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Chapter 168: Inspecting Lamma Island, a girl asks for a boat ride

After reaching an agreement with John Madden, Lin Haoran purchased the Federal Building and the International Building very smoothly.

A deal was reached between the two parties that day.

After paying HK$10 billion, the property rights of the two buildings were transferred to the name of Huanyu Investment Company.

However, in order to strengthen the strength of Wan'an Group, Lin Haoran directly handed over the two newly purchased buildings to Wan'an Group for full takeover.

Afterwards, Wan'an Group can use these two buildings for collecting rent, office use, etc.

The headquarters office of Huanyu Investment Company can also be moved from the current Wan'an Group Building to the famous Federal Building.

Although this 31-storey building has long lost the glory of being the tallest building in Hong Kong, it is still an important part of the Central City Line.

The next morning at around nine o'clock, Lin Haoran arrived at the Hong Kong Electric Group early.

After Chen Shoulin finished the meeting, he left the Hong Kong Electric Group and headed for the Central Pier.

In addition to Lin Haoran, Chen Shoulin, Li Weidong and two bodyguards Li Weiguo, several senior executives of the Hong Kong Electric Group also went there.

Originally, Lin Haoran thought that they were going to Lamma Island by passenger ship, but he did not expect that they were actually taking a small government ship owned by the Hong Kong Electric Group.

Seeing that his boss was a little surprised, Chen Shoulin smiled and explained: "We not only supply electricity to Xiangjiang Island, but also to some surrounding islands such as Lamma Island and Ap Lei Chau. Our staff need to frequently go to various islands to repair and maintain power supply equipment, so our group also has several official ships and work boats."

After listening to Chen Shoulin's explanation, Lin Haoran suddenly understood.

This official ship was very fast. It departed from the Central Pier and arrived at its destination, the Yung Shue Wan Ferry Terminal on Lamma Island, in just over half an hour.

After landing on the island, you will see a fairly large fishing village. There is a village sign at the pier that reads "Rongshuwan Village".

"The power plant we are building is located in Pineapple Tsui, a few hundred meters south of this small fishing village. Since the pier over there is still under construction, we will temporarily land on the island from the Rong Shue Wan Pier. After the power plant's Lamma Island West Pier is built, we can land on the island directly from the power plant's pier next time." After landing on the island, Chen Shoulin explained as he walked side by side with Lin Haoran.

Lin Haoran nodded and looked carefully at the fishing village in front of him.

Lin Haoran did not have much impression of Lamma Island. He only knew that it was a big island in Hong Kong and also the power plant of Hong Kong Island. Another thing was that this should be the birthplace of the famous movie star Chow Yun-fat.

There are only a few villages on Lamma Island, and Yung Shue Wan Village is probably the largest village on Lamma Island.

As for whether Zhou Runfa is from this village, Lin Haoran doesn't really care.

After all, he had little interest in the film industry because the money came too slowly.

Although he has a lot of movie plots in his mind, if he takes them out in advance and asks professional screenwriters to write the plots and then make them into movies, he will definitely be able to do well in the Hong Kong film industry.

However, Lin Haoran had no interest at all.

For example, the two largest film companies in Hong Kong, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, could make tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars in profit a year, which is already very good.

It takes a lot of time and effort to do this, and you only earn so little from it. How could Lin Haoran possibly be interested in it!

He can make more money by investing in some projects than by making movies.

Of course, he is not interested in the film industry, but if there is a stake in the television industry that he does not have to manage, perhaps he would be interested.

For example, TVB or ATV, these two television companies have many stars and are considered the largest advertisers in Hong Kong. Lin Haoran doesn't mind if he can acquire part of the shares of one of the TV stations. It doesn't cost much anyway, so he can just treat it as a hobby.

Moreover, becoming the owner of a TV station can increase his influence.

Now, with tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars in hand, one or two hundred million Hong Kong dollars is not considered a large amount of money in Lin Haoran's view.

I have the impression that the current boss of TVB, Mr. Li, will pass away due to a sudden heart attack in a few months. I wonder if I will be able to buy out the Li family’s shares in TVB by then?

If he could buy it, Lin Haoran would still be very interested.

However, even if he could buy out Li's shares, he would not take over TVB because he does not have the energy to manage a TV station.

It is better for TVB to be managed by Run Run Shaw, because it has been proven in the past that he can really manage TVB very well.

Walk south for a few dozen meters from Rongshuwan Village and you will reach a small hill.

The hill is not high, it can even be called a small hill, and the middle of the hill is relatively low.

There is a small gravel road heading south from Rongshuwan Village. It is not very big and judging from the road surface, it seems to have been filled and excavated not long ago.

"This road was built by our construction team to facilitate travel from the Nanwan Village wharf to our power plant site. However, after next month, the power plant wharf will be completed, and we will close this road to prevent anyone from going there." Chen Shoulin explained as the group walked.

The journey of several hundred meters did not take long, and the small mountain road was not steep. In just about ten minutes, they arrived at the construction site of the power plant.

Standing on the high slope and overlooking the entire power plant site, the site is busy at this moment, with more than a hundred construction workers working in an orderly manner.

What is being built now is the first phase of the power plant, which mainly consists of building some buildings, but there is no power generation equipment at all.

"Why are there so few people working?" Lin Haoran asked curiously.

Although the employees below were busy, he still thought that there were at least a few hundred people on the construction site.

“Boss, our most important task right now is to lay the submarine cables. Once the submarine cables are laid, we can transfer all the power generation equipment on Ap Lei Chau to Lamma Island. Now we are just doing some preliminary work here, such as building offices, chimneys, etc., so we don’t need many people. When the power generation equipment is transferred here for installation in the future, we will need a lot of manpower here.” Chen Shoulin replied with a smile.

Several people inspected the power plant site for more than an hour, during which time Chen Shoulin provided construction guidance to the site manager.

Afterwards, they went to inspect the wharf under construction. Lin Haoran just watched quietly. He knew nothing about these things, so he naturally didn't give blind orders.

The scenery of Lamma Island is indeed beautiful. In addition, the power plant has not yet started operating, so the island can be said to be free of pollution.

After inspecting the power plant, Lin Haoran and others headed back.

At this time, it was already twelve o'clock in the afternoon.

"There is a restaurant over in Rongshuwan Village. The food is delicious. I had lunch there the last time I came here. Boss, let's have lunch before going back." Chen Shoulin said as he walked.

"Okay, Mr. Chen, I'm not familiar with this place, you can arrange everything." Lin Haoran said with a smile.

The weather today is not sunny, but rather cloudy.

After returning to Rongshuwan Village, under the leadership of Chen Shoulin, Lin Haoran and others came to a farm seafood restaurant near the pier.

Lamma Island is a fishing island and there is a strong smell of seafood at the pier.

Lin Haoran felt a little uncomfortable with the smell and couldn't help but frowned.

Once we walked into the restaurant, the smell wasn't so strong.

Chen Shoulin ordered a portion of all the signature dishes here, including baked lobster with gold medal sauce, fried crab in typhoon shelter, braised abalone with soft tenderloin, casserole with shark's fin, steamed grouper, curry fish balls, etc., all of which are seafood-related dishes.

There were 8 people in this trip and we ordered ten dishes, which was not considered extravagant.

The most important thing is that the price of this restaurant is not expensive. Even though we ordered so many dishes, which are mainly seafood, it only cost a few hundred Hong Kong dollars, which is very worthwhile.

As the saying goes, live by the mountain, eat by the mountain; live by the sea, eat by the sea, the same is true for Lamma Island.

"It tastes good!" Lin Haoran first picked up some grouper fish meat and ate it. It had a fresh and tender texture.

"Of course, otherwise I wouldn't recommend you, boss, to come here to eat." Chen Shoulin said with a smile.

It took nearly an hour to finish the meal.

It was already past one in the afternoon.

"Let's go back." After walking out of the restaurant, Lin Haoran looked around the area. The environment here was really nice, but it was not much different from the environment in Deep Water Bay.

Due to the cloudy weather, the color of the sea water is not very good. If you want to see that kind of blue sea, you can only do so when the weather is clear.

A few people returned to the Yung Shue Wan Pier, only to see a passenger ship had just left the pier not long ago.

Just when Lin Haoran and others were preparing to board the ship, several girls were complaining at the dock.

"We only have one minute left to catch up with the ferry."

"What should I do? The next ferry is not until 5pm, and it will be 6pm when I get back. If I go back so late, my mom will definitely scold me to death."

"Lizhen, it's all your fault for walking so slowly."

"I didn't want to do that. I didn't know I would sprain my ankle. It still hurts now!"

"Hey Xiaofeng, don't blame Lizhen. Now think about what to do."

"What else can I do? I can only wait for the next ferry. Hey, I was planning to go shopping in Causeway Bay this afternoon, but now I can't."

"Hey, that ship belongs to the Hong Kong Electric Group. Do you think we can take their ship back? They seem to be preparing to return to Hong Kong Island?"

"That's true, Lizhen. We can't get on the boat because of you. Go and ask for us. Maybe we can take their boat back!"

"Okay, I'll give it a try."

……

As soon as they boarded the boat, a female voice came from behind: "Wait a moment, sir, wait a moment."

Lin Haoran turned around and saw a beautiful young girl who looked about fifteen or sixteen years old.

The breeze gently blew through her soft hair, bringing with it a hint of barely perceptible shyness. The girl wanted to go forward, but she seemed a little hesitant because of her inner hesitation, which made people couldn't help but want to pity her.

"Is there anything wrong?" Chen Shoulin asked.

"Uncle, we missed the ferry just now and can't go back to Xiangjiang Island. Can we take your boat back to Xiangjiang Island?" The girl said courageously.

Lin Haoran looked at the girl in front of him. Looking at her appearance, he felt more and more that she looked like a female star.

Like who?
He suddenly remembered that this girl was the high school girl Lin Xiaohua who starred in "Happy Ghost".

It's just that he looks a little younger, although he doesn't look much younger.

"Sorry, we are a government vessel..." Chen Shoulin was about to refuse, but was interrupted by Lin Haoran.

"Come up, we are preparing to go back to Central Pier!" Lin Haoran said to the girl with a smile.

(End of this chapter)