My 1978 Hotel

"The Chengfengpolang B&B is a shady shop, selling bundled products..."

The video, with its catchy headlines, went viral pretty quickly. Chengfengpolang B&B has been trending on TikTok these days, and many people clicked on it, only to feel a bit cheated by the end. Refreshing the comments revealed some haters, with some passersby unable to resist saying, "This is a scam! There shouldn't be more of them."

Of course, the haters still criticized the bundled sales and even directed it at the boss Li Feng. These haters were not stupid and did not dwell on Li Yi. After all, the price of a wooden toy sold by a child was not high and could even be said to be cheap.

Besides, there was no forced sale, and although there was a suspicion of bundling, most normal people thought Li Yi was cute and acceptable. Besides, it was a good deal to get to touch the pink alpaca for ten yuan.

“It really became a trending search?”

Li Feng refreshed his Douyin account. Although the trending search ranking wasn't high, there were quite a few comments. "These haters are really taking advantage of me to smear me."

"These people are so boring."

Wu Tong and Qin Yue glanced at Li Feng's phone. "Boss Li, don't pay any attention to these people. The more you pay attention to them, the more excited they become."

"Yes."

Qin Yue said with a smile. "Eighty percent of these people's lives are unhappy. They can't stand the good. They doubt everything they see, yet they still think they are sober."

"You're absolutely right."

Li Feng said with a smile. "But these people are not useless. Look, the B&B is very popular, and the number of tourists has increased a lot recently."

"No wonder, Boss Li, so this is what you were planning."

"I just go with the flow."

Li Feng said with a smile. "I'm sincere in my criticism of them, and I'm also sincere in my dislike for them."

“This can be considered as recycling.”

"Hahaha, Boss Li, if they knew what you said, they would probably blackmail you for the rest of your life." Wu Tong clapped his hands and laughed.

"Black, sooner or later we'll send all the little black guys to Hanjiaba to dig river mud."

"Dig the river mud?"

Wu Tong and Qin Yue looked at each other. They had been planning to go to Hanjiaba this time, but when they heard about digging river mud, they immediately gave up the idea. It was just a joke. They had learned about river work from Wu Zhenhua.

Working on the river is physically demanding. Even the older generation would find it tiring, let alone them. They definitely can't do it. They'd be foolish to ask for trouble. "How's the drought situation over there lately?"

"It's quite serious, but our furniture factory is doing well. We sold a lot of furniture, enough to buy food for the winter."

"The furniture factory business is so good."

"That's not."

Li Feng said with a smile. "Are you guys going over this time? I've published an article I brought there, and the provincial, regional, and county governments are planning to hold a symposium on my work. I'm planning to promote my furniture there, so would you like to join in the fun?"

"In the county, aren't you going back to Hanjiaba?"

"Come back, come back when you're done."

Li Feng understood immediately after seeing the two people's evasive glances. "This is a tour group, not an experience group. You don't need to learn any skills or work on the river, but of course you can try if you want."

"Forget it. We are too small to play on the river work. Let's just give it to Li Muchen and the others."

"You guys are such a rip-off."

Li Muchen just came in and was completely speechless when he heard what the two said. Although he had been doing good physical exercise recently, he should forget about working on the river. That was really heavy physical work and most people couldn't do it, let alone a city-raised kid like him. Even younger rural kids couldn't do it.

"Brother is here."

Li Feng greeted them with a smile. "It's great that you brought two college students here. They can now carve Pandas on their own."

"If I practice more, I can take it to the furniture factory."

"I'm a top student."

Wu Tong and Qin Yue couldn't help but laugh again. "You know, if they went over there and found out that after more than ten years of schooling, they suddenly ended up working in a furniture factory, I'm sure their heads would be buzzing."

"I'm afraid so."

"dad."

Several people wanted to chat for a while, but unfortunately little Li Yi couldn't wait any longer. Her "little black shop" was out of stock, so she drove her horse-drawn cart to get more goods, but after waiting for a long time, her father didn't load the goods for her.

"coming."

"Let's talk later. Yiyi is still waiting for me to get the goods for her."

Li Feng stood up with a smile. His daughter wanted to open a black shop, so as a father he would definitely support her.

"Hahaha, Boss Li, you're planning to become bigger and stronger, aren't you afraid that the haters will continue to criticize you?"

"It's dark, it's dark, I'm used to it."

Li Feng said with a smile. "Opening a black shop, doesn't this fit my character as a black-hearted boss?"

"It really is."

The two couldn't help but laugh again, but they were curious about how much goods Li Yi had sold and how much money he had made. "By the way, Boss Li, when is Yiyi's birthday party?"

"Tomorrow night."

Li Feng said, "Over at the Stargazing House, the craft brewery has been almost finished setting up these past two days. We'll hold it there tomorrow."

"The stargazing house is nice."

Wu Tong and Qin Yue had been to the Observatory several times and had to admit that the design institute was quite good; even the student designs were of high quality. "When will the cafe open to the public?"

"Trial opening on 11th."

"Officially open on New Year's Day."

However, Li Feng felt that there might not be much business in the second half of the year. The peak season for the observatory is from March to November. The temperature is too low and I am afraid that not many people would be willing to go to the observatory to watch the stars.

Employee recruitment can be completed in the next few days. As for the later internal training, Li Feng doesn’t care much about it. The young man agreed to help.

"dad."

"I'm coming. I have to go first. The little girl is waiting anxiously."

After saying that, Li Feng left the lounge and came to the carpenter's house. Li Feng smiled and rubbed Li Yi's little head. "Isn't all that just now enough?"

"It's not enough."

Li Yi nodded. Dad had just given out more than ten toys, but so many people wanted to touch the little pink one that there weren't enough toys to sell. "Okay, then Dad will see if there are any other toys."

Li Feng didn't expect that what he made wasn't enough for Li Yi to sell alone. "I'll give you ten more little pandas."

"Uh-huh."

Li Feng used a small bamboo basket to put ten polished little pandas. Five yuan each was indeed not expensive. Those who said it was a black shop were lying.

"Yiyi, do you want your aunt to sell with you?"

Wu Tong and Qin Yue wanted to follow Li Yi to see how this girl bundled and sold toys, which must be quite interesting.

"Ok."

Li Yi nodded her head. Her brother was supposed to go with her to sell toys, but he ran away and hasn't come back yet. Her mother went to keep an eye on him, fearing he might play with the cars secretly. "Dad, I'm going to sell toys."

"Okay, slow down."

"Uh-huh."

Li Yi was very dedicated to making money by selling the toys made by his father. He set off on his leisurely land tortoise, led his alpaca, and drove his leisurely pony. Wu Tong and Qin Yue followed slowly and soon arrived at the door of the B&B.

The appearance of the alpaca, the pony-drawn carriage, and the tortoise immediately attracted the attention of the tourists, especially those with children, who all ran over. Li Yi quickly picked up her basket of radishes.

“Is this for feeding alpacas?”

"Ah."

Sure enough, as soon as the small basket came out, some tourists asked about it and learned that if you buy a toy, you will get a small carrot for free. You can feed these small carrots to the pony, the pink alpaca, or the mainland tortoise.

"Mom, mom, I want to feed the pony."

"Mom, I want to feed the lamb."

"..."

“Business is pretty good.”

Seeing that there were so many people, Wu Tong and Qin Yue hurried over to help Li Yi collect the money. The little girl was a little flustered facing so many people.

"We have to queue up." Li Yi pouted. After finally getting in line, the two small baskets of toys were not enough to sell. They were sold out in a short while, and even the radishes in the baskets were gone. Even so, some tourists still didn't buy any toys.

"This is a black market online store. It's too cheap."

Several young people played with the little Panda carefully. This is a real solid wood toy that is polished very smoothly and carved very delicately. It would cost at least dozens of yuan in the souvenir shop in the scenic area, but here it costs five yuan and comes with a small carrot, which can be fed to the ponies, pink alpacas and giant tortoises.

This is simply too cheap, the black shop is not expensive at all, and it is quite good value for money. What's more, taking pictures is free. Li Yi didn't quite understand. He just fed the carrots and took pictures. Some people even took pictures without buying toys, and Li Yi agreed.

After selling out, Li Yi happily drove the little carriage, led the lamb, and rode the land turtle to find his father to buy more goods.

“Sold out again?”

Li Feng thought this was too fast. Dong Qing and Wu Yu hadn't polished out many pieces yet. What should they do? "Yiyi, why don't you take a break and wait for the brothers to finish polishing before we go sell them."

"Oh."

Li Yi nodded. "Then I'll go get some radishes from Mom."

"The carrots are gone too?"

"Uh-huh."

Li Yi nodded vigorously. "Mom has called grandma and asked her to send some carrots over."

"How can I let my mother-in-law send it? Dad will take you to get it later."

My mother-in-law doesn't know how to ride an electric bike, so she has to walk to deliver the carrots. The B&B is more than two miles away from home, so it's quite inconvenient to go back and forth. "Well, can Yiyi drive Xiao Ma? My mother-in-law has never seen Xiao Ma and Xiao Pink."

"Well, okay."

Well, I'm afraid I have to go now, but the little girl wants to show her pony and alpaca to her mother-in-law, and this wish can't be unfulfilled. Fortunately, she doesn't have to ride a turtle, otherwise she might not be able to make it to dinner tonight.

Passing by the hall, Li Feng picked up some pork and prepared razorfin lobsters, and also picked up two boxes of bird's nest that someone had given him last time. "Let's go." Placing the gift boxes and dishes on the small carriage, Li Feng followed it. After all, the little guy had only been driving the carriage for a short time, and the hilly road was full of ups and downs, and if he was not careful, he would fall.

"gone."

The carriage slowly drove out of the B&B. They encountered quite a few tourists along the way, but there was no Little Radish. Li Yi felt a little disappointed. "How did you become such a money-grubber?" Li Feng was at a loss for words. This girl was really into bundling sales.

"Not at all."

Li Yi pouted. She just liked helping her father sell toys and make money.

"Slower."

"Mother-in-law."

I almost bumped into someone, and it turned out to be Gao Sulan.

"mom."

"Why are you carrying so many things?"

Gao Sulan took the bird's nest from Li Feng, and Li Feng smiled and said, "I originally wanted to deliver it two days ago, but there were so many tourists these two days that I didn't have time to do it."

"I heard from your dad that the B&B is packed these days."

Gao Sulan was very happy because her son-in-law's homestay had many tourists, which meant she could make money.

"Grandma, look, this is a pony, a little pinkie."

Seeing that her mother-in-law was just talking to her father, Li Yi stood on tiptoe, tilted her neck and pulled Gao Sulan's clothes.

"What's this thing? It doesn't look like a sheep or a cow."

"Alpaca, an animal from abroad."

Li Feng smiled and touched the little pinkie, but the little thing was not very happy.

"This horse is quite nice."

Gao Sulan didn't quite understand what an alpaca was, and thought it was just a kind of foreign lamb. But the pony was quite cute, and pink in color.

"Grandma, this is a pony. It won't grow up."

"Can't grow up, just like a dwarf?"

Gao Sulan muttered, this horse is not very good, it is so small that it may not even be able to pull goods.

"Uh-huh."

Li Yi nodded vigorously. "Little Mako is very well behaved, even better than Little Pinkie. Little Pinkie likes to spit and will only let you touch her when she eats the radish."

"Really? Then I'll pack you another basket of radishes later."

"Ah."

When he entered the house, Han Shengli had already poured tea. "Dad doesn't play mahjong?"

"I played all morning and didn't go in the afternoon."

Han Shengli invited Li Feng to have tea.

"Then why didn't you go fishing at the B&B?"

"I saw that there were a lot of people these two days, so I didn't go to join in the fun."

Han Shengli said with a smile. "By the way, why are there so many people in your B&B these past two days?"

"Now that a few trending searches have appeared on Douyin, more people are watching. They are all here to join in the fun."

Li Feng replied casually. After Gao Sulan finished packing the radishes, Li Feng said hello and followed Li Yi back to the B&B in the carriage. "I'm afraid you've packed all the radishes at my mother-in-law's house."

"Hehe, no, grandma said she would fill it for me after she finished feeding me."

Li Yi smiled and handed a small carrot to the little carriage, which made the little alpaca very unhappy and shook his head. "Here's one for you, little pinkie, be good."

"Don't feed him too much, or he'll have diarrhea."

I just fed this girl a basket full of food. It was too much. I'm afraid she'll get diarrhea if she eats too much.

"Okay, I get it now."

On the way back, Li Yi did not feed the pony and the lamb with carrots. After returning to the B&B, Li Yi and Li Feng went to the carpenter's house to polish the small toys. There was no other way. It would take some time to carve the small toys, and with the polishing, they could not make much in a day.

Li Feng set a rule for Li Yi: sell about ten to twenty pieces a day, no more than that, otherwise her father would really become a carpenter, and there would be no need for a full-time carpenter to leave the carpentry shop.

"You just spoil the child too much."

Han Chaoxia knew that Li Feng was not doing his job and was helping Li Yi make small toys. He could only make twenty or thirty toys a day and only sold them for a few dollars. What a shame.

"School starts in a few days."

With the start of school, I have less time to see my children. Li Ran can take them to Hanjiaba when he has nothing to do, but Li Yi is too young to be taken there.

"You know, I plan to go back home after Yiyi's birthday tomorrow. Ranran has her English class, and Yiyi should also take her calligraphy class seriously."

Han Zhaoxia said, "I also need to prepare lesson plans for next semester."

"I see."

Li Feng continued, "Why don't you drive the new car back? I don't really need it here."

“How many times can I use it?”

Han Zhaoxia said, "Let's just stay in a B&B."

"By the way, how's the recruitment going?"

"Come over tomorrow and take a closer look. The manager is not an ordinary employee, so we need to take a closer look." Li Feng said, looking at Li Ran. What was this kid doing again? "What did you do? Why are you so dirty?"

"Tinkering with that little sports car."

Han Zhaoxia whispered, "I just checked, that sports car costs over 500,000 yuan. Why would you give such an expensive gift?"

"Isn't this a birthday present for Yiyi? Why is he playing with it?"

Li Feng said with a smile. "Can you drive?"

"I will learn."

"Okay, I'll teach you later."

Li Feng patted Li Ran. "Go wash it quickly, it's so dirty."

"I know." (End of chapter)