20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3707 Lin Yixia

When the car arrived at Taohua Lake Scenic Area, the scenic area director Lin Yixia, deputy director Liu Mingjie, and accountant Liu Cui were already waiting in the hotel lobby.

Lin Yixia was Wang Deyuan's college classmate. She used to hold a sinecure as a deputy section chief in the water resources bureau of her hometown in western China. After her divorce, she raised her daughter alone, earning a meager salary of just over a thousand yuan a month. She couldn't get any benefits or extra money, and her life was so poor that she couldn't bear it.

She quit her job and was recruited by Wang Deyuan. Her salary increased to seven or eight thousand yuan, and she was assigned to the first year of high school in the West District.

Liu Mingjie could tell from his wife's phone call last night, and the undisguised sweet smile on his daughter's face when she returned to work this morning, even if he were a fool, that his daughter had gone to the city to see Zhao Chang'an last night.

However, his daughter was already twenty-one. Although he had lost interest in matters of love and sex after turning thirty and had developed a passion for fishing, he had been young before and knew that love between men and women was a natural human emotion. As long as his daughter was willing, and Zhao Chang'an was so rich that he could provide for his daughter's life without worrying about food and clothing, and she could have as many children as she wanted, and they could even take the surname Liu, Liu Mingjie felt relieved and even a little happy.

In this way, you'll have your own grandchildren who will still bear the surname Liu, and your daughter won't have to worry about being mistreated when she marries into her husband's family. As long as you don't get stuck on things and think more positively, what others consider bad might actually be a good thing.

His wife called in the morning to say that Zhao Chang'an wanted the whole family to get together that evening, and Liu Mingjie was in a pretty good mood. But then he saw four young women get out of the car, each one more beautiful than the last, and he didn't know what to say about his feelings.

Zhao Chang'an and Lin Yixia shook hands warmly. He had seen her profile; she was thirty-six years old and divorced. In the photos, she had an oval face and looked quite intellectual. Now, seeing her in person and holding her small hand, he felt she was even more intellectual.

She was dressed in a very traditional style, with loose and crisp indigo trousers paired with a plain and simple top, and the kind of uniform worn by county and township officials. Although simple, she had a unique charm that appealed to those who appreciated the woman's restraint and subtlety.

In Zhao Chang'an's previous life, people on social media often said, "You have no idea how attractive girls working in the system are." In Zhao Chang'an's opinion, these people didn't understand the appeal of these older women; they thought older aunties were even more attractive.

Zhao Chang'an shook hands with Lin Yixia. Seeing Liu Mingjie's embarrassed expression, unsure whether it was appropriate for a subordinate to shake hands so formally with his boss, Zhao Chang'an smiled graciously and said, "Uncle, let's not shake hands. This is Fan Chufei, Chu Guangying's aunt, Qi Xuan, Wang Yu, my school counselor, Ms. Ye Yiyi, who is visiting relatives in China."

Zhao Chang'an knew that Fan Chufei was very proud and did not like to be touched by people, not even a handshake. So far, Zhao Chang'an had known this beautiful and graceful woman for two years and had never touched her even a single finger.

So introduce her first, to avoid making her seem passive and out of place if everyone else is introduced first and there's such a formal handshake.

After all, Fan Chufei is already twenty-six or twenty-seven years old and is still a working professional.

Seeing that Fan Chufei simply nodded in a friendly manner, Qi Xuan, as Fan Chufei's good friend, naturally wouldn't take the initiative to shake hands with Lin Yixia, putting her friend in a passive position. Wang Yu followed suit, doing the same thing.

Only Ye Yiyi took the initiative to shake hands with Lin Yixia, Liu Mingjie, and Liu Cui respectively.

Upon hearing Zhao Chang'an's explanation, Liu Mingjie felt much more at ease, realizing he had misunderstood Zhao Chang'an. He knew Zhao Chang'an had many women, but since his daughter liked them, their relationship was already irrevocably established. As long as Zhao Chang'an didn't bring these women to his daughter's presence, Liu Mingjie felt he could pretend not to know. This was the secret to his happy and harmonious marriage for over twenty years.

The four young and beautiful women in front of him were clearly just ordinary friends with Zhao Chang'an, so he didn't feel embarrassed or awkward at all.

I wasn't planning on going with the boat, but now I'm determined to go fishing.

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As the director of the scenic area, Lin Yixia had just taken over the affairs of the scenic area, so she entrusted Liu Mingjie to accompany Zhao Chang'an and others to Wenjia Village upstream by yacht.

Liu Cui had spent the entire previous night in a sweet and intimate embrace with her lover, and was feeling joyful. She also needed to prepare dinner, so she naturally stayed at the scenic area.

"Wenjia Village is such a wonderful place. It's incredibly sunny. In winter, fish in many places won't bite, but the water temperature there is high, and the sun shines on a large expanse of water from early morning until night. Plus, the upstream stream brings in lots of insects—"

Liu Mingjie and Zhao Chang'an chatted on the yacht. When the topic of fishing came up, he became very animated: "The dam area of ​​the scenic area is no good. The only way to get here is by water or by car, which takes a 40-50 kilometer detour via the national highway from the bridge. If there were a road here, my winters would be much easier."

"The main problem is that there are too few tourists in winter, so the yacht route from the scenic dam to Wenjia Village cannot be operated. There are actually several villages behind Wenjia Village, but those people all go out of the mountains from the east to National Highway 107."

Zhao Chang'an is quite familiar with the situation in Wenjia Village: "There are actually many undeveloped scenic spots in this area, such as Eagle Cliff, which was a bandit den back then. It was a strategic location that was easy to defend and difficult to attack. The government sent security regiments to suppress it several times but failed to wipe it out. It was only after the 6th Air Force Squadron of the Battle of Wuhan was stationed there that it was finally eradicated."

Speaking of this, Zhao Chang'an couldn't help but sigh. In early 38, Wen Ye's grandmother and her parents passed through Wushe Ridge and wanted to enter Tongbai Town. They eventually settled in Zijingguan Town, which is located in the Three Provinces of Jiti, where their Ye family had a year-round Chinese herbal medicine purchasing point.

As a result, her family was robbed by bandits entrenched in Eagle Cliff in the Wushe Ridge area. If they had passed by here a dozen or so days later, this tragedy would not have happened.

"I always thought the lakeside tourism project that Ye's Group had was very forward-thinking. The problem is that the mainstream opinion within the cultural tourism company is that this would not achieve the goal of using these mountains to enclose the lake area and charging fees through the dam. So they forcibly stopped it, wasting two or three million yuan, and now there are still many disputes with the surrounding villages."

Zhao Chang'an said to Liu Mingjie, "Uncle, you and Director Lin should re-examine this project carefully and see if we can restart it."

“But as you said, this means the entire lake area is leaky on all sides, and people can come up from anywhere, which makes it difficult to collect ticket revenue.”

Liu Mingjie had some foresight: "The Ye Group's previous idea was to offer free admission to the scenic area, with revenue generated through the businesses operating within it. They also planned to connect the tea gardens around the lake and establish a unified branded tea sales company, using a farmer-company model. The farmers would only be responsible for planting and harvesting the tea leaves; they wouldn't be allowed to process them privately. The company would handle the unified purchasing, processing, and sales. The problem is that these 50,000 to 60,000 mu of tea gardens around the lake are recognized as the best in Shancheng City. If the Ye Group were to acquire and monopolize them, other tea companies would only be able to source inferior tea. Otherwise, why were Chen Fanping and his associates so opposed? They were trying to undermine the foundation of their brands like Fanpin Tea House and Xinya Tea."