After leaving the cemetery, the two of them didn't go to any tourist attractions. Ye Ling was not interested in those. She just wanted to stay with her dear brother Yixiu at Huahualuo. Liu Jinpeng had no ready-made plans. After getting in the car, he made a few phone calls and canceled some of the arrangements that had been made. Ye Ling listened happily beside her. Now she also partially understood what surprises Brother Yixiu had hidden.
Originally, Liu Jinpeng planned to contact the cemetery management today and hold a small wedding here. No spectators were needed, but at least elegant flowers and a cameraman were always required. Then he had to find a resort hotel with a waterside pavilion. He planned to spend two days there with Ye Ling without shame, but now he might have to change places.
Ye Ling was not ashamed at all. She came over with a smile and said, "Brother Yixiu, how did you arrange your time with Liu Liu and the others? That's pretty much it."
"Actually, I have always felt very sorry and sorry." Liu Jinpeng put down the phone and turned to look at Ye Ling's face, "I should spend more time with you, but each of you can only be allocated a few days."
Ye Ling touched his face and said with a smile: "Brother Yixiu just likes to worry. What matters is your heart. Sister Xiaoyu said that we don't need you to engage in formalism. I think this sentence is right. You only need to know me I will always be your little leaf."
Yes, Liu Jinpeng suddenly thought about it. In fact, he didn't have to worry too much. At this time, he just needed to enjoy the holiday happily with Ye Ling like an ordinary person. He released the handbrake, started the car and hit the road. He said to the excited Ye Ling, "Let's go. Now that we're here, let's experience the scenery of the land of plenty."
The area of ??Hong Lake is larger than Jiangcheng East Lake. There are some open waters near the dock of Xiaogang Town. Other than that there are only large stretches of lotus leaves stretching as far as the eye can see. It is now the junction of September and October. Except for a few late-blooming ones that are still holding on, most of the lotus flowers have faded. However, September and October are the months when lotus pods are on the market, so you can see tall and erect lotus pod heads everywhere among the large lotus leaves.
There are a large number of awning boats and awningless boats swarming near the pier of Xiaogang Town, and each boat has a boatman or boat girl at the helm. They were not in a hurry to attract guests, but sat quietly on the bow of the boat, or looked at the lake in a daze, or chatted with each other about homely matters. Whenever a customer comes up to ask about the price, they will get up and haggle, and then greet the customer with a smile to board the ship and leave the port.
The good order of Xiaogang Town Terminal is entirely due to its effective operation and management. The terminal authority sets a guide price and prohibits malicious competition between boat girls and boatmen. At the same time, they also strictly limit the number of boats to avoid exceeding the actual needs of tourists. Although these measures are uncomfortable for the locals, they can at least ensure that they can have food and will not cause major conflicts.
When Liu Jinpeng and Ye Ling arrived at the pier. Two tour groups have already arrived here. Two minibuses parked nearby. The tour guides holding small flags took the tourists to board the boat. They didn't need to negotiate the price at all, because they were looking for the bow of the boat. The so-called boat head refers to the local people who use their own strength to control a group of awning boats and awning boats. These people unified prices and clothing and began to operate in a more formal joint manner.
From Liu Jinpeng¡¯s point of view, the terminal can completely change its management method. It is right to issue business licenses and use certificates to limit the number of participants. But the subsequent measures should be to charge the terminal a unified fee, issue formal bills, and then distribute dividends based on monthly income after deducting management fees. Run it like a regular travel company, not a small business like this.
But this matter has nothing to do with him, he is just a tourist now. So he took Ye Ling to find a boat girl who seemed kinder and started bargaining with her. The boat girl was wearing orchid cloth clothes, an embroidered apron, a blue scarf on her head, and wrinkles on her face. Her smile revealed eight white teeth. She looked like she was in her forties, but in fact she was only thirty-nine.
Her local dialect is a bit difficult to understand, and she has difficulty listening to Mandarin. Liu Jinpeng has to speak more slowly and sign numbers. He now understood why tourists were gesticulating when bargaining with these people. It seemed that their communication skills were indeed a problem. It seems that the idea just now is very correct. These are actually losses. It is better to attract more customers if you have this time.
If it goes according to his idea, it will be a win-win situation. No, adding tourists will be a win-win situation. The pier has received management fees, and has accumulated funds to add services and facilities; the boat girls can avoid bargaining, and the guests can leave as soon as they come; and the guests do not need to waste time counting numbers, and what they spend their money to get is regular Invoice and after-sales service.
There were only two guests on the awningless boat, but the boat lady still took out an orange life jacket for him.??Put it on, this is what all guests must wear, just to avoid accidents. Liu Jinpeng was wearing a life jacket and asked curiously: "Sister, did you buy this life jacket?"
The boat girl understood this time, smiled and said, "Where are they? I rented them from the pier. You just negotiated the price with me, so I went to get two pieces. Safety comes first."
Liu Jinpeng put on the life jacket and tied the strap on Ye Ling, and then asked the boat girl: "Then how much did you rent from the pier?"
"Five yuan a piece."
"What if we don't rent?"
"I don't dare. If others see me and report me, I won't be able to do business."
Five yuan per person is not expensive, but this model makes Liu Jinpeng very confused. The awningless boat slowly entered the boundless lotus leaves. Sitting on the small boat, I looked around and saw endless lotus leaves and lotus pods, as if there were only green and blue left between the sky and the earth.
The boat girl enthusiastically introduced the beautiful legends here, but the greedy Ye Ling only stared at the showerheads and drooled. Seeing her greedy look, Liu Jinpeng was secretly amused. The boat girl also saw that the guests were not interested in the legend, so she said instead: "If you want to eat lotus pods, just pick them yourself. Then we will calculate the money together, by each one, not by the size." This is also an amusement project here, and you can take the guests on a tour By the way, you can enjoy the joy of picking the showerheads yourself and eating them.
Ye Ling looked at Liu Jinpeng eagerly, pouting coquettishly: "Brother Yixiu, can you pick a few for me?"
Liu Jinpeng deliberately teased her: "That won't work. I can pick and eat it myself. I don't want to eat lotus seeds."
The boat girl took the opportunity and said: "Lotus seeds are a good thing. Medical books say they can 'clear the heart and refresh the spleen, replenish the spleen and stop diarrhea, nourish the heart and calm the mind and improve eyesight, nourish the middle and nourish the mind, strengthen the spleen and stomach, stop diarrhea and solidify essence, nourish the kidney and stop diarrhea,' Nourish your vitality. If you young people eat it, it can clear your mind and remove freckles. If you eat it, the elderly can lower your blood pressure, strengthen your heart and calm your nerves. If you eat it, you can prevent and fight cancer."
Liu Jinpeng asked with a smile: "You guys have trained this, right? Why do you remember it so clearly?"
The boat girl gave a toothy smile: "No, I don't know any medical books. We were forced to memorize them with the operator's license, but then we talked about them every day and we remembered them."
Ye Ling didn't care about the medical book she endorsed. She looked at the shower head outside the side of the boat, stretched out her hand with a guilty conscience, then quickly retracted it, and said timidly: "I'm so scared, what if I fall into the water?"
Liu Jinpeng laughed: "It's okay, you are wearing a life jacket, I will pull you up."
Ye Ling puffed up her cheeks angrily: "Brother Yixiu! You did it on purpose!"
The boat girl quickly said: "It's okay, little girl, I'll push the boat over the edge a little, and you can reach it." She skillfully rocked the oar, and the boat gradually deviated from the middle channel, approaching the load on one side. Leaves.
Ye Ling became more courageous now. She stretched out her hand to grab a showerhead and pulled it hard. Huh? Why don't you move at all? Ye Ling didn't believe it, so she pulled hard again, but it still didn't move. Liu Jinpeng was already laughing, but he soon realized that Ye Ling was going to be angry. He quickly stopped laughing and stepped forward to pinch the root of the lotus pod with one hand, shaking the head of the lotus pod left and right with the other hand, and after a while he took off one.
The boat girl was surprised and said: "Hey, I didn't expect you to be so familiar with our guests. Have you learned about them before?"
Liu Jinpeng chuckled and said, "I used to work part-time in other places in the south. Picking lotus pods is a tiring job."
The boat girl nodded in agreement: "That's not true. I had a sore back after picking them all day long, so I cut them off with scissors later."
Ye Ling didn't care to listen to what they were saying. She quickly took the shower head in her hand and peeled off a few lotus seeds and stuffed them into her mouth. Her eyes immediately narrowed into a line: "Well, it's so sweet. Fresh lotus seeds are delicious. Oh, that's good." Bitter." She got carried away and chewed the lotus heart inside. Of course, it was so painful that she could not speak.
Liu Jinpeng had to work hard to peel the lotus seeds for her, and he also had to remove the lotus heart. While peeling, he taught Ye Ling: "Did you know? The lotus heart is a good product for clearing away fire and detoxifying. You'd better eat the lotus seeds together, which has the most nutritional value." "
"It's a pity that Ye Ling just nodded and said yes by the way, but she refused to eat the lotus seeds. She enjoyed eating the unintentional lotus seeds peeled by Liu Jinpeng. The boat girl no longer disturbed them, and looked at the young lovers chatting with each other with a smile.
Liu Jinpeng peels the lotus seeds quickly and removes the lotus heart even faster. After peeling the lotus seeds, he pokes them with an iron rod as thick as a pencil lead, and the lotus heart is pulled out, while the lotus seeds can still remain roughly intact. This iron rod is very short. It is an auxiliary tool attached to the master key, and it does play a certain role now. However, no matter how fast he moved, he couldn't eat it as fast as Ye Ling. Soon one lotus pod was eaten up. A small pile of lotus heart leaf bells would not be eaten, so Liu Jinpeng had to swallow it himself.
After picking seven or eight lotus pods, Ye Ling ate four. Liu Jinpeng did not allow her to eat the rest in case she had diarrhea again.??, that wouldn't be interesting at all. Ye Ling was also frightened by diarrhea and reluctantly put away the shower head. In the end, I picked nine in total. They cost five yuan each, which was so cheap.