When it was almost time to get off work, the travel agency sent me the tour guide's information, a senior tour guide at Pudong Mountain with ten years of experience. Even his name exuded a sense of security and direction - Gao Xiaode.
Henry Gu was very satisfied with this Mr. Map.
Mother Gu felt sorry for her son working overtime, so she braised a pot of beef for him to eat when he came back. She also sent a portion to Du Tiantian in the same city, and told him to take a rest. Du Tiantian was sweet and good at talking, and he made Mother Gu happy with just a few words. When the colleague next to him heard it, he also came over and asked, "Brother Du, what's going on with Henry Gu now? I heard that he went to Huandong to work as a supermarket stockist?"
"Believe it if you want." Du Tiantian looked disgusted, "Why are you asking me?"
"You have a good relationship with him, don't you?" The colleague nudged him with his elbow. "Hey, come to think of it, why was his internship contract terminated by Lingyun Fashion? They came to our school and specifically asked for him."
"Do you really want to know that?" Du Tiantian hooked his finger.
My colleagues quickly put their ears close to me, ready to learn the shocking inside story.
Du Tiantian said in the tone of an underground party member: "Because he can't get any subordinates, and he eats a lot."
The colleague was discouraged: "Brother Du, this is boring. Although I have not seen much of the world, you can't use the pyramid scheme to trick me."
"Why do you care about so many trivial matters?" Du Tiantian smiled and threw him a bottle of drink. "Let's go, it's time to get off work."
Henry Gu was sitting on the bus and happened to pass by the entrance of Lingyun Fashion. However, he was not in the mood to look at the beautiful and fashionable glass building. He just wanted to go home quickly to fill his stomach and then get into bed to have a good sleep.
He felt that he should be grateful for this job. The trivial and busy details filled every gap in his life, so naturally he had no time to think about other things - at least for now, tomorrow's tour group was the most important thing.
In the Huandong Group building, Yang Yi was studying how to use a new coffee machine. He was the vice president of the group and one of the few people who dared to brag in front of Blake Lu. He was a playboy, handsome and wealthy, and was very popular with the girls in the company.
"Let's just take this broken mall. It's so gloomy inside, it's strange that the business can be good." Yang Yi pointed at the blueprint, "I asked someone to look at it, the feng shui is really bad, there are female ghosts floating on the graves."
"It doesn't matter if the feng shui is bad, Pudong Temple is not far away." Blake Lu leaned back in his chair, "If it doesn't work, I can still send you there."
Yang Yi was shocked when he heard this: "What does this have to do with me?"
"Go and radiate your charm to the female ghosts, so they won't make trouble." Blake Lu stood up. "Anyway, Huandong has already taken over this mall. If the merger plan fails, I will sacrifice you to the gods."
Yang Yi: ...
Beast!
"How is tomorrow's membership event going?" Blake Lu handed him a cup of coffee.
"Li Yun showed me the process and found no problem." Yang Yi said, "She also praised the new intern in the marketing department, Henry Gu, who is said to have good working ability."
Blake Lu nodded and didn't ask any more questions.
The next day at noon, driver Lao Yan took Henry Gu to the airport on time to pick up the members. The team leader sent by the C City store was a little girl named Cheng Guo, who was very lively and could even sing on the bus to liven up the atmosphere, which saved Henry Gu a lot of trouble.
The welcome dinner had a good atmosphere. Yang Yi attended on behalf of the company's leaders. After the meal, the members happily checked into a five-star hotel under Huandong, which was a good start. However, Henry Gu did not relax because the trip to Pudong Mountain the next day was the ultimate test for him.
The agreed departure time is 8:30 in the morning.
As soon as Cheng Guo got in the car, he asked, "Who is the person next to the driver? I didn't see him yesterday."
"Guide." Henry Gu helped her unscrew the water bottle, hiding the fact that he was a road idiot. "Pudong Mountain is a cultural landscape. It will be much more interesting to have a professional explain it."
The tour guide is always good at talking, and this time he was out for a private job, so he was in a more relaxed mood. Henry Gu was still talking to Cheng Guo, while Gao Xiaode had already started telling stories, which were humorous and amusing to the whole car. After arriving at the scenic spot, Henry Gu discovered another advantage of this tour guide Gao - he knew almost all the staff and store owners. Whether the aunties wanted to buy parasols or souvenirs, they could get a good discount from him. Although they only saved a hundred or so yuan, the pleasure of consumption was rising.
At lunch, Henry Gu bought a pack of cigarettes for Gao Xiaode: "Thank you for your hard work today."
"Don't be polite. Your guests are of high quality and it's easy for me to lead them." Gao Xiaode said, "You've been busy all morning. Rest here for a while. We'll set off at two o'clock."
While the two were talking, some members had finished their meals one after another. Gao Xiaode invited everyone to go to the tea shed to enjoy the cool air, and urged Henry Gu and Cheng Guo to eat as well, as they had a mountain climbing trip in the afternoon and would probably feel dizzy if they were hungry.
"Xiao Gao, tell Xiao Gu that we're going to take some pictures outside. We won't go far." Several members greeted.
"Okay, we'll meet at 1:40, aunties, please pay attention to the time." Gao Xiaode was busy making tea for others. He agreed but didn't take it to heart. After all, for middle-aged aunties, if they can't take photos and post them on WeChat Moments when they go out, the fun of traveling is reduced by three quarters.
The scenery in the mountains is very beautiful, and everywhere looks colorful. The aunts strolled along the way for a while, and saw a young man passing by, so they asked him to help take a group photo. The other party was very enthusiastic, "clicking" more than a dozen photos in a row, and even commanding everyone to pose, but after taking the photos, he refused to leave, but came up to ask them where they were going to play.
"We'll go to Pudong Temple later." One of the aunts said bluntly, "Is it far from here?"
"Pudong Temple is quite far away, but the Pudong Temple Cultural Exhibition is nearby." The young man pointed, "It's that small temple. It's free and less than ten minutes' walk."
When they heard about the free exhibition and saw that it was still early, the aunts decided to go over to see what was going on. However, it took them nearly an hour to get there. When Henry Gu and Gao Xiaode came over breathlessly, the aunts had already bought a bunch of blessed jade bracelets and jadeite at the so-called "Pudong Temple Cultural Exhibition", totaling tens of thousands of yuan, and were arguing with the salesperson.
Henry Gu’s eyes went dark.
"Brother Gao!" He grabbed Gao Xiaode's arm, "Can you retreat?"
Gao Xiaode gasped in pain and pried open his fingers one by one, showing his true colors as a black-hearted tour guide: "Add another thousand!"
Henry Gu pushed the man to the counter: "Deal."
The so-called "staff" had already disappeared without a trace. Every tourist attraction has this kind of unconventional tricks. Gao Xiaode was too lazy to care and went straight into the manager's office. The merchant didn't want to offend this kind of local snake and old-timer, so he readily agreed to process the return. The aunts thanked Henry Gu and Gao Xiaode, and told them not to tell anyone about this matter, so as not to embarrass themselves in front of the sisters in the same group.
"I will never tell you." Henry Gu raised his hand to promise, "But you can't run around anymore. We have to hurry." Otherwise, if we delay this and that, we might not be able to get out of the mountain before dark.
The aunties readily agreed. The bus continued to drive up the mountain road. This section of the journey was a bit long and boring, so Lao Yan picked a soothing music so that everyone could take a nap.
Henry Gu was not sleepy at all. He looked at the scenery passing by outside the window, the clouds and flying birds, the green trees and red flowers. Every frame was a flowing poem and painting. If you cut it out and wear it on your body, it would be an entire season in the mountains.
So the corners of my mouth unconsciously curved up.
Cheng Guo struggled for a moment between morality and the welfare of her best friend, and finally chose the latter. She secretly took a photo of Henry Gu's absent-minded profile and posted it in the WeChat group, implementing a handsome guy sharing policy. A ray of sunlight just happened to pass through the clouds at this time, reflecting a warm golden velvet on his face, making the whole person full of vitality. The endless lushness flashed outside the window and fell into those clean eyes. It was a bright summer and an equally bright person.
A few seconds later, messages in the WeChat group kept flashing, and the sisters all expressed their strong desire to change jobs. What a good place Huandong is, where the job involves traveling and there is such a good-looking young man. Hurry up and hand over his social account!
"Ahem." Cheng Guo cleared his throat and asked tentatively, "Um, Henry Gu, how about we add each other on Weibo?"
"Huh?" Henry Gu turned his head, but before he could say anything, a thunder suddenly exploded in the sky.
Everyone in the car was startled, and the sky seemed to darken in an instant. Henry Gu asked Lao Yan: "How long will it take us?"
"The road condition will be good for about half an hour, but it's hard to say now." Seeing the big raindrops already crackling down, Old Yan reminded everyone to fasten their seat belts, hoping that the sky would clear up soon.
But this time, things didn't go as planned.
Looking at the heavy rain outside, Yang Yi cursed and felt that the whole day was not going well. In the morning, he went to Xinxin Department Store to scout the way, but the other boss spoke incoherently, speaking in an official tone like a play, pretending to be ignorant. In the afternoon, he wanted to go to Pudong Mountain to eat vegetarian food, but encountered heavy rain blocking the road. The weather forecast was too inaccurate, the weather station must have drawn it by lot.
"Call and ask about the members' situation and see how things are going over there." Blake Lu said, "Do you need more manpower? Arrange for them to go out as soon as possible."
"Okay." The assistant agreed, but before he could take out his cell phone, there was another loud thunder in the sky, this time with pink lightning. It was quite dreamy, but the problem was that after the dream, there was no signal in the entire mountain. No one knew which unlucky and important signal tower was hit.
Yang Yi: ...
After a while, the restaurant owner came hurriedly to inform that heavy rain had washed away the mountain road, and the relevant departments were already carrying out emergency repairs. It was estimated that it would take about eight hours to restore traffic.
Yang Yi reaffirmed his belief that the Xinxin Department Store really had no feng shui at all.
Fifty members were still in the mountains, so even if they could leave the mountains at this moment, they had to lead the members out together. Blake Lu made a prompt decision and asked Yang Yi to take a driver to Pudong Temple first to see if the members were still trapped there. He and the others drove directly to the Jinyang Hotel, which was the closest to Pudong Temple, to occupy at least 20 to 30 standard rooms first.
...
"Brother, brother, please slow down!" Gao Xiaode wiped the rain off his face on the mountain road, "I can't even open my eyes."
"No, you have to open your eyes." Henry Gu slapped a handkerchief on his face, "Where is the Jinyang Hotel?"
"Here we are, the green building in front is it." Gao Xiaode emphasized, "We agreed that I will help you get a room, and you can give me another 2,000."
Henry Gu was troubled by his problem of one thousand and two thousand, but this time the situation was special and the company should reimburse him, so he dragged the man and continued to run forward. The hotel security guard saw two people rushing over from a distance, and hurried to help open the door. Just as he was thinking of asking the waiter to send a towel, Gao Xiaode had already rushed past him and slapped his hand on the bar: "Sister, give brother twenty-seven standard rooms!"
"Brother Gao, please wait a moment. This customer is in front of you." The waiter was very familiar with him and handed him a pack of tissues. "Wipe it first. I'll be done soon."
Gao Xiaode glanced at the man next to him and said "hmm" in a sullen tone.
Blake Lu took out his wallet: "I'll book thirty standard rooms."
Before he finished speaking, Gao Xiaode "whoosh" went into the bar. This hotel only had 30 or 40 guest rooms, so there was no room for more. Without saying anything, he stretched out his arm, took the waiter and walked to the back. Blake Lu watched the two people leave, his face was indescribable.
Henry Gu, who witnessed the whole process, said that he felt really guilty.
Blake Lu then noticed that there was another person behind him. He looked at the wet chicken in front of him and asked unhappily: "Are you in the same group?"
Henry Gu has always been a man of good morals. He really didn't want to admit that he did something uncivilized like cutting in line, but considering that there were still fifty members squatting in Pudong Temple, he could only answer with silence in the end.
He slowly raised his hand and pointed to his ear.
Sorry, hearing impaired.
Blake Lu: ...
You continue to pretend.
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