest garden park in New York, second only to Manhattan Island Central Park in scale, the first United Nations General Assembly in history was held here, and the 1964 World Expo was also held here.

Speaking of Flushing, we have to talk about the famous local Chinatown, now this area is inhabited by a large number of Chinese, in addition to Southeast Asian countries, there are many yellow people who have crossed the sea, they have jointly formed a business district, forming a business district with Asian characteristics, you can see many Thai restaurants, Chinese restaurants and Japanese restaurants on the street, at this time the crowd on the street, the vast majority of them are also Asian faces.

The number of settled Chinese in New York is not as large as in California, and Chinatown is not as famous as Los Angeles and San Francisco, and the vast majority of its residents do not have a high standard of living, low education, insufficient ability, and language barriers, and many of them cannot find suitable jobs and can only do some manual work.

Some Chinese have immigrated to the United States for hundreds of years and are still living in a traditional way, and it is difficult for people of other nationalities to integrate into it, so they are isolated, such as Han Xuan's family, whose life is full of various Chinese customs, and his ancestors came to the United States as early as the end of the Qing Dynasty, and their habits have not changed much.

The address that Old Patton wrote to Han Xuan was located in an alley on Flushing 34th Street, surrounded by streets and alleys, and after asking the locals, he successfully found the specific location, and the car drove forward, and Gabriel looked left and right, looking for the "Donald Duck dry cleaner" that the owner of the flower shop said, and arrived a few minutes later, parked the car on the side of the road and walked down......

It's close to noon, New York is a big city with a lot of cars and people, the heat island effect is quite serious, the temperature is about the same as the snow-capped mountain pasture area, but it will feel hotter, the wind is blocked by high-rise buildings, and the sound of cars and people's noise makes people feel irritated.

Han Xuan took Anya's hand, the bodyguards surrounded him, many strangers gathered over, and some people even wittily took out blueberry N95 and N97 mobile phones to take pictures, the photos they took were very scummy pixels, yes, but it is enough to put them on the Internet today, as long as the super big brown bear is also photographed, everyone will know that it is Han Xuan, who can rub a wave of hot spots to attract fans, and make friends on the Internet envious.

Because they will be watched like this on the street, many celebrities do not like to appear in public and cannot walk freely on the street, which makes them lack a lot of fun, which is one of the troubles of becoming famous......

"We should have been with Pooh in that Mercedes Benz before, but now it's not good to visit her directly, it will probably cause trouble for Barton's ex-wife, and after I go, there will definitely be gossip reporters to find out about the situation."

Regretting his tone, Han Xuan whispered to Anya, and glanced sideways, there were about forty or fifty people following, their eyes were like looking at magical animals, with a smile on their faces.

Anya nodded and asked him, "I think so too, it's annoying to be disturbed by reporters, I believe that old Barton will not want that to happen, what should we do now?" ”

"Flushing's Chinatown is not far from here, you can go there first, eat something and come over, just now I plan to wait for her to visit her, and I won't waste time......"

Anya naturally won't object, she likes to go shopping the most, especially when she's with Han Xuan, if you add delicious food, it's even better.

The two of them walked through the streets, enjoying the street scenery along the way, the scorching sun was blocked by high-rise buildings, the temperature at this time was quite comfortable, at least much better than in Egypt, usually there were not many opportunities to go shopping like this, they walked very slowly, and they were in a good mood to talk and laugh.

As we approach Chinatown, there are more and more shops with Chinese signs on the roadside, and the number of Chinese people among the local foreign residents accounts for three-fifths, such as Chaoshan casserole porridge, Qingdao restaurant, Zhangzhou driving school, New York Tongrentang, Huizhou tea shop, etc., printed into Han Xuan's eyes, not far away "East West Bank" traditional Chinese signboard is particularly conspicuous.

As the scale has grown in recent years, the bank's signboard and logo have undergone a major change last year, and the background color has been changed to bright yellow, just like the one used by the ancient royal family, with a pale white cut-out pattern, like a printed silk cloth, and the text on it is black.

Many Han companies, all like to use dragon patterns, it is no exception, under the name of the bank there are two face-to-face black dragons, it is difficult to imagine this kind of signboard full of Chinese characteristics, the designer is a British.

When he first learned the news, Han Xuan couldn't cry or laugh, and could only say that for the design fee of 500,000 US dollars, the designer could be regarded as fighting, and it was estimated that he had learned a lot of oriental culture.

Chinese New Year, red envelopes, Chinese food and other elements with Chinese cultural style have become popular in the United States recently.

Sony Columbia Pictures recently even announced that it decided to shoot a "Journey to the West" movie, the plot has been changed to four different ways, the stills have come out, the long-legged blonde Tang Seng with big breasts and hips and a small waist, and the handsome man Sha Monk, the gods and Buddhas will be tempted to see it, which is very in line with the taste of Americans.

It can be seen that Chinese culture is not unable to influence the West, but lacks the opportunity to integrate into the West, which is related to the country's political and economic strength.

People stared at the big celebrity Han Xuan, and subtly they would be affected by some of his actions, for example, at the end of the year, the bonuses of the Snow Mountain Group were sent to employees in red envelopes, and the red envelopes and money were quietly equated.

More than a hundred years ago, as the world's most powerful country, China's culture influenced the world, foreign businessmen across the sea, to purchase materials need to learn Chinese, otherwise standing on the street holding money no one cares, thinking that they are vulgar and ugly, unedifyable.

Tea ceremony, thought, art, etc., spread to all over the world, exquisite handmade art, collected by foreigners as treasures, only to show off at the party, proudly said that it came from the East, people know which country it refers to, and now it is indeed in decline, and it will take a long time to recover......

After the reporters received the news that they were shopping here, they quickly followed and took some street photos for Han Xuan and Anya.

When you are tired of walking, you will find a place to rest for a while, eat a bowl of knife-cut noodles at noon, and then go to buy some wood carving handicrafts for decoration.

Wenge wood is one of the more beautiful types of mahogany, thinking that it should be used to drink tea under the grape trellis, it should be good, Han Xuan bought it for more than 40,000 US dollars, and the boss will be responsible for contacting the transportation company to send it to the snow mountain ranch, and it does not necessarily have to be expensive, this thing can be bought if you see it right.

A few years ago, Han Xuan invested in a project to help Los Angeles Chinatown rectify and demolish, and the project has been carried out until now, and the old houses around the commercial street have basically been demolished.

The new house is mainly a wooden structure, with a folk style of cornices and walls, and the commercial area of the Chinatown is more than twice the size of the original, and in the design and planning, it will become a local tourist attraction, so that foreigners can feel the authentic Chinese ancient city style without going abroad.

Han Xuan and his grandfather gave enough benefits to those demolition households, and people were reasonable, knowing that they were thinking about themselves and did not cause trouble.

A very small number of black-hearted nail households who want to get high-priced demolition compensation have also been submissively solved by local gangs, which is a major event related to the future life of hundreds of thousands of Chinese in Los Angeles, and they can't afford to play tricks.

Chinese people like to save money, and they don't have a lot of money in their hands, and this time many people take out the money to buy property, even if they invest hundreds of millions of dollars, the grandfather and grandson will also have to make money.

In addition to the houses allocated to local residents, there will be many shops and apartments left, which will be operated by the companies they have partnered with, trying to make Old Chinatown a unique area in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

The people from Interstellar Investment on Wall Street received an order to find two more Masera SUVs while the little boss was shopping, and they parked at the back door of East West Bank.

Han Xuan entered through the gate of the bank, then came out of the back door, quickly got into the car, came to the building where the old Patton's ex-wife lived, and hurriedly ran in with Anya.

The house number is clearly written, go directly upstairs, there are many small advertisements pasted on the wall, the wooden handrails have rotted, the corridor seems to have not been cleaned for a long time, and there is an apple core that has been randomly discarded in the corner, which has become moldy.

In this era, there are so many Asians living in the community, which is generally not upscale, and when he came to the outside of room 4-2, Han Xuan reached out and rang the doorbell......