Chapter 67. Case 11: A photo
When Hu Zongren and I heard the voice, we immediately looked in the direction of the door, and saw a tall man wearing a white casual suit, with a bright green V-neck T-shirt inside, and a gold chain the thickness of a little thumb around his neck, looking about 40 years old, struggling to bang on the door of the restaurant, which had been locked at first.
I have to say that since I am a simple person on the outside but bright on the inside, I have an inexplicable liking for this nouveau riche-like guy in front of me, and I mean his style of dressing. I also liked the noisy color of bright green, so I couldn't help but look at him through the door through the X display rack and roll-up banners that fell to the ground, but Hu Zongren ignored him, but walked directly to the table where he had put down his equipment at first, pinned the waist bag and gossip bag back to his waist, and then asked the store manager Xie who was the guy who was dressed like lettuce at the door.
Store Manager Xie heard Hu Zongren say this, so he turned sideways to look at the door, and then said to Hu Zongren, that is our boss, who is the franchisee of this store. Hu Zongren asked the store manager Xie, why did he come here? Manager Xie said that because when we were upstairs just now, the boss had called to ask if the matter had been resolved, and she told the boss that it was being resolved, and now it was closed, and then the boss came in a hurry.
Hu Zongren sneered and said, What's the matter, you still want to open for business like this? If you don't close the door now, do you wait for others to spread the word, and let those departments in charge order to close the door? It's really insignificant. Store Manager Xie smiled a little embarrassedly, after all, Hu Zongren was always her boss. Hu Zongren said to Store Manager Xie, then you should hurry up and open the door for your boss, don't be stunned. After saying that, he continued to sort out his waist bag and other things, and soon Store Manager Xie opened the door, and after the inch-headed man walked in, Store Manager Xie immediately closed the door, and helped up the crooked X display racks and roll-up banners that were hit by the old woman before.
The boss looked like a big shelf, as soon as he came in, he first found the clerks in the corner, and after a week, he looked very angry and said, what do you say about your situation, you close the door with such a large flow of people during the day, do you know how much the store rent in this place is calculated every day? This is the second time it has been closed! He spoke in a loud voice, but it sounded very large, condescending.
The inch-headed man continued, please come to the two of you, if there is a problem on the second floor, won't you just finish working on the second floor? Why is the door on the first floor locked? Then he turned around and pointed at the group of clerks and scolded loudly, do you know how much loss I have to delay for a day like this, if you don't eat, I still have to eat! Open the door for me right now! When Store Manager Xie heard that the boss was so angry, he hesitated a little and looked at Hu Zongren with his eyes. Hu Zongren didn't speak, just looked at the inch-headed man coldly. I walked up to the inch-headed man and said to him, "This boss, this matter has not been solved properly, what if you open the door and harm other customers, you can't bear this responsibility, can you?" He looked at me, still a little loud and a little uncontrollable, you are the master invited this time, right? The entire second floor was vacated for you, and you still won't let me do business, I heard that the idea of closing the door was given by the two of you, right? Although I was a little upset with him at first, I still pressed the fire and told him, I am for everyone's safety, this kind of thing has been spread by outsiders, I am afraid that not only your store will be discredited, but even your catering brand will be affected by this, besides, why do you want consumers to come to your store to eat and drink, and be scared from time to time? It's a commotion downstairs, how can you let us do things with peace of mind on the second floor?
When I said the next few words, I was a little angry. Hu Zongren and I are both order-taking and business-doing people, so I actually understand how much loss is caused by delays, but there is no way to do it. As a result, the inch-headed man saw that I was loud, and suddenly the contempt of the stupid big money came up, he pointed to my nose and said loudly, I will do business for you, and you two are still chattering with me, what's the matter, you want to teach me how to do business? Since this incident to now, I haven't seen any customers complain that my store is haunted, why do you two guys block my business as soon as you come, and the loss is deducted from your salary? Is your pay enough?
I was really a little angry about this, and when I was about to contradict him for a few words, Hu Zongren suddenly reached out and protected me aside, and then said to the inch-headed man with a hippie smile, Sir, what is your surname? I know Hu Zongren's expression, the more this kind of yin and yang weird smile, the more it means that this guy is going to be bad. That's fine, this inch-headed man is too domineering, he only thought that he was taking money for us to earn, but he didn't expect that we were helping him solve his troubles. The inch-headed man said that you don't care what my surname is, you two just solve the matter for me, take the money and leave, long-winded, just came out to mess around, right?
Hu Zongren still smiled and said to him, that's the case, since you want us to do things, then do it in our way, otherwise you will come by yourself, there are so many employees in your store, you can't just think about making money, even ghosts have come to your store to make trouble, you tell me how far you have declined. Hu Zongren was still smiling, but with the sarcasm and sarcasm in his words, I knew that he was deliberately using this kind of foolish way to provoke the other party. Because we all know that when the two sides are not on the same side and are opposed to each other, the more happy and happy you become, the more unhappy your opponent will be. Sure enough, the inch-headed man was still recruited, and his face was flushed with anger by Hu Zongren's words, but after all, he was in his 40s, and his life experience made him seem more calm, he just said angrily, then if you can't catch this ghost for ten days and half a month, I won't open the door for ten days and a half to do business? Hu Zongren continued to be angry and said, that can't be helped, who made you so weak, do you think that if you dress like a bottle of mustard, you will be on fire? Just wait...
The inch-headed man was so angry that he didn't speak, he probably understood that if he continued to fight with us, he would only delay his own time, and since Hu Zongren and I dared to talk to him so impulsively, naturally we didn't take him seriously, and if we didn't succeed in the future, we would be beaten up, which would be too cost-effective. Hu Zongren saw that he didn't continue to mumble, so he turned his head and asked Xiao Tian, what did the old woman tell you when you were in the toilet just now, why did you cry while talking?
As soon as Hu Zongren asked, everyone's eyes focused on Xiao Tian, which made Xiao Tian feel a little panicked, she said, the old woman just told me what she came to the store for the first day, and then for what she came to every day. The old woman was a little delirious, and she couldn't speak the words, I listened half and guessed half and half of it, but then I understood a few words, she said that she was old, she was dying, and she missed her own children.
After Xiao Tian finished speaking, he looked touched again, lowered his head, rubbed his nose, and looked like he was about to cry again. Although I think it's really rare to find a girl of Oda's moral character, but this kind of overflowing love for no reason is also an inappropriate behavior after all, after all, it is a different path for people and ghosts, and he is also a stranger, too much into other people's lives, as if he doesn't want to believe that the movie will end after all, until the lights of the movie theater are turned on, I will find that all this is just a story that can only be left in my heart.
I tried to comfort her, but I didn't. I learned from her that the old woman missed her child, and she was even confused, could it be dementia or something, could it be that she met Xiao Tian when she was missing, so she felt that she had found the direction of her memory, so she refused to leave? Xiao Tian told me that because most of the words that the old woman told her were confused, she only knew a little about the old woman, and she cried because she felt that the old woman was pitiful, but she didn't know that the old woman was sorry for her.
Hu Zongren asked me, what do you think you should do now, it's not a way to always consume like this, people still have to do business to make money, otherwise how can people eat? Hu Zongren is really cheap, and he took the opportunity to ridicule the inch-headed man, I looked at the inch-headed man's expression with a smile, and I was about to hold back my internal injuries, and I had to obediently give us the money when I was done, which was really funny. I asked Xiao Tian, you just said that you know what to do, so you tell us what to do. Oda thought about it and said, my idea is very naïve, I want to find the old woman's family, her accent is local, since she came to our store to explain that the place where she died is not far from us, if you look for it around here, there should be a way to find it.
Hu Zongren stretched out his hands and asked her, how did you find it, there is no photo, and there is no name. Xiao Tian lowered his head very aggrieved and said, That's why I said I was naïve. After being silent for a while, Hu Zongren said, this way, can your mobile phone take pictures? Xiao Tian said yes, Hu Zongren said then the two of us go up again, you still go close to the old woman as before, and then find a chance to take a photo, let's print out the photo, and then find someone nearby to distribute it, your idea is not naïve at all, because if you can find her family, then you can find her children. In this way, it is easier to send the old people away.
Hu Zongren is right, we can't bear to forcibly arrest the old woman at the moment, this inch-headed man here is staring at us and thinking that we can finish things as soon as possible and continue to do business, Hu Zongren and I are insiders, and others can't help much. So I also said to Xiao Tian, you and this mother-in-law are fateful, and she will not hurt you, so let's do what Master Hu said, which is also the safest way we think at present.
So Hu Zongren took off his waist bag again, let Xiao Tian go ahead, and followed behind, and I didn't go upstairs, because multiple people would make the old woman have an extra layer of guard. Soon after they went upstairs, they heard a burst of Xiao Tian's voice, and they couldn't hear what he was saying, and after a while, they walked down. When Hu Zongren was going down the stairs, I asked him if he had taken a picture. Hu Zongren said that it was photographed. Am I clear? He said it was clearer than your blackhead.
When I went downstairs, Oda handed me my phone, and I started looking through the photos. It was photographed very clearly, and it was completely sufficient to print flyers. I smiled and said to the inch-headed man, during the closure of your business, just ask this old woman to compensate, she must have money, and the family must have burned a lot of money for her.
Hu Zongren laughed, he didn't think it was wrong for us as employees to ridicule our employers like this. But when the inch-headed man took the phone from my hand, he suddenly said in a trembling voice:
"It's....this is my mother!"