The hotel lobby was very quiet.
Just as Henry Gu was thinking quickly whether he should take two steps back to avoid being beaten by the man in front of him, Gao Xiaode had already rushed out from behind the bar and put his arm around his shoulders: "It's done, you stay here, I'll go and get some members with Lao Yan."
"Are there any other hotels nearby?" Henry Gu asked.
"There are none in the hotel, but there are still some in the farmhouses." Gao Xiaode put on his raincoat, "But you should stop trying to help others at this time, and go and handle the formalities."
Henry Gu hesitated for a moment before Gao Xiaode disappeared in the wind and rain.
The sky was still filled with lightning and thunder.
Henry Gu handed his ID card to the girl at the front desk. Since the previous guest didn't seem to be leaving, they were both a little nervous, as if they were conducting some kind of shameful underground transaction. The air seemed to be glued together, and the atmosphere was quiet and weird. In this weird silence, someone patted his shoulder and said in a rough voice: "Hey! You dropped your things."
Henry Gu was startled, and before he could turn around, a badge was thrown onto the bar. It was his work ID at Huandong, and it must have fallen out of his trouser pocket just now.
"Thank you---" Before he could finish his words, the other party had already returned to the rest area with two cups of tea. It seemed that he was the driver.
...
"What's going on?" Blake Lu asked.
The driver whispered something in his ear.
Blake Lu was delighted when he heard this, and stopped drinking tea. He walked over and asked, "How many rooms are left now? We want all of them."
"Four rooms." The girl at the front desk answered softly. Fearing that the other party might cause trouble, she quickly added, "This guest is already helping you find a solution."
"Really?" Blake Lu looked at Henry Gu.
"Yes." Henry Gu gritted his teeth and temporarily gave up his hearing-impaired persona. He just asked the front desk for a map and asked her to mark out several farmhouses nearby, which should be able to accommodate fifty or sixty people if they squeezed together.
"Zhang Daming's butchery?" Blake Lu looked at the map.
Henry Gu said earnestly: "Why don't you be picky at this time?" The name is just not nice, but the bed is still there.
"Then why don't you go and live there?" Blake Lu asked.
The topic returned to the starting point. Henry Gu thought about it and felt that there was only one answer, that is, his moral character was low and he was not as elegant and noble as the other party. But this reason did not sound guilty at all, but rather like a ruffian's provocation, so he had to continue to use silence instead of answering, letting the apology roll alone in his mind.
"Anyway," he said, gesturing at the map and taking a silent step back, "if you need a guide, I can get you one."
Blake Lu frowned: "Why are you running?"
"I didn't run away," Henry Gu continued to move out: "I'm going to smoke a cigarette outside the door."
There was still half a pack of Gao Xiaode's Zhonghua cigarettes in his trouser pocket. Henry Gu pretended to put one in his mouth and squatted under the eaves to enjoy the breeze. Although the cold rain was hitting his face, it was better than staying in the lobby and accepting the condemnation of his conscience.
Looking at Henry Gu huddled together in a ball due to the cold outside the window, Blake Lu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Just when he was about to ask the driver to call him back, the Huandong tourist bus had already entered the compound.
Gao Xiaode was the first to jump out of the car and called the security guard to help. Yang Yi stood at the door of the car with an umbrella, helping the members down one by one. Henry Gu was a little surprised: "Boss Yang, why are you here?"
"Let's talk later." Yang Yi asked, "Are all the rooms ready?"
"It's already been prepared, you can move in directly. We've also discussed the laundry room and kitchen." Henry Gu replied, "No problem."
"Not bad." Yang Yi praised briefly, "Then don't stand here stupidly, go and check in with the members first. We are all starving, ask the kitchen to prepare the meal as soon as possible."
"Okay." Henry Gu picked up a little girl from the car and ran back to the lobby through the mud. When he entered the door, he almost thought he was hallucinating. Under the warm yellow light, he saw Blake Lu shaking hands with everyone one by one, apologizing and asking the waiter to bring hot towels and jasmine tea. The atmosphere was very harmonious.
Henry Gu: ...
Front desk girl: ...
"It seems like you really don't know Mr. Lu?" The driver came over and said with a smile, "Okay, we don't have enough waiters here, go to the kitchen and urge them."
Mr. Lu?
Henry Gu said with a weak breath: "Yeah."
...
---Help: On the third day of my internship, I pretended to be disabled, cut in line, snatched things, and smoked in front of the president. Can I still be rescued?
---Thanks for the invitation. These days, anyone can find a job.
---This set of cunning moves is really a show, brother, you are awesome.
---Of course there is no hope, just bury it.
...
At ten o'clock in the evening, the heavy rain finally stopped and communications were basically restored. Henry Gu stood on the balcony of the hotel and called home to report his safety.
"Shall I go get some instant noodles?" Gao Xiaode asked him in the room, "You didn't eat much tonight."
"No appetite." Henry Gu threw his phone aside and lay on the bed weakly, "I'm tired."
Gao Xiaode also thought this was amazing. When he accepted the order, the travel agency only said that the guest was face-blind, so the tour guide would need to be more careful along the way. However, he never expected that he would be so blind.
After a while, he couldn't resist the thirst for new knowledge and asked carefully: "So when your disease strikes, you can't recognize your leaders?"
Henry Gu pulled the quilt over his head and refused to talk to him anymore.
Gao Xiaode's eyes were full of sympathy.
How can you get this disease at such a young age? It's a sin.
At noon the next day, everyone finally left the mountain. The members were arranged to go back to the hotel to rest, and Henry Gu also had a half-day holiday, but he just took a shower at home and returned to the company, intending to write a report on what happened in the mountain and see if he could apply for Gao Xiaode's labor fee. Who knew that before he had typed two lines, Yang Yi came to the door in person and arrested him in the president's office.
Sitting on the large sofa, Henry Gu felt a little uneasy.
Blake Lu flipped through the resume in front of him. Although it was only a thin page, it was quite clean and beautiful - he graduated from D University, was bilingual in English and French, had excellent grades, and had won scholarships for four consecutive years.
"Why do you want to come to Huandong to do marketing?" Blake Lu asked him.
"I like the retail industry very much." Henry Gu said, "and Huandong's treatment is good and there are many opportunities. I think the future development will be better." He had prepared this official statement many times before the interview. If he talked more deeply, he could also make up a lot of future trends in commercial real estate, which were both standard and ambitious, and would please his boss. However, Blake Lu did not ask any more questions, but changed the subject: "What happened to the tour guide yesterday? I just asked Li Yun, and she did not approve the fee for you."
"I... invited them myself." Henry Gu hesitated for a moment. "First, I am not familiar with the roads in the mountains and I am afraid of accidents. Second, Pudong Mountain is a cultural landscape. It would be much more interesting to have a tour guide to explain along the way."
"So you plan to spend the money yourself?" Yang Yi joked, "The company really made a profit by hiring you. You haven't even received your first month's internship salary yet, but you've already paid several thousand yuan... This must be over a thousand, right?"
"Yeah." Henry Gu was a little embarrassed.
"Write a report on the whole thing first and give it to me before leaving get off work, listing all the expenses." Blake Lu said, "Go ahead."
"Okay." Henry Gu felt relieved. He learned his lesson this time. He praised Gao Xiaode implicitly but enthusiastically in his report, from returning shady goods to bargaining for local specialties along the way, fully expressing the central idea that "the tour guide is worth the money, the members are very satisfied, and we are not losing out by hiring him." He sent it to the president's office before leaving get off work.
Blake Lu took a quick look and nodded: "The report is well written. It just reminds members not to be deceived by unscrupulous vendors. This is what you should do."
Henry Gu said: "Yeah."
Henry Gu added consciously: "I'm sorry, Mr. Lu, I will pay more attention next time."
"One more thing." Blake Lu returned the report to him, "It's not that you can't do bad things, but when you do bad things, don't let others pick up your work ID."
Henry Gu: ...
"The company will pay for the tour guide's expenses. Your idea is good, but when you have new ideas in the future, you should learn to discuss it with the department manager first." Blake Lu glanced at the time and asked, "Are you free tonight?"
Henry Gu couldn't keep up with his conversation rhythm: "Ah?"
"Go meet someone with me." Blake Lu took the coat from the side, "Let's go, it's next door, the Third City Hospital."
"Are we going to visit a patient?" Henry Gu followed him.
"What else?" Blake Lu pressed the elevator button and teased, "Check your hearing?"
Henry Gu shut up silently.
He decided to unilaterally forget everything that happened in Jinyang Hotel.
The patient who was staying in the Third Municipal Hospital was named Ge Fenghua, the second in command of the marketing department and Blake Lu's capable subordinate. However, his current condition looked a little bad, with a herniated lumbar disc, and he was crying while receiving physical therapy.
"This is the new intern in the marketing department." Blake Lu introduced, "His name is Henry Gu."
Ge Fenghua was dying, his voice trembling: "Mr. Lu, you don't need to interview me here, right?" Where is human nature?
"You don't need to interview him, he's already joined the company." Blake Lu said, "I'm here to tell you that the autumn and winter fashion show in October will be given to him."
Ge Fenghua was stunned when he heard this, and Henry Gu was also quite surprised: "Autumn and winter fashion show?"
"Have you ever had relevant experience before?" Ge Fenghua moved forward with difficulty.
Henry Gu shook his head: "No."
Ge Fenghua was choked. This answer was too straightforward. Why don’t you think about it again?
"You only have two months." Blake Lu stood beside the bed, his whole body shrouded in a dark cloud. "Either make your unfortunate intervertebral disc straighten quickly, or teach him as soon as possible. Anyway, don't let me see your subordinates picking up plans from the garbage dump again!"
Ge Fenghua's expression was stern: "Yes! Mr. Lu!"
Blake Lu slowed down his tone and asked Henry Gu, "Do you have money to take a taxi home?"
"Yes." Henry Gu nodded quickly.
"Don't be too late, be careful on the road." Blake Lu patted his shoulder, "Do a good job."
Henry Gu agreed in a daze, and until the other party left, he still couldn't figure out what the work content of this "Autumn and Winter Fashion Show" was.
Ge Fenghua propped up his arms and exerted force, then sat up with a distorted and ferocious expression: "Ah!"
Henry Gu was terrified and quickly supported him: "Shall I go find a nurse?"
"Goodbye, this is an old problem of mine." Ge Fenghua waved his hand, "Your name is Henry Gu, right? I'm the deputy manager of the marketing department, you can just call me Brother Feng from now on."
"Yeah." Henry Gu helped him put the cushion in place.
"No work experience at all?" Ge Fenghua asked again.
Henry Gu said: "This is my first job after graduation."
Ge Fenghua sighed: "You will be busy then, but this is also a rare opportunity. Mr. Lu should think highly of you, so just work hard for the next two months."
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