In 1992, a small village owner became the richest man in the village by owning a car.

Chapter 408 Meeting at the Hotel
Yu Dawei returned to the barbershop after 3 p.m.

Instead of returning to the barbershop immediately, he went to the auto parts market to inquire about the distributors again.

As soon as Yu Dawei entered the door, he saw the Jiang family enjoying a harmonious scene.

Jiang Shang was sitting on a chair next to the barber table, accompanying his child as he practiced watercolor painting. His sister-in-law sat not far away, holding the child's schoolbag in her arms, gazing at the painting the child was making.

Yu Dawei paused, then suddenly felt a little embarrassed as he stepped inside.

He was afraid that if he stepped in, he would shatter the beautiful scene of this family.

"Hey? Dawei, you're back." Jiang Shang sensed someone at the door, turned around and saw Yu Dawei. He smiled and asked, "Have you eaten? If not, there's still some food we brought back from the store in the kitchen, it's still warm."

"I was thinking of taking you to my restaurant, but I didn't expect you to be called out by your elder brother from the same clan." Jiang Shang, with his back to his wife, kept winking at Yu Dawei.

Yu Dawei smiled in response, indicating that he understood.

"Jiang Shang, you really don't treat your brothers like outsiders. You actually made them eat our leftovers." Sister-in-law Su Yunlan rolled her eyes at her husband, then turned to Yu Dawei. "Dawei, if you really haven't eaten, I'll take you to the restaurant next door. It's one thing to let you stay in this lousy barbershop, but to make you eat leftovers."

Upon hearing this, Yu Dawei quickly waved his hand and explained, "No need, sister-in-law, I've already eaten, and there aren't any of those messy rules between me and Brother Erdan."

"It's only because you two brothers have a good relationship. If it were an outsider, they would probably have fallen out by now," Sister-in-law Su Yunlan explained with a smile. "Where we live, we never let guests eat leftovers."

Yu Dawei smiled and didn't say anything more, knowing that his sister-in-law meant well and was afraid that he might have bad feelings towards Jiang Shang.

But there's really no need for that. Back when he was still in school, when he visited other people's homes in the village, he would go straight through their dish racks and specifically look for the leftovers from the old men and women.

"Uncle Yu, Uncle Yu, what do you think of my drawing?" Just then, Jiang Shang's eldest son picked up the paper he had just used to draw and ran up to Yu Dawei, handing the paper to him with both hands.

"Hmm...not bad, you drew Mom and Dad very well, but Dad's face is a little too dark." Yu Dawei took the watercolor painting from the child, his breath hitched for a moment, and then he forced a kind smile to give an encouraging evaluation.

The drawing on the paper depicts a man and a woman. The man is four heads shorter than the woman, and the woman is holding the man's arms with both hands.

Overall, the drawing is quite good; at least you can clearly tell which is the man and which is the woman.

But the woman's arms were a bit too slender.

And those abnormally alluring eyes of the woman were completely decorated with two red hearts of different sizes.

Then there's the man next to me; his skin is so dark, he looks a bit like an African guy.

"Brother Erdan, your child is so talented at drawing, haven't you thought about enrolling him in an extracurricular class?" Yu Dawei walked over to Jiang Shang with the painting and sat down next to him, looking at him with a smile and teasing him.

“I did want to, but I was afraid the teacher at the extracurricular class wouldn’t want to accept it after seeing the painting.” Jiang Shang turned around and hugged the child in his arms, giving a wry smile. “The child’s talent for painting comes from me. When I was a child, the teacher asked us to draw, and I couldn’t even draw an apple properly.”

This self-deprecating remark drew a good laugh from Yu Dawei and Su Yunlan, after which the group chatted for a while longer.

Yu Dawei mainly talked about his trip to the auto parts market, comparing the parts stores in Shenzhen with those in his hometown.

Because his sister-in-law was there, he didn't talk to Jiang Shang about the wedding, but the atmosphere of the conversation was still very good.

There weren't many customers at Jiang Shang's barbershop in the afternoon, and soon he left with his wife and children.

Before leaving, he didn't forget to secretly give Yu Dawei a look.

This is probably to tell Yu Dawei that he has already made arrangements for the wedding venue.

Yu Dawei waved his hand and looked at Erdan and his sister-in-law in the distance. He also began to plan to hold a wedding ceremony for his wife.

"Sigh, let's wait two years. Once everything is stable in two years, I'll give Xiaofan a proper wedding." With that thought, Yu Dawei turned and went back into the house.

The next day arrived in the blink of an eye. As planned, Yu Dawei intended to visit the nearby auto parts market again, but his plans were interrupted by an unknown number.

On the other end of the phone was Yu Zhouzhou, the younger sister of the second uncle. She had heard last night that Yu Dawei had gone to his older brother's hotel, offered a lot of advice, and even went out to eat with him!
Yu Zhouzhou instantly felt betrayed and, feeling wronged, wanted to complain to her father.

Afraid that the old man would get angry with him, Yu Daren guiltily gave Yu Dawei's contact information to Yu Zhouzhou.

When Yu Dawei heard his second uncle's little sister pleading with him to come over, he knew he couldn't avoid it.

He could only surrender with his hands raised, and then told the other party his location. It wasn't that Yu Dawei was unwilling to go, but he knew all too well that he understood nothing about hotel management.

Unfortunately, none of these people believed it.

Not long after, Yu Zhouzhou picked up Yu Dawei and they drove together to the hotel owned by her younger sister.

Yu Zhouzhou currently owns two hotels, one in Futian and the other in Luohu.

The two discussed it and decided to go to Luohu first, since Luohu was relatively far away and they might not have time to come back later.

Unlike her older brother, Yu Zhouzhou didn't decorate the hotel in a lavish style, so she didn't invest too much in the hotel's renovation.

This would give Zhouzhou more cash to choose a hotel in a better location, and Luohu is one of them.

"Although the hotels in Luohu are not in the best locations in Luohu, they are quiet, have low rent, and large rooms."

"There are two highways leading to the expressway not far away, so it's very convenient for both those going out and coming into the city if they choose to stay at a hotel." Yu Zhouzhou said to Yu Dawei beside her as she drove, giving a brief introduction to the hotel.

"Then your customer flow is actually very obvious. It mainly consists of people from outside the city, and most of the customers you receive are people who come to Shenzhen to work or look for work."

Yu Dawei thought for a moment and then said, "Then the decoration style might be more business-oriented, which would be more likable or more suitable. Of course, I'm just saying this casually, because I've stayed in similar hotels before, which were more business-oriented."

"You're being modest again. You know so much, don't you?" Yu Zhouzhou glanced at Yu Dafei and smiled, teasing him. "But you're right. I had thought about what kind of clients this hotel in Luohu would be catering to, so the decor was indeed a bit more business-like."

"When you come with me to the hotel later, help me see if there are any areas in the renovation that need to be fixed." Yu Zhouzhou stepped on the brake and clutch to slow down, then turned the steering wheel to the right. "I trust your judgment, buddy."

"Although you are not in this industry, I think some of the views you express are very novel, or rather, avant-garde. In short, you are very impressive."

Yu Dawei waved his hand somewhat flusteredly: "Little sister, please don't say that. Sometimes what I say is completely unreliable."

“We already agreed that we would just go and look around! You’re putting a lot of pressure on me. What if you listen to me and change the hotel reservations, and end up losing money?”

Upon hearing this, Yu Zhouzhou couldn't help but chuckle: "Don't worry, little brother. Even if I really lose money renovating my hotel, I would never let the head of the Yu family pay for it, would I?"

Yu Dawei looked embarrassed, as if the "Head of the Family" joke was something he couldn't get over in front of the brother and sister.

My older brother was the same yesterday. He usually seems like a very steady person, but when he gets drunk, he starts joking around a lot.

"We've arrived. The one on the right with seven floors is it."

The two drove to a very spacious courtyard with a fountain in the middle and a statue of a person riding a horse in the center. The courtyard had a somewhat European style.

The surrounding walls are about two meters high, and there is a four-story building directly in front.

The top of the building has four large red characters: Jierun Construction.

Yu Dawei glanced at it and then looked away, inwardly wondering if this Jierun Construction was related to the Jierun Group.

To the right of where the two got out of the car was a seven-story building. However, compared to the building directly opposite, the seven-story building on the right was narrower overall, and the area of ​​each floor was estimated to be no more than 300 square meters.

The seven-story building has several large characters posted vertically: Tianya Hotel.

Above the glass door in the center, on the eaves, are the same four characters: “Tianya Hotel,” but the font is smaller than the large characters pasted on the stairs.

“This isn’t the center of Luohu, so the rent here is still quite cheap. I rented three floors of the seven-story building. I originally wanted to rent the whole thing, but unfortunately, I just don’t have the funds.” Yu Zhouzhou looked at the storefront of her house with some emotion. “We’re both called hotels, but compared to my brother’s hotel, it’s like comparing heaven and earth.”

“I did consider going for a luxurious renovation at first, and even used ‘hotel’ in the name to make it sound grand,” Yu Zhouzhou said, shrugging at Yu Dawei. “But in the end, it’s just a slightly more spacious hotel.”

"That's good." Yu Dawei recalled a Holiday Inn he had stayed at in his previous life and felt that the style of this place was similar to the one he had stayed at before.

“Calling it a hotel is fine, it’s just a marketing tactic. It’s like going to a coffee shop and buying coffee: a large cup is the same as a medium cup, a medium cup is the same as a small cup… Although everyone knows you’re deceiving consumers, theoretically speaking, it’s not unreasonable for you to follow your rules.” Yu Dawei stood at the hotel entrance, presenting the facts and reasoning with Yu Zhouzhou.

"What do you mean by large, medium, and small sizes? What kind of coffee shop does that?"

"Let's go, there's more than just one, there's quite a lot."

(End of this chapter)