in the river island

Yu Zhou strode forward and squeezed into the narrow passageway at the front desk. Seeing him approaching, the man reached out and grabbed his collar in a hurry. Yu Zhou took a step forward, but was pushed by the man's elbow. at the table.

"Hey! You just ask questions, why are you messing around? Don't people walk in front of you?" Yang Meng is also impatient, seeing the attitude of the eldest brother, she couldn't help but stab him.

The man ignored Yang Meng's words and pointed to the screen, "Please explain to me, what are you doing these few seconds?"

The dining table was in the back, and Yu Zhou cleaned up the table at a very unfortunate angle. His body happened to block the surveillance camera. But after a few seconds of inexplicable stalemate, the video of those few seconds became suspicious.

Yu Zhou frowned, and the irritable elder brother couldn't help but push him, saying, "Speak up, why are you standing still!"

"Hey, don't yell." The middle-aged woman who lost the necklace couldn't help persuading her, saying, "Don't worry, let the young people talk about it."

"Sister, don't worry about it!" The man waved his hand, not listening to the persuasion at all.

The woman was brushed off, and stepped aside with a frown.

But Yu Zhou still didn't speak, the man said again: "No, you are dumb!"

"Brother, calm down." Seeing this, Yang Zhenyong stretched out his hand across the counter and handed him a cigarette, "When we do business, we only pay attention to a clear conscience. I know the character of my employees. If you have it, you have it. No, you smoke a cigarette slowly."

The man didn't pick up the cigarette, Yang Zhenyong's hand paused in the air awkwardly for a while and then retracted, Yu Zhou stared at the video, and fumbled from his pocket with downcast eyes.

The middle-aged man's eyes lit up, "I said you're dishonest——"

He reached out to pick up something, but found that Yu Zhou took out a mobile phone from his pocket. The middle-aged man paused and stopped.

Yu Zhou quickly unlocked the phone and typed on the phone.

"What are you doing? Are you still sending messages to others at this time?"

Yang Zhenyong slapped Yang Meng who was beside him. Yang Meng tugged at the cuff of the middle-aged man and said, "Please don't shout, my colleague, he can't talk."

"What do you mean you can't talk?" The man paused for a while, then realized, and asked, "Are you really dumb?"

Yang Meng has never seen someone who likes to poke people's feet so much. Her chest heaved slightly with anger. She closed her eyes and said with a sigh of relief: "He does have a language barrier."

As soon as the words fell, everyone heard a mechanical voice, and the machine-reading tone did not fluctuate, and said very stiffly: "I didn't see the gold pendant when I packed it."

Hearing the sound, everyone looked towards the source of the sound. Yu Zhou raised his head and looked at the middle-aged man with a resolute face. His pupils were very dark, and he stared intently at the man like a stubborn little beast.

Yang Meng looked at Yu Zhou in amazement, and felt a little uncomfortable. Looking at Yu Zhou's expression, she felt that Yu Zhou might be really wronged. He usually doesn't turn the phone to read. When this voice comes out, it seems to be refuting the other party's words. One sentence dumb.

"If you say there is no, then there is no? You are an employee in the store, you must know the monitoring blind spots, yes!" Speaking of this, the middle-aged man seemed to have a new supporting theory. He clapped his hands and continued: "Before we come in , my sister looked in the mirror and the earrings were still there. After we finished eating and went out, we took pictures by the small flower bed outside. After looking at the photos, we found that the gold pendants were gone. During this period, we entered the restaurant. You Tell me if this pendant must have fallen on the table."

"It's such a neat thing to clear the table, why did you stop for a few seconds in the middle?"

"And after all, don't you waiters have rules? Clean up things on the table without looking carefully?"

"He's not a waiter," Yang Zhenyong stood up and said, "He's in the back kitchen. He didn't have enough staff to help out in the front yesterday. He didn't think so much——"

"That is to say, you admit that it is the hotel's fault?" The middle-aged man took the smack and said, "The waiters have not been properly trained, and they just hired them to work. How do you plan to compensate us for the loss?"

Yang Zhenyong's expression froze, and he couldn't control his temper anymore, "If you say that, then there is no discussion. The gold pendant fell in the store is your own opinion. If it doesn't work, let's call the police and let the police deal with it. Look at the police station. On your side or our side."

"Hey, whoever said this is afraid of anyone," the man took out his mobile phone, "Stop arguing, I'll call now, I think your store won't be able to open after the police come, anyway, it's a waste of a day's delay Not me either."

Yu Zhou frowned, and suddenly grabbed his hand to stop the man's movements.

"Why? Remember something new?"

Yu Zhou took out his mobile phone and typed. He couldn't remember the specific situation at the time. He cleaned up five or six tables. It was indeed his problem that he was in a hurry to get off work and didn't look at the table. A few seconds later, the voice of the machine read again: "I don't I remember what I was doing, but I promise I never saw a gold pendant on the table."

"Okay, where's the surveillance camera at your door? Call it up and let me see, I can always take pictures at the door, come in and go out, let me see if the gold pendant is there."

Yang Meng glanced at Yang Zhenyong's expression, and after receiving the signal, she pulled up the stool and sat down and began to adjust the monitoring at the door. After checking the time, a familiar face soon appeared on the monitoring.

"Pause and watch." The middle-aged man said.

Yang Meng pressed the pause button, the man looked carefully, pointed to the screen and said, "I said the pendant is still there at this time."

"You dig out the surveillance again."

Yang Meng changed the monitoring angle and continued to check. The woman on the monitor had her hair tied up, and the position of her ears was clear at a glance, and it was indeed gone when she went out.

"Look, you all come and see if it's gone. The gold pendant fell in the restaurant."

The people in the back kitchen who heard the movement came out scatteredly, Zhou Pai leaned up and said, "That doesn't prove that it must have fallen off, did you take it off halfway?"

His words were tinged with guns and sticks, as if he was deliberately framing a yin and yang woman, and the middle-aged man became angry immediately, "Then you can watch other surveillance cameras! My sister has never taken it down."

Yang Meng looked at Yang Zhenyong. Yang Zhenyong lit a cigarette and said, "Turn the one on the corner and come out to have a look."

The surveillance at the corner was just able to capture the movement of a table of people. Yang Meng stared at the screen at high speed, and the surveillance only captured one ear. After watching the whole process, the woman did not touch her ear.

"Look, take a look, you all have a look." The man immediately became more confident after watching the surveillance. He said arrogantly, "Forget it, I'm too lazy to talk about it. I'll call the police directly, but the police decided."

Yang Zhenyong quickly stopped him and said, "It's not that far."

Today's festival, there is a lot of traffic, and many tables have been reserved before going out, so the back kitchen only started preparing dishes early in the morning. If the police come, they can't afford to delay, and it will also damage the image of their restaurant.

"Then you have to come up with a solution."

"What do you want to do?" Yang Zhenyong asked.

"Losing money." The middle-aged man rubbed his hands, "Three thousand."

The woman sitting on the side widened her eyes when she saw this. Three thousand was the price of a pair of earrings, but she only lost one.

"Impossible." Yang Zhenyong said directly.

"Then I can only call the police and let the police deal with it."

The situation came to a stalemate again. Yang Meng looked at the situation and asked, "What about the invoice? Did you say three thousand is three thousand?"

"Hey! You little girl is very talkative." The man took out his pocket, took out his phone from his bag, opened the photo album and handed it to Yang Meng, "Look for yourself, it's the same model, just bought, and the date is still the same. new."

"That's the price for a pair, one is not worth the price."

"Joke, how can you wear that earring with only one earring left?" The man insisted.

"It's not the responsibility of the hotel to take care of personal accessories, and we have no obligation to compensate—"

"That's good! Then I'll see if your store can continue to open! I'll stay at the door for a day when this store is open. I'll see who dares to come to your place to eat, and the little girl still talks big to me. , and don’t look at how much I am!” The middle-aged man was drooling, with his hips akimbo domineering.

He lost his job a few months ago and has been hanging out in the mahjong parlor. He played a big one more than ten days ago and almost lost all his pants. He came to dinner yesterday to ask a woman for some money. Who knows that the woman insisted on saying He had no money, the man thought of this and snorted, if he could get the money, how could the woman justify that she didn't have money?His sister is soft-hearted, and she will definitely give him the money. Besides, it is also his credit for getting the money!

Thinking of this, the man worked even harder, "My sister has little eyes and is honest. As a younger brother, I am not forgiving. If you don't give me an explanation today, then I won't leave."

Yu Zhou frowned and was still typing, but Yang Meng had stood up and walked to his side at some point.

"Now it's not a question of whether you take it or not." Yang Meng whispered into Yu Zhou's ear.

The man didn't care at all whether Yu Zhou took it or not, even if Yu Zhou really didn't take it, as long as he didn't agree, the matter would never end.

When Yu Zhou heard this, he also understood that the man's purpose was obvious, he just wanted to take the opportunity to extort a sum of money.

"Three thousand is impossible, we can't talk about it." Yang Zhenyong met Laipi angrily. He couldn't easily move a shop here, but the other party came and went as he wanted. No loss. "500 yuan is the most, if you don't accept it, forget it."

"As expected of a businessman, even if he is good at bargaining, this pendant is worth fifteen thousand in conversion."

"Impossible." Yang Zhenyong looked at him coldly.

"One thousand." The man rolled up his sleeves, showing off his poorly made and old blue dragon tattoo like a hooligan, implicitly threatening: "I grew up with this tattoo, and I still know quite a few people."

"Six hundred." Yang Zhenyong flicked off the cigarette, and pinched it into the flower pot.

"Eight hundred." The man was still not satisfied.

"There's nothing to talk about, I'll call the police directly." Yang Zhenyong didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, "If you dare to smash my shop, I'll turn it back to the police station for you, and don't threaten me."

The middle-aged man saw that the momentum was wrong, and his heart changed suddenly. If he really called the police, he might not be able to benefit much. The man could see that Yang Zhenyong sincerely wanted to spend money to settle things. When he thought that the money would be lost, he yelled , "Seven hundred!"

Yang Zhenyong paused for a moment, and the man immediately chased after him and said, "I'll sign the note right away after I've given the money, and I won't pursue this matter in the future. Look at the time, it's almost dinner time, I'll spend half an hour here Hours, how much money do you have to lose."

"Deal." Yang Zhenyong said.

After signing the money transfer slip, everything was settled after 5 minutes. The group left the hotel, and the atmosphere in the hotel froze for a while.

Even people who don't have long-sighted eyes can know that Yang Zhenyong is holding back his anger at this moment, and no one dares to say a word to touch his bad luck.

"How could the pendant be gone for no reason." Zhou Pai broke the silence and whispered, "Could it be taken by someone."

Yang Meng wanted to go up and slap him, but she rolled her eyes, Zhou Pai seemed to have seen some fun, and whistled at her.

Low voices of discussion sounded, Yang Zhenyong lit another cigarette, until the voice became louder, he said: "I have nothing to do, right, go back and prepare the dishes!"

The crowd dispersed sparsely, leaving only Yu Zhou and Yang Meng standing in front of him.

Yang Zhenyong glanced at the two of them, his eyes were fascinated by the smoke, he squinted a little, through the smoke, Yang Zhenyong said to Yang Meng: "Xiao Yang, go and check the morning receipt."

When Yang Meng heard this, she knew it was to distract her from talking to Yu Zhou.

She glanced at Yu Zhou worriedly, and Yang Zhenyong said "Go quickly" before she left.

As soon as Yang Meng left, only Yang Zhenyu and Yu Zhou were left in the lobby.

After a long silence, Yu Zhou picked up his mobile phone to type, and Yang Zhenyong knocked on the table. When Yu Zhou looked up, Yang Zhenyong crushed the cigarette into the ashtray on the cabinet.

"You are less than, there is no one now, tell me," Yang Zhenyong's voice sank, "Did you take it or not?"

Yu Zhou moved his lips, but stopped with his hands.

The two were too close, and Yu Zhou could clearly see the suspicious expression on Yang Zhenyong's face.

Yang Zhenyong asked: "What were you doing during the few seconds of pause in the surveillance?"