Perhaps, for Chen Mengqi, the harmony between her and Ye Ming was really a kind of "moistening by rain and dew", and the effect of this nourishing was quite obvious: that night, even though she was like a greedy child, she asked Ye Ming I asked for it several times, and both of them barely slept at all during the night. However, when they got up at seven o'clock the next morning, Chen Mengqi was radiant, energetic, and not tired at all, which made her a little worried that she would "bridal chamber" today. Ye Ming, who was "drowsy in the morning with flowers and candles", was puzzled...
Although Chen Mengqi didn't know how to cook, she did other housework very quickly. After getting up, she quickly packed her and Ye Ming's suitcases and made the bed in the room neatly. Not a trace of last night's turmoil was left behind...
When they arrived at the hotel lobby, it was exactly as Ye Ming expected. The "P City Youth Travel Agency" arranged for business personnel to put up a sign with a travel route map to solicit various "one-day tours" in the lobby. Travelers of "Red Boutique Tour".
Ye Ming stood in front of the sign, looked at the routes and quotes on it, and felt that there was a route that was very suitable for him: starting from P City at ten in the morning, first turning back to Huangling County, visiting Qiaoshan and the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor; in the afternoon; Rush directly from Huangling County to Yan'an, and visit Yangjialing, Baota Mountain, Zaoyuan, and Qingliang Mountain the next day; rush from Yan'an to N County, Luchuan City at 3:00 in the afternoon, visit the Northwest Folk Culture Village, and experience the folk culture of the Northwest. After enjoying Xintianyou songs, if you are interested, you can also go to a farmhouse near the Folk Culture Village to eat "roasted whole sheep" at your own expense, live in authentic loess cave dwellings with local villagers, and learn about the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the people on the Loess Plateau...
Ye Ming took a fancy to this route at a glance: because this route not only included the two scenic spots he wanted to see most, the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor and Yan'an, but also the tour group happened to be going to n county of Luchuan City tomorrow afternoon, and it also happened to be Just rest there. In this case, the day after tomorrow, that is, early in the morning on October 4, I can rush to Lujiazhuang, contact there, and wait for the arrival of Luchuan Municipal Party Committee Secretary Li Wuan...
So, Ye Ming began to discuss the specific travel details with the salesman. He knew that the current travel market is very chaotic. Many travel agency tour guides basically have no salary income in the company, and they just rely on taking tour groups to some self-funded attractions. and shopping attractions, where kickbacks are extracted from the tourists’ own expenses for visiting and shopping. In this case, many tourists will be ripped off, hacked, and cheated, and there are endless examples of this on the Internet and in the news media.
Therefore, he first asked the young salesman: "Sir, how many self-funded attractions and shopping attractions are there on this route? Are the self-funded attractions only visited by tourists voluntarily?"
As soon as the salesman heard Ye Ming's question, he knew that he was a veteran who often traveled in group tours, so he acted very candidly and said with a smile: "Sir, we are not hiding this from you either: we Although the company's tour guides do not rely entirely on tourists' self-financed attractions and shopping commissions, their basic salary is actually very low. Therefore, in each tourist route, we will arrange one or two self-financed attractions and several shopping attractions. Let the tour guides get a little extra subsidy. I believe that sir, you are a well-informed VIP who has traveled with many group tours, so you should be considerate of our company and our hard-working tour guides, right?"
Ye Ming heard that what he said was more realistic and sincere, so he nodded and said: "I understand this, but I hope that in such a short two days, there will not be too many shopping attractions, and self-funded attractions will not force tourists to You must go and see it, as long as it’s not too much, I’m willing to go with your group,”
"Definitely, definitely, don't worry, if our tour guide takes tourists to go shopping in rogue black stores, or forces tourists to visit self-funded attractions, sir, you can complain to our company or to the tourism regulatory department, no matter what Wherever you complain, those black tour guides will be dealt with seriously,"
Next, Ye Ming hastily signed a travel service agreement with the salesman, then went to the P City Youth Travel Agency, boarded a 25-seater tourist minibus, and rushed to the Eighth Route Army around ten o'clock. Huangling County, ten kilometers away.
Since it is the National Day holiday now, the travel agency business is relatively good. Although the group Ye Ming joined today is a small group with a short route, there are about twenty tourists, mostly middle-aged and elderly couples, including a few Of the couples dressed like students, only Ye Ming and Chen Mengqi looked like a young married couple.
The person leading the tour today was a very experienced and smooth-looking woman, about 27 or 28 years old. As soon as she got in the car, she introduced herself with a smile on her face and said her surname was Mu, and everyone could call her "Director Mu". But pay attention to the tone of the word "guide" and don't pronounce it in the fourth tone, because in that case, it will become "grave passage" in everyone's mouth. This sentence alone made many tourists on the bus laugh.
Next, he enthusiastically sang a song "Xintianyou" to everyone, and also told everyone some of the most typical northern Shaanxi dialects, such as "I" is pronounced as "hungry" and "Where is it from" is pronounced as "拉来" , all children are called "baby", etc.
Ye Ming travels with groups almost every year and has met all kinds of tour guides. As soon as he saw the face of the tour guide named Mu and her words and deeds, he judged that this was a very experienced person who was also very good at following the rules. A tour guide like this who digs wealth out of tourists' pockets will not use deceit, abduction or threats to force tourists to spend money, but she will find ways to use her persuasive appearance to persuade tourists and let some Tourists willingly follow her guidance and hints to visit some self-funded attractions where she can get rebates, or go shopping at some shopping spots she has contacted.
Moreover, a tour guide like her will basically judge which tourists are rich and which are not rich based on the clothes, speech and behavior of the tourists she takes; which tourists are generous and like shopping, and which are stingy and spend their money; Tourists can create maximum profits for themselves, which tourists will cause problems for themselves...
Based on this judgment, the tour guide will treat them differently: those who are rich and can bring her generous kickbacks, she will do her best to please; and those who are unwilling to listen to her instructions and will give her nothing, she will obviously not do anything. But secretly, he will despise them and treat them with a cold attitude...