My 1978 Hotel

"No problem at all."

Learning carpentry is not easy. Li Feng worked as an apprentice in a simulated scene for about two years, which is equivalent to two years in reality, and only then did he acquire his current skills.

"I'll first teach you the simplest way to straighten the line."

Other things are difficult to learn, but playing with string can also help the little ones get involved, just right for pulling the table legs and chair legs. "Here's the pattern, follow the pattern to pull and play the string. Be careful not to get any ink on yourself, as it's hard to wash off."

"Didn't you say you wanted to give the clothes away? You can't get them too dirty."

Li Feng brought over a few string boxes and taught Li Ran and the others how to operate them, how to pull string, hammer in nails, and play string. These children had never seen these things before, and they all had a lot of fun playing with them.

"Don't just play around."

Li Feng was helpless. It was really true. He just said he would learn it, but now he was playing with it.

However, we have to say that education in the 21st century is still good. These children learn much faster than Han Mingliang and other children, and even better than An Yu young people.

"I didn't expect these kids to do so well."

Gao Ju also looked at Li Ran and the others with some surprise.

Li Feng said with a smile. "Despite being picky eaters and overweight, these kids are actually pretty good academically. They're quite intelligent, and if they're interested, they might not learn it overnight, but it's not difficult."

"Oh I see."

Line making is a job that requires some skills, and it is more difficult than polishing furniture, which is purely manual work. Except for Han Mingliang and a few others, none of the children in Hanjiaba can compare with Li Ran and other young outsiders who are good at learning.

After finishing their work, the children were so excited to hand over their wages to Li Feng.

"Are you happy to get your salary?"

"It is okay."

Li Ran couldn't suppress the smile, this was the first time he received a real salary, even though it was only 25 cents, but it was still a ready salary.

"Then you work hard, and two more days of work will be enough to pay for the meat." Little guy, don't forget that you still owe foreign debts.

"understood."

Li Ran muttered, "He's just following the path of a child." Li Feng smiled and rubbed Li Ran's head. "Okay, let's go back and eat."

"Ah."

"Remember to help with some work when you get back."

"You know what? I went to pick up leaves with Mingchang yesterday."

"That's not bad."

Li Feng smiled. "But, did you sneak over to pick up branches from the tree next to my house? That's my tree."

"mean."

Li Ran ran away after saying this.

"This kid, it's 99% likely that he was the one who brought this up."

Li Feng knew Han Mingchang, he was very timid, but this kid was different.

"It's just a few branches, Boss Li, you're too stingy."

Liu Wen was quite amused listening to the conversation between the father and son. Not to mention that she was busy with work from day to night and had no free time for entertainment, but it was quite interesting to hear Li Ran teasing her from time to time. She just regarded it as an entertainment program.

"This is no small matter."

Li Feng didn't care, but just told Li Ran not to pick up firewood from other people's houses, because it was not uncommon for a few branches to cause big trouble. Everything is precious these days, unlike in later times when there are mountains full of firewood but no one to burn it.

Fighting over leaves is now commonplace, and it's no joke. A few days ago, Li Feng saw it happen: children started fighting, and the adults ended up in a bad mood. After listening to what Li Feng said, Liu Wen and the others finally understood.

"I never thought a few branches and leaves would be so valuable."

Liu Wen has a better understanding of this era.

"Yeah, there's nothing we can do. We're running low on supplies. If you have more, we have less. We might not even have enough to cook," Li Feng said with a smile. "But it's a little better now. Because of the drought, the commune has turned a blind eye to people going into the mountains to cut trees, so everyone has more firewood."

"Let's go back and eat."

Over the next two days, Li Feng took Li Ran and the others to work at the furniture factory. Every now and then, they would turn over the piles of furniture and finally, the task progressed past 50%. "It's time to go back."

"Can we go back tomorrow?"

"tomorrow?"

The next day, when Li Feng and Li Ran told the group of children that they could go back to the B&B tonight, they were actually hesitant and finally sent Li Ran over to discuss it. "Why?"

"We'd like to stay one more night."

Li Ran whispered. "I promised Mingchang I'd teach him how to count, and I haven't finished yet... there's more..."

"Little Fatty also said he wanted to..."

"Got it. Then we'll wait one more night and go back tomorrow."

Li Feng understood that this was a way to say goodbye to his friends. "Wait, I'll get you some candy so you can say goodbye properly."

"Dad, you're so nice."

"cut."

Li Feng imitated Li Ran and made a snort. This kid, as long as he had candy, he would be his dad. Li Ran chuckled and took the candy and put it in his pocket. "Run slower, kid."

"Teacher Liu, I'm sorry for agreeing to this group of children without consulting you."

Li Feng turned around and looked at Liu Wen. If you ask who most wants to go back to the B&B, Liu Wen is definitely the first.

"It's ok."

Although Liu Wen wanted to go back and wash up early, after all, it was inconvenient to shower here, let alone put on makeup, which was even impossible. "It's only one day, I can hold on for a while."

"That's great."

Li Feng said with a smile. "Well, let's prepare a few more dishes tonight and have a good meal."

"Stew a turtle."

"That will cost you, Boss Li."

"It should."

Li Feng went to prepare after he finished speaking. He stewed some small fish in a pot and cut some pickled tiger meat to cook with sour bamboo shoots. Finally, he fried eggs, mixed some vegetables with salad, and cooked a big pot of white rice.

"Have a little drink."

Li Feng bought the locally brewed rice wine specially when he was cooking tiger meat. It was sweet, but he didn't dare let everyone drink too much, just one cup.

"Come on, come on, you've worked hard these past few days."

"That's not true. We have to thank our cousin for opening our eyes."

"Yeah, I really want to come again if I have the chance."

Wu Jing said with a smile.

"Are you not afraid of hard work?"

Li Feng looked at Wu Jing, who laughed heartily. "It was a bit hard, but I don't regret having seen this."

"Yes."

Even Liu Wen nodded. Although it is inconvenient to wash and dress here, the food and drink are not good, and she still has to work and learn composting, compared to being able to cross more than 40 years of time and space and broaden her horizons, it all seems worth it.

"Have the opportunity."

Li Feng raised his glass. "Come on, cheers."

"cheers."

Drinking rice wine, eating miscellaneous fish and tiger meat, it was quite comfortable. While the team was hosting the families of the children, they also brought out the good food that they were reluctant to eat at home tonight.

"Eat it, kid."

Dahu's sister-in-law handed the multi-grain steamed buns to Li Ran. Li Ran looked at the bowl of multi-grain steamed buns with slightly red eyes. He knew that this was the flour, but Dahu's sister-in-law's family had saved it for several months. Mingchang said it was for New Year's food.

Now they are all steamed. When he heard that he was going back to the city tomorrow, he shouted to his sister-in-law and went to find some meat at home to borrow some pickled game and eggs. Now he fried a bowl of meat and a bowl of eggs.

"I didn't eat anything good when I came to my house. I even had a meal of meat a few days ago thanks to you."

The sister-in-law shouted as she picked up some meat for Li Ran. "Eat, kid, eat more. You can sleep better when you are full."

"Ah."

Li Ran's nose was a little sour as he took the multi-grain steamed bun and ate it in big mouthfuls. "Auntie, your steamed buns are really delicious."

"If it tastes good, eat more."

The same was true for the other families. They all enjoyed the meal very much. However, Chen Jingyi was wiping her nose and crying like a baby.

Li Feng only found out about this the next day. These kids, though, it's a good thing this is, it can be considered an education. Apart from anything else, their picky eating habits have definitely changed, and they've learned to cherish and save food. I'm afraid they won't need to be taught this in the future.

As for Wu Xiaotian and Zheng Guanwu's weight loss, it's basically complete now. They've both lost a lot of weight. Of course, they'll need to consolidate their weight loss when they return, so it's not a big deal. "Let's go."

"Go back to the county seat."

The huanghuali and yinchen wood were all loaded onto the oxcart. Gao Ju and Gao Cheng were also going back this time, after all, they hadn't been back the last time. "Goodbye, Mingchang. Study hard. I'll test you next time."

Li Ran waved his hand. Mingchang wiped his nose and held up the pencil Li Ran gave him. "Well, I will definitely study hard."

Li Feng was at a loss for words. "Usually, you need your parents to urge you on, but now you've learned to tell others off." The other children also said goodbye to their friends. Chen Jingyi was the most reluctant to leave Zhaodi and her sisters.

"Uncle, can I bring some clothes and shoes for Sister Zhaodi and the others when I go back?"

"Didn't you give them a set of your clothes?"

"I want to give each of them a set."

Chen Jingyi said in a low voice.

"That's it."

Li Feng thought about it. "Okay, I'll bring it to you."

"Uncle Li, I want to..."

Everyone brought either food or clothes. Li Ran said he was bringing a pen for Han Mingchang. "Okay, okay, I'll bring them all later, okay?"

"Thank you, Lao Deng."

"You're welcome, Li Ran."

It was rare for this kid to say thank you, Li Feng teased. Li Ran was speechless and rolled his eyes. Really, he was following a child. The ox cart arrived at the county town after twelve o'clock, and Li Feng invited everyone to have lunch at the state-owned restaurant.

In the afternoon, Li Feng went to collect knife loaches and some miscellaneous fish. This time the harvest of knife loaches was huge. The fishermen from the reservoir and the county collected nearly 100 kilograms. There were also several hundred kilograms of grayling, soft-shelled turtles, various small miscellaneous fish, dried fish, miscellaneous grains, etc.

This doesn't even include the wine. There were also some side dishes, dark wood, huanghuali wood, and other items. This time, the harvest was much bigger than Li Feng had expected. When everyone returned to the B&B that night, Liu Wen went to wash up immediately. Wu Jing and Chen Long weren't much better either.

The other children were also arranged to go back to wash up, but Li Ran, Li Muchen and Gao Ju brothers were busy for a long time, after all, there were too many fish, shrimps and other items.

"Finally it's all packed up."

"Little brother, big brother, second brother, you should also go to bed early."

It's already two or three o'clock. If I don't go to sleep now, it will be dawn soon. It gets light early in the summer.

"Then let's go back and rest."

After they left, Li Feng washed up and didn't wake up until around eight or nine the next morning.

"boss."

"Sister Chen, good morning."

Going downstairs, I saw Sister Chen washing dishes in the kitchen. "Is there any breakfast?"

"Yes."

The boss wasn't awake yet, so he had to save some for breakfast. Li Feng simply prepared a dozen or so steamed buns, a few fried dough sticks, two or three eggs, and a large bowl of rice porridge to simply fill his stomach. Sister Chen was stunned by what was going on today. She wondered what was wrong with them. They were all eating so much.

Teacher Liu also ate five or six buns, two eggs, and a large bowl of rice porridge. It was strange, why was breakfast so delicious today?
"boss."

"You're just in time for dinner."

"okay."

Gao Ju, Gao Cheng, and Li Muchen were not polite either. Sister Chen finally saw what a big-bellied man looked like. Today's food was really strange. It was really not delicious at all. Sister Chen secretly took a bun and tasted it. The taste was the same. It was delicious, but not to this extent.

"Brother, are you going back to Jinling today?"

"Yeah, I'll leave in a minute."

Li Muchen finished an egg in a few bites and said, "I haven't been back for a while, so it's a good opportunity to stay for two days."

"How about you guys, second brother?"

Gao Ju and Gao Cheng, this time Li Feng gave them a commission of 500,000 for Huanghuali alone, plus some of their recent commission wages, they both have more than one million in their hands, which is considered a small fortune.

"We're fine."

Gao said with a smile, "I just plan to buy a car."

"What car to buy?"

“Audi.”

Gao Cheng said embarrassedly, "We can't afford a luxury car, so we'll just buy an ordinary one."

“Audi is pretty good.”

These two guys plan to buy an Audi A6, which is a top-notch car for ordinary people, but of course it can't compare to the second-generation luxury cars like Li Muchen's.

"Then you drive my car over there."

Li Feng pointed to the Mercedes-Benz parked in the parking space.

"no need."

Gao waved his hand. "We've just contacted a car, and they'll pick us up soon."

"alright."

After breakfast, Li Feng planned to go and see if Li Ran and the other little ones had gotten up, but he didn't expect that they had already started exercising.

"nice."

Everyone was in good spirits, and Li Feng felt that he should give them some rewards. He happened to have some study materials as rewards.

"You're such a jerk."

Li Ran rolled his eyes speechlessly when he learned his dad had given each of them a set of exam papers. "It's about taking it easy. You haven't been studying hard lately. It's just right that these papers were bought according to your grade level. You should do them while you still have a few days."

"understood."

Li Ran muttered a few words and took the test paper obediently.

"Don't say that, Li Ran, you really should stay in the house for two days."

Li Feng couldn't help laughing. "He's almost tanned like a little black monkey."

"I'm going to do my homework."

The other kids haven't gotten much better. Wu Xiaotian used to be chubby, but now he's darker and thinner. He's changed a lot, if not completely. Fortunately, Wu Jing, Chen Long, and Liu Wen haven't changed much either.

Li Feng thought it was quite funny when Liu Wen said she was tanned and looked sad.

"What are you laughing at, Boss Li?"

"Nothing, what are you doing?"

Li Feng was a little confused when he saw that it was Wu Tong and Qin Yue dressed up.

"Fishing."

Wu Tong and Qin Yue smiled and raised their tools. "We'll learn to fish soon."

"Good."

"Oh, by the way, Boss Li, I saw you updated your TikTok. Did you take another hundred orders for the health banquet?"

"correct."

Li Feng took out his phone and just clicked on it. "Hey, why is it gone?"

"I've ordered it."

Wu Tong pointed at Qin Yue and smiled. "Xiao Yue just booked thirty tables."

"I ordered it for my grandparents."

Qin Yue said with a smile, "It's such a good thing, you can't get it even if you want to."

"You guys decided the others, didn't you?"

"I've reserved twenty tables. I don't know about the rest."

Of course Wu Tong would not refuse to order it. It was a good thing, so it would not be a loss to order more and keep them.

"Well, I wanted to expand my business scope."

Li Feng was helpless. "I forgot to tell you, there will be no shortage of health banquets from now on."

The county town has a stable supply of goods, so there is basically no need to worry about the lack of ingredients for the health banquet.

"That's it."

"Then next time, we won't decide."

With that, the two of them waved goodbye and left to go fishing. Li Feng looked through the order. "Mr. Wu, Mr. Zheng, and Mr. Chen, these guys are all old acquaintances. They're the ones who did this." As for the various mocking comments under the video, Li Feng, the hater, was too lazy to read them.

B&Bs actually don’t lack this feature nowadays, but Li Feng feels that B&Bs have expanded in scale, and there are too few tourists, so the equipment and guest rooms would be a waste.

"Jingle Bell."

"Zhaoxia, Li Ran is doing well. He's been exercising these past few days. He's a little darker, but a lot stronger. He's eating well. He's doing well, really. If you still don't believe me, I'll let Coach Wu and the others take half a day off tomorrow. You'll know when you see him."

They'd probably be shocked, Li Feng thought, as he sent messages to Wu Zhengxiong, Zheng Tianxing, Chen Tianming, and others, telling them they could visit the children at the summer camp tomorrow. (End of this chapter)