The newly opened Forest Hot Spring Resort is located on the outskirts of C City's southern county, about an hour's drive away. However, due to the National Day holiday, the road was heavily congested, and by the time Lai Jing arrived at the destination with the four children, it was late at night.
Compared to the current temperature of over twenty degrees Celsius in C City, the temperature at the forest hot spring was only fifteen to sixteen degrees. A slight breeze at night made one's nose run.
The hotel occupied a vast area. It took two to three minutes of driving from the roadside to reach the hotel's main entrance.
"You all wait in the lobby for a moment, I'll go park the car."
After sitting for several hours and experiencing back pain, the four children quickly got out of the car. They stood on the ground and walked a bit, only then feeling some relief from the soreness in their legs.
The hotel lobby had a circular arched ceiling. From the center, a three-tiered lamp woven from bamboo hung down. The orange-yellow light filtered through the bamboo weave, casting a glow within the lobby. Liu Chen felt it was a bit dim and thought to himself that this might be the ambiance of a high-end resort hotel.
The four of them sat on a sofa in a corner of the lobby. Mi Zhuzhu and Ren Mo once again enthusiastically began comparing answers with Lai Jielun.
Although they had reviewed the answers more than three times on the way, Mi Zhuzhu still exclaimed with excited amazement, such as "Wow," "Amazing," and "Holy cow," every time she got an answer right.
Liu Chen's gaze was fixed on the hotel entrance, waiting for Teacher Lai to arrive so he could go to the front desk.
However, what arrived was not Teacher Lai, but Xue Miao, who was giggling uncontrollably, and Vice Principal Luo, whom she was holding by the arm.
Narrowing his eyes, Liu Chen said he was going to the restroom, took out a mask from his pocket, put it on, and ambled behind the two of them.
Vice Principal Luo handed over a room voucher. After verification, the front desk clerk pulled out two room cards and handed them to Xue Miao, who was standing beside him. "Hello, Ms. Your room cards are ready. North Building, Room 204. We hope you have a pleasant stay."
Taking the room cards, Xue Miao muttered, "Brother Luo, look, the children in the class are completely unmanageable. They're all just messing around. Since I have a foot injury, just let me lead the next batch."
Liu Chen seized the opportunity as the two of them turned around to walk away, pretending to see an acquaintance at the main entrance.
Just as he reached the main entrance, he happened to encounter Teacher Lai. Seeing Liu Chen, her eyes showed a hint of surprise, then softened considerably. She gently patted Liu Chen's slightly thin shoulder, which had grown due to his recent height spurt.
"Oh? Liu Chen, why are you coming out of the lobby? It's colder here than in C City. It'll be good to stay in the room later, but remember to wear an extra layer when you go out."
With the four children, Lai Jing presented the room voucher, and the front desk clerk, with a sweet smile, informed her:
"Hello, guest. The voucher you have is for our villa hot spring room, a two-bedroom suite for three days. Our staff will lead you to the dedicated passage for the villa rooms shortly."
After saying this, the front desk clerk couldn't help but look with envy at the high school students in front of her. Why high school students? Because they were still wearing school uniforms. At such a young age, they could experience the ultimate luxurious enjoyment of their hotel.
It was worth noting that a one-bedroom villa room here cost over four thousand yuan a night, and the two-bedroom suites were never sold to the public, but rather given out as vouchers to people the boss needed to entertain.
Liu Chen, unaware of the front desk lady's thoughts, was merely curious about the villa hot spring room.
What would it look like? After all, the hotel's back room price list did not include this room type.
Lai Jing was even more surprised, but then thinking that Yuan Ying had provided this voucher, she immediately calmed down.
The five of them followed a service staff member in black leather shoes, walked through the somewhat noisy lobby, and came outside. They walked under an antique-style corridor, flanked by sparse bamboo groves.
After walking about twenty meters, they arrived at a transparent sightseeing elevator.
Liu Chen wondered if the service staff had misheard and taken them to the wrong place, and asked,
"Sister, aren't we going to the villa? Do we still need to take the elevator?"
The service staff member nodded and smiled sweetly:
"Our hotel's villa hot springs are located on the top floor of the entire hotel, with outdoor and indoor hot springs. Especially the two-bedroom unit you are staying in is the largest among all the villa units.
Considering that the temperature at the hotel is consistently below 13 degrees Celsius at night, the indoor area is equipped with whole-house floor heating, as well as outdoor floor heating. You can also enjoy the snow outdoors when it snows."
As the explanation continued, Liu Chen stood on the transparent sightseeing elevator and arrived at the eighth floor.
The elevator door opened, and Liu Chen glanced at the elevator display again. It indeed showed the eighth floor.
But the artificial rockery and pond, the winding corridor, the lotus pond under the corridor, and even under the moonlight, one could vaguely see a few red koi carp. Everything seemed to tell you that this floor was the first floor.
Following the service staff along the eaves corridor, they passed three villa wooden doors before stopping.
A courtyard gate separated the road from the villa. On either side of the gate, a pillar-sized round lamp illuminated the half-meter area in front of the villa's courtyard gate.
Swiping the key card and gently pushing inward.
The entire small courtyard came into view. On the left was an open-air hot spring pool, with a few small lights illuminating the area next to the pool. On the right was an open-air lawn. Surrounding the villa was a pool connected to the koi pond outside.
Walking further in, perhaps because the temperature was not high today, the floor heating was turned on, and the entire room was warm. Light strips circled the living room, concealing the light source but bathing the entire room in a soft yellow glow.
The two bedrooms were on the left and right. The left bedroom had a super-large king-size bed measuring 2.2 meters. The bathroom behind the bed also had a bathtub of about ten square meters with massage water jets.
This was Liu Chen's first time staying in a villa room at a hotel. To be honest, it was more luxurious than he had imagined.
He even had the thought of spending money to live here for the rest of his life. It was indeed terrifying that it could generate such a thought in him, who was always thrifty.
"You all wash up first, I'm going out to the hotel supermarket."
Putting down his small bag, Liu Chen took his phone and a room card and went out.
He went down to the first floor via the sightseeing elevator and then followed the location of the North Building he had memorized from the front desk's promotional brochure.
North Building 204, a true mountain view room. Upon entering through the door on one side of the corridor, the windows of the rooms all faced the bamboo forest to the north.
This was convenient for Liu Chen's concealment. He walked into the bamboo forest on the north side of the room and squatted down, watching the second-floor terrace. As he was mentally preparing himself, he saw the floor-to-ceiling window of the terrace suddenly open.
Xue Miao, wearing a white lace slip dress, walked out of the room with her arms crossed and an unhappy expression.
Then, Vice Principal Luo, wearing only a pair of boxer shorts, also came out of the room.
"Miao Miao, don't be angry. It's just Normal University High School. So what if they got in? Do you think they'll get into university just because they got into Normal University High School?"
Xue Miao remained silent with her arms crossed. Those two troublemakers actually went to Normal University High School, and many teachers in the grade office were laughing at her!
Xue Miao didn't think about it, was this a recent reason for them to laugh? The moment she got involved with Vice Principal Luo, she had already become a joke among the teachers in the same grade.
She was good-looking, had returned from studying abroad, came from a good family, and had a fiancé in the education system, yet she was still the mistress of a vice principal from a provincial key school. What was she after?
Seeing his beloved Miao Miao still angry, Vice Principal Luo also made up his mind. He hugged Xue Miao from behind and rested his chin on her shoulder.
"How about this, when we get back, I'll call the vice principal of Normal University High School. Students who hit teachers and cheat constantly shouldn't be given a second chance, don't you think, Miao Miao?"
Having received his promise, the two immediately started kissing passionately on the terrace, almost escalating to a more intimate encounter. All of this was completely recorded by Liu Chen using the camera rewarded by the system.