Chapter 222 Return to the Village
During the May Day holiday, Zhaoyang County attracted 260,000 tourists, a 420% increase over the same period last year, and generated 117 million yuan in total revenue, a 415% year-on-year increase.
This achievement wouldn't be impressive in eastern coastal cities. Back in Gulin City, Jiang Ningyue could easily attract millions of visitors on New Year's Day with just a little publicity.
However, this result shocked the entire city and even the entire province.
You know, during the May Day holiday, the number of cultural and tourism visitors in the entire Taozhou City was only 410,000!
It is foreseeable that for a long time in the future, countless leaders or district and county leaders will come to Zhaoyang County for exchanges and learning.
Jiang Ningyue didn't waste any time and asked the people from the county government to calculate various aspects such as the check-in time and the type of volunteer work according to the WeChat mini program. After she came back to review it, she would distribute the bonuses.
As for those who came to exchange and learn, they were all left to He Zhi to deal with.
Jiang Ningyue herself took Gu Meng back to her hometown.
After May Day, there were obviously fewer people on the road and the journey back was smooth.
After entering the mountainous area, Gu Meng was initially quite excited, constantly taking photos of the mountain scenery on both sides with her phone. People often say that the scenery of Shannan is all on the road. Although some people mock the fact that the Shannan scenic area is not well developed, the scenery along the road in Shannan is indeed unique.
But soon Gu Meng began to feel aesthetic fatigue and began to toss and turn in the passenger seat, "Why hasn't it arrived yet? How long will it take?"
Jiang Ningyue glanced at Gu Meng and said with a smile, "It will take more than an hour."
"There's still more than an hour left..."
Gu Meng sighed and leaned back in the chair, "I'm going to sleep for a while."
"OK."
In less than two minutes, Gu Meng fell asleep in the seat. Jiang Ningyue closed the passenger window and opened the window on her side so that Gu Meng would not get too cold or too hot.
Arriving at her hometown village, Jiang Ningyue woke up Gu Meng. Gu Meng rubbed her eyes and looked at the mountain villages on both sides of the road. There were a large number of stone houses, some on the hillside, some on the slope, and some even standing alone on a single mountain.
There are a lot of terraced fields next to it, planted with various plants, and sheep grazing halfway up the mountain...
Gu Meng rolled down the car window and placed her hands on it: "What a beautiful view."
Jiang Ningyue teased, "I'll make you behave yourself once I let you use the dry toilet."
“Huh!”
Gu Meng looked disgusted. It was obvious that she had been to a dry toilet before. "Your house isn't a dry toilet, is it?"
"no."
Jiang Ningyue smiled and said, "The house was newly renovated when I started working, and it had a toilet."
"That's good."
Gu Meng breathed a sigh of relief. "That dry toilet... is a nightmare. Once when we were filming, there was no proper toilet, so we had to borrow the toilet at a herdsman's house... The smell... Ugh~"
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Jiang Ningyue smiled and said, "Most families in the village now have dry toilets. However, Zhaoyang County has been carrying out a 'toilet revolution'. I don't know if our hometown, Chenmu County, has done the same."
Gu Meng asked in confusion: "Tell me, why don't those people make their lives better?"
"Because I'm poor." Jiang Ningyue smiled. "I work so hard, I earn 10,000 or 20,000 yuan a year. After deducting the cost of seeds and food, plus the daily expenses of food and clothing, I'm lucky to have 2,000 or 3,000 yuan left at the end of the year."
"sky……"
Gu Meng couldn't understand what it meant to earn only 10,000 or 20,000 yuan a year. After all, she grew up in Haizhou. She was not rich, but at least she had never worried about money.
Jiang Ningyue suddenly had an idea. "Mengmeng, what do you think about me starting a special project on 'Longing for Life'? Every season, I'll take the young guests to colleges to play with the children, and then donate money to poor families?"
Gu Meng blinked and said, "That's not so good. Most poor families don't want to be on TV. They can donate money, but they can't be on TV."
"Too."
Jiang Ningyue nodded, "We'll talk about it when the time comes."
While the two were talking, Jiang Ningyue returned home.
Jiang Ningyue stopped the car at the gate of the yard and honked the horn.
Hearing the familiar horn sound, Wang Zhen walked out and saw Jiang Ningyue's car parked at the door. He immediately opened the gate of the yard with a smile on his face.
Jiang Ningyue parked the car, and Gu Meng got out of the passenger seat and walked towards Wang Zhen with a smile, "Hello, Auntie, I'm Yueyue's friend, my name is Gu Meng."
"Ah! I know you."
Wang Zhen was very enthusiastic when she saw Gu Meng. "My daughter is so beautiful, even prettier than on TV! I always see you on TV."
"Thank you, Auntie."
In front of Wang Zhen, Gu Meng immediately became very gentle and well-behaved, looking like a good girl.
Wang Zhen saw that there were guests at home and immediately started cooking. Gu Meng also wanted to help, but was stopped by Wang Zhen.
Jiang Ningyue asked, "Mom, how is Zhao Rao's grandmother?"
"Oh. He almost died a while ago, but your dad called the doctor and asked him to come home, and he was saved by giving him fluids."
Wang Zhen lamented, "Her grandmother was already in poor health and old, so she probably won't make it this year."
"well."
Jiang Ningyue sighed after hearing this. There was nothing that could be done about birth, old age, sickness and death.
However, Zhao Rao has suffered too much.
If grandma were gone, then there would really be nothing left to worry about in this world.
Gu Meng was curious, "Who is Zhao Rao?"
Jiang Ningyue introduced her.
After listening to this, Gu Meng was filled with emotion, "This child's life is too hard, fortunately he met you."
"What can I do?" Jiang Ningyue said helplessly, "I can only give some money."
"That's pretty good."
Gu Meng said, "Otherwise, a girl is alone and helpless, what can you let her do? Especially a girl like this, there will definitely be bad people targeting her. Now that they know you have been paying attention to Zhao Rao, they will definitely not dare to bully her."
"Stop flattering me."
Jiang Ningyue smiled and looked at Wang Zhen again, "Have you told Zhao Rao about this?"
"What do you mean?"
Wang Zhen said with some hesitation, "The child is in his third year of high school, which is a critical period."
Jiang Ningyue frowned, "When did the college entrance examination become more important than human life? We can take the college entrance examination next year."
Wang Zhen said helplessly, "You're just talking about big principles. If Zhao Rao stopped going to school to stay with her grandma, her grandma would be mad to death first."
"That's right." Jiang Ningyue nodded helplessly and continued to ask, "Then where is Grandma Zhao now?"
"He's in the village hospital."
Wang Zhen explained, "The township leaders knew about Zhao Rao's situation. Considering that she was in her third year of high school, they specifically asked the health center to take care of her so that she could focus on the college entrance examination."
Gu Meng sighed, "Your village leaders are pretty good."
Jiang Ningyue smiled and said nothing.
Upon learning that Jiang Ningyue's friend had come to his house, Jiang Su immediately rushed back home.
After staying at home for two days, Jiang Ningyue took Gu Meng away and took a tour of Taozhou. The new season of "Yearning" began recording, and the two returned to Zhaoyang County.
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