“No,” the driver flatly refused, “This is a period of strict crackdown, the police are checking all the hotels and guesthouses very strictly, if I use my ID card to register you, what if something happens?”
“It’s okay, I’m not a bad person, I just lost my ID card, I’m staying in Yanjing for a few days temporarily, just call someone from the company to issue me an ID card.” Qiao Li said in a negotiating tone, “How about this, I’ll give you 1000 yuan and use your ID card to register a room for me, do you think that’s okay?”
“Oh, so?” The driver hesitated for a moment and said, “Alright then, I’ll be a good guy to the end, for your pity’s sake, I’ll be a living thunderbolt and use my ID card to register a room for you, but don’t sell me out if anything goes wrong, huh?”
This guy was looking at the 1,000 yuan reward, which was the money he could earn by staying up all night and pulling in customers for days. He would be willing to use his ID card even ten times, not to mention once.
“Please don’t worry, nothing will happen.” Although Qiao Li said this, in her heart she cursed the money-minded driver for ripping people off.
However, the matter had come to this, Qiao Li had no choice, when her own life was at stake, she was willing to buy a peace of mind with 10,000 yuan.
The driver pulled Qiao Li directly to the Jinjiang Hotel on the Yanjing River, which was reasonably priced, elegant and quite quiet.
After Qiao Li gave the driver 1,500 yuan, the driver parked the car at the entrance of the hotel, took his ID card and walked into the lobby on the ground floor of the hotel to register, and after paying a deposit of 500 yuan, he took the room card for room 9008 and a deposit slip from the lady at the front desk and returned to the taxi.
“Miss, here’s your room card and deposit slip, good luck!” The driver smiled and handed the room card and deposit slip to Jolly.
“Thanks!” Qiao Li smiled gratefully at the driver and waited until the driver drove away and saw that no one noticed her before she got out of the car with her suitcase and walked into the hotel.
She took the lift in the lobby on the ground floor of the hotel and went up to the 9th floor, then opened the door of room 9008 with her room card and went into the room.
For the whole afternoon, Qiao Li stayed in room 9008 of the Jinjiang Hotel, calling for lunch and dinner to be delivered.
It was not until 8pm that she turned on her mobile phone.
Immediately on the phone screen, there were several text alerts for missed calls, which were almost all from Zhao Yan.
Qiao Li had been away for so long and didn’t know what had happened to Zhao Yan, so she took the attitude of giving it a try and called Zhao Yan’s number back.
“Qiao Li, Zhao Wen Long has sent his bodyguard Big Head around with people looking for you, what exactly have you offended them with?” Immediately, Zhao Yan’s anxious voice came from the phone.
“Ai, it’s hard to say,” Qiao Li didn’t want Zhao Yan to know too much and asked, “Sister Yan, they didn’t give you a hard time after I left, right?”
“They didn’t give me a hard time, they just warned me to tell them your whereabouts as soon as I heard from you, otherwise, they would find me in trouble,” Zhao Yan asked anxiously, “How are you now? Haven’t they found you?”
“I’m on my way back home now, they haven’t found me,” Qiao Li said gratefully as she didn’t want to tell Zhao Yan her whereabouts, “Sister Zhao Yan, thank you for your concern, take care.”
“We are sisters, don’t be polite,” Zhao Yan said after a moment’s thought, “By the way, a man called Lin Kai came to the hotel to look for you, he told you to contact him.”
“What’s his number?” Qiao Li asked eagerly.
“I’ll look it up and text it to you right away.” The other party said and hung up.
In a few moments, a text message was sent to Qiao Li’s phone.
Zhao Yan had just deleted the text message she had sent when a gloomy voice came from behind Zhao Yan: “Hey, you’re on the phone with Qiao Li, right?”
Zhao Yan turned around and saw the big head standing in the lobby of the ground floor of the Yanjing International Hotel, she was startled and shook her head repeatedly, saying.
“No …… no, I …… I’m not in contact with Qiao Li ……”
“How dare you F**king lie?” As soon as Big Head grabbed the mobile phone in Zhao Yan’s hand and checked her call records, he really found that she was talking to Qiao Li on the phone, raised his hand and slapped it towards Zhao Yan’s face.
Slap!
There was a crunching sound.
Zhao Yan felt her face burning with pain and covered her face with her hand, questioning.
“Big Head, what the hell are you, who are you to hit someone?”
“Just because you helped Qiao Li to escape, I dare to beat you!” Big Head grabbed Zhao Yan by the hair and asked loudly, “Tell me quickly, where is Qiao Li?”
“I …… I don’t know!” Zhao Yan was yanked raw by Big Head and said hurriedly.
“You’re lying!” Big Head increased his strength.
“I really don’t know Qiao Li’s whereabouts!” Zhao Yan said stubbornly.
At this time, there were many people looking around.
“What are you doing? Quickly let go of Manager Zhao.” A security guard in the hotel, pointing at Big Head, yelled.
“This woman is Qiao Li’s accomplice and I am going to take her to the chairman.” Big Head said matter-of-factly.
“Even if you want to take her to see Zhao Dong, you shouldn’t fight in our place, don’t you affect our business and smash the company’s brand by doing so?” The security guard questioned loudly.
At this time, a man who looked like a pig’s head came running and whispered in Big Head’s ear, who immediately let go of Zhao Yan’s hair.
“Stinky woman, I’ll clean you up when I get back.” Big Head glared at Zhao Yan and cursed before he took Zhao Yan’s mobile phone and quickly left.
He was going to use Zhao Yan’s mobile phone to contact Qiao Li and then find Qiao Li’s location through the electronic positioning system; just now, Pig Head had stolen and located Qiao Li’s call through her call with Zhao Yan.
This afternoon, Big Head led a group of men to search almost all the streets of Yanjing City, but still no sign of Qiao Li. After going back and being scolded by Zhao Wenlong, he was very upset in his heart.
He knew that Qiao Li would definitely contact Zhao Yan, so he hid in a van in the car park of the Yanjing International Hotel and secretly followed Zhao Yan’s whereabouts. As soon as he saw Zhao Yan sneaking around talking to someone on the phone, he jumped out of the van.
When Zhao Yan was not paying attention while she was on the phone with Qiao Li, he sneaked up behind her, snatched her mobile phone and beat her up.
