Following.

Everyone in Deep Water Bay got up early, and the servants at home had already prepared all kinds of breakfast, and the Lou family happily ate breakfast in the restaurant, and then went out to find Zhang Zhonghua next door.

"Uncle Ahua, I'm going to ride an elephant today."

Lou Xiaobao said excitedly when he saw Zhang Zhonghua.

"Uncle Ahua, I'm going to ride the merry-go-round."

Lou Xiaobei also followed Lou Xiaobao and said.

"I'm going on a pirate ship."

Lou Xiaobao said.

"I'm going to ride a lion and a tiger."

Lou Xiaobei's words amused everyone present, the little guy is powerful enough, after riding a lion and riding a tiger, do you want to get a dragon to ride for you? You can't go to heaven!

"Xiaobei, let's not ride lions and tigers or anything, lions and tigers will eat children, my aunt will take you to a bumper car!"

Lou Xiao'e said to Lou Xiaobei.

"My brother will take you to ride an elephant, it must be fun to ride an elephant so big."

Lou Xiaobao said to Lou Xiaobei.

"Okay, then I won't ride lions and tigers, but brother, you have to take me to ride elephants."

Zhang Zhonghua and his entourage of nearly 20 people came to the dock in a car, and rushed to the direction of the New Territories on a yacht, and Zhang Long had already arranged for a team of people to go to the playground in advance for security.

Last night, Zhang Zhonghua also learned about the situation of the Hong Kong Island amusement park.

In the 60s and 70s, there were two large-scale playgrounds on Hong Kong Island, one was Lai Yuen on the waterfront in Lai Chi Kok, and the other was Kai Tak Playground in San Po Kong.

And in terms of history and scale, Lai Yuen is better than Kai Tak, and Lai Yuen Playground is the most classic brand in the history of Hong Kong Island Playground.

As early as 1947, the Liyuan Playground had the first generation of prototypes, and the owner of the first generation of the playground was named Shi Zhongshan, who was born into a wealthy Catholic family.

At first, the playground was sold as a swimming pool, and later some large-scale motorized children's games imported from the ugly country were added next to the pool, thus opening up the world of children.

In 1949, the playground was built as Hong Kong's first roller ice rink, which made Lai Chi Yuen accessible to adults and children to young people, and also made Lai Chi Yuen a large-scale comprehensive amusement park.

In 1950, Shi Zhongshan resold the management rights of the lychee orchard to Zhang Junguang, a wealthy businessman in the weaving industry.

After Zhang Junguang took over the Lychee Garden, he changed the name of the Lychee Garden to the Lychee Garden Playground, and expanded it vigorously, adding a water dance hall, a Manila band, a Western-style restaurant, a theater, and an open-air cinema on the original basis of the playground. Of course, the most attractive to young people are the Ferris wheel, roller coaster, airship, bumper car, haha mirror, merry-go-round and so on purchased from the United States.

In 1952, a zoo was added, and the whole playground has lions, tigers, big stupid elephants, crocodiles, monkeys, giraffes, etc., which is relatively comprehensive, and it is considered to be complete.

In the 60s, Lai Yuen Playground welcomed its third owner, Yau Tak Gen, who bought Lai Yuen Playground for HK$1.5 million in 1962 and became a cash cow under its umbrella.

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Zhang Zhonghua doesn't know much about the history of Liyuan Playground, but he is more familiar with the things that follow.

In 1979, Qiu Degen invested tens of millions of yuan to build a historical and cultural amusement park - Songcheng.

Song City has also become a film shooting base, the buildings in the city are like the Song Dynasty buildings, shops, money houses, theaters, courtyards, etc., just like the ancient city, the people who opened shops and sold artists in the city are dressed in ancient costumes of the Song Dynasty.

Many of the Hong Kong Island movies I saw later were filmed here.

However, after the opening of Ocean Park in 1976, Lai Yuen Amusement Park began to compete directly with Ocean Park.

However, since then, the Lai Yuen Playground has begun to decline, and although Kai Tak Playground, another amusement park on Hong Kong Island, closed down in 1982, the business of the Lai Yuen Playground has not improved due to the closure of the Kai Tak Playground.

Eventually, the Hong Kong Island government decided to reclaim the land of Lai Yuen, and the zoo at Lai Yuen Playground bore the brunt, closing on 31 July 1993 with more than 100 animals sent to the Shenzhen Wildlife Park.

Zhang Zhonghua and his entourage took a yacht and soon came to Kwai Chung Wharf, today's weather is good, the sun is shining, the sea breeze is very comfortable, today's Liyuan Playground does not need to think about the majority of tourists.

Zhang Zhonghua has been to Ocean Park on Hong Kong Island before, and Zhang Zhonghua vaguely remembers some of the introduction of Ocean Park.

Initially opened in 1976 and officially opened in 1977, Ocean Park was initially built with donations from the Hong Kong Island Jockey Club and managed by the Club.

In the early 1980s, Ocean Park began to expand again with the addition of large-scale rides, including a water park, a shark aquarium, a torii gate, a mountain elevator and a Jigu Village. Later, the park became independent from the Jockey Club and became self-financed, and became a commercial operator, and began to add new projects and introduce more large-scale rides.

"Boss, there is Lantau Island in the famous outlying islands area, the existence of this mountain just blocks the entire Victoria Harbour, so that the entire Kowloon area will not be affected by the typhoon, which makes the Kowloon area develop, if there is no Lantau Island, Kowloon will be devastated by typhoons every year."

Zhang Long introduced to Zhang Zhonghua.

Zhang Zhonghua is more familiar with Lantau Island, it is precisely because Lantau Island blocked the typhoon, not only for the development of Kowloon, but also because of Lantau Island, the future Hong Kong Island International Airport will choose to reclaim land in Chek Lap Kok, and Disneyland is also built at the foot of Lantau Mountain.

The area of Hong Kong Island is too small, and the land that can be developed is called a real limited, so there is no way to choose land reclamation, and as for the construction of an airport in the New Territories, the location here is too remote.

"You know, this place just blocked the typhoons in Tsuen Wan and Kwai Chung, so areas such as Sham Shui Shi, Mong Kok and Yau Ma Tei are not affected by the typhoon."

Everyone got out of the pier and got into the car prepared in advance again and rushed to the Liyuan Playground.

Driving into the Lai Yuen Playground, today is the weekend, all the schools on Hong Kong Island are closed, the students are running to play, the whole playground is called a woo, crowded with people, and the scenic spot before the rebirth of the small long vacation.

This playground should also be quite profitable, and Zhang Zhonghua also saw a CFC restaurant in the park in the playground.

"Uncle Ahua, look, that's a merry-go-round."

Lou Xiaobei said excitedly.

"Xiaobei, let's go to the zoo first, there are too many people here, it will take a long time to queue, I will let people queue up, and then come and sit when we are almost there."

Zhang Zhong looked at the long line in front of the merry-go-round, his scalp was a little numb, and said to Lou Xiaobei with a wry smile.

"Ah, we still have to queue up, if only we had a playground at home."

Lou Xiaobei said disappointedly.

Lou Xiaobei's words made the corners of the mouths of several adults around him twitch, it was impossible to build such a big playground.

Let's not talk about whether the Hong Kong government will approve it, let you waste land resources and build a playground, and even if you are allowed to build it, building a playground is not something that can be built in a short time, and building a playground is not about building a house, there are many things to consider.

"Playground? Okay, no problem, Uncle Ah Hua will build you a little playground at Deep Water Bay. ”

Zhang Zhonghua readily agreed, it is still trivial to build a playground, as for those large-scale projects, there is no need to be too loud for self-entertainment.

"Little playground, huh? Are there any elephant camels to ride? ”

Lou Xiaobei said.

"Yes, when the time comes, buy a few elephant camels and ride them however you want."

However, the smell of this elephant thing seems to be quite big, and we need to build a cleaning system.

After pacifying the two children, the group began to walk towards the zoo, surrounded by countless tourists and a few little ones with the bananas they had bought.

But it's a pity that the elephants here are not trained well and can't ride, and if you want to ride elephants, it seems that you can only go to Thailand, and the elephants in the playground here can be seen at most.

"Camels, there are camels there......"

"Look at the lion over there, the hair is so long......"

"Tiger, there is a brain axe, he really has the word king on his head, it's so scary......"

"Xiaobei, do you still want to ride lions and tigers?"

"Auntie, I won't ride anymore, they look so fierce."

"Mom, what's in that water, it's terrible."

"That's a crocodile."

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In the morning, Zhang Zhonghua and the others visited the zoo and walked towards the CFC restaurant, and a few little ones were already hungry

"Su Qun, where are you Su Qun, Ye Suqun are you." A woman searches for her daughter.

Zhang Zhonghua forgot when he heard the voice, this is Sister Liu? This is exactly Sister Liu, who introduced high-quality employees to Zhang Zhonghua in the early days of CFC and provided him with a lot of protection for the early development of CFC.

Sister Liu's child was lost?

Zhang Zhonghua immediately walked up and asked, "Sister Liu, why are you here?" What's going on? ”

When Sister Liu saw that it was Zhang Zhonghua, she immediately said with a crying voice: "Zhang Sheng, my daughter can't be found, she just turned her head and disappeared." ”

"Sister Liu, don't worry, what clothes is your daughter wearing, how old is she, and how tall is she?" Zhang Zhonghua immediately appeased Sister Liu, and then asked.

"Zhang Sheng, my daughter Su Qun, is 3 years old this year, 110 cm, wearing a red top and a small white skirt, her name is Ye Suqun, Zhang Sheng, please help me find Su Qun! I'm on your knees! ”

Sister Liu cried and said to Zhang Zhonghua, and she was going to kneel down for Zhang Zhonghua.

Zhang Zhonghua hurriedly helped Sister Liu, although Zhang Zhonghua called Sister Liu, but in fact, Sister Liu had to be more than ten years older than him, and he didn't dare to let Sister Liu kneel on him.

"Where did the child get lost?"

Lou Xiao'e also came over and asked with concern, she also knew Sister Liu.

"It's right here, and you can't find it in the blink of an eye."

"Aaron, except for the necessary people, everyone else will go to find people, go to places with many children."

Zhang Zhonghua commanded.

"Understood!" Zhang Long immediately ordered the surrounding security guards to disperse and start looking for it, Zhang Long and the remaining few people were responsible for continuing the security work, don't get lost, the child was not found, and the two young masters of the Lou family could not be found.

Lou's mother, Lou Xiao'e and Liu Xiaoli began to comfort Sister Liu, there are too many people in the playground today, and the child is indeed easy to get lost.

"Boss, it's already dinner now, shall I go buy some food first?"

After looking for more than ten minutes, the security personnel who went out found nothing, and Zhang Long could only propose to eat something first.

"Let's go, buy more and come back, go directly to the store manager and take it directly from the back kitchen, there are too many people now."

Zhang Zhonghua commanded.

"Understood, I'll go."

Zhang Long answered, and then said to the few security guards who stayed: "You guys be on guard, come and go with me to get some food." ”

Then Zhang Long led a person towards the CFC restaurant

When Zhang Long walked to the door of the CFC restaurant and was about to walk to the back kitchen, he saw a little girl in one of the three or four small girls staring directly at the fried chicken in the hand of a guest, and then he was stunned.

Little girl, three or four years old, with a red top and a white skirt, this can't be the Ye Suqun you've been looking for, right?

Zhang Long stepped forward and asked, "Little friend, where is your mother?" ”

The little girl glanced up at Zhang Long, a little unrecognizable and didn't dare to speak, Zhang Long continued to ask: "Are you called Ye Suqun, your mother is looking for you." ”

"Uncle, where is my mother? I'm a little hungry and I miss Mom. ”

Ye Suqun said timidly.

"You wait here, I'll have someone call your mother, okay?"

Zhang Long touched Ye Suqun's little head and said.

"Hmm!"

Ye Suqun nodded stolenly.

Zhang Long took Ye Suqun to find the manager of the CFC restaurant in the playground and showed his unique ID, and instructed the clerk to prepare hamburgers, fried chicken and drinks for Ye Suqun, and the security personnel who stayed with him left the restaurant and ran quickly in the direction where Zhang Zhonghua was.

"Boss, Ms. Liu, the child has been found, at the CFC restaurant, the child is hungry and runs to the restaurant by himself, I have already instructed the staff of the restaurant to prepare some food."

Zhang Long came to everyone and said.

"Great, thank you for helping me find Su Qun, if Su Qun is really lost, I really don't know how to explain it to her father."

Sister Liu said excitedly.

"Okay, Sister Liu, don't get excited, let's go see the child. Leave one person here to wait for the others, and when everyone is ready, they will meet at the restaurant. ”

Zhang Zhonghua said.

A few minutes later, Zhang Zhonghua came to the CFC restaurant and saw Xiao Ye Suqun eating this hamburger, a very cute and beautiful little girl, but Zhang Zhonghua felt familiar.

He thought about it seriously for a while, and felt that he might be thinking too much, who knows what such a young child will be like when he grows up, and the eighteenth change of the female college will know what it will look like.

"Su Qun, my child, why don't you come to the restaurant and tell me!"

When Sister Liu saw the child who was eating, she immediately rushed over and hugged her, and her tears couldn't stop falling.

"Mom, I'm hungry! Mom, don't cry, it's not good to cry, and I'll never run around again. ”

The little girl wiped her mother's tears with her hand and said.