HLM -Chapter 1194 Preparing for the New Year

Li Bo readily agreed to his request. His wife had already discussed this with him, telling him to bring his apprentice along to help and to rest more himself. Of course, this also meant he could earn more money.

Everyone who had family to go home for the New Year had already left. Wang Bo stayed behind in Sunset Town to organize the New Year festivities. He gathered all his subordinates for a meeting and said, “We have a week left until the traditional Chinese New Year. Everyone, let’s take this chance to organize some activities and attract more tourists.”

Anderson said, “It’s simple on my end. Let’s organize sales promotions. Limousin cattle are entering the slaughter season recently, so we can run a beef promotion.”

Wang Bo replied, “We can think about profit-making activities later. Today, I want everyone to focus on creating a festive atmosphere. First, Sunset Town needs to feel like Chinese New Year.”

Kidd looked puzzled. “I’ve never celebrated Chinese New Year. How do we create the atmosphere?”

Wang Bo said, “It’s simple. Google will teach you everything. Then you can get the town’s merchants involved. Just tell them that during the New Year, the town will implement policies to attract tourists and that they should cooperate.”

“Don’t worry,” Wang Bo continued. “As long as there’s a chance to make money, these guys won’t miss it. They’ll decorate the town, so we won’t have much work to do ourselves.”

Indeed, once the message was out, many merchants quickly started putting up Spring Festival couplets and hanging red lanterns. At Haidilao, the couple Hou Wenyuan had even hired a lion dance team from Auckland’s Chinatown. They would perform a lion dance on the first day of the lunar year.

When Wang Bo learned this, he told them to go bigger. “Forget just a lion dance performance. Let’s have a Lion King Competition! That will be lively.”

As for the prize, the town would cover half, and the performers would sponsor the other half, but Haidilao would get full naming rights.

Then, the owner of a Korean BBQ restaurant, Kim Tae-jung, approached him, saying he also wanted to sponsor the event—but his restaurant also wanted naming rights.

Koreans are shrewd. He knew the South Island was less prosperous than the North Island, and there were fewer Chinese there. An event like a Lion King Competition had never happened in the South Island before.

In this case, Sunset Town taking the lead would surely attract media coverage. On-site naming wouldn’t gain much attention, but media reporting was the real key.

Wang Bo gladly agreed. The town wouldn’t have to spend any money. Haidilao and the Korean BBQ would each cover half the prize and sponsorship fees and split the naming rights.

Hou Wenyuan was unhappy about this, but Wang Bo was the decision-maker in Sunset Town. He could only voice his displeasure verbally and could do nothing practically.

Wang Bo didn’t get too involved in this matter himself. He had something more important—taking Eva to Auckland for her prenatal checkup.

Coincidentally, Eva’s LMC was Roselie Vega, someone who had once been a rival for Wang Bo, but after pursuing him a few times and realizing it was impossible, she quickly gave up.

Roselie was known as the “flower” of the community hospital. She was straightforward and openly said she wanted to marry a wealthy man—like Wang Bo.

Now Juan was also wealthy, managing Wang Bo’s vast industrial assets, and the two were quite close.

Besides her preference for wealth, Wang Bo thought Roselie was a pretty perfect girl.

Her LMC qualification was obtained after coming to the town. Wang Bo had initially thought she just did makeup and part-time work at bars, but later discovered that she also studied diligently every day.

Uncle Bing piloted the helicopter, and Wang Bo, Eva, and Roselie sat in the back. Roselie looked around the interior with interest. “Wow, amazing. I wonder when Juan will be able to afford a plane.”

Wang Bo didn’t like her obsession with wealth. “Roselie, actually in life, it’s not necessary to enjoy so many luxuries. Having a loving husband and a few children you care about is enough, isn’t it?”

Roselie smiled. “Many people have told me that, but I will never change my mind. I will marry a rich man. If no rich man wants to marry me, I will work hard to become a rich woman myself.”

Hearing this, Wang Bo thought of her part-time work and asked, “You work at a bar to make money?”

“Of course. Not just the bar—I also work at your gym to earn money,” Roselie said matter-of-factly.

Wang Bo asked, “You still work at the gym?”

Roselie shrugged. “Yes. I have four yoga classes and two Brazilian jiu-jitsu classes every week, bringing me over four thousand dollars a month.”

Wang Bo was about to ask more, but Eva stopped him. “Forget it, Wang. You don’t really understand Roselie, so don’t give her advice or lecture her. Everything she does is worthy of encouragement and admiration.”

The beautiful nurse smiled at Wang Bo, then held Eva’s hand and said, “Thank you for understanding. Now I understand why the mayor insists on marrying you.”

Eva smiled too. “If you had met him four months earlier, he wouldn’t have smiled at me. He just didn’t understand you, otherwise he would appreciate you.”

“That’s too bad,” Roselie shrugged. Judging by her expression, she really felt regret.

Wang Bo was puzzled. Why did Eva say that? Did the young nurse really need money that much?

However, since Eva stopped him from asking, there must be her reasoning. He would ask privately later.

They were heading to Auckland’s Middlemore Hospital for Eva’s first comprehensive prenatal checkup.

As New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland naturally had the best resources. Being the most developed and populous city, its medical resources were the best in the country—why Wang Bo had to bring Eva there.

Due to the nature of New Zealand’s society, the best hospitals are public hospitals. From hospital scale, advanced diagnostic equipment, medical service quality, to the professionalism of specialists, private hospitals cannot compare.

Middlemore Hospital is one of the top hospitals. It is located in Middlemore, Manukau, south Auckland. The hospital’s main campus has 1,400 beds, with another 400 in a secondary campus, totaling 1,800 beds—making it the largest hospital in New Zealand.

Although it’s a general hospital, it covers pediatrics, general surgery, surgical specialties, plastic surgery, dentistry, burn treatment, neurology, internal medicine, orthopedics, obstetrics, neonatal intensive care, and more.

Additionally, the hospital is the Pacific region’s Women’s Health Center, making its obstetrics and gynecology department particularly strong.