Just then, Chen Hong returned, and the four of them cooked four dishes and had lunch together in the small hotel's restaurant.
Chen Hong told the three elderly people that she had already ordered billboards from an advertising company, so they didn't need to worry about it. She told them to entertain any visitors and go home and do whatever they needed to do if no one came.
The hotel didn't have much work to do in the afternoon. Everything was ready for business. All that was left was to light a string of firecrackers at nine o'clock tomorrow morning, and that would be the start of the business.
Chen Hong walked around the guest rooms, kitchen, and dining room, checking the details, and found that the two aunts and Xiao Feng had done a very meticulous and thorough job.
He took the key and called Uncle Erhu, and together they went to the boat, unloaded the fish they had specially saved the night before, and brought it to the hotel.
Against the wall of the hotel restaurant, there were two large live fish tanks and two extra-large display cases for fresh seafood. Chen Hong and Uncle Erhu carried the more than 400 kilograms of fish, shrimp and crabs that they had specially set aside back to the hotel.
Turn on the aerator to fill the live fish tank with oxygen, so that guests can enjoy fresh seafood when they come over.
In the afternoon, Uncle Erhu and the village chief couldn't stay idle either. The two of them went to Chen Hong's old yard and planted some more seasonal vegetables in the vegetable garden.
Chen Hong went along too, dug up a large basket of leek roots, and took them back to transplant them into the small vegetable garden behind the villa.
Chives grow very quickly. If you leave five or six seedlings in a bunch, they will grow thick and strong in just over ten days.
Rongcheng's tourism industry has seen significant and rapid development this year. Yujia Village, with its self-built wharf, has attracted more tourists than several nearby villages.
Despite the circumstances, Chen Hong's small hotel opened hastily with only a simple ceremony, yet it still managed to accommodate quite a few tourists.
Chen Hong's small inn has sixteen standard double rooms and ten family rooms that can accommodate three to five people. Although it can't be described as luxurious or grand, it is very clean and comfortable.
All the furniture, appliances, and bedding were newly purchased. Aunt Guo and Aunt Erhu were in charge of cooking in the kitchen. Although they couldn't make the fancy dishes of a hotel, the ingredients were fresh, the food was delicious and hygienic, and it had a strong fisherman's flavor.
The seafood is prepared in particular, simple yet flavorful, and the prices are two-thirds cheaper than at the hotel. Breakfast is free, and lunch and dinner can be had for as little as twenty yuan per person.
The food is excellent, with fresh dishes every day, including mackerel, ribbonfish, sardines, small yellow croaker, mullet, sea bream, mussels, clams, and oysters.
Of course, if you want something better, the live fish tank has most of the common live fish available.
Choose from a variety of fish including sea bass, mudskipper, rockfish, golden drumfish, turbot, sea bream, various sea bream, and grouper and spotted grouper.
There are also several other types of lobsters to choose from, including green lobsters, flower lobsters, mantis shrimp, slipper lobsters, as well as blue crabs, flower crabs, swimming crabs, bread crabs, iron crabs, and many other types of shrimp and crabs.
All the seafood you can eat is fresh, live seafood that you personally select, and you can pay the wholesale price at the dock plus a processing fee of ten yuan.
The room rates are also very low, with standard rooms at 100 yuan per day and family rooms at 150 yuan per day.
Although there weren't any pretty young female staff members at the hotel, the service from the several older women was warm, friendly, and thoughtful.
In addition, Chen Hong also provided the hotel with a public washing machine to provide self-service laundry for tourists.
This feeling of being at home makes the guests who stay here very satisfied.
The small hotel maintains an occupancy rate of 70-80% every day, and is fully booked during peak periods.
Chen Hong had no choice but to ask the village chief to select a few clean and tidy households in the village to arrange for the tourists to be diverted there.
Chen Hong wandered around at home for three days, and finding that she could manage without him, she couldn't stay idle and went out to sea again.
This time, she added 3,000 liters of diesel fuel in advance, storing it in newly purchased 300-liter diesel drums for emergencies.
Both fuel tanks on the boat were full, and I realized that I had only used less than 20,000 yuan worth of fuel last time. It seems that running only one engine is quite fuel-efficient when not evading pursuers.
This time, Chen Hong decided to continue engaging in illegal activities, since it would be the most enjoyable, yield the greatest rewards, and she wouldn't feel guilty.
I brought Black Tiger along again. Last time, the master and pet worked together well. Black Tiger had been to sea once and could distinguish between enemy and friendly ships.
After resting at home for a few days, Chen Hong didn't stay idle. During the day, besides helping out at the hotel, she would go to the fields to weed.
The crops in the field were sprouting well, but there was also a lot of weeds. While the weeds had only grown one main root, Chen Hong used a homemade simple weeding machine to clear all the weeds from the field in two days.
Using a small hoe, I spent half a day carefully searching and removing the weeds from the corners and gaps that the weeding machine couldn't reach.
These past few nights she's been checking the weather forecast and using the internet to research routes from the East China Sea to the western Pacific coast.
The study of tuna migration routes in Japanese waters and the distribution of valuable fish species in the vicinity will inform the next fishing trip.
After collecting a large amount of data, Chen Hong analyzed that in April and May, tuna would migrate with the Kuroshio Current to the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, that is, along the east of Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands, to the vicinity of Kyushu Island in the waters off Japan.
In August and September, tuna migrate to the vicinity of Hokkaido, and in October and November they migrate to the Tsugaru Strait in Japan.
Chen Hong drew a simple diagram, and when I saw it, I was amazed. No wonder the Japanese are so keen on tuna fishing. It was all very clear from the homemade diagram.
These tuna have been migrating around the waters off Japan from February to December. Isn't this just blatantly delivering food to the Japanese?
This unique geographical location has led to the near extinction of tuna through overfishing.
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