"Really? You figured it out? Hehe, they're all good kids, that's what you said, so there's no harm in being with good kids, right?" After saying that, Li Jia got into the car, started the engine, and opened the window.
"I'll have those three help me hand out flyers on Saturday, double the pay, two hundred yuan a day!" Li Jia said, and the car slowly drove away from the building, leaving Jiang Ling'er standing there in a daze. "Two hundred yuan a day? That's six thousand yuan a month! How much do I earn a month? I might as well go hand out flyers too!"
Shaking her head with some emotion, Jiang Ling'er turned and went back into Li Xiaoqing's house, while Li Jia, in high spirits, drove while listening to music.
It was already 11:30 p.m. when they got back to the dry cleaner. After taking a shower, Li Jia threw himself on the bed. Today's meal had strengthened his resolve to learn cooking. Recalling the slightly oppressive but definitely warm atmosphere during the meal, Li Jia lay on the bed and continued to smile happily.
"Beep beep!" The phone above my head beeped, indicating a text message had arrived. I reached for my phone and opened the message: "Back to City B next month." It was signed by a woman named LIANNA.
"Okay, got it! Dinner and concert all in one." Li Jia replied. This LIANNA was the woman who had texted Li Jia until late that night.
"We'll see!" A short while later, a reply came back with only four words. After reading it, Li Jia closed her phone and put it aside. "I can finally get a good night's sleep!" She stretched lazily, a smile playing on her lips, and drifted off to sleep…
The next morning, Li Jia sat in front of the computer early in the morning. The dry cleaning shop's turnover had increased significantly during this period, and Zhou Xiaoyu and Meng Yao were much busier than before, so Li Jia decided to hire another person to help out in a couple of days.
While browsing job postings on City B's talent website, Li Jia registered a company account, intending to post a job ad for a dry cleaning shop. Just as she was filling in the basic registration information, a loud argument suddenly broke out downstairs.
Li Jia stopped what she was doing and prepared to go downstairs to see what was going on, because since her dry cleaning shop opened, there had never been any customer dissatisfaction or arguments in the shop.
Once downstairs, Li Jia saw the scene inside the store. Zhou Xiaoyu was arguing with a customer who was holding a gray suit and had several men with unfriendly expressions standing behind her. Meng Yao was also standing there, staring at the chattering female customer with a somewhat unpleasant expression.
"What happened?" Li Jia walked to the middle of the group and looked at Meng Yao's slightly red eyes. "Let's go up first, I'll handle it."
"Brother Li! This woman claims her coat button fell into our store and demands a new suit as compensation, but the suit was perfectly fine when she took it! Now she's here framing me, and she's brought so many people with her, saying she'll smash up our store if we don't pay!" Zhou Xiaoyu's face was flushed with anger as she pointed at the female customer standing at the door, explaining the situation as if she were working on a secret plan. Then she glared fiercely at the female customer with her big eyes.
"You must be the boss? You've come at the right time! This suit of mine is a limited edition pure cashmere Armani. After I had it cleaned at your shop, I found that it was missing a button. And there's absolutely no way you can find the exact same button on the market. So now I demand that you either compensate me with a limited edition Armani suit, or you close this shop down!" The woman spoke with a slight southern accent, and her not-so-fluent Mandarin had a lot of lingering sounds at the end.
"Oh? Is that so, Xiaoyu?" Li Jia naturally didn't believe her. Zhou Xiaoyu was very meticulous and it was impossible for her to make such a basic mistake.
"Don't listen to her nonsense! I checked her clothes when she took them, and nothing was missing! I think she's just trying to frame us! Brother Li, don't listen to her! If she dares to lay a hand on us here, I'll call the police right away!" Zhou Xiaoyu was full of momentum; she wouldn't be polite to these unreasonable people who wanted to cheat her out of money!
"Don't talk nonsense over there, you little brat! You just secretly removed one of the buttons from my limited edition Armani because you thought it looked nice! And you're still talking about it!" The woman looked at Li Jiasi's refined appearance and glanced back at the three people she had brought with her. Her confidence immediately returned.
"Stop talking nonsense! Tell me! Are you going to pay or not? If you don't, you can just wait to close down!" After saying that, the woman threw the clothes in her hand on the counter, and the men behind her got ready to smash the store!
"Our Shu Family Dry Cleaning is an international chain. You're bringing back a set of clothes that you took away and then returned, and you expect us to compensate you? That's quite interesting. If you want me to compensate you, at least let me see the clothes first!" After saying that, Li Jia picked up the clothes that were thrown on the counter. She immediately noticed that the second button was indeed missing. However, upon closer inspection, she found that where the button should have been, there was a row of neatly broken threads. It was obvious that the threads of the button had been cut intentionally. After putting the clothes down, Li Jia turned to stare at the aggressive female customer standing there.
"Are your scissors quite sharp?"
"That's...no! What does it matter to you whether my scissors are sharp or not? Pay up now, or I'll smash up your shop!" After the woman finished speaking, she turned around and winked at the men, who immediately walked up to Li Jia.
"Kid! You look so refined, but I never expected you to do something like this. And that little slut behind you! She looks so poor! You can tell she's no good at all! And that woman who went upstairs just now! She's old enough to be your mother! Be smart! Pay up! And then let us brothers play with that little slut behind you for a couple of days, and we'll call it even! How about that? Am I being a good guy?!" The man with a sallow complexion grinned, showing off his yellow teeth, his eyes gleaming with lust as he stared at Zhou Xiaoyu's face behind Li Jia.
As soon as he finished speaking, the other two men echoed him, and one of them even wanted to go upstairs to look for Meng Yao, while continuing to indulge in his fantasies.
Li Jia's face turned cold as she looked at the three men's arrogant expressions. She suddenly moved, first grabbing the guy who tried to go upstairs by the collar and punching him out of the dry cleaner's shop. Before the other two men could even react, Li Jia's fist had already slammed into their mouths. In less than three seconds, all three men were beaten out of the Shu family's dry cleaner's door, each missing most of their teeth, their voices slurred. Li Jia then walked up to the woman who still didn't understand what was happening and asked, "How much is your limited edition Armani?"
The woman looked at Li Jia's smiling face, gritted her teeth, and spat out what she considered a large sum of money: "Two...two thousand yuan!"
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