While Gu Qingjiu’s mood suddenly improved significantly, she also felt awkward.
Gu Qingmo probably hadn’t booked the room yet, so Gu Qingjiu hurriedly called him.
“Brother, no need for that now…”
Gu Qingmo let out a long sigh on the other end of the line. “Qingjiu, you’ve degenerated.”
Gu Qingjiu was speechless.
She said with a flushed face, “Brother, don’t spout nonsense. It’s nothing, okay?”
“Hmph, in any case, I wash my hands off of you. Let’s talk in a few days when we head home. Then are you still coming over tonight? We must have a meal together now that you’re on break.”
“How about tomorrow?”
It would be late at night by the time she reached the hotel, so Gu Qingjiu didn’t wish to head over today.
“Alright, tomorrow it is. In any case, our specialization is having a graduation gathering tonight, so it’s inconvenient for me to bring you along, anyway.”
Gu Qingjiu was speechless.
Gu Qingmo speedily hung up afterward.
She was supposed to go to her brother’s school with Qi Xiaoran, but now that she received the Chief Instructor’s message, a change of plans was in order. Hence, she said to Qi Xiaoran, “Xiaoran, I need to go somewhere else. I’ll be finding my older brother only tomorrow. I’ll have to get off halfway. Sorry about that.”
“It’s okay.”
Qi Xiaoran shook her head and didn’t ask her any questions. “I can just head there myself.”
But recalling what her older brother just said, after some hesitation Gu Qingjiu asked, “Just now, my older brother said they’ll be having a graduation gathering tonight. Are you going to find him tonight?”
Qi Xiaoran paused for a moment, hesitation flickering across her eyes before she shook her head and said, “I’ll go over first and see how things go. My older brother will make arrangements.”
“I suppose.”
After they finished discussing, Gu Qingjiu got off halfway, then flagged down a cab and headed to the hotel.
Since she had already been here twice, she more or less knew the hotel’s bellboy by now.
Those who came here were usually bigshots. Even if it was an unfamiliar face, these hotel staff, who were adept at examining a person’s language and observing his countenance, could immediately distinguish if it was a guest who had been here before. Moreover, that person was Gu Qingjiu.
Even if Gu Qingjiu was only clad in a two to three hundred yuan shirt and denim shorts, the bellboy said to her respectfully, “Miss Gu, let me help you.”
With that, he reached out to help her carry the luggage in her hands.
“No, no, no, it’s okay. Thank you, but I can bring it up myself.”
Gu Qingjiu didn’t need help with such a small matter.
“Sure, Miss Gu, the room card is at the front counter. You may retrieve it from there.”
The room cards to presidential suites were specially prepared, and there was also a dedicated elevator up. Unless it was a guest of the presidential suite or personally brought up there by a hotel’s senior management staff, ordinary people weren’t allowed to go up there.
Even when a management staff brought a cleaner up to tidy up the place, they had to notify the guest beforehand.
That is if the suite was occupied at the time.
You can imagine the security and stringency.
He Niancheng would be around in the past, but this time, He Niancheng was busy and would only be back later, so Gu Qingjiu had to retrieve the room card and go up there herself.
Although she didn’t prove her identity, the front desk staff immediately revealed a perfect smile at the sight of her and handed her a gold-colored room card. “Miss Gu, this is the room card.”
Gu Qingjiu took it from her and thanked her politely.
“You’re welcome, Miss Gu. Do you need the kitchen to prepare a meal for you now?”
Seeing Gu Qingjiu enter the hotel with her luggage, the attentive front desk staff guessed that she hadn’t yet eaten.
At the mention of this, Gu Qingjiu recalled that she hadn’t eaten, so she nodded and said, “Okay, just prepare for me porridge and other light-flavored foods like that.”
“Okay, Miss Gu, we’ll deliver the food to you later.”