Chapter 278: They Are Colleagues Playing A Prank On My Family
Meng Xiaokai took the QR code, scanned it, and the interface displayed the recipient user as “Wu Ji Trading Company.”
He looked at Jiang Yuan again, his serious expression softening, and asked with a smile, “Where are your payment records?”
“Here.” She took Jiang Die’s phone and handed it to Meng Xiaokai.
The roast duck shop owner hurriedly leaned over, “Officer, please take a look, are their payment information and my recipient information the same?”
“They are the same.” Meng Xiaokai nodded.
The roast duck shop owner secretly breathed a sigh of relief and continued, “Yes, Officer, we opened our doors to do business with integrity, we wouldn’t do such dishonest things.”
“Is that so?” Jiang Yuan took back Jiang Die’s phone, tapped a few times on the screen, and holding up the call log, questioned, “Then why have you been calling my sister all afternoon?”
“What?” The roast duck shop owner’s eyes widened in shock, “Did you make a mistake? I haven’t called you, and besides, how would I even have your phone number?”
Hearing this, Jiang Die said dissatisfiedly, “This afternoon when I bought roast duck, you asked me to help register my phone number, saying you wanted to call customers later to get their feedback on the roast duck to improve it.”
Jiang Yuan said in a deep voice, “You used this method to trick consumers into leaving their phone numbers.”
“How could that be? I never asked customers to leave their phone numbers!” The roast duck shop owner frowned tightly. “I think you’re competitors who are jealous of my business and are intentionally framing me!”
He looked at Meng Xiaokai and said in a wronged and innocent tone, “Officer comrade, you must rule in my favor!”
Meng Xiaokai ignored him and turned to look at Jiang Yuan, a smile in his eyes, “Jiang Yuan, what do you think?”
“The recipient information scanned from this QR code is indeed the same as the recipient merchant my sister paid,” Jiang Yuan said unhurriedly. “But the roast duck shop owner kept calling my sister, saying his recipient name was Wu Ji Roast Duck Shop.”
“You’re talking nonsense!” The roast duck shop owner immediately retorted, “Do you have evidence? You can’t just say things without proof!”
Jiang Yuan tapped a few times on her own phone and opened the video that Deng Rui had sent.
When the roast duck shop called in the afternoon, Deng Rui felt something was wrong, so she turned on the recording function and asked the other party to repeat themselves, “What did you just say? We didn’t hear clearly.”
“I said I’m from Wu Ji Roast Duck Shop. You bought ninety-eight yuan worth of roast duck from our shop just now and haven’t paid. Please make the payment.”
Jiang Die said sternly, “Are you mistaken? I already paid.”
“Beauty, it’s impossible for me to be mistaken. You bought a lot of roast duck, and it’s just two yuan short of one hundred, so I remember it clearly.” The roast duck shop owner even sighed as he spoke, “Beauty, our small business is not easy, please be kind and return the money to me.”
“I have the payment record here,” Jiang Die said.
Roast duck shop owner: “Then, beauty, please send me the payment record, send it to this phone number.”
“Okay.” Jiang Die took a screenshot of the payment record and sent it immediately after hanging up the phone.
The first video ended here.
Jiang Yuan clicked on the screen and said, “After my sister sent the payment screenshot, about five minutes later, this roast duck shop owner made a second call.”
The roast duck shop owner’s face gradually turned ugly; he hadn’t expected these sisters to have recorded a video.
“You’re jealous of my business, and you’ve even fabricated such a video…” he attempted to quibble, but Meng Xiaokai stopped him.
“Don’t speak for now. We’ll make our judgment after watching the video.”
Jiang Yuan clicked on the second video.
The roast duck shop owner called, “Beauty, is there a mistake? My shop’s recipient name is Wu Ji Roast Duck Shop, but your screenshot shows you paid Wu Ji Trading Company! Hurry up and transfer the ninety-eight yuan to me.”
Jiang Die calmly said, “I don’t care if it’s Wu Ji Roast Duck or Wu Ji Trading Company. The fact is I paid, and the QR code I scanned was from your shop. The problem isn’t with me, so don’t call again.”
Jiang Die hung up the phone at this point. Later, the roast duck shop owner relentlessly kept calling her, but she didn’t answer any of them.
The third video, and the last one, was recorded by Jiang Yuan in the car just now.
The roast duck shop owner was still urging Jiang Die to repay the money, even threatening to call the police if she didn’t.
“Did you make all these calls?” Meng Xiaokai held up Jiang Die’s phone, on which there were dozens of missed calls from the same number.
The roast duck shop owner’s eyes flickered, and he lowered his head, saying, “Comrade, I’ve been wrongly accused.”
As soon as he finished speaking, a rapid phone ringtone sounded from inside the roast duck shop.
Meng Xiaokai raised an eyebrow and gestured with his phone, “You say you’ve been wrongly accused, but when I dial the number above, why is the phone ringing coming from your shop?”
“I…” The roast duck shop owner’s face turned pale, then flushed. After a long pause, he finally spoke, “Comrade, they want to harm me, they must have staged the whole thing! They must have put this phone in my shop beforehand!”
“It’s okay, all phone numbers are real-name registered now,” Jiang Yuan said lightly. “Just check who the owner of the number is.”
The roast duck shop owner felt a bitter cry in his heart; this time he had run into a tough opponent.
“I remember the recipient username in our shop has always been Wu Ji Roast Duck Shop!” His eyes darted around as he continued, “Now I just realized it changed to Wu Ji Trading Company. It must be that my family member changed the payment code without telling me, which caused this misunderstanding.”
“My apologies to both of you young ladies,” the roast duck shop owner squeezed out a smile. “Sorry for the trouble.”
“Do you think that explanation is plausible?” Jiang Yuan glanced at him, her gaze sharp. “A simple ‘sorry’ and ‘sorry for the trouble’ can dismiss everything? This is clearly fraud.”
“What fraud?” The roast duck shop owner retorted with a dark expression. “Do you have to say such harsh things?”
Jiang Yuan sneered, “What did you say about my sister and me earlier? Were your words pleasant to hear? I think you’re desperate for money to come up with such a shady trick to defraud customers!”
The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. She took out her phone and started recording, “Wu Ji Roast Duck Shop, with Wu Ji Trading Company’s payment code displayed in the shop, then calling to say the customer hasn’t paid, and claiming their recipient name is Wu Ji Roast Duck Shop. Is this a misunderstanding or a premeditated fraud?”
“What are you doing?” The roast duck shop owner saw her holding her phone and filming his shop while speaking, and he became increasingly uneasy. “Stop filming. I won’t charge you the money! I’ll refund the ninety-eight yuan to you! Stop filming!”
Today is truly unlucky. I didn’t get any money, and now I have to pay out of my own pocket!
“This is no longer about ninety-eight yuan,” Jiang Yuan said with a half-smile. “This is about how long you’ll be in jail.”
