Chapter 3 Rules Convenience Store
Tang Xiaoxiao almost lost her ability to think instantly due to the fishy smell of the fish head.
The fish-headed man approached the counter with his grinning mouth, stared at her with his dead fish eyes, and scolded: "Why aren't you moving? If you don't give me the change, I'll complain to you!"
Tang Xiaoxiao was so frightened that she couldn't even scream. She could only go to the cash register with trembling teeth to take out coins.
When she placed the five brass coins into the fish-headed man's palm, she heard him exclaim again.
"How much is this gum at the front desk?"
Tang Xiaoxiao said in a trembling voice: "One piece for each."
The gum cans say [Retail Bulk] and most of the small items at the front desk are sold individually, so just pay for them one by one.
The fish-headed man threw back a brass coin almost instantly: "Then I'll take one."
With wet fingers, he took out a green gum from the transparent gum jar. During this time, the two huge fish eyes were staring at Tang Xiaoxiao.
The little girl immediately lowered her head to take the coin given by the fish-headed man, and put it back into the cash machine carefully, not daring to look at him at all.
The fish-headed man laughed, did not continue to threaten Tang Xiaoxiao, and prepared to leave with heavy steps.
"Wait a moment, guest."
Qiao Song at the side suddenly spoke up, smiling: "The price of chewing gum here is one dollar per stick, not two sticks."
Tang Xiaoxiao's heart, which had been relieved when she saw the guests leave, became anxious again.
The fish-head guest slowly turned his head and stared at her.
"What did you say?"
Qiao Song pointed at his hand and said, "You just took two sticks of gum. Maybe the packaging is stuck together and you didn't notice it. Since gum can't be scanned, you need to pay another dollar."
The dead fish eyes of the fish-headed man seemed to have no effect on Qiao Song. She even calmly pulled out a piece of tissue paper placed at the front desk and said, "You seem to have some water on your hands. Do you want to wipe it?"
Maybe it was because she was too enthusiastic, the fish-headed man was stunned for a moment. Finally, he slowly took the tissue she handed over, and took out the chewing gum that had been stuffed into his pocket a little bit late.
They are indeed two sticks stuck together, and the packaging is so tight that if you don't look carefully you might think it's just one stick.
At this time, Qiao Song also noticed that the other person had a bunch of keys hanging around his waist, including car keys and house keys.
This strange guest with a fish head bought a large bottle of coffee.
She immediately reminded with a smile: "When you drive at night, please be careful and don't drive while tired. Getting home safely is the most important thing."
The fish-headed man, who had been troubled by the chewing gum, suddenly turned his head to look at her.
He slowly pulled out the extra, stuck-together wrapper of gum and tossed it back onto the counter.
Without saying the last word, he pushed open the door of the convenience store and walked out to the ding-ding-ding-ding sound of "Welcome back next time" to say farewell.
Tang Xiaoxiao was almost scared to death: "Sister Qiao Song, you are so brave."
Facing a monster like that, he actually dared to remind him that he had taken too many things.
Qiao Song took out two pieces of paper and wiped the water droplets on the counter.
"After all, you're just working at a convenience store, so the process is no different from real life. Just treat them as normal customers, but you have to be careful whether these guys will do anything else."
For example, a single stick of chewing gum, a small item that can be purchased without scanning a code, costs one soul coin each. However, if too many small items are lost in one night, it is not certain whether the 210 yuan salary is enough to compensate for it.
Moreover, if that monster just now got angry, it would probably swallow half of them in one bite.
“If something doesn’t feel right, remind the guest verbally, but don’t point out their mistakes directly.”
Tang Xiaoxiao nodded immediately, feeling that she had benefited a lot.
Qiao Song asked again: "Have you counted the number of these unpacked items on the counter?"
Tang Xiaoxiao then began to count the goods on the counter with fear. Fortunately, the convenience store had just started business, and most of the items were newly unpacked. The numbers were very good and all were integers.
The middle-aged man who had been squatting next to the shelf finally changed his mind about Qiao Song. He called Aunt Liu, who was in charge of sanitation, and asked her to clean the floor that was wet by the fish head man to prevent the next customer from slipping.
The man pushed up his black-framed glasses and introduced himself to Qiao Song: "My name is Xin Boyu, and I'm in charge of the shelves today."
He paused and added.
"I have checked up and down just now, and I didn't find any strange products, nor did I see the red shelf mentioned in the rules."
Qiao Song knew that the other party was exchanging information, so he also shared his findings: "The vending machine mentioned in Rule 6 is just around the corner outside the store."
"The machine that can exchange soul coins?"
"right."
Qiao Song added silently: "That thing looks like it can swallow a whole person, or you can throw something bigger in it."
Xin Boyu, who was standing outside the counter, immediately had bad associations.
He was extremely alert: "It is best for everyone not to leave the convenience store during work hours and stay at their respective work stations. The convenience store has just started operating and there is no demand for replenishment. I will go to the warehouse to check later."
Before going to the warehouse to meet another player, he had already called Aunt Liu over.
Aunt Liu, who was called over to clean, is a cleaner in real life, and her skills are related to this.
【Magic cleaning tool set】
[Are you still frustrated by the water stains on the floor? Are you still tired of changing different rags, brushes, and brooms every time you clean? Then use this set of magic cleaning tools! Although it has no other function except cleaning, it can at least help you get a perfect working environment! ]
Aunt Liu took out a round mop from somewhere and in a few seconds she cleaned up the footprints left by the fish-headed man at the door, and there was no water stain on the floor.
Tang Xiaoxiao was stunned at the counter: "Auntie is so amazing."
Qiao Song also sighed: "It's true that everyone has their own specialties."
Unlike the crappy toolbox in her skill tooltip, what opened was completely random, and she didn't want to use it at all.
Aunt Liu put away her tools shyly. Unlike the others, she was wearing a green cleaning uniform and an apron with pockets in front of her.
The mop, which had just been used, disappeared almost as soon as her hand touched the pocket of her apron.
"There's nothing else I can do. Leave the sanitation of the convenience store to me for now. Just let me know when you need cleaning."
Although this convenience store is newly opened, there is some garbage and dust left in some corners due to decoration and stocking. Fortunately, Aunt Liu is careful and has been trying to clean the entire convenience store.
Xin Boyu still couldn't see the red shelf, so he went to the warehouse at the back to look for it with the warehouse keeper.
After seeing off the first customer, the convenience store soon welcomed new customers. The door was pushed open again and again late at night, and the ding-ding-ding-ding sound of "Welcome" kept ringing.
This time, a family of three came in.
An old lady with a hunched back and a mother and son holding hands.
The little boy entered the convenience store and skipped to the snack shelf to find food. His mother, who was wearing a pink dress, followed him with a shopping basket and asked him to slow down.
The old man with a cane sighed from the moment he entered the door, "The floor is so slippery, the floor is so slippery, don't fall down."
Fortunately, Aunt Liu had cleaned up the slippery slime left by the previous fish head customer.
The entire floor is shiny and very dry, so there is almost no possibility of slipping.
The old man with the cane kept looking back and forth across the floor of the convenience store, and finally looked away with some disappointment.
The family of three went straight to the snack area, where the little boy was happily selecting various snacks. His mother asked him to take less sweets, while the old grandmother was pointing at the shelf with her cane behind them.
"Grandson, take more. It's okay. Grandma will pay for you."
The mother, caught in the middle, was in a dilemma and soon filled her basket with food.
At this moment, the little boy suddenly sat on the ground and started crying: "Not these, I want the chocolate balls in red packaging! I want that!"
My mother gently comforted me, "We bought so many snacks, it's okay without that."
"I want that! Crunchy chocolate balls, Maomao's favorite!"
The old man next to him immediately calmed his eldest grandson in a gentle manner and sent the woman to the front desk to ask.
Ever since the family of three entered the store, the people at the counter had noticed them.
The mother, who looked very gentle, stood in front of the cashier counter and looked at the two of them.
Qiao Song took the initiative to smile and asked, "Sir, is there anything I can help you with?"
The mother turned her gaze and looked at Tang Xiaoxiao who was a little nervous beside her: "Do you have those chocolate balls in red packaging?"
Tang Xiaoxiao shuddered and wanted to say she didn't know, but Qiao Song gave her a look. After calming down a little, she said, "If it's not on the shelf, the store probably doesn't sell it."
The woman frowned, seemingly not very satisfied with the answer.
"My husband and I bought some last time we came here, and my son has been clamoring for that candy. Why don't you come out with me and look for it over there together?"
Tang Xiaoxiao was almost in tears, but this woman seemed to only pick on the weak. She kept pestering Tang Xiaoxiao and refused to let Qiao Song help.
Tang Xiaoxiao could only muster up the courage to follow the woman to the shelf.
From this angle, Qiao Song could only see those people standing together, and seemed to be flipping through something in red packaging in the snack section of the shelf.
During this time, the child's crying never stopped.
At this moment, the wind chimes at the door of the convenience store rang again, and this time a hippopotamus with an extremely burly figure came in.
The humanoid monster with a hippopotamus head on his head was wearing a neat four-piece suit. He walked directly to the counter with a briefcase under his arm, and every step he took made a heavy sound.
The hippopotamus hurriedly slapped out a red pass.
"Bring me two packs of finger cigarettes."
Qiao Song remembered that there was no such thing as tobacco on the entire counter, let alone the finger cigarette that the customer mentioned.
But she still calmly took the pass.
The red pass was surrounded by a leather protective cover with densely packed small characters written on it. Qiao Song could only see the large characters "Ghost Alliance" in the lower right corner.
The hippo in a suit tapped the counter with his fingers and said impatiently, "Hurry up, I'm in a hurry."
As he spoke, the hippo pressed his upper body against the counter, staring at her with his dark eyes: "You don't know where the cigarettes are, do you?"
The huge head tilted forward slightly, and the huge mouth was half open while he spoke, as if if the salesperson hesitated a little longer, he would bite her head off with his mouth.
Qiao Song calmly said "OK" and quickly picked up the pass and flipped it over.
She quickly noticed that there was a barcode on the back corner of the pass that looked like a product, and immediately scanned it with the scanner at the front desk.
After a beep, a red hidden shelf rose up next to the cash register, filled with various products that had never appeared in the store before.
Among them was a pack of cigarettes with a row of dried fingers drawn on the cover.
After Qiao Song confirmed that the product name below was finger cigarettes, he took out two packs.
"Hello, a total of 200 soul coins."
The hippopotamus probably didn't expect her to react so quickly, so he had to retract his big mouth, smacked his tongue regretfully, put one hand on the counter, and quickly pulled out two soul banknotes.
"Hurry up, I'm in a hurry."
Qiao Song calmly took the hundred-dollar bill and ran it through the money detector.
After a beep.
She took out one of the bills and said, "Hello, this bill doesn't seem to work. How about changing it?"
The hippopotamus rolled his eyes.
"You mean, would a big boss like me use counterfeit money?"
Qiao Song said, of course not.
"Wow! I saw it!"
At this moment, a scream was heard from a distance.
It seemed that the family of three had finally found the snack.
Qiao Song noticed out of the corner of his eye that Tang Xiaoxiao was carefully explaining to the group of people that the things on the counter could not be taken.
She felt something was wrong and quickly used her words to get rid of the hippopotamus: "How could a boss like you use counterfeit money? Someone must have made a mistake with your money. You are in a hurry, so why not use a mobile phone to pay?"
As she spoke, one of her hands had already pressed down the finger cigarette she had just taken out, as if she was not afraid of the hippopotamus's attack at all.
Since the rules state that convenience stores will protect their staff, there will definitely not be a situation where customers directly steal things. As long as the staff do not make mistakes, these ghosts will have no reason to cause trouble.
The hippopotamus seemed to know what she was thinking, so he slowly took out a new banknote and ran it through the money detector again before he snatched the cigarette he wanted and the red pass that Qiao Song handed back to him.
As soon as the pass left the cashier's range, the red rack containing finger cigarettes slowly lowered again.
Before leaving, the hippopotamus snorted coldly and looked meaningfully in the direction of the family of three in the snack area.
The old man with the cane was cursing and trying to hit Tang Xiaoxiao's hand with the cane.
"Why can't I take it? We are all from the same supermarket. It's not like we can't afford the things on the shelves. Do you look down on us?"
The gentle mother next to him told her child not to take new snacks, but in fact, she let the little boy quickly grab two or three bags of red-wrapped chocolate balls before the hidden snack cabinet disappeared.
Tang Xiaoxiao was afraid, but she didn't dare to let them take all the goods away. She could only follow them and explain repeatedly: "You need a pass to buy the things on this shelf. You can't just take them casually."
Qiao Song, who had already guessed what had happened, saw several people coming to her with a box of snacks to settle the bill.
Just now, while the hippopotamus was buying cigarettes at the counter, a hidden small red shelf seemed to have appeared in the snack area.
The little boy just happened to grab the snack he had been looking for for a long time.
Qiao Song lowered his head and saw round eyeballs painted on the outside of the bulging red chocolate packaging.
The little boy in front of the counter tilted his head to look at her, his big mouth almost stretched to the corners of his eyes, revealing his jagged fangs.
The little boy urged maliciously:
"What are you looking at, ugly freak? Pay the bill! I want candy, I want candy!"
Veins on Qiao Song's forehead were throbbing. He picked out all the packets of red chocolates and looked at the little boy tenderly.
"No, you need a pass to buy this."
She stuffed the things directly into an empty basket under the counter so quickly that the person on the other side didn't even react.
She took a step back and spoke to the little boy word by word, carefully:
"You have teeth like this and you still eat sweets. Be careful not to lose a tooth."
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