Chapter 231: The First Guest
After Le Yao left, I walked to the inn alone, looking around. Whenever one or two tourists walked by me, I felt that I was still living in this real world.
When I walked to the door of a newly opened convenience store, I stopped because two electric Trojans were installed at the entrance of the store for children to play.
So, when I saw things and thought of people, I remembered her unique and calm smile, and I was once deeply immersed in her smile and could not extricate myself. It was just that all the experiences of the past were completely brought by me with a sentence of time.
I no longer missed anything, so I raised my steps and continued to walk towards my inn.
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In the inn, the boy was sitting in front of the service desk, receiving customers on my behalf. When he saw me coming back, he stared at me for a long time and asked, "Brother Yang, what's wrong with your face?"
"I accidentally knocked... Did any tourists check in today?"
The boy shook his head in despair and said, "No... since we set off this inn, no new guests have come to visit."
I just nodded without saying much, but my mind was thinking: While exchanging flesh and blood for this inn, what kind of soul should be created? The so-called soul is like the "four seasons changes" in the bar in the fifth season. I am waiting for you in Xitang. The soul shaped will eventually become the core selling point in the business, guiding customers to consume here and create a sense of belonging.
"Brother Yang, what are you thinking about with your frown?"
I asked back and said, "You are one of the shareholders of this inn now. Let's talk about it, do you have any good ideas to run this inn?"
The boy answered without thinking and said, "Let's reduce the price. As long as we are cheaper by other inns, the guests will naturally come!"
I shook my head and said, "Price reduction is just a promotional method and cannot be used as a long-term business strategy. Moreover, our inn is rented by other people's houses. In Xitang, there are many inns built by local residents. Compared with them, we can't afford price wars, do you know?"
"What do you think you should do?"
"Start by step, start with the decoration and renovation of the inn."
"Okay, I don't know much about business matters, I'll just follow your arrangements."
"Well, I'll give you a task. In two days, you will open a store on Taobao. When our inn is renovated, you can directly accept accommodation orders on Taobao, so that we will add a sales channel."
"Brother Yang, you are so awesome, why didn't I expect it?"
"That's amazing. Now 80% of the inns in Xitang have shops on Taobao. We are far behind others. Now we have to make efforts to strive to catch up with other inns in basic channels. Do you know?"
The boy nodded repeatedly.
I said to him again: "I will leave the inn to you today. I will go to the decoration company now and get the decoration plan as soon as possible."
"You just go with confidence, I will take good care of the inn."
I nodded and prepared to leave.
"Brother Yang, wait."
"Is there anything else?"
"...Will Sister Le come to have dinner with us today?"
"No, she's back to Beijing."
The boy drooped his head, and he looked like a deflated ball.
I smiled and asked, "Why do you look half dead?"
"I regret her departure."
"What a pity, you don't even dare to say a few words to her."
"She is a big star and a goddess in my mind. Isn't it normal for me to not dare to talk to her?"
I had no intention of continuing to chat with him. After I told him to take care of the inn again, I picked up the car key and walked towards the van parked at the door.
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Just like the "Fifth Season" bar renovation at that time, I was busy with various decoration companies this day. In addition to inquiring about prices, I also exchanged some decoration ideas with them.
In the busy life, time has quietly reached dusk. Xitang, under the setting sun, ushered in the most poetic moment of the day, but I dragged my tired body back to the inn.
The boy was still staring at the computer with great concentration. I sat on the rattan chair opposite and asked him, "Are you a resident here this afternoon?"
"No." The boy said, lit the mouse wildly.
"What are you doing?"
"Play a game."
"Have you done the Taobao store I asked you to build?"
"No, there are no guests anyway, so I'll do it after the renovation is completed!"
I frowned, very disgusted with the boy's lazy behavior, but I was patient and said, "Don't play games for now, I have something to say to you."
"Wait, wait..."
I lit a cigarette and waited.
After smoking a cigarette, I smoked another cigarette. The boy still had no intention of stopping. After being tired for a day, he finally got fire. He came to him and slapped him in the hand holding the mouse. Fire said, "Why are you so fucking uneasy? What's so fun about this bird game!"
The boy was shocked by my sudden attack. He opened his mouth and looked at me for a while before saying to me: "What are you doing?"
"I asked you to have snacks and stop playing games, did you hear that?"
"There is no need to be so serious when opening an inn, right?... Besides, I have been looking at the store for a day, why don't I worry about it?"
I was a little unable to communicate with the boy, and I became irritated, but I controlled myself and prevented myself from getting angry.
Seeing that I was silent, the boy suddenly became angry and kicked the office chair next to me like he was venting and said to me, "I'm going to have dinner." As he said that, he left the inn without looking back.
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I sat alone in the empty inn until the sunset disappeared and until there was no light in the room, I suddenly turned on the lighting lamp, and then lit a cigarette for myself with some depression.
I realized that I had made some big fuss about the boy. After all, at his age, I had no sense of crisis than him and was confused all day long.
In fact, prospective graduates who are on the verge of graduation from college have some such performance. I should not have demanded too much from him, but should inspire him in a temptation manner.
After looking at the time, it was already 9 o'clock in the evening. The boy had not come back yet. I couldn't help but worry and wanted to go out to find him, but the inn could not be taken care of by anyone.
Until this time, the inn had not yet waited for the first guest after we took over. After weighing it, I decided to go out and find the boy first.
It was a little cold at night. I put on a thick coat, picked up the lighter and cigarette case on the table and walked outside.
In the hurried steps, I had a moment of eyes meeting with her. I stopped and she looked back at me.
"Why did you come to Xitang?"
Jian Wei was even more surprised than me, and after a while, she said, "Today is the weekend, come to Xitang to relax... I didn't expect that you have been missing for so many days and are actually in Xitang!"
I didn't say anything for a long time and thought: Is it still in Jian Wei's heart that I still miss Xitang, where we once slept with each other?
Jian Wei didn't say anything anymore, just looked at the guitar without guitar strings hanging under the inn signboard.
I finally said to her, "You haven't found a place to stay yet. This is my inn."
"Your inn?"
"Yes, I took over yesterday."
"This inn is so erratic. It's the off-season for tourism. Will I be the first guest you took over?"
"That's right... By the way, you go in and help me take care of the inn first. I'll go out to do something and come back soon."
Chapter completed!