HBWnovel Chapter 18, 4-Season Hotel 1
Chapter 18, 4-Season Hotel 1
Jiang Ping opened her eyes and found herself brushing her teeth.
It was 7 a.m., and she quickly organized the memories of this body.
The original owner's name was Bai Zhaoping. He was 32 years old, widowed and childless. He resigned before the new year and returned to Nan'an City to take over his family's small hotel.
The inn, named Four Seasons Inn, was located in the old town of Nan'an City. After Bai Zhaoping returned, the inn's parents felt relieved and, with the original owner's support, packed their things and went on a nationwide trip.
Nan'an City is a tourist city, and even the old town area attracts many tourists, so there's absolutely no need to worry about business.
After reviewing all of this, she withdrew her consciousness, changed her clothes, went out, crossed the street, bought a bowl of beef noodles, and ate to soothe her stomach.
As for the hotel, she put her phone number and QR code on the bar, so she wasn't worried about guests looking for her.
After taking over the Four Seasons Hotel, Bai Zhaoping replaced the 15 guest rooms with combination locks and primarily communicated with guests via mobile phone.
This street has everything you could want: convenience stores, pubs, breakfast shops, restaurants, barbecue stalls, laundromats, cafes, a police station, and a subway station. Further afield, there are also delivery services, pedestrian streets, and shopping malls, so guests rarely need to contact the owners unless there are special circumstances.
Aunt Li, who came to do the cleaning, is a distant relative of Bai's father. She came to the city to help her daughter take care of her child. After the child was old enough to go to school, she wanted to find something to do.
The hotel is usually not fully booked. Aunt Li receives a fixed salary for staying at the hotel, along with a meal allowance. When the hotel is fully booked on holidays or when Aunt Li is on vacation, Bai Zhaoping contacts acquaintances in the neighborhood who do odd jobs to help out.
The store has a fixed supplier for disposable items, a professional cleaning company to collect the linens, and two vending machines.
The hotel has been in business for twenty years now. Bai Zhaoping's parents put a lot of effort into the interior facilities. The guest rooms had already been renovated before she took over, and the online reviews were not bad.
After running the hotel alone for a while, the original owner said that this kind of life was not bad. Then, for no reason, he was stabbed by a mentally ill man and died from his injuries before the ambulance arrived.
Upon receiving the news, they rushed home, only to find the original owner's cold corpse.
Because the original owner smashed the mentally ill person's head with an ashtray, the mentally ill person's family used this as an excuse to keep causing trouble at the store, putting up banners, setting up loudspeakers, and distorting the truth, claiming that their precious son had been damaged and demanding that the owner's parents pay for his medical expenses.
Heartbroken at the loss of their daughter and unable to bring the perpetrators to justice, the two honest men, Mr. and Mrs. Bai, were driven to the brink of collapse by the Shenjin gang. One day, they were suddenly invited into the shop and chose to perish together with them.
This incident eventually made it into the social news, sparking discussions among many netizens. But then, nothing more happened, and the story just faded away.
The original owner's wish was to take revenge on the mentally ill family, run the hotel well, and let his parents enjoy their old age in peace.
There's still a month until the mentally ill Li Qiang appears. Bai Zhaoping has the system retrieve his information and discovers that his parents are arranging a marriage for him so that the elderly couple can enjoy their son's happiness.
Li Qiang confessed his feelings to a female classmate in high school, but was rejected. After that, he became erratic and even mistook a long-haired male school doctor who was leaving work for his female classmate after evening self-study. He tried to do something to her but was beaten up instead.
Because the impact was so egregious, and the school doctor's family had some connections, Li Qiang was expelled. Li's parents frequently harassed female classmates who rejected him, causing them endless annoyance, eventually leading them to transfer schools.
Since being expelled from school, Li Qiang hasn't gone back. He's found work, but he keeps getting into trouble. His parents can't afford to pay compensation anymore, so they have to keep him at home. Now he's hoping to find a woman from a good family so she can give him a son to carry on the family line.
Instead of disgusting Bai Zhaoping and Tongzi, the system directly assigned them bad luck charms.
For the rest of the day, she lounged at the bar watching TV, checking guests in and out, helping with luggage, and sending room codes and check-in instructions via WeChat. Each guest also received a simple paper map of the area around the hotel.
I occasionally need restaurant recommendations, but there are plenty of good restaurants on several streets around the hotel, so the choice depends entirely on personal taste.
At noon, Bai Zhaoping ordered a pot of spicy blood curd for himself. He didn't need to order delivery; he just had to call out from the door. It was so delicious, especially when it was fresh out of the pot. For dinner, he switched to seafood congee from another restaurant, planning to save room for a late-night snack.
When Mr. and Mrs. Bai were young, the kitchen would serve breakfast, but that was a long time ago.
We start taking stock of the accounts and inventory at 11 p.m., and make sure all the guests have checked in. Then we go out to buy some late-night snacks.
He bought a big watermelon and a large bag of barbecue and packed them up to take back to the store. He then turned on the system to broadcast the news. By now, Li Qiang, who suffers from mental illness, and his parents have already died halfway.
First, Li Qiang was acting strangely at home, yelling and cursing at the air until he bit his own tongue. His mother was heartbroken and told him to open his mouth to check. But her eldest son ripped open his pocket, knocking him unconscious and causing him to bleed profusely from his head.
As Li Qiang turned around, he stepped on the kitchen knife that his mother had dropped. He slipped and fell forward, his genitals hitting a dumbbell in the house, which seemed to break.
That's really bad; he's really gone mad. He just keeps yelling wildly at home and doesn't even think to call an ambulance.
The neighbors all knew that there was a mentally ill person in his family, so no one dared to go to his house to see what was wrong. They just assumed that it was the same as before, and that he would be fine after his outburst.
When Li's father returned home injured after a bad day outside, he found the house still cold and empty, with blood splattered on the walls. His son had killed his own mother with a kitchen knife.
When Li's father tried to escape, he tripped and fell, and the noise attracted Li Qiang, who immediately stabbed his own father several times and pinned him down while hacking at him.
He was still muttering to himself, "It's all your fault, it's all your fault, it's all your fault..."
The screams of Li's father echoed in the apartment building. By then, some neighbors had sensed something was wrong and called the police.
The police station was quite nearby. After the police arrived and subdued Li, everyone gradually came out to see what was going on, only to find that the elderly couple from the Li family were gone.
The scene at their house was so bloody that it was unbearable to recall. Fortunately, everyone was too scared to go and watch the spectacle.
During this time, Bai Zhaoping also asked the system to arrange a puppet talisman for Li Qiang to prevent him from accidentally hurting others when he went out. Unexpectedly, the matter was resolved so quickly.
It looks like their family will be in the news soon.
This time, no one else was implicated, which is good. This family should go to hell together in a loving and harmonious way.
With the system continuously monitoring Li Qiang's situation, Bai Zhaoping could go do other things.
They exchanged greetings with the original owner's parents, talked about how business was going that day, and then asked a few questions about their safety while traveling.
Then I asked about their plans for tomorrow, asked the system to keep an eye on them, and then said goodnight.
Fortunately, the original owner of this body has always been quite independent. She lived in a dormitory during high school, went to university in another province, and worked and got married in another city. Now that her parents are on a long-term trip, she doesn't have to worry about being exposed in front of her relatives.