The Garden Life of a Little Gardener

When Zhouquan went to the village committee, Xiaobao brought over the menus for lunch and dinner in the East Wing.

Uncle Wen, who had just removed a dish, picked up the water cup and took a big gulp of tea, looked down at the two chapters of the menu and said, "Well, I met another old foodie. There are so many people these days."

I saw on the lunch menu that there were coir raincoat cucumbers, sea cucumbers with scallions, mutton in white soup, white-cut chicken, stuffed tofu, and Chaoshan brine platter.

"Well, Daogong cuisine, Huogong cuisine, Badawan, Guangzhou cuisine, Hakka cuisine, and Chaoshan cuisine are all representative dishes of each cuisine. This one is here to test our skills."

After hearing this, Chef Bao threw the soup ingredients into the soup pot, covered the pot, wiped his sweat with a towel, and casually flipped through another menu in the Sijin East Wing.

"Look, Uncle Wen, he's showing mercy at noon, and the dishes at night are the highlight."

Hearing the words, the deputy chef Wen looked over and nodded his head in agreement: "It's all Kung Fu dishes from Confucian Mansion. These guys really know how to order."

Upon hearing this, Chef Bao put the towel back on his shoulders and said, "Since it's written on the menu, and the guests have ordered it, what else do you have to say, let's start cooking."

Hearing this, Uncle Wen rolled up his sleeves and replied, "I've been a cook for so many years, so I'm not afraid that I'll eat something here. The 'war book' has already been sent over. Don't be dumbfounded, everyone. Others say that our homestay has a false name, so let those guys open their eyes by showing off our unique skills."

The two-chapter menu on the kitchen side inspired an unprecedented fighting spirit. Everyone has worked in the kitchen for many years, and each has their own skills. After the show, the kitchen side was immediately in full swing.

On the other side, after entering the East Wing and ordering food, the old man asked everyone to change their clothes and shoes, and went out to the front desk to sign up for village activities under the guidance of Xiaobao, the waiter.

The front desk recently recruited a new little sister, named Chen Wenxiu, a girl from the Chen family, Zhou Quan's distant cousin.

This little girl has just graduated from a teacher college, and she hasn't found a suitable job yet, so she comes here first to spend time.

Because this girl knows computers, Zhou Quan asked her to be in charge of the handover between the homestay, tour guides and tourists, and to take out a travel insurance for every tourist who participated in the project in the village.

The technical requirements of this job are not high, as long as people are careful.

However, with the base salary plus head commission, the income for a month is not much worse than that of the tour guides in the village.

Chen Wenxiu herself is very satisfied with this job, she earns a lot of money and is close to home. Although the work she does is cumbersome, there is no such thing as happiness in this world. You must know that among the classmates who graduated together in the same class, it seems that she earns the most now .

Because this girl is good at using the computer, when Zhou Quan is gone, she will be the guest of the front desk.

When the six people from the chain flower shop came to find them, Miss Wenxiu, as usual, quickly insured them while holding the documents, and pointed to a large open space outside the gate of the courtyard and said, "Did you see those crowds? You will go up the mountain to identify herbs in a while, and the two leaders wearing reflective vests and little yellow hats are your tour guides and team leaders, and you can just give them the number cards in a while."

Hearing this, the old man smiled kindly and asked, "Girl, thank you."

When several people were walking out with cards, Hutt's assistant looked down at the cards in his hand, recalled the process of participating in the event just now, adjusted his glasses with his hand and said, "Although the place is not big, the traffic flow There are indeed a lot of them, and the prices of the meals on the menu are high, but I heard that there are enough dishes, and the process of the event is also very standardized, which is much better than that of ordinary farmhouses.”

The old man smiled slightly and replied: "Didn't you see it just now? The house is equipped with special ventilation facilities, smoke spray and carbon monoxide alarms. The dry powder and foam fire extinguishers are all ready for the rose bushes in the corner of the house. The details of this store are very well done, and the owner should be someone who has experience in high-end hotels.”

Manager Wu heard the words and whispered in the old man's ear: "Chairman, the young man who received us just now graduated from the Department of Landscape Architecture of the Imperial Capital Agricultural University. I heard that he worked in the Imperial Capital for more than three years before resigning and returning home."

The old man shook his head slightly when he heard the words: "It's not him, that kid doesn't have that kind of temperament, and the person who did this should be the one who wrote the menu."

While talking, they had already stepped out of the gate of the hotel. The tour guide led the team and left after ten people, and the number of six people from the flower shop was enough.

The person in charge of this team happened to be Bao Erlong. After receiving the digital card from the flower shop, he suddenly asked with a smile: "This sister is Manager Tong. Thanks for Ah Quan going out a few days ago." You take care, you wait a moment."

After speaking, he ran back to the store and said to the girl at the front desk who was in charge of tourist reception, "Wenxiu, cancel all the numbers of customers 36-41."

"Why? Don't they play?" the girl who was operating the computer asked suspiciously.

"A few days ago, they entertained brother Ah Quan when he went out. Now that he has come to our village, we have to treat him well. This is a guest, not a tourist, so how can we ask for money?"

Following him in charge of leading the team this time, another man from the Chen family who was the tour guide immediately said: "Erlong is right, he has taken care of us, Ah Quan, and we have to treat them well and give them back the money." .”

"But the insurance can't be refunded."

"Then keep it, but you have to give me the whole money, and we will get a lot of money back to others, and the insurance money will be deducted from my future share."

"How can the money refunded together be yours? Wenxiu, don't listen to your brother Erlong, take it from my share."

"Brother Erlong, Brother Wen Gang, I don't dare to withhold money privately. I'll give you the money, and when Ah Quan comes back, you can decide for yourself."

Holding the project participation fees for the six people, Bao Erlong strode out, handed it to Ms. Tong and said, "Sister Tong, I misunderstood. You are not a guest, you are a friend. We never accept money from friends. You take it back."

The store manager Tong, who encountered this kind of thing for the first time, didn't recover for a while, and the money was stuffed into her hands, but Bao Erlong didn't wait for her to say anything, and directly pulled into the team and moved forward.

Ms. Tong, who was holding a lot of tickets, was at a loss. She quietly glanced at the old man beside her and asked in embarrassment: "Wang Dong, this..."

"Put it away first, let's take a look."

From the village to the mountain, the six people in the flower shop could feel the concern and care for them from the leader and the tour guide. Even after going down the mountain, the tour guide and the team leader gave them the herbs they picked themselves.

Looking at the plantain and ant vegetables in the basket, the old man was a little dumbfounded. This was really the most rustic gift he had received over the years.

Since the team left early this time, it was not time for lunch when they came back. Seeing this in the yard, the old man took people out of the B&B and planned to take a stroll in the village.

But before they left, they still came to the front desk and asked Wenxiu, "Girl, we want to participate in the flower picking activity, what procedures do we need to go through?"

Chen Wenxiu, who still remembers what happened just now, said with some embarrassment: "There is no need for any formalities. At the entrance of the flower shed in the village, as long as there is a welcome sign, tourists can go in and pick flowers. After cutting a flower for two yuan, go to the flower shed door to find flowers. Just check and check out.”

"Okay, thank you very much."

The group of people who came out of the gate of the B&B looked around, and the old man noticed very sharply that not far from them, there was a flower shed with a sign of Happy Drinking.

At the gate of the flower shed, a circle of villagers surrounded two men in their 40s who were playing chess.

"Vaulting horse, vaulting horse, your horse will be eaten by the cannon if you don't jump."

"Jump what kind of horse, let's fly the elephant, if you don't block the third one, you will be the general."

"Excuse me, we want to pick flowers, but who is the boss?"

A villager who was fighting on the chessboard raised his head when he heard the words, and when he saw Ms. Tong who was asking the question, he squinted his eyes and then suddenly said: "No wonder I see you familiar, you are buying flowers with Ah Quan and asking Ah Quan to go to the provincial capital." The flower shop manager you played with?"

Manager Tong didn't expect to be recognized by others, after all, she only came once in the village.

But she still said, "It's me."

The chess player stood up and said, "It's really you, so you brought your family to say that our village is on vacation this time?"

Shop Manager Tong, who is surrounded by leaders except assistants, smiled awkwardly and replied, "We are all colleagues, let's go out and have a rest together."

"Do you want to pick flowers? All right, I'll open the door for you, go in and pick whatever you want."

Assistant Xu Te, who was the closest to the villager, asked as if to verify something, "I heard that the flowers here cost two yuan a flower. After you finish cutting, you will pay at the door?"

"Tourists are like this. You don't need to. You are Ah Quan's friends. How can you ask for money when you come to visit?"

"My fellow countrymen, we are here to play, and you also have a cost. How can you not charge money?"

The one who was playing chess with the owner of the flower shed just now smiled and said, "Old brother, just believe him, if the villagers know that he has taken money from Ah Quan's friend, then the nest in his family will The old hens can't be kept any longer, and the Chen family's aunt has to stew them all."

The surrounding villagers burst into laughter when they heard the words, but their meaning was very clear. You can pick flowers but you can't ask for money.

Seeing this, several people from the flower shop walked into the flower shed helplessly, and everyone who wanted to cut off a flower came out again.

Seeing that each of them only cut one flower, the owner of the flower shed was not very happy, so the shop manager Tong said: "Brother, we are flower shops, and we can't do without flowers. We just see the flowers in your flower shed. The flowers are blooming well, I want to go in and visit."

The villagers smiled and said, "That's right, I'm not bragging. You can look at the flower sheds in the village. None of them are as good as my house. Uh, except for Ah Quan's house."

After the florist and his party left, the villagers still warmly invited them to come over if they wanted to see the flowers, but they didn't dare to approach those flower sheds anymore.

Without going to the flower shed and not daring to go up the mountain privately, they can only wander around the village. Fortunately, there are still many tourists like them, so they are not conspicuous at all.

Walking all the way to the entrance of the village, the fussy Special Assistant Xu had to praise: "The environment and sanitation in the village are very good. There are green grass and flowers everywhere, and you can't see any garbage. The creek and the village The water quality in the middle and small rivers is very clean, and I saw a lot of small fish swimming in it just now. In terms of the cleanliness of the village, this place is definitely among the best in the city."

The old man walking on the village road with his hands loose behind his back nodded and agreed: "I just saw a person wearing a reflective vest picking up rubbish on the ground. It should be a cleaner specially arranged by the village. Reasonable people."

Walking all the way to the entrance of the village, the old man saw the grocery store at the head of the village. He said to the people behind him: "Don't you want to know what the consumer goods in this village look like? Go to the grocery store to see the types and specifications of the goods. can be understood very clearly.”

This sentence is very reasonable. People who earn 1000 yuan a month will definitely not spend more than ten yuan a bottle of soy sauce, or smoke dozens of packs of cigarettes, or spend hundreds of yuan a bottle of wine.

As the chess room and gossip center of the whole village, the grocery store is very lively today as usual.

The folks who finished their work in the morning gathered together, playing games, playing cards, mahjong, chatting and chatting like a vegetable market.

Seeing a customer coming to the store, Bao Erlong, who had been picking his eyes at the mahjong table, enthusiastically led the customer into the store.

Everyone quickly glanced at the grocery store, and saw that on the cigarette rack, everything from hundreds of Zhonghua to a few dollars of Baimei was placed on it; on the wine rack, everything from the famous Maotai, Wuliangye, Jiannanchun to the most common Erguotou, a small bottle of Erguotou that costs [-] yuan a bottle, comes in all shapes and colors, and has a wide variety of goods, which is no worse than the small supermarkets in the city.

However, how many of these goods are used by the villagers themselves, and how many are prepared for tourists. Since they can appear on the shelves of the grocery store in the village, it means that there is a market for those things here, which is enough to say that the people The current consumption level of the village is too high.

Manager Wu, who was full of worries, casually pulled out a few bottles of mineral water from the corner, and carried them over to prepare to pay the bill, but Bao Erlong waved his mother and said, "No need to pay the bill."

"And you don't need to pay?" Manager Wu asked, who walked all the way without spending a penny.

"I know you, Ah Quan's friends. My son and that kid, Ah Quan, have played together since childhood. That kid called me godmother. A few days ago, I heard that when Ah Quan went to the provincial capital, it was thanks to your care." , How can I ask for your money, a few bottles of water to drink."

"Boss, are you afraid of losing business by doing this?" Xu Tezhu, who is in charge of finance in the company, raised his eyes and asked very seriously.

"Hahaha, you kid is so funny. If it's Moutai, Wuliangye, etc., I will ask for some if you take it. The cost is too expensive and I can't afford it. A few bottles of water are nothing. I haven't thanked you for our village children. care."

When they came out of the grocery store, the flower shop and the group could still hear the proprietress shouting enthusiastically: "Come here if you want anything, and I'll give you a discount."

On the way back, the people in the flower shop didn't say a word, everyone was thoughtful, just because they entertained Zhou Quan for a visit to the provincial capital, they were able to travel unimpeded in the village, which was really unexpected.

But the things they encountered along the way let them see that the child with small dimples and long eyelashes, who looks a bit shy but is actually confident and smart, is very favored in the village.

If you take care of our children, then we will treat you warmly, not as a tourist who comes to consume, but as a visiting guest. It is such a simple and simple heart.

When there was no one around, the chairman Wang who was walking in the front suddenly said: "Xiao Wu, this time when you discuss the contract with Liangsurname Village, you can say whatever you want, put away those narrow-mindedness, use it! It's useless, the people in this village are united. We came here to invest, but now it seems that this nest of snakes doesn't have fangs, but they are too thick and have the strength to wrestle with us. But this is also a good thing for the company, after all The stronger the ability of our partners, the more we will benefit, at least we don’t have to worry about someone daring to deceive us after landing.”

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Zhou Quan: Well, I said it was the person in the legend who could live in the village by just brushing his face. Should I be glad that everyone didn't mention my nickname.....