The motorcycle headed towards Xujia Village and finally stopped in front of its own courtyard gate. The motorcycle had just been turned off and the second grandfather had not yet gotten off when the gate creaked open and four or five people poked their heads out at the same time.
"Old Xu, why are you taking so long? We've been waiting for you for ages! Hurry up and come on!"
"Exactly, they called us over to their house, but then they were just wandering around outside. Seriously."
"hurry up."
Amidst the calls of the crowd, Second Grandfather took a long stride and stepped off the vehicle. He then took off his helmet and hung it on the handlebars. He returned to the courtyard at a leisurely pace, picked up his teacup and drank it all in one gulp before finally speaking to the dozen or so people in the courtyard.
"Today is the opening day of my nephew's factory, and as the village head, and also his great-nephew's grandfather, shouldn't I go to congratulate him?" The second grandfather paused, then, feigning ignorance, asked smugly, "Do you know who my nephew is?"
"I know, I know! It's that Xu's Catering boss. You've said it so many times, I'm sick of hearing it," one of them interrupted rudely. "Old Xu, you tell me, what's the matter that you called us all here today?"
"Hehe." Second Grandfather didn't respond, but instead asked, "Have you finished counting the number of vacant houses in the village?"
"These are all perfectly clear-cut matters, there's no need for statistics. My Yan Family Village has a total of 137 households, with 18 vacant houses. The property rights are all very clear, and there are no disputes."
"Liujiabao has 93 households, with 21 vacant houses, all with clear property rights."
"One hundred and six households in Majia Village"
“.”
The thirteen people in the courtyard described the situation of their own villages in detail, and the second grandfather recorded all of this information in his notebook without omission.
"Hey, Old Xu, why are you asking all this? What, are you planning to relocate the whole village? Are you looking to see which village can accommodate so many people from your village?"
"What are you thinking about in broad daylight?" Second Grandfather rolled his eyes and asked, "Everyone knows that there's a hot spring in the mudflats that our Xu Family Village has contracted, right?"
"How could I not know? I even know that construction has already started over there, and the person leading the construction team is from your Xu Family Village."
The man smacked his lips, raised an eyebrow, and asked:
"Could it be that your Xu Family Village also paid for this hot spring? That must have cost several million yuan. Where did your Xu Family Village get so much money? Did you win the lottery, or did everyone in the village cut off their kidneys?"
"Go to hell!"
Grandpa rolled his eyes again, slapped the man who had spoken on the shoulder, and the man suddenly shrank by half, grimacing and yelling "Ouch, ouch, ouch!" before running to the back of the crowd.
After a few simple explanations about "neither winning the lottery nor cutting off kidneys," the second grandfather finally got to the point, saying seriously:
"My nephew has leased out the hot spring and plans to build a hot spring resort, something like the Golden Coast in Beitun Town, to attract people from surrounding cities to come and play."
However, this development requires too much funding. Once the hot springs are developed, there are only a dozen or so places to stay, which is definitely not enough. So we can only start with the surrounding villages.”
As he spoke, Second Grandfather gently patted the notebook filled with writing, looked at everyone meaningfully, and said, "Hey, don't say I'm only concerned with my own success and don't care about my old friends. I came here because I miss you all!"
"Old Xu, stop beating around the bush and just tell me, what do you need these empty houses for?"
"Exactly, we've been playing a riddle for so long, it's time to reveal the answer!"
“.”
Cough—cough cough—
After coughing twice to interrupt the crowd's protests, the second grandfather slowly said, "I want you to rent all these vacant houses, renovate and upgrade them, and then give these rooms to tourists who come to the seaside hot springs."
A house can be furnished with at least four rooms, right? Let's say each room costs 100 yuan per night, so four rooms would cost 400 yuan a day. Even if there are only 20 days of guests a month, that's still 8,000 yuan, doesn't that make sense?
As soon as Grandpa said that, everyone immediately understood what was going on. Most people's eyes began to dart around, and their inner calculations started clicking away.
They were all old folks who had lived for decades and knew each other very well. With just one glance, the second grandfather could tell what they were thinking and immediately spoke up to stop them.
"A few days ago, something quite commotion happened in Beitun Town. You've probably all heard about it, right? It involved a fight between people from two villages."
One village thought your prices were too low, while another village thought they were too high, which was why you had no customers. Neither village would back down, and the argument escalated into a fight. The winner ended up in jail, the loser in the hospital, and both businesses were forced to close. Neither gained anything.
If you all plan to do it yourselves, this is the end result sooner or later!
"Who do you think you are? We've been brothers for so many years, how could things get so ugly? Besides, we're both this age, a fight is definitely out of the question, it'll just be words at most."
Tsk ————
Grandpa clicked his tongue in disgust and interrupted, "You probably don't care now that you haven't seen any real money. But once the tourists come and see the cash, it'll be hard to say."
"At that time, Yanjiacun thought that at ninety yuan a night, they could earn seven thousand two hundred yuan a month, so they raised their prices to ninety. Majiacun saw that all the customers were going to Yanjiacun, so they raised their prices to eighty yuan a night. Liujiabao couldn't sit still either, so they followed suit and raised their prices to seventy yuan a night."
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