CHAPTER 248: CHAPTER 248 ORIGINAL SIN 57

Now, Red Dust has been built to perfection by Yun Shuangshuang. The decoration equipment ranges from luxurious to affordable, and it includes banquet halls, conference halls, and game rooms, offering classical games like pitch-pot and archery.

Originally, Yun Shuangshuang intended to develop Red Dust into a five-star tourist hotel, but she gave up on this idea after seeing the requirements for a five-star tourist hotel.

A five-star hotel has very high requirements, needing to provide various types of restaurants, such as Chinese, Western, buffet, and local specialty restaurants. In addition to the restaurants, it needs a large-scale banquet hall, conference hall, game room, shopping mall, fitness center, and various entertainment facilities. In short, it must have comprehensive services, fully equipped.

One could say a five-star hotel is a small independent society that integrates socializing, meetings, entertainment, shopping, leisure, and health care, meeting all needs without ever leaving, with a beautiful environment and extremely high service quality.

People living there don’t need to go outside to meet all their needs, of course, the charges are exorbitantly high, exclusively for the rich, with the poor being excluded.

It’s not that Yun Shuangshuang couldn’t achieve this level, but if she did, then Red Dust would monopolize all the entertainment facilities around, cutting off all business for the surrounding villagers.

In the past, Yun Shuangshuang wouldn’t have cared much, but now she finds it impossible because these villagers sincerely respect Yun Shuangshuang and her mother Feng Jinyan due to her previous actions. They often speak highly of her and her mother in front of outsiders and don’t allow anyone to slander Yun Shuangshuang and Feng Jinyan. Whenever there is something going on with Red Dust, as long as villagers see it, they will proactively step up to help.

Once a delivery truck for Red Dust overturned, spilling high-end ingredients all over the ground. These villagers rushed in to help, maintaining order to prevent tourists of less refined character from grabbing the ingredients, while helping to pick up the scattered items and carry them back to Red Dust, minimizing Yun Shuangshuang’s losses!

Among these helpful villagers, there were even children around seven or eight years old. Even such young children, under the guidance of adults, were full of gratitude towards Yun Shuangshuang and Feng Jinyan. Yun Shuangshuang would never forget a child who was holding a big box of high-end fruits, salivating but never stealing a bite.

That child insisted on delivering the found fruits to Yun Shuangshuang. No matter how much Yun Shuangshuang wanted to give him that box of fruits, he refused to accept it until Yun Shuangshuang secretly repackaged ordinary fruits for him, tricking him into thinking it was regular fruit, which he finally accepted.

Yun Shuangshuang couldn’t bear to cut off the heartfelt gratitude and respect the villagers had for her, it was their way to improve their family situation and earn money. Yun Shuangshuang also hoped that everyone could enjoy the beauty of this place and afford to stay at high-end hotels like Red Dust.

If not for this, Yun Shuangshuang wouldn’t have bothered to build lower-grade rooms. She wished more people could spend relatively less money to receive better services. Of course, she also wouldn’t miss the opportunity to earn money from the wealthy; her high-end rooms were meant for rich customers.

Since she couldn’t develop a five-star hotel, Yun Shuangshuang decided to let it go. Actually, she had a bit of secret pride - she hoped to make Red Dust a place that both poor and rich people could enjoy, not bearing the title of a five-star, but recognized in many people’s hearts as a five-star hotel!

Without being obsessively attached to getting a five-star rating, Red Dust was back on track, and Yun Shuangshuang finally started to care about her own affairs. She wanted to earn a good college degree, and after the new year, Yun Shuangshuang would turn eighteen. She planned to get her eighteen-year-old ID card and then apply for a university degree.

However, while Yun Shuangshuang could handle other matters, studying and acquiring qualifications were areas she was unfamiliar with, as she had no exposure to them over two lifetimes combined!

Yun Shuangshuang planned to seek advice from Professor Zhang, as he had spent his lifetime teaching and nurturing students and could surely give her some expert opinions.

Professor Zhang was staying at the Bamboo Forest Villa today. It’s uncertain whether it’s because scholars have a fondness for bamboo, as ancient poetry suggests: "Better to have no meat to eat than to live without bamboo; without meat, one becomes thin, without bamboo, one becomes vulgar". Clearly, from ancient times to today, scholars have always had a fondness for bamboo.

When Yun Shuangshuang entered, Professor Zhang was reclining on a rocking chair in the bamboo forest with Qiangqiang, covered with a blanket, gently dozing.

As soon as Yun Shuangshuang entered, the first to spot her was still Qiangqiang. Seeing Yun Shuangshuang, Qiangqiang immediately climbed out of Professor Zhang’s embrace, ran over with a sweet smile, called out Sister Shuangshuang, and hugged Yun Shuangshuang’s leg.

Yun Shuangshuang bent down to pick up Qiangqiang, pinched his little face, and said, "Did little Qiangqiang miss sister? Did you eat obediently?"

Qiangqiang hugged Yun Shuangshuang’s neck, nodding his little head in her arms, very obediently saying, "Qiangqiang really missed Sister Shuangshuang. But grandma said Sister Shuangshuang is busy and told Qiangqiang not to disturb her, so Qiangqiang eats obediently by himself."

After half a year of Yun Shuangshuang’s nurturing, Qiangqiang has gained quite a bit of weight. Although his height still resembles that of a child, his physique appears normal, with a round face carrying a bit of baby fat, with thick eyebrows and big eyes. The recovered Qiangqiang is a very cute boy.

Now, Qiangqiang’s anorexia has healed, although he still prefers the food made by Yun Shuangshuang, he can also eat a bit of other food. It’s not much, but it’s a significant improvement.

However, his temperament is still very calm and timid, and his mental state seems similar to that of a few-year-old child. Professor Zhang and Zhao Ying have taken Qiangqiang to see a doctor. After testing, they found his IQ was fine, but he had been closed off for too long. Now just a slight recovery means his mind is still immature.

The doctor specifically told Zhao Ying and Professor Zhang that currently, the most important thing for Qiangqiang is to remain physically and mentally joyful, and not to do anything that might stimulate him. While Qiangqiang’s progress was small, it was already enough to bring Zhao Ying and Professor Zhang to tears of joy.

Although Qiangqiang’s autism has somewhat improved, he still dislikes communicating with others. Currently, only three people can be accepted by Qiangqiang: his grandma, Professor Zhang, his mom, Zhao Ying, and Yun Shuangshuang, this Sister Shuangshuang.

Holding Qiangqiang and teasing him for a few words, Yun Shuangshuang sat beside Professor Zhang, who was smiling at her and Qiangqiang’s interaction. She coaxed Qiangqiang into eating the snacks she brought and stated her purpose to Professor Zhang.

Professor Zhang pondered for a while and casually presented a few university questions for Yun Shuangshuang to answer. She answered them fluently, and seeing she got them all correct, he went inside to get a notebook. He gave her some questions to answer, and once again, Yun Shuangshuang smoothly answered them all.