Chapter 13: Refusing to Admit

"Since the young lady has begged you to forgive her this time, then forget it. Don't be so reckless next time."

“Yes, yes, yes…”

The man with patches all over his body nodded repeatedly with an apologetic look on his face.

After Chen Qiu Nian took Lin Miaomiao away, he turned and entered Jinjing Tower.

"Hey, mate, do you accept old gold jewelry?"

The waiter standing at the door greeted him warmly, "It's here, it's here. Please come in, sir."

Xu Mubai was currently sitting in a private room on the second floor, looking at the clothing samples sent by Qiong Yi Fang with Su Yunyao.

His mind was filled with the princess whispering in his ear just now. His brain seemed to be filled with paste and he couldn't understand a single picture.

Just then, the waiter from the lobby came over.

"Princess, there are guests downstairs. I'll go down first."

"Okay." Su Yunyao flipped through the sample picture in her hand and responded casually while eating the osmanthus cake.

After waiting for a long time, the plate of osmanthus cakes and crab roe cakes in front of her was empty, but Xu Mubai didn't come up.

Instead, there was a loud noise coming from downstairs.

Su Yunyao closed the sample book in her hand in confusion, walked to the window, and looked at the lobby downstairs through a layer of gauze.

"Sir, any jewelry sold by our Jinjinglou is recycled at any time. After weighing, it is recycled according to the gold price of the day, without deducting any depreciation," Xu Mubai explained patiently. "But the bracelet on your hand is not from our Jinjinglou. If you want us to recycle it, you must cut it open and burn it, then weigh it again, and then recycle it according to the gold price of the day, deducting any depreciation."

"Has it been cut open and burned? What if this bracelet was cut open and burned, and you don't want it anymore? I think you, Jinjinglou, are deliberately making things difficult for me. I clearly bought this bracelet from your Jinjinglou three years ago, but now you don't recognize it. Have you changed the owner? Go call your boss over. I want to see him."

Xu Mubai smiled in relief, his tone still gentle, "Sir, I am the shopkeeper of Jinjing Tower. Three years ago, I was also the shopkeeper of Jinjing Tower. If you have any questions, you can tell me directly."

"I'm telling you." The man with patches all over his body looked Xu Mubai up and down, a mocking smile on his lips, "Are you worthy of being the head of Jinjing Tower?"

"Of course." Xu Mubai said firmly, "Since I am the shopkeeper of Jinjinglou, I can naturally be the boss."

"Oh."

The man covered in patches sneered and started shouting loudly.

"Don't think I don't know that you, the shopkeeper, are just looking after the store for the boss, but you really think you are half the boss. Everyone, please don't come here to buy. Jinjinglou is a scam. This Jinjinglou is a scam."

The man with patches all over his body sat down on the ground like a spoiled child, causing all the customers who were picking things in the lobby to look over here.

The people around started talking about it.

"Why is Jin Jing Lou doing business like this? They clearly agreed that as long as you buy gold jewelry from them, no matter how much you paid for it, if you don't want it in the future, you can let them buy it back at the gold price of that day."

"Yes, now someone comes with the bracelet that cost them three years to buy, and not only do they refuse to accept it, they even want to cut it off. Isn't this just refusing to admit their debt and playing dirty?"

"What was the price of gold three years ago? What is the price of gold today? If they take a bracelet from three years ago and buy it back at today's price, won't they lose money? Which store would do business at a loss?"

"I came here to buy from Jinjinglou because of its good reputation. Now they are opening the door to do business and cheating. Forget it, I'm not going to buy from it."

"If you don't want to buy it, then I won't buy it either. Isn't there a Jin Man Lou next door? Let's go to Jin Man Lou to buy it. Jin Man Lou not only looks similar to Jin Jing Lou, but the price is cheaper."

Hearing this, Su Yunyao, who was standing behind the curtains on the second floor, couldn't help but frown.

Seeing that the people who had just been picking things in the store were about to leave, Pearl couldn't help but say, "Princess, how about I go down and explain things to these people?"

Su Yunyao shook her head and said, "No rush."

Xu Mubai walked to the middle of the crowd and raised his hands.

His expression was calm, without any disturbance, and even the tone of his voice sounded as if he was saying that the weather was really nice today.

"Can you please listen to what I have to say?"

He walked slowly to the counter and casually took out a bracelet.

"Everyone can see that all our Jinjinglou bracelets have the word 'Jing' printed on the inside, but the bracelet in this young master's hand does not have this word on the inside. Therefore, I can conclude that this bracelet in your hand is not from our Jinjinglou."

Xu Mubai's eyes were cold and full of majesty.

A flash of panic crossed the eyes of the man covered in patches, but it was only a fleeting moment, so fast that he was not caught at all.

"Ah, if there's no Jing character on the bracelet, it's not a bracelet from your Jinjinglou. Who knows if the Jing character was engraved on the things you sold three years ago? Who knows, you might not be saying the same thing again three years later!"

The man with patches all over his body sneered, "Alright, I see, you, the shopkeeper, are not in charge. After all this talk, you just want to deny it and deduct more money from me. Why, you don't want to deduct some money and keep it for yourself, do you?"

Xu Mubai smiled suddenly, "Sir, when you took out this bracelet just now, the shop assistant took a look. Although there is no "Jing" character on your bracelet, there is a "Man" character. So, this bracelet must not be from our Jinjinglou."

"Bah, that's nonsense!" spat the man covered in patches. "This bracelet has been on my hand since I walked in. How did you guys see the word 'Man' on it?"

Xu Mubai glanced around and said, "In that case, could you please take out the bracelet and show it to everyone present to see if there are any words on it, and if it is full of words?"

"Okay, come and see!"

The man with patches all over his body held the bracelet high.

"Everyone, please take a good look. There are no words on the inner wall of this bracelet."

After saying that, he showed the bracelet to the two people standing in front of him as if to prove something.

Everyone was also confused...

"There really isn't anything written on it. This shopkeeper is clearly just making excuses. Jinjinglou is already very expensive, and he's still so dishonest. Forget it, I won't buy from you."

"He said the bracelets he sold had words on them, so they had words on them? He said there were no words on them, so they had no words on them? We who came to buy the bracelets don't know. Whether there are words on them or not is up to Jinjinglou to decide."