Chapter 48
Liu Yan returned to the hall and quickly put this little episode behind her.
She couldn't be more satisfied with her life now. Every day when she wakes up to face a new day, her heart is full and happy. She is also full of enthusiasm when she works and no longer feels the tiredness of coping with life as in the past.
The customers who consume here, more or less, have a feeling of awe or gratitude towards the owner Shu Mo, and they also have a good attitude towards the hot spring staff.
There are also some generous guests like Jiang Qing who would give her some tips after ordering room service. The amount is not large, but this affirmation and kindness can keep Liu Yan in a good mood for the whole day.
The three working meals for employees and the meals open to customers are all the same, needless to say the food quality is excellent. What Liu Yan looks forward to most every day now is to see what new dishes will be served today. As long as she thinks of this, she is full of energy when working. After get off work, they can also use the hotel's hot spring bath and enjoy the large bath that is empty after the hotel closes.
I returned to the room, poured a cup of hot water and placed it on the bedside before going to bed. I chatted with my daughter in the light of the lamp. When I felt sleepy, I crawled into the warm bed and gradually fell asleep.
After waking up, all the fatigue is gone and it is another day full of expectations.
This kind of life was something Liu Yan could not even imagine in her dreams in the past.
For Shu Mo, choosing these mother and daughter who lead a miserable life from hundreds of resumes might be just a piece of cake. But for Liu Yan and Liu Xueruo, it was enough to completely overturn their fate.
Liu Yan was extremely grateful and could only give back in her daily work. Her service attitude also won praise from many customers, which was a pleasant surprise for Shu Mo.
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Inside the hotel, all employees were on high alert.
Knowing that with the arrival of the Arctic Fox bus, the hot spring will usher in a peak in passenger flow, Shu Mo made a clear division of labor in advance. Gu Xiao is responsible for checking in and handling hot spring formalities, Mo Bai is responsible for the mobile stall and delivering meals to the foot bath, and Liu Yan is responsible for explaining the facilities in the hot spring to some first-time customers.
Even Yao Yonghui, who had just got off the bus, was temporarily transferred over to be responsible for selling three kinds of food at the simple stall.
The beverage area was temporarily closed during meal times, but Liu Xueruo still stayed in the restaurant.
Shu Mo couldn't lie down either. Her job was to guide the guests who had already checked in to their rooms.
Even though the arrangements had been made, when this group of guests came in, everyone was so busy that they wished they had eight hands.
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The cold electronic voice reported mercilessly.
After a while, Shu Mo felt that the deposit notification was too annoying and closed it completely.
Fortunately, the guests showed plenty of patience and when they found the front desk was too busy, they didn’t rush us and just tried to find some fun on their own. Everything in the hotel was both new and nostalgic to them, and after discussing it for a while, the waiting time passed quickly.
"Hello, hotel check-in has been completed. The room number is 503. Here is your key, please keep it safe. If you encounter any problems during your stay, just use the service panel to call the front desk and we will send someone to solve it."
Gu Xiao said this in a gentle tone and handed over the keys with both hands.
Xie Qiong took it excitedly and thanked him twice, which earned her a bigger smile.
The family of four took the key and left the counter. Mother Xie whispered, "The service attitude of the staff here is really good. They are so busy and yet they are still so patient in introducing things to us."
The round-faced girl is also very cute. When she speaks, there is a smile in the corners of her eyes and eyebrows, which makes people feel happy.
"The boss must have reminded me of this on purpose," said Xie's father.
He thought for a moment and said, "But if I could work here, I would be able to smile every day without any reminders."
Thank you mother: “…”
Although it sounds a bit pathetic, it is true.
Xie Qiong thought to herself that, in fact, with Nuannuan Hot Spring's monopoly position in the extremely cold apocalypse, no matter what kind of service it provides, it will not affect its ability to make money, but the boss just took a serious business attitude, with reasonable pricing and thoughtful service.
A store like this deserves to be so popular.
At least as a customer, she was willing to give money to the boss.
Xie Qiong clutched the key and held her grandmother's arm. "Grandma, Mom and Dad, let's go and check the room first."
"Hello, I'll take you to your room."
Hearing someone talking, the four of them turned around. The girl with long chestnut hair was standing beside them, smiling softly, "The fifth floor is higher, the elderly can take the elevator over here."
"Oh, thank you for your help." Xie's mother responded, "We don't know the way very well."
"It's okay." Shu Mo walked to the elevator and pressed the door open button for the four people.
During peak hours, elevators are given priority to residents on high floors and guests with limited mobility. However, even at normal times, not many players use the elevator. However, the building is five stories high, so if they don't have the time to wait for the elevator, they would have already reached the destination.
Besides Liu Xueruo, the person who uses the elevator the most in daily life is Shu Mo.
…She was really too lazy to climb.
This elevator was originally indoors. After the business hours closed yesterday, Shu Mo took out his gloves and moved it outdoors, close to the outer wall of the hotel, so it was automatically transformed into a sightseeing elevator by the system. There is a layer of surrounding curved glass on the outside, and when you reach the highest floor, the view outside is quite nice.
Shu Mo was quite satisfied that he could occasionally take advantage of the system.
Granny Xie had been praising the elevator since she entered the lobby. She thought everything was good. When she entered the elevator, she couldn't stop talking. "This elevator is so well built. It's so convenient to go up and down the stairs these past two days."
"Yes, it doesn't look cheap. It must have been specially built with guests with limited mobility in mind." Mother Xie was somewhat touched, and her favorability towards the hot spring rose to a new level.
If there are elderly people at home, we will pay more attention to these details. How can we not be moved that the hotel built such an obviously expensive elevator even though it knew that the elderly and disabled guests only accounted for a small part of the total guests.
Mother Xie's emotion is a result of contrast.
After the doomsday game came, those vulnerable groups seemed to disappear in the public eye. Everything in the doomsday, including resource allocation and facility construction, gives top priority to the young and middle-aged workforce. In the eyes of town managers and operators, marginal groups that cannot create value are like transparent people.
In order to survive, you can give up anything at any time.
Even at a time when the survival crisis has been basically resolved, no one would think of wasting more resources for their convenience.
But the owner of this hot spring is obviously not that kind of person.
Mother Xie is a very emotional person. She thought too much and her eyes became moist. She pressed the corner of her eyes and immediately praised the hotel from the perspective of humanistic care.
Finally, I came to the conclusion that when I return to town, I will promote Nuannuan Hot Spring to people around me to support the boss's good deeds.
Especially for those who have elderly people at home who usually dare not even go out, now they can even take a bus to the advanced leveling area for a stroll.
This is all thanks to the hot springs!
Finally, Mother Xie turned to Shu Mo passionately, seeking approval: "You said so, right?"
Shu Mo, who was standing aside: "..."
Not to mention, it’s quite embarrassing to hear others praise you in person.
Under the expectant gaze of Xie's mother, she managed to utter, "Thank you, thank you."
Mother Xie was stunned for a moment, thinking that this employee had a strong sense of collective honor. She felt proud when he praised the hot spring facilities, so she smiled and nodded.
Granny Xie looked at this pretty-looking girl and felt quite fond of her. She asked softly, "Are you working here? This is a good job. Little girl, you should work hard and try to keep doing it." She encouraged.
"Well, I will try my best." Shu Mo suppressed his laughter, "After all, the employees still rely on me to pay their salaries."
Xie family: "..."
Xie family: “?”
After sighing for so long, it turns out that you are the boss?
"The boss is so young." Father Xie was shocked. He touched his belly and his expression turned into admiration. "Young people are really formidable."
Xie Qiong had not been able to find an opportunity to join in the conversation from the beginning until now. At this moment, she covered her face, feeling that it was really too much to watch.
During the conversation, they had already exited the elevator and were led by Shu Mo to the door of the room, who opened the door with the key. "This is the most luxurious room type in our hotel. If you are not satisfied with anything, you can contact our front desk at any time."
She said, moving away and motioning for them to go in and check their rooms.
The Chinese-style family suite is dominated by the calm and majestic mahogany color, with tall wooden beams and delicate and exquisite carvings on the furniture. The overall decoration is full of classical Chinese aesthetics. There was incense lit on the coffee table, and the faint scent of sandalwood lingered in the room, making people feel peaceful and relaxed the moment they walked in.
Compared with the simple and modern decoration style of the other guest rooms in the hotel, this Chinese-style room just caters to the preferences of older guests.
Granny Xie and Xie Qiong's parents looked around the room, their eyes full of admiration, praising it endlessly, "The style of this room is really grand and beautiful."
"I like it too. Look at the carvings. They are so delicate."
After living here for three days, they could already imagine how happy they would be.
"It's beautiful." Grandma Xie touched the cool and smooth surface of the hardwood armchair with care. "It's exactly the same as the one we had in our old home. I haven't seen this kind of furniture in years."
The furniture sold in the game store is only of the most basic shapes and there are not that many choices. Even if there are, players will not waste extra points on those meaningless decorations.
In an age when survival is difficult, there is almost no room for personal aesthetics. However, these regrets were made up in Nuannuan Hot Spring.
Granny Xie finally gave in and said from the bottom of her heart: "Xiao Qiong, this money is really worth it."
Xie Qiong felt relieved when she heard that. She then curved her eyes and smiled broadly, "As long as you like it, Grandma."
If the old lady kept thinking about the money she spent, she might not be able to enjoy this trip. Now, after hearing what her grandmother said, Xie Qiong finally put her worries aside.
In addition to the small space where the hot spring is located, this suite also has an additional terrace surrounded by a transparent fence at chest height for an adult, offering an unobstructed view of the bamboo forest, snowfields below, and mountains in the distance.
There is a coffee table and four rattan chairs on the terrace, which is just enough for a family of four to sit here leisurely and chat and enjoy the scenery.
After Xie Qiong discovered this terrace, her eyes lit up and she immediately thought of its use. "We can pack food from the restaurant and bring it back to the room, so we don't have to squeeze with others."
"By the way, I remember the restaurant also has barley tea..."
She was halfway through her speech when she noticed that Shu Mo seemed ready to speak, so she stopped and said, "Boss, do you have any better suggestions?"
Xie Qiong trusts Shu Mo 100%. As long as it is provided by Nuannuan Hot Spring, there will be nothing unsatisfactory.
Products from hot springs must be top quality.
"It just suddenly occurred to me that you may not know this when you return to town today, but we have just added tea drinks to our beverage section. Although it is just the most common jasmine tea, it should be a special experience to drink tea and chat in this room." Shu Mo smiled and said, "If you need, I will bring you a pot this afternoon."
"Now in addition to milk tea and coffee, there is also scented tea?" Xie Qiong said in surprise, "Boss, you are so fast in updating new products!"
Shu Mo chuckled.
After Xie Qiong finished sighing, she came to her senses and said hurriedly, "No need to bother you. We can just bring it up when we go downstairs to eat."
"Okay, I won't bother you anymore."
Shu Mo nodded, closed the door gently and left, leaving the Xie family members to continue looking at their room for the next three days with joy.
They didn’t expect the hot spring to be so good. They just arrived and they are reluctant to leave. What should they do?
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For guests like Xie Qiong's family who are staying in a hotel for the first time and are very excited because they have finally managed to grab a room, the first thing they do upon arrival is to check in. However, another group of experienced people like Fu Yiming ran straight to the restaurant and grabbed a seat as soon as they got off the car.
While Jiang Qing was greeting Liu Yan, Fu Yiming had already rushed to the second floor and found the largest round table and occupied it.
So when Jiang Qing took Xu Ruixi and the others to the second floor, they immediately saw Fu Yiming standing in the crowd with his head raised and looking around.
My butt was still glued to the chair, afraid that if I left for a moment, this good seat would be taken away by someone else.
"Quick, here."
Noticing Jiang Qing coming late, he waved and waited for everyone to sit down before asking, "Where did you go just now? Why didn't you come up with us?"
"I met Sister Liu and said hello." Jiang Qing was helpless.
Xu Ruixi looked at his friend's expression and burst out laughing, "You didn't even know that your wife and child were missing?"
Fu Yiming touched his nose awkwardly and defended himself, "You don't know, it's hard to get a seat in the restaurant. There are only a few big round tables, and many people come in groups. There's no room in other seats, so they all stare at this table. Every time it's meal time, it's a bloody storm."
"Business is so booming here." Xu Ruixi smacked his lips.
But looking around, there are indeed more and more people. It's just past twelve o'clock, and lunch time lasts for two hours. More people will come later.
The restaurant was bustling with noise. Even in the densely populated town of Guangming, it was rare to find such a lively place.
Momo and Xiaoyi next to them pricked up their ears and listened to Fu Yiming's speech with great interest.
I never thought the world outside is so exciting, even eating is a battle!
Momo's big black eyes were bright and full of excitement.
She can finally go out on an adventure!
God knows how much she envies her mother and Aunt Jiang, who can fight monsters in the wild every day to protect humans. Momo's dream is to become a combat player as handsome as them.
She wants to be like the protagonist in the story, make friends, win over subordinates, and embark on a journey.
And today is the day when the protagonist Momo officially takes the first step.
Thinking of this, Momo secretly bent down and looked at her hands hidden under the table.
When I rubbed my fingers lightly, a small milky white flame appeared at the fingertips and burned.
"Why can you create fire?" a weak voice sounded.
Momo was startled and looked up, seeing a little girl about her age staring at the white light emitted by the flame, curiosity in her eyes. But when she looked up at Momo, her expression became a little timid again.
"This is a light-based spell skill, Holy Fire, but it's only level one." Momo explained patiently, "It just looks like a flame, but it's not actually hot. If other people touch it, they'll be in a state called burning, causing them to lose blood continuously - just like -1-1-1 keeps popping up on their heads."
Of course, only a little blood is lost at a time because Momo's basic spell damage is too low.
"That's amazing!" The little girl was full of envy, "How did you know this?"
"I went out of town with my mom to fight monsters before." Momo said proudly.
Not long ago, Momo officially became a Lv.2 player, so she learned the skill [Holy Fire] as soon as possible.
In "Apocalypse of Frost", regardless of occupation, everyone's initial level after becoming a player is Lv.1. At this stage, everyone has the same skills, which are only [Slash] and [Block]. Only after reaching Lv.2 can you learn the exclusive skills of this profession for the first time.
But upgrading is not that simple. Unlike some online games in the past, as long as you form a team, you can share the experience equally and you can let the masters help you level up. According to the setting of "Arctic Cold End", players in the team can only gain experience after the damage they contribute reaches a certain percentage of the total damage, which increases the requirements for combat skills.
Therefore, players like Jiang Qing, even if they have the ability, dare not take their children out of the city to level up too early.
Haohao, Xiaoyi and the others are too young. If they are not careful, they might get hurt, or even suffer psychological trauma, making them unable to face monsters again, which would be counterproductive.
Xu Ruixi also had such concerns at the beginning, but Momo kept pestering her and she had no choice. In addition, she found that her daughter seemed to be influenced by her and was not so afraid of monsters. So Xu Ruixi agreed to take Momo to the primary leveling area next to the town.
After finding an extremely weak slime monster, Xu Ruixi carefully took out a novice dagger and pressed the slime to the ground until he was sure that it could not move at all. Then he called on Momo to use chopping and defeated the monster.
After defeating three slimes with great effort, Momo finally upgraded to Lv.2 and learned the professional skills she had always dreamed of.
This upgrade method is good, but it's a bit useless.
...She whispered this experience to the little girl, and seeing that the little girl was listening attentively, Momo felt a little proud. But she immediately remembered something and warned, "Don't tell anyone else. Mom said that if grandpa finds out, we'll both be scolded."
"Okay." The girl nodded obediently, "I definitely won't tell you."
The two shared a secret, and their relationship immediately became much closer. Momo held her new partner's hand and asked, "What's your name?"
"My name is Qingqing, and I came here with my father."
"My name is Momo! That's my mother."
The two little girls chatted with each other.
Before in the town, players of different levels, along with their families, had fixed activity areas. Now that they are at the hot spring, they have the opportunity to make new friends.
It was not until the parents had taken their meals back that Xu Ruixi noticed that his daughter was not sitting in her seat.
She bent down to follow the sound and found Momo squatting with another little girl furtively. The two of them seemed to be very close. "Momo, who are you talking to? - Is your friend here in the hot spring too?"
"No, she is someone I just met..."
“Qingqing!”
Momo was interrupted halfway through her words. Chen Hui finally found his daughter running around and rushed over in a panic. He was stunned when he saw Fu Yiming and Jiang Qing.
After greeting each other, they found out that the suites booked by the two families were actually next to each other.
"Then Haohao can play with Qingqing, right?" Momo pursed her lips when she heard that. She felt reluctant to leave after dinner.
Jiang Qing didn't expect the two little girls to become friends so quickly. She thought for a moment and looked at Xu Ruixi and Xiaoyi's parents, "How about letting Momo and Xiaoyi stay in our room today? The double bed in the hotel suite is quite large, so it won't be a problem for three children to squeeze in."
Qingqing whispered softly, "Momo can live with me, too."
Seeing that his daughter seemed to like this new friend very much, Chen Hui nodded.
The relationship between the companies was good, so there was no need for excessive politeness. Xu Ruixi readily agreed, "As long as you don't mind the trouble, I'll transfer the points to you later."
Momo found a place to live, and Xu Ruixi didn't want to leave anymore.
She also planned to see if the boss had any other summoned beasts.
Even if there wasn't one, just one mimicry would be enough for her to study for a long time.
Xu Ruixi discussed it with Xiao Yi's parents, and the three decided to find an open space on the plain outside to set up a tent. Playing with the kids during the day and letting them sleep in the hostel’s protective cover at night, they can feel safe while camping on their own.
"If that's the case, can't we team up to kill monsters?" Fu Yiming had an idea, "Just leave one person in the hotel to look after the children. They can play by themselves, and there's no need to worry about safety issues in the hotel."
Children born in the game also have the physique of the players, so ordinary bumps and bruises cannot hurt them. The dangers they may face come more from the game itself, such as T monsters and extremely cold weather.
Within the scope of the protective shield, parents do not need to worry about these two problems. They can leave without worry.
Although Jiang Qing and others have savings, staying in the hotel with their children and living off their savings is not a long-term solution.
Since they were planning to live here for a long time, they had to consider who would take care of the child when they went monster hunting in the future. In Guangming Town, they could easily find a babysitter, or ask close neighbors for help, but it was not very convenient in a hotel. Jiang Qing and Fu Yiming had been troubled by this for a few days.
But now that the Arctic Fox bus has been opened, more and more people are coming to the hot springs, and they have found that this problem seems to have been solved.
The more Fu Yiming thought about it, the more feasible it seemed to him. But before he could say anything else, his stomach growled.
The rich aroma of the fish-flavored shredded pork in front of me went straight into my nose and was really hard to ignore.
Fu Yiming: "..."
Xiao Yi's father swallowed and hesitated, "How about... we eat first and then talk?"
He was very self-aware and didn't even say "eat and talk" because he knew that once he picked up his chopsticks, he might not even have time to speak.
——He didn’t interrupt Fu Yiming directly just now, he had already mobilized all his qualities.
"Eat, eat." Fu Yiming waved his hands awkwardly.
Xu Ruixi quickly served his daughter a bowl of West Lake beef soup and handed it to her, "Eat something else first, and drink this after it cools down."
Then she looked at the full plate of food in front of the mother and daughter. She wanted Momo to try everything, so she ordered one of each, not even thinking about saving points. "Which one do you want? Mom will help you."
"It's okay, I can do it myself." Momo said, picked up her small fork, and stabbed it into the shredded meat quickly and accurately. She rolled it up and scooped up a large ball, "Look, mom."
Xu Ruixi: “…”
She watched her daughter generously stuff the huge ball of shredded pork with fish flavor into her mouth. A small bump immediately appeared on her fair cheek. While chewing, she looked at her with sparkling eyes, as if to say "delicious". Xu Ruixi couldn't help laughing.
She reached out to help Momo wipe the sauce off the corner of her mouth, folded the stained paper towel, put it aside, and looked up at Fu Yiming, "I also participate in the proposal you just mentioned."
"When the hotel opens for room reservations next time, I will book one and bring Momo to live here for a long time."
Xu Ruixi downplayed it, as if he was completely unaware of what a momentous decision he had just made.
"!" Momo turned her head quickly, chewing faster. After she swallowed the fish-flavored pork in her mouth with great effort, she immediately raised her fork to express her opinion, "Then when the time comes, you go fight the monsters, and I will stay here and play by myself."
"Okay." Xu Rui looked at her daughter with a soft smile, "Mom will work hard to kill monsters so that Momo can have delicious food every day."
From the beginning when he reluctantly agreed to his daughter's request and got on the bus, to being amazed by the anthropomorphic beasts and developing a genuine curiosity about the hot springs... in the end, what really prompted Xu Ruixi to stay in the hot springs was a very simple reason.
Because Momo likes it.
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The restaurant was more lively than ever at this moment. The elderly were helped to take their seats by their juniors, and the children gathered together chattering non-stop. The team members who usually came together for the summary did not sit at the same table, but sat with their families. The sadness between their brows disappeared, and their eyes looking towards their families were filled with satisfaction and joy.
When Shu Mo pushed the door open, he was stunned by the overflowing reunion atmosphere.
Although there have been times in the past when the restaurant had a large number of diners, it has never been like this.
The noise of children, the slow voices of the elderly, and the laughter of relatives' conversations are intertwined together, creating a real and warm atmosphere of human life.
The rare smile in the doomsday is now on the face of every tourist in the hot spring.
Shu Mo leaned against the door and watched, and couldn't help but raise the corner of his lips.
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