Transferred from the demolition of the house
Sometimes, it can be difficult to understand Yantai.
Last year, GDP ranked 25th in the country in the trillion club, but it is completely different from the state of "trillion cities" in the common understanding.
The vast majority of restaurants close at eight or nine o'clock in the evening, and it's hard to find traces of nightlife. The morning market, which opened at 6 o'clock in the morning, was in full swing. Young people drive supercars and sell clothes at the morning market. A bowl of seafood and tofu brain costs three yuan. The plates of mackerel dumplings are bigger than my hand......
People are slow, cars are slow, and even flowers are blooming slowly:
Rustic to the point of being a little rebellious.
Nearly a month later than in the south and a few days later than last year, the cherry blossoms in Yantai Longhu Gudai Bay have finally bloomed.
Although the cherry blossom festival is late, the tourists have already set off, and the fans of the artists are busy grabbing tickets for the May Day Mars concert on Libun Island, and the dragon people scattered all over the country are returning home one after another.
The cherry blossoms in the bay are blooming
Following in the footsteps of the surge, I also returned to Yantai to make another discovery and record about the sea.
Riding a small yellow car, blowing the sea breeze across the bridge, boarding Yangma Island opposite the Portuguese Bay, and meeting Sister Yezi, Ye Ye, Yan Yan, and Liu Yun...... really found that their lives seem to be even more "rebellious" than this city.
My sea is hurried for two days and one night, and some people's sea is four or five months in spring and summer, and their sea comes and does not leave.
Inspired by the movie based on New Oriental, I would like to call these friends as:
Partner of the sea.
Everything is like the sentence in "Jane Eyre":
The sea is a destination for the lonely and a challenge for the brave.
The bay of Portugal and Yangma Island are facing each other
8 years, 398 yuan, no price increase
Coastal Coffee has four rooms, and before the Qingming Festival arrived, Sister Yezi was recommended by a friend, and kept receiving inquiries from young people on WeChat, "Is there still a room on May Day?"
In more than ten days, the first stop of Brilliance Yu's Mars concert will land on Libun Island in Portuguese Bay.
The young man asked nervously on WeChat:
Sister Ye Zi responded calmly:
Young people mixed with joy and sorrow:
When she arrived at Shore Coffee, Sister Ye Zi had just finished a conversation with a young man from Shanghai. It's no wonder that she was calm, chatting and chatting, she actually got the name of the popular king wrong:
Located on the north shore of Yangma Island, Coast Café stands "lonely" under a sea cliff, with slightly retro architecture and furnishings, which are very different from those replicas of "Santorini".
"Lonely" Coast Coffee
Looking out of the glass window, there is no obstruction, the vastness is immense, and the setting sun renders the sea surface into the popular sea of oranges.
Sister Ye Zi said that she didn't like the mention of "Internet celebrity" very much, and always felt like an assembly line, rushing back and forth:
The old-school Coast Coffee is the first coffee shop on Yangma Island.
In 2015, the site was selected and renovated, and it was officially opened on the second day of the first lunar month in 2016. The boss is a friend of Sister Yezi, who travels to many cities across the country all the year round, and Sister Yezi has been assisting in taking care of it.
At first, the idea was very simple, my friend wanted to have a place to settle down and gather when he returned to Yantai occasionally. Those four rooms were only picked up for their own use or to entertain friends.
Watch the sunset at a coffee shop on the coast
In the past eight years, the "Internet celebrities" on Yangma Island have changed one after another, and Island Coffee has always been there, and it has always been "rebellious".
Coffee freshly ground, pizza dough baked by yourself, no pre-made dishes.
Occasionally, when a guest drinks freshly squeezed juice, they will complain that "it doesn't seem to be sweet enough", and Sister Yezi will be eager to tell them:
The guest room is occupied, no one is idle, and there is no network for 8 years, and the price does not rise.
During the Yangma Island Midi Music Festival last year, the villas around the area, which were originally more than 1,000 for one night, rose to 6,000. A friend cautiously asked on WeChat, but Sister Ye Zi still said the same thing:
Coast coffee and its sea
Not a type of person who doesn't go into a coffee shop.
There are more and more friends at Coast Coffee, and Sister Yezi always insists that "I treat my friends to the first cup of coffee on the coast." ”
And just like that, we rubbed another cup of free coffee.
There is another more "lonely" thing, Sister Ye Zi also insisted on eight years and wrote an official account for Coast Coffee. There are almost no commercial elements, and it is all the feeling of facing the sea.
On January 27, 2016, she wrote her first article, "Watch":
I was sitting at the window table at the Shore Café, looking out the window at the almost wasteland world......
When Sister Yazi was in a daze with the world, the cherry blossoms in the bay had not yet been planted. Ye Ye and her husband Yan Yan don't know each other yet, and they are on different sides. Liu Yun has not yet returned to Yantai, and in the sales office in Dongguan, in the south, he is analyzing the value of real estate for buyers in detail.
Cherry blossoms pave the way to the sea
16 years, two people, one world
It is an incomparably huge yard, or more appropriately called a "manor".
It covers an area of 30 acres, with a total of 18,000 square meters. Until 2021, it was a chicken farm for farmers on the island. Calculate with the real estate value system:
The area equivalent of a project is only the world of two people.
The periphery is covered with walnut trees, persimmon trees, and figs...... Densely wrapped around two bungalows and a delicate garden in the center. If you don't lead the way, it's easy to get lost in the shadows of the trees.
Compared with the hustle and bustle of the city, the seclusion is as different as another world:
A world on a 16-year lease.
A manor house for two
Walking into the courtyard, it may be pale in any language and text, and you can only pay your respects through a set of photos.
Any detail in these scenes, the bed, the table and chairs, the fireplace, and even a cutting board in the kitchen, are all handmade by Nono and her husband Yan Yan.
Healing fireplace
A native of Changsha, a soft decoration designer. Yan Yanyan, a native of Yantai, is an architectural designer. are all considered "insiders" in the design industry.
In 2017, Nono also ran a soft decoration studio in Changsha, and he traveled for a long time, and was on the road for most of the year. Yan Yan is engaged in real estate in Beijing, and there is no need to say that he works hard.
This year, the two met when they were learning carpentry in a log workshop at the foot of Changbai Mountain, made a chair together, and got to know each other.
Today, the chair lies in the sunniest corner of the house.
The sun is just right
In 2020, there was an illness in the wild, just like awakening, and the two of them said goodbye to their work completely. After living in various parts of the country for a while, he returned to Yantai.
After living in Yantai City for a few months, he felt that it was not close enough to the sea, so he rented this "chicken farm", signed a contract for 16 years, and decided to stay with the sea for a long time.
At that time, the chicken farm had no water or electricity except for fruit trees, and was overgrown with weeds. It took them almost a year to go back and forth between the city of Yantai and Yangma Island, one foot deep and one foot shallow, before transforming it into a "fantasy world".
At the end of the summer of 2022, it was completed, Ye Ye shared the results on Xiaohongshu, and the self-media "Yiyi" and "Li Becca's Fantasy World" came to visit, after the program was broadcast, many netizens were "uneasy", and this manor once appeared on Weibo hot search, and the messages were full of regret and jealousy of "impossible in this life":
Where two people are, home is there, it's good!
Exquisite kitchen
As soon as the big V left on the front foot, a typhoon came unexpectedly, blowing the well-arranged yard into pieces. No way, it's a slow and long few months, start all over again, and replant tough plants that are more resistant to wind and cold.
Nono said that according to her experience in picking up yards in the past few years, a yard will only be successful after three years of cultivation. So, we have come at the right time.
This year, they plan to convert a previously vacant room into a master bedroom. The composition of the entire estate is finally complete.
Anyone who walks into the manor will have a new idea from their own perspective.
A few days ago, an SF brother came to deliver a courier and said to Ye Ye, the tourist season is coming soon, and it is a pity that you don't do a homestay here. Nono said to him:
I haven't had enough of it myself.
There are a lot of trees in front of my house
10万元、两瓶酒、100%
Last year, when I went to Portuguese Bay, I didn't go to Yangma Island, and I looked at it from afar across the bay. When I really went to the island this year, I found that this side and the other side are two diametrically opposed states.
The island's roads are winding and leafy, keeping in the old-fashioned feel of the last century.
Standing on the shore of Yangma Island, looking at the Portuguese Bay on the other side, the buildings are orderly and gradually spread out in a wide field of vision, the spires of the church, the yachts of the marina, and the straight road:
In the past thirteen years, Longfor has also become a partner of this sea.
The bridge between Yangma Island and Portuguese Bay is like a link, connecting the original ecology of the island with the new world outside the island, and closely enclosing the new tourism symbol of North China:
Shandong, Yantai, Yangma Island, Portuguese Bay.
Sister Ye Zi said: "In 2018, this piece became inexplicably popular. ”
It is inexplicable, but there is an answer in time.
In 2016, the year Coast Coffee opened, Longfor planted 3,000 cherry blossoms on the Marina Road of Portuguese Bay.
In the spring of the following year, the cherry blossoms were in full bloom, and Yantai locals were in an endless stream. By April 2018, tourists from all over the country had inexplicably flocked to:
Longhu plants trees, cherry blossoms bloom, and the sea will open its broad embrace.
There is a hot land, there is passion, there is a rush and return.
The scene of the lively cherry blossom festival
In 2018, Liu Yun, a native of Northeast China, also returned to the familiar Yantai.
He went to university and worked here, and then, under the influence of his classmates, went to the south, and went around several cities. Until "I want a quiet and settled state", he chose to return to this sea and continue to do his old business in real estate.
It wasn't until last year that he realized that he had to find another way in life. Taking advantage of the craze of the cherry blossom festival, he opened a homestay in Portuguese-go.
In the early stage, "walking on thin ice" invested 100,000 yuan, rented a few houses, and the renovation was soon launched.
A few hours later, the first customer was welcomed. Liu Yunyi was excited and chatted with others until two o'clock in the evening. From Qin Shi Huang to Xu Fu, from the sea to cherry blossoms:
In the second month of opening, a guest checked in and asked if he could cook seafood in his room. Liu Yun regretted that he hadn't thought of this earlier, so he went to the supermarket to buy a full set of equipment and sent it over, and also brought two bottles of wine.
The guests insisted on leaving Liu Yun to eat, and with the two bottles of wine, they pushed the glasses and changed them, calling them brothers. I asked him if he had won that night, and he joked:
Portuguese Bay and Yangma Island
Last summer, when the flow of people was the highest, the room price of Liu Yun B&B could rush to 500 yuan a night, and the room was full every day. Wait until the autumn, remove all the costs, and in just a few months, not only return to the cost, but also make a net profit of 100,000 yuan, 100% profit.
This made Liu Yun say goodbye to real estate last winter and focus on the homestay business. He has rented dozens of more houses and is ready to make a big splash this year.
The cherry blossoms are in full bloom, the flow of people is weaving, and the smiles are overflowing, Liu Yun regrets it:
Why didn't you come out sooner.
According to statistics, there are now more than 300 homestays of all sizes in the entire Portuguese Bay and Yangma Island area. There are recruits like Liu Yun, there are also many veterans of homestay brands, and there is also the "internal supply" of Yezijie Island Coffee.
However, unlike the tourist season in many places, which is interspersed with various holidays throughout the year, the peak season in Yantai is a dense and turbulent few months, which come and go vigorously.
The sea returns to tranquility
Liu Yun felt that such a "entrepreneurship" did not seem to bother.
There is a special B&B hosting company, professional cleaning staff, and Longfor Property provides all-round protection 24 hours a day. Perfect B&B industry chain, comprehensive division of labor and coordination.
The job of a homeowner is very simple, "just chat with the guest online" or "just send the password to the customer".
The most important thing is that after the "busy" months and the last batch of guests are sent off, the sea will return to the lives of these so-called "entrepreneurs":
Eat the sea by the sea.
The one who catches the sea
Citizens, islanders, dragons
A word wakes up the people in the hospital.
"It's a pity not to do a homestay. "The words of the little brother of SF Express some time ago still planted seeds in the ambition. She was a little eager to try, and tried to plan it in the courtyard, and saw how many rooms could be made at the end.
For the renovated master bedroom, it is very resistant to "take it out", or the same sentence:
I haven't enjoyed it myself.
She has experience in doing homestays and is a master of soft decoration. When I first came to Yantai, I transformed the wedding house in Changsha into a homestay, and the income was very good.
Anyway, I have that idea, but I'm not sure when I'll be willing to share this 18,000 square meter manor.
With more and more fans on Xiaohongshu, she also wants to set up another studio to run the self-media well.
Of course, everything needs to be premised on "self-satisfaction".
A corner of Nono's manor
In the first year of the manor's renovation, Ye Ye and Yan Yan still lived the life of the Bancheng Peninsula, living on the island in spring and summer, and returning to Yantai City in winter, autumn and winter. But last year, they rented out their houses in Yantai City and became absolute islanders.
The reason is that the citizenship status makes the Alaskan "Niu Niu" at home very uncomfortable. Living on the island, Niu Niu can spread joy around the manor and the sea, without any scruples. As soon as he returned to the city, "Niu Niu" couldn't sleep at night, and often shouted at three o'clock in the morning for Yan Yan to take him downstairs to the toilet.
The sea of cows
"Niu Niu" finally fell asleep, only occasionally letting out a low whimper, like an alarm clock, reminding Yan Yan that he should do three things that he couldn't do every day:
Feed the dogs, feed the chickens, cook for the wife.
Nono, a once exquisite workplace elite, laughed at herself and said that she now hardly wears makeup, and her skin has become wheat-colored, natural and healthy.
When night falls, the house is filled with sounds, the crackling of firewood in the fireplace, the murmur of the sea breeze caressing the window, and the waves crashing against the shore, rising and falling......
Liu Yun and Sister Ye Zi have a common identity:
Dragonmen.
Liu Yun bought a house in Portuguese Bay very early and has lived here since returning to Yantai. After bidding farewell to real estate completely, in addition to homestays, he and his friends tossed two other entrepreneurial projects, the content of which still revolved around Portuguese Bay and Yangma Island.
When I'm not busy, I go out to sea with my friends, go fishing, and drink.
Career is here, life is here, wine is here, sea is here. It's enough to make people jealous of the closed loop of time.
It is eight kilometers away from the Portuguese-bay bungalows where Sister Ye Zi lives, to the Coast Coffee.
These eight kilometers, occasional driving, occasional cycling, occasional walking.
Of course, Coast Coffee is not all that Sister Ye Zi has, and she still has a lot of things to do that she thinks are more important.
When you meet these people, you will find that the so-called entrepreneurship and career are no longer some kind of deliberate design that needs to break through the kettle and face difficulties, but more like a more casual thing derived from the land and the sea:
Life is a career, and a career is life.
Tranquil bay of Portugal
Eggs, novels, letters
On April 8th, all the cherry blossoms in the bay were in full bloom.
The theme of last year's cherry blossom festival was "Good things happen in spring", which was slightly romantic, but this year's theme is obviously much more casual:
Cherry blossoms spread across the sea, and spring is coming.
Okay, spring comes to see flowers, spring comes to see the sea, spring comes to see people.
I saw the cherry blossoms blooming in the circle of friends, and early in the morning, Ye Ye and Yan Yan rushed over with Niu Niu early in the morning to enjoy the flowers and take pictures.
While it was still early, I went to the morning market again and bought the daily necessities needed for the week. Although he was used to visiting the morning market, Nono from the city that never sleeps was a little puzzled:
Why do Shandong people always love daytime and no nightlife?
The cherry blossoms are long, and Yantai is slow
The cherry blossoms in the sky have allowed Sister Yezi to find new writing materials and prepare to build her next novel.
That's more important than Coast Coffee. This hobby, or another "career" other than Coast Coffee, she persisted for ten years, basically creating one a year.
Sister Yezi likes to be quiet, either writing novels hard, or going back and forth between two points and one line of eight kilometers.
Her husband's life is much more lively, playing eggs and table tennis with a group of old neighbors, or climbing mountains, catching the sea, and taking pictures together.
The sea holds all imaginations
People who love to write are always more sensitive to the temperature given by the sea.
At the beginning of this year, Sister Ye Zi wrote a letter of thanks to Longhu, in which she recorded the details of her life in Portuguese Bay, and praised Gao Wenxue, the community housekeeper:
Longhu quickly replied to Sister Yezi:
(Related Reading: Letters Running Both Ways)
Such an old-school pure two-way rush is very reminiscent of the song "Once Upon a Time":
It's also very slow now, the footsteps in the cherry blossom forest are not slow, the flowers and plants in the courtyard of the bay are gently swaying with the spring breeze, and the people by the sea stop to stop, bend down, and pick up a shell......
Across the sea of ages
Perhaps, even Longhu himself could not have imagined that in the thirteenth year, the bay would grow into its current state in a slow and long time.
Among them, there are not only the efforts and efforts from 0 to 1, but also the gift of the sea and the murmur of the wind, and people will never leave when they come......
When I left Portuguese Bay, I remembered the people I had met last year.
Sister Ye Zi, Ye Ye, Liu Yun, these sea partners all said that compared with spring and summer, they actually prefer Yantai in winter, with heavy snow and quiet sea.
Shall we see you in the winter in a few months?