Chapter 193 The First Employee

The sky in Dali is still a saturated blue, with a few wisps of clouds floating lightly, the sun pouring down generously, and the air is mixed with the faint soapberry scent of drying sheets.

“Sister Hongdou, are you there?”

Xiaoqin, dressed in a fresh outfit, walked briskly into the yard and saw Chen Mo sitting in the yard playing the guitar in front of his mobile phone.

“It’s Xiaoqin.”

Chen Mo looked up when he heard the voice and tapped the screen of his mobile phone to pause the video he was recording.

Xiaoqin said familiarly, “Brother Chen Mo, is Sister Hongdou here?”

As they stayed in the village for a long time, Chen Mo and Xu Hongdou had become familiar with many of the “neighbors” here.

Take Xiaoqin for example, at least now she doesn’t charge them twenty-one for buying light bulbs.

“Yes.” Chen Mo smiled and gestured, “Hongdou is hanging the quilt upstairs.”

Xu Hongdou, who was on the second-floor terrace, poked her head out when she heard the voice. “Xiaoqin, are you looking for me? Wait for me a moment, it will be quick.”

“It’s okay, Sister Hongdou, take your time. I’m not in a hurry.”

Xiaoqin raised her head and replied cheerfully, then moved closer to Chen Mo and asked curiously, “Brother Chen Mo, were you filming a video just now?”

Chen Mo smiled and nodded. Although he was not in BJ, he would still shoot some of his own works from time to time and upload them to his short video account to maintain his activity.

Xiaoqin asked with her big eyes flashing, “Brother Chen Mo, is this filming very profitable?”

Chen Mo smiled and said, “Some people make money, and some don’t. If you are interested, you can try to take some photos yourself. Anyway, you can take photos with a mobile phone.”

Xiaoqin scratched her head and said, “But I don’t know what to shoot. I’ve been staying in the village and there’s nothing interesting around me.”

Chen Mo smiled and asked, “What’s interesting?”

Xiaoqin said: “Just like those people in big cities outside, they have a lot of delicious and fun things to take pictures of around them.”

Chen Mo smiled. “Since big cities are fun, why do people from big cities come to the village to travel? Didn’t we come here from the big cities you mentioned?”

Xiaoqin thought for a moment, “Because the air here is good? I think that’s what tourists say.”

“That’s just one of the reasons.”

Chen Mo shook his head. “How should I put it? Actually, traveling is actually a person going from a place where you are tired of staying to a place where others are tired of staying and spending money.”

“You are tired of staying in the village, so you think the village is boring and the big city is fun. Similarly, people in big cities are tired of staying in big cities and they also think big cities are boring, so they like to travel here.”

Xiaoqin’s eyes lit up, “Then I’ll take some photos of things in the village. Others may not have seen them.”

Chen Mo nodded. “Tie-dyeing, wood carving, embroidery, these are things you don’t often see outside. Didn’t your father ask you to learn embroidery? You can film some daily embroidery videos like Xia Xia did with wood carving.”

“There are folk craftsmen everywhere, but they only have the skills but don’t know how to market and promote. It’s better to sell good things at a good price than to keep them to yourself.”

Xiaoqin frowned slightly, “I don’t shoot embroidery, let alone learn it. It takes half a year to embroider a piece of clothing. My grandma embroidered for a lifetime. When she got old, her eyes were almost blind and her back couldn’t even straighten up. She still didn’t make much money.”

Chen Mo shrugged. “Then you can take some videos of picking fruits in the orchard, planting vegetables in the fields, or walking the cats and dogs in the village.”

“City people like to see things from the countryside, but real farmers don’t know how to package them.”

“For example, we can change the vegetable-growing experience of an old lady into a balcony survival guide. The same content can be used in a different scenario, and it will immediately become interesting.”

Xiaoqin blinked. “Is it that simple? I saw some training courses online that teach people how to shoot content.”

Chen Mo shook his head and said, “Don’t believe those ‘training masters’. Those who teach you how to make money basically want to make money from you. Those who really make money don’t have time to teach you.”

Xiaoqin bit her lip and said, “But I can’t take pictures as good as others. Will anyone watch it?”

Chen Mo said seriously: “Action is the most important thing, let’s shoot first. First shoot it into a pile of shit, then slowly carve out flowers.”

“As for some questions about shooting techniques, don’t you know Ye Zhen who helps your brother A Yao shoot promotional photos? When you have nothing to do, just hang out with him and learn from him. If you don’t understand something, just ask him. If he doesn’t teach you, then go talk to your brother A Yao and make full use of the resources around you.”

After hearing this, Xiaoqin nodded seriously, “Yes!”

In fact, there are some things that Chen Mo didn’t tell the little girl that are too realistic.

In the era of traffic, short videos are not about who is better at producing content, but about using traffic as tap water to drink up the water and then sell it.

You don’t need a creative hit, you just need to post 60-point content a thousand times using a hundred accounts.

Behind the so-called overnight success is actually an industrial assembly line.

“Xiaoqin, what do you want to talk to me about?” Xu Hongdou walked down from the second floor, dressed in home clothes, with a low ponytail and her sleeves rolled up. She looked gentle, like a housewife who had just finished her housework.

“Sister Hongdou, I heard from Sister Xiaochun that your homestay seems to be almost finished, so I wanted to ask if you will be hiring, and if I can apply for the job?”

Xiaoqin explained the purpose of her visit and recommended herself: “I am warm and talkative, so I have no problem receiving guests.”

Xu Hongdou smiled suddenly and said, “It’s not that soon to open. The B&B needs to be left there for a while after it’s decorated to let the smell get rid of the house.”

Although Xu Hongdou has tried her best to use environmentally friendly materials for decoration and all the furniture is made of solid wood, formaldehyde is still unavoidable, so the house has to be left vacant and ventilated for a while.

Xu Hongdou had no choice but to go against her conscience and open the restaurant as soon as it was completed, allowing the customers to act as human body purifiers.

Xiaoqin raised her hand and said, “It’s okay, I’ll just sign up in advance.”

Xu Hongdou smiled helplessly, “But don’t you still run a grocery store? Last time your father wanted you to close the store and learn embroidery, didn’t you refuse to do it? You keep doing what you want.”

Xiaoqin quickly explained, “I just didn’t want to learn embroidery. I run a grocery store and do some business with my neighbors, but I can’t make more than 2,000 yuan a month. Recently, a new chain convenience store opened in the town, and there is even less business.”

“So I plan to come over to you, Sister Hongdou, and ask my father to sell the store.”

Xu Hongdou thought for a moment and said, “Then you should go back and discuss it with your father, and then give me a definite answer. If everything is confirmed, you can come and try it out during the employee training.”

“No problem, I’ll go back and tell my dad.”

Xiaoqin immediately stood up to leave, then she thought of something and turned around and said, “By the way, Sister Hongdou, can Yang Zhinan come with us?”

“Who is Yang Zhinan?”

“My boyfriend.” Xiaoqin said sweetly, “He is working as a waiter in another B&B in town. I asked him to come over so that we can be closer.”

“The one you broke up with before?”

Xu Hongdou vaguely remembered that she had heard Chen Nanxing’s gossip, and it seemed that the boy was only nineteen years old, five years younger than Xiaoqin.

I heard that the boy ordered takeout for Xiaoqin for a week, and the two of them became a couple.

Xiaoqin nodded, “We had a fight before, but we’ve made up now.”

Xu Hongdou shook her head directly, “No, I can only recruit one of you two.”

“why?”

“I don’t like mixing work relationships with personal relationships.”

Chen Mo joked, “If you two really break up by then, wouldn’t it be awkward to see each other every day?”

“It seems so.”

Xiaoqin thought it made sense, but she was still struggling: “But he said he was willing to give his life to me and take the bullet for me.”

“You’re just giving him things that no one wants.” Xu Hongdou couldn’t help but shake her head. “Instead of asking him to promise to take a bullet for you, it’s better to ask him to promise to wash the dishes in the future.”

There are no bullets in the country, but there are bowls at home.

Chen Mo was also amused and suggested: “Next time, why don’t you just ask him to give you all the money? He can’t really give you his life, but you can really take the money.”

After hearing this, the little girl walked away with a thoughtful look on her face.

Xu Hongdou shook her head in amusement and was about to say something when her cell phone rang.

“Bell~~”

Xu Hongdou took it out and took a look at it, then answered the phone with a smile:
“Hey, Nan Nan, what’s wrong? What?! Is it serious?”

When Xu Hongdou heard what Chen Nanxing said on the phone, she frowned immediately.

Noticing Xu Hongdou’s situation, Chen Mo looked over.

“Yeah, okay, I’ll go over now.”

Xu Hongdou responded a few times and hung up the phone.

Seeing this, Chen Mo stood up and asked, “What’s wrong? What happened?”

Xu Hongdou put down her phone, turned around, frowned and said:

“There was an accident at the B&B construction site, Nanxing is in the hospital now.”

(End of this chapter)