After Zhou Jiayi choked with anger, she gave Bai Lu a cold sneer: "I said discounts and special offers. Can't you understand human language, or are you deaf?"
Bai Lu looked on in surprise: "Are you speaking human language?"
Zhou Jiayi raised her hand to hit someone, but suddenly remembered the time when Bai Lu had knocked Li Shuixian down with her hand in Xiao Cheng's backyard. She gritted her teeth and suppressed the hand she had just raised.
"Don't think you're so great just because you own a shop in the city. I'm doing you a favor by buying a TV from you, so don't push your luck." Zhou Jiayi sneered.
Bai Lu still smiled broadly: "I have my own dignity, I don't need shameless people to give me dignity."
Zhou Jiayi's face flushed red with anger: "Who are you calling shameless!"
Bai Lu looked at her and said, "Whoever answers, that's who."
"You shameless slut!" Zhou Jiayi dared not lay a hand on him, so she could only yell, "You shameless slut who got pregnant before marriage!"
Bai Lu sneered: "A vile person speaks vile words."
Zhou Jiayi: "..."
Zhang Sanhao wanted to cheer on his sister-in-law with gongs and drums.
Every word she uttered was succinct and left everyone speechless. This sister-in-law is amazing!
Zhou Jiayi's mother was watching TV and a tape recorder on the other side, picking and choosing which ones to let Li Si try out.
Hearing the arguing, he immediately strode over and started criticizing Bai Lu across the shelf.
"How dare you speak like that? You have no manners at all. You look like a respectable person, yet you bully my daughter in public. Have all your manners been eaten by dogs?"
This was the first time in Bai Lu's life that someone had told her she was ill-mannered: "Your daughter speaks with good manners, but I speak with no manners. Is your inability to distinguish right from wrong what you call good manners?"
On her way here, Jiang Hailian heard Zhou Jiayi talk about Bai Lu, saying that she was shameless, indecent, and dared to talk back.
This infuriated her: "What my daughter said is true. You deserve to be called a slut because of your own immoral private life. My daughter is well-educated and good at studying. You insulted her without any evidence. You are ill-mannered and shameless."
Bai Lu retorted calmly, "You say I insulted her without any evidence, but what evidence do you have to prove that I have an immoral private life? You're just making baseless accusations based on hearsay. Where is your upbringing?"
Jiang Hailian used to say this to others, and those people were always embarrassed and ashamed.
This was the first time I had encountered someone as calm and composed as Bai Lu, who was able to argue logically and persuasively. For a moment, I was speechless after being refuted.
Li Shuixian hasn't come to see Zhou Jiayi recently, and Zhou Jiayi doesn't know anything about Bai Lu's pregnancy.
Whether the child was born and then miscarried, or whether she was never pregnant at all, it couldn't lessen Zhou Jiayi's disgust for Bai Lu and her disdain for the country bumpkin.
"Mom, let's go watch TV. Don't pay attention to those country bumpkins, they're bad luck." Zhou Jiayi turned around with Jiang Hailian by the arm.
As she turned around, she gave Bai Lu a disdainful look from head to toe, her face full of arrogance and contempt.
Xiao Cheng scribbled a stroke of his pen, tearing the paper to shreds, and coldly said, "Give her a discount."
"A fracture?" All Zhang San could think about was a fracture.
Xiao Cheng glanced at him indifferently: "Give the price of the 27-inch TV to the 21-inch TV with a discount."
Zhang San: "..."
Are you sure this is a discount, and not a price increase?
Sure enough, Brother Cheng is a tough guy who doesn't talk much.
"Brilliant!" After admiring his elder brother's clever defense of his wife, Zhang San quickly ran to tear off the price tag.
Jiang Hailian took a liking to the 21-inch color TV and kept directing Li Si to test its functions, trying them out again and again.
They're picky, complaining that this isn't clear enough, that isn't detailed enough, finding fault with everything, all in an effort to drive down the price.
Li Si has seen too many people like this, and he doesn't want to give them a single smile. Especially since Jiang Hailian and Zhou Jiayi had just argued with his sister-in-law, he doesn't even want to sell anymore.
Unfortunately, he wasn't the boss and couldn't make the decisions.
The boss is still in the shop, not saying a word. I don't know what he's up to. Didn't he see that the boss's wife was being bullied?
Li Si was anxious about his boss's hearing loss while also brushing off Jiang Hailian's nitpicking, as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.
Until there was a "snap".
A bright price tag was pasted over.
21-inch color TV: ¥3800!
Not only were Jiang Hailian, who was haggling, stunned, but Zhou Jiayi was also stunned, Bai Lu, who was walking towards the cashier, was stunned, and even the impatient Li Si was stunned.
"What's this?" He stared blankly at Zhang San.
Zhang San said in a serious tone, "The boss said there's a discount."
Li Si: "..."
Is the price increase from 2500 to 3800 a discount?
You must be kidding me. Although, this discount is indeed very reasonable and very generous.
"What do you mean!" Jiang Hailian snapped at Zhang San as she realized what he meant, "Are you planning to raise the price on the spot?!"
What do you mean by "plan"?
Isn't that obvious?
Zhang San explained with a smile, "Didn't you just say you wanted a discount? Our boss agreed, aren't you happy? Aren't you surprised? Unexpected?"
Jiang Hailian: "..."
Zhou Jiayi: "..."
Raising prices as if it's a discount? Do they think they're stupid?!
Jiang Hailian opened her mouth to scold the boss, but after seeing who was at the cashier, she immediately swallowed her words.
The gunfire shifted to Zhang San: "2500 becomes 3800, and you call that a discount? Do you think I'm stupid?!"
Zhou Jiayi was also furious: "You're raising prices on the spot! You just said a 21-inch color TV would cost 2,500 yuan, and now it's 3,800 yuan! You're a black shop that cheats customers! I'm going to ask my dad to shut down your shop!"
Zhou Jiayi's father works at the Market Supervision Bureau, so he does have this right.
Zhang San and Li Si don't know Zhou Jiayi and Jiang Hailian, and they don't know what her father does.
But seeing Zhou Jiayi's confident demeanor and Jiang Hailian's aloof attitude, they realized that things might have gotten out of hand, and the two brothers looked at the cashier at the same time.
Xiao Cheng's expression remained unchanged. He glanced at the crowd with cold eyes, his disdain clearly showing that he had no intention of backing down.
Bai Lu further threatened from afar: "If you're going to investigate, investigate your clothing store first. Haven't you cheated your customers enough?"
Jiang Hailian runs a clothing store in the city. Those in the know understand how murky the clothing store business can be.
Upon hearing Bai Lu's words, a flicker of guilt crossed Jiang Hailian's eyes, but she quickly regained her composure: "I set a clear price, while you are raising prices arbitrarily. The two are not the same thing at all and cannot be confused."
Bai Lu laughed: "We also have clearly marked prices, didn't you see the big price tag?"
"Your price wasn't this just now, it was 2500!" Jiang Hailian remembered it clearly.
"Oh, really?" Bai Lu looked at Zhang San and Li Si.
Zhang San and Li Si shook their heads decisively: "No."
For TVs of the same size and type, not every unit will have a price tag; usually only the display models will have one.
The machine that Jiang Hailian had her eye on was indeed a sample unit, and it didn't have a price tag today.
Because when Zhang San and Li Si were cleaning the store in the morning, they accidentally knocked off the label, and it got wet and couldn't be reattached.
I planned to put it back on after it dried, but I've been waiting until now.
Jiang Hailian did not see the price tag, but when she asked Li Si, the blame was clearly directed at him.
"He just said 2500!"
Li Si replied honestly, "I didn't say that."
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