“Yeah ……”
The onlookers echoed, “You’re running a pawn shop, even if you’re kind-hearted, you can’t pawn a bracelet that’s not worth ten taels of silver for three hundred taels. You’re bullying people’s siblings for being country people and giving them a swap, right?”
“That’s right, they’ve been swapped. It’s not the first time they’ve done something like this, it happens almost every year.”
“It’s so unethical, it’s because the family is in trouble that they come to pawn something, they have no humanity at all to do that.”
……
“Shut up all of you!”
The old courtier was annoyed by what he said.
He had been a courtier for many years, but this was the first time he had ever been said that to his face.
When the crowd saw that he was annoyed, they knew they had guessed correctly and pointed at him, speaking even more harshly.
“What is this?”
A majestic voice came from behind the crowd of onlookers and people turned around at once.
The old courtier also came out of the shop in three steps and respectfully walked in front of the visitor, “Dongjia.”
The man who was shouted at was kindly looking, with a smile on his round face.
“What’s happened?”
“The little girl inside pawned a bracelet, saying that her family was in an emergency and needed silver, and she almost knelt down and begged for it. She came to pawn it today, saying that we had changed the bracelet for her, not her original one.”
“You, you ……”
The man walked towards the house without hurrying, “How many times have I told you, we are running a pawn shop not a charity shop, the amount is the amount, look how much trouble you are getting into now?”
“Yes, I remember.”
The man walked into the house and put on a kind face and extended his hand towards Song Wangyue, “Little girl, let me see the bracelet in your hand.”
Song Wan Yue laughed, “There really is a kind of proprietor’s is a kind of subordinate, are you bullying me for my young age, don’t you know what kind of thoughts you are playing?”
“Unbridled, who told you to talk to our proprietor like that?”
The man raised his hand to stop the old courtier’s words, his face did not change in the slightest because of Song Wangyue’s words, “Go and bring the pawn ticket.”
The old courtier answered and personally went to bring it over.
The man looked at it for a few moments and pointed to the writing on it, “Little girl, it clearly says here that there is no water head, no colour, knocked edges and missing edges, a poor quality bracelet, we gave you the right one, right?”
“Wrong.”
Song Wan Yue took a small step back and opened the box so that the onlookers could clearly see the jade bracelet inside, “The lack of head and colour is true, the knocked edges and missing edges are not, your pawnshop is really kind to replace it with a good one.”
The man coughed twice, “This is our rule, everything that is pawned has to be said to be second best, just to avoid trouble when someone comes to redeem it.”
“So our ancestral bracelet of tens of thousands of taels of silver was exchanged by you for this one which is not worth ten taels?”
The man’s face never looked annoyed, “If you say so, I can’t help it. If the lord decides that our pawnshop has lost, I will buy you a bracelet worth hundreds of thousands of taels, not to mention tens of thousands of taels.”
“Good!”
Someone shouted in approval and was elbowed by the person next to him, “Are you stupid? What’s so good about shouting? It doesn’t look like that little girl’s brother and sister are blackmailing people, there must be something fishy here.”
“What’s fishy about it? Didn’t the proprietor say that you can report it to the police if you think it’s wrong?”
“Are you stupid? ……”
The person next to him wanted to poke him in the head a few times, “How can they win a lawsuit when the jade bracelet is written as so broken on the pawn ticket?”
Inside the house.
Song Wan Yue smiled slightly, “You are expecting us not to win, aren’t you?”
The man was just about to reply when the onlookers were once again parted, and Wei the shopkeeper walked in, “Miss Song, Mr. Song, are you all right?”
The men froze.
He often went to eat at Yue Hak Loi, so he naturally recognised the shopkeeper Wei.
The old courtier, however, was relieved, “So it’s not a relative, that’s good.”
“Nothing happened, except that the jade bracelet we pawned was switched.”
The shopkeeper Wei was shocked and quickly came over, took the box in Song Wangyue’s hand and opened it to look at it, “What is this?”
Song Wangyue lifted her chin towards his man and the old courtier, “Ask them.”
“Dongjia Yuan, the jade bracelet Miss Song pawned was a betrothal gift from our young Dongjia, not this from you.”
The old courtesan drew a breath of cold air, after all these years, no one knew who the young proprietor of the restaurant was, but with the money that Yue Hak Lai was making every day, their young proprietor’s value would not be bad.
Yuan also drew a cold breath, but he didn’t show it on his face, “Boss Wei, you have to have proof when you say this, the young girl was not the one your young master gave.”
“How would Dongjia Yuan know? I remember you weren’t in the shop at first either.”
Dongjia Yuan choked.
“Yuan Dongjia, lend a hand.”
The shopkeeper Wei gave him a step and pulled him aside, “Mr. Yuan, to be honest, the jade bracelet that Miss Song pawned is an ancestral one from our young master’s family. We are all acquaintances, let’s not talk about anything else, you, give me the real jade bracelet quietly, I will treat you to a table some day.”
“Wei boss of the ah ……”
The first time Yuan’s boss opened his mouth, he was stopped by Wei’s words, “Don’t say it’s this one, we’re all in business, who doesn’t have some foul play at home? Just think of it as giving me face, okay? Otherwise, if word gets out to our young master’s ears, our two families will be enemies from now on.”
The jade bracelet will be returned to you, but I can’t give it to you now because there are so many people around. ”
“I’m afraid this can not, you do not know our young master’s temper, if Miss Song goes back to say that I did not help him get the bracelet today, he will certainly bring people over to smash this shop of yours, you do not think I am alarmist, because we every young master here ah ……” , Wei the shopkeeper pointed to his head, “Some problems, things are never reckless.”
Yuan Dongjia only then completely believed his words, just now he thought that Wei boss’s was lying to him, although he had never seen what kind of person the young owner of Yue Hak Lai restaurant was, but on the basis of financial power, it is impossible to say that a small girl from the countryside, it turns out that there is a problem with the brain.
The heart immediately has an idea, but the mouth but a snort, “Wei boss of the really is difficult for me, you see these people ……”
“This is good to say, let your fellows shoo people away, you send someone to bring the bracelet on it.”
Yuan Dongjia waved his hand, waited for the fellows to go out and shoo the onlookers away, and instructed the old courtier that
“Go and bring the bracelet.”
But old Chaofeng stood still, “Dongjia, the bracelet is not in the shop.”
