Huo Feng and Pu Sangzhi stayed in the storeroom for nearly 20 minutes.
Only when there was no more noise in the store, and Pu Sangzhi had collected her emotions, did Huo Feng lead her out of the storeroom.
Next, Pu Sangzhi was to face her future mother-in-law, Shen Yu!
Following behind Huo Feng, the two of them erged from the storeroom, step by step approaching Shen Yu...
At that ti, Shen Yu was sitting on the small sofa playing with her cell phone, looking up to see them coming over...
At that mont, in that scene, the image of two children standing together was particularly bright and pleasing to the eye!
For a mont, she thought of many idioms that could describe the scene, like "golden boy and jade girl," "outstanding talents," "a match made in heaven"...
In short, it was one word: fitting!
Her ordinarily sloppy son, when he stood next to Pu Sangzhi, seed as if his whole deanor had been straightened out by her.
He didn’t at all resemble the useless socialite he usually was; he seed very proper! And very excellent!
"Auntie."
Pu Sangzhi approached Shen Yu and called her sweetly.
The tone of her voice was so gentle and peaceful that the more Shen Yu looked at her, the more she liked her, even more than the last ti they had t!
"Ah, it’s been a long ti, Sangzhi," Shen Yu greeted her in this way.
"It has indeed been a long ti, Auntie," Pu Sangzhi nodded obediently.
"How much longer until you get off work?" Shen Yu asked again.
Pu Sangzhi glanced at the clock in the store; it was nearly 10:00 PM. She said, "I get off at 10:00 PM, it’s soon."
"That’s good. I’ll treat you to a late-night snack tonight, I really want a chance to have a good chat with you," Shen Yu said with a smile.
Although Pu Sangzhi had already been aware of the late-night snack, when Shen Yu brought it up personally, she couldn’t help but feel nervous again, "Thank you, Auntie..."
It was already 9:52 PM, and the store was to close at 10:00 PM. The staff were already cleaning around the store.
The atmosphere in the store was quiet and serene; everyone was busy with their respective tasks.
"Found it!"
Suddenly, Huang Li exclaid!
"Oh my God! I found it!"
The door to the won’s changing room opened, and Huang Li, holding a garnt, hurried out of the changing room toward Pu Sangzhi. She pulled out a cell phone from the pocket of the clothing, "Sangzhi, look, is this not the phone that the troubleso custor lost? A Huawei, this brand, it should be worth more than 5000, right?"
Suddenly, the news of the found phone erupted in the store!
All the staff mbers instantly gathered around, and Huo Feng joined them. The phone was surrounded by everyone, held in Huang Li’s hands...
While staring at Pu Sangzhi, Huang Li held the phone and said, "I was just tidying up the changing room when I suddenly saw this long coat hanging there. It must have been left by a custor. The phone was in this coat! Look how new it is, the screen lock hasn’t even been set, and there are so many missed calls in it, I bet it’s the phone the custor lost!"
Pu Sangzhi had seen the custor’s receipt and still rembered the model and brand of her phone.
She imdiately pulled out her own phone and looked up the appearance of a phone of the sa model and brand on Taobao...
Upon checking, it was indeed identical to the phone in question!
Thus, it was proven that the phone in Huang Li’s hands was indeed the one the custor had lost!
So, it turned out that the phone hadn’t been stolen; it had just been forgotten in the won’s changing room.
The long coat was either left by one of their three people or... there was also the possibility that the thief, hearing the commotion, hastily stuffed the phone into the coat.
Of course, Pu Sangzhi believed that the forr was more likely.
"Sangzhi, let’s inform the store manager right away! Let the manager tell her that her phone wasn’t stolen by soone in the store, she just forgot it herself."
Huang Li had just finished speaking when she thought better of it and imdiately backtracked, "No, that’s letting her off too easily! She caused us so much trouble tonight, and she defad Han Lei so terribly, she should bear this loss. We can’t simply return the phone to her!"
"Yeah... She also caused us not to be able to serve custors all evening!"
Another clerk chid in, "I don’t think we should return this phone to her. Let’s just keep it in the store as confiscated property, and pretend it’s a phone for the store!"
Another veteran clerk agreed, "I concur. We can’t let that nasty old custor get away with it! If it hadn’t been for Sangzhi tonight, she would have tried to swindle us out of 5000! Besides, look what she did to Han Lei! Such a nice guy, and she slandered him so viciously! When she takes her phone and leaves, she won’t have lost anything, but our Han Lei has been put through the wringer, leaving everyone in a bad mood!"
The clerks all held a great grudge against Ms. Wang, and even after finding the phone, none wanted to return it to her.
However, Pu Sangzhi said, "Since our store has found her cellphone, we have the obligation to return it. Otherwise, it would be our store that’s breaking the law. The cellphone must be returned, and we should take a photo as evidence, proving the cellphone was found inside this piece of clothing and left behind in the dressing room, discovered accidentally while we were tidying up. This way, she can’t later accuse us of hiding her cellphone and only turning it over when our conscience kicked in."
"We’re really going to return it to her?"
Huang Li said, "In my opinion, we shouldn’t give it back. After all the wrongs she’s done, she deserves to be punished."
"It must be returned. This is a matter of principle."
Pu Sangzhi, with her strong sense of ethics, insisted, "We can’t stoop to doing wrong just because others do. Otherwise, how would we be different from the wrongdoers? Moreover, if you say let’s keep the phone in the store for our use, what if one day she cos back as a custor, sees her phone here, and the jig is up? What’s more, what if the coat is one of the three won’s, and in a little while, they decide to co back for it? Maybe, while doing so, they might even rember the phone in the pocket... Right?"
"That’s true."
Among the group, the first to voice support for Pu Sangzhi was Huo Feng, who laid a hand on her shoulder, highly supportive, "In being human, it is enough to uphold our own principles. We cannot let our standards slip just because soone else’s do. Quickly put the phone back, take a photo, and then call your store manager. This could be considered turning an evil cause into a good conclusion, right?"
Pu Sangzhi nodded, "Let’s do that, Sister Huang Li."
Huang Li, seeing Pu Sangzhi’s magnanimity, couldn’t object and pocketed the phone, saying, "Alright! We’ll do as you say!"
Afterward, Huang Li placed the cellphone back in the coat pocket and rehung the coat in the ladies’ dressing room, taking a picture of the scene as evidence.
Of course, everyone in the store was a witness.
The cellphone could be returned to the lady, but having suffered at her hands, everyone was cautious in dealing with her.
Once all this was done, it was nearly 10:00 PM, and Huang Li made a call to the store manager.
As luck would have it, the manager and her party had already returned...
The manager, Han Lei, Han Lei’s mother, and Han Feiyi were all back in the store.
Beyond that, to everyone’s astonishnt, the three troubleso custors had also returned!
One of the middle-aged won rushed into the store, grabbed a clerk, and asked directly, "Have you seen my coat? I left it here..."
Just as Pu Sangzhi had anticipated!
The custor really did co back for her coat!
Even if she couldn’t rember the phone, a woman still couldn’t forget her clothing...
So it goes without saying that the clerks were both relieved and rueful that they hadn’t kept the cellphone.
Huang Li took the lady’s coat out of the dressing room, handed it to her with a stone-cold face, and reminded her sharply, "Check your pockets, see what’s inside."
The lady felt the coat pocket and pulled out Ms. Wang’s cellphone!
At that instant, a rush of mories flooded back into Ms. Wang’s mind—the mory of exchanging the phone with the middle-aged woman!
It seed that such an incident had occurred...
Ms. Wang had briefly held the coat for the middle-aged woman and, without thinking much of it, had put her own phone in the coat pocket...
After that, the middle-aged woman left the dressing room wearing the coat, inadvertently taking the phone with her.
Later, the middle-aged woman changed into another outfit and accidentally left the coat in the dressing room.
Taking the cellphone with her, to the dressing room...
It was just a careless move that Ms. Wang had made herself, yet she had forgotten!
The mont she held her phone again, everything ca back to her.
Everyone in the store watched her, and Ms. Wang’s face burned with sha—to the point where she wished she could dive into a hole and disappear!
"I—I’m sorry..."
After a long while, that was the only stamring response Ms. Wang could manage.
And as an elder, she had even less face to confront Han Lei...
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