Chapter 309 Becoming Famous
Zhou Huaining patted the little girl's back gently.
"He's just an irrelevant person. Why do you like him? Just like me, your uncle!"
Little Jiu'er puffed up her cheeks and lay on Zhou Huaining's shoulder, as if she had made up her mind, "Yes! If my son doesn't like it, let's change it!"
"Just now you said that you were enthusiastic about Fan Jie Qiang because of money. You are a little girl with a hard mouth but a soft heart." Zhou Huaining smiled and shook his head, then carried her back to the Ye family.
In the following days, the villagers added roofs to the long row of kitchens in the food street and built walls with mud bricks.
There is a large window in the kitchen, so you can see what's going on inside the kitchen from the outside, and ventilation is of course not a problem.
Stonemasons chiseled stone slabs on the mountain every day, and the villagers carried the chiseled stone slabs down the mountain one by one to pave the stone road from the city gate outward.
With day-by-day efforts, Heihe Village is becoming more and more beautiful and tidier.
During this period, the number of guests in Heihe Village remained at about one hundred per day.
Because many inns were demolished before, there are now more than 60 inns in Heihe Village, which can accommodate more than 200 guests.
Xiaotuanzi asked the villagers to rearrange the inns so that they would not look as crowded as before.
Next, the villagers were busy building the stables and the roof of the food court.
More than ten days passed like this, and the county magistrate came with a smile.
"Fellow villagers, great news! Heihe Village is now famous in Beijing! I'm sure many people will come to Heihe Village soon, so you must be prepared to receive them!"
The villagers acted calmly, "Come on, come on, we've seen big scenes before!"
The first group of guests returning to the capital really kept their promise. After their publicity, many people came here to visit. After arriving in Xianchuan County, they went straight to Heihe Village.
The Heihe Village Inn was once again full, and the villagers were busy again.
Strangely enough, these new guests are so familiar with Heihe Village that they know what delicious dishes are there without even looking at the menu.
The mountain that was blown up has become a tourist attraction, and you can often see a group of people gathered there talking.
In fact, there is nothing beautiful about a mountain that has been split into pieces. It seems that the rumor that the mountain was struck by lightning has made them very excited.
As for the comfortable beds in the inn, the useful toiletries, and Daqiang's father's ventriloquism... they know them all.
They even know how hardworking, united and influential Heihe Village is!
"Do you know? Heihe Village is now talked about a lot in the capital. It's very famous!"
"Even Xianchuan County and Ganning County became popular!"
"Everyone used to know that Ganning County was the poorest place in Dayu Dynasty, but now everyone knows that there's a very impressive Heihe Village in Ganning County! Everyone wants to come and experience how delicious your food is!"
In short, thanks to Heihe Village, Ganning County's reputation in the capital was completely reversed.
Those who previously said that Ganning County was so poor that people could only eat dirt now hope to come to Ganning County to taste the legendary spicy taste that makes people unable to put down their chopsticks.
In fact, during this period, people have been asking everywhere how to buy chili peppers.
However, the owners of the restaurants in the town knew the interests involved and guarded the peppers like treasures, so they refused to let the peppers leave Xianchuan County.
In early July, the tomatoes in the field finally ripened, each one bright red like a little lantern.
Naturally ripened tomatoes are sweet and sour and delicious, and are loved by guests whether eaten raw or used in cooking.
Yunniang took the opportunity to do something big. She developed hot pot with tomato and spicy bases according to the recipe.
Da Yu Chao actually also has hot pot, but it is called Tonglu, which is a food that rich people like.
When it comes to eating in copper pot, it means boiling broth in a copper pot, and then using the boiling broth to blanch vegetables and meat.
Heihe Village bought a batch of copper stoves from the town, and then used the black soil from the Ye family, and the hot and boiling hot pot was served to the guests' tables.
As soon as the tomato hot pot base and spicy hot pot base were launched, diners went crazy for them.
They didn't expect Heihe Village to be so arrogant!
There are so many peppercorns in the spicy hot pot base that it’s outrageous!
You know how expensive Sichuan pepper is!
They seriously suspected that Heihe Village would not only fail to make money, but would also lose money.
The introduction of hot pot added fuel to the fire in Heihe Village. More than 60 inns were not enough to accommodate people, so Heihe Village built some more inns.
The owners of the restaurants in the town heard the news and immediately came to Heihe Village to learn from them.
Adhering to the principle of making money together, Heihe Village sold some tomatoes to them, and the shopkeepers left happily.
In the blink of an eye, it was mid-July. Heihe Village had already gained experience in running an inn, and the villagers worked in an orderly manner every day.
As the weather grew hotter day by day, guests began to complain that the inn was a bit stuffy.
This is the disadvantage of mobile inns.
Even though the geographical location of Heihe Village makes the temperature here lower than many places, it is still quite difficult to spend the summer safely in a mobile inn.
Although the mobile inn looks nothing special on the outside, it is not made of real bricks and tiles.
To put it simply, it is a color steel plate. Although there is a heat insulation layer inside, it will definitely not be cool under the scorching summer sun.
The villagers' first reaction was to rebuild their houses, but this was quickly rejected.
First, building a house is different from building an inn. It takes a lot of time; second, it is difficult to find particularly skilled craftsmen in the surrounding area to build an exquisite house.
It would definitely not be possible to let these wealthy guests live in mud brick houses in the countryside.
Seeing that the inn was about to close, the villagers became anxious.
After all, opportunities are fleeting, and such a good opportunity to make money may not come again in the future.
"It's okay! E Susu will want to arrange flowers!" Little Tuanzi said he was not worried.
Sure enough, Ye Yan'an came over with a stack of blueprints. "Everyone, Xiao Jiuer told me about this a long time ago! Actually, the problem of the inn's stuffiness in the summer can be solved!"
"Yan An, come and tell us!" Everyone immediately became excited.
"I believe everyone has heard that some places in the capital use water wheels to irrigate farmland. I plan to build several large water wheels by the river to divert water from low areas to high areas."
The villagers were puzzled. "Waterwheels are used to irrigate farmland. What does this have to do with the inn?"
Ye Yan'an smiled and said, "Since the water brought by the waterwheel can be used to irrigate the farmland, it can also be used to cool the inn! Think about it, if the roof of the inn is constantly cooled by running water, will it still be hot inside?"
"Now that I mention it, I remember something!"
A villager said, "I heard from guests before that Princess Mingzhu is afraid of the heat, so the emperor built a pavilion specifically for her to cool down.
The name of the pavilion is "Ziyu Pavilion". When it's hot, water flows down from the roof, just like rain. What Yan An said should be the same as this Ziyu Pavilion!"
Ye Yan'an nodded, "It sounds like the principle is similar!"
"I didn't expect that Heihe Village would also build a Ziyu Pavilion!" The villagers said impatiently, "Yan An, you make the arrangements, we will follow your instructions!"
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