“My lord, are you not joking with me?”
The mate asked with a sullen face.
Gu Yi was still oblivious and had a natural face, “Of course not, we don’t have much silver, we can only buy one piece.”
The mate’s face turned from black to blue, in all the years he had worked in the shop as a mate, it was the first time he had looked away.
“Don’t come in if you don’t have any silver, you look like a human, but it turns out you are cheating on food and drink.”
“Who are you calling a food and drink cheat?”
“Of course it’s you.”
The mate pointed to the empty plates on the table, “Just these alone are enough to pay for a piece of lotus seed paste, what are you guys doing if not cheating on food and drink?”
Having never been said that before, Gu Yi froze and turned his head to look at Song Wan Yue, asking stupidly, “Are we cheating on food and drink?”
“Of course not, he invited us into the shop, and he took the initiative to bring up the pastries, how can it be considered eating and drinking for free?”
“Right.”
Gu Yi twisted his head, “You were the one who let us in to eat, we just listened to your arrangement so that we didn’t cheat on our food and drinks.”
The mate was about to explode with anger.
The shop had so many fellows that the shopkeeper had made a rule that he would pay out two hundred coins to whoever sold more pastries each month. He was expecting to get a big customer, but he had never expected to meet such a shameless person, so he waved his hand, “Go, go, go, go, go, go.
Song Wangyue narrowed her eyes.
Gu Yi did not take it seriously and pulled Song Wan Yue to get up.
But Song Wangyue didn’t move.
“Is this how you treat your guests?”
The mate was in a fit of anger and snorted at his words, “Are you considered guests? Just little cheats who cheat on food and drink!”
After saying that, he angrily cleaned up the plates on the table.
Song Wangyue directly picked one up and slammed it on the floor.
There was a crunching sound, the plates split in pieces and the shop was instantly silent.
Gu Yi was startled and looked at her in a panic, seeing her small face sunken, obviously angry.
Something flashed in Gu Yi’s eyes and the corners of her mouth slowly grinned.
“You ……”
The mate also didn’t expect Song Wangyue to suddenly drop the plate, and after being startled, he looked at her angrily.
The movement of dropping the plate was not small, the shopkeeper who was at the back also heard it and came to the front with quick steps, seeing the scene in front of him, he thought that the mate had offended them accidentally and was busy arching his hand to apologize, “The mate was fussy, please forgive me.”
The servant was on the verge of tears, as the plates used to serve the pastries in the shop were all carefully selected by the shopkeeper, and one plate was worth half of his monthly wages.
“Boss, they are the ones who cheated on the food and dropped the plates.”
The shopkeeper believed the man’s words; he had handpicked and trained these men himself and would not lie.
He then changed his attitude, “Gentlemen, this is your fault, cheating on food and drinks, and dropping our plates, this is a bit unjustified, isn’t it?”
Song Wangyue was not in a hurry, and her words were clear.
“Our young master didn’t want to eat for nothing, he asked for a piece of lotus seed paste to take away. Boss, is this how you do business in this shop?”
The shopkeeper laughed and pointed to the pastries in the shop, “My shop is a famous pastry shop in this city, the ingredients used are all of the highest quality and the prices are naturally not cheap.
“Do you want money for the tasting?”
The shopkeeper replied without even thinking, “Naturally, no.”
“If we don’t want it, why are we cheating on food and drink?”
The shopkeeper’s smile froze.
“Could it be that, under this guise, you count the money for the cakes you try as part of the cakes the customers buy?”
The shopkeeper’s face sank, “Little girl, don’t talk nonsense.”
“If not, we buy a piece of lotus seed paste and you also earn money, why do you say we cheat the food and drink?”
She was so aggressive in her words that the shopkeeper’s forehead broke out in a fine sweat at her question.
The smile at the corner of Gu Yi’s mouth widened, and a glow flowed from his eyes.
Noticing that something was going on in the shop, all the people in the shop looked over, and some of the people queuing outside the shop also stood on tiptoe to look in.
The shopkeeper knew that if he did not salvage this situation, I was afraid that the shop’s business would be affected in the future.
“What a clever little girl, she can say the white things in black. We have always had a rule of tasting, but we only try what we want to buy, unlike you, who have tried more than a dozen items.”
But Song Wan Yue didn’t give him a chance to turn the tables, “It was our first time in the shop and our first time to try the food, the staff didn’t inform us of the rules here and served it to us directly, the young master and I then carefully tasted them one by one, I would like to ask the shopkeeper, is this our fault or the fault of your staff here?”
“You ……”
The boss was forced to ask dumbfounded, his face turned red and he turned around and gave the mate a slap, “How many years have you been in the shop, you don’t know how to serve the customers?”
The man half of his face was beaten red, and did not dare to cover it, with a crying voice said, “I told them that the ones lined up outside were specials, inside were newly made in our shop, if they wanted to buy, they could come in and try them out, they did not object, that’s why I thought they wanted to buy more and gave them the tasting items.”
In fact, the shop’s staff would do this when they met such customers to increase their chances of selling, and the shopkeeper knew it by heart. But he was so shameless from Song Wangyue that he could only take it out on the fellows.
“Useless thing, hurry up and pack your bunk and get the hell out of here!”
As he spoke, he secretly gave the mate a wink.
The fellow understood and knelt down with a panicked look on his face, “Sir, girl, it’s my fault, I shouldn’t have invited you in, I shouldn’t have served you so many tasting items without asking you, a thousand mistakes are all my fault, please don’t be so normal with me.”
He said he was apologising, but did not mention a word about his poor attitude after hearing that Gu Yi had only bought a piece of pastry.
Song Wan Yue smiled faintly, meaning to say, “No wonder the shopkeeper can make this shop so prosperous, even an ordinary fellow has so much heart, it’s strange if it’s not hot.”
The shopkeeper had asked his staff to kneel down because he wanted to get this matter over with quickly, so he didn’t want it to get bigger and bigger and affect the reputation of the shop. Do you want me, the shopkeeper, to kneel down for you too?”
“I don’t dare.”
Song Wangyue took out a silver ticket and casually placed it on the table and pushed it over, “We won’t buy the pastries, but we have to pay for the broken plates. How much is it, you can deduct it from here.”
Seeing the denomination on the silver ticket, the shopkeeper’s pupils snapped shut.
