The three of them played on the beach until sunset, watching the sun slowly sink below the horizon, its afterglow spilling onto the sea and shimmering on the rippling water, dyeing the sea with its orange-red light.
After watching the sun set, the three of them walked out of the beach and slowly headed back towards Bailang Town.
"There are no cars, so I have to walk." Walking on the road, not a single car passed by.
At this time, no one came to the beach anymore.
As Yuan Shuyun and Li Xue'e were wondering how long it would take to walk back this way, Yuan Mengge looked at the large sign on the side of the road.
That was an advertisement seeking investment; they were planning to develop a resort hotel here.
According to Yuan Mengge's understanding of the future, this place will rapidly develop into a tourist area with a good flow of people by the year 2000.
By the late 2010s, a large number of tourists from other provinces will begin to flow into this area.
The main reason is that the cost of living in the major coastal tourist cities of Nanqiong Province has risen rapidly, and incidents of overcharging tourists have occurred frequently. As a result, many tourists have started to choose similar tourist attractions in the surrounding area, exploring new attractions while enjoying their trip.
With the development of the live streaming industry, many travel bloggers come to such places to showcase beautiful scenery and bring in a wave of tourists.
Gradually, these small places, with low visitor numbers but decent environments and affordable prices, began to become popular.
Yuan Mengge remembers that the development here twenty or thirty years later was also quite good.
She stared at the investment phone number on the billboard and silently memorized it.
It gradually got dark, and there were still no people or cars on the road.
Yuan Shuyun seemed a little nervous, while Li Xue'e was much calmer, because having Yuan Mengge by her side gave her a great sense of security.
I came by car, so I arrived very quickly.
It took two hours to walk back, until it was pitch black, before we finally reached Bailang Town.
Of the three, Yuan Shuyun and Li Xue'e were both exhausted and hungry, while Yuan Mengge wasn't tired, just simply hungry...
After arriving in town, the three of them finally recovered and quickly found a small restaurant to eat.
It was only a little past eight o'clock, and quite a few small restaurants were still open.
All three of them were starving, so they randomly picked a fast food restaurant, sat down, and ordered food.
This fast food restaurant first stews or stir-fries meat, vegetables, and some green beans and eggplants, then puts them on the counter. When customers come in, they can just order what they want to eat, and the chef will heat it up and serve it.
Vegetables and scrambled eggs can be stir-fried on the spot, as the cooking time is relatively short.
Yuan Mengge ordered a full meat dish, a mixed stir-fry of meat and vegetables, a stir-fried leafy green vegetable dish, and an egg drop soup.
Soon the proprietress brought out the dishes, and her daughter helped by bringing over three bowls of rice.
Yuan Mengge and the other two were starving, so they picked up their rice and started eating.
When you're really hungry, everything tastes good, and the chef at this restaurant is quite skilled, so the three of them ate two bowls of rice.
Yuan Mengge ate three bowls...
Seeing her eat three bowls of rice, Li Xue'e and the other woman were both stunned: "You eat so much? Aren't you afraid your stomach will burst?"
Yuan Mengge: "No, I have a big appetite, I digest and absorb it very quickly."
After finishing all the food on the table, Yuan Mengge patted her satisfied stomach and sighed.
"Ugh, I'm so full," she said, then asked the proprietress for the bill.
Of the three, Li Xue'e had no money, and even if Yuan Shuyun had some, it wasn't much.
Yuan Shuyun was originally planning to pay the bill, but when she saw Yuan Mengge call out to the proprietress, she paused for a moment before looking at Yuan Mengge and asking, "Do you have money?"
Yuan Mengge: "Of course I have money! How could I dare to go out and have fun if I didn't have any?"
As she spoke, she gave the money to the shop owner.
At that time, average income was low, and consumption was also very cheap.
At that time, a dish only cost a few yuan, and rice was free.
The total cost for three dishes and a soup was only a little over ten yuan.
Seeing Yuan Mengge pull out several tens of yuan at once, Yuan Shuyun asked curiously, "Where did you get so much money?"
She remembered that her second uncle's family didn't give pocket money to their three daughters, but only to Yuan Dasheng.
Yuan Mengge shook her phone and got dozens of yuan. How could a teenager have so much money?
Yuan Mengge glanced at her and said, "I won it myself, so it's not allowed."
Upon hearing that it was a lottery win, Yuan Shuyun immediately asked curiously, "Really? How much did you win?"
Yuan Mengge: "I won't tell you."
Yuan Shuyun: "..."
Seeing that she wouldn't say, Yuan Shuyun turned to Li Xue'e and asked, "Sister-in-law, do you know?"
Li Xue'e shook her head: "I only know that she won the lottery, but I don't know how much."
Yuan Shuyun: "Oh..."
After finishing their meal, the three of them went to find a hotel. There were several small hotels in the town, so it wasn't difficult to find one.
Yuan Mengge chose a hotel that looked relatively large and then asked for a double room.
The hotel landlady glanced at the three of them and asked, "Just the three of you?"
Before Yuan Mengge could speak, Yuan Shuyun nodded: "Yes."
The proprietress asked, guessing, "You went to the beach, right?"
Just as Li Xue'e was about to speak, Yuan Mengge secretly tugged at her and said, "What room number? Give us the key, and we'll go find it ourselves."
The proprietress glanced at her with her eyes darting around, but said nothing more. Instead, she handed them a key with a tag on it: "Second floor, 203."
Yuan Mengge took the key and pulled Li Xue'e up the stairs.
Upon reaching the second floor, they quickly found room 203. The door was closed, but they unlocked it with their key, went inside, and turned on the lights to see the surroundings.
The hotel rooms in town are rather basic. The rooms are not large, with two beds placed against the walls on either side and a small square table in the middle of the headboard.
And that was it. There were no chairs, no other tables, and no private bathroom.
The restroom is at the end of the outside corridor and is shared.
"Don't tell the hotel staff everything, especially if you're a girl staying there. Saying things like that before you've verified their character could lead to serious consequences." After closing the room door, Yuan Mengge said this to Li Xue'e and the other girl.
Moreover, she had just observed the proprietress's eyes and something seemed off; she sensed that the proprietress was up to something.
"When we go to take a shower later, the three of us should go together, and you can't go to the toilet alone either," Yuan Mengge instructed the two of them.
“That proprietress doesn’t seem like a bad person… Is there any need to be so wary?” Yuan Shuyun looked at Yuan Mengge and felt that she was making a mountain out of a molehill.
Yuan Mengge said to her, "If you don't want to be kidnapped and sold, listen to me. Haven't you learned the sayings 'You can't judge a book by its cover' and 'You can't judge a book by its cover'? A person's character isn't determined by their appearance."
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