Entertaining Children

After wandering around the nearby town, Xiao Yao successfully found a local family with a B\u0026B sign.

Aba Prefecture is called the Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. It is the confluence of multi-ethnic cultures such as Han, Tibetan, Qiang, Yi, Miao, Hui, Mongolian and Tujia. Among them, Tibetans and Qiang are the main ethnic minorities. The town where Xiao Yao is located is a multi-ethnic mixed population mainly composed of Qiang people. The local family with the boarding house sign they found is from the Qiang people.

Although they are Qiang people, it is naturally impossible for those who rely on famous scenic spots to do homestay business to not be able to speak Chinese, and there must be no problems in communication. The owner of the residence is a middle-aged and elderly woman in her fifties. When she saw Xiao Yao come in and inquire about accommodation, she immediately greeted her warmly.

The accommodation fee of more than 100 per night is not too expensive. Xiao Yao looked at the vicissitudes of life and his red face, and he didn't have the nerve to bargain or compare prices, so he immediately decided to stay and experience it. The characteristic dwellings of the Qiang nationality.

The town is not very prosperous, and you can't see anything with minority characteristics at night. After finding a restaurant in the town for dinner and buying a bunch of things needed for going to the mountains tomorrow, Xiao Yao returned to his room at the B\u0026B early to rest.

At around nine o'clock in the evening, Xiao Yao, who was sitting on the bed arranging his equipment, unexpectedly heard a knock on the door.

"Mr. Xiao, are you there?" Along with the knock on the door, a woman's voice came from outside the door.

The Chinese spoken by this voice is very standard, and it can be heard from the voice that it is a young woman, and it is definitely not the aunt who is the proprietress of the homestay.

"Does this kind of homestay also have that kind of special service? Or do you sell it directly?" Xiao Yao's mind suddenly flashed through the experience of staying in a hotel in his previous life. After hesitating for a while, he finally walked to the door and opened the door.

Another advantage of staying in a B\u0026B is that you don’t need to show your ID card, you just need to fill in the identity information in the registration book of the proprietress with a pen. When Xiao Yao checked in, he didn't fill in Xiao Yao, but wrote "Xiao Zhixing"'s name, and his ID number was real. The people outside the door knew that his surname was Xiao only from the proprietress. Obviously, he came only after knowing the proprietress and obtaining the consent of the proprietress. Xiao Yao felt that judging from the performance of the proprietress, she didn't look like a person doing that kind of business.

"Who are you, please? What can I do for you?" After Xiao Yao opened the door, he found a young girl of medium build standing in front of the door. She looked pretty, but she was dressed in ordinary clothes, not the kind of sexy and seductive attire. , without any makeup on his face, he doesn't look like the kind of person who provides special services, so Xiao Yao's tone is also very polite.

"Hello, Mr. Xiao, I heard Aunt Erma said that you came to stay alone. Are you traveling alone in Huanglong?" the girl asked.

"This girl really knew the proprietress.

"Xiao Yao thought to himself. The "Erma" aunt the girl said was the proprietress of the homestay here.

"What do you mean?" Xiao Yao didn't answer directly, but looked at the girl suspiciously and asked.

"If you are traveling in Huanglong, I would like to ask if you need a local guide?" the girl continued.

"Tour guide? Are you?" Xiao Yao felt relieved, with a funny expression on his face, "How old are you? Do you have a tour guide certificate?"

"No. I'm only eighteen, a high school student, and I'm still in school, so I can't take the tour guide certificate." The girl shook her head, took out a small book from her body, and said, "Although I don't have a tour guide certificate, I have I grew up here, and I am very familiar with Huanglong."

Xiao Yao glanced at the small book in the girl's hand, and judging from the cover, it was indeed a student ID card from a certain middle school.

"Yan'er, I told you to wait for me to ask, why are you disobedient, or did you come here by yourself?" Before Xiao Yao could answer, another voice came from beside him.

Xiao Yao turned his head and found that it was Aunt Erma, the proprietress, who had arrived.

Aunt Erma yelled at the girl while walking in the distance just now, but when they got closer, she had already taught the girl a lesson and said directly to Xiao Yao: "Mr. Xiao, I'm sorry to bother you!"

"It's okay." Xiao Yao smiled and shook his head.

Seeing that Xiao Yao's attitude was better, Aunt Erma continued: "This little girl is from our village. She has loved running around since she was a child. She has played in Huanglong many times and is very familiar with it. She is still studying In high school, I wanted to work part-time during the summer vacation to earn some money to subsidize my family, so I proposed to let her be a private tour guide for others. I see that you are carrying such a big travel backpack, not like ordinary tourists who follow a tour group, but rather a Donkey friend, I guessed that you might need a local tour guide, so I called her over. I originally planned to bring her over to ask you after you came back. Who knew that she would see the light in your room? I ran here first."

"So that's the case." Xiao Yao nodded, still noncommittal.

"If you ask me to be a tour guide, I promise I won't cheat you. I will only show you the way and tell you where the scenery is good, and I won't take you to any store for you to buy things." The girl saw that Xiao Yao didn't make a statement, He continued to fight again, "Huanglong Scenic Area costs 200 tickets not counting the cableway, and my tour guide fee is only more than 100 a day. I can take you in from other places so that you don't need to buy tickets. It can save dozens of dollars, which is even more cost-effective!"

"Oh?" Now Xiao Yao became interested. It's not that he cares about the tens of dollars, but entering the scenic spot from other places and taking a tour route that no one else has gone through is very attractive to Xiao Yao.

"Going in from another place, is there still some scenery on the road that others can't see or rarely see." Xiao Yao said, and found that he still blocked the two of them at the door, so he opened the door completely, to the two The man made a gesture to welcome in and said, "Can you come in and tell me in detail."

"Then let Yan'er go in and tell you, I'll go back to the front first." Seeing that Xiao Yao seemed very interested, Aunt Erma waved her hand happily, turned and left.

"Okay!" The girl was generous, she walked into Xiao Yao's room with a smile, and sat down on the chair in the room without waiting for Xiao Yao's greeting.

Xiao Yao closed the door casually, sat on a chair opposite the girl, and asked with a smile, "Can you really take me into Huanglonggou from another place?"

"Of course!" The girl said enthusiastically, "The gate and entrance of Huanglong Scenic Area are in the southwest, but I know there is a hidden path in the northwest. Not many locals know about this path. You don’t know the location, but you will know when I take you there tomorrow.”

"Not many locals know about it, so how did you know?" Xiao Yao asked curiously.

The girl said proudly: "Didn't Aunt Erma just say that I loved running around when I was young? That road was the way I wanted to go to Huanglonggou when I was young, but I didn't have the money to buy a ticket. Found it. I only told a few close friends of mine, most of them didn't know."

"It turned out to be a wild child!" Xiao Yao smiled, picked up a bottle of water on the table and passed it over, and then asked, "How small is that path? Can an off-road vehicle drive in?"

"Huh! You look a few years older than me!" Hearing Xiao Yao say that he is a wild child, the girl wrinkled her nose in dissatisfaction, but she still took the water from Xiao Yao and answered him, "If you can't drive in by car, you can only walk in. And even if you can get in by car, I won't let you drive in. The scenic spot attaches great importance to environmental protection. The tour buses inside are all powered by electricity, and tourists are not allowed to drive in by themselves. I may be able to help you evade fares, but I cannot let you pollute the environment of Huanglonggou."

"Okay, don't drive, just walk in." Xiao Yao smiled and nodded.

Although I really want to say that the impact of a car on the environment is almost negligible, but seeing that this little girl attaches so much importance to the environment, she can't drive the car anyway, and it's not like she doesn't have the strength to walk, Xiao Yao said this Swallowed it back.

"Wait, you mean you came here by car? If you have a car, aren't you a rich man?" The girl said as if remembering something.

"I rented the car." Xiao Yao touched his nose and smiled.

Because the road at the entrance of the B\u0026B is relatively narrow, it is not very convenient to park, so Xiao Yao did not drive the car back to the entrance of the B\u0026B after going out for dinner at night, but put it directly at the entrance of the restaurant in the town and walked back. The girl arrived after Xiao Yao drove out to eat. She didn't see the vehicle at the door, so she thought that Xiao Yao came by bus like most tourists.

"Then you are rich too!" The girl pointed to Xiao Yao's SLR camera and ultra-thin laptop on the bed and said, "I heard people say that this kind of big camera is very expensive, and this kind of Thin laptops are also expensive, and anyone who can afford them must be rich."

"Okay, I admit that I am rich!" Xiao Yao looked at her fingers and said with a smile, "Are you going to raise the price? By the way, you just said that your daily tour guide fee is more than 100, How many hundred is it?"

"One hundred and thirty." The girl said, and then emphasized, "My usual one-day tour guide fee is this price. I didn't deliberately increase the price just because you are rich!"

"Okay, I can accept this price." Xiao Yao nodded.

"But what I'm curious about is that since you are rich, you are not short of money. Why do you want to evade the fare?" The girl asked curiously, "Does the richer the more stingy?"

"Cough~" Xiao Yao, who was drinking water, choked and said helplessly, "I didn't say I was doing it for fare evasion, I just didn't want to go to crowded places, and I wanted to take a different path from others."

"Oh." The girl nodded suddenly.

"By the way, if you go in from that road, is there anything different on the road," Xiao Yao asked again, "I mean the different scenery?"

"Yes!" The girl took a sip of the water handed by Xiao Yao, and then said enthusiastically, "Huanglong Scenic Area is mainly for looking at the water. The most famous one is Wucai Pool, but the most beautiful one in Huanglong Valley The place is not the colorful pool. On our small road leading to the colorful pool, you can see pools on the road. The water in it has more colors than the colorful pool, and it looks more beautiful than the colorful pool, just because the area is smaller than the colorful pool , the place is relatively hidden, so it has not been discovered by people in the scenic area.”

"That's outside the scope of tours?" Xiao Yao said happily, "I like it!"

"So it's a deal?" The girl also said happily, "You asked me to be a tour guide?"

"Of course!" Xiao Yao nodded with a smile, "I won't ask you to lead the way, and I can't find a place more beautiful than the Five Colors Pond."

"Okay, what time do you leave tomorrow? I'll come pick you up!" the girl said immediately.

"What time do you think is more suitable?" Xiao Yao pointed to the SLR camera on the bed and said, "I walk quite fast, but I may spend more time taking pictures on the road."

"If you want to take pictures, of course the sooner the better." The girl said, "Eight o'clock? Can you get up?"

"Yes." Xiao Yao nodded, "Do you have a cell phone? Do you want to leave a call? It's summer vacation, and I'm afraid you won't get up so early."

"Okay." The girl said, "I'm staying at a relative's house in the town tonight, and Aunt Erma knows it. If I'm late tomorrow, you can ask Aunt Erma to call me at my relative's house. But stay A phone call is fine, if you or your friends come to Huanglong to play again in the future, you can call me again."

"Okay!" Taking out the phone, Xiao Yao suddenly remembered something again, and asked seriously, "By the way, do you know me?" Don't even know yourself?

"I've seen Aunt Erma's registration book, and I know your name is Xiao Zhixing, what's wrong?" the girl asked with a bewildered expression.

"Well, it seems that this little girl really doesn't know me. It turns out that I'm not as famous as I think I am!" Looking at the girl's expression, Xiao Yao, who felt hurt, laughed at himself in his heart.

"It's nothing." Xiao Yao waved his hand, looked at the girl with a little curiosity and said, "Not many people know about the path you took me. You are a little girl, and you dare to talk to a stranger by yourself. Are you going to the ravine together with the boys? Aren't you worried about safety?"

"Don't look at me as a girl, the average boy in the village might not be able to beat me in a fight." The girl proudly raised her fist, and said confidently, "This is my place. Even if I can't beat you, you can't catch me if you want to run away!"

"Then you won't throw me halfway, will you? You took me on a road that others don't know, what if I get lost?" Xiao Yao said with a worried look on purpose.

"I still have to collect money from you," the girl rolled her eyes and said, "If I throw you away halfway, who am I going to ask for the tour guide fee?"

"Then you mean to pay you after the game is finished tomorrow?" Xiao Yao asked.

"Of course," the girl nodded and said, "There is no one who collects money before taking you there. What if it is like what you said, and you are thrown away halfway? I am a private tour guide, and there is no travel company to find .”

"Then aren't you afraid that I will run away without giving you money after I come out?" Xiao Yao continued to tease her, "I have a car. After I come out after playing, I jump into the car and run away. What do you do?"

"Try it!" The girl snorted, and said disdainfully, "You don't even look at this place, this girl treats guests honestly, it's pretty good if you don't kill you, dare to rely on this girl, take a look Can your car get out of this town!"

"Okay, I dare not!" Xiao Yao handed her his mobile phone and said, "Leave your phone to me."

The girl took the phone, entered and saved her phone number, dialed another one, and when she heard her phone ring, she hung up and returned the phone to Xiao Yao.

Xiao Yao took the phone and looked at it, and also knew the name of the girl in front of him-Jiang Yan.

"I'm going back!" Now that the phone numbers have been exchanged, Jiang Yan didn't stay any longer, got up and said goodbye, "Tomorrow it will take several miles to go to Huanglonggou, so you should go to bed early, see you tomorrow!"

"Okay, tomorrow morning at eight o'clock, I'll be waiting for you!" Xiao Yao got up to see off the guests.