Chapter 174

Chapter 174: I Gave You a Chance, You Wasted It

“What?!” When Qiu Ji Chen heard that a store manager in one of his franchise stores had actually tried to hit Du An Rao, his voice even cracked.

“Where are you right now? I’ll send people over at once!”

“I’m on the second floor of Jiangyu Plaza…”

“The jewelry store in Jiangyu Plaza, right? Please wait inside the store for a bit. My people will be there very soon. I will definitely give you a result you’re satisfied with.”

After saying that, Qiu Ji Chen hung up at once. He was clearly off to arrange people.

Du An Rao had not tried to hide her conversation with him at all. After hearing what she said, most people in the store already had guesses about her relationship with the real boss behind this jewelry store. But the only one who actually asked was Jiang You Nian.

“An An, do you know the owner of this store?”

“It’s all right. I’ve met their company’s chairman twice and helped her son, their general manager, tell his fortune once. You could barely say we’re… friends.”

Hearing this, Zhang Ke Xin became even more sure that this was the Miss Du the company had announced in their group chat before. But Store Manager Zheng only snorted.

“Stop pretending you have powers. You’re just a little girl, how could you know our company’s boss? Don’t think I’ll be scared just because you made some random phone call. I really want to see how you clean this up later.”

President Sun, his cousin, and their wives were also being held down. They quickly echoed: “Exactly, exactly. If you know what’s good for you, hurry up and let us go. My husband is close with Manager Wang from the president’s company and a lot of big shots in City B. These people could crush you like ants without any effort.”

Listening to them shout, Du An Rao only thought it was funny and said: “I like this proud and fearless look you all have. I hope you can stay this tough when people get here later.”

It was clear that Qiu Ji Chen was really worried.

Du An Rao and the others had waited less than five minutes when a middle aged uncle in a suit rushed in from outside, dusty and out of breath, leading a young man in his early twenties.

When Store Manager Zheng saw them, his eyes lit up. He called out in excitement: “Uncle Wang, Uncle Wang, you finally came, President. That cheap little tramp over there dared to pretend to be the chairman’s friend right to my face and even had someone beat me up. You must stand up for me and teach her a lesson!”

Smack!

He had barely finished talking when he got slapped hard. His wife screamed: “How can you hit people?”

“Idiot, you’re already at death’s door and you still don’t know how to shut up. You’re dead for sure today!”

Store Manager Zheng covered his burning face, about to ask what was going on, when he heard those words. His eyes shrank, and a bad feeling suddenly rose in his heart. Could it be that little tramp really was…

The young man who had followed the middle aged man inside did not even glance at Store Manager Zheng. He walked quickly to Du An Rao and said: “Hello, Miss Du. My surname is Fang. I’m General Manager Qiu’s special assistant. President Qiu was in South City this morning for a deal, and there’s a traffic jam on the road now, so he can’t come back right away. He asked me to come ahead of him and help handle this.”

“He can’t make it back?” Du An Rao looked a little disappointed. She turned her head and glanced at Uncle Wang, smiling without smiling as she said: “So what rule is this? Do people from your company all like to randomly slap others?”

[Look at you, wasting the chance I gave you. No wonder it’ll take you two or three more years to find a wife. Serves you right!]

Cold sweat broke out on Uncle Wang’s forehead. He said: “My people did not know better. Their eyes were blind and their hearts were foolish. They didn’t recognize Miss Du and offended you two ladies. I hope Miss Du can be generous and not hold it against him.”

Du An Rao felt his words were a bit interesting and said: “The problem isn’t just that he didn’t recognize me. I understand being careful when you’re doing business. But yelling about beating and killing people at the drop of a hat? In all my life, this is the first time I’ve seen that.”

“That’s right.” Jiang You Nian added from the side: “Just now this store manager kept saying he was going to kill us. If I didn’t know better, I’d think we were living back in the old days when you could casually kill people and toss their lives away.”

“Not recognizing me is fine. I’m not money, no one is required to know me. Thinking my card is fake is also fine. Paying full price is not a big deal for me. Taking ten thousand steps back, if we can’t agree, I can just not buy anything, right?”

At this point, Du An Rao’s eyes turned cold, and her tone changed: “But what really happened was this. When this Mr. here questioned us and decided we were scammers, this young shop assistant lady reminded him again and again that the card was real, and that your company even put out a notice about me. He refused to listen to any other voice. Instead, he decided this young lady was our partner in crime and hit her hard.”

These words were the same as pointing at his nose and scolding him for being stubborn and arrogant.

And that really was the truth. Even a simple shop assistant like Zhang Ke Xin knew about her because of the big company announcement. Yet Store Manager Zheng knew nothing. When someone else reminded him, his first thought was that they were talking back and ruining his image as the one who always had the final say. Instead of taking a minute or two to check the facts, he just lashed out.

Having such a leader who could not tell right from wrong was a disaster for the people working under him.

“My friend and I only stepped in to stop him, and he tried to hit us too. As a customer, it’s hard not to suspect your company is bullying customers just because your store is big.”

As she spoke, Du An Rao turned to look at Zhang Ke Xin: “And this young lady, who was unjustly fired because of her supervisor’s rude stupidity, was only trying to defend her basic rights as a worker and her basic dignity as a person. Faced with rude beating, she stood up and fought back bravely without giving in, and he answered her with more threats. It’s also hard for us not to think this store manager has a violent nature and is a serious danger to our safety as customers.”

From the start, Yu Chu Hui had been standing on Du An Rao’s side and had seen the whole fight with her own eyes. She stepped forward right away to back them up.

“Exactly, exactly. I just came in to buy a necklace, I didn’t pay money to end up getting beaten!”

“Paying money to suffer, that’s pure sucker behavior. We work like cows and horses all week, already tired and angry. Now when we come to spend money, we still have to watch someone’s face? Forget it, I’m out of here.”

“I saw everything from the beginning. The girl was very polite at first. When she took out the card, she only asked the shop assistant if she could use it. It was just one question. Did that break some huge rule? But in these people’s mouths, it turned into the little girl and the shop assistant working together to steal the store’s stock. That’s a huge crime to throw on someone’s head. If we come buy something next time, are they going to throw that kind of crime on us too? We can’t afford that.”

“That girl shop assistant’s attitude was fine too. She kept trying to explain things to the customers just now. It’s a pity she ran into such a super macho store manager who wouldn’t listen and even hit people. Who could stand that? Just watching made my heart ache for her.”

“That’s right, that’s right. The shop assistants in this store actually serve people pretty well. It’s just this store manager who is terrible. I don’t even know how he got the job. And those people beside him, who are supposed to be his relatives, kept fanning the flames. They even shouted that they would crush the guests like ants!”