The next day, after breakfast, Gao Yan and his group headed towards Shanshui Town.
Shanshui Town has two main features: hot springs and culture.
Shanshui Town is backed by a dormant volcano that has not erupted for over 300 years, resulting in numerous natural hot springs of varying sizes on the mountain.
However, it was too difficult to go up the mountain, so they piped the spring water down to the hotel.
Therefore, almost all the hotels in this town are hot spring hotels.
However, Daxia is a vast and resource-rich land with many hot springs. With the development and construction of a large number of hot spring hotels, the hot spring hotels in Shanshui Town have gradually lost their competitiveness.
The biggest economic pillar of Shanshui Town is tourism. In order to revitalize Shanshui Town, an art-loving leader came up with an idea.
It involves providing free accommodation and venues for domestic calligraphers and painters, and inviting them to hold exhibitions in Shanshui Town.
We will strive to develop Shanshui Town into a tourist town full of artistic atmosphere.
And they actually succeeded.
In recent years, many well-known calligraphers and painters have come to Shanshui Town to hold exhibitions.
In this way, Shanshui Town gained fame and attracted more tourists and calligraphy and painting enthusiasts.
The largest and most luxurious hotel in Shanshui Town is the Shanshui Grand Hotel.
The prices are not cheap; even a regular room costs over 800 yuan.
The most expensive rooms are two suites, priced at 100 yuan and 100 yuan respectively.
Both suites are equipped with indoor hot spring pools.
Because Gao Yan and his group arrived in a Bentley, the front desk proactively recommended these two top-tier suites to them when they checked in.
Then Gao Yan directly purchased the two top-tier suites.
Upon entering the room, Gao Yan nodded in satisfaction. The decoration and furnishing of these two top-tier suites were no less than those of the presidential suites he had stayed in, and they were also much larger.
The most important feature is the indoor hot spring pool.
The hotel was quite welcoming to a big spender like Gao Yan.
They not only gave them five tickets to the calligraphy and painting exhibition, but also five tickets to the town's opera house and amusement park.
In addition, the hotel introduced some other hotels in town with good food and also recommended their own restaurant, saying that the hotel's Chinese and Western chefs are top-notch, especially the Western chef, who was poached from a Michelin-starred restaurant.
The same applies when assigning rooms.
Gao Yan, Xiao Zhuo, and Song Yufei shared a room, while Chu Xing and Lin Mo'er shared another.
When Gao Yan glanced at the size of the indoor hot spring, he couldn't help but smile. The indoor hot spring pool wasn't very big, and could only accommodate four or five people at most, which suited Gao Yan's wishes perfectly. If it were too big, it wouldn't be good!
"Brother Yan, what are you looking at?"
Xiao Zhu asked.
"I'm checking if the hot spring pool is big enough!" Gao Yan said with a smile.
"It's not big enough, but it's about big enough for the three of us, don't you think?"
Xiao Zhu asked with a smile.
"More than enough!" Gao Yan chuckled.
Xiao Zhu rolled her eyes at him; how could she not know what her boyfriend was thinking?
Then.
The group discussed it.
We'll have lunch at the Shanshui Hotel, then attend the calligraphy and painting exhibition, followed by the opera. We'll go to the amusement park after dinner.
Gao Yan and his group did not have a preference for Western food; on the contrary, they preferred Chinese food.
Therefore, we had Chinese food at the hotel for lunch.
As for the taste of the dishes, I can only say it was passable.
They ordered eight dishes, but only three were made by the head chef; the other five were made by ordinary chefs.
This was only because they were VIPs in the top-tier suites.
If a regular guest orders eight dishes, they're lucky if even one of them is made by the head chef.
The food wasn't too expensive; it cost a little over 1,000 yuan in total.
It was much cheaper than the home-cooked meal I had yesterday.
The town's calligraphy and painting exhibition hall has a total of eight exhibition halls.
The largest exhibition hall is only open to renowned calligraphers and painters.
Only two calligraphy and painting exhibition halls were open today, and the works in the exhibition halls were provided by some well-known calligraphers and painters.
These works are also available for sale!
Although Gao Yan had no expertise in calligraphy and painting, he was truly able to distinguish between good and bad.
First, he has keen insight and can distinguish the quality of calligraphy and painting by their price. Second, his mental strength far surpasses that of ordinary people, and the better the calligraphy and painting, the more he emphasizes "meaning".
In his view, the paintings and calligraphy in these exhibition halls emphasize form over meaning, and the authors of these paintings and calligraphy can at most be called craftsmen, not qualified to be called calligraphers and painters!
However, there are very few people who truly understand calligraphy and painting; most of it is just hype.
There were several masterpieces in those enclosed exhibition halls. After spiritual perception, Gao Yan also believed that these works were full of craftsmanship. One of them touched on the "meaning", but the meaning it contained was very thin.
"Brother Yan, what do you think of these paintings and calligraphy?"
Xiao Zhu asked, seeing these calligraphy and painting works, she had the idea of buying two to give to her parents!
"I don't understand calligraphy, but I think these paintings and calligraphy are very ordinary and have no value for collection!"
Gao Yandao said.
"Never mind then, I won't buy it. I was planning to buy two for my parents!"
After hearing Gao Yan's words, Xiao Zhuo immediately gave up the idea of buying it.
"Sir, I think you're wrong!"
Just then, a woman's voice came from behind.
Gao Yan turned to look at Han Yingzi and said with amusement, "Where did I say something wrong?"
Indeed, the woman who spoke was none other than Han Yingzi, the Japanese spy.
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