noffsinger Chapter 329 Amusement Park
Chapter 329 Amusement Park
When their family first arrived in Nanhua, they had already noticed the opening date of the amusement park in the official tourism information released by Nanhua.
This is one of the reasons why they decided not to visit the new city.
That day, the family chose to stay in a hotel in the Xincheng Port area.
Most of these small hotels are run by local residents of Nanhua. Although the decoration and facilities are relatively simple, the prices are affordable.
It only costs 10 Singapore dollars to stay here for a night. If you choose the New Town Hotel, the cost per night will be more than Singapore dollars. Their family needs two rooms, so the nightly accommodation cost is close to Singapore dollars, which is really unaffordable.
These accommodations were originally intended to provide temporary accommodation for arriving sailors, but have now become a top choice for tourists like them.
The main reason is that they have limited new coins.
Alex is not short of money, he can even easily take out tens of thousands of dollars for consumption.
But after arriving in Nanhua, he had to stay in this small hotel that he originally looked down upon.
But he was the only one who was dissatisfied. The children didn't feel anything and were looking forward to going to the amusement park tomorrow.
The next morning, there were banging sounds on the door of Alex and his wife's room.
"Dad, get up quickly." The little daughter's childish voice shouted outside the door.
The youngest daughter was only six years old, and they had originally planned to let her sleep with the couple, but she refused and insisted on sleeping with her older brothers and sisters.
Alex looked at the time and saw that it was only half past six in the morning. He sighed helplessly, got up and put on his clothes, then opened the door. He saw his little daughter in pajamas standing timidly outside the door.
Alex went forward and picked up his daughter, then walked to the next room where the children lived.
After entering, he was surprised to find that his eldest daughter and second son had already gotten up and were making their beds.
"You wet the bed again." Alex asked with a smile as he looked at his little daughter in his arms.
The girl hugged Alex's neck, buried her little head in her arms, and said nothing in response to her father's words.
"Good morning, Dad." The two children who were making their beds shouted when they saw Alex come in.
Alex smiled and responded, "Good morning, my darlings."
He laid his little daughter on the bed and helped her change her clothes.
"Okay, stop cleaning up. Go wash up and we'll ask the service staff to clean up later." Alex frowned as he looked at the messy bed in the room.
In the United States, his children had never had to do anything like this, jobs that were usually done by South Americans and Chinese. But here, everything seemed different.
She gently helped her little daughter change her clothes.
Alex has been in Nanhua for a week. He feels that aren’t Chinese Americans and people in Nanhua the same race?
Why does it feel so different?
Could it be that just like how so many races can be distinguished in one place in Europe, these Chinese are actually not the same?
Perhaps it is the influence of the environment and culture that makes the Chinese here show a side that is completely different from what they imagine.
More orderly and more powerful.
After the family finished washing up, they went downstairs to the hall.
Alex walked straight to the front desk and explained to the staff inside that the room needed to be cleaned.
The staff at the counter are natives from Southeast Asia, and due to the long period of European rule, it is not uncommon for them to speak English.
These people are employed here because of the high income in Nanhua and become practitioners in various service industries. Their main responsibility is to communicate with tourists who come to Nanhua.
In a place like Nanhua, it is almost impossible to find so many people who can speak English, because there is no English course in the curriculum here.
As a result, young people cannot speak English at all. Only older people still know some English because they lived under European rule before. However, after coming to Nanhua and not using it for a long time, they are no longer fluent in it.
Alex paid S$2 for the cleaning fee, and the family went out to find a bus to the amusement park.
As soon as they got on the bus, they were surprised to find that it was full of children, but upon closer inspection, they found that almost all of these children had Chinese faces.
Alex curiously asked the passengers next to him and found out that these families were taking their children to the newly opened amusement park.
The person Alex was talking to was a Chinese who had migrated from Singapore. Fortunately, he could speak English, which immediately gave Alex a strong desire to communicate.
Everything was fine living in Nanhua, the only thing that made him feel frustrated was the communication problem.
Very few locals know English.
The adults were chatting animatedly and the children were having fun together.
Alex couldn't help but laugh. How could these children play together when they didn't speak the same language?
The other party brought two children, one was a boy and the other was a girl. The girl looked only seven or eight years old, while the boy was obviously a few years older.
The younger daughter also enthusiastically showed the other party the Bullet Buddha pendant she bought in Jerusalem.
The two families did not act separately, but went to the amusement park together and bought tickets to enter the park.
"Dad, I really want to ride a roller coaster!" The second son's eyes were attracted by the long, undulating roller coaster track in the distance and he couldn't take his eyes away.
However, the little girls were not interested in the roller coaster. They preferred the carousel and doll city next to it.
After discussion between the two adults, they decided to act separately.
The two men will take the children to experience exciting rides such as roller coasters, while the two ladies will accompany the two little girls to play in the carousel area.
Alex feels quite reassured about the safe environment in South China.
When he first arrived in Nanhua, the customs staff specifically introduced him to the legal provisions of Nanhua and made it clear that these laws also apply to foreigners.
In Nanhua, if you break the law, you will face at least one month in prison.
The violations here include not only serious crimes such as fighting and killing, but also things that seem trivial to Alex, such as violating traffic regulations or making noise, which will result in a minimum of one month in prison.
If anyone dares to traffic in children, although there is no such precedent in South China, once it happens, it will be a capital crime.
Moreover, not only would the criminals themselves be severely punished, but their families would also be exiled to the distant Andaman or New Island.
Therefore, in South China, no one dares to break the law.
Alex had carefully read the introduction in the pamphlet and had some understanding of the prison situation.
In ordinary prisons, prisoners are required to perform long hours of physical labor, working up to 12 hours a day, which he believes is simply a life of slavery.
In heavy prisons, prisoners do not need to work, but what Alex has learned tells him that this seemingly labor-free environment of staying in a dark prison every day is actually a more cruel form of mental torture.