Chapter 31
After Xiao Jin finished eating the meat, Mrs. Feng walked over quietly and said, “Xiao Jin, where did you find this gold? Is there any more there? I’ll make you more delicious food, okay?”
Xiaojin paced Fang Bu and walked away. He usually heard something delicious, but he didn’t make a sound at this time. Mrs. Feng asked him several times. He simply flew to the roof, stood on it and combed his feathers slowly, looking a bit like an eagle, very majestic and majestic.
Madam Feng took out the gold from her pocket. It was a little bigger than the last one, and it would definitely be worth more money. She felt that the gold was given to the old Feng family by the Mountain God, isn’t it? Huzi is an animal raised by the Mountain God, and Xiaojin is raised by Huzi, so Xiaojin is also a mythical beast in front of the Mountain God. The gold that Xiaojin brought back is because the Mountain God is taking care of her family.
The more old lady Feng thought about it, the more reasonable she felt. She must go to worship the mountain **** and his old man more in the future, and offer him more air-dried meat to eat, so that the old man would be happy and bring more gold to her family.
When Feng Yimin returned home for dinner, Mrs. Feng took out the gold and said happily, “Look at what the Mountain God has brought us? Well, the gold he asked Xiao Jin to bring back, Xiao Jin gave it to me this morning, hehe. , Xiaojin’s name is good, he is born with luck, in fact, I have seen it long ago, why don’t you give it such a name?”
Feng Yimin took the gold and weighed it, his face smiled first, but he still couldn’t help but hopeful and said, “Our family has received gold from Longling twice, maybe there really is a gold mine in it. , I’ll take someone to Longling to take a closer look after I’ve been busy for a while.”
Madam Feng doesn’t care about these things. If there is a gold mine, the benefits of her family are indispensable. She also reminded: “If you want to look for it, look for it. You are not allowed to tell me about the gold you found at home. I plan to do it in a few days. I took it out of the mountain and sold it. Your father became a self-employed person, and now is the time when he needs money, and I don’t know what he is like now.”
Feng Yimin also missed a little in his heart. His father is so old. Whether he can get used to it when he arrives in the south is still a problem. He was very worried, but he comforted Mrs. Feng and said, “Mom, don’t worry about Dad, he must be well, I I have to go to the provincial capital in two days, and I will sell the gold for you.”
The old lady Feng said strangely: “What are you doing in the provincial capital?”
Feng Yimin laughed heartily and explained to her patiently, “Mom, didn’t I meet Director Zhou of the Railway Bureau last time I participated in the provincial cadre inspection? I told him about our Taoyuan Village. He was very interested in our place, and he said that he would organize employees to travel, so I went to him this time to help you take the gold to the bank to sell.”
Madam Feng’s eyes lit up, and she immediately thought of her own ice drink machine, and hurriedly urged her eldest son to say, “This is a good thing, when tourists come, we can sell our iced soda. Give them, you have to hurry, I will prepare some dried meat for you, you can bring it to the director Zhou, and let him help us.”
Feng Yimin was taken aback, and without thinking, he reached out and held Mrs. Feng down and said, “Mom, Director Zhou really wants to help us, so we can’t do things like giving gifts.”
Madam Feng clapped his hands away vigorously, raised her eyebrows on her hips and said, “What do you know? Are there people in the world who don’t like to receive gifts? Air-dried meat is not money, you can take some to their house. , the elderly and children in his family can eat it, they are happy to eat it, maybe your business will be done for you, I have eaten more salt than you have eaten rice, so listen to me.”
Old Madam Feng stared, and Feng Yimin immediately surrendered, nodding his head like a chicken pecking at rice and saying, “Okay, Mom, I’ll listen to you, what you said is too reasonable, so I’ll do as you say. “
A few days later, Feng Yimin went to the provincial capital, and when he came back, he turned on the village radio and said, “Familiars pay attention, folks pay attention, each family will send a representative to the brigade for a meeting. I have something good to announce here. Come over now.”
I heard the village chief say something good. The people in the village ran faster than rabbits, and they all came to the brigade in a short time. Some anxious villagers and even their whole families came. They stood in a crowd and gave them all the doors of the brigade. When it was blocked, the villager standing at the front said with great anticipation: “Village chief, what’s the good thing? You can tell us about it.”
Feng Yimin took out a stool and stood up and said, “Why are you in a hurry? When everyone has arrived, I’ll tell you again, Guangming, don’t miss the number of people you count.”
When all the representatives of the whole village came, Feng Yimin turned on the loudspeaker and said, “Folks, after you go back today, hurry up and clean up your house…”
“Village chief, are there any foreigners coming?” After hearing this, the villagers immediately thought of the reporter from the United States.
Feng Yimin waved his hand and said with a mysterious smile on his face: “This time, it’s not a foreigner, it’s the employees of the Provincial Railway Bureau who are coming to visit us. I’m going out this time to do this, and they will come to us the day after tomorrow. Taoyuan Village, when the time comes to eat, drink, live, play, etc., think about it for yourself, don’t you have to spend money? I am asking you to go back and prepare, quickly vacate the best room at home, and wait for someone Come and let them choose for themselves, if your house is too dirty and messy, then you will definitely not be able to choose.”
The villagers were shocked when they heard it. They now understand the meaning of tourism. The village chief is right. When people from outside come to the village to travel, they will spend money on food and accommodation. They can make money by sitting at home. It’s really a great thing.
However, some villagers said worriedly: “Village chief, in our rural area, people from the provincial capital are really willing to live here? Eat here? We don’t have anything good to entertain, and it will be a shame for our village. What to do?”
Feng Yimin had already thought about it for a long time, and looking at the villager, he said with great confidence: “Is Taoyuan Village not good? People in the United States have said that the place is good, so it must be the best. People in the provincial capital are used to living in the city. When you are in a big city, people just like our rural places. To live is to live in the most authentic farmhouses, and to eat is to eat the most authentic farmhouse dishes. Whatever delicious and fun things you have at home, just go and prepare them. They will always pay for it. But you have to listen carefully, you must pay attention to hygiene, people in the city love to be clean, and the sheets and sheets at home are washed and washed. They live there, maybe they will come again next time, do you think so?”
Zhang Guangming also said to the side: “The village chief is right, some urban people live in houses that are not as good as ours in the countryside. Many people live in a house with five or six people in their families. How can we be spacious here? We don’t have anything to be ashamed of, the people in the city just like our **** taste.”
Only then did the villagers dispel their concerns, and they all grinned with joy, when they heard Feng Yimin continue to open his loudspeaker and say, “I’m going to set up a task next, people from the city come to travel is a major event in our village, and everyone should pay attention to it. Get up, the hygiene of the village will also be done. I also plan to learn from others in Hainan. On the beach in front of the village, I will build a few shacks with palm leaves. When the guests come, there must be a place to sit, right? Now I have ordered the name. People stand up, Feng Dagui…”
Feng Yimin organized a group of villagers to clean up, and set up a shack on the beach. The villagers also started to clean the house when they returned home. They made room and washed the sheets. They were busy for a long time, and some were active. People hurriedly rowed the boat and went to the reef group to put down the basket, waiting to collect some seafood, which would be sold to tourists at that time.
The little dolls in the village were not idle either. The wild flowers they planted last time were all alive, and they bloomed very beautifully. They went to the mountains to dig some and came back to plant them, filling the front and back of the house.
The people in the village are preparing wholeheartedly, and everyone’s faces are filled with joyful smiles. Thinking of the tourists coming, they will have money to collect them, and they are all very active.
When Feng Dafu returned home from the brigade, he couldn’t understand the changes in the village more and more. What Niu Xingsheng had said to him in the past had not been realized until now, and he felt a little unreliable in his heart. Thinking of the income mentioned by the village chief, his mind became active again. Seeing that the house was dirty and messy like a pig’s kennel, no one would want to live in his house, so he said angrily to his daughter-in-law: ” Can’t you be more diligent? Hurry up to clean up the house and free up the room where we are sleeping now. The traveler will come the day after tomorrow, no, I have to go out and pick some coconuts, and then I can sell them to them, you hurry up Cleaning the house, do you hear me?”
Seeing his daughter-in-law pick up the broom and start sweeping the floor, Feng Dafu took the long-handled hook and went to the coconut grove at the back of the village. He stood under the tree and looked again and again, and found that the coconuts in his family were very small. , the coconut from the village chief’s house next to it is the largest. He is the only one here, so he moved his eyes and stretched out his hook to the next tree. He hasn’t knocked down the coconut yet. Suddenly, a coconut fell from the top of his foot and hit him heavily on the back of his foot. The pain almost passed out on the spot, and the foot was immediately swollen like a coconut. He could no longer care about stealing the coconut. , limping to the village health station to apply medicine.
On the third day, the tourists finally arrived as the villagers were looking forward to. They drove several minibuses until they reached the entrance of the village before stopping. From the cars came a large group of men and women, all with small babies. Wearing really good shirts, some wearing green military uniforms, and some even holding seagull cameras in their hands, they started taking pictures as soon as they came.
They are all employees of the Provincial Railway Bureau. They were a little disgusted when they heard that they wanted to come to Taoyuan Village. After arriving, they found that the scenery here is very good. First, they passed through the green mountains and saw rows of black stone houses. In front of the village is the blue sea and white sandy beach. When they see this, they first have a good impression, and then they find that these villagers are dressed in clean and tidy clothes, with bright smiles on their faces, and they welcome them with cold boiled water at the entrance of the village. them.
The old Feng’s soda shed is here. Mengmeng and her brothers are sitting behind the table. Everyone wears toad mirrors on their faces, which makes the tourists stunned. Is this still a country child? Look at the clothes and skirts he wears, the things on his face and hands, he looks more like city people than these city people, it is too fashionable and imposing. Look what they sell? The five characters of American ice and soda are written at the front. There is still a machine from the United States in this rural area? This is really unbelievable Mrs.
Before the adults could react, the little dolls became greedy first, standing in front of the stall and unable to walk, twisting their bodies and clamoring for American ice-cold soda.
Some parents were bothered by the harassment, so they came over and asked the price. They felt that a penny a cup was not expensive, so they spent their money to buy a cup or two. The taste was very good, and it was very refreshing to drink in such summer. The front of the stall was crowded with tourists.
Mengmeng sat on a chair and looked at these tourists curiously. She wore a pair of round toad mirrors on her small round face, which made her small face more round. In the eyes of tourists, she was a very cute little girl , not at all like a country doll.
Mengmeng doesn’t need to entertain tourists. She is dressed beautifully and has two pigtails on her head. She just sits there drinking ice soda and eating big peaches. On the table in front of her, there is a big pile of red and red. The big peach exudes a sweet taste.
A female tourist saw that she was eating so beautifully, she couldn’t help but came over and asked, “Little sister, how do you sell these peaches?”
Mengmeng stretched out a finger and said, “One dime, sweet.”
The female tourist was a little overjoyed. She just weighed the weight of the peach, and it was almost half a catty. If it was in their provincial capital, how could it be so cheap? If you don’t have a ticket, you may not be able to buy it, so he happily took out the money from his pocket and handed it to Mengmeng, saying, “Give you a dime, I want a peach.”
Mengmeng didn’t pick up the money, she turned her head and shouted, “Big brother, sell peaches.”
The big baby came over very diligently. He picked up the money and looked at it, then put it into the cardboard box on the table, and said to the female tourist with great enthusiasm: “Peaches are all good, you can pick one. .”
Can you choose it yourself? The female tourist felt very happy, so she picked the largest peach, put it under her nose and smelled it, and couldn’t wait to tear off the skin of the peach before eating it.
This group of people stayed at the entrance of the village for a while, and some villagers came to greet them to choose a house. This is also very rare for tourists. When have they lived in stone houses? You can see that this house is also very stylish, it is a small farmhouse one by one, and it is very clean, which makes people feel comfortable. After inquiring about the price, the price is not expensive. The cheapest one is only six or seven cents for a night, and the most expensive is only one dollar, which is much cheaper than the guest house outside. There is free hot water to use, it will be more satisfied.
The villagers were even more satisfied than they were. They took the tourists to choose a house and took them to choose the ingredients to cook. They had a basket that was just collected from the sea. It was full of all kinds of seafood. In the vegetable garden, just pick it off when you like it, there is nothing fresher than this, which opened the eyes of this group of city people.
A tourist even pointed to the chickens of the villagers and said they wanted to eat them. The two sides negotiated the price. The villagers slaughtered the chickens on the spot and made them into fragrant chicken pots for them to eat. Their faces also bloomed with joy, I wish they had chosen more, it was all money.
Feng Yimin let the people in the village entertain tourists. He brought Director Zhou’s family to the old Feng’s house. As soon as he entered the courtyard, Director Zhou said, “Oh, Yimin, your home is not bad, such a big house is not bad. It’s built in such a grand style, look at these flowers and grasses, they are well planted, and there is a well.”
Feng Yimin smiled and said very modestly: “Look at what you said, Zhou Chu, our houses in the countryside are similar, and the materials are all cheaply obtained from the mountains. There are advantages, too, come here to see, this is a thatched hut, and the one next to it is a shower room, it’s quite convenient to live in my house, don’t you think?”
Director Zhou raised his head and said with a particularly bold smile: “Be humble and benefit the people. I’ve seen it along the way. Your house is considered a good one in the village. It’s big and spacious, and there are also these thatched huts and shower rooms. Better than the house in our city.”
Feng Yimin laughed and said: “Zhou Chu, let’s not stand here, I will show you in the room.”
Feng Yimin pushed open the door to let them in. This room was where Henry stayed last time. Hearing that tourists were coming, Mrs. Feng even sent Feng Yimin to go out and pull a piece of red rags to make a new quilt sheet. Finally, it doesn’t look so shabby anymore, and Director Zhou’s wife and children are also very satisfied when they see it.
Tourists ate the most authentic farm meal at the villagers’ homes, then ran out in groups of three or five for a walk, strolled around the village first, and took pictures in front of the stone houses and among the flowers, and they all felt that this was the case. The village is very quaint and fun.
Some tourists walked so fast that they had already left the village and ran to the beach. It was bustling there. There were rows of shacks on the beach. It would be cool to stay under the shacks. If you had a glass of American ice in your hand Soda, it’s even more enjoyable.
The weather was very hot in the afternoon. These tourists didn’t have enough to drink a cup. They wanted to drink more. Not only the children wanted to drink, but their adults also wanted to drink. . Some tourists who can’t wait will go to the stalls of the villagers next to them and buy some coconuts, papayas, peaches and so on. They are all very cheap. I can’t wait to buy more and eat more. .
The tourists had a great time and couldn’t help saying with emotion: “The scenery of Taoyuan Village is so good, you can swim in the sea, and things are sold cheaply. Why haven’t we heard of it before? Otherwise, we would have come here long ago. played.”
Some villagers smiled and said to them: “In the past, the mountain road was not repaired, we couldn’t get out, and you couldn’t get in. Now it’s different. You can come and play anytime you want. In addition to going out to sea and farming, the people in our village. You can always entertain you.”
When it comes to farming in the sea, these urbanites are even more curious. They are registered in the city. Some people have never even seen farming in their entire lives, let alone the sea. They immediately urged the villagers to take them to see farming. Take them out to the sea to fish, and pay to buy the fish when they catch them, making the villagers happy, and he will take them out to the sea to fish.
Feng Yimin knew that they were going to go to sea, so he ran over and said, “It’s too dangerous to go to the far sea, so let’s take them to play in the reefs. Be sure to pay attention to safety, especially children. There are pigs in your house. Quickly take them out and put them on for tourists, falling into the sea is no joke.”
The villagers also knew how powerful they were, so they all nodded their heads and said, “Don’t worry, village chief, I’ll take them around the reefs. The baskets I put down yesterday can just be collected and sold to them, hehehe.”
The villagers are also very happy. Tourists are charged for everything, not only for meals, but also for accommodation. Taking them out to collect baskets can also sell for money, and even picking coconuts on trees for tourists can sell well. Some tourists even bought a lot of coconuts to take away when they left. In this way, each of them entertains tourists and earns at least three or four dollars a day, which was unimaginable before. Just by going to sea and farming, they work hard for a day, and on average they can’t make any money. To one dollar, now you don’t have to go out, you can collect the money while sitting at home, and you earn so much, the whole village is so happy that it’s about to boil.
People in the village have tasted the benefits of tourism, and they come to Feng Yimin every day and say, “Village chief, when will there be tourists coming?”
Feng Yimin already had an idea in his heart, and no matter who came, he would say this: “Don’t worry, you all go back and get ready, wait for me to write a letter and then get in touch.”
After this group of tourists, the minds of the villagers have also become active. They have been thinking about how to entertain the tourists all day long. When these tourists come, why not eat and drink? Many people keep more chickens and ducks at home, grow more vegetables, and wait for tourists to come and sell them to them. Thinking of the good days in the future, the hearts of the villagers are very hot.