Rebirth 79: I opened a bank in the United States

Chapter 438 Designer Candidates

"Mr. Black, may I ask how your preparations are going now? Regarding the hotel decoration design, do you have any drawings? There is also a candidate for the chairman sent by you."

"The store you selected at the beginning has been fully demolished, and the next step is to rebuild it. But we have been waiting for two months for the design drawings. If we don't start work, the salaries of those old store employees will not be worth a penny. A small expense!"

A phone call across the ocean made Carter suddenly realize that it had been two months since he came back from China.For the Chinese who are awakening their infrastructure madness talent, two months
Wouldn't it be pediatrics to demolish a few low gatehouses?It is estimated that the demolition will be completed in mid-September, and then I have to wait for almost a month before I have this phone call to urge myself
Manager candidates, hotel design drawings.
"Rick, I'm going out tomorrow."

"where to?"

"Washington"

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Hotel manager, if work experience is not considered, it is not difficult to solve.Carter, who just recruited an mppm and other employees from the Yale School of Management, has a close relationship with the dean of the school, Professor Thompson. It is not a big problem to ask the other party to introduce a suitable manager for him.

Even if you need to be stationed abroad, it is nothing more than a salary issue.Things that can be solved by spending money are usually not a big deal. The more troublesome thing is the decoration design drawing.
To be honest, this matter can also be solved with money.It's just that Carter has no worries in his heart:

Carter was worried that the decoration style would be designed in China, or that it would be the same in China in the [-]s; but if it was completely designed by the Chinese, Xin Zhen was also worried about its concept, and would do well. The hotel has been tossed and turned into a hotel, which completely deviates from its own differentiated business ideas.

That worry made Carter delay in properly solving the matter, so he came to get busy, and the matter was neglected.Also benefiting from that consideration, Xin Zhen suddenly thought of someone: Maya Lin!
With both American insight and Chinese identity, he himself is also a major in architecture.That identity and resume seem to be tailor-made for that matter, whether the fit is 100% or 90%!

Before hanging up the phone on the other side of Xiaoyang, Carter immediately confirmed his itinerary.And on the seventh day, before completing the leave procedures, I stepped off the flight to Washington
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"Designing the decoration of the hotel? You are sorry, you have not been able to complete that design recently, and this is also your weakness."

It was the same as the scene imagined by Carter, when he heard his intention and needs.The fledgling Maya Lin either thought casually or was ecstatic, but shook her head slightly in agreement.

"Is the condition so good because of the monument? Or is this guy, what is his name, coming to harass him again?"

Considering that the demand for design drawings is very slow, Carter intends to give up.Instead, he took a step back and said:

"Does he really want to hear the quotation? Although you know that he is short of money for the time being, you also gave the first prize of [-] US dollars for this monument design, but [-] US dollars is still okay."

"Yes yes yes, it's about money! Your status. Thank you for your concern, you can solve it yourself."

Judging from Maya Lin's performance, Carter was sure that this person would come back before he left.However, since Maya Lin never called herself once, she obviously wanted to trouble herself.In that situation, Carter also spoke slowly, but quietly waited for the other party's words.
"You are serious. You have never done hotel design. If he asks you to help design the tombstone, you will definitely agree to him. After all, he is also the one who helped you. You remember it in your heart, you are It's cursing him, but it's true, you think the same as he does."

"Although you are Chinese, you were born in the United States. And until now, have you ever been to China? In fact, you have not had a deep understanding of Chinese culture. You can even speak Chinese. Your parents talked to you a lot about China. So, you know everything about it yourself, how can you design a decoration plan that satisfies us?"

Maya Lin, who was full of resentment, had a fake expression on her face.Carter was even more puzzled when he recalled that when he first met Maya Lin, he started a conversation in Chinese, but the other party completely understood her.

It is the same as abnormal Europeans and Americans who are face-blind when looking at Asians. Carter is very sure that Maya Lin is a pure Chinese.This is the kind where both parents are of Chinese descent, they are definitely of mixed race.

A child from that kind of family, even if he was born in the United States, is he able to speak Chinese? !

"Do you remember going out when you were a kid and no one asked you where you were from? You said, you're from Ohio, and we would all shake our heads, 'Yes, you asked him where the hell he was from'. When you were young, you would still be with us Arguing, you said 'you are from Ohio', and then you went home and cried to your mother, feeling that you have integrated into that country and have been excluded all the time. Until this time, you didn't know that your mother's ancestral home is Xiahai, China, Your dad is from China BJ"

As if seeing the suspicion on Xin Zhen's face, Maya Lin explained with a wry smile.Then hurriedly walked to the bedside in the apartment and sat down, it was the only chair that could be reserved for Maya Lin before Carter occupied it:

"In Athens, Ohio, your family is the only non-white residents outside the community. That sense of exclusion almost ran through your entire childhood, even before middle school. Your parents are like this, people who are engaged in art, and their personalities are relatively Tranquility and nature. The community is about accepting your family, and you can live alone and entertain yourself. It's just. Maybe it's okay for you, but for your parents, America has always been our home, here in Ohio The same is true for this house! It can be said to be your home, and the outside is full of your childhood memories, but for your parents, it is, after all, the place where we grew up is in China.”

Shaking her legs, Maya Lin's tone seemed to be telling a story about someone else's body:

"Maybe boys are more precocious and sensitive. You want us to be sad because of this, so you never asked us about China and about the past. The first time you knew about our past was when you first came to Washington last year. It should be that your father knew that your design work was selected, so he told you these past events. Your father told you that you don’t have an aunt. You were also responsible for the design of a monument in China with your uncle. It seems to be called People's Heroes Monument."

ha? !

Xin Zhen was startled, and hurriedly asked:
"Is his uncle named Liang Sicheng?!"

"Yes."

"This is me."

The pioneer of modern Chinese architecture, that kind of calf, if...
"Dead, died of illness in 72. Your aunt died earlier."

Seeing Xin Zhen's expression change from shock to ecstasy, Maya Lin suddenly pouted and laughed.Especially when Carter was on a roller coaster ride, when she learned that Liang Sicheng had lost control of her expressions before she passed away, Maya Lin was even more delighted
"Yes, why did he consider asking our students to complete the design? Your uncle and aunt, I heard from your father that he once majored in architecture at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and your aunt came to study at Yale. It can be said, We should be the kind of people he is looking for, people who have neither American trendy ideas nor the aesthetics of oriental architectural design!"

"As far as architectural design is concerned, based on your personal experience, the influence of mentors on students is very small. Even if there are not many architectural designers in China now, they are like what he said. The thinking may be relatively old, but he doubts If you are our direct student, you should have the problems he mentioned. It’s really okay, he can also invite us to the United States to visit what the current hotel looks like, as a reference!"

(End of this chapter)