Chapter 50: To catch a thief, you must seize the stolen goods
It is very difficult to find a job in Pucheng these days. Most units and enterprises still rely on employees. Even those service industries, such as Dafeng Restaurant, basically do not recruit people.
Most shops are run by a couple and rarely require help from outsiders.
Only small restaurants need people to help serve dishes and wash dishes. Not only is it tedious, but the salary is very low. When business is slow, they will ask you to go home and rest, and call you back if there is anything else. You don’t get paid for resting. In her previous life, she worked in a restaurant near the bridge for more than two months and only received more than 20 days’ salary.
In my previous life, I had just arrived in the city and didn’t know anything, so I went to the restaurant just to find a place to stay.
In this life, she has most of her life experience in business and has a place to live, so there is no way she could go to those places.
After two days of searching, she still couldn't find a suitable job. Deng Xiuzhen decided to follow the same path as in her previous life, but she would skip the first step and go straight to the second step: she would go to work at the "Mini Clothing Store" across from the Dafeng Restaurant. The "Mini Clothing Store" mainly sells women's underwear, as well as sweaters and coats.
She knew that there must be a need for people there, so after she stopped working in the restaurant in her previous life, she worked there.
The reason why she hadn't considered going there before was because two things happened while she was working there, which resulted in her not only not getting paid after working for more than a month, but also losing money.
When she went to apply for the job, it was the boss's wife Yingzi who tried her out. She first looked at her ID card, and then asked about her family situation, where she lived now, where she worked before coming here, and some other routine questions.
Then I asked her to help organize the goods, clean the place, and talk to customers when they came.
After trying for a whole morning, I asked her to go back at noon to get ready and come to work tomorrow. The salary is a base salary plus commission. The base salary is 100 yuan a month, and the commission is 1%. The more you sell, the higher your salary will be.
The next day, Deng Xiuzhen went to work. The first few days were smooth and she was able to sell some clothes. Deng Xiuzhen thought that if she continued like this, she would earn a good salary for the month. Then something happened.
The weather was good that day, there were many people on the street, and several groups of customers came to the store one after another.
The women were chattering loudly, asking this and that, and Deng Xiuzhen was overwhelmed.
After they made their selections, they went to the fitting room to try them on.
It’s a pity that there is only one fitting room, and with several people trying on clothes, it’s a bit hard to find space.
One of the women said, "We are all women. If you have it, others also have it. You are not afraid of being seen. Why don't you just try it together?"
They thought it made sense, so a few generous people went into the fitting room together.
Some people who tried it on quickly came out, said it didn't fit, then put down the underwear and walked away.
When the last woman came out, Deng Xiuzhen went into the fitting room to get her underwear and found that there was only one piece.
It was obvious that each of those people took a few pieces in, but when they left, they only took one piece. Some were not taken out. Shouldn't the extra ones be in the fitting room?
Why is there only one piece in the fitting room now?
She grabbed the woman and asked her for underwear.
The woman said, "I am all here, how could I have taken yours?"
"Deng Xiuzhen got anxious and asked, 'You didn't take it, so where did the clothes go?'"
The woman said, "How should I know where your clothes are? That's your business, what does it have to do with me?" Then she turned and was about to leave.
Deng Xiuzhen held her back and refused to let her go, wanting to open her bag and look.
The woman said, "Don't even mention you want to check my bag, you can even search my body.
But you are wrongly accusing me and insulting my personality!
I'm going to make it clear, if I find it, I'll pay you ten times as much, if I don't, you either have to pay me ten times as much or kowtow to me and apologize!"
Deng Xiuzhen was about to agree when someone from the nearby shop came over and advised, "Don't be so anxious. If you have something to say, just take your time."
The woman said, "Speak slowly! How can I speak slowly when they accuse me of being a thief?"
The person in the shop next door asked Deng Xiuzhen, "How many items are missing?"
Deng Xiuzhen was almost crying with anxiety, and answered with a nasal voice: "I don't know, probably three or four."
The man pointed at the woman's bag and showed it to Deng Xiuzhen, then said, "It shouldn't have been taken by her. It's all a misunderstanding, all a misunderstanding."
Deng Xiuzhen thought about it and figured it out: How could a woman's handbag be so small that it could hold underwear? Even if she didn't worry about the underwire of the underwear getting deformed, she could only hold one piece.
She could only let the woman go.
Then she got to know the person who ran the shop next door. That person's name was Chunxiang, and he was looking after the shop for her relative.
Chunxiang told her: "Those people should be in the same group. The one who left first should have hidden the underwear in his clothes and took it away."
Deng Xiuzhen thought about it and it should be like this: there were still people inside at the time, and she subconsciously thought that the clothes were still inside. Because she wanted to look outside, she didn't go in to check. When the last person came out, the clothes had been taken away to who knows where.
This kind of thing is groundless, and it's useless even if she reports it to the police. Not to mention that she doesn't know those people at all, even if she finds them, how can she prove that they stole the underwear from the store? They bought it somewhere else, right? They bought it here before, right?
It is said that if you catch an adulterer, you should catch both of them, and if you catch a thief, you should catch the stolen goods. But this time, nothing was caught. Deng Xiuzhen could only think that she was unlucky.
She summed up her experience and decided that she would never let others go in to try things on together again, and she would make it clear to others in person before they took in a few pieces.
As a result, similar situations did not occur again.
About 20 days later, there were not many customers in the store that afternoon, and a woman came to try on underwear. She took three pieces in, and when she came out, she only had two pieces in her hand. She said they didn't fit and didn't want them.
Deng Xiuzhen looked into the fitting room and didn't find any underwear, so she stopped the woman and prevented her from leaving, saying that she had clearly taken three pieces in, so where did the other one go?
The woman said, "There are only two, where did you get three?"
Deng Xiuzhen said: "It's three pieces, clearly three pieces!"
The woman said, "Two! Two!"
Deng Xiuzhen said: "I brought three items in for you, and you must have taken the other one!"
"How dare you accuse me, you stinky bitch!" the woman said as she grabbed Deng Xiuzhen's hair.
Two people came in immediately to try to stop the fight, and the three of them pushed Deng Xiuzhen around, and she became completely dizzy.
More and more people came to watch the fun, and someone called the police.
Deng Xiuzhen was released only after the police arrived. She was so dizzy that she could not even stand and sat down on the ground.
"What's going on?" the policeman asked.
The woman said: "I went to the store to look at clothes and she wrongly accused me of stealing her clothes."
A woman said, "Yes, when we came here, we heard what the clerk said, and there was another piece of clothing that you must have taken."
Another woman said: "They started fighting and I came in to break it up."
The person next to him said, “When we came in, we saw three people fighting each other.”
Deng Xiuzhen was still very dizzy and couldn't hear clearly what anyone said.
Until the police walked up to her and asked, "What's going on?"
She came to her senses and recalled, "She said she wanted to try on clothes, and then she went in with three pieces, but she only gave me two when she came out. I looked in the fitting room and there was no clothes either, so she must have taken the other one."
"You are still wrongly accusing me!" said the woman as she was about to pounce on him again.
The police stopped her and said, "Let's talk it over. Hitting people is against the law!"
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