Chapter 489 Poetry and Distance
Li Xiaofan suddenly felt that time and space seemed to be out of order, his face turned a little red, and he said, "I'm sorry, I made the decision for you without permission..."
"Director Li, it's okay, I really like this Mojito!"
In the previous life, after the team got several big orders, Dai Junling would often treat everyone to a meal and then go to the bar to sit down.
In Li Xiaofan's memory, her favorite is this Cuban-style Mojito cocktail. Traditionally, Mojito is made from light rum, sugar cane juice, lime juice, soda water and mint. The alcohol content is not too high and it feels very refreshing.
After Li Xiaofan's song "Mojito" was sung by Jay Chou before his rebirth, the Mojito cocktail became inexplicably popular.
While taking a break and chatting in the bar, Dai Junling found that she got along well with Li Xiaofan. She felt like he was an old friend she hadn't seen for many years. She became more and more curious about Li Xiaofan...
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Early the next morning, everyone met at the Nanxiang Teahouse in Old Town and had a rich breakfast. Many people who like to drink white coffee come to Nan Xiang Teahouse because the white coffee here is highly recommended by Mr. Chua Lam, a famous gourmet in Hong Kong.
Nan Xiang Tea Room can be said to be the ancestor of Ipoh’s white coffee. The white coffee produced here is rich and smooth. Li Xiaofan secretly lamented that it is no wonder it is so popular.
This shop is very famous for its Hokkien noodles, Yong Tau Foo, Chee Cheong Fun, toasted bread and egg tarts. For the freshly baked egg tarts, there is an endless stream of customers queuing up to buy them, basically buying them by the dozen. Smooth white coffee paired with freshly baked egg tarts is a delicious breakfast.
After a hearty breakfast, everyone rushed to the most famous Cameron Highlands near Ipoh.
After getting on the bus, Dai Junling smiled and said: "Director Li, it feels like you came to Ipoh just to pick me up. You saved me the bus fare to Singapore."
"Well, Sister Jun Ling, Director Li has been so kind to you, how can you thank him..." Atan teased.
"Haha, how about I treat you all to a big dinner at Cameron Highlands at noon?"
"Mr. Dai, I'm treating you to lunch. You've already treated us to two meals. I'm sorry to cost you any more!"
It was about 70 kilometers from the ancient city of Ipoh to Cameron Highlands. An hour and a half later, Li Xiaofan and the others arrived at this famous tourist destination in Malaysia.
It was once a popular resort for British colonial government officials. Today, Cameron Highlands is the largest temperate vegetable and flower growing area in Malaysia, transporting vegetables and highland fruits to surrounding cities and even Singapore all year round.
"Director Li, we eat many vegetables and fruits in Singapore, many of which are picked and sent here." Dai Junling introduced.
The temperature in Cameron Highlands is around 20 degrees Celsius all year round, and the climate is cool.
In Ipoh, down the mountain, the daytime temperature is around 30 degrees all year round.
Escape from the hustle and bustle of the heat wave down the mountain, come here to enjoy the fresh air and cool temperature, which makes Li Xiaofan and the others feel good.
Dai Junling took Li Xiaofan to experience the leisurely tea garden life in Cameron Highlands. There are several tea gardens in Cameron, the largest ones are BOH and Bharat Tea Plantations, among which BOH black tea is a very famous tea brand in Malaysia.
Unlike mainland China, people here don’t like green tea, and black tea is their favorite.
You can visit the tea making process in the tea garden for free, and there will be an English tour guide to explain it. After the visit, you can have tea and snacks in the restaurant.
On the hillside, the famous BOH Tea Garden built a transparent glass tea tasting room extending out. Outside the house is a large tea garden, full of green, with mountains that are either clearly visible or faintly visible in the distance. Due to the plateau climate, a large cloud may drift in in the blink of an eye, and the fog will surround you instantly, like a fairyland.
In the mist-shrouded mountains, there are acres and acres of tea trees all over the mountains and plains. While drinking tea and listening to the wind in a restaurant suspended in mid-air, while people come and go around him, Li Xiaofan looks at Dai Junling chatting in front of him, and time seems to have frozen. Already...
Sometimes a thought would pop into his head: In his previous life, if Dai Junling had not left Shanghai and he confessed to her, would Dai Junling accept him?
There is indeed such a case around Li Xiaofan. A foreign friend who only had a vocational high school degree and was living in the world of Shanghai married a Singaporean wife who was older than him. This Singaporean wife is the top general manager of the Shanghai branch of a Japanese multinational company engaged in machine tool manufacturing. Apart from being slightly older, she is not too ugly. Li Xiaofan also attended their outdoor wedding in Shanghai...
Dai Junling found that Li Xiaofan would often look at her inexplicably, and she would inevitably wonder secretly: Could it be that the young business tycoon in front of her really took a fancy to her?
Even Atan seems to have noticed something strange about Li Xiaofan: Brother Fan seems to be interested in Dai Junling!
Dai Junling introduced to Li Xiaofan that more than a hundred years ago in 1885, a British government employee named William Cameron was conducting surveying and mapping work on the Malaysian plateau and accidentally discovered the beautiful plateau that is now obscured by high mountains. Since then, this beautiful and fertile land was named Cameron Highlands after the British man's surname, which is also called Cameron Highlands in Chinese. For tropical countries near the equator, the temperature here is around 20 degrees all year round, making it a rare summer and cold resort.
Coming out of the tea garden, Li Xiaofan discovered that in addition to tea gardens nearby, there were various gardens, orchards, vegetable gardens, strawberry gardens, and even small attractions such as a bee garden, butterfly garden, and cactus world.
Dai Junling introduced to Li Xiaofan that Cameron Highlands is one of the largest tea gardens in Malaysia. In addition to the most famous tea gardens, hundreds of tropical flowers are planted here. There are rose gardens and cactus gardens. Cameron Highlands is also rich in strawberries and cabbage. , tomatoes, lettuce and other fruits and vegetables, and many tourists even come all the way just to taste Cameron’s strawberries.
Li Xiaofan and the others went to a large natural strawberry farm nearby called Big Red Strawberry Farm. The strawberries inside were very sweet and attracted many tourists.
In addition to strawberries, there are many organic vegetables in greenhouses, which are grown using soilless cultivation technology. They are very clean. Many local Malaysian tourists buy vegetables inside.
Tasting the sweet strawberries, Li Xiaofan said to himself: "There is a large state-owned forest farm next to our hometown in Dong'ao Village. It has beautiful scenery and is rich in alpine green tea. Unfortunately, it still suffers losses every year. If I go to the contracted forest farm there I wonder if there will be a market for the greenhouse organic vegetables, strawberries and other fruits and vegetables grown using soilless cultivation technology in a large tea garden, which can improve the lives of the villagers there? "
Dai Junling smiled and said: "You mainland market doesn't know that in Malaysia and Singapore, the organic vegetables and fruits in the Cameron Highlands market are very popular!"
"Well, I think I can give it a try. It doesn't matter if I lose some money. I feel that this fruit and vegetable industry is very interesting and can help villagers get rid of poverty and become rich. Mingzhou is not far from Shanghai. In the future, if this organic fruit and vegetable industry expands, the products can Supply to the Shanghai market!”
After finishing speaking, Li Xiaofan found that he had too many thoughts in his mind after rebirth, which was enough to keep him busy.
Lunch at noon is arranged in an old British villa restaurant.
Cameron Highlands is home to many British villas left over from the British colonial era, and there are many well-known mountain villas and resort hotels with very complete service facilities.
While Li Xiaofan and the others were eating, the waiter turned on the vinyl record player nearby, and the melodious old jazz slowly lingered in the room, making time seem to return to the 1940s and 1950s...
With exquisite British and Chinese meals paired with mellow French red wine, Li Xiaofan, Dai Junling and others enjoyed an extremely elegant lunch.
After finishing lunch, everyone was in a hurry to go back, because the distance from Cameron Highlands to Singapore is more than 500 kilometers and takes about six hours to drive.
Fortunately, both Dai Junling and Wang Danrong had driver's licenses. When they arrived at the service area, they and Atan took turns driving. Everyone was singing and laughing along the way, and they didn't feel too tired.
It was already past 9pm when everyone returned to Singapore.
This trip to Ipoh and Cameron Highlands gave Li Xiaofan a new idea: when he has free time, he wants to return to his hometown to contract an island and a forest farm.
On the way, he remembered a sentence: Life is not only about the present, but also about poetry and the distance!