Chapter 279 Investigating Together
"The meeting is over. You can go to have dinner now. Mr. Carter and Miss Newell, please wait for a
moment," said the leader of the municipal partmittee. After the investment promotion conference
held by the municipal partmittee was over, Richard and Amy were asked to stay for a while.
The leader asked them to sit opposite to him and made a cup of tea for them.
"The reason why I let you stay is that I have something to discuss with you," said the vice mayor
supervising inviting investments politely.
"Yeah, sure." Although Richard sat beside Amy, he didn''t take a single look at her.
"I have a program and after my consideration, I thought only your groups have the ability to work on
this project," said the vice mayor. He handed the materials to Richard and Amy to read.
Just now, he had shown many programs to otherpanies in the meeting. But this program was
intended for these twopanies because only the HD Group and the Newell Group were capable of
working on this project.
After reading the materials, Richard and Amy were very interested in this project.
The project aimed at building arge resort, where the local people could start rural tourism, which
could advance the economy and bring well-being to people there.
Richard had gone to this ce before. It was a beautiful ce to develop tourism. Road was avable
there so they could save arge amount of money, which was better than most scenic spots in the
remote viges.
Amy had heard of this ce before but she had never been there. Thus, she knew nothing about this
ce.
"What is the characteristic of this ce? It is quite far from the city," asked Amy.
"There is information about this ce in the materials. But since you have been abroad before, you
may not familiar with the ce. We can go there on Friday and you can decide whether you will work
on this project," answered the vice mayor.
"This Friday?" Amy and Richard asked together. They were both free this Friday. The arrangement of
the vice mayor was appropriate. If they went there on Friday, they could stay there for one night and
then investigate the ce on Saturday and Sunday.
"Are you very busy on Friday?" asked the vice mayor. Seeing they were so surprised, he thought they
might be very busy on Friday.
"I''m free. I just think it is a little hasty because it is Wednesday today," said Amy. She wanted to finish a
great project after returning home so as to live up to what Mr. and Mrs. Newell expected of her.
"It is not very far from here. Although located in the suburb, it is still within R City. It may take two hours
to drive there. That is just right. If the ce is very distant, people won''t travel there and there is no
need to invest," said the vice mayor.
"OK, I will make some arrangements. Let''s contact on Friday," said Amy. She was very interested in
this project since she always wanted to spend her weekends in a quiet ce. If the project was
finished, she could go there on weekends.
Then the three people went to the hall to have dinner.
"Mom, where do you go? Why don''t you take me with you?" asked An.
Hearing that her mother would go out, he wanted to go with her. He knew that Richard would go there
too, so he had a strong desire to go there because it had been a long time since hest met Richard.
"I go there for work so you can''t go with me. If we think it is a good ce to build a resort after
investigation, we can go there on weekends in the future. Is that alright?" said Amy.
"Fine. Can I go to see Grandma?" said An. He had developed a good rtionship with Cathy. He
missed her.
"Of course. I''ll call her to pick you up from school. You can y with her for several days," said Amy.
After packing up her luggage, Amy drove to the appointed ce.
Richard and the vice mayor had already arrived. Amy found there was one more person beside them.
The vige chief also came. He wanted to go home so he went in the vice mayor''s car.
" Here we go. We are expected to have lunch in the vige. The vige chief has prepared well. As
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soon as we get there, the lunch is ready," said the vice mayor.
Then all of them got in the car. The vice mayor went first because he was familiar with the road.
Richard nned to go after Amy. Then moment Amy was going to leave after turning the car on, there
was someone knocking at the window.
Amy looked out. It was Richard.
"What''s going on?" Amy rolled down the window and asked.
"There was something wrong with my car. I have to go in your car. " Richard pointed at his car in
frustration.
How came the car went wrong without any reason? At the thought of staying with him in a car, Amy felt
depressed. Although he always helped her, such as carrying her to thepany when raining and
apanying her to the hospital when she was sick, there was still a huge gulf between them, which
made her ufortable.
"If you are reluctant to take me, I''ll call the vice mayor to give me a ride," said Richard. Feeling her
unwillingness, Richard intended to call the vice mayor.
"Fine, get in the car. I''ll take you there." Amy opened the door and let him in.
"Let me drive. I''m more familiar with the road," said Richard. After his requisition was met, Richard
offered to drive the car.
"OK." Amy wouldn''t want to drive the car because she didn''t have a sense of direction, especially in a
strange ce.
Amy got off the driver''s seat and went to sit in the passenger seat. But after thinking for a while, she
moved to the rear because she didn''t want to be close to him.
Richard got into the car, fastened the seat belt and drove fast to catch the vice mayor without catching
a glimpse of Amy.
"Richard, can you pass the water to me?" Amy forgot to take the water with her when she got off. She
was a little thirsty now. Richard gave her a ck bottle. Amy got it but found that was not hers.