Chapter 617 A Passerby in the Fusion of the Urban World 6

Jiang Yue runs her guesthouse in a very casual way. Her prices don't include meals. It would be too much trouble to include meals, so after thinking it over, Jiang Yue decided to let them cook for themselves. If they didn't know how, she would ask the village aunties to help. This way, she could also generate some income for everyone.

Of course, Jiang Yue wasn't completely uninvolved. She uploaded many cooking videos to the guesthouse's official WeChat account. The videos showed how to stir-fry dishes step by step, including when to add oil, when to add meat and vegetables, the heat level, the time to add seasonings, and how much seasoning to add. If all else failed, there were also very simple recipes, such as lazy-person's braised rice or spicy eggplant dishes.

After touring the first floor, she led them to the second floor. When they opened the door and entered the house, the whole family was amazed. They hadn't expected that what they saw was exactly what they got. Now, all their resentment about not being provided with meals disappeared. After Jiang Yue finished introducing the various facilities in the house, she said to them before leaving, "There are some ingredients in the refrigerator downstairs, enough for one or two days. Consider it a benefit for everyone since we just opened."

On the second and third days, she picked up the other two guests. During this time, Jiang Yue asked for the shuttle bus's WeChat ID through a WeChat group, discussed it with him, and asked him to create a WeChat group. Jiang Yue then printed out the QR code and posted it on the notice board in the courtyard. This way, if you want to take the bus, you don't have to wait foolishly. You can ask in the group in advance when it will arrive and make sure you leave on time.

Visitors are bound to wander around the village, and the villagers are quite curious to see them, mainly because this is the first time tourists have come to their village. Li Jingcheng takes this very seriously. Although he is not particularly capable, he is quite proactive and genuinely wants to help everyone get rich.

After the road was repaired, Jiang Yue invested money in him, and large-scale planting and specialty agriculture were successfully established. With Jiang Yue's guidance, several professors were invited to conduct detailed monitoring of the soil and water quality in the vicinity, and the most suitable vegetables for planting in their area were selected. Now they are also eyeing the tourism sector.

"Tourism should wait. My guesthouse attracts people entirely through its accommodation environment. There aren't any beautiful natural landscapes in our village or even the surrounding area. Traditional tourism can't work right now unless you're willing to spend money to renovate or someone comes to invest in construction. And that's no small amount of money."

"I see. So, can others follow your example?"

"Sure, I have a lot of inquiries from customers who want to stay for a few days. But I only have three rooms and there's a waiting list. If anyone wants to do this, remember to renovate the yard and the rooms you're using as a guesthouse. Make sure it's safe and has some unique features. Otherwise, it won't have any unique features and who would want to stay?"

"Do we have to make everything as nice as yours?"

"Not necessarily, but the environment should at least be nicer, the rooms should be more comfortable, have a private bathroom, and the service should be better. That would be acceptable."

"Of course, I should also mention that this is my first time doing this and I have no experience. I don't know what will happen next, so I should be prepared to lose money."

After that, Li Jingcheng left. Jiang Yue wouldn't interfere with what he did. She was busy living her own life, reading books and drinking tea every day. The guests in the neighboring courtyard were also quite well-behaved, and no one caused any trouble.

After staying for a few days, they became familiar with the area. One of the girls extended her stay for another half month and also rented Jiang Yue's electric tricycle, driving it around to sketch every day.

The family of four seemed quite content every day. They even bought a barbecue grill and had a barbecue party every night. The other girl, on the other hand, was rather quiet and was rarely seen except when eating.

Two weeks later, the suite guest and another girl checked out and left. Before leaving, Jiang Yue specially gave them some small gifts and treated them to a meal. The girl was alone, and when she left, Jiang Yue had the puppet take her to the airport.

After dropping people off at home, send puppets to clean the house, including a thorough cleaning and disinfection of the kitchenware, refrigerator, and washing machine, so that the next group of guests can use them easily.

Three days later, the second group of guests arrived. This time it was a family of three and a man. Jiang Yue made adjustments so that everyone would arrive on the same day and both families would take the train, making it convenient for the puppet to pick them up and drop them off.

After the guests arrived, Jiang Yue went through the process again. Neither family wanted to cook for themselves, so Jiang Yue recommended her neighbor. After trying the dishes, they hired her and paid her a sum of money to take care of their meals for the next two weeks.

After confirming the details, Jiang Yue discussed it with her aunt and took her to get a health certificate. Then, she updated the person's information on the official WeChat account, indicating that if she couldn't cook, she could ask someone for help.

I've also listed the menu and prices. A quick calculation shows it's much more cost-effective than eating out every day. Now, my aunt spends all her time on her phone watching Jiang Yue's WeChat official account to learn how to cook. The more she learns, the better, otherwise, if she can only cook a few dishes, others will get tired of eating them after a couple of days.

The aunt has been cooking all her life, and with Jiang Yue's WeChat official account providing detailed tutorials with pictures and videos, plus Jiang Yue's occasional guidance, she now cooks quite well. She's good enough to be a chef at a guesthouse, but if she wants to improve further, she'll have to keep practicing.

After the second group of guests left, Jiang Yue paused her reception duties. The next group of guests would arrive on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month. With seven days left until the Lunar New Year, Jiang Yue planned to take a break. She was currently driving her aunt and her daughter to town to buy New Year's goods.

This is a little sister. I hadn't seen Jiang Yue for a few years, so she was a bit unfamiliar at first. But once we got to know each other, she was similar to Xiao Cui. She's quite talkative. She's not saying anything now because her auntie stopped her, worried that the traffic might affect Jiang Yue's driving.

After arriving in town, we went to our usual market. This time, we mainly came to buy food. We had prepared almost everything else. Upon entering the market, the first thing we saw was chickens on the ground. Jiang Yue hadn't raised chickens this year, so she needed to buy two. However, she would buy them before leaving, as we had only just arrived and there was no rush.

Further inside, there were seafood, loach, vegetables, and dried beef, and even further in, there were all sorts of things for sale. When Jiang Yue came out, she was carrying a pig's head and trotters, two chickens, fish, and vegetables. The aunt next to her also had a lot of things in her hands. She had earned money this year and could buy more New Year's goods.

After buying the groceries, Jiang Yue went home. Once home, she enclosed the house with bamboo and put the chickens inside to raise until the New Year. She then used a blowtorch to singe the pig's head and trotters, cleaned them, and put them in the refrigerator. She also prepared the fish in advance so that she could cook them directly during the New Year.

After packing up the New Year's goods, I went to the study. The year is almost over. I looked at the data of those self-media accounts and then at the income statistics compiled by Bai Ze. The profits are still quite considerable, so we can continue to operate them.