Su Qingluan watched coldly as everyone in the shop treated customers differently from top to bottom, and thought that she must not let other shops behave in the same way.
That’s right, the fruit jam of “Su Ji” has been on the high-end route from the beginning, but each series gives each shop a sample size, and customers are not allowed to actually “open the blind box”.
Of course, this "tasting" is just a bite-sized portion, and it cannot be as "large and filling" as some affordable snack stalls. After trying a whole bunch of food, you don't have to pay for a whole meal.
However, Su Qingluan also knew that such people were a minority. Especially since although the decoration of "Su Ji" was not particularly exquisite and luxurious, it was considered a mid-to-upper-level store and no one would easily cause trouble - even if there was, the shop assistants and the shopkeeper in the store were not there to do any work.
But Su Qingluan had no intention of driving the "potential customer" out the door.
After all, who can guarantee the family conditions of those who look unremarkable in their appearance, and whether they can afford to buy goods? For example, she and Yaoguang herself, isn't it the same?
A high-end store naturally cannot do such low-end things as looking down on others. With this in mind, Su Qingluan was already thinking about asking the store owner and the young clerk to pack up and leave - admittedly, the young clerk acted according to the store owner's mood, but if he didn't have the intention of flattering the powerful and looking down on the weak, he wouldn't have even bothered to say hello.
Some things are done out of helplessness, but some things come from the heart.
The woman in the aqua red dress was originally listening lazily to the shopkeeper's chatter. At this moment, she caught a familiar figure out of the corner of her eye and couldn't help but blurt out, "Linlang?"
However, the other party and the people he was traveling with just glanced at her—they looked at a stranger with their eyes.
The girl in the aqua red dress smiled apologetically at the other person and said, "I'm sorry, I may have recognized the wrong person. This lady just now bears a resemblance to an old friend."
To be precise, their faces were about 70% similar, but when they parted, that person was only thirteen years old. So many years had passed, and I wondered how that person would live in a different place... But after falling from the clouds, she certainly wouldn't be strolling around leisurely with her friends like this...
The girl in the light red dress, Xu Zhenzhen, sighed slightly in her heart, picked up the set of fruit jam at hand, opened the outer packaging of one of the boxes and started playing with it.
Yaoguang looked at Su Qingluan: "That lady over there has been looking at you for a long time."
Su Qingluan laughed and said, "You must have recognized the wrong person. My name is not 'Linlang', and I don't know anyone named 'Linlang'. Besides, there are so many people in the world who look alike. There are even two people who are not related at all but look exactly the same."
Yan Min nodded. "There are many cases of misidentification. I have two servants at home. They look like brothers, but they don't even come from the same hometown."
What Yan Min didn't say was that she recognized the person. It was the lady from the An Ning Marquis's residence, named Xu Zhenzhen. Xu Zhenzhen was the legitimate daughter. Although she wasn't the most favored eldest daughter, she was also loved by all the elders in the An Ning Marquis's residence because of her lively and likable personality.
However, Xu Zhenzhen did not recognize Yan Min. After all, Yan Min's family background was much lower than that of the An Ning Marquis Mansion. He was only a fourth-rank official in Beijing.
The fourth rank is considered a "big official" in local areas, but it is not enough in the capital where "third rank officials are everywhere and marquises are as numerous as dogs."
Precisely because Xu Zhenzhen came from such a privileged background, Yan Min didn't believe that she and Su Qingluan could really know each other - after all, Su Qingluan told her that she came from Huaxi Village, a small place she had never even heard of.
After hearing what Yan Min said, Yaoguang whispered, "Maybe she was sold somewhere else by human traffickers?" When she was on missions outside, she had seen too many cruel and unkind things in the world, and "selling children" was already the most common thing.
"No," Yan Min shook his head. "One of them is a servant born in our family, and the other is also a servant who signed a working contract. And that one was not sold here."
This was the first time Yaoguang heard such an interesting story and she was amazed.
However, Su Qingluan had seen this kind of thing many times in newspapers and news in her previous life. The most bizarre thing was that two young people who were not related by blood became lovers because of their good looks and compatible personalities, and then wanted to register their marriage at the Civil Affairs Bureau.
However, because they looked so similar, the staff of the Civil Affairs Bureau suspected that they were related within three generations and refused to process the application. As a result, the two people went to the identification center to report in order to confirm whether they were "siblings".
This news sparked a lot of gossip and discussion among netizens, with some saying it was fate, others speculating that the two were taken away by mistake at the hospital. There was even a commenter who said, "Other people test to see if they're related, but this one hopes there isn't one."
It turns out that the two people really have no blood relationship at all, they are two strangers with no connection at all, which makes everyone feel that it is just fate.
So in Su Qingluan's view, "mistaking someone for someone else" was a very common occurrence. So she didn't take the words of the young lady in the water-red dress to heart at all.
Su Qingluan and her group of three wandered around the store on their own because no one was paying attention. Later, the lady in red waited until the girl who bought the Sushan came back and then left.
Before leaving, she turned around and glanced in the direction of Su Qingluan, and saw that she was talking to someone she was traveling with.
The shopkeeper saw that the distinguished guest had left, and there were still three people wandering around in the store, with no intention of holding out a sign to buy jam. So he said impatiently, "Hey, three guests, you three are walking around the store without buying anything. It's really hindering our business. How about you do us a favor?"
As he said this, he made a "please" gesture.
Although the action conveyed that meaning, it was indeed perfunctory, and the expression and attitude were even more perfunctory.
The boy next to him was wiping the counter with a rag while adding a subtle hint of venom: "The more powerful your background, the more airs you put on. The lady just now had such an air of grace that no ordinary country girl could match her."
Although on the surface it sounded like she was praising Xu Zhenzhen's outfit, in fact, everyone could hear that she was secretly criticizing Yan Min, Su Qingluan and Yaoguang as "country girls".
Yan Min, though gentle, was, after all, a daughter of an official family. Her good nature didn't mean anyone could get ahead of her, so she sneered and said, "That's right. Similarly, a dog servant should be aware of being a dog servant. Don't think you can enter a wealthy family just because a kind-hearted person gives you a bone."
Su Qingluan was worried that Yan Min had a soft temper and would be easily bullied, but now she felt relieved after hearing this: Fortunately, she didn't have to worry anymore.
The waiter's face was very interesting after being retorted by Yan Min, but he couldn't say anything back - after all, the same thing applies, whether it is the shopkeeper or the waiter, they can only be sarcastic at most and cannot really do anything to these customers.
After all, they are just taking advantage of the power of others, while she is a real noble lady.
Su Qingluan watched the shopkeeper and the waiter change their expressions in a moment, and said softly, "Shopkeeper Lu is really doing a good business by serving people the right dishes."
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