Officer Xie said, "Alright, I know everything. We must teach them a lesson."
After that, she told the two policemen who came with her, "What are you looking for? Tie them up and take them back."
"Yes." With that, the two men started to tie up Liu Xiu and the others. Old Lady Xia wanted to struggle, but she became obedient after being yelled at by the police who tied her up.
Seeing that everything was done, Officer Xie said, "We'll leave first. Please send someone to go to the police station with us to explain the situation."
Xia Jin said, "Manager, you go."
"Okay."
After watching the two people being kidnapped, the store clerks cleaned up the place and then went about their own business.
Chen Xin said, "Now I can finally vent my anger."
Xia Jin said, "Yes, let's go."
He continued to say to the clerk: "You guys go to work, I'm going to go to the old store over there."
Xia Jinxian and Chen Xin went to the department store to buy rice, brown sugar, white sugar and a few bags of biscuits and meat. They bought a lot of things. Xia Jin hired a tricycle to carry these things to the old store.
As soon as the car stopped in front of the store, Xia Jin called the employees inside to come out and help unload the things into the house. There was no one in the store at the moment, so Xia Jin prepared to distribute them to them.
Aunt Cuihong looked at Xia Jin and asked, "What is the boss doing? Why are you buying so many things?"
Xia Jin smiled and said, "This is your New Year's gift. Come on, some of you move in."
They moved the things in and put them at the cashier counter. There was no one in the store, so Xia Jin called them together to arrange the next work. Xia Jin gave them a vacation starting from the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month until they started working on the 4th day of the first lunar month. Xia Jin asked Aunt Cuihong to write a notice and post it outside tomorrow.
After explaining the holiday arrangements, Xia Jin gave them New Year benefits, including a reward of 20 yuan per person, as well as brown sugar biscuits, rice, and two pounds of meat per person.
Every employee who was assigned to it was very happy. Not to mention the gifts, the twenty yuan alone was half a month's salary.
After Xia Jin checked the account again to make sure there was no problem, he took the passbook handed to him by Aunt Cuihong. This was opened on the day Xia Jin left. It was not safe to keep so much money every day. After opening the passbook, Xia Jin asked the clerk to deposit one every day, which was safer.
As they were leaving, Xia Jin suddenly said, "By the way, Aunt Cuihong, tell the merchants who deliver goods to us tomorrow when we're going to have a holiday. Also, if there are any perishable items left in the store tomorrow, you can take them back and share them."
Aunt Cuihong said, "Okay, boss. That means we can just ask the people we work with to come back and deliver our goods on the morning of the fourth day of the New Year."
"Yes, don't forget to pay them the money tomorrow."
"Okay. Got it."
After Xia Jin and Chen Xin came out, Xia Jin took Chen Xin back to his home first. Xia Jin first checked to see if Gu Jingmo had returned. If not, Xia Jin would leave a note to tell him that he would be back later in the evening.
Xia Jin opened the door and went in. Seeing that there was no one in the room, Xia Jin knew that Gu Jingmo had not come back yet, so he wrote a small note for him and left it on the table. He then went to his room to get the gift he bought for Chen Xin, and then took Chen Xin away.
When the two of them got on the bus, Chen Xin began to talk about her winter vacation. It turned out that Chen Xin knew about her stepfather's layoff so quickly because of Pan Yu. As soon as the winter vacation was over, they made several appointments with classmates to go out and play. Chen Xin wanted to call Xia Jin from behind, but unfortunately Xia Jin was not there.
Chen Xin said, "Ajin, you must go when we arrange to play after the New Year. It's so much fun. Pan Yu knows a lot of gossip. The classmates are having a great time eating and drinking. You should make more friends."
"Aren't you afraid that I'll stop being friends with you if I have new friends?"
Chen Xin said with a little pride: "I don't believe it. No matter how many friends you have, I must be the number one in your heart, right?"
"Yes, yes, it's best to follow you."
When Xia Jin sent Chen Xin home, he also gave her the gift he had prepared. It was a small ornament that Xia Jin bought in Lian City. When Xia Jin just returned home, he took out the small gift box of the ornament.
Chen Xin looked at the various small hair accessories inside and said, "Ajin, they all look so good. I like them so much. I love you."
Xia Jin looked at the quirky Chen Xin and said, "I'm glad you like it. I'll go back first. See you next year."
"Bye Jin, see you next year."
Xia Jin replied that he had found two shop assistants from his own store to go to the department store with him to move things. There were many people in these two stores, and they were close to each other, so the other party's car would not deliver. Xia Jin had no choice but to let the shop assistants move the things themselves.
Xia Jin spent the rest of his time in the store checking the accounts. He also opened a passbook for them and asked them to make a deposit every day. In the 1980s, passbooks were anonymous. If you lost your passbook, the money you deposited in the bank would be lost. If someone found it and knew your password, they could also withdraw the money.
Xia Jin collected all the passbooks, checked the store's accounts, went to the bank, and transferred all the money in the passbooks to the passbook in his hand. Together with the money he earned in the past few days, there were still more than 50,000 yuan in the passbook. This was the money Xia Jin planned to take to Beijing to use. The rest was kept in the space for safer use.
Xia Jin walked out of the bank, used his backpack as a cover to put his passbook into the space, and then took a car back to the hot pot restaurant. When Xia Jin arrived at the restaurant, it was peak meal time, but after so many days of training, the staff were already able to serve customers well.
Even during peak hours, the store was in good order, without crowds or noise. Xia Jin had nothing to do, so he sat at the cashier and helped them with the bills.
At around six o'clock, Gu Jingmo came to the store to find Xia Jin. The store manager had just returned from the police station. Xia Jin handed the accounting work to the store manager and went out to eat with Gu Jingmo.
After dinner, the two of them walked around outside for a while before going back in. When they returned to the store, there were not so many people there, and the staff had taken turns going out to eat.
When the store manager saw Xia Jin coming back, he hurried over and started talking about the follow-up of today's incident.
The store manager said that when they first entered the police station, the two were very well behaved. But when the police station said they would detain them overnight, Old Mrs. Xia started cursing like crazy, not only cursing Xia Jin but also the police. She kicked the table and slammed the bench inside.
Liu Xiu was very careful and did whatever she was told to do. Seeing his mother-in-law like this, Liu Xiu went up to persuade her, but was scratched on the face by Old Lady Xia instead. From the moment Liu Xiu went up, the old lady pushed all the problems onto her and kept scolding her.
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