By around four in the afternoon, all 32 rooms at the Fortunate Inn were fully booked.
There was only one reason for today's surge in guests: tomorrow was Saturday!
Running an inn in a scenic area was a completely different experience on weekdays and weekends!
From Monday to Friday, no matter how much advertising and promotion you did, filling every room was incredibly difficult!
But once the weekend arrived, even if you did nothing but lie around the inn, guests would keep coming through the door.
Although all the rooms were booked, only about half the guests had checked in by four that afternoon.
The other half might have to wait until they clocked out at work before setting off from their workplaces.
By the time they reached the inn, it would probably be evening.
Among the guests in the 16 occupied rooms were lone travelers exploring on their own, as well as young couples traveling together.
There were also people bringing their entire families along.
One room housed a family of three.
Another couple, who had requested an extra bed, had brought their adorable twin little girls.
The guests who had already checked in numbered 31 in total.
Of those, 21 had accepted Lin Zhe's invitation to join tomorrow's family visit outing.
After all, drinks and food were free, and there would even be free whole roast lamb and Mutton Bone Soup.
To complete this [A Home Away from Home] quest, Lin Zhe was really sparing no expense.
He had made the event quite appealing.
Who could turn down free whole roast lamb?
"Glug, glug, glug..."
After inviting more than twenty people upstairs to join the event and explaining the details to them one after another, Lin Zhe had talked so much that his throat was practically smoking.
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