Ye Ming's guess was right: this tour guide surnamed Ma, before he became a tour guide, was indeed a somewhat famous gangster leader in the county seat of N County. Later, according to his own words, he "changed from evil to good, and turned back", and turned to the tour guide.

It's just that he, the "tour guide", is only affiliated with the travel company, and the tour guide card is also obtained through his buddies at the tourism bureau. Therefore, he has no knowledge of tourism and belongs to the kind of "black tour guide" who "only travels but does not guide". Usually, they usually don't come out to pick up the group. However, if there are holidays, especially Golden Week, many travel agencies lack tour guides, they take the opportunity to "go out of the mountain", take the initiative to receive some tour groups from other places, and then use their way to knock a stroke on those tourists, sometimes they can knock tens of thousands of yuan at a time, enough for him and his accomplices to be chic for a while.

And their trick to blackmail the passengers is very simple: first, they use "descendants of bandits", "street brothers" and bright knives to give the passengers a dismount. They then charge extra money in the name of inviting travelers to participate in so-called "self-pay programs". Sometimes, the cost is ridiculously high. However, these tourists from other places are afraid of their prestige, and they are also afraid of being beaten and retaliated against by them in the local area, and they will suffer immediate losses. As a result, the vast majority of travelers will choose to listen to their arrangements and participate in their so-called "self-pay projects" in order to spend money to eliminate disasters......

Ye Ming had seen similar reports of "black tour guides" on the Internet, but he always felt that tour guides were also managed by tourism bureaus and tourism companies, and there were relevant systems and regulations, so they should not be as black as depicted on the Internet, and it was unlikely that there would be a threat to tourists. I didn't expect that such a thing really happened to me today!

So, he began to watch from the sidelines, watching how the tour guide, who claimed to be the "descendant of the bandits", acted out the next play.

The horse guide waved the knife twice and then put it in the hanging bag. Then, he raised the horn again and began to get to the point: "Dear friends: As the saying goes, relying on the mountain to eat the mountain depends on the water to eat the water. Our N county has places of interest, folk culture, and good mountains and rivers. However, the economy has been underdeveloped, and our people are living a very hard life, so they can only rely on that little bit of tourism resources left by God to earn two dollars to support their families. And everyone here is a big boss, and they are all rich people who have spare time to come out and spend freely. So, we take what we need. We provide services to you, and you create economic benefits for us. Right? ”

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment, and then said: "We are tour guides and drivers, but it is actually very hard. However, no matter how hard we work, we must also serve everyone well and provide you with more opportunities to experience our Northwest folk customs and taste our Northwest specialties, right? Therefore, in addition to your scheduled trip, we have also added several very entertaining and meaningful self-pay programs for you. Among them, there are projects such as eating roasted whole sheep, experiencing the cave life of the people in Northwest China, and having special banquets for farmhouses.

"Frankly speaking, my driver brother and I have a commission for these projects. Everyone signed up to participate in these projects, which was not only a fun experience of these projects, but also supported my work and that of my brother. So, I would like to express my gratitude and that of my brother to all of you first. ”

As he spoke, he bent down slightly to everyone, bowing to everyone and thanking everyone.

At this time, many people in the car knew that he bowed to everyone, and it was "a weasel greeting the chicken for the New Year - not a good heart", and ignored him. After he finished bowing, the old man who began to answer his question suddenly asked: "Director Ma, you can just say it directly: how much does it cost for us to participate in your self-funded projects?" There's no need to bother here. If the price is acceptable to us, we will go with you to see it. If it's too expensive, then I'm sorry, we have the right to refuse your unauthorized arrangement, and we also have the right to sue you at the tourism regulatory department! ”

When the horse director heard the old man's last words, he rolled his eyelids and stared at him fiercely, but he didn't attack on the spot, but said: "We have a total of three self-funded projects, each project is two hundred yuan, and a total of six hundred yuan per person." It's not too expensive, isn't it? At a price of 600 yuan, you can eat roasted whole sheep, live in a cave on the high slope of loess, and eat northwest specialties at a farmhouse, how cost-effective! Right? ”

As soon as some tourists heard him say that they would charge an extra 600 yuan per person, and that their tour fee this time was only 1,500 yuan per person, their faces could not help but change color, and many people began to shout, and some angrily scolded the word "bandit".

Although the horse director claimed to be a "descendant of bandits", when someone really scolded him for being a bandit, he was not happy, and suddenly turned his face and shouted violently: "Who was scolding me a bandit just now?" Stand up for me! ”

The old man who questioned the tour guide at the beginning may be a well-informed old cadre with a great sense of justice, and when he heard the horse guide ask who was scolding him, he replied: "It's me who is scolding you, what's the matter?" You are so blatant to rob the money of travelers, what are you not bandits? Besides, didn't you declare yourself in the first place, saying that you were the descendant of bandits? You yourself are proud to be the offspring of bandits, so what's wrong with me saying a word about you? ”

Director Ma was choked by a few words from this gray-haired old cadre, and he rolled his eyes, trying to find a few words to refute, but he couldn't think of an appropriate sentence for a while.

So, he glared at the old cadre viciously and said, "Old thing, I'm too lazy to bother with you now, and I'll settle accounts with you when I finish collecting the money!" ”

As he spoke, he turned his head and shouted to the driver, "Old Black, stop the car, I'll charge first!" If you don't, get me off now! ”

With this shout, the driver really stopped the tour bus.

Everyone looked out the car window and saw that it was in the canyon between two bare loess slopes, and it was estimated that there was no one in a radius of more than ten miles. Also, there are fewer vehicles coming and going on this road. If you don't pay to be kicked off by the tour guide and driver, no matter which way you go, it is estimated that you will have to walk for several hours to reach a populated place......

Ye Ming had been coldly observing the black tour guide's acting. Just now, when the old cadre-looking person refuted the horse director, he originally wanted to stand up and scold him. However, Chen Mengqi saw that the man was carrying a knife, and he was in this unfamiliar place, for fear that Ye Ming would fight with the tour guide, no matter who injured whom, it would be a very troublesome thing. Therefore, she grabbed Ye Ming's arm hard, and prevented him from standing up and scolding the horse guide.