"There's no room for negotiation. I came back to the countryside because I wanted a pastoral life. If you bring a huge crowd over here and make everything noisy and chaotic, my life here will be completely ruined."
Even at this point, Lu Ao still refused to agree, but he did not hang up.
Weng Qian wanted to persuade him further, but as they talked, he suddenly had an idea. He realized that Lu Ao had something else to say. Otherwise, given his personality, he would have hung up long ago.
Weng Qian asked, "Then what would work for you? You have such great resources over there. It would be a waste to leave them sitting idle. Why not attract more people's attention to the ocean? That way, we can do our part to protect it in the future. What do you think?"
Lu Ao did indeed have another idea. "Do you know about Island Law that our country passed a few years ago?"
"I've heard of it. Why?"
Lu Ao said, "A few dozen kilometers from our village, there's a large island, probably tens of thousands of square meters. The conditions there are excellent. It has fresh water and vegetation, but no residents and no development. Our village is pretty remote, and I don't think there'll be any chance to develop it in the next few decades. If you want to build a hotel, build it over there."
Weng Qian frowned as soon as he heard that. He did want to build a hotel, but that did not mean he could build one anywhere.
There was plenty of land across the country, and lots of it was cheap. Did that mean he had to build a hotel wherever land was cheap?
If he built it here, at least the