Minister Lu smiled and said to the ticket seller inside, "Ma'am, just contact Manager Lin and tell her my surname is Lu. I'm a friend of your boss, and our foreign friend here isn't joking."
The ticket seller opened her mouth. She couldn't tell whether she'd really run into some big shot or a lunatic.
But you couldn't afford to offend a visitor, so she could only steel herself and call her supervisor to report it. "Supervisor, there's a foreign visitor here who wants to buy tickets for every visitor today, including tickets for the attractions. There's also a Mr. Lu vouching for him, saying he's a friend of the boss. He told us to contact Manager Lin."
Inside the scenic area.
A supervisor was a little dumbfounded when he got the call from his subordinate.
He'd never encountered anything like this before.
Could someone really pick up the tab for everyone at a scenic area?
He suspected a visitor was probably joking, but since they'd mentioned Manager Lin, he wasn't sure. He could only take out his phone and contact Lin Lanzi.
Lin Lanzi was just as stunned when she received the news.
Qinglin Scenic Area could now accommodate around seventy thousand visitors a day.
Admission for one visitor cost 150 yuan.
Admission fees were basically just a way to fleece visitors.
Qinglin Scenic Area hadn't wanted to charge one, but there was no choice. The tourism department above them insisted that they had to.
It was a regulation.
The average admission fee at a 5A-rated scenic area had already reached 110 yuan. Qinglin Scenic Area wasn't a 5A-rated attraction yet; it would only qualify next year, once it had been open for the required number of years.
But for an attraction with this many visitors, admission was 150